Where did this saying come from? I have seen it used multiple times over the past year, usually by people complaining about Blizzard.
Was this something they referred to themselves as?
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No it just means Blizzard is incompetent.
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It’s a meme about how a “Small Indie Company” such as Blizzard can only do so much with the resources they have. It’s usually used when a patch or expansion is released with countless bugs, unfinished textures, dialogues, or just anything that could have been completely avoided with a small amount of QA.
Of course Activision Blizzard has a massive pool of resources at their disposal, hence the meme.
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It’s caught on due to the fact that blizzard’s WoW team is acting less like a multi-billion dollar company and more like a basement indy game developer.
Constant patches that break things, poor writing, minimal effort put into the product, so on and so forth. For a team with blizzard’s backing, we should be getting better than this.
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It’s just a sarcastic comment is all.
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It’s sarcasm because Blizzard is a a company with plenty of resources.
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A company with plenty of resources - yes. A company that knows how to actually deploy those resources - absolutely not.
I take one look at CEO pay and it’s very clear they have no clue how to deploy capital.
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Yeah, I get the gist. I was just curious how it started.
like cloaks dropping from the weekly chest 2 weeks in a row into the patch feelsbad
I can’t really pinpoint when it started, but like what’s already been said in this thread, I’m pretty sure people started using it during instances when the devs started to respond to people about not having enough resources.
In all fairness, I do think people overestimate how many people are on the WoW team in different facets of the over all dev team, but at the same time, there have been many moments where I think it’s been pretty fair for people to ask “Exactly why were things mismanaged like this to get us to this point?”
That was basically me during the ENTIRETY of WoD.
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Agreed. It can be a little hyperbolic at times, to insinuate that the WoW devs are performing on the level of a small indie outfit without really knowing what’s going on, or how they’re organized - but at the same time, it’s hard to look at all the money they’re raking in and not wonder, to some extent, where it’s all going.
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That’s why I quit playing Dota 2. Frequent disconnects, I was like, “well when HOTS comes out, I’m going there.” Based on that decision alone, I wasn’t at all disappointed. The International banked Valve TOOOONNNNSSSSS of money, made E-Sports a hot topic, yet zero investment into their own servers, it seemed.
I’ve wondered the very same when it comes to WoW, too - when ‘phased’ servers seem to offer more savings to Blizzard/Activision than they do quality of life to me. I’d expect zones with fewer players to offer me less disconnects, more stability, but this is unfortunately not the case.
We essentially have the worst of both worlds, while Activision gets to save a ton of money not running servers fit for a lot of people in the same space at once. Doesn’t feel great - I’ve played on literal mods (for other games, such as Half-Life 2, or Freelancer) that could support 100+ players in the same space, and not chug. On non-commercial server systems.
Remember when Blizzard released a new background for Heroes of the storm during a hero release, and the background still had the watermark from the place where they got it? lol.
It’s because blizz makes the same mistakes that the small indy companies do, while not actually being one. It is said in irony
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Honestly though, while Blizzard the company might have lots of resources, the group that heads and devs WoW doesn’t necessarily get to pull from such a big pool.
The unfortunate truth is that a real “small indie company” might be able and willing to produce a much finer finished product than a comparatively small portion of a billion dollar behemoth.
Or the Titan Residuum mission I received from my last I.E. quest. I wonder what would happen if I decided to complete it.
C’mon folks, cut those poor overworked Blizz devs a break. They are pushing themselves so, so hard to get us the content we desire and make it work correctly, hardly ever seeing their families, going to sleep at night while still at work, sliding under their desks to curl up in the fetal position from having visited the forums while trying to get some much needed rest.
But fret not! Today, you have the exciting opportunity to help them out and make things better! For a low monthly contribution of $9.95, you can adopt a Blizz dev today! That’s the price of a couple of cups of coffee, so you know you can afford it.
Your generous contribution will provide them with a half case of canned veggies each month that they can add to their ramen noodles for much needed extra nutrition so that they can work smarter, not harder, and make less buggy content.
And if you act today, you’ll get this lovely t-shirt with the “I adopted a Blizz dev” logo and a custom image of your devs forum icon on it! And yes, it’s true that they all have the same icons, but that’s only because they are a small indie game development company and lack the resources to implement custom icons for themselves. But if we can get them all adopted, soon they will have their own unique forum icons, too!
Just think of the possibilities! So won’t you send your love and support to the rescue today and adopt a Blizz dev?
/moo 
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Indie = independent = not commercially funded.
People think it’s clever insult.
It’s not.