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I honestly don’t assume anything about his role at Blizzard. His nickname was with Afrasiabi’s on a World of Warcraft item. Also, on the game development side, the Overwatch leadership team’s misguided obsession with making Overwatch into a MMO has significantly hampered the evolution of the game.
Anyway, better to avoid parasocial stuff regardless. I liked his updates and videos, and that’s it.
It’s unsurprising, particularly the lateral move to DECA Games. It was an easy target for Embraced to cut costs, plus their last game was cancelled before release (Magic: Legends). It seems like the Cryptic engine would require a large investment to be used for new games, but I might be wrong.
Still frustrating, I’m certain those devs didn’t deserve to be laid off. Seems they cut senior devs too.
Yeah, but that veneer is starting to chip for me… See this blog article from Sébastien Benard.
I don’t know enough to judge the situation fully, but, from what I’ve heard, their co-op functioning isn’t always easy to do. I do wish we had more co-op game studios to improve the model over time.