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Blizzard used to be my favorite gaming company. I remember when I was much younger dreaming of being able to work there on World of Warcraft. I played a ridicul
by jpetrucc 7y ago
Blizzard used to be my favorite gaming company. I remember when I was much younger dreaming of being able to work there on World of Warcraft. I played a ridiculous amount of WoW/Warcraft 3/Starcraft as a kid, and more recently a decent amount of WoW/Hearthstone/Overwatch.
I had been a WoW subscriber for over a decade. WoW's quality has been in decline (IMO) recently in BFA, and I stayed because I still occasionally enjoyed it, but it no longer has the same magic that I remember. WoW Classic brought back some of that nostalgia, but it was short lived for me.
BlizzCon last year made it pretty clear that Blizzard has shifted their focus [0]. There is no way they were delusional enough to expect a happy reaction to the Diablo Immortal announcement. It's very clearly targeted at the Chinese market.
Their actions in the past month (and year) are very telling - they are no longer the company I used to admire. I've canceled my WoW subscription as of last week, and I've deleted all of their games from my devices. I know that my actions alone/individually don't really have an impact on them, but I can't go on supporting them after the things they've been doing recently. Bellular has a pretty good video breaking down some of this situation as well [1].
It'll be interesting to see how BlizzCon goes this year.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9tsy49/blizzard_getting_booed_for_the_first_time_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9tsy49/blizzard_get...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbPrbqE06Y4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbPrbqE06Y4
- sylk 7y agoWe do this together, you're not the only one. I even disavowed Hearthstone, even though I've played since the open beta. Cast them to the Chinese market, that's what they want the most. I guess that's fine, I just won't give them any more money. It also seems we're not the only two people on NA that are doing this, so relish in the fact that there's many more of us out there, where this finally drew a line.
- SlowRobotAhead 7y ago>Their actions in the past month (and year) are very telling - they are no longer the company I used to admire. "Never meet your heroes".