Danielle’s Reviews > Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment > Status Update

Between people like Morhaim and Kaplan leaving Blizzard, I’m not surprised it’s the shitshow it is now. Also the fact that women in the company had a whisper network to warn each other about dangerous men and hr did nothing is horrendous.

To no one’s surprise, Activision upper management greed is largely to blame for Blizzard’s downfall

The way I thought only Kotick was the enemy….Armin Zerza when I catch you…..

Between the auction house and reaper of souls making games seem like they should be forever updated, Blizzard is really responsible for everything I hate in games, huh?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE LEROY JENKINS VIDEO WAS FAKE?????

Also learning Bobby Kotick was a shit-eating businessman from the day he launched out of the womb is in some ways vindicating. The fact he went on record multiple times saying he only cares about profits, not game quality, is horrifying but unsurprising.

I had always been sort of aware that Blizzard was a successful company, but I don’t think I realized how on top of the game they were in the early 2000s. I also didn’t know just how much the bottom line workers were getting screwed over with payment from the very beginning.

When you play chicken with corporations…the businesspeople ALWAYS win

Sounds like the company took the founder quote “I want the Blizzard name to be so strong we can stamp the logo on a box of rocks and people will buy it” a little TOO literally LMAO