Ex-Blizzard exec commands others to stop taking devs for granted as EA, Ubisoft, and too many more drown the industry in layoffs: "The thing that made the game special in the first place is the people who built it"
Former Blizzard CCO Rob Pardo urged executives to value developers more, citing recent layoffs at Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and other companies. He emphasized that the people who build games are crucial to their enduring success and that institutional knowledge is being lost.
- Entities
- Company: Electronic Arts
- Company: Blizzard Entertainment
- Company: Tencent
- Topic: Layoffs
- Game: Battlefield 6
- Person: Rob Pardo
- Game: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Topic: Game Development
- Topic: Industry Trends
- Company: Ubisoft
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