what was the turning point of their decline?
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what was the turning point of their decline?
what was the turning point of their decline?
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activision buying them out duh
Creating world of warcraft.
This and overwatch. This is what happens when you try to appeal to normies. They will devour you and leave you a decrepit husk of your former self.
>overwatch
>appeal to normies
go killyourself you absolute pseud. Ow is the most original fps experience to this date. They have started to massivly casulize it just now with ow2, making the game more dps and pve oriented. And guess what, normies and Gankertards included can't wait for it.
>Ow is the most original fps experience to this date
holy meds
than refute me with an example kiddo.
spbp
They became The WoW Company, and they never recovered.
2021 was their highest earning year
you think a little hate from Ganker and asmongold viewers is anything more then a drop in the bucket?
>then
than*
When they got the Command and Conquer guy to make Starcraft 2 and it ended up being shit.
>Closing Blizzard north
>WoW giving too much money
>OW
There were multiple turning points which lead to multiple dark ages. The first was 2008 with the launch of Wrath of the Lich King because it made WoW too easy hot off the heels of the most try hard iteration of the game, the next was in Warlords of Draenor because it was garbage, and then the next and latest turning point which lead to their soon to be official acquisition by Microsoft was them ruining the Burning Crusade release with cash ops/level boost and the news of their weird office sex stuff/bullying a girl to suicide came out.
You forgot Diablo 3 shitting the bed at launch and the blizzcon “you guys have phones, right?” moment.
God I hate wow homosexuals so much. TBC was shit and not good. Starcraft 2 was ass and so was Diablo 3 but of course wow homosexuals going to wow all the fricking time. I wish you suffer.
the decline of Blizzard and all of gaming are women getting involved into it
This to be honest. If you're old enough to remember, anime detroyed nerd culture in North America. Anime brought cosplay to nerd communities, cosplay brought women, women brought normies and sjws. Normies started larping as nerds making nerd culture mainstream. Then women started pretending that they were always a part of nerd culture and here we are today.
Intredasting, never considered that angle
It's the truth. There was a clear and distinct before and after. It started around the year 2000. In the 90's there were almost no women at comic book conventions or video game events. Then anime became popular around the year 2000 then you started seeing women cosplaying because it was an excuse for them to dress up loose. Then you started seeing more women and normies. It played out exactly the way I said it. Anybody who refutes this was not into nerd culture before the year 2000.
Can confirm. ComicCon 1997 was sweaty nerds, like it should be
Marvel is not anime and basically did what he said but even worse(for us). Anime was never a culprit considering its still the most anti-normie nerd medium. Boards Games became the world nu-office worker hobby of choice for fake nerds. That guy is full of bullshit.
They day they made feral useless in AoE fights and I got benched.
>dr00d
You deserved it
This is Ganker
>Ganker
>television and film
>film
guess it's on topic then
All i do every single day for several years now is browse Ganker and play WoW. I'm doing it right now
mists of pandaria
V I D E O G A M E S
What's the point of even having Tracer and Widowmaker in the same game if they're not engaged in a saucy futanari tryst.
repulsive homosexual coomer
For me ? It's Mercy and D.Va
futaBlack folk need to be removed from the gene pool
Based FutaCHADS
>addled coombrain
Ganker has always been a futa board. Your kind doesn't belong here.
>t. subhuman closeted homosexual
You will never reproduce
Already have my fellow /misc/Black person. Now, back to your containment board you go.
wc3 reforged was an apocalyptic disaster
they also stopped supporting heroes of the storm
like what do they even do nowadays? some expansion once a year for WoW that no one likes for more than 2 weeks?
>they also stopped supporting heroes of the storm
Them ruining Garrosh by making him a low damage tank was the beginning of the end
the Wrath of the lich king
There's no singular point in time. The talent that made them Blizzard all retired/died and the ones working their now are just randos that entered the industry. If anything, Riot is the new Blizzard
They were never good, what did people see in their 90s games? The shitty gauntlet clone about grinding for better loot in randomly generated but ultimately samey levels against mindless hordes that you occasionally tap a hot key in? lmao.
Turning point was money store inside WoW on top of sub.
When they hired their first woman.
Their ban of players running Diablo 3 through Wine. That happened at the same time Valve was starting to really take GNU/Linux seriously. Which let Valve capture a growing market that Blizzard had previously owned.
If Blizzard had played their cards differently they could have been in a position to launch a device like the Steam Deck today. Instead they shackled themselves to Windows.
When they started to think themselves as rock stars and stopped working.
zoomers don't play rtses, and the only game that rewards not being tarded is hearthstone battlegrounds
only recent game*, my bad
They made 2 good games man whatever
Blizzard died to me with Diablo 3 and the real-money auction house, but WoW was the beginning of the end
Activision and every expansion after WOTLK
>killing off blizzard north because they were too israeli to pay them properly
>wanting to make the players use their real name on the forums
>turning wow more casual than it already was at the start
>diablo 3 being a fricking dumpster fire because it's not made by blizzard north
>too many arrogant higher ups thinking they know better than everyone else
>OW
>Mists
there was no turning point, they fricked up constantly
Hero units in Warcraft 3 was how they ruined the whole RTS industry and spawned the unholy MOBA zoomer shitshow. The "hero" rpg elements even managed to brush off on CoD4: MW through "perks" and ruined FPS forever, now you can't have any proper pure skill based FPS, it all has to be rock-paper-scissors bullshit with RPG elements in a MOBA shell.
Heroes are fun, and RPG elements add customizability and replayability to games. More games should incorporate them. The problem is when they’re used in an idiotic way, as the examples you’ve listed, but that doesn’t discount the idea
Sure, it is fun. But it can't become an idiotic timewaste like you say. For example Call of Juarez: Gunslinger did it right for singleplayer FPS, you can branch into improving your pistol or rifle in a few steps, then try something different on the next playthrough. Too much of it will put off players, it's why AoE 2 is more popular than 3, because the hometown cards tip the complexity just slightly over the point where you don't want to bother anymore. The same crap different packaging happened in Red Alert 3. The unit design, features and utility weren't simple and easy to grasp anymore. I think Starcraft 2 suffers from this kinda "RPG originality syndrome" a bit too. On the other hand is Age of Mythology, which was easy to grasp because the units were designed after pre-existing mythology and you could easily reconnect your synapses for some fresh Age of Empires gameplay. Developers try too hard to have "diversity" which doesn't appeal to casual and returning players would be my conclusion.
Funny you bring up AoE because the perfect way to implement a hero dynamic would be to enable each civ to have a Khan style hero character like the Mongols in AoEIV
Unironically Activision blizzard merge
I even defended it at the time and then within months they had a cash shop selling the crown of the hungering israelite
This. There are a lot of smaller failures that add up but this has to be the singular biggest event.
Wrath overall was their first big actual frickup though, between being released way too early resulting in a ton of cut content, all the rehashed content, and all the ills that came along as the expansion went on, it always struck me as the first bad turn the company really made.
The most egregious problems came with Activision.
The moment they got away with this lazy cashgrab they realized they could get away with being lazy.
The "lol just ignore it if you don't like it" crowd enabled them.
still going straight down
People think it was WoW but it was really frozen throne what a garbage game absolutely soulless trash compared to the earlier entries
Wrath of the Lich King
then the nail in the coffin is the red guy.
Definitely whenever they decided to make OW2. You could argue that Blizzard came back with Legion and Overwatch even though Starcraft and Diablo were basically dead. But them ending support for Overwatch and then fricking up wow right after legion is what truly caused their downfall.
They don't have anything of substance anymore besides maybe Hearthstone? Their true decline was relatively recent imo.