Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Nerd News: Blizzard lays off 600 employees

Story on Ars, see also this from Blizzard http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4081816711

According to the Wall Street Journal, Blizzard "had about 7,300 employees at the end of last year."

600 of 7,300 is 8.2% which seems like a pretty large reduction to me.

What this means for Esports & Blizzard's products in particular isn't clear yet, Blizzard is saying that not many of the reductions came from production people and that they plan to "continuing to develop, iterate, and polish Blizzard DOTA, Diablo III, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria."

I wonder though, they did cancel Blizzcon for this year already, and now this, when according to BBC & other reports US economy is growing, though slowly.

Maybe Esports & Gaming are not sharing in that?

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