You just get away with your lies!
Someday you’ll face a real demon.
It’s you!
Yea me too. Really really wanted to like the game, and did initially… but it just isn’t that fun past like level 50. I made it to 100 in the first couple weeks but just have little motivation to do it ever again. I still play classic WOW occasionally and even WC3… but anything new they’ve done for the last 15 years or so has been a disappointment, and I think D4 may have been the final straw for me for a while…
You can only burn customer goodwill for so long. Not to say I’ll never buy a Blizzard game ever again, but I definitely won’t be pre-ordering anything again any time soon… and since I can just pay for my Classic sub with gold now they’ve turned a customer who was once spending 50+ on Blizzard products monthly into someone who won’t be sending a dollar to Blizzard for a very long time…
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Carefull he/her might flag your post and get you temp banned from the forums because you hurt his/her little feelings
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Yeah he has **** nothing
It was a good read. Good memory! Thanks for taking the time.
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It was definitely WOW. Hearthstone was/is a CCG, and it’s far from the worst of them. I get legend regularly and I haven’t spent money on HS in years.
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I think you are a bit late to the party, but you are welcome nonetheless.
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Very good post and timeline.
I will say though I think HotS was more Blizzard misreading the market than it was a “bad game.” HotS has all the earmarks, to me, of a classic Blizzard title. They removed a lot fo the tedious chores of the genre, added in tight controls and unique spin to the systems in the genre, and then polished with well done art execution.
The problem was that tediousness is what the scene around MoBAs had adopted as a core aspect of “getting good” at the game. I fully see what and why Blizzard did HotS how they did as I agreed (was a Jungler and support mainly in LoL) that last hitting was just a tedious chore but… I would also never call myself the core target audience for that genre.
Anyways, yeah… great recap overall =)
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Ive posted this a million times but im going to post it again as it makes me feel better…
Theres no Blizzard anymore, this is Activison. The team that once was Blizzard that created the amazing games we grew up with is long gone.
When eveeyone understands this, people like us will stop waiting for the next amazing game they release. It isn’t coming.
Ive moved on to other gaming studios that have a passion for game development.
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And white knighting like a mofo apparently based on your post count.
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While I agree, it more drives home the point you were complacent with having in game purchases with a game like hearthstone in order to play it, rather then just paying a set price and getting a complete game.
I know all card games are like that, ever since the birth of the first trading card pack back in 1951. It only recently made its way to a video game platform that was easily exploitable to get the customer to keep paying money.
Just out of curiosity how much would you say you spent on Hearthstone overall? More then 60 bucks or less?
Agree completely, I was just making reference to the fact they could have easily worked together with the creators of Dota to make a blizzard version of dota, and capitalized on the genre from the get go.
HotS definitely missed the market by a good 6 years, it wasn’t a bad game, but it kind of shows the disconnect starting to form between blizzard and its player base. That’s all I was trying to say.
Blizzard was essentially trying to play catch-up to niche genre they just let slip through their fingers.
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Blizzard bought King in 2016(?). If they didn’t know the value of micro-transactions before then, they definitely figured it out when they bought the company that arguably started that entire disease…
Oh yea, definitely more than $60. I bought the starter sets for the first several expacs @ 50 each, but since then I’ve been able to go infinite more or less by playing arena/duels for gold/packs and dusting stuff from old xpacs as they rotate out (though that does hurt me in duels a little.)
Wow makes you shell out $60/xpac too in addition to a sub fee, though there are 3 HS xpacs a year + a miniset now which pushes even someone who just buys the one set/xpac to paying about as much as a WOW sub (which I’m sure isn’t an accident…)
HS has actually gotten significantly worse in the last year or two. They added separate battle passes to it AND battlegrounds, tons of new cosmetics and a ridiculous amount of silly cosmetic “signature” cards and other nonsense, plus you see a lot more store nonsense “DEALS” whereas before it was really just the card packs and sets once an expansion… For normal HS it’s still mostly manageable freetoplay if you stick to playing a few classes, but in battlegrounds the extra character choices just make it patently P2Win…
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I guess it is ok to be a fan of a game company.
But if you don’t like the products the company is making, you don’t need to feel loyalty and keep buying them. Just buy a game you enjoy. A lot of smaller indie companies make great games.
Sorry you did not like this game. Good luck to you.
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“I have been a Blizzard fan for decades. It was a company that I had a tremendous amount of respect for.”
Same and same. I grew up on Blizzard games - my older brother brought home starcraft for the PC when it was newly released (he knew about it on N64 but it coming to PC was super cool at the time) and we had so much fun with that as well as Diablo 1 and 2. We played together and with friends and had insane amounts of fun, the games they released in the late 90’s and early 2000’s felt way ahead of their time. We poured countless hours into WoW as well.
Having so many fond memories of these games makes it hard to let go, years of fun, making friends, etc. But I think Diablo 4 is the nail in the coffin for me. Been playing since launch outside of taking a 2 week break prior to season 1 releasing, and it finally clicked for me over the weekend how dull it really is, how they had ample amounts of time to develop a good game with a huge title, and not only flopped on release but then continuously made it worse.
The amount of time it takes them to nerf things is extremely quick. The amount of time it takes to add things that should have been available upon release is mind boggling. Resistances, a key stat in Diablo games was and still is broken, and won’t be fixed for months. WTF. QoL features like loot filter, filtering items in your stash, having a damn gem tab - all going to take months or not happen at all. There’s no excuse, they made the mats for malignant BS go into your materials tab, yet gems still won’t. Also on top of the already existing space issues in a game designed around loot, they release season 1 (which sets the tone for future seasons) and add MORE BS to your inventory to manage / run out of space.
The incompetency and lack of care is frustrating for a huge title like Diablo especially with the price tag most of us paid - it speaks volumes and I’m pretty much tapping out. I’ll play Starcraft Broodwar and Diablo 2 from time to time as I don’t have to spend more money to play them, screw giving this dogwater company more money - on to bigger and better new games going forward, with smaller yet better companies creating/selling them.
-Blizz Fan (1999-2023)
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Best we can hope for is that microsoft buys blizzard I guess. Blizzard died quite some time ago. Games for Gamers,not shareholders 
. They should not release unfinished games,they are getting what they deserve sadly.
It started with D3 to be honest.
Yep, it’s not worth buying anything from them or supporting them anymore. Check out Last Epoch or PoE etc. Those devs deserve success and care about their products.
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I feel like your on the right track here. The game looks great but thats about it. I feel like this game is very hollow with very little to show for it. It is just graphics and not much else. At the time of this writing at cant even bring myself to play this anymore. I had to say something about this and I am glad someone spoke up about it. It just breaks my heart to see this game just feel so hollow and incomplete. Like, do the dev’s even know the point of the game?
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This was the game that got me to finally spam uninstall my games and bnet. It’s been uninstalled since a week after launch. I gave up as well. It honestly feels great. I come to the forums every few days (less and less each time) just to see how things are rotting away slowly. Been having much more fun dedication myself to osrs and BG3.
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