{"id":33246,"date":"2012-03-01T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T11:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33246"},"modified":"2012-03-01T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T11:19:27","slug":"blizzard-to-shed-600-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/33246-blizzard-to-shed-600-employees","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard to shed 600 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mega-developer Blizzard Entertainemnt has announced that it will be conducting a global reduction in its workforce, costing approximately 600 employees of their jobs.<\/p>\n

Only a rough 10% of that figure is expected to be from departments related to game development. Well, that makes it okay then…<\/p>\n

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Mike Morhaime - Blizzard CEO<\/p><\/div>\n

“Constant evaluation of teams and processes is necessary for the long-term health of any business,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and Blizzard co-founder. “Knowing that, it still does not make letting go of some of our team members any easier.”<\/p>\n

Morhaime has assured fans that Blizzard remains committed to shipping multiple games this year and that their development teams remain largely unaffected by this announcement.<\/p>\n

“We’re continuing to develop, iterate, and polish Blizzard DOTA, Diablo III, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, as well as other, unannounced projects,” he wrote on the Blizzard forum.<\/p>\n

This comes after announcements at the end of last year that World of Warcraft had been haemorrhaging about 2 million subscribers.<\/p>\n

Sources: Blizzard PR<\/a>, Blizzard forum<\/a><\/h5>\n

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