Activision's Influence Growing, Blizzard Is Cutting Costs

[poehalcho]

https://kotaku.com/with-activisions-inf ... 1831263741

Blizzard has spent the year taking big measures to cut costs as it prepares for a lean 2019. Those measures, as conveyed by people who work or have worked for the iconic studio, include employee buyouts in which workers are offered money to leave, a broadening of the finance department, and the limitation of budgets for any team at the company that isn’t directly making video games...

[ltsune]

"At the same time, Blizzard is actively hiring for its game development teams, as it continues to work on new games in franchises like Diablo and Overwatch. "

Doesn't really sound like a bad thing directly.
Indirectly it'll probably lead to more games but worse support and less testing before release of the games.

We'll see.