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I just got some faith back in Blizzard. It was lost.
by finnjohnsen2 7y ago
I just got some faith back in Blizzard. It was lost.
- xvector 7y agoDecisions like these are usually not the fault of the employees. I sympathize with them. It’s more management and PR.
- munk-a 7y agoAmerican labour organization pretty much no longer exists which is quite convenient for this sort of thing - it's quite likely this went across a few folks' desks who bowed their heads because they thought they'd be singled out for objecting. I praise the employees that are walking out today - but a number of them were involved in this happening and didn't feel empowered to speak out and oppose this before the poo hit the windmill. That tends to be par for the course in modern america (keep your head down because anyone who objects is fired) and while it has some short term benefits for upper management they end up wholly owning their problems and nobody is going to call out a big mistake like this one before it goes public. Lastly having worked in the gaming industry the turnover is quite high, I don't know if Blizzard is better about retaining senior folks, but it might be that everyone who would have the confidence to stop this before it exploded was long ago canned because their salary grew out of the range where Blizzard wanted to keep them on.
- jeron 7y agoimportant to recognize that like a country's citizens may not agree with what a country does, a company's employees may not agree with what the company does
- wffurr 7y agoI don't know why "a small group of Activision Blizzard employees" would do anything to change your "faith" in the company as a whole. Wake me up when their C-suite staff and board of directors "walk out" or make a meaningful public statement.
- munk-a 7y agoIt's a bit late for any faith there - the PR calculation has swung and the fiscally responsible thing is to back off this move - but as soon as the spotlight is gone all the math will go back in favor of appeasing China.
- baq 7y agofrom the looks of it (they shut down their whole subreddit for a while) their pants are a shade of brown right now. they're in a damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don't situation and that's what the one of the comments here is alluding to by saying that they have to pick a side. there isn't going back to business as usual after this now, though they'll sure try before Chinese new years. we'll see how the bigger picture will look like in a couple of weeks. google was there a few years ago, i can't imagine their COs aren't grateful for dodging the bullet right now.