{"id":18084,"date":"2019-03-04T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=18084"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:51:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:51:22","slug":"layoffpalooza-activision-ea-and-warframe-backlash-line-of-sight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/04\/layoffpalooza-activision-ea-and-warframe-backlash-line-of-sight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LayoffPalooza Activision, EA, and Warframe Backlash! Line of Sight #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v-ynj_vI4p8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For this episode of Line of Sight, we will be discussing the following topics: 1: Activision Blizzard announce to investors that their 800 employee layoff may not produce the results they had desired. 2: Digital Extremes staff backlash over YouTuber Rahetalius video \u201cWarframe: The corruption of Digital Extremes\u201d claiming it was a personal attack against Digital Extremes staff. 3: EA fires 25% of the staff at the Electronic Arts owned Studio Firemonkeys. 4: GOG.com go through their own round of layoffs and are cancelling their Fair Price Package after it was announced the system could cause them to sell games at a loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this episode of Line of Sight, we will be discussing the following topics: 1: Activision Blizzard announce to investors that their 800&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[636,29,31],"tags":[47,134,699,644,645,698,697],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/maxresdefault-14.jpg?fit=1280%2C720","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18721,"url":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/22\/bethesda-atomic-shop-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-and-blizzard-controversies\/","url_meta":{"origin":18084,"position":0},"title":"Bethesda Atomic Shop, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Blizzard Controversies!","author":"DiRT","date":"October 22, 2019","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzeTiQz7RzA Welcome to this week\u2019s Line of Sight! 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