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NEWS: Activision Blizzard is closing the long-running Blizzard office in Versailles, France, employees tell Bloomberg News. This comes after a restructuring and many months of turbulence following mass layoffs in 2019.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-06/video-game-publisher-activision-blizzard-to-close-france-office …
Blizzard's Versailles office handled customer service, localization, marketing, and other assorted tasks for Europe. A recent restructure had converted half the staff to be part of Activision Blizzard -- yet another example of Activision's growing influence on the company
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick made $30 million last year. Just something we should be constantly remembering
More news: Blizzard also quietly shut down its office in The Hague, Netherlands earlier this year, employees told Bloomberg. An Activision Blizzard spokesperson confirmed the closure this afternoon.
But what about the stock prices?!
They may go up because of decreasing costs (that is what investors read). They may go down because of bad image (that is what gamers read). I am both, and paying close attention on how to handle this.... :3
Dead company
Sadly..
Maybe they can open an office in Texas? Could be cheaper here than in France.
Any idea what games those offices used to make?
None. Blizz's devs are all in California. In Versailles, they did localization (translate game content and news/blogs) and customer relationship management (organization, European events e.g. Gamescom, support, forum moderation, etc) for EU/Russia. They invited me there once :(
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