This product was created by people with vision.
And practically destroyed by profiteers, who have adulterated it to the point that it is nothing more than a glorified draw contest.
Even when I win, I have accomplished nothing more than receive a more favorable draw/matchup than the opp.
There are days when I despise the people responsible.
Who created nothing. Instead; they bought a successful existing product, and proceeded to systematically dismantle it.
I would love to know what Mike Morhaime thinks of today’s HS.
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Mike Morhaine could give 2 licks, he is probably rolling in the monies crying about it as we speak.
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Mike just called from his 100 million dollar yacht and wanted you to repeat the question.
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You mean like trolling a web site dedicated to a game that you don’t play?
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Who says I don’t play? mallenroh#11647
And other than wondering what Morhaime thinks, I posed no question.
So your answer is inane.
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Amazing how philosophical some people can get when they lose a game 
I didn’t lose. I played a mirror match where I drew better than the opp.
That is the entire nature of the game now.
You can’t play your way back in most cases, and you can’t out play the opp, unless said opp. is a moron.
It’s just a draw contest now.
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For each post that carries anger, sadness, grief, unhappiness, etc a little bit of it dissolves into the universe. It then past thru space and time and reaches Mr M bit bombarded by countless of it. He subconsciously feels sadder and cries.
Do I get the creativity award? 
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Basically new Blizzard in a nutshell. But hey we need purchase a new yatch to Rober Kotick. He needs to reach party island while he do another party.
Hope people knows island reference.
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Just like they did to Tolkien, Lucas, Marvel, and DC Comics.
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When you work for a company, your work product belongs to the company. I see nothing wrong with that.
Ben Brode felt he could monetize better his creativity, quit blizzard, started his own company and created snap, i also see nothing wrong with that.
Blizzard didn’t really balance Diablo 4 dungeons in-house. They left the rewards pretty much imbalanced, guess work at best, and then started beta testing. What I’ve said so far isn’t prove-able, but read on.
So of course some beta testers formed a group, did a bunch of practice runs, made spreadsheets, really scientific work, high quality. Then they sent the data to Blizzard. Blizzard then implemented drop changes based on their completely unpaid volunteer work. I can prove everything in this paragraph.
So I don’t see Blizzard staff as game designers as far as balance goes. I see Blizzard staff as volunteer coordinators in disguise. I mean, I guess they do create the skeleton of the game, as well as art and music, but all that balance stuff? No need to pay anyone for that. Just release and wait, the community will gladly do that work for free.
Will they do the balance work well? Hey, that’s up to the volunteers. Maybe they’ll be professional about it like the D4 beta testing group was about dungeon droprates. Maybe the volunteers won’t, and all Blizzard has to go on is rants on Twitter. Point is, Blizzard isn’t going to pay anyone for that. What they get for free is what they use, and you see the results.
Some of y’all think Blizzard has their own internal stats better than HSReplay. I doubt it. It would make a lot more sense economically to run no internal stats, wait for Vicious Syndicate to do all the hard work for them, then balance off the results. Much more chill.
TL;DR: a AAA publisher actually paying professionals to balance their game is a principle from an era long since past. Balance is YOUR job, peasants. Quit slacking and get cracking on that .xlsx file already.
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I agree with all of it. I don’t know if it’s accurate, but it sounds likely.
Agreed. One can definitely see the difference from launch to now, and that story repeats itself across every blizzard title, and the few decent actiblizz ones.
The irony of those who act as spokespersons or promoters for the company making these posts never ceases to amaze me.
…and so many others.
Pressing F.
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It’s truly amazing to look this company and its IPs today and compare them to everything coming out before 2008. It wasn’t immediate, but you could tell the decline was happening after they merged. OW1 was the last good game they ever brought out, and they just let it die, leaving it in a 2+ year development drought.
I know a company’s purpose is to make money and always seek out more avenues within their products to gain more profit, i.e. cosmetics, but they have taken the passion and energy for making good games and put it into just this. At least that’s how it feels.
Their games are still “playable”, depending on your definition of the word, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I no longer have any Blizz games on my PC in the next few years. Maybe MS can save them. - shrug-
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I have never cared less about playing this game.
Even when I win, I am generally cursing my screen and hating the experience.
Team 5 has pretty much ruined intelligent play, and all that is left is a game for players who do not care how they win, only that they do
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They have mouths to feed and quotas to fulfill? Creativity still needs sustenance, after all. I am not disagreeing with you on how frustrating the game could be sometimes, but I take it as a necessary evil, the way I think is just try to coexist with it. It’s hard though, I give you that.
So does the rest of the industrialized world.
They are selling stale farts rebranded as imported air.
Can’t agree any less. I do feel cheated by Blizzard when I purchase those prepurchases but never get a full collection. But I just cannot stop buying them, how I wish I could cut my hands the next time I decide to press that purchase button!
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Who is Mr. M?