What happened?
>>724137273The creation of the MOBA genre. They will never be forgiven for this.
They got too big and successful for their own good. Simple as.
>>724137273they went public
>>724137273located in commiefornia
>>724137273Coasted on WoW for decades while bleeding any talent they had.
WoW became too big and they went public. You had to be their to experience it, blizzard were the Gods every pc gamer worshiped during the late 90's early 2000's
They got bought out and transformed into a cia propaganda outlet. It is likely that it was always part of the cia and it didn't start hard line using full force propaganda until it had a captive audience. The company is now filed with former glowies in their executive positions and antifa adjacent rank and file empooyees.
suits got outmatched by working talent they hiredthey got a product they couldn't handle and did what they thought best - milked it dry until it imploded
>>724137273time. everything gets worse over time.
People who should've never had control got control of it.
>>724137273activision
gay fans got a hold of it
>>724137273Betrayed their grassroots consumerbase for what they thought was never ending cashflow from the mainstream.
>>724137273oh, you know...
>we won't hire white guyswhat was his end game?
>>724139249This guy was a former glowie. It is likely he is only there to promote globohomo interests. Also having access to chat logs to stop drugs/weapons/human trafficking operations on wow and battle net.
>>724137273nothing bigot, you just hate women
>>724137301Just don't play MOBA's, you retarded nigger.
>>724137273The actual answer is they hired too many people who weren't true creatives, and women. When it was a small, tight-knit group of dorky developers, it pumped out classics like there was no tomorrow. Bungie was the same way. ID was the same way.
>>724137301They had their chance to have Dota and they blew it.One of the most retarded decisions ever, but holy shit am I glad that Blizzard fumbled it. Blizzard dota would have sucked on epic levels.
They appealed to people that don't like video games because they hate their customers.
>>724140406>they hate their customersunfortunately blizzdrones are the most dick-sucking cultists you'll ever see in a franchise
>>724137273Every major dev/publisher goes through an arrogance phase and Blizzard's was one of the worst while all their talent left and tentpole releases degraded their pedigree. Their smug hiring processes also filtered out all but the "best of the best of the best" (when they vocally considered themselves the Pixar of gaming) which got them a bunch of opportunist resume stuffers who leveraged their experience at prime Bungie or whatever to get their dream job while having zero clue about what made Blizzard games good in the first place. Some of the stories about Titan's development were embarrassing. It was a bunch of cultists who swore it would "change gaming forever" without explaining how or what the game as even supposed to be and were confident Blizzard magic would make it all come together in the end.
>>724137273All the people who were good stopped giving a fuck when they got WoW money.
>>724137273The combination of being too big to fall and too shit to stand.
>>724137273fags and dykes ruined it
GO WOKE GO BROKE
>>724137273The nerds who made it got replaced by suits.
Is Diablo 4 any good?I'm playing Diablo 3 on Switch and I'm finding it fun. It's kind of mindless, actually. The time I spend planning builds and experimenting is only 5% of the time. The other 95% of the time is spent mashing buttons in the right order according to the skills I consider best, and that's it.For now, I think the game is 5% RPG, 95% Vampire Survivors, but it's still fun to play.
>>724137273everquest niggerfaggot raidtroons
>>724146172That's the gist of D3 honestly. Once you get into higher GRifts you'll find yourself more and more shoehorned into certain skills and sets that have only certain equip slots free that then can take other bonuses. Ring of Royal Grandeur will suck your balls through your boxers if you ask it nicely.Don't Google anything and figure builds out for yourself, it's the best way to play.
>>724137273pushed their ESG score with Baclrock but raped their own business into the groundas of now re-releasing Addons from the past, but running thin since Pandaria is outretail is dead as shit everything else is just copium mode
>>724137301FPBP.
>>724146172It's definitely worth a playthrough. Fun game, just not that interesting an endgame. It's a game you can enjoy once or twice and then leave, rather than a "I want to perpetually grind this" game.
>>724137273Studio started by a bunch of talented creative dudes, who were great at making games, but not so good at passing on knowledge to the next generation. So over time the talent got diluted and eventually completely flushed out. Now, the Blizzard that was, is only a distant memory.
>>724137273World of Warcraft.thread ends here.
>>72414142720 years ago that mount would have sparked a huge outrage but now it was all "lmAo YoU'Re juST tOo pOoR tO bUy It" in the threads, modern players are too much of mindless cattle for that crap to just disappear.
They spent a decade trying to destroy company value so they could be bought out.
>>724137301This is a big part of it. In the Diablo/Starcraft days Blizzard became huge by allowing modding; same as Elder Scrolls. Because DotA became successful Blizzard was terrified of 'missing out on THEIR money' they killed modding and lost all that free work people were willing to do to improve their games.
I was driving to Ohio and had a lot of spare time so I listened to the audiobook of the creation and history of Blizzard.It really truly starts with project titan failing, which forced Activision to install a CFO in the Blizzard side of the company, who's entire job was to implement more and more ways of generating income from their games, first of which being the RMAH in Diablo 3.
>>724141427It needs to be studied what methods are being used by Blizzard to keep their loyalist fans as loyalist as they can be. You'll hear Blizzdrones in every other form of discussion condemning things all across the board, but it's tolerated as long as Blizzard is doing it. >Remake of an old game we've had that was inferior in every single metric to the original? LOL LMAO (ignore WC3 Reforged though, that was hype!) >MMO with a paid subscription, cash shop, and extraneous out-of-game purchases in order to access all of the content? LMAO HOW RETARDED CAN YOU NIGGERS BE (It's okay with WoW though) >Multiplayer "game" with painfully bad gameplay and only exists to sell goon material to its porn addicted fans? LOL COOMBRAINED RETARDS (Overwatch is okay though, stop complaining about it)
>>724137273Tell us how you got raped by the BBC
>>724152440You'll never convince me Overwatch porn was not made directly by Blizzard.
>>724152794I'm not of the opinion it was made directly BY Blizzard, but if it comes out as some bombshell """discovery""" in the coming years that they directly financed a lot of SFM artists like Nyl and the like to make as much Overwatch porn as possible (while giving them resources to use freely to do so), I would believe it even if it was an Onion article.
>>724139509Shut the fuck up and go back to lurking you retarded faggot
Right after the summit, the descent begins. It's inevitable.
>>724137273Mentzen's daughter grew up and he could'nt explain to her why exactly do guys of any age like seeing hot amazon gals running around in bikini armour.
All their good devs burned out trying to ship WoW.
>>724137273Partnered with Activision. That made them become a publicly traded company which meant they had to answer to shareholders and couldn't focus on making the best game possible but now had to be as profitable as possible. Whenever you wonder what happened to former great product/company 99% of the the time that is the answer. As soon as a company becomes publicly traded you should jump ship because a drastic downward spike in quality is soon to follow.
>>724139451>self-identify as women So in other words, there's only ~15% nerd women willing to work for a company where sexual molestation and breastmilk theft are commonplace?
>>724156167thisit was over before it started
>>724137273What happened?>activision merger, the beginning of the end BIG CORPO!>e-sports, this took the game from players first to e-sports first>OGs start to retire>cosbygate, all remaining OGs retire or get fired>tranny infestation, most if not all good coders are gone and only troons remain
>>724156384Vivendi Games owned Blizzard and was doing horribly. Kotick's Activision was near bankruptcy and approached Vivendi to do a merger because he wanted WoW money so bad. Not even the big suits at Blizzard like Morhaime could veto a buyout like that.
Too big for their briches
>>724137273china
>>724137273Same thing that always happens, anon. The people who actually made good games retired, got fired, or quit, leaving a bunch of dipshit marketeers in charge of everything.
>>724137273blizzard is actually doing great, Overwatch has 4 times more players than Marvel rivalsWoW still has 10 million subs with a very small dev team
Anything good they made was by Blizzard NorthCancer developer that would always take exactly the wrong lesson from their foundational game and ride it to its death on sequelsWoW gave them infinite money for a very long time, so much so that they started getting federal agents as their upper crust of executives as plantsNow Microsoft owns themIt is not hyperbole to say that a great number of faults and problems within the mindset of western video game development can be traced back to Blizzard
They got too big. Everything special that you've ever loved was made by a small team, if not an individual. Meanwhile massive companies with budgets in the billions and their pick of the finest PhDs in the world can only produce shit, ex: meta, microsoft It's because when too many people are involved nothing can get done, and it becomes a revolving door for scam artists who just want to grab a quick profit and bail to the next company.
>>724137273troons and their mental illness
>>724137273they literally only focused on managing and marketing after world of warcraft patch 1.1
>>724138393tempus edax rerum
>>724137273Tiny hat tribe.
>>724137273i will admit that diablo 4 there looks coolbut im never buying it ever until they introduce offline modeand fuck coming back to hearthstone
>>724137273They thought they did, but they didn't.
>>724159910Any evidence to that effect?
>>724137301That's not the fault of blizzard, blame IceFrog for it.
>>724160628Blizzard did it.
