That’s what happens when you let Mike Morheim at the steering wheel for too long.
Yet their revenues are up each year…
Logic folks.
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I don’t know about that. Doesn’t WC3 automatically change to the reforged version unless you install it via the disks? I could have sworn a year or so ago someone mentioned something about that.
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Starcraft MMO
Terran: Marine, Firebat, Ghost, Medic
Zerg: Hydralisk, Infested Terran, Defiler, Queen
Protoss: Zealot, Adept, Templar, Dark Templar
Build bases, craft weapons and armor and fight. Universe is vast. Add new planet to explore and fight over every 6 months.
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I struggle to give them credit for WC3 Reforged when a lot of the art assets were just outsourced. And that’s fair, I did forget about that launch (thankfully…though you reminded me, heh).
And that’s 100% true, the real problem is at the senior management level. I can’t blame the developers, they’re just worker bees for the most part. It’s the higher ups that honestly seem like they’re dragging the game through the mud. And project managing and communication are two of their absolute weakest links.
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It’s honestly a vision issue at the top. You have people like Brack, Adham, Bottegoni, Chamberlain, and Hight who don’t seem to know how to expand their game to compete with other games in the market. Granted–in WoW’s case it’s the largest in it’s genre, but when compared to other PC games it’s a small fish in a big pond that lacks an ability to attract and keep new players.
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The moment I lost faith in Blizzard as a company was when they cancelled the 2nd D3 xpac right before RoS launched because they though it was going to be a failure.
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Blizz could have come out with WoW 2 by now, they just don’t care to. They are going to make a killing off of tbc classic in a few weeks… other companies come out with new games… why can’t blizzard produce a sequel to their 2004 hit?
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One of the big reason to not creating a new MMORPG to one that is already around is that you are asking your players to give up all the time and work they did.
Look at FF11, there are still hardcore players for it because of all the years they put in for it. I asked my stepdad to try other MMOs and he will not even look at trailers saying “I put in so much time in WoW. I am not going to give that up.”
So, I will give props to Blizzard for not trying to replace WoW since it has been doing decent in todays world.
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Blizz rarely makes anything good themselves. Diablo was only a great franchise under blizzard north, a company of devs bought by blizzard 9 months before the release of the game. Then released it under blizzards name as if they dig jack sh*t to make it. They also had full autonomy because they knew damn well.
Blizz banks on others success, a lot of examples of this can be found. They have no talent on their team… if they do its only briefly, like the guild wars dev who literally created battle.net then left to create guild wars franchise. This company has always been a vulture that lacks vision and steals every idea they can, but hell they don’t even do that anymore thats how lazy they have become.
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I recall reading about that, yeah. What a tragedy…
I mostly stick with WoW as an MMO because there’s nothing that scratches the same itch yet, but I’m definitely “eh” on Blizzard lately.
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This is the reason Blizzard’s IP are being converted into CoD structure.
This is almost always true in a software company. In 14-15 years of experience, only once did I think, “Man, my team is holding things back.” And that’s because they wanted to do MORE than necessary… y’know… “We don’t NEED a state-of-the-art portcullis… a DOOR will do nicely thanks…”
In my short career it was sort of cute to see how many times MBA-holders hired consultants to “find out what’s wrong” only to be angered when the good-faith exercises pointed back to them.
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A dying game can make more money than it used to. The company would have to squeeze more dollars from fewer customers. Oh! That’s what’s happening toDAY!
Fewer customers in an MMO affects the feel of the game regardless of the cash flow to the owners.
Logic: Keep Going™! It leads to more than one place.
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hard to do that when activision treats blizz like a money tree that hasn’t been watered for weeks
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Activision itself does well with the CoD property and it’s an established title as well. They just do more than “reinvent the wheel” with each new iteration. Blizzard should try that instead.
I may be wrong, but I think Overwatch 2 could be a big booster for that game. It looks incredibly promising, but with the OW teams past decisions and Jeff leaving it’s still questionable. I’m quite hopeful tho
But I believe they are working on a new IP? I’m not sure when that will be revealed, but it’s still interesting
They literally released their quarterly reports showing strong revenues just like a week or two ago.
But okay, “dead and dying” I guess.
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The “Dead Hands of Bobby Kotick” ™. Slowly squeezing the life out of Blizzard. You can detect the smell of feral MBA scent in every business decision they make these days. lol
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I wish that their souls-like diablo wasnt cancelled a long with the battlefield-like starcraft.
Why the effing those were cancelled, that soubded like 4x time more interesting than overwaifu 2
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