hello everyone it's old Guardian here and well today has been a rough day because there are even more layoffs at blizzard so the news is that Xbox laid off 650 employees today and well Activision Blizzard is now part of Xbox these 650 employees are mainly or maybe even solely from Activision Blizzard according to the official statements from Microsoft these are mostly from corporate and support functions although there is also this little sentence separately as part of running the business there are some impacts to other teams as they add up to shifting priorities and manage the
life cycle and performance of games and journalists have uncovered even more Steven totillo tweeted this update in addition to the merger related cuts a source familiar tells me Microsoft has laid off workers on its Warcraft Rumble and Call of Duty war zone mobile teams or fumble is moving to post launch live Ops War Zone mobile didn't hit as big as hoped neither game going offline and this is corroborated by some other social media posts Remco tweeted been a good six plus years but finally got hit by the Microsoft Blizzard Entertainment layoffs producer on Walker fromall
both pre and post relase across content pipelines cross Matrix feature Dev live operations and server infrastructure and mot potato WR on Reddit just got disconnected from my work machine this morning I am was an envir artist for the team I was responsible for many of the maps you have played through I been at the studio and of the team for more than 3 years the president sent an email saying that the game is now considered live service and no longer in development despite now very important Buck fixes and art are now shuttered and locked away
in an unfinished State I'll be looking for new work once I manage to pull myself out of bed edit about half of the team was cuted if msft is trying to spin that only n developer roles were affected then that is false and producers Audits and managers were affected well that was hidden in the statement that separately also other teams are affected so around half of the rumble team maybe and it goes beyond Rumble team as well even as far as word of Warcraft encounter design because t g tweeted after 9 years working on World
of Warcraft I am terminated I'm doing as okay as I can looking forward future for other positions I better got to see everyone play my content work with others since lead and Sydney King tweeted it's been amazing 2 years with Blizzard's sfd team unfortunately I was impacted by another round of lofs today if you have open positions in game writing or narrative design send them my way so sfd that would be a team that makes cinematics for example so Rumble team hit quite hard of course but also World of Warcraft team hit cinematics team hit
and then some of those Support Services indeed Stanley Fu after surviving a handful of these they finally caught me laid off today he was was from corporate it and then I also found this LinkedIn post from a recruiter at blizzard who got to keep her job once again my team was heavily impacted there are only 10 recruiters now for blizzard there was 31 before the January layoff then 18 and now 10 lost several of our sources and our candidate experience specialist and a bunch of other essential stuff on the back end to make our lives
so much easier so those were some of those support support function cuts that were that were the main focus of the news but also also there were real development cuts across the board actually in many many of the products so what does this all mean for Warcraft Rumble well post launch liveops as such is a perfectly normal state for a game to be I mean you can think about what Heartstone has been like for the past 9 years Heartstone is now 10 years old at least for the past 9 years it's been post launch live
Ops ever releasing new expansions they're creating new content for the game but they're not like fundamentally changing the game however for rumble the team already had quite a few difficulties actually delivering stuff Rumble Pace was not what I would have wanted to see it be and now few resoures it's going to be even harder for them to deliver but obviously you still are going to deliver I mean if they fired half of the team that means they kept half of the team and half of the team is nothing like bstone Mercenaries or Heroes of the
Storm or anything it's I mean half of team is still capable of delivering new content the big question is just at what kind of pace so the next thing that we have coming is season 9 in just a couple of weeks and season 9 content of course on blizzards and that should be quite ready by now so for season 9 we can see what kind of pacing they were thinking about for the future of the game and then we can compare that once we get to see season 10 and see okay well what are they
going to be able to deliver for season 10 obviously already season 9 is is somewhat worrying like okay what can you actually deliver you have now delivered most of the stuff that was talked about that Bisson all the all the main PV content definitely and what do you have in store for season 9 and now there's even further concerns for season 10 now for previously I was thinking okay if season 9 looks good then okay maybe the game is going to look all right but now even if season 9 looks good then we don't know
what season 10 is going to look like but yeah tough day crumble obviously had not performed up to Blizzard's expectations I mean we all knew that but I was hoping that they would give the team a little bit more time to try to turn things around because getting new content out there at a proper Pace would be one of the very very important key features of making Rumble more attractive and getting getting new players we'll see what the team's going to be able to do a t day for sure even though this is actually not
the end for rumble now that I have had some time to look deeper into it and see what it what it all means so yeah still looking forward to season 9 at obviously season 10 but still sad for all the people who lost their jobs today for I don't know no reason thank you for watching click like And subscribe if you enjoyed this and a special thanks to all of my patreon supporters YouTube members and twitch subscribers who make all of these videos possible
