He shouldnt have sold out to activision in the first place then he could have had his integrity this whole time. but yeah, its mildly optimistic news.
Yes it is. Thatās why itās my favorite mmo currently
He didnāt, the deal that created Activision-Blizzard was between Vivendi and Activision, Mike had nothing to do with it and likely had no say in it.
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Ok then, i stand corrected, hopefully he and the other studios can make fun games that arent a money grab/grind, that are actually fun! id like to work for people like that but sadly theres no way id ever go to america lol. ā ill give away a free tip, the secret lies in content not systems.
I hope he gone out with a better product the blizzard has right now
So thatās where all the good developers went!
If Metzen came out of the shadows and started working for Dreamhaven, damn that would be something!
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Sounds fair. Itās like my current job. Itās small and easy to get to know everyone and the business is doing well, but not taking on a life of its own. My previous job was like that. The largest supplier in the State and fueled by greed, minimizing costs, and firing employees or watching them quit en mass because corporate did nothing to keep quality when quantity, keeping it vague, mattered.
I hope Mike goes on and has fun with his projects. It just saddens me that Iāve grown up with Blizzard games, Diablo, SC, and WC only to see the original team leave.
Nothing lasts forever. No king rules forever. Well, outside religion anyway.
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So the middle finger to big game development. I look forward to what they can make.
Kenshi, rimworld, and SYNTHETIK are a few of the indie games Iāve glady bought
They scrapped destiny 2 mid development it had less time than Andromeda working on it. Then they focused on the eververse because making content was difficult Bungie certainly has fault in the direction of Destiny 2.
The difference is Morhaime has the money and the support should he need it to get things off the ground unlike most of the other studios. Weāve also seen what heās like when he actually has the power aka OG Blizzard which gives that much more reason to be hopeful
So the president that almost ran Blizzard into the ground gets another chance at, well, developing a game every ten years.
BINGO!!!
BFA strayed so far from the wc3 status quo wow is built on, for me I just no longer care. WC started as orcs vs humans good vs bad but for me it took off in wc3.
WC3 took it to a whole other level and instead of generic good vs bad, there was a nuanced storytelling system where none of the 4 factions was purely good or evil (except undead). WOW continued thatā¦ BFA has just obliterated that.
I exclusively played horde for 15 years because I connected with the story, thought of as savages and brutes but having a hidden potential and misunderstood nobility. Heck I routinely bought horde merchandise and enjoyed disliking the allianceā¦ now I no longer care about the franchise and its just a social hang outā¦ I have rerolled alliance to follow a guild, the story in BFA was soo far removed to everything I was connected toā¦ the forced narrative horde are evil guys just like in orcs vs humans, deal with it. Along with the blatant marketing lies āmorally greyā.
Essentially any game that offers gameplay or a better story setting is primed to overthrow wow.
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A very interesting article about this here:
washingtonpost .com/video-games/2020/09/23/mike-morhaime-blizzard-dreamhaven/
There was a big twitter post by IDK who exactly, but they claimed they reached out to a recent former Blizz employee today who shared a lot of high level Blizz employee are already leaving/close to leaving, and Activision is āmoving hardāā¦ assuming that means filling in those vacant roles.
Or letās hope they do and reinvigorate a dying breed of game that many of us miss. I mean thankfully my first (everquest) is still waiting polygons and all but the sense of adventure has diminished with each new game.
Statements like that are ridiculous generalisations. If nothing else, the response that the audience showed when he appeared at the 2018 Q&A would give the lie to that. I always looked forward to his appearances, I loved his obvious pleasure in the game and I was very sorry to see him retire
Generally speaking about the move, I wonder if it would have been wiser to establish their company outside California. Iām not an American but I have an Aussie friend who now lives there and she is moving because she and her husband find the cost of living in California to be difficult to cope with. I donāt know, of course, what benefits they may gain financially from being there - I guess if so many game companies are located in that State and region, there must be a good reason for it.
Will Morhaineās new companies produce a big MMO? Possibly. I think it depends on how well Ashes of Creation and New World do.
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Ok so even if they do make the best MMO ever created I doubt it will pull many people who currently have a WoW sub. The only thing I can think of is it gets people who quit WoW to come back and try this. I donāt think I would ever fully commit to any other game besides WoW.
I feel lore is the most important part of any rpg to me. I loved reading about the planes of power and deity system in everquest, then getting to face them head on. Not this rewrite history to meet our storytelling, that happens every new expansion. I know they used to have a lore guide for wow to last them 30+yrs of game making and Iām honestly curious how much was scrapped to meet some new developers ideas on what player might like.
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Originally the warlords of Dreanor expansion involved resurrecting all the warchiefs with necromancyā¦ not an alternate timeline/parallel universe (and all the narrative plotholes and immersion breaks that go along with it).
Think about just how epic that expansion could have been.
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I really hope Morhaime makes a come back. Itād be really funny if heās able to buy back Blizzard from Activision.