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posted by martyb on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the employees-got-de-activated dept.

Overwatch and Call Of Duty maker to cut 800 jobs

Video games publisher Activision Blizzard has announced it will lay off about 800 people, despite reporting record revenue in 2018. The company made $7.5bn (£5.8bn) last year, up from about $7bn in 2017. Its chief executive, Bobby Kotick, said the results were "the best in our history" but did not "realise our full potential".

[...] Most of the job losses would not be in game development departments, the company said. But many roles related to its e-sports business appear to have been cut. King's Seattle-based mobile game studio Z2Live will be closed entirely, with the loss of 78 jobs.

Activision's stock price had plunged in recent months. As part of the restructuring, the company will increase (by hiring?) the number of developers working on several of its franchises:

"The number of developers working on 'Call of Duty,' 'Candy Crush,' 'Overwatch,' 'Warcraft,' 'Hearthstone' and 'Diablo' in aggregate will increase approximately 20% over the course of 2019," Activision said in its release. "The company will fund this greater investment by de-prioritizing initiatives that are not meeting expectations and reducing certain non-development and administrative-related costs across the business."

Also at CNBC and The Hollywood Reporter.


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:56AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:56AM (#800906) Journal

    Sorry, c0lo, not sure how it is with the coding contractors and whatnot, but faculty, temporary, part-time, casual hire, faculty, have always been like this.

    I seem to remember that your predecessor, Plato, found it easier to start the first higher education institution in the Western civilization (at that time, it wasn't actually that western as the westerners like to boast today, but I digress, that's not the issue at hand).

    Are you telling me that this is when all this "teachers scrapping just enough to stay alive" started?

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:20AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:20AM (#800935) Journal

    I blame the Sophist, Protagoras, who said, "pay as much as you think my teaching is worth." Thus, the ancient version of Humble Bundle was born. However, the real problem is not that students freeload, it is that administration skims, controls, and ultimately kills education. Aristotle said:

    And so too, it seems, should one make a return to those with whom one has studied philosophy; for their worth cannot be measured against money, and they can get no honour which will balance their services, but still it is perhaps enough, as it is with the gods and with one's parents, to give them what one can.

    Or in the original:

    οὕτω δ᾽ ἔοικε καὶ τοῖς φιλοσοφίας κοινωνήσασιν: οὐ γὰρ πρὸς χρήμαθ᾽ ἡ ἀξία μετρεῖται, τιμή τ᾽ ἰσόρροπος οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο, ἀλλ᾽ἴσως ἱκανόν, καθάπερ καὶ πρὸς θεοὺς καὶ πρὸς γονεῖς, τὸ ἐνδεχόμενον. μὴ τοιαύτης δ᾽ οὔσης τῆς δόσεως ἀλλ᾽ ἐπί τινι, μάλιστα μὲν ἴσως δεῖ τὴν ἀνταπόδοσιν γίνεσθαι δοκοῦσαν ἀμφοῖν κατ᾽ ἀξίαν εἶναι, εἰ δὲ τοῦτο μὴ συμβαίνοι, οὐ μόνον ἀναγκαῖον δόξειεν ἂν τὸν προέχοντα τάττειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ δίκαιον: ὅσον γὰρ οὗτος ὠφελήθη ἢ ἀνθ᾽ ὅσου τὴν ἡδονὴν εἵλετ᾽ ἄν, τοσοῦτον ἀντιλαβὼν ἕξει τὴν παρὰ τούτου ἀξίαν.

    http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0053%3Abekker%20page%3D1164b%3Abekker%20line%3D1 [tufts.edu]