Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by gambiting on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:36PM (#27976608)

The thing is, your "average gamer" won't know or care about any of this. I work in the industry and according to our own stats the "average gamer" is a 20-30 year old, owns a console, and buys exactly three games every year - fifa, CoD, and one other title that got the most advertising that year.

I used to live with such guys at uni, had them as flatmates - you wouldn't catch them dead talking about video games, "nerd" was probably the worst insult for them, and they religiously bought every single Fifa every year to "play with their mates" and CoD to play some multiplayer. Year on year. So yeah, I'm absolutely tempted to believe those stats, and I'm also absolutely tempted to believe any backlash from this will be minimal to Activision.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:41PM (#27976658)

Forgive me but that sounds... outdated? With the proliferation of e-sports and people making a living on twitch and all, it just seems a little unbelievable.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by Beached on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:07PM (#27976964)

I'm not sure, the numbers on twitch don't even scratch the number of unique individuals who own consoles / buy games.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by borodi on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:14PM (#27977752)

Atleast inside the mmo community streamers are very relevant. On the start of july a famous streamer started playing FFXIV and look at google trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F064ln09

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by tolbish on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:59PM (#27979001)

Are people within the streaming community considered "average gamers"? Would the average gamer even care anout streamers?

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by borodi on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:45PM (#27979794)

Whether we like or not, streamers are very influential to the gaming community, all of the games that blew up in the pandemic (among us, fall guys...) Blew up because of streaming.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by etempleton on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:43PM (#27976680)

I believe those stats for most games, but not for WoW, which is still Blizzards cash cow. Those players are invested in the community. Same largely goes for Overwatch. Blizzard has cultivated a community over the years and has their own convention.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by gambiting on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:55PM (#27976819)

Yeah, absolutely - but Activision is a behemoth compared to Blizzard. I'm just saying that WoW players will probably care, but in general customers of Activision likely won't notice.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by beerandt on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:59PM (#27976871)

Which is more of a reason that they probably won't stop giving Blizzard money over this.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by CydeWeys on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:10PM (#27976991)

> I'm also absolutely tempted to believe any backlash from this will be minimal to Activision.

Consumer backlash is not the intended means/outcome here. Blizzard is being sued and there is massive organizing within the company. They will likely end up paying out lots of money in compensation to the employees who were wronged, heads will roll, and the toxic culture will end up being cleared out forcibly (like what happened at Uber). Consumer backlash is an orthogonal concern.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by sandworm101 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:49PM (#27976750)

>> fifa, CoD, and one other title that got the most advertising that year.

Then I am very out of touch with the average having never bought any of those games, nor do I own a console. My recent purchases would be the Valve index and subnautica. The only "AAA" title in my steam library is ES:Oblivion. I'm probably not Blizzard's target market, but I am also not a broke kid. Give me a game I want to play and I will pay for it.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by username90 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:20PM (#27977820)

Then why did Activision Blizzards stock just drop 8%? Clearly the market believes they wont recover nicely after this.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by lupire on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:07PM (#27978278)

drops are temporary expressions of fear.

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Re:Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll ... by pb7 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:16PM (#27978351)

If they're guaranteed to be temporary, you ought to buy in and make easy money, right?

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