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The name Blizzard is still magical to me. As the maybe 15-year old playing Warcraft II and drawing strategies on a piece of paper. I don't play computer games a

The name Blizzard is still magical to me. As the maybe 15-year old playing Warcraft II and drawing strategies on a piece of paper. I don't play computer games anymore. But it was magical.

speg 5y ago
Indeed. I remember drawing my own maps on paper before we had a computer at home. It seems so simple looking back.
yreg 5y ago
They were good citizens of macOS too. Up until Overwatch.
- donatj 5y ago
  Right? It came to Switch but not macOS, boggles the mind. Larger install base I guess. I’d been waiting for the Mac version for years and am surprised it never came.
akmarinov 5y ago
They've now fallen so low, it's like it's a completely different company.
- hooby 5y ago
  Not just "like" - they are a completely different company. It's well known that in the wake of the huge success of WoW they had to completely re-organize the company in order to be able to properly support a game with an active audience of that size. Their size, their structure, their culture, everything changed.
- redisman 5y ago
  All the original creators of the magical IPs left a long time ago.
theandrewbailey 5y ago
Back in the day, Starcraft was my thing. I didn't get into Diablo too much, but I thought it was cool. I remember playing the original up to the final level. A few years ago, I played and beat it on my retro PC, and it was exactly as fun as I remembered it.[0] I tried Warcraft, but I didn't get into it. [0] https://theandrewbailey.com/article/180/Diablo https://theandrewbailey.com/article/180/Diablo
SloopJon 5y ago
Even outside of the recent scandal, I've long had mixed feelings about Blizzard: harassing independent servers, always-connected DRM (I got booted out of single-player CoD: MW so many times), and milking franchises with remasters. I will say, though, that after a several year hiatus, a friend and I have discovered StarCraft 2 co-op with weekly mutations, and it's a lot of fun. SC 2 recently went free-to-play. If the rest of their catalog is added to Game Pass, that will be something. Blizzard games have been stubbornly expensive years after release. I wonder what this means for Battle.net?

The name Blizzard is still magical to me. As the maybe 15-year old playing Warcraft II and drawing strategies on a piece of paper. I don't play computer games anymore. But it was magical.

speg 5y ago

Indeed. I remember drawing my own maps on paper before we had a computer at home. It seems so simple looking back.

yreg 5y ago

They were good citizens of macOS too. Up until Overwatch.

donatj 5y ago
Right? It came to Switch but not macOS, boggles the mind. Larger install base I guess. I’d been waiting for the Mac version for years and am surprised it never came.

akmarinov 5y ago

They've now fallen so low, it's like it's a completely different company.

hooby 5y ago
Not just "like" - they are a completely different company. It's well known that in the wake of the huge success of WoW they had to completely re-organize the company in order to be able to properly support a game with an active audience of that size. Their size, their structure, their culture, everything changed.
redisman 5y ago
All the original creators of the magical IPs left a long time ago.

theandrewbailey 5y ago

Back in the day, Starcraft was my thing. I didn't get into Diablo too much, but I thought it was cool. I remember playing the original up to the final level. A few years ago, I played and beat it on my retro PC, and it was exactly as fun as I remembered it.[0] I tried Warcraft, but I didn't get into it. [0] https://theandrewbailey.com/article/180/Diablo https://theandrewbailey.com/article/180/Diablo

SloopJon 5y ago

Even outside of the recent scandal, I've long had mixed feelings about Blizzard: harassing independent servers, always-connected DRM (I got booted out of single-player CoD: MW so many times), and milking franchises with remasters. I will say, though, that after a several year hiatus, a friend and I have discovered StarCraft 2 co-op with weekly mutations, and it's a lot of fun. SC 2 recently went free-to-play. If the rest of their catalog is added to Game Pass, that will be something. Blizzard games have been stubbornly expensive years after release. I wonder what this means for Battle.net?