That is none of your business. All I will say is that I sell an essential product that people have to buy if they want to live and that I sell to other companies for retail.
Oh. Okay. 
I will play it only if they have a mage warrior class.
Want to know a secret guys? I never trusted them anyway! I bet you wanted to know this.
Gaming has changed and the current popular trend is in battle royales and selling skins, with mobas being pretty high up there as well. I think frankly Blizzard is going to keep trying to attract this audience and niche gamers like myself that want something different than a leaderboard and ultra competitive gaming will have to go elsewhere.
If they plan to make the game more mobile-accessible I donât see any other way forward.
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When you say you are a business owner do you mean you are running a small business that you own where you meet the customers personally or do you mean you have told the investment firm where you have an account to buy stock in some Fortune 500 corporation?
In both cases you are talking about âbusiness ownersâ, but there is a big difference where it comes to caring about the customers.
Iâd really rather not post this information publicly. Iâm surprised that people seem to think business owners are only so heartless, even if they are greedy very often. Look at Bill Gates, the prior owner of Microsoft and his foundation - the billions of dollars he has donated. Nothing about being rich means you have to donate the money you earn when youâre paying hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions in taxes.
Iâm sorry. I donât think youâre heartless just because youâre a business owner.
But unless you are the CEO/owner of a multi-billion dollar video game corporation, comparing yourself to Activision-Blizzard is an apples to oranges situation. Bobby Kotick routinely writes an annual check of $40 million in bonuses (along with many other corporate suits) every year on top of his base salary and then subsequently lays off 60% of his development staff, only to fill those positions two months later with lesser paying salaries.
In your situation, yes, I have no doubt you have to make extremely tough choices and Iâm sure they weigh heavily on you. But Activision-Blizzard brings in billions every year. They donât have to make those decisions but do anyways in order to maximize profits.
No, what you said is called âopinionâ. Pretty simple concept.
Do people suddenly become no longer human once they reach a certain level of wealth or income?
Another doom post for the pile.
In the eyes of some, perhaps. Quite unfortunate.
Where are the live chats with community council? The silence around slimecat? The lack of comprehension for some topics like the 500 mount reward?
Thatâs not true, weâre providing feedback and the CC exist but itâs being ignored because Devs are busy and thereâs this mix about promoting tools for feedback but busy people that doesnât engage some communities.
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Of course not, but thatâs not what Iâm saying.
Itâs human nature to want to make a lot of money. I understand that Bobby Kotick and Blizzard as an entity want to make a lot of money, but what makes Bobby Kotick different from, say, Mark Cuban, is that Bobby Kotick will achieve his wealth (and continue to increase it) through whatever means necessary, even if itâs at the expense of his employees, whereas Mark Cuban paid his entire workforceâs salaries throughout the height of COVID-19, even if it meant taking a financial hit because it was the right thing to do.
Bobby Kotick routinely makes decisions not because he needs to, but because he wants to, and oftentimes those decisions end up hurting others. Thatâs why people view him as heartless.
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They can convince people that theyâll change but itâll take a bit more time and effort, because weâve actually been here before. Multiple times before.
Hell itâs pretty much a whole thing we go through with almost every expansion now. They tell us that theyâre gonna do better listening to player feedback, they might even throw us a few things in the following months and a bunch of people go âSee, theyâre listening to us now!â.
but itâs never lasted for more than like⊠half an expansion(at least, not since this whole cycle started).
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spot on⊠
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To be exact how many times they have said it? And since when did they said they will change openly. If they did provide some solid evidence because after patch 9.1.5 they openly stated that they will promise to change their ways and listen to feedback and so 9.2 and 9.2.5 and now moving to Dragonflight they have been openly communicative and yet your type of people are so hard pressed on them not listening when the blue tracker over on the beta forum has been active in recent weeks or months during the alpha phases.
But, do please enlighten me and prove me wrong otherwise youâre just another person accusing blizzard not listening and being transparent and or communicating.
I donât know why youâre going so hard for a corporation that currently runs one of the sleaziest, life-savings draining video games on the market right now. You do understand that Blizzard only ever said those things to save face, right? They saw the numbers and saw the internal controversies brewing and went âOh crap, better do something to shut them up.â
I genuinely have no idea why you would think Blizzard deserves our trust. Because they were forced to make a statement about their abomination of an expansion that drove more people away than ever before?
And what is your definition of being openly communicative? Because going radio silent for days at a time and prioritizing certain parts of the game over other parts that clearly need the same amount of attention is not exactly my idea of being openly communicative.
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Oh really, because Dragonflight is a new expansion and now that they are trying to reverse course and make everything right or atleast try to in the first go around and I bet you donât know that dragonflight is a all hands on deck type of situation.
And to think they arenât being talkative because thereâs a lot of things going on behind the scenes and to accuse them being picky well the burden of proof falls on the accuser.
Also, they donât have to respond to every thread there is and youâre asking why because most of them would lead to nowhere concerning the game as a whole. And plus season 4 as a whole was a experimental season nothing important. Catch up gear for casuals will be in dragonflight pre patch 252 item level.
So naive, so gullibleâŠ