More Layoffs at Microsoft (Targeting Most of Activision Blizzard Esports Organisation)
This is going on while most of the (Microsoft-sponsored) media talks about "the clown" and "hey hi" (AI) in relation to Microsoft, to name few of the infantile buzzwords.
Suppressed (drowned out) reports:
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Microsoft lays off most of Activision Blizzard esports organization
Microsoft has laid off most of the internal Activision Blizzard esports organization, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The layoffs at the internal group are part of the 1,900 cutbacks in jobs that Microsoft announced last week for its Xbox, Bethesda and Activision Blizzard gaming divisions.
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Blizzard's Esports Division Among Those Hit by Microsoft Layoffs
Less than a week ago, we learned that Microsoft is laying off 1,900 workers from its video game workforce. Today, several people within the company's esports teams and operations were informed that they were being laid off. According to a post on X/Twitter from CharlieIntel, an account that covers all things Call of Duty, Microsoft has laid off the majority of the esports team. CharlieIntel estimates about 12 people remain on the esports team overall.
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More Layoffs At Activision Blizzard Target Esports Division
According to CharlieIntel, it appears as though a major of the esports team at Activision Blizzard has been let go. The layoffs happened just two days after the Call of Duty League wrapped up its Boston Breach Major I event.
Scott Parkin, former senior manager of esports operations at Activision Blizzard took to Twitter to confirm the news while venting frustration.
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Microsoft lays off almost all esports production staff after CDL Major
Microsoft laid off thousands of Activision Blizzard employees and many thought that would be it, however, the company decided to gut its esports broadcast team just one day following a CDL Major.
Microsoft laid off almost 2,000 employees to start the year thanks to its merger with Activision Blizzard. The gaming industry as a whole has been rocked by layoffs across 2023 and 2024 with companies like Riot Games also letting go of a large percentage of their workforce.
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Activision Blizzard esports division reportedly gutted by layoffs
Reports from across social media have indicated a secondary round of layoffs at Activision Blizzard has gutted the company’s esports division, with casters and managers alike sharing their redundancies on Twitter / X.
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Former CDL employee claims league laid off entire observer team, spelling doom for future
"CoD Esports will never be the same again."
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Hit by Microsoft Layoffs, Blizzard’ Esport Division among others
We learned more about the impacted Microsoft layoffs, and many in Blizzard’octana revealed on Tuesday that they were not allowed to go from their company.
Before one week ago, we learned that Microsoft is laying out 1,900 workers from its videogame workforce. Today, many people in the company’s esport team and operations were informed they was being laid off. According to an article published by the Y/Twitter account of CharlieIntel, covering all things Call for Duty. Microsoft has laid off major players in sports teams from their respective accounts and that covers all things Call Of Duty CharlieIntel estimates about 12 people remain on the esports team overall.
Activision and Microsoft continued the layoff today as part of their esports team. There are about 12 people left on the esports team now. Microsoft waited for the CDL staff this weekend to return from Boston Major.
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Activision Blizzard reportedly left with just 12 esports division employees after layoffs
The shine of a new future for Overwatch esports has already been tarnished by another wave of esports industry layoffs, this time via Activision Blizzard laying off several longtime members of the OWL broadcast and talent teams—and reportedly its esports team at large.
And meanwhile, as we expected all along, the Microsoft boosters, some of them openly funded by Microsoft, pretend XBox is "up" (links to such fallacious, villainous spin omitted here by intention), simply because Microsoft adds up the numbers from a very large company it just bought. Nothing could be further from the truth because XBox has had mass layoffs since last year and this wave of XBox layoffs continues this year.
Press reports say that XBox demand has collapsed (sharp decline). The media is intentionally misinforming people, sometimes because Microsoft pays for that.