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[MiguelItUp]

Can someone give a summary or at least link to a site that's not fucking Twitter?

Basically a CFO (that's no longer there) told Kaplan Overwatch had to make an insane amount of money when it launched, and it had to do the same each year after. If it didn't then thousands of people would be laid off and it'd be on him. That was enough for him to leave, even though he loved Blizzard and would've stayed there.

 

[Smiggs]

Basically a CFO (that's no longer there) told Kaplan Overwatch had to make an insane amount of money when it launched, and it had to do the same each year after. If it didn't then thousands of people would be laid off and it'd be on him. That was enough for him to leave, even though he loved Blizzard and would've stayed there.

Why not bring him back since that bozo is gone? Hell, bring all the OGs in and get the band back together!

 

[Last Hearth]

This is why you need passionate gamers in top exec positions, so no suits with zero gaming background impose their lunacy on the people who do the actual work.

I'm shocked that so many people think the opposite in the shawarma threads.

Correct, which means only privately owned companies where the decision makers are the founders who are passionate about games. Any time any of these companies gets acquired by a publicly traded company, it's a slow (or sometimes not so slow) march to eventual death. Look at Bioware, Blizzard, Bethesda, Obsidian, (put Bungie there too). etc.

 

[Last Hearth]

Why not bring him back since that bozo is gone? Hell, bring all the OGs in and get the band back together!

It's not just Kotick, it's any publicly traded company. Working for Microsoft will not be any better.

 

[Smiggs]

It's not just Kotick, it's any publicly traded company. Working for Microsoft will not be any better.

Sadly you're right. I understand it's a business and you need to make money, but just look how amazing WoW was back in the day and all the success they had under the original management. That only comes with passion, not bean counters.

 

[Wilhelm_85]

Tigole Bitties

 

[Moondoggy]

I believe it, it always seemed so odd to me that he left when the game was still popular and doing very well with a big player count, plus in developer videos he never gave off the impression that he wasn't enjoying working on the game.

 

[Piggoro]

Who was the cfo?

Jesus Christ

 

[Filben]

Why does it being Twitter matter? It's a video of an interview

It's blocked by default on my browser.

 

[uncreativename]

It's blocked by default on my browser.

I'm just curious, which browser blocks Twitter by default?

 

[Topher]

 

[MayauMiao]

Jeff Kaplan says the CFO at the time, Dennis Durkin, told him Overwatch had to make X amount of money in the next year, and every year after that, or they would have to lay off 1,000 people and it would be entirely on Kaplan. So he quit. This was in 2021.

Started a job as a passion to make great games, end up becoming human resource.

CFO is the actual Diablo.

 

[Nydius]

If people want to know why there of people who actively root for GaaS games to fail, just listen to this interview in full. This corporate rot surrounds every AAA company and game development has demonstrably suffered as a result. Fuckin' bean counters and suits who have no passion for the medium and only see potential dollar signs. That's why CCU threads for games like Highguard and Marathon get so much traffic, that's why every next GaaS is "the next Concord". People are tired of this cynical corporate cash grab.

 

[The_hunter]

I'm just curious, which browser blocks Twitter by default?

firefox

 

[uncreativename]

The exec

firefox

Huh. On Firefox right now. I must've turned off whatever blocks it.

 

[crackajack]

Anyone that is actually passionate about games probably better avoids all big publishers. Sony, Nintendo, MS, Ubi, EA, Take2, Embracer, Tencent ... there is hadly any explorer spirit with these anymore. Just products (over)produced by myriads of people and way too often still failing completely to connect to the supposed target audience. It might be alright to have one big name on your resume but once you have a year or two done better leave and join a project you actually believe in instead of wasting several years on shit that either no one wants to play in the end or is mass market shit which core design is increasingly not fun but monetization and addiction routines.

 

[Filben]

I'm just curious, which browser blocks Twitter by default?

On Android, I'm using Firefox Focus (which blocks social media tracker by default) and Firefox (default build) with advanced tracking protection. For research purposes I mostly use Focus but I also use it at times for private browsing.

Anyways, I despise Twitter/X so I never cared to set up exceptions or white-list it. And I hate that trend of using a big tech social network for sharing news and information. I prefer independent services or self-hosted networks from those sharing said news (old school, like websites, blogs, etc.)

 

[nowhat]

Nintendo is probably not perfect, but at Nintendo are still working People for over 30 Years so they must do something Right!!!

That's just Japanese serf mentality. People work for whatever company/corporation until they retire or die.