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croaks35 Posts: 45
Registered: 2009-7-20 22:26:57
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Dums  Title: Moderator
The mystery flavor
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Registered: 2002-10-29 08:17:13
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Development teams remain "largely unaffected".
Still, sucks. Hope those people land on their feet.
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-Mithan-  Title: VNBoard Admin
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The bulk of the 1500 people they added after WoW was launched, was in CSR and Administrative type work. Over the last 4 or 5 years, it stands to reason they have been working on improving all those functions so they wouldn't need to have as many CSR's and Admins as they had in the past.
I am sure some of it is also due to lost subscriptions meaning less work, but I bet a lot less is due to that than improvements.
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Ugh_Lancelot  Title: Ooo...bouncy!
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Registered: 2002-6-17 14:37:05
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Consider how much of the customer service stuff was manual back in Ye Olde Days of WoW, versus how much is automated today. Most likely some of that, plus getting rid of folks that haven't been significant contributors to current products for a while...
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
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I hope they got rid of GC, but it's too little too late to keep me around. Account dies on Saturday for good.
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The layoffs were bound to happen. Economy downturn can only lead to cost-cutting measures. Hope they find new jobs quick!
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JaredKorry posted:
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JaredKorry posted:
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Sociop  Posts: 264
Registered: 2009-12-8 15:10:16
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Dums posted:
Development teams remain "largely unaffected".
That is like liposuctioning the fat and ignoring the cancerous tumor, the excess fat might be slowing you down but it is not what is killing you.
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