Quote Originally Posted by Starbuck_Jones View Post
There has to be something there that Bliz/Activision wanted that they are not telling us. Something worth nearly six billion dollars to get their hands on and it's not talent. You don't buy talent through a stock buy-out. The talent, just became rich or was already rich when candy crush had it's IPO. The company they built isn't theirs anymore, and half the people that are not getting rich will simply quit because they feel betrayed. The rest will get fired because they are now redundant. In a year they will be lucky if they retain 20% of the workforce that is there now. These are the people who needed the job and have nowhere to go now that the market is flooded with all the talent that left earlier. I'm drawing all this from what I saw happen when I worked for Dell, and they bought out companies.
That last part I agree with completely. I saw the same thing from the other end at Compaq when HP bought us out. Everything's in China now except for program management and the few technical people they felt like keeping because nobody else in the world does it or they need them to train China before they lay them off, too.