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Blizzard is long dead. Such a shame. I’ll never pay for another of their games until… actually I’m not sure when, or what they could do to bring me back. They’v
by girvo 5y ago
Blizzard is long dead. Such a shame. I’ll never pay for another of their games until… actually I’m not sure when, or what they could do to bring me back. They’ve poisoned their brand so completely, and their latest releases have been either somewhat mediocre or mismanaged into the ground over time.
- kmlx 5y ago> Blizzard is long dead. i'm still in somewhat of a denial since i really like their IPs. and diablo 4 is still very much on my radar. if that one tanks then I hope something changes as their IPs are just too good...
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoAAA development slog like what is apparently happening with D4 rarely bodes well for fun. Dev work apparently began in 2014 and it's not likely to be released until 2023 at the earliest.
- wayoutthere 5y agoMost of their IP is dead at this point; Warcraft is a dead horse they’ve been beating for the last decade, StarCraft is effectively abandoned, and Diablo 3 was a blatant cash grab from day 1 with a mediocre game behind it. Hearthstone and Overwatch are doing ok as esports but those aren’t the Blizzard IP I actually like. To think that any future games will be better than what we’ve gotten over the last decade is just being in denial that they’re Activision now. They have continued to mine the nostalgia of the player base with mediocre remakes and retread content and, combined with the fact that it’s now public knowledge how toxic Blizzard culture was during the “golden era”, it has destroyed most of the cultural value that IP had.
- pfraze 5y agoOverwatch league is kind of hosed right now because of the weird shenanigans around OW2. Last I heard, they were planning on dropping team sizes by 1 (so a bunch of pros are getting fired) and they also planned to have next years league play the unreleased OW2 beta (??). It’s in a weird place.
- pests 5y agoYou are correct. OW2 is going to 5v5 (removing a tank role) and yes league will be on the OW2 client but it will still be 6v6 as OW2 won't be out yet. The change to 5v5 is requiring major character reworks and don't affect that league.
- pfraze 5y agoI’d love nothing more than to see a glorious turnaround that sees OW2 become very popular, so I’m rooting for you, Microsoft/Blizzard/Activision. I’m not optimistic, but I’m hopeful.
- da_chicken 5y agoThey botched the Warcraft III remaster hard, and I can't forgive them for that. It doesn't matter that they farmed it out. They chose to farm it out, and they chose to ship it in the state we got. Take all that along side all this sexual harassment and anti-worker BS they've been pulling for decades, and I just don't care enough anymore. I don't need anything Blizzard wants to sell any more. I don't need to buy something to tarnish my memories of fun games. I don't need to replay those games if they're made under atrocious conditions. I'm no longer willing to give my money to a company that is emblematic of everything wrong with video games. Now with other companies pulling that same BS, and now some are coming out in favor of NFTs? Fuck 'em. I don't need AAA games. Indie titles are just as good, and I've got a hundred other things vying for my free time.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoYes, since WoW it was basically not Blizzard any more, but Activision-Blizzard ("ActiBlizz"), a quite different company...
- shitloadofbooks 5y agoThey just got bought by Microsoft for almost 70 Billion dollars.
- fifticon 5y agoTheir IP and player base just got bought for 70b. They will make new 'blizzard' games, the way Disney makes StarWars movies. But I actually welcome it. Kotick has run blizzard into the ground, on the formula 'maximize profits instead of player satisfaction', which is the opposite of the formula that made the blizzard name. At least MS will, presumably, milk the IP long-term-responsibly.
- tyre 5y agoDisney’s Star Wars series have been excellent. They bungled the sequel trilogy for sure, but I’m not convinced that they are worse for Star Wars.
- tonguez 5y ago
- enkid 5y agoKotick is sticking around.
- ChoGGi 5y agoBobby isn't going anywhere yet, he's reporting to Phil.
- Fnoord 5y agoAfter the transition period (in 2023), he's out.
- o_m 5y agoI rather be dissapointed of the new stuff than seeing the franchice dying. Maybe they make some cool spin-offs for the true fans, like Disney did to Star Wars.
- mrits 5y agoI don't like the game but they are just a hand full of years off from creating a huge success in Overwatch
- freeflight 5y agoOverwatch released over a hand full of years ago, it already had its "couple of months of hype" since then.
- mrits 5y agoIf you have access to wikipedia you could learn that neither of those statements are accurate. It has 6x more players than the first few months of 2016.
- girvo 5y agoThat is not what you think it means. It does not have 60 million current players. It has 60 million people who have played it since the open beta. Activision does not release active player counts, but every secondary metric (OWL viewership, Twitch, subreddit participation, other sites that track this) show that it’s active player count has gone down. Likely by a lot. The OW2 debacle has made it worse; no new content updates for fans who stuck it out? And for what, a PvE mode?
- mrits 5y agoI'm not sure why you want to spread misinformation about a video game.