Do not hold Blizzard responsible

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This is all activision’s doing. The staff running the company have been…let’s use the term “diversified” with Activision staff.

The developers who worked on the titles we hold so dear to our hearts are gone. Insulting them by tying them to the way WoW, Diablo, ect ect have gone is an insult to their legacy.

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Sure Jan. :ok_hand:

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I mean this was to be expected Activision/Blizzard happened back in cata, and look at all the fine content they produced since then. Two good expansions (imo MoP and Legion) they seem to have developed Windows syndrome, make on good one bad one good one bad.

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the original Activision was good enough to split from Atari and outdo them at making games for the 2600. but then Activision started raiding other gaming studios, and here we are today

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I never hold the dev team or any individual employee responsible for anything. There’s more than one voice that makes anything happen.

That being said, we have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes. We ASSUME the issue is with Activision, because the stuff happening lately certainly seems to be their MO. But we don’t know that for a fact. And we probably never will.

For all we know, Blizz themselves can be held responsible for a bulk of the issues with their games. As you mention, a lot of the devs AND leaders that made the games we love have since left the company. Therefore, it’s inevitable that the directions of the games will change, for better or worse.

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The original Blizzard is like the Rolling Stones of video games to me. Only OG team that could hold a candle to what they did was rare. Pre-microsoft rare ofc.

RIP Conker

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they are one in the same now so I hold them all responsible.

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You didn’t like WotLK or MoP?

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This is always such an odd point of view.

Why would you give Blizzard a pass? They’re 100% responsible for their products.

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Companies change.

As they evolve they cannot remain a little team of gamers making games for gamers… eventually it becomes a company that makes money… it’s not something you can prevent.

We as customers, however, vote with our $. If they give us stuff we don’t like, we have to say so.

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Yup! We are seeing that with the lashback from investors.

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I wish the games I loved were continuously made and never changed at times. But then I’d be stuck with something that never changes, never grows out of it’s own mistakes or bad choices, and evolves potentially into something vastly better then the games of yesteryear.

So I don’t think that their current methods are bad at all, and I doubt Activision has anything to do with it at all. Companies, artists, and the creative people out there just try new things and sometimes they don’t work out. Then you get all this B team the game is dying crud.

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it’s just your typical hostile corporate take over - CEO didn’t step down, he was forced down. when those below the money holder doesn’t play well with the strings, the puppet(s) are replaced quickly in order to keep shareholders happy

no king rules forever