World of Warcraft: Current Year

Pyros said:

Oh fuck Diablo 4 is Hellgate 2? Fuck this dumb ass shit if it's true. Also that story pitch looks like the worst shit every written. Whole point of Diablo is you kill a bunch of demons. What you gonna kill if you fight Angels, just well, Angels? Do they have any other monsters? Or do the Angels get the Demons to protect them.

Damn that souds like shit. Overwatch 2 at least looks like it'd be a decent way to make money. The writing sounds like some tumblr post but the gameplay elements I could see working.


I still have a hard time believing that, as someone who plays XIV. I can't believe wow dropped under 1m, it was still several millions a few years ago and while it's been bleeding subs profusely I can't wrap my head around BFA somehow making them lose like almost everyone. XIV is doing alright mind you, steady growth, highest sub amount since Stormblood's expansion(and that's BEFORE ShB launch), so that's cool but 1million isn't like, crazy subs either. I just can't believe wow would be under 1m. Don't you need a sub for the Classic beta and shit? Just that should be a fair amount.

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BFA is really fucking bad, I am sure this has been coming for a long time but really when you put the classic version of the game next to the current you can’t deny something very important was lost along the way.

I am not sure how they thought Diablo franchise was dead though. I mean yeah pretty much nobody plays Diablo 3 because it's such a terrible game but when you look at box sales goddamn that game made them so much fucking money it's embarrassing.

Starcraft 2 is the same thing, these franchises they have made that put them on the map have been abandoned. Why have they never released a Warcraft 4 and use it to build on lore which can later be expanded in WoW.

Overall everything I have heard about Blizzard comes down to World of Warcraft and the success and money off that one game piled so high to the fucking sky that it was hookers and blow for all. They pulled people off other projects and everything going forward was designed around WoW. I mean here is a simple example Diablo series was never about main stat and normalized damage. I mean the fucking weapon type and damage has never meant shit in Diablo 3 that's how stupid their design philosophies got. Also lets not forget how Blizzard just gave the middle finger to Blizzard North.

I want to point out again Dota and how it came from a Bliz game and Blizzard had every chance to embrace that shit but since they are arrogant cocksuckers sniffing their own shit they let what turned into a multi-billion dollar industry slip through their fucking hands because they weren't willing to pay the guy who made it. Now shit like League of Legends and Dota just shit out piles of money and get those microtransaction dollars while Blizzard once again thinking they know better made HOTS which is terrible.

When you look even at the old developers and how they talk about the game they seem to have vastly different views with Blizzard and vehemently disagree with the direction of World of Warcraft. Watch Kevin Jordan, Mark Kern, or John Staats they hold their tongues the best they can but even with refraining from openly shitting on the company it's pretty clear how they feel about the new management.

Korillo said:

The only reason I still play this game is because I enjoy raiding. I am not even remotely interested in any of the 8.2 shit. I use to min/max my toons now I just log in to raid and do the minimum possible to still be able to raid.

Classic will save these guys though. It'll give them a free pass until the next retail expansion, so they just have to not fuck that one up too hard.

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They can probably milk a lot of free money just by releasing Vanilla, TBC, and Wrath which if they do them 2 years a part could get them through to 2025 pretty damn easy. That is if the clowns who work at Blizzard can keep their hands off it and not start trying to put their own unique imprint on them.