We remain frustrated and angry with Activision Blizzard after CEO Bobby Kotick resigned himself to listening to 1,800 workers. Lately it looks like Activision has had some internal issues and this week they haven’t gotten rid of them. This time the complaint comes from Raven Softwarebecause the developers of Call of Duty QA are facing layoffs.
Austin O’Brien, community manager Raven Software Associate said fully able-bodied members of this team were called for a meeting and then fired. O’Brien and other members describe the situation as totally unfair.
I am disgusted at the moment. My quality assurance friends at Raven were promised, for months, that Activision was working on a wage restructuring to increase their wages.
Today, one by one, valuable members of the team were called to meetings and informed that they were being made redundant.
– Austin O’Brien (@eyyohbee) December 3, 2021
Many of these developers have relocated specifically for this job.
Austin said many of those workers specifically moved to join these jobs. On top of that, he said Activision was working on a pay restructuring for the QA department. It is a promise that was made months ago and, as you have already told us, has not been kept.
One of the engineers in charge of Game characterizes this department as “one of the best I have ever worked in” and tester Molly Weaver comments that “there are a lot of very good and more than good people who are laid off” and that “they are laid off after years of hard work “. .
We are all in shock. Lots of tears. Lots of people terrified for their future. Lots of amazing, very knowledgeable testers get laid off after YEARS of crisis after crisis after crisis. I am as angry as I am broken. https://t.co/pkWNoWs7xq
– Molly Weaver (@wilderamaranth) December 3, 2021
Currently, Raven Software is a leading developer of Call of Duty: Warzone – will release a new map soon -. Also, it seems that this QA department is involved in other projects. It is still unclear why Activision Blizzard is laying off these workers, as are many of the layoffs this company has already made. What is clear is that seen like this it seems a rather cruel and unfortunate situation.
