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Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also considering the apparent toxicity of certain Blizzard employees it's probably a good opportunity to "purge" the Kotic gang and his following.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So that's a dozen people. 1900 is more than a hundred times that. (#mathFTW)

These cuts will seriously hurt product.

Also, I sense my less-than-new windows version will be unsupported; and I only had it so the one game ran better.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Blizzard Products were polished turds.

They need a huge cultural shift and I'm all for it.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Oh it's ok since competition is getting killed too. See you soon at the bottom of the barrel.