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Zippy6 said:

Ryuu96 said:

I'm not sad to see Mike go, I said before he was on thin ice for me personally, he said a bunch of dumb shit in the past at Blizzard and pissed off employees, Chris Metzen leading Blizzard would be 100x better if that was a possibility. Awful to see the survival game cancelled though, I had heard good things about the team, as in it was ran by a great leader and the team unlike other parts of Blizzard wasn't full of toxicity, it feels especially weird to cancel a survival project when survival projects are all the rage nowadays and a Blizzard one should have been a hit.

The only thing I know about Mike Ybarra is he had long hair and came out and apologised about some controversy about China a year or two ago. "Allen Adham, Blizzard’s chief design officer, is also leaving the company." No idea who that is or what a chief design officer even does but there we go.

Edit: Just googled Mike Ybarra, that's not the guy I was thinking of. Never seen him before in my life.

Lol. Mike is a bit of a controversial figure, he for sure likes the games and plays them but he also came across during his time at Xbox as a raging console warrior and enjoyed baiting people, then at Blizzard he had both fans and employees annoyed at him and he pissed off Blizzard employees once before with a tone deaf internal email about forcing them to return to the office, he threw quality assurance and customer service employees under the bus by saying they weren't long-term disciplines, he tried to essentially say "poor us too" when he said that executives (like himself) aren't making much money either and people who think otherwise are living in a myth. Caused Blizzard employees to openly trash him on social media, Lol.

But I don't actually think that's why he has left, I've always got the feeling from Mike that he's a bit of a career ladder sort of guy, he was an EVP at Xbox but I'm almost certain he wanted the top spot and when Phil got it over him, he left to become Blizzard CEO, a higher position for his career with likely his sights set on Bobby's seat in the future, but now Matt Booty has essentially took that position, he leaves once again, I think he just cashed out and will go somewhere else where he will try to be the sole leader.

That or he doesn't like working with Phil, Lmao.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 25 January 2024