Activision Blizzard lost 63 MILLION players last year

[TobiasAlec-11572]

its activision and blizzard bud

[Tsunder-11669]

I am actually. They still take time into their releases and don’t half *** them like everyone else.

[AeLynn-11513]

@Redkite-11428

@AeLynn-11513

It’s important to make a disclaimer in the Original Post that this isn’t Blizzard we’re talking about. It’s the merged publishing company, Activision Blizzard King.

Not Blizzard Entertainment, which is under them.

I never stated otherwise. Activision blizzard is the company’s name, which is what I said.

I did not say that to imply you were misleading others, but to let you know that there are a LOT of people in the Overwatch community wherein Overwatch is their first Blizzard game, and they may not know the difference.

@RobotWizard-116887

I think a lot of these is because they are losing so many players so quickly. I think the Beta was brought forward in an attempt to retain OW players.

That doesn’t make sense. It’s only a 2 million loss from the same time last year, when the WoW expansion was new and when we’ve only had Echo for a little while.

Also, Hearthstone expansions take years, I follow some of the concept artists on the team and the art for this xpac was made in 2018.
The Overwatch 2 Beta date lines up perfectly with the Overwatch League schedule AND the Amazon Prime Golden Lootbox reward calendar, so it was likely planned in advance as-well.

This is a constant cycle for Blizzard Entertainment specifically. It’s routine for numbers to drop, and then to spike.

[RobotWizard-116887]

@AeLynn-11513

That doesn’t make sense. It’s only a 2 million loss from the same time last year, when the WoW expansion was new and when we’ve only had Echo for a little while.

From a “global” point of view, I could see the higher ups saying we need public movement and we need it now, from any team which could be in a position to do so.

Company politics don’t need to make sense

[Drakko-21742]

Didn’t they actually publicly release this information themselves ?

[Dasaries-11327]

Not sure.

But I do think it is sad that they are losing players. However, I do NOT think they are entirely against making their game better either. My guess is there is TONS of politics behind this game such as Activision making the bad choices.

I remember from the Days of WoW. That it use to work GOOD and then when Activision set foot in the door and took it over. It was as if the game over-night had ISSUES galore. Devs were making bad changes to the games and the logic was thrown OUT.

To me, the updates to this game reek of Activision pollution. If Microsoft was smart they would take the game and leave it ALONE after the fact, let the Blizzard division run autonomously of them and it should work good.

I cant say that anything Microsoft ever touches, works very well. It turns gross and very foul.

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I would expect Match maker being the #1 issue of the game, followed by #2 as the lack of CORE maps to the game, #3 being hit registration. and these audio changes in the past year sound like their Audio technicians have Swimmers Ear or a serious loss of hearing.

For Overwatch 2 it will be Scoreboards and 5s. As well as the orisa changes make zero sense. I think introducing MORE Crowd control abilities is NOT healthy either. Considering the community wants those GONE.

Then with the 2 major “Wild card” heroes such as Widow and Doom being the last thing.

[DKF-11449]

@Redkite-11428

Is this due to the lack of new releases?

Yes, obviously. How many players will FromSoft “lose” next year? Keep us updated.

[Sereaphim-2314]

@Tsunder-11669

They are one of the only triple A studios making quality games left.

Yea Warcraft 3 Reforged was high quality …

[Redkite-11428]

@Sereaphim-2314

Yea Warcraft 3 Reforged was high quality

haha I can’t believe they were even allowed to release it in the state that it was in. I’m not sure if it’s any better now…? I’m guessing it’s not.