Blizzard låter 600 personer gå – WoW-teamet ej påverkat
Hur många anställda har de, någon som vet?
År 2007 hade man 2700 anställda hos Blizzard Entertainment.
~5000 .. eller 4400 numera då och globalt ska tilläggas
I believe that if life gives you lemons you should make lemonade & try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka & have a party - Ron White
Kan det ha något att göra med att Diablo 3 snart är klart?
"A word to the wise is infuriating." - Hunter S. Thompson
http://www.fz.se/bloggar/min_kamp/
~5000 .. eller 4400 numera då och globalt ska tilläggas
Att säga upp 12% av hela personalstyrkan är en rejäl nerskärning.
Fast å andra sidan så har man World of Warcraft. Visserligen sjunker siffrorna men folk betalar varje månad. Kan inte vara något fel på ekonomin.
~5000 .. eller 4400 numera då och globalt ska tilläggas
Att säga upp 12% av hela personalstyrkan är en rejäl nerskärning.
Ja men så dyker också försäljningen i valda delar av världen. Det är ju inte direkt någon högkonjunktur. Det går bra för vissa, sämre för andra och en del har det bra men ser det komma och tar på sig lämpliga kläder innan stormen.
Kolla in raset i USA...
Sales of video game hardware and software in the United States plummeted last month according to new data from market research firm The NPD Group. The firm’s January figures suggest that sales of video game hardware fell 38% to $199.5 million, down from $324 million in January 2011. Video game software sales slid 38% as well in January, falling to $355.9 million, and sales of accessories in the U.S. dropped 18% year-on-year to $195.2 million. Total industry sales were down 34% to $750.6 million.
Källa:
http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/10/video-game-sales-plummet-in-jan...
I believe that if life gives you lemons you should make lemonade & try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka & have a party - Ron White
De uppdaterade med ett uttalande till där det mest intressanta nog är:
1) Bekräftade att det mest är random... ehh folk som inte jobbar med utveckling.
2) Blizzard kommer enligt plan släppa "multiple titles" under året och de som nämns i meningen efter är: Blizzard DOTA, Diablo III, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. Tyvärr bekräftar de inte att samtliga kommer under året (om man själv inte väljer att tolka det så)
3) Att D3 Release date snart blir officiellt visste vi redan men det var väl också intressant
Everyone,
We announced today that we’re in the process of cutting a number of active positions, mostly non-development, throughout the company. I'm sure this announcement has sparked some questions from all of you, so I want take this opportunity to address those as best I can. Over the past several years, the company has grown rapidly and evolved to better serve you and the rest of our global community. Thanks to all of your support, we continue to serve by far the biggest subscription-based MMO community, as well as the most passionate eSports and online gaming communities, in the world.
In order to keep making epic game content while serving players effectively, we have to be smart about how we manage our resources. This means we sometimes have to make difficult decisions about how to best maintain the health of the company. We’re in the process of making some of those hard decisions now.
After evaluating our current organizational needs, we determined that while some areas of our business had been operating at the right levels and could benefit from further growth, other areas had become overstaffed. As a result, we need to scale down some of our departments and part with some of our colleagues and friends here at Blizzard. I know that you all understand how difficult this type of situation can be for anyone who might be affected, so I want to assure you that we'll be offering each impacted employee a severance package and other benefits.
I also want to emphasize that we remain committed to shipping multiple games this year, and that our development teams in particular remain largely unaffected by today's announcement. We're continuing to develop, iterate, and polish Blizzard DOTA, Diablo III, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, as well as other, unannounced projects. We'll have exciting news to share in the coming weeks regarding Diablo III's release date, and will soon be holding a private media event to showcase the latest work on Mists of Pandaria. It goes without saying that we're working hard to get all of these games in your hands as soon as possible.
You've all come to expect Blizzard to live up to our mission statement with every game, and deliver the most epic entertainment experiences ever. You can continue to expect that and nothing less from us as we move forward.