New Leadership at Blizzard

[Zenfoldor]

I mean, VV was the best thing Activision had going and they rolled it into blizz. They should have rolled blizz into VV and we would get a lot better games, imo.

[Ted Mosby]

You don't need a court verdict if everyone working there comes forward and confirms that this place is a shithole.

I'm afraid I do.

[justandulas]

If activision was smart, they’d cut off the Blizz portion of their company entirely or sell them

At this point, they are a major drag to their finances. They don’t even represent 10% of their earnings overall, cod and (surprisingly) mobile make up the vast majority of their income

Sell Blizz to tencent to save the stock, or watch it crash and burn and take down successful studios like cod and candy crush.

At this point, the amount of cash needed to “save” blizzard may not be financially worth it. I know this isn’t the best site to throw that opinion out but it’s true. Blizz would be better as a financial martyr to atvi, their stock would wise, and Blizz would be tencents problem

[Trbn]

Stop standing up for Incels being told off or you come off as one yourself. The people those two responded to were shitheads who bitched about a women who probably even before the promotion made more in a year than they will make during their entire working lives being promoted in a position of leadership, coming from a position of leadership from an actually pretty neat game studio.

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stupid though

[Diaphin]

Are you guys able to talk only using invectives?

Its not an invective. If these guys weren't real losers, they wouldn't post anti-feminist shit for free online. They would make a grift out of it on youtube. Like the Quartering, who is already damn ugly.

[procne]

Well, her company was merged into Blizzard and she was given a vice president role where she was essentially a chief under Allen if I am not mistaken. This is essentially taking a high ranking individual with years of leading a development studio and having her fill in the leadership spot. May have been bonus points to have a woman overseeing the issues they currently have. If you are a female and you have the option to go to another woman with issues related to the lawsuits, you may feel more empowered to have someone that has also experienced the same problems in their life. She is definitely qualified regardless and I hope she does a great job.

Yes, that would be the positive outlook. I am afraid though, that if she's been selected based on the gender, her superiors aren't treating her seriously and she might have no real power to do anything.

[Cena]

What about Frances Townsend? KEKW

[Lorgar Aurelian]

So, never?
The old crew moved on my dude. Couldn't see any reason they're give up their new project to come back and rescue the bloated carcass that is WoW

Like any company would let them back in after all of this sexual harassment stuff and then covering it up.

[procne]

Its not an invective. If these guys weren't real losers, they wouldn't post anti-feminist shit for free online. They would make a grift out of it on youtube. Like the Quartering, who is already damn ugly.

Being called an incel, 14 yo spouting shit or a mysoginist are not invective?

[Osmeric]

I wasn't aware of any court verdict proving the allegations.

Since we are not the judicial system, we don't have to wait for a verdict to reach a conclusion.

[regardoz]

oh nice, freshly hired people become leaders. And there's a token woman too, of course

Thats what im scared, a woman in leadership hopefully for protection not for enforce femenism in games. As far as mike im excited for him since Xbox has always good people unlike Sony.

Still worried about making that woman a leader who joined recently and she knoe 0 about the game history and playerbase opinions

[Aloie]

Anyone blaming J Allen is a complete idiot.

He was not in charge while any of this was happening.
Mike was though.

This is the equivalent of blaming Biden for the terrorist attack on the Capitol Hill.

He might not be at total fault, but it’s telling that he would head out, if he was innocent he would probably be holding his ground given his position as president. That’s some pretty big paychecks.

[Makabreska]

And how much mmo experience do they have ? how many successfull mmo games have they been in charge for before ? Not expecting much going forward to be honest. Hopefully im wrong, but i don't really see wow coming back after shadowlands

Blizzard is not only about WoW. They have separate game directors for that, anyway.

[Raven]

Of course they will promote 2 people, with Brack leaving they where missing 2 people, Brack being President and Kaplan which was Vice President.

So before Brack / Kaplan was co-leading Blizzard, now after its Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra that will co-lead Blizzard.

[exsanguinate]

Oh look, a woman and an arabic guy. Such PR.

[vincink]

I'll give the leadership change the benefit of my doubt and hope that these sentences are truly token and not indicative the "full woke-inization" of Blizzard:

Both leaders are deeply committed to all of our employees; to the work ahead to ensure Blizzard is the safest, most welcoming workplace possible for women, and people of any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or background; to upholding and reinforcing our values; and to rebuilding your trust.

I look forward (I hope) to them returning to excellent story telling. Story telling absent of contemporary political, social, and cultural influences. We play games to get out of the current world, not to get into a mirror world.

[Rustykeyboard]

lets see if they are doing a good job, before throwing tantrums like 12 year old girls

[DarkAmbient]

She has 13 years at Vicarious Visions.

So what?

Anyway, the one who really needs to go is Ion. Maybe then WoW can drag itself out of the shitter.

[Zalraki]

10 years ago I would have read a change in leadership like this and thought "Nice, I bet she worked hard to get this far"

Now, because of all the controversy and movements I can't help but wonder "Did she work hard for it or did she just have the politically correct gender?"

Time will tell and I sure hope things will improve but that doubt will not go away until then.

[ek0zu]

It was a much needed change and only time will tell if it was a good more or not, both seam quite experienced and i am totally ok that they are non MMO veterans as i wrote on some other thread a few days ago. I like it a lot that they are people that have experience in the game development in general in very prestigious and well known names of the industry.

More and more women are going upwards it is a shame that a sexual harassments scandal had to break out for things to change but anyway they might turn the tide in a few years.