[The Verge] Blizzard President Mike Ybarra Is Departing Microsoft, Unannounced Survival Game Has Been Cancelled

[Gizmo_Duck]

Alongside the layoffs, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra has decided to leave the company. "As many of you know, Mike previously spent more than 20 years at Microsoft. Now that he has seen the acquisition through as Blizzard's president, he has decided to leave the company," says Microsoft's game content and studios president Matt Booty in an internal memo.

Microsoft plans to name a new Blizzard president next week. Allen Adham, Blizzard's chief design officer, is also leaving the company. "As one of Blizzard's cofounders, Allen has had a broad impact on all of Blizzard's games. His influence will be felt for years to come, both directly and indirectly as Allen plans to continue mentoring young designers across the industry," says Booty.

Blizzard's previously announced survival game has also been canceled as part of these changes. Booty says Microsoft will be "shifting some of the people working on it to one of several promising new projects Blizzard has in the early stages of development."

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[levitate]

MS: Destroy and Rebuild and Destroy.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

at least we don’t gotta worry about whether or not this game will be exclusive or not

 

[Koba St]

@MeachTheMonster whats going on at Xbox. First they going third party and now this

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

@MeachTheMonster whats going on at Xbox. First they going third party and now this

Also, factions was only in production for 3 years, this was 6+ years. Sounds like blizzard was a bad buy

 

[The Mad Titan]

Palworld is the captain now

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Palworld is the captain now

 

[ALonelyDad]

this is what happens when PS3 is outselling your modern day consoles but coli finance experts will tell you consoles sales, game sales, nothing matters

 

[rdj]

Cancel a survival game when Palworld is making the genre have a resurgence. Phil Spencer the visionary.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

@MeachTheMonster whats going on at Xbox. First they going third party and now this

Capitalism

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Capitalism

Very easily explained here but you had a lot more words for the sony layoffs and game cancellations

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Cancel a survival game when Palworld is making the genre have a resurgence. Phil Spencer the visionary.

They cancelled the overwatch PVE stuff also. Time to throw blizzard in the bushes

 

[ALonelyDad]

Hopefully he can get a going away party like Jim Ryan who was also fired

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Can't have a "toxic culture" if you bush the whole staff lol