Blizzard President Mike Ybarra Is Departing Microsoft, Survival Game Has Been Cancelled. New President to be announced next week.
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This probably one of the biggest red flags. I saw many predicting Mike was leaving (again) MS right after the ABK deal close. I guess it was true.
Dam Xbox fanboys were bragging about this game especially jiz corden and Rand al thor! Sledgehammer gets kicked out of their studio and moving to a smaller one, 1800 layoffs, senior leadership leaving, games being cancelled. Jim Ryan predicted this everyone owes that man an apology
Well, to cancel a game is normal in gamedev. But I see Mike Ybarra is out too, maybe someone at MS axed him as a revenge for being a 'traitor' having left MS for Blizzard 4 years ago. Or maybe he left MS because he wasn't happy there and now MS did something else that he didn't like and left again.
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Ybarra really really didn't want to work for MS anymore.
I can picture his reaction when the deal was closed.
I can picture his reaction when the deal was closed.
Wasn’t he the biggest supporter of the acquisition?
Guy was losing the plot when the FTC were trying to block the deal.
I have no idea. Maybe he wanted to be acquired but someone at MS like Spencer or Bond didn't want to have him at Blizzard. Or maybe he personally didn't want to be acquired but publicly he defended the interests of his company.
Biggest supporter because he knew the severance package was going to be nice when he decided to leave.
Per Jason Schreier on ERA
6 years of dev time, Blizzard really can't release any new game within an appropriate timeframe anymore.
They've been doing "Blizzard Soon™" since Diablo 3, that's way before the rest of the industry started getting into the long development cycles.
6 years of dev time, Blizzard really can't release any new game within an appropriate timeframe anymore.
They've been doing "Blizzard Soon™" since Diablo 3, that's way before the rest of the industry started getting into the long development cycles.
I was looking forward to it. Honestly ABK is one of the most uninteresting gaming companies on the market now. Its just cod, diablo, overwatch, wow, candy crush. I doubt we see anything new from them anytime soon because they have to milk what actually works from them.
They cant even fire people the correct way. How does Phil still have a job?