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[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I tried to search, only thing I found was an unnamed "survival game" blizzard announced in 2022.

It was 1900 people, Microsoft has over 200,000 employees for reference.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They already made those "redundancy" cuts last year. This last round of layoffs was a bunch of software devs and artists of all experience levels, and basically the entire esports divisions for both Overwatch and CoD.

Also keep in mind, this was a record year for Blizzard, profits wise.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for that first part? The deal only went through in October of last year and i can only find info on the most recent slate of firings.

That does suck though for those laid off of course, I hope they can find work they enjoy.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately I can't find any good articles anymore, but I do remember seeing a lot of people posting about it on Twitter. I believe the earlier layoffs happened right around October of last year though.