Episode 344 – Seeds of Unemployment

This episode we talk about the recent layoffs at Xbox/Activision/Blizzard and also discuss the most recent WoW Patch.

Twisted Links

Patch 10.2.5: Seeds of Renewal – Went live on Jan 16, 2024

• Dragonriding to the Old World! (yay?!) 80% of speed of Dragon Isles though
• New historical discovery event (Azerothian Archives)
• Bel’ameth – New Night Elf home
• Follower Dungeons – Fill out dungeon party with NPCs
• Gilneas Reclamation

Layoffs

• 1900 Staff are being laid off from Xbox across Activision, Blizzard, Zenimax and More.
• Mike Ybarra – President and Allan Adham – Co-Founder, leaving (not part of layoffs)
• Already had a policy requiring people return to the office which caused some to leave. “Soft layoff”
• Everyone working on development for the new “Survival Game” was laid off.
• Rocky development, however. Been working on it for 6 years.
• Supposedly big cuts in Overwatch and Diablo teams.
• Video/Info from Bellular: Video LINK and Article LINK

February Trading Post Mount is good – Reins of the Fur-endship

Holidays

• Lunar Festival 2024/02/03 – 2024/02/17
• Love is in the Air 2024/02/05 – 2024/02/19

Coming Soon…

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Next is Episode 345, we will be recording LIVE with our hosts and just maybe a guest. Please keep a watch on the site or twitter for updates. You can listen live on twitch.tv/twistednetherblogcast with Fimlys, Hydra, and Zabby, make sure you join us to ask our guest questions and heckle Fimlys.

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(Opening song “Monster Techno Blues” is performed Joe Sibol)