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Wait, I'm missing something. What does World of Warcraft have in common with Microsoft?
Microsoft purchased Blizzard.
🤯
I must have been under a rock.
No wonder they were able to unionize so quickly. And I bet they had to, knowing Microsoft's track record.
Being under the ActiBlizzard umbrella wasn't exactly a walk in the park for a lot of employees either.
I knew a dude who worked at Activision Blizzard and his description of his workplace sounded horrid. The weird part was his fawning bright eyed love for the office culture. He viewed it as a perfect dream workplace. I don't even know it there's a takeaway from all that. It just always struck me as notably odd
Sounds like a strange form of Stockholm Syndrome.
And they paid $69 billion, which is the dumb joke amount Elon initially said he'd pay for Twitter, but these dorks actually did it