Maybe. While I believe him that he did it primarily to be with his family and kids, I also don’t doubt that he saw the writing on the wall and decided that then was a very good time to do it.
Yeah, but I don’t have the unabashed love for Brevik that many others do. This is also the guy that ran Gazillion Entertainment. And although he left in 2016, it was only a bit over a year later that Gazillion shutdown and screwed a lot of people out of money.
It was mismanagement at its finest, and it was something that most definitely had to start under Brevik, to then close down around 18-months later.
well, heroes of the storm is probably been abandoned by blizz…
They need to remove the greedy bastards from blizz before it’s to late
Me and a friend have talked with a Blizzard freelancer. He does commissioned art work for OW. (He did the statues in Kings Row and Blizzard World) And he said that in the past 4 years, Activision hasn’t made a single decision about any of the Blizzard IPs. Apparently this has all just been Blizzard making these choices on their own. Which leads me to ask, do any of them actually play their games for more than 5 hours a day. Their employees are supposedly living in communes and have to carpool into work everyday. And walking the parking lot you’ll see plenty off Uber cars that people do for a second job. I don’t wanna get political but I feel that Game Devs should move their base of Operations out of California (Taxifornia), so that they can afford to pay their employees more, so that they can make better games.
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Nevermind the massive gauntlet of conferences, conventions, and the logistics of running your own “-Con” about yourself, which always happens around August-November (and then there’s the holidays)?
Or the fact that they’ve been more public on streams to divulge information to Twitch viewers than they have in past years?
Listening doesn’t mean obeying demands.
Listening means tuning in, checking in regularly, making targeted changes to significant pressure points, and putting in their two cents. The only thing they haven’t done recently, is give their two cents publicly. They’ve been doing it in closed interviews or down the chain of command through a community manager.
Blizzard has also ALWAYS never read everything. They can’t… at over ten thousand+ posts a day, it’s impossible for them to comb through everything.
Our “opinion” is not a hivemind, but a large echo chamber of several separate groups. No one group has majority influence, and our collective opinion has the same weight as it always did even at launch, which was always relatively low.
There hasn’t been any announced layoffs in any gaming news press, and they just announced their end-of-year-bonuses would be integrated into base salaries.
Ben Brode and Michael Morhaime leaving the company doesn’t impact Overwatch’s development cycle. Ben wasn’t even a part of the same development team, he was completely separate from Overwatch. Ditto to Morhaime, who would be too busy as president to responsibly lead a development team. Other than Metzen, who retired of his own accord, and Griffin, the community manager that also retired of his own accord, there would have been no one that left that directly influenced Overwatch’s development cycles.
I agree that Overwatch has hit a low period, but that doesn’t give you the authority to be literally making up falsities…
Actually that Market Summary Max Graph is pretty boss, OP.
I’d say keep tossing horsehoes until you see the crown of the left shoulder pop up, be prepared to sell at the peak of the head. You won’t be alone, so diversify.
Although the stock is currently plummeting
They are defiantly in the danger zone, we’re looking at a YTD that’s nearly half of what it was. Not a standard market deviation by any convoluted means of measure.
Wouldn’t it just be hilarious is this went on for a bit then Apple, Amazon or Google decided F-it, we’ve got fancy math that tells us we can fix this.
Jeff 2.0 it would become ha!
I’m sure there are contingency plans in place here
Somebody always makes a bunch of dough when things hit the fan
If that’s what you count as listening. Then they sure aren’t listening.
Oh. My bad. I can’t make demands because I’m a random peasant and not an OWL player. Gotcha. I don’t even want to make demands… I just want proof that they’re paying attention to the forums at least somewhat. This radio silence is deafening. A message here, a message there, not demanding it, just saying it’d be nice. They used to post on here all the time. They sure aren’t winning any PR awards this year. Don’t you guys have cellphones?
That’s fair. Honestly, given the disastrous blizzcon, the fact that they hit a 52 week low for stocks after Blizzcon (when stock prices usually go up) and the general dissatisfaction of the casual and pro playerbase, I’d say ActivisionBlizzard has to make a full 180 to retain their existing playerbase, let alone attracting new players.
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People are feeling the dread from seeing Blizz abandon HOTS huh?
I remember when the news first broke, top r/overwatch thread was talking about the HOTS devs possibly being reassigned to OW.
Such wishful thinking.
Give it 5 years, all of Blizzard’s top games will be mobile by then. Mark my words.
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I have no sympathy for Blizzard as a company, who have shown nothing but contempt for their respective fan-bases. Maybe after their mistakes knock them down from their ivory tower, they’ll realize how disconnected with reality they truly are.
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What are you on about?
It took them 11 months to publicly address a high traffic post requesting bugfixes (not Doomfist).
Don’t pretend as if radio silence were some new escalated problem that just happened for the first time, because I can assure you their response rate has never been fast.
In fact, it was specifically because their response rate was too fast on the first post-launch rebalance, that they take things slow now.
Also, they always go quiet during the holidays.
The Diablo/Activision bandwagon doesn’t apply here.
For not releasing a game people want? lol
They apparently all ready are doing internal restructuring. They’re apparently offering incentives to get employees to leave the company. They’re throwing everything that isn’t bolted down off the boat, and sailing the ship towards money town. P.S. Money town is built on an iceberg.
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What is happening with fallout76?
You guys DO all have phones, right?
they don’t know what a fan base is anymore
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Yeah, it’s depressing tbh. OW was my first Blizzard IP and it made a pretty good first impression. It’s thank to that I got more into WOW, Diablo and HOTS.
But no King rules forever. It’s a shame, but what can you do.
Overwatch was my first Blizz game, it was ok for a couple of years. Now it’s just getting destroyed by poor technical and game direction decisions. There’s still many problems with the game and they’re often blamed on whatever other 3rd party they can blame, ISP’s and Windows cop it rather than ever admitting that there’s game issues.
I just uninstalled everything related to Blizzard I’m that sick of it. They profit billions each year and are just money hungry rats who couldn’t care less about their player bases past getting some dollars through the door. My experience with OW and blizz has been worse than my EA experiences which says a lot.