News - What Is Going On With Warzone 2 Zombies And Warzone
And it also means there's going to be some interesting stuff to come in season 2 because we're going to have an entirely different development team working on it. You think about the massive differences in war zone between when Infinity Ward were working on it last year with war zone 2 and then when Raven took over a few months ago and how the game has changed fairly rapidly.
You know we have a brand new map, we have new mechanics, new approaches to different things. I wouldn't be surprised if Infinity Ward took on MWZ and maybe led it in a sort of slightly different direction. Maybe they focus on slightly different things. Maybe we'll end up getting some of the things that we ended up getting from DMZ into MWZ, and I've seen lots of comments from people saying that's what they want to happen—that they want things like, you know, those upgrade challenges; maybe they want there to be kind of more missions or sort of a wider spread of factions; something like that.
It'd be really interesting if they did change things up and maybe try to focus on making MWZ a little bit more replayable. So yeah, until next week, I think that's all we know about MWZ right now: that there is going to be some content for season 2; it seems to be being worked on by Infinity Ward.
We don't know if Treyarch is still involved or not, and we don't know whether it's just going to be Infinity Ward or maybe it'll be Infinity Ward and some people from Raven or Sledgehammer. What is it that you're hoping to see? And now for this article, let's turn our attention to maybe the more depressing news that's come out over the last week, and that is that Microsoft has laid off 1,900 staff.
Now these layoffs haven't just affected people in Activision; this has also affected, like. I know, people from Beeso who have gone and some of the community managers I've spoken to there who have lost their jobs. I think there's people right across the different sort of set of Microsoft Studios, and it really stinks that you know Microsoft spent an insanely huge amount of money purchasing Activision, and it was, you know, a very long-thought-out thing that Bobby Cotic was just let go at the beginning of the year, kind of when this was official that the deal had gone through.
I think he officially stopped working on the 1st of January or the 31st of December or something and apparently was paid $144 million as kind of a goodbye gift. Bear in mind that this is a man who, as you know, has been widely perceived to have failed. You know, he's led to an incredibly toxic culture where community members who worked for him really hated him, and then he was paid $144 million to leave to quit, and then not even a month later.
1, 900 people have lost their jobs through absolutely no fault of their own. Now, this is really gutting. Obviously. I didn't know all of the people who are affected by this, but some of the people who I do know who are affected by it were so passionate about the game and interacting with the community; they were exactly the sort of people you would hope were working on War Zone, like Matt at High Mooon Studios, who's sometimes in the streams and used to come in when we were doing the Easter eggs and stuff like that on things like Fortune's Keep.
He was absolutely awesome and obviously enjoyed the game a huge amount, and it's a real shame to see him going to Austin from Raven, who was doing communications for War Zone between Raven and Community. Always advocating for the community came over and found me at CeX which was really cool like you know in a big crowded room he'd come over to me because he'd been in the streams with the official Raven account sometimes again when we've been doing Easter eggs and things like that it was awesome that kind of he knew who I was and he' remembered me and stuff just really kind of made my day that was such an exciting thing for me and then see people like him being laid off and because of the nature of these layoffs these aren't people who are now going to be replaced they're not sort of being kicked out because they did a bad job or something like that they're just being downsized like their departments are being downsized their teams are being cut and that means that these people aren't going to be replaced so when you've had all of the communication from Raven and whether or not you think there's been enough communication from Raven.
And they hear about it from people replying in sort of Twitter Freds and on Reddit. They hear about stuff that people are talking about in various discords and on streams. They spend a huge amount of time trying to pay attention to the kind of community sentiment about different things. Understand how the community feels about different things and they obviously have more information than we do because they have all of the data to back up stuff of kind of what normal people think as well as all of the opinions of people online and the people that talk about it a lot on social media now that they've laid off a bunch of people in those teams, that's going to be reduced they're going to have less information about what people think they're going to have less staff who understand the community they're going to have less staff who sort of go around looking at all of these different opinions all of these different things that people have said and then translate that for the developers and try and turn it into something useful some sort of constructive, criticism.
And similarly, when you've seen people like animators go, that means that you're going to be getting less content. You know people who are doing the development work on the games. A lot of those people are gone, and they're not going to be replaced, so instead of it being something like okay, well, other people will just step up and do more.
It just means less will get done, less will be able to get done. All of those people that are left are taking with them years of experience, ideas, and a sort of ingenuity. That has been used in Call of Duty in the past, so whatever you think about the Call of Duty content again over the last few years, it's now going to be of worse quality; there's going to be less new content coming, and that absolutely stinks.
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