A message to Blizzard

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I know you guys get a lot of hate, sometimes for the littlest of things. Now I love World of Warcraft but that doesn’t mean I won’t criticize the game or the devs.

See Like many of your player base I grew up playing Blizzard games. Like The lost Vikings, Rock N Roll Racing, Diablo 1/2, Starcraft, Warcraft 1/2 there were other games like Doom and Half-life and many more. As many games as I played blizzard games were the games that I always returned too. As I grew older I added more games to that list like Warcraft 3, Halo CE, BF2, Starwars BF2 and then when I was 11 I played the game that has had the most impact in my life World of Warcraft.

Growing up I couldn’t read or write and none of my teachers would help me learn. I was treated like garbage by the other kids and had no friends. There was just all kinds of stuff I had to deal with as a kid. World of Warcraft did so much for me, because of WoW I learned to read and write(Not very well as you can tell.). Heck the very first book I had ever read myself was Lord of Clans. I’ve made friends who come and go but I always have the countless memories. WoW and its Devs (Even if they don’t know it.) has done so much for me in the last 14 years.

Nowadays games have been so lackluster, Like they just ride the wave of one title after the other. There full of loot boxes and paywalls. While some games are still alive and kicking and as great as ever (Doom). Others have sadly either died, been killed off by greedy publishers or become abominations of their former selves (Halo). For me WoW has been in this in between state where its AMAZING and lackluster. Though to me even in WoWs worst state it is and will always be the greatest MMO of all time like I’ve tried branch out and play other MMOs but they just aren’t Warcraft. Its funny for me a lot of the changes that have been made I love but at the same time I don’t. For example I loved garrisons because they gave me my own city that I could just be in by myself when ever I wanted where I didn’t have to deal with anyone else. Yet the reason I hated it was the same reason I loved it. You have your own city where there is no one else.

When you make something more convenient while yes it makes the game more approachable so more players try the game but then those very conveniences take away from the game and make older players want to stop playing.
Something that people don’t realize sometimes its the inconveniences and the journeys that make things great. Having to buy arrows, walk, make poisons, find groups, Wetlands run, and so much were. IT WAS ALL SO INCONVENIENT, but It made for one of the greatest experiences of all time!

I feel like after 2010 games in general have slowly been getting worse and worse and yes there has been many good game since 2010 but its rare for there to be a great game. In 2017 I woke up the day of Blizzcon and the first thing I did while still half asleep was look at the new of Blizzcon. The first thing I see with my blurry vision is “Blizzard announces World of Warcraft Classic.” I have never jump out of bed with the amount of excitement before this. While we aren’t getting a new game that will be great we are finally going to be able to return to one of the greatest of games.

Everyone at Blizzard all of you. You have done so much for me, for us the community. Yet I don’t think anyone has ever taken the time to thank you. So from me and everyone who feels as I do. Thank you for all that you have done. Thank you for making Classic. Thank you for the 20+ years of amazing games that never disappoint. Thank you for all the inconveniences, for all the adventures, and all the memories. Thank you for all the love and the care and passion that you put into World of Warcraft and all of your games!

When you created the World of Warcraft you didn’t just crate a game. You created a World.

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Haha same!

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Blizzard games have been disappointing me since 2009.

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Side note: WoW did a pretty good job, as you’re writing better than many posters on these forums.

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That wasn’t a game though. Its a disappointing phone app that hasn’t been released. There’s still a slight chance it’ll get Ghosted.

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but the future is in mobile gaming…

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I’m a Blizzard fan too, OP.

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Oh I played blizzard games since I was 4, on playstation diablo and wc2 or so I love to play.
Though my family stopped playing diablo with me because I was constantly shoot arrows in their backs and killing them, while the other moved away.

But I didn’t have a phone until 2 years ago, so I just don’t want to download the diablo ap on my phone seeing how it wasn’t meant for me it was meant for chinese gamers.

Those gamers surely are bashing blizzard for diablo immortal.

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You write and communicate better than 90% of the posters here OP. :blush:

And I agree with you on many of your points. Though blizzard has bitterly disappointed me since WOD, their games gave me a much needed escape from an enormously stressful job (a job I absolutely love, but first responder jobs still slowly kill you). I’ve read articles from veterans who even stated that the escape of blizzard games actually helped with PTSD. Google it, there are some fascinating stories out there.

I don’t blame blizzard for the steep decline, I blame Activi$ion. Hopefully one day blizzard will get their company back and make games for gamers, by gamers, which was their original mission statement.

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I wouldn’t be so sure about that, they seem to have something against NetEase.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/9w5dbd/this_is_how_chinese_reacted_to_diablo_immortal/

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I expected to get a lot of hate for showing gratitude to Blizzard. I don’t see why you feel the need to turn a post about thanking blizzard for classic into a I hate Diablo Immortals discussion. Like really?

Fine lets discuss that. Yeah the reveal was poor and could have been done better. They could have revealed Diablo 4 and then been like oh hey btw were making this sweet mobile game too. Yeah they made mistakes, they could have done things better, they could have worded things better. Yet people get so caught up about wanting their cake and eating it they don’t stop to think about the people making that cake.

Yeah Blizzard pisses me off all the time they make changes I don’t like they put out content I don’t like but they are still people. People who pour their heart and soul into making these games for people to play. Only to hear “I WANT THIS, I WANT THAT, WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS, TAKE THIS OUT” I may hate or dislike things that they do in/to their games but it doesn’t change the fact that I love their games.

I’m sure Diablo Immortal is going to be fun. Its so rare that mobile gets games worth playing and the ones they get are just ports of old or exciting games. If you don’t like it that’s fine you do you but I for one look forward to being able to play Diablo on break at work.

Did you forget “You think you do but you don’t” Yet here we are. Yeah blizzard makes mistakes but it doesn’t mean they don’t try to rectify what they did. Blizzard has a standard of quality of there games and this one wont be any different Diablo Immortals is going to be a great game. I’m sure it will have things about it people wont like or will hate but it will still be a fun game. If you don’t like it then Play Diablo 2/3 or sit down and wait for the Forth game to come out.

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1.5 AV please blizzard. Don’t screw this up, your screwing it up. PLEASE STOP SCREWING UP!!! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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I started with Warcraft 1 or 2, I forget which, it was so long ago. Played a massive amount of Diablo… and started Wow in Vanilla. But didn’t like it. The pace was too slow. So I left silently.

Well after flying was added, I came back and became one of many cyclical players. Having fun until hitting that horrible wall of “profoundly diminishing returns”… getting bored, going away, then returning when new content was released.

Been doing that since Cata, and pretty much subscribed continuously since, even if I go months between being ‘engaged’. I love playing alts, exploring, collecting all the things…

But lately changes seem like they’re trying to push retail back to ‘vanilla’ level pace. Which I didn’t like then and I don’t like now. Staring at the back of a taxi-bird for 3+ minutes to get to my next WQ on Champions / Tortollan day is NOT IMMERSIVE.

It’s nice that they want to make the world feel bigger, and it does while doing unique-per-character content. It doesn’t need to be bigger for repeatable content, it needs to feel smaller because forced periods of idleness are not fun.

Removing legacy portals contributes to the problem. Changing water striders seems to be a change out of the same “strategic direction” for warcraft. Gated story content stretched out so far that it’s hard to follow the plot…

The pace is slowing down. The game is becoming something that feels -tedious- like it did back in Vanilla. If people really want that, they’ll have classic soon… and they’re welcome to it. Just don’t drag down retail by trying to make it the same. :slight_smile:

Now, I’m more vocal on the forums, I complain a lot… because I CARE. And I want Warcraft to continue to be a game that I enjoy for hours and hours every week, again. Some day.