>”He (CFO) said: ‘Overwatch has to make [redacted] in 2020, and then every year after that it needs a recurring revenue of [redacted]’ and then he says to me ‘if it doesn’t do [redacted] we’re going to lay off 1,000 people, and that’s going to be on you.’ And that was the biggest fuck you moment I’ve had in my career, it felt surreal to be in that condition.”
Well that sounds horrible. Reminder that 99% of executives are psychopaths with no remorse.
xEtownBeatdown on
Bobby is in the Epstein files so, hopefully he gets his comeuppance
Upper-Management-AI on
This tracks for a lot of the live service games that where being pumped out.
Xplatos on
Me and you both..
Brick_Grimes on
Yeah that checks out, anyone who played ow those last few years could clearly feel the game was abandoned to push a sequel that dropped and felt like it was just chasing the f2p mtx. Even to this day.. despite my love hate relationship with ow, the game was so fun before it felt like an e sports first game.
DryFile9 on
Some of the stuff makes sense and the CFO meeting he described sounds horrible. However, I do think Overwatch issues go beyond their esports initiative and financial expectations.
The entire strategy for the games post launch support(there is another Interview with someone from leadership going into this) was I think completely at odds with how live service multiplayer games evolved since then.
So I think it was sort of doomed to fail from the start.
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>”He (CFO) said: ‘Overwatch has to make [redacted] in 2020, and then every year after that it needs a recurring revenue of [redacted]’ and then he says to me ‘if it doesn’t do [redacted] we’re going to lay off 1,000 people, and that’s going to be on you.’ And that was the biggest fuck you moment I’ve had in my career, it felt surreal to be in that condition.”
Well that sounds horrible. Reminder that 99% of executives are psychopaths with no remorse.
Bobby is in the Epstein files so, hopefully he gets his comeuppance
This tracks for a lot of the live service games that where being pumped out.
Me and you both..
Yeah that checks out, anyone who played ow those last few years could clearly feel the game was abandoned to push a sequel that dropped and felt like it was just chasing the f2p mtx. Even to this day.. despite my love hate relationship with ow, the game was so fun before it felt like an e sports first game.
Some of the stuff makes sense and the CFO meeting he described sounds horrible. However, I do think Overwatch issues go beyond their esports initiative and financial expectations.
The entire strategy for the games post launch support(there is another Interview with someone from leadership going into this) was I think completely at odds with how live service multiplayer games evolved since then.
So I think it was sort of doomed to fail from the start.