I wonder... Back when I was still in their target market, Blizzard was definitely known for imitating successes better than their rivals. Starcraft, Diablo and

I wonder... Back when I was still in their target market, Blizzard was definitely known for imitating successes better than their rivals. Starcraft, Diablo and WoW were all quite late to the RTS, RPG, and MMO scene respectively, but they had a depth and polish that the pioneers in these fields lacked and that made them powerhouses of their respective genres. They were the Shakespear of popular genres, doing nothing original but doing it better. Overwatch seemed like it was an example of that approach into the... not sure what to call it, Team Fortress genre perhaps? But I've not seen anything similar since, they seem to have stayed out of the sandbox RPG genre altogether. I wonder whether they were so focused on customer experience that they couldn't emulate the loot box model, and therefore were left behind.