Blizzard Decline

Blizzard used to be my favorite gaming company. I remember when I was much younger dreaming of being able to work there on World of Warcraft. I played a ridiculous amount of WoW/Warcraft 3/Starcraft as a kid, and more recently a decent amount of WoW/Hearthstone/Overwatch.I had been a WoW subscriber for over a decade. WoW's quality has been in decline (IMO) recently in BFA, and I stayed because I still occasionally enjoyed it, but it no longer has the same magic that I

Don't ask for Blizzards help man. Look what they did to diablo.

I adored Blizzard's output for ~20 years - I have every collectors edition they released from Warcraft III to Overwatch - but I'm basically done. The scandals, the shitty monetization, and the half-baked products all point to a radically different culture and company than the one that released Starcraft in 1998. No king reigns forever.

From my point of view, Blizzard has been slowly going downhill for ages. Some whines in chronological order:WoW died for me when they introduced the random dungeon finder in Cataclysm and cut down the player-to-player interaction outside dungeons by 99%.Starcraft 2 ... might have been polished and all, but honestly I don't see much difference from Starcraft 1. Also, I don't like memorizing openings (either chess or a RTS) and the multiplayer is toxic enough. Been called a stupid

These reports sadden me. I loved StarCraft and Warcraft dearly, I put thousands of hours into those games. Blizzard has enormously failed on sexual harassment, on WC Reforged, and the money-grubbing EA-Activision-Blizzard merger. And what about the fully mobile game debacle, "don't you all have phones?" Or the glacial pace of updates for it's expectant fans? Or the complete lack of self-awareness in blatantly calling abused women liars?It's just so sad the best RTS ma

Same story with Blizzard - I used to be the biggest fanboy, spending thousands of hours with SC,WC3,WoW and Diablo. Ever since they got acquired by Activision it’s just been very disappointing. Now I don’t even check out their new releases anymore.

Blizzard has been stuck in a failure state for years now, so there's little downside for them to shaking things up. At worst, Microsoft sells its parts off to vulture companies to turn things into gatcha games.

This is Blizzard, they haven't released a decent game since 2010. Just half-baked expansions, failed attempts into other genres, and Netease partnership garbage.

FWIW: I loved Blizzard in the past. I didn't buy into SC recently. I didn't like the decisions taken, stripping one good game into three, adding weird rules to the TOS that just cry out "I want to milk fans" (think: LAN games, tournaments).For WoW they were stoned for a while and considered a real name policy in their battle.net system..Now Diablo comes along. Blizzard isn't special for me anymore and always online games get -100 points by default. For now I guess I'll pass (with SC I don'

Blizzard needs a clean out to be fair