We all know Blizzard is declining. I think I see why. I just read an article about how Blizzard cut employee bonuses by 58% despite getting a strong fiscal year. It’s the same story not only in many American companies but in the great company that is America itself. Leadership that cares only about the short-term and who will kill the golden goose to get a couple extra golden eggs in the present.
It’s sad to see games like World of Warcraft die by a thousand cuts. It could have been much better than it is.
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Maybe if Dragonflight met sales goals they would have gotten their full bonus.
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blizzard is that company u work at for like a year to build a resume and then dip.
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Man I sure do play a lot of their games for a company that is declining. WoW, OW2, D2R and soon Diablo 4. Seems like they are doing ok to me.
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They’re doing OK for now, but they won’t in the future. It’s all about the now at the expense of the future. And their games are not as good as they could have been had they maintained a quality-first ethic.
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While I agree to a point. As we know the Devs have ideas and things they wanna add, but the money guys always say no, find more ways to nickel and dime them. And here we are.
Gaming as a whole has sh)t the bed, and that is due to the gamers themselves as well. When people are ok with cash shops for games they paid for and or sub to, well here is where you land.
People said it was a slippery slope to fall down and other people told them shut up with that noise. Proof is in the pudding they say, and we are all eating craptastic gaming pudding these days.
But what would I know?
And yes I know there are lots of reasons, but if you think cash shops and season passes had little or nothing to do with it, then here is your sign. There was a time when gamers made games for gamers. Now who do you think they make them for?
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the rest of the workers only care about their bonuses and not about the company future. That is truly what’s killing this great company. The greed of the employees who will quit in a heartbeat and go destroy another company while happily cashing in their paychecks.
If we want to talk about this angle, let’s at least get both sides of the story out there.
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It’s also how a lot of the job market works now
Gratz? All the games you play count as separate MAU’s, thus giving the illusion of more people playing than there actually are.
Those employees took less pay to work at Blizzard than other companies because they were promised profit sharing bonuses that were cut.
Workers cannot shape the company’s future. Those decisions are made by upper management.
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It’s not leadership in companies it’s the owners. Think about it. Have you ever heard anyone who owns stock in a company (i.e. one of it’s owners) saying “I really don’t care if my investment in this company is a good one, if the stock price ever goes up, the only thing that matters is that the corporation I own is a good corporate citizen”. I know I never have.
But on the bright side you have given me yet another of the *** ONLY *** reason why Blizzard is declining. I’ll add it to my list.
Here’s the list of the *** ONLY *** reason WoW subscriptions are down:
- When WOW was first created it was one of the only D&D like MMOs around. Now there are hundreds of new ones each year.
- In an industry where 5 years is middle aged and 10 years is an antique, WOW is an 18 year old game competing with tons of new technology.
- The trend these days is toward social media and mobile where WOW doesn’t play well.
- Some say it’s the story writting particularly in BFA and ShadowLands.
- Or it’s the toxic culture of the players that’s causing people to leave.
- Others point to specific abilities like “borrowed power” that have been taken away.
- Next we hear that it’s time gating
- Death. Wow players aren’t getting any younger, and younger players don’t share the same attraction to MMOs… particularly ones dominated by older people.
- The questing requirements are not long and grinding enough.
- The questing requirements are to long and grinding.
- They heard Activision say: “If you don’t like the game, go play something else.”
- or… “The game is not meant for you”.
- SL had too many mobs close together.
- The Horde/Alliance cold war.
- The China fiasco.
- No regular flying at expansion launch is what killed the game.
- Dear Blizz you cut this feature I loved so I quit.
- Fed up with the loot system/RNG
- Want an MMO with less focus on dungeons and raids
- They want RPG content
- No player housing
- Long server down times.
- People don’t like power systems.
- LFR !!!
- WoW is too hard core.
- Blizzard cut employee bonuses by 58% despite getting a strong fiscal year
- And the number one reason people no longer like World of Warcraft …
You can cook food but you can’t eat it.
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We are leaving because your list is too long and i have the attention span of chocolate pudding
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How many years have people been saying this?
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We do, this dev team is horrible. Replace them all.
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If MMOs were all the rage they used to be with new ones launching often, WoW would be struggling a ton specifically, I know if a new mmo rolled out (that wasn’t a korean grinder but something like warhammer/wildstar) i’d go to it instantly. Ready for some new blood, and frankly I still have no faith blizzard will recover. Just waiting for something better to come along with good pvp
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My attempt at a witticism to describe Blizzard’s decline :
When a Blizzard turns into an avalanche…
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It’s no secret that the gaming industry is a pretty scummy place to work in. It’s not all roses like one would assume. Not to mention now with layoffs happening en masse in the tech industry and elsewhere. Plus it’s kind of a given that the suits up top rake in the $$ while the rest suffer… welcome to Capitalism.
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the era of MMOs is over.
even the f2p’s are dead.
even the p2e’s are dead.
if you can’t make it work here, you’re out of the genre. permanently.
our children will never collect the boar lungs in Westfall, or the whelp scales in Redridge.
Yeah, I doubt i’ll find much better. I wish gw2 had a permanent 2v2/3v3 function rather than just being off-season stuff, gw2 pvp is relatively fun for what it is.
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Speculation at best. Employee’s get screwed by successful corporate entities all the time. I just got a work bonus this year that was 1/3 of the bonus I received the prior year even though this was a successful fiscal year with all goals met. Perhaps you should go get a job and you will understand this is just business as usual for most companies. It sucks but until people start unions again or laws are created to help the common worker it will continue and get worst.
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When WoW goes belly up, I know I’m going back to EVE in a heartbeat…
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