|
Herstory Begins Now posted:Just a few days until d2r comes out and conspicuously we have seen literally nothing from after act 2. Starting to get a bit alarmed Isn't the expansion supposed to be in, too? Act 5 had plenty of "oh drat" places, you'd figure they'd want to show those off. I can understand not showing off act 3,(who liked act 3, those little blowdart assholes were the worst) but 4's bleak and grey take on hell and 5's snowy mountain slowly turning into a fiery version of hell are cool and people have good feelings about them.
|
#
¿
Sep 20, 2021 18:58
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 16, 2022 21:28 |
|
|
D3 was bad at launch. It also had awful writing and it was clear that Blizzard did not understand the tone or themes of the story.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 21, 2021 14:05
|
|
|
Pirate Jet posted:Always a delight to see discussion of a dead(-ish) game get immediately piledrived by like four or five people who always, always blame it on the kids and their esports. Probably not the kids and their esports, bur rather a company desperately trying to get in on that ad money and competitive circuit dollerydoos by pushing the esport angle more than the "people like this game" angle. I don't think anyone actually minds the idea of competitive leagues and tournaments, but it's best if they arrive organically via the game just being something people enjoy rather than a company trying to cultivate it. Also: Kith posted:yeah its not like blizzard has a habit of mishandling esports so badly that it straight-up inspired legislation
|
|
#
¿
Sep 29, 2021 15:57
|
|
|
Malah posted:I'm generally pessimistic on the odds of capital actually suffering consequences for their horrific actions, but there are so many different suits and agencies going after Blizz simultaneously that one or even several could do serious damage. Assuming that the govt actually does something to stop Blizzard from destroying (further) evidence or silencing (more) witnesses, without screwing up each othe- Also, these are actions by and on behalf of capital.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 8, 2021 20:32
|
|
|
William Bear posted:https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1407658278893592579 This makes the fact that the board is stickin' with him make more sense. 292 is a ridiculous sum for making a CEO leave, so the fact that they haven't taken the most obvious move makes much more sense. I don't know why they signed this contract, but knowing it's like a AAA budget to fire the guy is an understandable barrier protecting his neck.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 16, 2021 20:59
|
|
|
Magmarashi posted:You'd think being a loving sex pest would be enough cause but apparently we just live IN HELL Being a sex pest was a perk of the job until like... 10 years ago. We're fighting to get out of hell.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 17, 2021 20:48
|
|
|
Activision's killed plenty of studios and brands, too. Never forget they managed to start the plastic instruments thing and then milk it to death before the whole genre petered out. And how many great studios are now consigned to the Call of Duty map pack mines? EA's attempt in like, I donno, 2010 to invest in new properties and creative IPs was seen as something not just to break away from their stagnation, but something that Activision wasn't doing and was instead just strangling their studios.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 19, 2021 00:09
|
|
|
I'm glad that single joke post crisis got sorted. Phew, what a disaster. Good thing people swept in to make a big deal out of it or we might've just completely ignored it or something! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
|
|
#
¿
Nov 19, 2021 17:02
|
|
|
It's downright shocking to me that any company would allow that behavior. I really have no idea how that happened more than once, let alone for YEARS. That's some really loving deep dysfunction.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 20, 2021 23:42
|
|
|
 It's obviously pointy from the front in the concept art. It looks like the pointed hoods of the divine order in D:OS2 where they were deliberately styled to remind people of the KKK as shorthand for "these people are violent, dangerous bigots." I don't know how they missed it.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 22, 2021 16:15
|
|
|
Doom Rooster posted:Even given that context, I still don’t get this angle. The whole “they made a bunch of money, so they’ll stop trying to optimize their workforce”. A big corp will always get rid of as many employees as they can while maintaining what they consider to be acceptable performance. Blizzactivision could have made a trillion in profit last quarter and nobody should be surprised if they do layoffs. Yeah it's hosed up and deeply sad that Raven's fate in the CoD mines is thus, but part of spending as little money as they think they can involves hiring as few people as possible and firing them when there's more than they think they need. Labor Organization is the only real way around this, because actions like this are just what companies are gonna do. As part of a systemic critique, it's important. But since we live in the Twitter Age we don't get systemic critiques in the reactions to this.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2021 03:41
|
|
|
Like people said, it doesn't look like anything illegal. You can say that your workers are better off without a union all you want, even though you're lying. You can't threaten them or try and interfere with the voting process, but you absolutely can go "no more free oatmeal, you know, cause of budgets"
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2021 23:21
|
|
|
no it's stupid and we just love to say a catchphrase, because the root cause of hierarchies and power isn't catchy or fun
|
|
#
¿
Dec 14, 2021 21:35
|
|
|
Someone dying on a hill is never a pretty sight.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 19, 2021 19:39
|
|
|
Warthur posted:The distinction does seem to be that small/indie studios are easier to tear down whereas the ActiBlizzes of this world can just cram their ears with money and ignore any bad publicity. Those with power are insulated from consequences. That's one of the things power does.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 18, 2022 19:35
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 16, 2022 21:28 |
|
|
pentyne posted:Don't most of the SV techbros basically hedge their bets and donate to both? Kotick isn't a techbro. He's an old-school rear end in a top hat in Epstein's flight logs.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 18, 2022 16:15
|
|