Clint_Matthews: If it dies, it dies.

PainCheeZe: I miss the days when the largest perceived threat to World of Warcraft was upcoming MMOs, not it's parent company...

Xashi_Xouless: The unquenchable greed of these companies is their own death knell.

TechnoSpice: They got a few of us just waiting for a Classic announcement at Blizzcon to throw money at them. If they cancel it they're cutting off their nose to spite their face.

FoolishFeller: Definitely fire whoever decided to add "Body Type 1" and 2 to WoW. Fire them. Take their pension, too.

oregonbird: They were making plenty of money on ESO. steady money. The new content and combat changes have been very well received. It looks to me that they just laid people off purely based on salary because they don't care to learn the actual business.

MegaHellenkeller: Sir, you are forgetting that even when studios meet or surpass targets, parent companies still layoff the talent who made that success possible.

TheChaosTheory: They bought all these studios knowing they would do nothing with them, steal all of their talent via AI and then cut them in half, to quarters to nothing. This is Pathetic. We need to keep speaking up about this...

Mael6469: Let's be honest. Microsoft and some of the studios were making slop.

boujiefett: The amani green screen is dope

Luxumbra69: Cut salaries, raise C-suite salaries and stock prices.

Extract profit. Kill creativity, re-use old content.

Repeat.

Kenv_: Can they make cuts to blizzards legal team so I can keep playing Ascension?

Antspray1: Really wish they actually would fire the Warcraft team.

damezombie6706: They should be afraid

occultism99: They can honestly fire the writing / lore team and the game wouldnt change

Morkhard: The private server have shown how much Blizzard diserve to have layoffs

koronor1: going to be interasting to see how redusing management layers down form a high og 14 to 3-5 layers. is going to impact the remaning developers.

Take_The_Ride: Avowed wasn't successful. It wasn't "super" anything. It was a failure.

Floar: Microsoft's losing tactic is to push the xbox game pass and lose a lot on the $60-70 game sales on launch day. Getting 12.99 on every triple A game can't be profitable...

westkoastdogg6680: Bellular looks like an extra from the film Grease

HatTrkPatrk: "Now WoW can't afford to fail"

Blizzard: Hold my $1 beer

TheBaldr: Warcraft is mega safe, The Brutosaur made more money than all those studios releasing games on hit list(e.g., Ninja Theory, Double Fine, or Compulsion Games) in the past 8 years. Put that in your brain, a single wow asset is more valuable than several studios.

atrop19: That's a shame. Blizzard needs a purge.

coachleif: The audio seems crunchier, and more echoey than normal

Volsamto: Even Metzen can’t save the story, it’s already cooked

frostshock0: Let it all fall and burn.

timothyelsner1156: I wonder what Bellular thinks about this Project Ascension thing that started recently?

Jul 16 2026

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