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Activision-Blizzard is a publisher who bought the name of a developer. It helps to keep this in mind; they’re in the business of selling games and they only mak
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
Activision-Blizzard is a publisher who bought the name of a developer. It helps to keep this in mind; they’re in the business of selling games and they only make games as a means to that end.
For example, Destiny 2 was considered by many fans to be too much like CoD and it’s easy to speculate that Activision pushed for this “shooter game” to have similar gameplay to their cash cow shooter game franchise because they expected it would be easier to sell. Never mind that the developers were intending to make an “MMOFPSRPG”, which would necessarily have distinct gameplay elements from CoD.
- hinkley 3y agoSad that Runic games is gone too. But I got the impression that as fun as Torchlight was to play (first game I finished in some time), people were getting tired of working only on Diablo clones. That was the reason given for Hob instead of another torchlight. But then Hob never came out on a device I owned, and then they outsourced III as there were on the way down. Place like that could have been a good landing spot for ex Blizzard people. Are there any other companies that I should be watching? Maybe some WoW alumni working on different mmrpgs?