>Overwatch 2 is undergoing a hasty redesign behind the scenes, relaunching as "Overwatch Next" and is essentially Overwatch 1 trying to undo the damage
>Diablo 4 has lost most of its original development staff and the seasonal team is taking over and are working on a expansion to act as a soft reboot
>Dragonflight is the remains of a cancelled mobile game co produced with chinese partners that was bolted onto World of Warcraft to pad a massive gap after the catastrophic response to patch 9.1. This lead to a ship in tone that the players have noticed and found off putting. 11.0 Is to be announced at Blizzcon with a shift to a free to play seasonal battlepass model similar to Destiny 2 with smaller scale "micro expansions" sold as optional premium dlc that will include elements like new dungeons that require these dlc packs to access.
>Odyssey has been revamped for the 3rd time and will not be ready for multiple years at this point with worries that its survival crafting focus is already going to be outdated by the time it releases
>Hearthstone is at the lowest engagement metrics its ever been at. Attempts to increase monetisation per player has failed and its considered on its last legs
>Diablo Immortal is extremely profitable and its userbase retention has far exceeded expectations.
>Microsoft has expressed interest once the merger goes through to break up Blizzard as a singular entity to distribute its IP's amongst their studios while closing and reallocating the billions of dollars in californian real estate the company has been sitting on and trying to force a return to office policy to make them look like they are still needed.
>WoW Classic has moder players than Retail World of Warcraft right now. Cataclysm Classic is not in the works.
>Company is a rotating door of staff that are quickly leaving and replacements are not sticking around long seeking better pay and working conditions.
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>lost most of its original development staff
because they’re pajeets on a short contract
>that its survival crafting focus is already going to be outdated by the time it releases
Black person it's already outdated right now
proof?
His gaping butthole
source: he made it up
His gut.
Does anyone actually play or know anyone still playing Hearthstone?
The few people I know only play that autobattler mode, that's it. They don't even know what's the meta of the real game anymore.
All the TCGgays moved to Legends of Runeterra, YuGiOh, or MTG Arena.
>legends of runeterra
AFAIK that game is pretty much dead. does it even get updates anymore?
riot just hired more staff for LoR and TFT
that is surprising. I haven't heard anything about LoR in years, besides the outrage that they made a KDA themed expansion to shill their new skinline in league.
I played LoR religiously for the past 2 years - masters every season in both formats, played every seasonal, evey open, etc. The game is alive, but that's it. It's never going to be more or less what it is. It's probably the best and most balanced card game out of all I've played, but it's a card game and sadly nobdy cares about it. Right around the time the last expansion came out the servers were basically dead for 6 days in Europe, right about that time I bought myself a PS5 with a couple of games and I never touched the game again. I don't hate it, it's not bad, but I don't want to play it anymore.
Battlegrounds is pretty good conceptionally and I wish some company that wasn't complete dog shit tried something similar.
there was a similar game called storybook brawl made by ex-hs devs or some shit
and unfortunately they were ex-hs devs so they were morons who raped the games balance then hitched themselves to the ftx boulder and brought the whole thing down
I still watch that one youtuber who care about nothing but making extremely autistics one-turn-kill combos.
Haven't played myself in fricking years.
Mark is continuously based and some of those meme one turn KO decks are ladder viable
i watch a streamer every now and then (about once every 3 months) to see what fricking moronic cards they make
its crazy how little you understand when you haven played since the expansion with the solo dungeons
>expansion with the solo dungeons
Kobolds & Catacombs was absolute kino, I wish they'd make more dungeon runs but it's obvious the few remaining devs are focusing on Battlegrounds since it's the only mode people still play
My uncle is a priest who plays hearthstone while writing his speeches and eulogies.
does he actually?
I occasionally boot up the autochess mode, it's pretty fun. You can also grasp the meta within 2-3 games no matter how long you've been away, and for that I value it over other autochesses.
Battlegrounds is the only good game mode. Standard Rank take too much time, effort, and money to stick with.
i play regular standard hearthstone
it's fricking shit, last expansio was garbage, there's only 2 good expansions and 2 good mini-set in standard currently and these are overshadowed by the 3 other shit expansions and 3 shit mini-sets
Wild is alright around rank 10
Shadowverse is, I shit you not, the biggest esport in Japan. It's kind of weird, especially since the last good expansion was Eternals and it's been an awful race to OTK shitfest since.
>Shadowverse is, I shit you not, the biggest esport in Japan
Completely fueled by Cygames gacha
i enjoy watching Trump play arena but i dont know anyone personally who plays and I havent played myself since like 4 years
A few of my friends exclusively play the battleground mode from time to time
I have a friend who plays just because he's poor and can't into MTGA
kripp
>>WoW Classic has moder players than Retail World of Warcraft right now.
kek is this real? any sources?
Every available metric has higher numbers for classic than retail. I don't care for classic myself at all but the boomers who love it really love it while retail is just kind of slowly bleeding out.
Last i saw almost all of wow on twitch was classic.
t b h its not surprising
soul vs soulless
and while soulless might win when its new and flashy for longterm soul will always be superior
because retail wow sucks hot fricking shit but what the boomers don't understand nor do they seem to care about is that the money they give blizzard for classic will never go into classic, it will be funding the very game they abandoned
Accurate with what i heard.
All of the "remastered" shit that is getting added to retail right now is going to be the ones used for the re-launch on steam and xbox store, they want the game to look "new" but the damn thing lacks Metzen and Samwize Didier's art and is all pixarized and illumination garbage.
Check the logshit later, technically with all realms combined with heroic and mythic, there is less than 200k or so players active in retail, brazillian and SA realms has less than 20 guilds active and none did mythic, totalizing less than 2000/2700 active players in both regions
Blizzard also reduced the server load of the most populated servers to near 5000 players, said servers are also ridden with chinese bots using VPN.
Also Classic is going through a bot Infestation in Wrath and Classic.
Classic has always had a bot infestation, but blizzard either doesn't care or benefits from it in some way so they keep it.
They added the Wrath token because if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
>Check the logshit later, technically with all realms combined with heroic and mythic, there is less than 200k or so players active in retail
theres over 2 million characters logged for m+ this season you stupid Black person
>brazillian and SA realms has less than 20 guilds active and none did mythic
There are 13 guilds on Ragnaros alone that are 9/9M you actual dumb Black person
>characters
oh, oh baby boy...
Youre trying to tell me that the average person is running m+ on 10 alts?
You already got blown out for your blatant lies about the raiding scene, just stop posting and try again next thread
You clearly dont know how m+ works. Nobody is doing m+ to decide what to main and nobody is running on 20 alts
>u cle
I wasted and hated most of it from Legion til BFA, and i had no regrets nuking keys.
The shill expects that the poopsocker who has 20 characters in the same server who does this shit counts as 30 players
>classic is so popular bros!
>d-dont ask about alts
>Retail? Obviously they just have 20 geared out alts they play
delusional classicgay cope
I don't even play classic either /wowg/shill kun
the discussion is about the claim that classic has more players than retail
all numbers show the exact opposite
The average player has 1 geared character, of course it correlates with population
the 200k number is easily disproven because the average player isnt running m+ on 10 characters
Larpers got caught lying twice and are now running damage control
Why is it so hard to believe that you can't have more than one character in raid viable gear? I had a lock I raided on, and all the other classes (except shaman, because frick shaman) maxed and decked out in full welfare epics plus the occasional altraid drops.
I'll gladly admit I quit around the middle of lizard king, but I doubt blizz moved away from the welfare epics because that would make the less casual friendly.
>Mythic+
KEK
you mean the garbage where people uses at least 20 account alts weekly to grind and decide which main they will use?
Because that cant be count as single use accounts either /wowg/ tourist
>characters logged for m+
>characters
TRANSKINDS FIRST ZERO, AND XHIR FINAL COPE
>but the damn thing lacks Metzen and Samwize Didier's art and is all pixarized and illumination garbage.
What does Samwise even do at Blizzard? I know he still makes art but he doesn't work on Warcraft. I wonder how he feels about Warcraft's change in art direction?
Art Director
>any sources?
none because it's fake.
People will compare logs of Classic to Retail but it's not really a good comparison. Classic only has raiding as endgame and they do it because it's easy, whereas Retail has loads of crap endgame content that stay at home moms can play like running old raids solo, pet battles, mogsmountscheevos, etc.
Not hard to beat retail numbers. Classic has wotlk, vanilla classic, and classic hardcore going right now. Wotlk alone is more active, but add the other two and it's not even close.
Blizzard went full Epstein logs on classifying their playercount as much as possible a long time ago, but it's pretty plain to see that hardcore servers have stolen any hype that Dragonflight could capitalize on besides being unrepentantly furry.
The starter towns in classic HC are more populated than Valdrakken in retail, it's pretty funny to see
Imagine Blizzard going bankrupt and shutting down all their servers.
>there are dweebs out there with over 10k hours in WoW on toons they'll never login with ever again
>WoW finally dies
Maybe game devs can stop committing suicide trying to "kill WoW". Imagine.
As someone with a ridiculous number of misspent hours on that game, that's completely fine, put it out of its misery, game hasn't been good nearing a decade now
Source?
Wow Amber Heard looks like THAT???
i believe it
fake and gay larp
you aren't your blood elf female "gooner", you are not a biological woman.
>Microsoft has expressed interest once the merger goes through to break up Blizzard as a singular entity to distribute its IP's amongst their studios
the whole thing was almost believable until this
I'd say that's probably the most believable part of it.
Blizzard has some moronic organization issues seeing their output.
>Blizzard has some moronic organization issues seeing their output
I think you're on the right track but I'd go even further and say Blizzard has people in decision making positions within the company that actively sabotage their output, WarCraft 3 Reforged should have been an easy thing to hit out of the park and rebuild some good will with your consumers and it seems it was purposely sabotaged during it's early stages of development and organtization when everything was looking good for the people they were bringing back to work on it or consult on it
Also Diablo 4 was supposed to be a return to the gritty story telling of Diablo 1 and 2 and I think when they brought on sensitivity consultants that is another case of sabotage from within the company
it was always said that Bethesda will get Warcraft and make a new studio for it.
Is not, wait til Blizzcon but anon exagerated a bit Is going B2P with ESO premium like service, the trading post was the testbed for it
>ESO
What's that?
>smaller scale "micro expansions" sold as optional premium dlc that will include elements like new dungeons that require these dlc packs to access.
That's basically Elder Scrolls Online's model.
They just need lootboxes.
Bethesda getting Warcraft would just be sad, going from one doomed company to another would have me wondering if the IP is just cursed.
>Bethesda
>doomed company
?
Arkane is a doomed company, Bethesda as whole is still a healthy company.
What % of starfield was made by Indian subcontractors?
Everyone is using indians because No one wants to pay for chinese or east asian devs anymore.
And this is related to Blackrock and Vanguard ESG money which backfired so badly that there is a pile of lawsuits at wallstreet against both and they ordered to cut the ESG shit.
>cut the ESG shit.
Wasn't it just renaming?
Insider talk is out, disney is on a verge of bankruptcy as all other companies who went neck deep into the ESG Shit and the bills have arrived, and they dont have money to pay them up.
Even Pedowood bubble embraced tis shit so bad that is about to burst.
they really thought that people wouldn't react and eat the shit
They can't save ESG's mission statement after this carbon credit fiasco.
prostitutes & Millennials will go along with their moronic ESG projects, which will implode eventually due to low profitability if they even are profitable in the first place.
Bethesda's soul is gone. Then, Ganker would probably argue it never had one in the first place
Todd only cares for introducing Night Elves into Tamriel
This makes complete sense. Blizzard is an expensive money hole. The ips have value though
That's the most believable part, Microsoft isn't acquiring Actiblizz for the "talent", they want the IPs.
they've needed to split their IPs to entirely independent management for at least a decade. sc:ghost and especially the management of the rmah and pvp (what pvp?) in diablo 3 made it obvious they were afraid to do anything that wasn't some kind of complete blockbuster or that overlapped other IPs.
if you didn't realize it was fake from the start your brain is actually rotten by this site
That's the most believable part. Why would MS keep breastmilk stealers together? Break them up and fire the Breastmilkers.
diablo 4 proved that blizzards name can sell a product. zoomers didn't care about diablo at all until 4 released.
>diablo 4 proved
it's been this way for a long ass time
as long as blizzard spends marketing dollars especially on shit like twitch bounties then their games are guaranteed to rake in millions, the game and any controversy surrounding it or the company do not matter literally at all, just marketing
Games have basically become 100 million dollar shitty summer movies.
If you spend enough on production value, and enough marketing it, it will sell.
Thank you based corporate butthole, i can't wait for the next mouthful of shitty AAA games.
>spend enough on production value
you dont even need that
look at all the shit like only up, amongus, valheim, vampire survivors, battlebit, the list goes on
literally nothing matters except marketing
the only thing you need to do to succeed in gaming is pay a handful of big streamers to play your game, it will just snowball from there as all the influencer homosexuals try to hop on the next hype wave and all their viewers try to fit in, then get all their friends to also play, etc
>diablo 4 shit the bed because of incompetence and a bad design
>shunt it to a secondary team and hope the expansion will save it
and people say its not like 3 at all.
is the remains of a cancelled mobile game co produced with chinese partners that was bolted onto World of Warcraft to pad a massive gap after the catastrophic response to patch 9.1. This lead to a ship in tone that the players have noticed and found off putting. 11.0 Is to be announced at Blizzcon with a shift to a free to play seasonal battlepass model similar to Destiny 2 with smaller scale "micro expansions" sold as optional premium dlc that will include elements like new dungeons that require these dlc packs to access.
Fricking what? This is fake.
>9.1 is a disaster that may go down in history as the terminal blow for the game
>massive dev abandonment during the scandals leaves them brain drained
>a wow mobile sequel is cancelled leaving them and their partner both sitting on a whole mmos worth of wow assetts
>Suddenly wow ships its tone
>Ui replaced with tablet game ui
>Tendy store right out of a mobile mmo
>All mechanics from Zereth Mortis onwards fit more in mobile games
>Dragonflight announce, is like wow but tonally "off"
>Their partners reveal "Tarisland" which is suspiciously complete and close to wow
If you haven't seen people going "why do the dragons look like chinese mobile shit now??" for a year and dont put two and two together you aren't paying attention. They hired a bunch of unskilled labour they are trying to train up with 20 to replace every one they lost that are currently paraded out going "i made three rocks today!". You think they are actively making WoW yet? and that blizzard invested millions in a scrapped mobile mmo and didn't reuse those assetts when in a complete user freefall and desperate to move on from shadowlands quickly?
>If you haven't seen people going "why do the dragons look like chinese mobile shit now??"
Nobody says that except losers on Ganker who are obsessed with China
>People make fun of this shit
>A leak in 4ch foresaw the trading post bullshit
People forgets trading post will be their own ESO Premium store
It was fun seeing the wowslurpers trying to damage control when Blizzard started selling trading post stuff
The only difference is that ESO Premium Store has good shit in it they give for free once in a void moon, Trading post even after the game goes B2P and copies what ESO does will continue the same.
the hilarity of this is that all of the serious ERP moved to ESO and Zenimax gave the tools for guilds work with it, including events.
WoW destroyed all of the goodwill they had with the community who carried them even with the Goldshire inn shitshow.
>ERP
>on ESO with their unmodded elder scrolls tier female models
It's the furries, aren't they?
Nope
nobody on wowg likes wow
yet the schizos comes down here to defend it like
I remember going on there one time and all it that was happening was Vulpera players constantly posting screenshots.
>>9.1 is a disaster that may go down in history as the terminal blow for the game
The content of 9.1 was fine. The big problem was that it came way too late. Like a whole month late.
i saw guilds around since vanilla that died almost overnight with this patch. it killed the game and people didn't come back. theres a reason blizz is saying to shareholders "uhhh the retention is stable?" and frick all else about wow because the playerbase has hit rock bottom so no shit its stable.
this is the weakest larp ive ever seen lmao
No guild from vanilla died because of an average raid tier and new mega dungeon
Even 6.1 was better
Expect the wow team is larger than its ever been at like 400 people. Not that it’s evidence for quality but at least get your facts before you shitpost.
Yeah because they took a bunch of devs with ZERO mmo experience and threw them onto the game for on the job learning. Thats not hundreds of skilled people bringing things to the game. Thats hundreds of unskilled, inexperienced labour being expected to learn on the job so 20 people might be able to try and do the work of one that left and took decades of experience with them.
Its unironically joever.
You dont need to have MMO experience to make assets moron
They are actually producing a ton of content for the game at the moment, it's just all incredibly trite and throwaway and casuals (the vast majority of players in any mmo) have nothing worthwhile to do. They also made the boneheaded mistake of making levelling take 6hrs, when levelling used to be the main thing that kept casuals occupied when the game was actually successful. The management of the game is a masterclass in stupidity.
IT sounds schizo but I believe it. The art direction is completely off. WoW used to combine cartoon look but with a bit of edge and badassness to it. Now it looks like a bizarre Disney style furry mobile game. I have never been more repulsed
you're replying to a legitimate schizo that constantly makes these threads about wow or blizzard or their other games with 0 sources
you'd be moronic to take this homosexual ESL serious
The parts about WoW are probably true. There was a cancelled mobile WoW game that had been worked on for years and are they just going to let those assets languish? You can see classic has 10x the engagement of retail based on publicly available log data. WoW retail has been gradually creeping towards F2P since they first opened the ingame store and quarterly financial reports show 'services' (microtransactions) grew past sub fees long ago.
didn't read
and also, jesus christ man
Why post if you're not going to read dumbass
you're simply not worth the time if you trust a Ganker troony larper that never provides any sources for xir claims, and is also an ESL to boot
There's tons of publicly available sources that make the post at least plausible, you are actually too dumb to argue with
post some then
>I remember the Ganker leak about the paid season pass and the seasonal content (both became real)
I wish they'd just put wow in maintenance mode and work on a successor. The codebase is irreparably fricked and everything is tained by its age.
a successor to WoW would have all the same problems that come from the company and not the game's age
It's actually a big problem since a lot of legacy knowledge has left the company and all the zoomers can't keep it stitched together. Look at how disgusting tabards and chest models are, somehow they're unable to make bespoke models instead of having them be flat textures or literally just a retextured chest.
Graphics is the least of their worries. Even if they make wow2, they'll still have the same moronic, dangerhaired esg hires on the writing team that has been actively driving away the userbase since dragonflight launched.
meanwhile i'm enjoying the new season of D3
how?? it's the worst game on the battlenet launcher
>no word on Starcraft
Is this good or bad?
It's dead, Jim. I tried years ago just to get into some bot matches with randoms to have some fun, but waited 20-30 minutes with no bite. it's probably like WC3 where the only people left playing are people who have played it for 20 years so going into ladder match making is asking to get fricked.
Wait for 'leakers' to catch up with the latest news about Microsoft wanting to make something with Starcraft.
This is the best give away that OP is full of shit and made up fake stuff.
No way he wouldnt know about Starcraft details if he actually had leaked info.
>Diablo Immortal is extremely profitable and its userbase retention has far exceeded expectations.
Very depressing
>china and india gets internet and earn more than a dollar a day
>immediately spend it and go into debt on gacha and cash shop games
>devs see dollar signs forever
So they're gonna sell Overwatch 1 a third time? Kek.
It'll be called "Overwatch 3" and Blizzardkeks will eat that shit like the shit eaters they are.
Frick Blizzard, I don't give a frick about them anymore.
Basically this.
My former all time favourite game developer.
>Warcraft
Rip
>Starcraft
Rip
>Diablo
Rip
>WoW
Shit
Who gives a frick anymore. It's Disney star wars from gaming. Venture Capitalism ruins fricking everything.
>capitalism is...BAD
>games getting more complex is...BAD
kys commie
so, where are their billions coming in from? transactions? immortal?
Cod?
Blizzard is the weak link of the group
Seems like all Blizzard ever does is trying to "undo damage".
is at the lowest engagement metrics its ever been at. Attempts to increase monetisation per player has failed and its considered on its last legs
ever since Tavern Pass the game fell off, with only Battlegrounds still being the format still seeing decent play
Only way they could save it now is to give everyone entire sets for free but even then I don't think it would be enough
Any more information about Overwatch Next?
>working on a expansion to act as a soft reboot
awesome!
reaper of souls saved D3, here's hoping they can do it again!
so excited to play OW3 which has half the content as OW2 which had half the content as OW1
>OW3
>exciting new balanced 4v4
>preseason is a competitive e-sports streamer only event that you watch on twitch
>type parasocialcuck in the chat to unlock exclusive skin
>announce official blizzard discord channel
>all channels are locked except 1
>join daycareformorons channel
>make a pug with my new friends
ngl it might actually take off
soooo
where's the PVE mode that warranted them stealing overwatch 1 from me?
can i at least have the game back?
You're getting a "new" game. No your skins and progress don't carry over, you'll have to buy everything all over again. Including the characters and PVE missions. Meanwhille Sombra is mid 30s.
>put thousands of hours in ow
>try out ow"2" at a friend's behest some time after it's shat out
>all my stuff is gone
>put a ticket in
>UH OH ANON THIS IS A REALLY BAD STINKY WINKY AND UH WELL THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT, PLEASE UNDERSTANDU SMALL INDIE COMPANY
The major difference? Paypiggies will have to buy all their premium skins again.
everything you posted is wrong though
is the remains of a cancelled mobile game co produced with chinese partners that was bolted onto World of Warcraft to pad a massive gap after the catastrophic response to patch 9.1. This lead to a ship in tone that the players have noticed and found off putting. 11.0 Is to be announced at Blizzcon with a shift to a free to play seasonal battlepass model similar to Destiny 2 with smaller scale "micro expansions" sold as optional premium dlc that will include elements like new dungeons that require these dlc packs to access.
FAKE
>Odyssey has been revamped for the 3rd time and will not be ready for multiple years at this point with worries that its survival crafting focus is already going to be outdated by the time it releases
MAYBE NOT A FAKE
Diablo Immortal chads we won
jesus christ the poos can't even crop their shitty memes correctly
I am shocked every time I come to the realization that people still care about overwatch, is this 2016?
dont really give a shit, what about vicarious visions? are they forever lost in the blizzard blob?
>Wanting to turn OW2 into 1
What? Isn't it already that?
They'll turn on the 6v6 flag, undo the balances, undo the time-of-day changes on maps, add the deleted mode and maps for said mode and hope people will eat the shit again.
2 is undergoing a hasty redesign behind the scenes, relaunching as "Overwatch Next" and is essentially Overwatch 1 trying to undo the damage
I don't believe it but this would be so funny
>"Overwatch Next" and is essentially Overwatch 1
>'Next'
>Its actually 'Prior'
oh boy, what rehashed stale boring concepts will the 20 year old Chinese girls who work at Blizz come up with next?
just because your mad it doesn't mean that all the shit you made up is true
>Microsoft has expressed interest once the merger goes through to break up Blizzard as a singular entity to distribute its IP's amongst their studios while closing and reallocating the billions of dollars in californian real estate the company has been sitting on and trying to force a return to office policy to make them look like they are still needed.
Might be true, given how incompetent MS is
b-b-b-but chad daddy phil says next years gonna be an exciting year for xbox fans.... 15th times the charm!
>source: my gaped butthole
kys op
taking a shit in your garbage thread and closing it
let me guess, someone cross posted this to /wowg/ and now the sad old 40 year old brand defenders are showing up?
i wish you well on your journey brave hero of the horde, surely THIS will be the final scathing rebuke that saves your dying 2004 hotbar mmo!
Brownoid /wowg/ shitter detected
There is zero reason to keep Blizzard around. Whatever culture was there is gone already. Every IP they have would be better with a fresh set of eyes. That new era should start with a relic led Warcraft game. Then get Coalition on a Gears of Starcraft as fast as possible.
>Gears of Stacraft
Frick I would coom so hard
Riot has the right idea, just take your successful IPs and give them to competent studios to make neat spin-offs
>No Starcraft 3
>No Warcraft 4
Blizzard can gas itself
>Look at HotS
>Look at Warcraft 3: Reforged
>Look at Overwatch
>Look at Diablo 4
>He wants Blizzard's moronic, incapable hands anywhere near a sequel to his beloved IPs
Anon...
>11.0 Is to be announced at Blizzcon with a shift to a free to play seasonal battlepass model similar to Destiny 2 with smaller scale "micro expansions" sold as optional premium dlc that will include elements like new dungeons that require these dlc packs to access.
Not even Blizzard is this stupid.
>Diablo Immortal is extremely profitable and its userbase retention has far exceeded expectations.
This is fricking depressing, can we nuke China already
>you will never strap Winston to an operating table, gently assuring him it isn't going to hurt as you take your saw to his skull
>you will never gently remove 40% of the mass of his prefrontal lobe, watching in delight as he slowly loses himself as you carve away his higher brain functions
>you will never bathe him and cradle him daily to prevent bedsores as he is in recovery
>you'll never see the childish wonder in his eyes when he awakes, essentially an easily stimulated doll for you to play with
>you'll never teach him how to drink from a bottle, or gently spoon mushed up snacks you chewed yourself into his mouth to feed him
>you'll never tuck him into bed, gently stroking all over his body as he murmurs and falls asleep
>he'll never inquisitively suck on your rock hard wiener lathered in peanut butter, licking up the precum mixture greedily as a tasty snack and gripping your shaft like a lollipop
>you'll never frick his ass raw as he sobs into the pillow before pouring acid all over him as a punishment for when he's naughty
>you'll never greedily slurp up his drool every morning to wake him up, suckling his cheeks for the sweet nectar
>he'll never call you Harold in his slurred, barely coherent voice as his feeble mind mistakes you for his former scientist caretaker
>M+ gays are using single characters as cope for the number of active players
I think foxxo posted this thread at /vg/
its literally the only metric they have left. Did you notice how all of a sudden they stopped going into FFXIV threads posting WoW twitch numbers when it turned out 95% of wow twitch content was classic not retail? or how about they stopped doing their whole "imagine not being a pvp chad like me" deal when it turned out LESS THAN 200 PEOPLE were actually doing the highest bracket of rated pvp anymore?
WoW is a dying old game nobody cares about anymore and the addicts with no standards sticking around till it or they die, whichever comes first, cannot deal with that. It can't just be 200kb of MOUNTSMOGGSCHEEVOS it all has to mean something! they can't have wasted two decades of their life on a meaningless waste of time nobody will ever give a single metric or imperial frick about but them.
The fact that there are still so many coping blizzdrones and that some of them are in this very thread is baffling
Even I was set free of my Stockholm Syndrome when they announced Dragonflight, no intelligent person would still want to play wow after the garbage fanfic that was Shadowlands
Dude fricking ASMONGOLD is free of the maze now. Imagine being more buckbroken than a human raccoon living in a dumpster.
>guy is literally too shit to beat normal mode raids
imagine thinking that people who hate WoW are anything other than bad players eternally asshurt their guild benched them
You wont find a single good player who complains about WoW
>good player
mate its a 20 year old hot bar tab target game. thats like going "dude i'm so fukken 1337 at aquaaqua wetrix. Like thats not something impressive or shocking. If you still pay blizzard rent for your characters in a game this over the hill it doesn't impress anyone it just looks kind of sad. Why would you trust the opinion of someone thats wasted minimum a third of their existence on this shit for a rational, unbias opinion on their addiction?
>mate its a 20 year old hot bar tab target game. thats like going "dude i'm so fukken 1337 at aquaaqua wetrix.
and yet both you and asmonbald are too shit to handle it
>and yet you dont compete in the special olympics
you sure showed somebody somewhere something bro. Stacy finally noticed you and your stepdad ron finally accepts you.
You CANT handle WoW, just like the bald moron couldnt
You can try to be smug to cope, but we both know you played once and had to stop when the difficulty ramped up
Thats the difference, you failed at WoW like everything else in your life
dude if you stuck through BFA, it's not a badge of honor. You're a beaten housewife.
Its a dead game nobody cares about bro. What are you expecting here? its like going "heh, shows what you know, clearly you aren't the best speedrunner at this videogame ljn released in 1989 that nobody has thought of in 30 years!" like what are you expecting? people to suddenly care? to feel bad about not doing what exactly? their 200kb file on a server and what mountsmoggscheevos they have?
This game means literally nothing outside its mazed audience. Any self perceived achievements mean literally nothing at all. To anyone. Nobody is going to be jealous of a man who says "you couldn't eat as much shit in one sitting as me!" and in videogame terms thats you buck kun.
WoW is an old, dead game for furries, troonys and queers. Nobody is ever, ever going to give a single frick about what you have done in it. Throwing a scrunched up paper bag into a bin from across a room is about the same level of giving a frick other people have which is to say none at all.
Are you expecting me to be jealous that you pay rent to a dead mmo ran by gay furries? whats your endgame here bro?
I don't believe this hell just show up every patch from now on then praise it until others hate it
the moment this thread was posted at /wowg/ it went to shit.
They even tried to shit at the ESO threads for a while.
That was the original concept of Starcraft Ghost, if Microsoft has the balls to get the finished game, polish and remaster it to retcon SC2, they will do it.
They pretty much waited for the community to decompile N64 Perfect Dark right now.
>the moment this thread was posted at /wowg/ it went to shit.
you mean you started getting blown out by people smarter than you? Sucks to be you, maybe larp better or stop seething about Blizzard?
Too obvious, 2/10
Exposing yourself this hard /wowg/ tourist.
>nooooo you cant post on Ganker and /vg/
the state of your coping
If you can be identified for the parasocial relationship you have with a bad video game's specific shill thread then correct, you aren't allowed to keep posting here like you're a neutral party.
If you used Ganker legitimately you'd understand that most everyone here thinks your board is basically a Discord colony filled with attention prostitutes and dramagays. I don't know why you'd oust yourself as a fricking /vg/ user of all things
if you used Ganker legitimately you would know that its reaction to WoW is completely contradictory to how it reacts to every other game, because its 99% poor 3rd worlders who cant afford a sub fee and washed up boomers who cant play the game well
Every time you talk about WoW on Ganker people want it dumbed down to journalist difficulty because the window licking boomers who worship vanilla cant handle more than 2 buttons. You make that kind of post in any other game thread you would be told to frick off instantly
>parasocial
nice buzzword, too bad you dont even know what it means
>nice buzzword, too bad you dont even know what it means
Nice deflection, too bad it doesn't actually contradict anything i said. Stop becoming emotionally attached to product that, if it feels anything at all for you, loathes you.
>its reaction to WoW is completely contradictory to how it reacts to every other game
The only thing special about WoW on Ganker is how often the threads degenerate into shitfling wars with XIVgays. Your game gets shit on just like every other popular game, and if you actually think it's unfairly treated then you should probably talk to a psychiatrist about curing your persecution complex.
literally no other game on Ganker is complained about for being too hard
You were clearly not here for Elden Ring, so maybe try lurking for more than 2 minuted before you make sweeping claims about a board
Fromshit is literally worshiped for being hard and scaring journos
A quarter of the Elden Ring threads were people whining about bosses holding their attacks for too long and tripping people up who had rollspam reflexes from playing 3 as well as how damage scaled too hard in the endgame.
Again, lurk more you stupid Black person.
>a couple people on Ganker said it so really Ganker was totally complaining
Ganker fricking loves elden ring and fromsoft. Anyone complaining about Elden Ring (or any fromgame) is just told to git gud
How about you git gud at WoW instead of crying about it for 10 years
WoW isn't fricking hard and the only people I have seen ever talk about how hard it is, is homosexuals arguing with XIVtroons about whose game is harder.
have a nice day /vg/ Black person
>WoW isnt hard
yet you cant handle it, strange
must mean youre just really really dogshit at video games
>yet you cant handle it
Please cite the post where I made this claim
your unrelenting asshurt made it clear, despite your inability to admit it
So you're a schizophrenic, gotcha
Anon, I have been in threads for ER almost constantly. It was mostly people crying about "input reading", hold up attacks and shit.
It's free to be as difficult as it likes, but if you make a game revolving entirely around killing mythic end bosses don't be surprised when the only population left playing is those who kill mythic end bosses.
>but if you make a game revolving entirely around killing mythic end bosses
good news anon, there are 4 difficulties of raiding
It’s wowgays that are contradictory, they expect 100million players and none of them to be casual
Nobody has ever said that, nice try
You have no rebuttal for Ganker jerking off every hard game except crying about difficulty in WoW though
You’re saying it now itt
because wow isn't real difficulty
bloating enemy hp isn't making things harder
>i-its artificial difficulty
peak shitter cope
i'm not a troony to play troony mode
>shittier
i can't be a shittier if i don't care enough to do it at all blizzdrone
>I-i could totally do it
uh huh sure buddy
>heh, shows what you know, clearly you aren't the best speedrunner
what a laughable strawman, you really are getting desperate huh?
i didn't say i could totally do it because i haven't played wow in years fricking moron
but you keep triming that timer so you can cut your dick a few more inches
>everyone taking this post as truth
lol
lmao
I want to see blizzard die too but jesus
Immortal is extremely profitable and its userbase retention has far exceeded expectations.
and so, every single new game made by acti-blizz-microsoft will be a soulless mobile piece of shit from now on.
>catastrophic response to patch 9.1
That's pretty funny considering how 10.1 is the exact same content-wise, except that its new zone died even faster than Korthia.
>ship in tone
>moder players
Why are people buying this ESL nonsense?
Immortal is extremely profitable and its userbase retention has far exceeded expectations.
Because Diablo Immortal is unironically super kino. Diablo IV should have been Diablo Immortal but with better graphics
>Cataclysm Classic is not in the works.
Yeah it is, sadly.
What's with Ganker and it's fake Blizzard leaks?
>resub to visit the experience ....of the exact same levelling zones that are in retail
For what purpose.
is at the lowest engagement metrics its ever been at. Attempts to increase monetisation per player has failed and its considered on its last legs
This alone makes this pretty believable, HS has gotten worse and worse in design but they don't seem to understand that trying to turn it into a slot machine instead of a strategy game is what is killing their ability to monetize it. Oh well.
Don't care, still playing World of Warcraft and still voting Trump.
I'm glad to see republicans are in favor of trans-focused media!
>Hots not even mentioned
It's over
>still having hope for HotS
???
It's dead, Jim
If you think everything posted here is fake you are fricking delusional blizzdrone with stage 4 copium addiction, working at blizz must be grim as frick.
Wrong! MetzenKINO will save not just WoW, but EVERY Blizzard IP!
>retoilets trying to cope with the fact that classic is more popular
hilarious. their world, shatterd. their mogs mounts and cheevos, all for nothing.
classic literally cant even fill 2 servers per region
I think WoW is fun.
If you avoid the endgame and instanced group content, then yeah, it's a pretty decent time.
>Microsoft has expressed interest once the merger goes through to break up Blizzard as a singular entity to distribute its IP's amongst their studios
At this point this is the only good thing that could realistically happen to any Blizzard IP
Is it? Microsoft hasn't exactly been pumping out good games from any of their owned studios.
Literally anyone would be better than blizzard who doesn't even use their IPs to begin with.
Not to mention literally any other company would have lower costs than blizzard.
>Only thing working is Classic
Imagine being so much of a failure as a dev you have to rely on the previous team
or so much of a failure that a private WoW server running incels would be more profitable with their copy of a code 20-year old code than the modern game.
Didnt you ready that Diablo Immortal is their most successful game because whales are literally subhuman?
I tried it out just because i saw they added an actual new class. Its was fun for a day
>Company is a rotating door of staff that are quickly leaving and replacements are not sticking around long seeking better pay and working conditions.
Oh, how mighty have fallen.
Kek you drama queen morons
By twitch numbers, last 365 days:
>Wow (425M) #10 has the double total hours viewed than the next three MMORPGS combined: Albion (76M), OSRS (72M), Black Desert (64M).
>Hearthstone #24 (155M) mogging is even more embarassing: MtG physical&digital combined(37M), YGO:MD (20M), LoR (5M)
Idc about the others, but diablo 4 is probably the most popular arpg, and diablo immortal the most popular in mobile.
Im no blizzard apologist and i adming they are at their lowest point quality wise but the problem they have isnt a lack of popularity
>By twitch numbers
you could have just told us you were a moron and close the thread, would have saved time
Why is that a bad metric anon?
Because companies like blizzard have tie in drops, ya frickin dummy. They're padded numbers.
>wow
and how many of those are retail bro?
Now seperate the classic numbers
>Albion
Why the frick would anyone watch or play that shit? The game is like if Runescape and Diablo had a moronic baby that were raised by UO autists with a hardon for mobile games that are designed to waste your time as much as possible
what about artifact?
99% of those viewers are watching classic HC streams, your argument inadvertently supports OP
don't bother
When did you realise it was a sissifying psyop and thats why so many fat, balding old wowbucks now thinking they are women?
Why do people still LARP about Blizzard massively overhauling everything they have like it’s a doomsday save for them even though doing literally nothing still maintains 90% of their drones
Because they've been bought out by a fishmonger and are about to be gutted if they can't prove value.
doomtrannies cannot live without blizzdrama, and if there is none they need to invent it themselves. they cannot move past blizzard and are eternally obsessed and butthurt like a bitter ex who can never move on from a past relationship. they have been mindbroken by a video game company.
None of this is grounded in reality except for the (guess) that they want to push for return to office, something you could have guessed seeing literally every other fricking conglomerate.
You were just fine until
>Cataclysm Classic is not in the works.
This has already been confirmed.
the fundamental issue happens when game companies hire devs that have little interest to play their own games
Dogfooding is a fricking garbage concept and has zero relation to the quality of a product.
You don't need to be a tentacle to know how to make good tentacle porn.
It is important when you're a subhuman game dev that can't hack it in any other industry.
>You don't need to be a tentacle to know how to make good tentacle porn.
But you need to want to be fricked by a tentacle at least.
How hard is it to play a fricking video game?
You have the dev tools to literally jump at any part of the game, just sit your fricking ass down and play for 30 minutes you b***h.
Playing your own game is the baseline, playing other peoples games and playing your games plural are how you actually get in touch with your audience.
WHen you don't have a baseline to work with and you don't know you came from you get moments like
and
the "do you guys not have phones" line makes more sense when you realize the guy saying it has probably never played a phone game to begin with which makes it way more understandable for him to say that. He just thinks it's another game to 'get excited for'
2 is undergoing a hasty redesign behind the scenes, relaunching as "Overwatch Next" and is essentially Overwatch 1 trying to undo the damage
i recently got into ow after a 5+ year break and its been pretty fun, i dont understand this
doomtroons need to paint as grim a picture as they can, the truth doesnt matter to them
Fake, spam, next.
You saved our game bro!
> with a shift to a free to play seasonal battlepass model similar to Destiny 2 with smaller scale "micro expansions" sold as optional premium dlc that will include elements like new dungeons that require these dlc packs to access.
I remember hearing this before troonyfligth was announced.
>>WoW Classic has moder players than Retail World of Warcraft right now. Cataclysm Classic is not in the works.
>Company is a rotating door of staff that are quickly leaving and replacements are not sticking around long seeking better pay and working conditions.
This is the only part of this LARP that I believe.
>Overwatch 2 is undergoing a hasty redesign behind the scenes, relaunching as "Overwatch Next" and is essentially Overwatch 1 trying to undo the damage
well that is a complete and obvious lie
WoW's decline is all pic related's fault. Sure the expansion itself was okay, but it literally laid the ground work for the game as we know it today and it's been downhill ever since.
Frick Legion
Frick Legionbabies
This. I liked Legion with its class halls, artifact weapons, dungeons and raids, but it was the expansion that started many bad things, such as borrowed powers and having to grind for them.
>being optimistic about The Modern Era before it even starts
If only they knew...
Dragqueenflight is massive flop. There's no hope for nuWoW
The writing is amateurish garbage, every lore Youtuber already quit because of how appalling it is. It makes Avengers look like Shakespeare
worse, they are literally copying the MCU and disney since most of the people there are also buddies with obsidian devs
Yeah Shadowlands dumpster fire of a story had so much shit ripped wholesale from MCU, and somehow they still managed to frick it up
>the wow era
>the dead game era
>the shit dead game troon era
>the more shit dead game troon era
fify
As a Hunter main with Alchemy and Engineering I was amazed that Legion managed to buttfrick every facet of my character while also releasing the world's homosexualiest hero class that swiped half the shit melee Survival should have gotten.
It would have been fine if they had kept the good parts. Like Class Halls were some of the best shit they ever did. Legiondaries were fine once they figured out you had to have a system to get specific ones. And the actual dungeons and raids were pretty good too. But no, they dropped the good stuff and only kept the annoying stuff.
I thought Legion's dungeons were ass aside from court and nelth's lair, especially coming off of the gorgeous and interesting designs of WoD's dungeons.
That's why it (always) should have been the Finale!
In that case all of these would be seen as the last final effort, to gather everything, throw it at the baddies, wipe them out and win!
If it ended there, it wouldn't later manifested in such garbage.
Can I work for blizzard but live in Canada?
Surely blizzard wouldn't be exclusionary to the location impared peoples out there
nope you have to go to california
I actually didn't hate Diablo Immortal surprsingly but I stopped playing due to being tired of getting +3 levels over the cap and feeling like I was gaining nothing for my time. Most people also sucked. I was horribly geared and would start getting the bonus chests from top damage right when I hit the level where you stop having reduced damage done to the boss. PvP was fun when it was people of my gear level and no whales. But that was 1/50 matches. Pay2Win in PvP is a fricking joke.
Big Zam is just way too big for starcraft
2 is undergoing a hasty redesign behind the scenes, relaunching as "Overwatch Next" and is essentially Overwatch 1 trying to undo the damage
Maybe start with something more grounded next time you decide to larp.
Nothing about Heroes of the Storm, the only recent Blizzard property that has even a fraction of the effort put into it as classic Blizzard. Hopium tanks running on fumes, captain, can't hold out much longer
>working on a expansion to act as a soft reboot
Could someone explain to a moron (me) what that means?
NO NEGATIVITY IN THE DOJO
>>WoW Classic has moder players than Retail World of Warcraft right now. Cataclysm Classic is not in the works.
Cata Classic is already confirmed to be in the works, moron. Blizzard has even made changes that were polled specifically for Cata classic such as porting the retail Pet and Mount UI's.
Try harder. How do you "bolt" a cancelled mobile game onto a pc mmo.
>wow going f2p
its already been seen form the leaked ms docs that they plan to add it to the gamepass
how did a thread like this even get almost 300 replies?
should've died 10 posts in, with the first 9 calling the OP a homosexual
>esl jibberish
I'll still play dragonflight for like a month each patch mainly because of the dungeon system. FF14, GW2 doesn't have anything close to a fun dungeon experience with an actual reward system. It's also 10 times as busy as FF14 even months after a patch, so there's flexibility when you want to do dungeons.
>brings up other MMOs to deflect in a general Blizzard thread
You are afraid.
>20 M+ groups in your entire server region
>This is meant to be impressive and not a sign of a dead game
m+ has a limit on how many groups it shows
you have to either refresh or use the search function, it will never show everything
It couldn't be that participation is down 2/3 from last season and at an all-time low, it must be the tool not showing all the groups
that's how the tool works, homosexual
Diablo Immortal is unironically good.
>Overwatch 2 is undergoing a hasty redesign behind the scenes, relaunching as "Overwatch Next" and is essentially Overwatch 1 trying to undo the damage
Fake news but they should do 7v7
Don't care. Still not gonna play ffxiv. Sorry homosexual
>he's still being tormented every day by the FF boogeyman
Nah. It was fun watching your shill campaign implode tho
cope until dead
I think Blizzard is about to put Heroes of the Storm on Steam
There have been a couple of patches lately, the game hasn't been patched in months
That would be so great, HotS is a legitimately good game and does lots of things better than LoL or DotA, just abandoned because they couldn't make it work for esports, as if that's the sole determinant of a game's quality
Honestly I agree
It's a damn shame that Blizzard kicked the legs out from under their own game right as it was starting to grow
They saw the rivers of money LoL was making from esports and tried to replicate it which did enormous damage to Overwatch, HotS and WoW and the company has never really recovered. WoW endgame is still bizarrely esports oriented when very few people watch the MDI and RWF streams and people have never watch arena streams for the entire history of the game, because it is impossible to follow
The first is fake news but it wouldn't surprise me if they are considering selling us OW a third time despite everyone having already paid for the game years ago
diablo 4 is a really cozy game, logged on last night servers seemed packed(in the last 3 weeks of a season no lose) guess no one listens to the content creators
go play p2e loser
not even bait, just a garbage shitpost
>Servers packed
You can see like, 7 people or something low at once... the bar is not very high.
>wow f2p
leaks have been saying this for over 10+ years
it will never happen because of activision and this is why these "leaks" are fake
Who cares?
Seriously, who the frick cares about any Blizzard property anymore? Only the most dumbfrick normie morons still go out for this shit, or brainwashed Blizzdrones that have spent so long playing their slop they've formed their entire lives around it.
Just go play other, better video games. There's nothing of worth in Blizzard anymore.
>Just go play other, better video games
name 5
kingdom come is the great filter
Don't care ffxiv is a second life lobby
Yes, yes, Mrs. Lincolin, but: When is Diablo 2+LoD/Remastered Steam?
That is literally the only thing I give a frick about from NuBlizzard. As soon as that releases on Steam, "Blizzard" can die (as they did in 2005).
Immortal is extremely profitable and its userbase retention has far exceeded expectations.
that's funny because the Diablo Immortal team are a bunch of massive under-acheivers. one of the new "contents" they released consists of: "click on a crack in the environment and a spooky demon voice taunts you while spawning a few mobs" yes that's literally it, there's a quest to click on a bunch of cracks that spawn a few nothing mobs.
The PC 'beta' hasn't been improved since release and still is appallingly barebones. I don't even care about the predatory monetization model, Immortal is their worst run game of all time
>thinks being good at wow is being good at videogames
How delusional can you be when the addons play the game for you because the people designing the fights can be assed to add visual clarity
Blizzard isn't Blizzard anymore. -Donald J. Trunp
>Microsoft has expressed interest once the merger goes through to break up Blizzard as a singular entity to distribute its IP's amongst their studios while closing and reallocating the billions of dollars in californian real estate the company has been sitting on and trying to force a return to office policy to make them look like they are still needed.
HOLY FRICKING SHIT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
>doesn’t mention them knocking the dust off HotS
Fake leak.
The only good blizzard game survives
Remember how amazing they used to be?
I miss being excited about games.
The real question is when are you going to move the frick on
I'm not a normalgay, vidya is all i have.
>Microsoft has expressed interest once the merger goes through to break up Blizzard as a singular entity to distribute its IP's amongst their studios
If this actually happened I would laugh so hard at morons that were championing this buyout kek.
They managed to frick up free win games like Warcraft 3 Reforged, a game that is STILL not fixed to this day, they are internally dysfunctional to the extreme and begging to be broken up
Friendly reminder that FFXIV is not an MMO
just give it up, hairsplitter-kun
none of the other genre titles are taken literally and many dont make any sense (for example, rpg, when you play a role in almost every game)
Just. Fricking. Copy. TF2. PLEASE. FFS.
>Have a blueprint for success
>Copy characters
>Don't copy stuff that matters
Imagine OW with alt equips tradables and 8v8-12v12 maps it would sell fricking lods
Team Fortnite 2 is gay
Overwatch is gay
You are gay
homosexual
Don't care Black person all anybody wanted from OW was TF3 since TF3 isn't happening. Frick you
I'm afraid you did a racism on Ganker, which is not allowed. Please keep in mind that this is an advertiser friendly website.
You stupid homosexual.
Overwatch 8v8 would actually be really kino. I don't think 12v12 would work unless there is no limits to heroes and would still need to cap it at 2 or something per character for balance reasons. More weapons to add variability would be the real deal, one big problem with Overwatch is that it gets repetitive and stale really fast. I've never met someone that played for more than a year. Most of my friends dropped it after 6 months which is low for a multiplayer game.
Overwatch was made for big city maps anyways I can't stand this triple pasteurized flavorless 5v5 payload only deal. They should embrace unorganized casual play there's nothing to lose since they've already finished scamming and losing every e-sports investor possible. Also, let modders actually touch the character kits so the community can make a balance mod.