I really just don’t think they’d ever do that, or if they did it’d be the absolute death of the company beyond anything like the lawsuit or other PR stuff. It’d be an indicator that their only assets of value or way they can make money is by selling their old content. Like other games are far less about the company than Blizzard games are, I can’t think of another company where their franchise properties are so tied up in the company itself. It just feels like not quite a possibility, but then again the people running the company now may not care or see it that way, and would be happy to take a quick payout.
I wonder if anyone would even buy them though, like; would people follow another company’s version of Overwatch? I don’t know.
Right, that is what I mean. Blizzard shuts down and sells off it’s game franchises. That I think is a possibility. Activision will continue on as they always have, but Blizzard will be no more.
I expect them to make a lot of company changes and salvage all this by finally coming out with new games. But folding up and selling assets is not out of the realm of possibility.
Ah yeah, I thought you meant that Blizzard would still be up and running but sell off a franchise - I mean they aren’t doing all that much with Starcraft, they could afford to sell that, but I feel like the title is so wrapped up in ‘Blizzard’ that no company would even buy it, like… it’s TOO MUCH distinctly about ‘Blizzard’ that maybe the stank of all this scandal will follow the game to the new owners.
But then again people have bought worse licenses and all that so I’m sure there’s someone who’d want it. And if the whole company shut down then yeah it’d be much more likely that they’d try and sell their IP’s. Activision may also keep them and wait an ‘appropriate amount of time’ and then reiterate them itself, a lot of corporations view ‘having IP’s’ as the most important part now that Disney has become the insane megolith that it is.
IDK what their operating agreement is tbh. There are so many ways to structure this corporately it isn’t worth getting into here. I could give you a long explanation of all of them and the benefits and disadvantages of each, but nobody here would care. And I’d have to bill you for the advice.
Blizzard as a company died a long time ago. It’s just that nobody noticed it despite all the signs being there.
I mean, for the past few years all they’ve done is release crap after crap. And that’s saying a lot because they don’t release a lot of games to begin with. They don’t even treat their biggest game - WoW with the respect and reverence it deserves. I mean, the game is over 15 years old. They know what works and what doesn’t work. But they keep putting in dumb mechanics that serve only to frustrate and waste everyone’s time for the sake of “engagement numbers,” then they can’t figure out why no one wants to play the damn thing.
I was there when they decided to separate Starcraft II in three.
Then they stripped LAN from their games altogether.
They accumulated every mistakes they could make.
They destroyed their own lore on basically every game they had.
They behaved like buffoons and insulted their customers on a regular basis.
They even destroyed their game gameplay-wise for the sake of the competitive scene (I never got how Starcraft II was still considered a RTS when you have no time to micromanage units since they basically made fastest the normal speed).
It’s been going on for fifteen years. And yet, they’re still here and customers are still buying their games. This won’t change a thing.
Letting OW languish while, but ActiBlizz as a whole is monstrously successful between COD and their mobile games. Candy Crush could probably carry all of Blizz’s games on it’s back for a year or two.
poor game development
what does this even mean? I heard WoW recent expansion is bad but I’ve heard that about almost every expansion they’ve had for a decade. OW2’s dev cycle is pretty normal, we’re just content starved.
focusses too much in esports
lol okay bro
Exec stepped down
Very common when a company experiences a scandal.
new accusiations
Not really an issue of it’s own when it’s effects are also listed as issues…?
main esports sponsor, t-mobile, has left blizz/activ
There are pretty much the only real issues. Blizz will get by. Absolute worst case scenario is that the other major sponsors drop them too and ActiBlizz folds the esports division but the game dev portion will go on.
and please pay attention to the squiggly red lines under half your words.
haha, I am bad at spelling but we will see who is right today. Q2 2021 comes out today and we will see how the scandal affected there business in the first week it was public
Activision’s divisions aren’t clean of this either; a lot of the complaints are from corporate teams like marketing, and Call of Duty dev teams. In fact, Activision’s culture was probably as bad or worse than Blizz’s for nobody to really care after the merge over 10 years ago.
It’s weird how people have focused so hard on Blizz instead of Activision, but I think that’s because people held Blizz to a higher standard than other devs.
Sadly I don’t think much will change unless they lose all the sponsors.
Ppl are already accustomed to disliking activision and other big companies for years now and a scandal in the blizzard part doesn’t mean much if activision is still the moving force anyway.
the last major content we got was a death match map. before that it was echo. a year ago.
I love OWL but they literally put way too much money into it. they also based the game for the pros and not the customers. this could go under poor game development. they also lost there big sponsor. OWL will be prob dead end of this year because of the T-Mobile and many MANY teams are mad they they do not get a fair share of profits.
it’s not so much that, but the fact that blizz is only alive because of Activision. if Activision gives up on them they will prob be forced to sell to another gaming company.
If its the end of blizz its the end for the entire game industry since they all have similar problems anyways. This is literally a fearmongering post and has no place here. OW2 is still gonna release(and be highly successful as well as D4) amongst other things. Stop riding the hate train or just uninstall, forever.
