I personally wouldn’t and I would never play another Blizzard-Activision game again.
2 Likes
If almost no work is being done, Blizzard should perhaps almost not pay them further.
Be outraged all you want, but you’re there to do a job.
My opinion was in agreeance opening Classic servers for expansions. However, your "never play another Blizzard-Activision game again - did strike me a certain way. I remember when Jeff Kaplan left, he was EXTREMELY passionate about games and about games being fun for players. When he publicly left, I did have an inkling premonition that the direction shifted from being fun, and more towards monetization milking of players.
4 Likes
If they’re not doing work then it’s because leadership is either failing or telling them not to and I would surmise that it is with purposeful intent. Is this really about the allegations or is there something else going on?
Almost no work had been done on wow for the past 12 months either.
5 Likes
There is no cure for being a C
We’ll never know why he left and it’s none of our business, but the company certainly has changed over the last few years and one could argue that it hasn’t been for the better. I was skeptical about the Vivendi/Activision merger from the beginning and now I think I was right to think so.
1 Like
The have other issues,
I wish I knew, but it could be a technology short coming or even politics internally.
I think it’s a process and political issue, over the years each expansion has had a marketing teams input more and more driving deployments. Creativity is check on if it will be profitable vs enjoyed…
Why would u want to end a game with so many subscribers able to achieve:
In 2020, the net revenues of Blizzard Entertainment amounted to 1.9 billion U.S. dollars .
Why not go into the board room and dedicate 25% of the staff to listening to customer desires and implimenting them?
Then you still have the future design team creating whatevers next, plus the customer team who is creating 3 new customer desired things every month?
I doubt very much that whoever is running this company is even remotely concerned about any of this as he lawsuits his way from the hamptons to boston on his yacht.
Like… what is going on lol? Theres so many things that so many people want and they do none of it after 1,2,3,4,5,6 months? Who do they think they are? Freaking Chrysler? Oh wait… Yeah.
ftp yes!! …hurry up blizzard.
1 Like
I think if they just hired a bunch of professionals to ravage their nerd programmers for 1 week they might be able to focus more on their game rather than harassing the women who work there.
1 Like
Why cant I get a heart on any of my rants? Is it because I don’t have a bra transmogged as my top?
1 Like
Maybe they should stop trying to play hide the pickle and call of duty, and recruiting blatant political shills to their bro party and do their actual job of game development /shrug
1 Like
Then dont say they are working on something when everyone knows they clearly arent. They dont even know where the story is going, if they did it would be better writing than this drivel.
They are only pushing work when it is needed. They probably have more people working on cash shop mounts than on the actual game at this point.
I don’t know why, I can only speculate. If this was the scenario that was unfolding it would explain alot. Again, I just want to say I hope I am wrong because I love this game. Ultimately I just want World of Warcraft to be successful and for Blizzard to be a pleasant place to work for employees.
2 Likes
I am reading your posts with full attention. I’m fascinated how you manage to blend your own political brainworms with your (very correct) anger at Blizzard. I’m not going to heart it though, because eventually you need to realize that this has to stop.
1 Like
Correct me if I am wrong,
The talks started during Wotlk and Activision 1st influence could been seen in MOP and more heavenly in CATA.
After CATA Activision really started it’s marketing magic with WOD and has been more and more trying to build that minimum dev time conveyor belt Machine placing more work on the marketing and artistic teams.
1 Like
I truly believe he left because of integrity. Righteously so. If you will stand for nothing, you will fall for anything. I will most certainly be turning an eye to wherever he has gone; knowing that he values morals and integrity - Passion, fun, creativity and valuing players is wherever he is choosing to go.
I was definitively against merging with Activision. Activision is well known for Call of Duty (a bastion of toxicity and immature players).
3 Likes
It’s a more systemic issue, the devs don’t get to make the shots alone… the BU tells them what they want in ways of number and dates…
The market teams says what they need to concentrate on for max profit… devs are treated like code monkey at the low levels. Just the higher ups in development have a say.
The people that make the decisions on the game just look at numbers and probably have never played or can even code.
this is by far the worst comment i’ve read here today. That’s not how you make ANYTHING. Get real.