Much less fun
Blizzard isn’t the same company anymore. After you have a decade or two of experience, why not start up your own little company, doing what you enjoy instead of what is mandated by the stock holders. Seems to be what most of the original and veteran Blizzard members are doing.
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Case and point: the absolute mess that was Reforged wouldn’t have happened under a Blizzard who delayed a game so much they missed an entire console generation.
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The pay gap at Blizzard was huge. The Olde Guarde, whom Afrasiabi was a member, were paid far better than basically everyone else. Starting up a business costs money, and I mean after a while I guess you’d have more money than God, but idk. The easy paycheck seems alluring to me over the risk of failing the new business.
“was”
*stares at the ongoing strike in EU Blizzard *
*looks at who they had left to make shadowlands announcements, with their extreme monotone and absolutely non-camera-friendly voice and mannerisms *
Hmmm.
Yeah no I have a feeling Blizzard is going to hell in a handbasket in terms of administrative/management functionality.
Well, I meant that for some of the really old guys, like Morhaime and Metzen, others just flock to the companies they are starting up.
There also comes a point you are sick of seeing the projects you worked on for so long take a direction you don’t care for and you don’t have much say in changing it. Why stick around, for a paycheck? Maybe, but comes a point when you start looking elsewhere.
But like Baal said, seems a lot of the folks in higher positions are those that make Activision happy. The company seems like its trying to cash out, just look at the Hearthstone battlepass.
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I said was because he left, not that it isn’t currently.
Agree with the rest of your post and Cytriss’s though.
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Activision wants money so the Story that Writers want is irrelevant in comparison to the story the Players want!
The company will probably look at Video Games from other Fiction for Zone Design…
What do these Video Games have of interest?
From GW we have: Maguuma Jungle, Crystal Desert, Kaineng City, Jade Sea, Echovald Forest, the Desolation, Domain of Pain, Domain of Fear and the Depths of Madness.
From the Mana Franchise we have: Lampbloom Woods, Crystal Desert, Ice Country and Kakkara Desert!
From WoW’s Subzones that they might wish to expand into whole Zones(as they did with Scourgeholme into Maldraxxus): Caverns of Time, the Blue Dragonflight Territories and Blademoon Bloom…
Great. He never added anything good to the WoW franchise and it got better when he stopped being influential.
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From MyMindWontQuiet
https://twitter.com/MyMindWontQuiet
So it looks like afrasiabi retired.
and Danuser is the new overlord of lore per say.
Not super surprising with the direction the lore has been going with.
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I am intrigued but concerned.
Intrigued because I love shadowlands so far
Concerned because he likes Game of Thrones’s plot devices
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I’m just all concerned. I’m not looking forward this place just becoming season after season of Cerse-… I mean, Sylvanas, sticking around long after the multiple points where she should have died for her crimes.
Cersei eventually died as soon as Daenerys became the Villain!
Since Tyrande is shown as being focused and reasonable one might well think that when Sylvanas goes down Malfurion will hear that Tyrande’s Vengeance is sated despite all the Horde has done enraging him to go all Daenerys on Orgrimmar!
Seven seasons past when she should have. Ain’t nobody got time to sit through that again.
I would rather have Stargate sg-1 or mandalorian compared to Game of Moans.
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Every time I see a trailer for that I’m convinced the main character is being manipulated into returning the little gremlin to its planet. They keep repeating that phrase and the force has been used for mental manipulation before. Like he’s a, pardon the pun, Mandalorian Agent.
This makes me more convinced Sylvanas is headed for a Kerrigan-style ending, if it’s true.
I’m still in a “wait and see” mindset. Haven’t bought the expansion and don’t have an active sub (bought a 1 month time card to try the class changes and do Korrak’s Revenge)
MAYBE I’ll re-sub after the holidays and play around in Classic until we see what changes in 9.1
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my server (eu-kazzak) has been just unreachable for 90% of this time, the fact i got to 55 is a miracle. I really wanna reach endgame though.
Sounds about right for an expansion release. Usually takes a week or so before the servers stabilize, in my experience anyway. I still remember just trying to setup the Garrison during WOD’s release or trying to even get to Jade Forest for MOP.