Word of layoffs in the company appeared several times in 2018, but things came to a head in February as Blizzard laid off over 800 employees despite announcing record-breaking annual revenues.ĭuring this stretch, Blizzard repeatedly irked its customers.
Last year the publisher began slowly pruning its workforce as rumors swirled of Activision taking a more hands-on approach with Blizzard after years of letting the company largely handle its own workings in game development. Many people internally are laying that on Pete, and it has crushed morale among the Call of Duty and Overwatch teams especially.”Īctivision Blizzard has been a steady source of news over the last year, and almost exclusively for bad reasons. “The focus has become commercializing the esports titles instead of making good programs for the community. To ease the backlash, the developers will give away Epic Arcane Lizard Mount to all the players of the next patch as a gift.“People are really getting tired of working for Pete Vlastelica,” one source said. Many continue to express their anger and sadness on social media, as the game provided them with fond memories and new connections. Such a decision was tough for many fans of the game and the community was disappointed with this abandonment. Game updates will contain bug fixing and balance updates if needed. On July 8, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it will change the game support to maintenance mode, meaning that there will be no new content to the game but seasonal rolls and hero rotations will continue. While HotS has been in “maintenance mode” since 2019, the developers are now making it official. Thus, such a decision of the developer wasn’t spontaneous but included many factors. While there are still some HotS enthusiasts who try to maintain the tournaments for the community, this is completely another level of production and promotion compared to the official support of the developer.
With that, the development of the game was downsized too. Secondly, Blizzard Entertainment stopped supporting the esports ecosystem of the game and officially shut down the official tournaments in 2018, which also turned away the attention of popular esports organizations. Dont go down the same path #worldswithfans Just saying, HOTS died when its esports scene did.
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