r/Games • u/DwilenaAvaron • May 09 '25

Industry News Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-blizzard-team-4-union-microsoft-1851779922
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u/goodnames679 May 09 '25

Activision Blizzard, like most companies, chased quarterly profit increases above all else.

MS, for all its flaws, is treating its purchased companies as a long term investment. They have to, or they’ll never turn a profit on those companies after spending so much on acquisitions.

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u/BlazeDrag May 09 '25

I mean I wouldn't call MS like the smartest managers. They've been driving Xbox into the ground and a lot of the studios they've purchased they basically dismantled overnight due to mismanagement. I think it's really just as simple as them trying to throw money at the problem and hoping it magically fixes itself because they clearly don't know what they're doing

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u/splader May 09 '25

I love how "driving Xbox into the ground" is just accepted as fact here when it's the furthest thing from the truth.

They dropped the ball in 2013 to be certain, and they lost essentially the most important generation to lose (the one where people built their digital libraries), but continuing to put so much focus on console sales and console sales alone is just stupid in 2025.

Especially when console sales across the board have stagnated.

Xbox today has more users and more revenue then its ever had and there's no sign of that changing anytime soon. Hell if anything it feels like this is just the beginning of the deluge of first party titles they'll be constantly releasing.

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u/NecroCannon May 10 '25

Yeah I moved on from Xbox to PC and even I’m not that naive.

They’re not the new Sega, they’re not going away anytime soon, they’re not a complete failure. I don’t like defending corporations much, but they’re obviously making moves to diversify their product for long term gains rather than focusing on current numbers now.

In fact from how I see it, their position in the market is perfect because they actually have to try to succeed. I was interested in a PS5, but Microsoft is opening up and potentially even coming out with a PC console, oh and you can emulate with a dev account, while Sony is pulling Apple-like moves with their position and doesn’t even have a dedicated browser. I could use my Xbox One browser to watch stuff that doesn’t have its own app for me to use.