All these “oh I wish blizzard was the old way before they became greedy” posts don’t seem to understand about blizzards history
Activision sought out to acquire Blizzard in 2007, the merge was made in July 2008
So really, all this hate about Blizzard and saying “I want wotlk/cataclysm/MoP/WoD back when Blizzard wasn’t greedy”, especially the wotlk era, you’re actually praising Activision as well
You liked Activision-Blizzard with the older expansions but then have a double ironic standard by hating the same company today with BFA and such
The same Activision CEO who had his word with wotlk is the same guy who had his same word with BFA too
That’s your history reminder today friends
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"I miss when this company wasnt interested in money 
" types are the biggest idiots around, tbh
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The merge didn’t instantaneously reduce their quality to what it is now, though. Corporate reshuffles take time. There was an instantaneous and noticeable decline in Blizzard as a company shortly after the merger, but the decline of WoW was inevitably death by a thousand cuts.
Spend a little less here this time, now a little less here this time, now push that release date, cut that feature, etc. They couldn’t put the entire squeeze on the game development team immediately.
Bobby Kotick (*spits on ground) took time to rot a once great company once in control. He’s kind of like Affliction 'lock. He got that rot.
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But the best expansion was years after the merger.
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I just joined in BfA so this is all I really know. But I guess I will inevitably compare Shadowlands to my current experience.
I hope to have a positive opinion of it - I am happy at the moment.
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There you go with the double standard
The best expansion so many have claimed was under the same guy you hate
Wotlk launched in November 2008, 4 months after the merge, he had his words in already through out wotlk
And I’ve explained the logic behind that. The leash hadn’t been pulled so taut yet.
WotLK, by the way, was in development loooong before the merge. Are you not familiar with development cycles?
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What does that even mean? How did Bobby Kotick “rot” WoW? What specific actions did he take that led to the decline of WoW?
I think there was a downward trend for World of Warcraft, but it was because Blizzard was chasing the dragon trying to create “the perfect game” for the 1%, stupid stuff like “bring the player not the class” to try to address some of the complaints of top-end players shelving certain characters because others were meta… you can never appease the 1%. You just can’t. You’re doomed to fail. Greg Street, Ghostcrawler, failed us, not “Blizzard”.
Ion Hazzikostas has been trying to bring it back. Legion was considered a popular expansion. BFA has seen subs increase. You may hate it, you may make excuses, you may deny the facts, but it is a reality that Ion Hazzikostas has been “bringing it back”, which seems to reject this Acti-Blizz conspiracy.
tbh legion was and is great except void form garbage for shadow priests.
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WOTLK was the last “good” expansion. Activision/Bliazzard have slowly turned this game into another pay to win. All the sheeple thinking they took tier sets away because that is what players wanted and would make the game better…was simple dollars and cents. No need to have a team of people working on designing the looks and functions of individual sets per class mean monstrous savings and more money in their pockets. This company has lost its way a long time ago and it has steadily gotten worse. The merger was the beginning of the end of WOW.
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Legion was considered popular, but Wrath it was certainly not. I’d argue that the number of cut features outweigh the number of added/enjoyable features.
-Classes have been at an all-time low in terms of design due to the sheer extent of pruning. Class design minimized to then give us borrowed power that our class really didn’t work without in many cases. Elemental, for example, had borrowed power as a necessary core to our rotation and were gimped without our artifact ability.
Don’t get me started on Demo lock and Shadow Priest.
-World design has been significantly reduced and simplified to reduce time spent designing zones.
-Features implemented are arguably reduced in scope each expansion whilst still being considered features. Garrison -> Class Hall -> Mission Table. Garrisons may get a bad wrap, but a fair amount of work went into making them cool at least.
-Previous expansions generally saw classes fixed somewhere along the line if they were absolutely under performing in some aspect or other. Now we’ve gone a whole expansion with Enhance, S Priest, Demo Lock, and others being left as-is.
BfA has most certainly not seen subs increase, and is contested with WoD for the worst expansion of all time. WoD had a huge drought in content, so anything that’s considered worse than that clearly needs to be looked at. Every chart I’ve looked at shows BfA at lowest sub numbers seen in several expansions. Anecdotal because Blizzard doesn’t release numbers.
Bobby Kotick is the public figure of my disdain for the changes that have happened to Blizzard, because he’s a total stereotype of the corporate suit who is all about squeezing every penny from a consumer whilst minimizing effort. He’s an image of exactly what’s wrong with the industry.
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Yet here you are, spending your sub time with mythic+ keys and Ny’loatha raid bosses down, playing the same game, managed by the company that you despise because of quality
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There’s literally financial reports that say otherwise. The facts are not with you on this my friend.
Your history lesson is weak and leaves out all the important details like how long it took Activision to replace leadership, reduce costs, change standard practices, etc.
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Artificial prop ups like “Buy a 6 month subscription to get this really cool mount!” definitely make numbers look great for shareholders.
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It was short and simple because if I did provide that it still go one ear from another
Ah yes a 6 month sub optional that has no way to make your gameplay any different is indeed scary
Ok then
I wish the company that made Rock-N-Roll racing was back
I think it’s more likely you don’t know the actual history of the merger between Blizzard and Activision and just want to troll people.
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