“Bethesda Softworks Can Suck It”

[Corith]

Well I'm starting to see you're point, though, maybe it would be insightful to explain how the temp position works. Maybe Blizzard keeps temps in the dark and wants to know how much they can put up with before they move them to larger projects. If a company treated me like shit, I'd say the same thing. Also, I think that's pretty bad on how they treated you and other temps.

They really aren't temps in the normal sense of the word. Normally, a temp is brought in until a specific criteria is met (90 days, a perm employees returns, project is released, etc). At blizzard, all QA staff start off as a "temp" for 90 days, then, if they display a high amount of "blizzard spirit" they become perm. Skill or ability is not an issue in becoming perm.

These temps are put through a form of blizzard "plebe" training. Like a military boot camp, you are verbally berated by "upper class men" to weed out the disloyal. In fact, according to one upper manager, if he had his way, every single employee would be forced to go through this.

I wouldn't have minded the verbal abuse, if there was a golden rainbow on the other side. However, when I discovered that advancement was not based on your ability but on who knows you, I became quite disillusioned.

 

[SuAside]

I know how it sounds. I really do. I know I sound like a deranged and disgruntled employee, but the things I saw where really unbelievable

dude, you are!

you're like totally dissin' Blizzard and you already spurned Interplay.

i mean, seriously dude, who the hell wouldn't love a boss like Herve? he's such a swell guy. and the french accent! and the moustache, dude... seriously, the moustache...

everyone is gay for Herve;
and you're just a disgruntled asshole.

 

[Pope Viper]

I know how it sounds. I really do. I know I sound like a deranged and disgruntled employee, but the things I saw where really unbelievable

dude, you are!

you're like totally dissin' Blizzard and you already spurned Interplay.

i mean, seriously dude, who the hell wouldn't love a boss like Herve? he's such a swell guy. and the french accent! and the moustache, dude... seriously, the moustache...

everyone is gay for Herve;
and you're just a disgruntled asshole.

Let's not forget trying to screw former employees out of back pay.

What's not to love about that?

 

[Corith]

I know how it sounds. I really do. I know I sound like a deranged and disgruntled employee, but the things I saw where really unbelievable

dude, you are!

you're like totally dissin' Blizzard and you already spurned Interplay.

i mean, seriously dude, who the hell wouldn't love a boss like Herve? he's such a swell guy. and the french accent! and the moustache, dude... seriously, the moustache...

everyone is gay for Herve;
and you're just a disgruntled asshole.

Let's not forget trying to screw former employees out of back pay.

What's not to love about that?

Until the final months of Interplay, when Herve's little brain could no longer handle running the company, it was a great place. In fact, the 4 years I was there are amoung the best in my career.

Plenty to do; the newest development toys to play with; fun people to work with; barbeques in the parking lot; the entire company playing EQ.

 

[Glowing Ghouls]

Note to self: Track Corith's currently employment and avoid said conpany for employment or new products.


Sorry man, but you seem to be a lightning rod for getting a job at a place that either goes under or sucks.

for that idiot Reverend-Mauser, dude thats the writer of the guide, that means respect em moar than an admin (plus he is an admin, and youre banned, lol)




As far as the previous topic of 2D sprites.... I wish games would go back to them.

The whole 3d immershun sucks and makes the game take WAY too many resources in many cases.

 

[Ausir]

Until the final months of Interplay

What do you mean "final"? Interplay is alive!

 

[Corith]

Note to self: Track Corith's currently employment and avoid said conpany for employment or new products.

Sorry man, but you seem to be a lightning rod for getting a job at a place that either goes under or sucks.

You aren't kidding. Seems like every place I've worked at either goes under while I'm there, or soon after. I feel like harbinger of death.

As for sucking - Blizzard was the only place that really sucked. Interplay was the best. My currennt place is nice, nothing to complain about. A quiet magazine with an online division ( http://www.entrepreneur.com/ ).

 

[SuAside]

*requests Corith's rank to be changed to "Herald of Woe"*

 

[Pope Viper]

*requests Corith's rank to be changed to "Herald of Woe"*

Or Corporate Whipping Boy

 

[Pieatorium]

It's what they do best.

Seriously, they see it as a winning formula, and don't want to expand their capabilities (read risk) into areas they possibly might not have the success their current titles do.

What was World of Warcaft then? MMO's are the most expensive games to develope, and making an mmorpg out of an RTS franchise [even with the hero aspect of WC3] would be alot higher risk than doing so to an already established RPG.

It's almost as though people forget that WoW was a step outside what Blizzard had been doing, and It's not like they were without any challengers in the MMO market with EQ2, DDO, coming around the same time and a number of others since [Vanguard, LOTRO, Hellgate London, Tabula Rasa etc]

 

[bgalin]

Wow, Blizzard Guru is awesome!