It’s also odd how every game under Activision Blizzard is a shallow mess with horrible micro-transactions and artificial grind to keep you playing the game, not enjoy it. The bs is so obvious.
Except they’re not. Anyone with any business sense knows that they’re sitting on a cash cow with Diablo. If I’m a heartless corporation only in it for a quick buck I’m getting that thing out the door as soon as it’s ready. Probably throw in some MTX systems too. At a bare minimum I’m teasing it like crazy getting people worked up over it.
You weren’t really expecting an honest, insightful response that actually addressed the topic at hand, were you?
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What if Blizzard Entertainment wanted to spend a few billion dollars to develop a WoW2 mmo?
The CEO is who everyone reports to and who makes the decisions in the company.
There are suppose to be partners.
They would develop it using the money that they are allotted for R&D
Regardless of what the relationship is many gamers are still spooked, and the bottom line remains. Don’t be like Activision or EA, just focus on delivering good experiences and not on milking people for cash.
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So, you all are failing this bad on your own accord then? I guess it’s true that the term Sunk Cost Fallacy has kicked in for the leaders of the company?
This doesn’t exactly make me feel any better saying that Activision isn’t having a say in why the company is going downhill the way it has.
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Those rare comments that generally have nothing to do with the game but are completely either defending themselves or… posting in topics that make no sense like “What’s your favorite Ice cream”.
Now, we are not saying they can’t obviously… but when that’s the only times you see it - gets frustrating.
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So BFA being a bad/filler expansion. Blizard itself is to blame for BFA not being recieved well and not Activisions fault?
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Or because they know exactly how companies work, and know that Activision is the top dog here. Most people are aware that the parent company needs to ensure their stock is well under control.
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Uh huh. Sure.
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I ju7st wanna know why in all of the world with these stock holding companies why does Blizzard just get a smelly sock
The tin foil hats are out in mass tonight.
This is true. As a for-profit business, Blizzard would be crazy not to take advantage of the growing demand for mobile games. Not only does the market have a great future outlook, mobile games are cheap and easy to maintain compared to PC games. As a player, I’m disappointed in Blizzard for alienating their Diablo fanbase the way they did at Blizzcon. As an ATVI investor, they don’t matter as much to me because they’re not the market Blizz is trying to capture with this product. Blizzard is basically leaving their old wife for a younger, hotter, richer wife. We’ll be seeing stocks bounce back higher than ever once this mobile craze kicks in full force.
With all that said, Blizzard has changed in their company culture, and they’re behaving more of what Activision would expect them to. Even when they announced Diablo Immortal, Wyatt Chang’s incistence that they’re “SO EXCITED” felt forced and not at all genuine, like he has to act excited to sell it to us.
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Pretty sure mobile is Blizzard’s side-girl in this analogy.
There is absolutely no reason to believe Blizzard’s new interest in the mobile market would cause it to abandon its existing ones, nor is there any business sense in doing it (Again, see Diablo 4 re:cash cow).
Announcing Immortal was simply a monumental PR misstep, not a harbinger of impending doom.
Activision-Blizzard.
It’s in the name and it’s alphabetical. Doesn’t matter.
Activision influences Blizzard’s decisions inherently by being involved with the company. It would be no different if Blizzard decided to team up with Bethesda (just as an example). Both influence one another but there always has to be one that has more power, right?
Yes and no.
Company itself aside, there are decisions to be made. We live in a world where money is important but we also live in a world where corporate power is also on the rise every single day. More-so nowadays. Companies want more money because it means more power to them. And, well, more money. It doesn’t matter if they spend 1billion dollars to develop a game, so long as they turn a profit.
It’s why EA and Dice are in a ditch right now. They didn’t turn a profit with Battlefield 5, but Activision managed to do well through 2018 despite still being on most gamers’ hate list.
But if most theories are true, that Blizzard only cares about the $$ they make then why wouldn’t they create a product that’s better and has more subscribers to turn a much higher profit? Why create a game that destroys profit?
Battle for Azeroth didn’t destroy profit at all. Doing a quick Google™ search to gather some information, I discovered something I didn’t realize before. Many (popular) websites reviewed BfA anywhere between 7/10 and 8.5/10, or higher ranks out of 100. Apparently, critics like the game. And with Battle for Azeroth being the fastest-selling expansion for World of Warcraft, it’s fair to acknowledge the fact that Battle for Azeroth, at release, turned a profit for the company.
It doesn’t matter as much now, but they still have to hold onto what subs they have in order to maintain their standing. Battle for Azeroth also won “Fan Favorite MMORPG” for Gamers’ Choice Awards.
That means good for both Activision and Blizzard and Activision Blizzard as a whole. $$
The only reason tons of people dislike BfA is because of Blizzard, and it’s Blizzard’s fault mostly. They’re the one’s making the game, no matter what Activision says or does. But hey, at least they’re succeeding. That’s what they want. If that’s a problem, then let’s just hope fan outcry and backlash will convince Blizzard to make the game better.
I guess mine wasn’t a good analogy. My point for that was that the current Diablo fanbase who expect Diablo on PC don’t really matter as much as the market Diablo Immortal is catering to.
I imagine they’re both equally important. Income’s income and you don’t turn away a huge segment of it for…I can’t actually think of a reason why they’d do that in this scenario.
The lack of any news on Diablo 4 says to me that, in spite of the “Activision destroyed Blizzard” rhetoric thrown around, they’re just keeping to their famous “when it’s done” work process. Which I guess doesn’t fly too well with the kiddies these days.