New President of Blizzard is female. The shakedown worked.
(news.blizzard.com)
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Oh no, how will this impact my favorite games?
...Is what I would have said fifteen years ago. Activizzard has been a shambling corpse for a while. Story-wise, Brood Wars was their last notable triumph. W3 was alright, but even there you could see the start of the downfall.
Literally playing brood wars for the first time right now. Good stuff
...and a big part of their fall was being vulnerable to these manipulations. They were manipulated into being political about China, now again political about women. It will not end until they change the music or go bankrupt
The new CEO was a minor hire 6 months ago. She's there to bankrupt the whole company.
WC3 at least tried something different, and their core mechanics spawned Dota and eventually an entirely new genre. WoW, as dated as it is now, was quite solid at launch and through its first two expansions as well. You'll note that Blizzard was acquired in the same year Wrath came out and how things gradually went downhill from then.
It's actually pretty important to pay attention to the staff members of games companies, as the critical creative and technical minds behind good games are likely to continue to make good games at different companies. When they leave a company though, it's a coinflip as to the quality of what that company releases later.
SC1 had awesome writing. Nobody can take that away.
I'm still not over the fact of that guy who found the source code and returned it. We could have openSC by now.
January of this year??? So 6 months before she got promoted to the CEO with $150m compensation.
What a Pussy Pass
It's almost like she started this plot from day one.
Yeah, pussy pass way understates it. This was their plan all along.
I think the phrase is "causing problems so you can move up by solving them".
1. Insinuate to women that if they join corporate life there's a big party.
2. Force groups to hire women.
3. Women show up and are like "where's the party? hey men you should start the party!"
4. Men oblige and start the party.
5. Older women declare company is full of "sexual harrassment" (like the kind you find at a frat party, wink wink) declares older woman must be installed as manager to fix problem.
At the last place I worked a woman got her job like this - her history was at her previous job she had outsourced half their stuff until they finally got rid of her because she had crippled the company enough that people started noticing. That's her background along with a "hate white men" philosophy that got her the job.
They'll wear the company like a skin suit until it collapses entirely. It's how they work.
Let's hope they don't have the sense that the ones wearing EA do, and ruin their one money printer.
Certified Carly Fiorina moment.
Wait...she did something before that massively pathetic run against Trump?
You really weren't aware of her running Hewlett Packard into the ground?
I never bought HP, I always considered it shit.
HP was an awesome company doing pretty interesting research and building quality scientific and engineering equipment. It was run by engineers at the time. Then the MBAs and petulant children (women) moved in.
It used to be a pretty solid company a couple decades back. A lot of their older printers are still in use b/c of how reliable they were. They took a severe turn for the worse in the mid to late 2000s.
Look into what she did there sometime, you'll have a laugh. She's like the opposite of Reggie Fils-Aimé.
The problems will now disappear, the tithe is paid.
Disappointed. They should have stood up and publicly eviscerated this tactic, because Kotick is next to fall anyway.
Everyone knew it was for this. Literally everyone.
Oh no, anything but that.
That's incredible, they did it again. They just accuse you of sexual stuff and bam, female ceo. Merit is overrated I guess.
But is she the right race.... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Short the stock?
Not yet. There'll be a rise now that this saga is over.
Once it returns to where it was before they pulled the protection racket trick, then short.
Diversity investment is about to boom for them
Yeah, they will siphon money towards their people in DEI.
They're also going to gradually infect Activision until eventually they take that over too.
I think Activision was the source of the infection. Blizzard was good before activison took over.
Blizzard created Overwatch. Pretty sure they're the source of the woke feminist bullshittery.
why not both
wait until right before their next big "blockbuster" game release.
diablo2 remake is going to be a hit guaranteed, so wait until diablo 4 is released and bet on it being terrible
They suggest unions of workers as well lol. We all know how well unions work out as time goes on.
Games industry Unionization efforts are always hilarious because they always somehow become a vehicle to represent all the other demographics outside of the actual membership
Well, a union for all the male employees who will be mistreated as the Fourth Reich asserts control, is probably a good idea.
That won't happen though.
anybody that still buys blizzard products is a retard.
cant wait to the next WoW expansion, with tranny Orcs
Looks like Orcposting is back on the menu boys
Never. What is it?
That is a favorite book. The last words have a different meaning depending on where you actually are.
How does the book compare to Elia Kazan's "East of Eden" with James Dean?
Brack was a puppet, so no loss there. Ybarra might actually be decent, since he was at Microsoft while they were turning Xbox around. But yeah, putting a woman in there is an attempt to appear as woke as possible and force bullshit on the company.
Blizzard is well and truly dead. There is only Activision.
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Not quite accurate. Needs the government forcing them at gunpoint in the beginning with her acting like a normal person.
Discrimination laws forbid not hiring women. Companies are not able to defend themselves.
Run that shit into the ground
WoW... the final fantasy
Hey man, you were right.
I would ask how you knew, but I think we can all now figure that part out.
I'm not right until the case is dropped. This might not be their end game. They might push to actually win the case and take a power position over all companies in CA.
I hope they get Diablo 4 out the door before it all goes to shit.
Stuff at Blizzard went to shit over 10 years ago. What one can expect from Diablo 4 after this shitshow is to hope the shit it comes out it is not worse smelling.
Blizz doesnt make mature games very well anymore... they shun mature games. They shun the nerdy male culture.
And it will only get worse under Fourth Reich control.
Agreed! They forgot about it.
Diablo 3 was already crap with the always-on and real-money auction house. The game itself was barely a grade above Diablo 2. Most of the focus was on the RMAH, and how to protect that racket.
I have zero hope for Diablo 4, which will no doubt be filled with diversity quotas, Rainbow Reich subplots, and somehow they will manage to make Nazis the villains in a medieval setting.
It actually looks pretty decent so far, definitely a cut above Diablo 3. If not, I guess Diablo 2 Resurrected will keep me going for another 20 years.
Blizzard went to shit 10 years ago. It's just that the shit has now backed up the entire septic tank and is spewing up out of the bowl.
d4 already looks like shit