Is it true that Blizzard will cut its staff next week? What's the matter? As one of the largest game publishers in the world, Activision Blizzard has been striving to produce the world's most sold game products. Recently, the company has been renovating its legend. Now, the latest news says that Activision Blizzard will carry out another round of major layoffs.
According to foreign media Bloomberg, some activists said that Activision Blizzard plans to issue the company's layoffs next week (probably Tuesday as soon as possible), as if it was a part of the company's renovation plan after a series of recent works failed to perform as expected.
According to the news, the scope of the company's layoffs will be 'probably hundreds of people'. By the end of 2017, the number of employees of Activision Blizzard exceeded 9800. In addition, in the past few weeks, the stock price of Activision has experienced a wave of rise, with the latest share price of $42.88.
Recently, the works of Activision Blizzard are more common than before, and the reworking is obviously the result of this. Works like "watching the vanguard" and "the legend of the furnace stone" and so on 'play faction changes tend to be steep or cut'. For example, after the launch of Destiny 2: abandonment last autumn, sales volume was desperate, which further led to the separation of this year's Activision and destiny developer Bungie last month.
The plan of Activision Blizzard has not been confirmed yet. In the past few months, a series of trends of their development team have confirmed the legend of this time to some extent. Before CFO Spencer Neumann left for Netflix, the separation from Bungie just mentioned is also a bad news for Activision Blizzard.
Nowadays, it has become a routine for the global game industry to cut people, expand the scope and even close the business room, so the action of Blizzard repair is not too unpredictable. However, once this kind of thing starts, it will be impossible to accept it in the future, and the scope of this time's dismissal is still unclear. We will pay more attention to it.