4d295e No.15762806
So once again resident corporate leaker jason 'soyking' (((schrier))) has posted a write up from anonymous activision/blizzard insiders about the state of the company. Usually of course Kotaku is a rag but his track record for activision leakers giving him info is rock solid and is the only reason we know about the shitshow Destiny was.
>http://archive.is/EgYXf
Heres the cliff notes:
Project Hades: Diablo IV
- Team 3 (Diablo team) was going to start the development of the second expansion of Diablo 3 after the release of Reaper of Souls, but they received the order to stop. It really surprised them because RoS recovered some of the lost faith of the players in the franchise and they have a few things planned.
- Seems weird because after all, D3 and ROS are successful games.
- Team 3 was scattered. Some people went ot other franchises.
- Project Hades: They were asked to start Diablo IV development immediately. They didnt understood the reasons: they didnt wait to look the performance of RoS in the following months. Maybe they considered that Diablo III was already a failure and RoS was a good moment to leave everything in a well manner.
- Diablo 4 has some development. The idea was a third person Dark Souls Style game.
- The change in style was so big, they started to think if it was ok to call it Diablo 4
- However it was cancelled and rebooted in 2016. They dont know if it was because Mosqueira left the company in the same year. Mosqueira denied to declare for this article.
- The Rise of the Necromancer was a way to appease the fans.
- ‘Man, if we had just done that second expansion instead of losing half the team as a result of the cancellation, and then all of the personnel changes, management changes, then this walk down the road of Hades… If we hadn’t done any of that and had just focused on doing a solid third act for Diablo, it’d be out by now.’”
Project Fenris: Diablo IV reboot
- Really early in development.
-"They want to make this gross, make it dark, [get rid of] anything that was considered cartoony in Diablo III… Make what people were afraid of in Diablo II, but modern."
- Principles: embrace the Darkness and More social.
- More social? Hub cities and instanced dungeons.
- Team feels enthusiastic and optimistic for the new concept, however it wont see some light until 2020. They want to announce it with a playable demo.
-Isometric camera angle game…for now. They are not sure.
- The team expected and announcement and teaser this year or during Blizzcon. Blizzard heads changed their minds. Blizzards other department and Blizzcon planner said there wasnt going to be a Diablo 4 announcement. Lack of communication.
- They didnt talk about how to monetize it. Blizzard looks to the example of HS and OW
Diablo Immortal
- Diablo is a success in China
- At the start, Diablo Immortal was going to be developed just for China. After some months, they wanted to release it to the west.
- Blizzard changed their mind about this: they wanted to global announcement and maintain the quality of the game for all regions. His new principle is to make Blizzard Worldwide.
- Codevelopmnet by Blizzard and NetEase.
CONT.
4d295e No.15762809
>>15762806
The shadows of SC: Ghost and Titan
- The shadows of StarCraft Ghost and project Titan haunts Blizzard. They invest lots of time and money and they cant risk to take so long to cancel games.
- Many of the older developers want to try new things and shorter games. Many of them spent 10 continuous years in the same projects (WoW, Diablo 3 and Sc 3) and they were tired.
Incubation department: mobile games
- HS was a successful experiment.
- New incubation departmens is there to cultivate new opportunities. Headed by Allen Adham
- Many Blizzard employees are fan of Pokemon GO.
- Iconic orc statue in Blizzard´s campus is a Pokestop.
- They want to release more games for phones. There are many smartphones players.
- Mobile games seems to be the opportunity for some developers who want shorter projects.
- Tom Chilton in WoW mobile game. Warcraft version of Pokemon GO?????
- Mobile games to enter easily new markets and please Activision investors?
Activision and Blizzard
- Blizzard was really proud of being a separated entity from Activision. Having their own Headquarters and own time development cycle.
- Times changed, Activision and Blizzard are mixing more each year. Activision influence is growing.
- For the first time Blizzard´s priority is to cut costs and trying to spend better to improve the product output. Amrita Ahuja is the new chief financial officer and she came from Activision HQ in Santa Monica.
- Investors arent happy. Activision´s Destiny performance makes them unhappy. HS and OW numbers are stagnant and even in decline and Blizzard isnt releasing new games
- Blizzard must show growth
- OW sets the bar so high of Blizzards potential. “We are being told to spend less at every corner because we have no new IP”
- Co-founder Mike Morhaime was a massive shake. He was the ANTI CEO: he didnt care about profits, he only wanted the employees and community to be happy and make good games.
- The are concerns. How this new policy will affect decisions?
Weeeeeelp
9c04e2 No.15762829
Don't care. Fuck Blizzard, fuck Activision, and fuck Kotaku.
00a1a6 No.15762830
Nothing this company produces is worth anything, none of this should be news to anyone
b70953 No.15762836
f55ac4 No.15762844
>>15762830
I think it's great for a good laugh and I'm laughing hard.
54e746 No.15762865
>>15762809
>suits are sending the company into a corporate death spiral
Actiblizz won't exist in 15 years, at least not in its current form.
e2cc52 No.15762869
> thinking Blizzard has done anything good in over a decade
> even then their best game was an off-brand knock-off of another IP
> and another game by a completely different team that got bought out by Blizzard and then fucked over by the people riding their coattails
2805d2 No.15762871
>>15762809
>Warcraft version of Pokemon GO?????
I don't know whether to retch or laugh at the thought of the overweight wallet chain wearing faggots who like Blizzardshit actually walking outside for a change.
cb4309 No.15762878
>>15762865
Why does this happen so often? You'd expect suits to understand the industries they invest in.
/r/ing an image of an investor with the phrase "Wherever I am, I must also bankrupt" written on it.
e2cc52 No.15762881
>>15762871
I know pokefags are bad, but imagine the mortality rate of Blizzard Warcows chasing down quests IRL with mobile devices.
Seriously, not just counting the risk of heart attack from dragging their fat asses up a slight incline, they're a risk to vehicles if they're crossing a road with their face in their phone and they get hit by a car. It would be like hitting cattle, except squishier.
And then there's the whole "not looking where you're stepping, mis-step in a ditch/gutter and break your leg" situation, and they shoot horses and cattle in those situations.
8bb3ef No.15762884
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher. It was founded on October 1, 1979[3] and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600 video console system published from July 1980 for the US market and from August 1981 for the international market (UK).[4]
As of January 2017, Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was also the top publisher for 2016 in the United States.[5] Its parent company is Activision Blizzard, formed from the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games on July 9, 2008,[6] an entity which became a completely independent company on July 25, 2013 when Activision Blizzard purchased the remaining shares from then majority owner Vivendi.[7] Its CEO was Eric Hirshberg.[8] until March 2018[9]
>Its CEO was Eric Hirshberg until March 2018
They went independent to abruptly run everything into the fucking ground.
2805d2 No.15762886
>>15762881
They should play it in India then. I hear cows get right of way there.
4ba58a No.15762893
>>15762865
>company that owns CoD, Heartstone and Candy Crush won't exist in 15 years because one series got mismanaged to shit
Yeah, and EA won't exist in 15 years because that Battlefront comment got downvoted and Battlefield 5 isn't doing so well.
8bb3ef No.15762895
>>15762881
>they're a risk to vehicles if they're crossing a road with their face in their phone and they get hit by a car.
There's been over a hundred reports of kids, and adults, getting hit by cars playing pokemon go just fyi. Also some people have even been shot for going on private property while playing.
4d295e No.15762903
>>15762893
Activision anon is that you? we all got so worried after you vanished during the big destiny 2 shaming you got!
4ba58a No.15762931
>>15762903
Haven't actually played an Activision game since the PS2 Crash reboots, unless I'm forgetting something obvious.
I'm just sick of the retards with no concept of economics. That retard in the other thread thinking that Nintendo's going bankrupt and only F-Zero can save them, and now faggots here thinking that one series that's been dead for two decades is going to make or break a corporation that makes billions off of mobileshit, shit card games and yearly CoD releases. The best you can expect is Blizzard being dissolved as an entity. Even in the most unlikely of situations, they're just going to make a bigger push for mobile. They own Candy Crush, which is years old and still one of the top grossing mobile games.
2805d2 No.15762938
>>15762893
>>15762931
Your game failed pajeet.
64635f No.15762961
corruption has caused this
Bullying of the western populations
use of all this shit as a distraction for trade deals and other crap
all that damage finally starting to set in
cb4309 No.15762971
>>15762893
>>15762931
Any company will fail after a long enough string of bad decisions, and they've been making those for years.
Of course if they stop now they'll be fine, but I've seen this happen before with companies like THQ. Never underestimate the power of suits to ruin a wealthy company.
6a2181 No.15762973
Don't care, didn't read.
Activision is shit, but don't pass the blame onto them for Blizzard being shit. Blizzard is responsible for their own colossal fuckups.
4ba58a No.15762992
>>15762971
Of course, and I'm fucking hopeful, but the bar is insanely low. Their big cash cow is CoD, and considering the outrage over Battlefield V, they'll be fine for a while. Hell, even the games that people shat on like Infinite Warfare ended up making profit.
They'd need a fuck up that's WORSE than Battlefield V to have a significant impact. The other two big cashcows - Heartstone and Candy Crush - have fanbases that will eat shit harder than any other I can think of.
Pics also related.
http://archive.is/YHneR
8ee833 No.15763007
Diablo History:
1 and 2: Hey we did great and consumers are happy.
Diablo 3: Don't you guys have stable internet connections?
Diablo Mobile: Don't you guys have gaming phones?
Diablo 4: Don't you guys have permission from the Communist Chinese to play more than 20 minutes per day?
Diablo 5: Don't you guys have enough organs left?
75190b No.15763008
I'm sick and tired of Schrier being treated like a journalist when he's really just the PR person for companies that don't want to 'officially' announce something.
2805d2 No.15763014
>>15763007
>guys
Um, sexist much?
e91668 No.15763026
>>15762844
Source on smug?
14c02d No.15763063
>>15762973
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction anon. Are you that retarded?
02ded4 No.15763130
>>15762806
>Jason Schreier
Is this the jurno who said Sorceress from Dragon's Crown is lolicon fantasy?
2805d2 No.15763136
4d295e No.15763272
>>15763008
I'd say hes more of a kind of scab with no real morals that will do anything for money and devs use him on the downlow.
A whore i guess.
14c02d No.15763365
>>15763130
An idiot can still assert the truth that water is wet.
2805d2 No.15763380
>>15763365
I believe the point of contention is that Blizzard insiders chose this guy out of everyone to leak this stuff to.
67b058 No.15763396
>Diablo 4 has some development. The idea was a third person Dark Souls Style game.
this is actually some dream game i wanted, some dark souls hack n slash with autistic numbers game diablo loot, if it actually is good like i envisioned in my head i'll gladly pony up for it
8bb3ef No.15763430
>>15763396
>if it actually is good like i envisioned in my head
Why would you ever think this would come true?
f5e29c No.15763434
>>15763396
I think I know that feel, I personally want more diablo shooter games but most of them suck.
5e3b25 No.15763448
>>15762992
The new COD is successful too I think. They added that battle royale mode and it’s been popular with normalfags
d922be No.15763459
>>15763396
Try Nioh, you might enjoy it.
8c0569 No.15763480
36440b No.15763535
blizzard hasn't made a good game since nov 23rd 2004.
3c0b28 No.15763564
>>15763480
Blizzard had planned to make more expansions for Diablo 3 but abandoned those, had started 4 but scrapped it and restarted in 2016
Staff is full of mobile gamers and they plan to make more mobileshit
Activision is getting antsy about money and is trying to get Blizzard to cut costs and pump out more trash
48f92b No.15763590
>>15763396
You and me both. Bloodborne Chalice Dungeons were what set me on the idea; 'what if this were better crafted, full fledged and lootier instead of a half-completed afterthought XP pinata?' But Blizzard wouldn't have managed it, and they've abandoned the concept anyways. No nice things for us.
75dec7 No.15763861
>>15763590
Play Nioh, you will enjoy it.
1fd498 No.15763896
>>15762878
Considering that being an investor is a full time job if you want it to be, you start to see how this bullshit proliferates. It's really just like being a gambling jockey. You do nothing but stare at numbers and calculate odds. All they give a fuck about is Actiblizz shitting out numbers on a year to year basis. There is no concept of a quality product, no concept of decent treatment for employees, no concept of creative freedom. If Mr. Kikenstein pulls up his stocks on his smartphone and sees a red down arrow, it's bad. The end.
1fd498 No.15764046
>>15763981
>hiring leftists
>and then treating them like shit on top of that
Sounds like a recipe for a consistently awful lineup of products and services, unless you're running a concentration camp.
15abb5 No.15764295
>>15762806
>CURRENT YEAR Blizztards implying they have the capability to "Offend" their casual shit-eaters with a grim, dark, and gross Diablo game
>Jason "Everything is Loli" Shyster is just doing this to direct all the blame and ire to Activision, to help his Commiefornia friends in Blizzard.
The audacity of this kike. Either way, hope the company spirals to death.
8f93fd No.15764328
>>15762871
>wallet chains
They ruined a perfectly practical fashion choice, fuck them.
a759b7 No.15764377
>>15762809
>Amrita Ahuja
Poo in the blizz pajeet?
6fd5f6 No.15764730
>>15762806
>-"They want to make this gross, make it dark, [get rid of] anything that was considered cartoony in Diablo III… Make what people were afraid of in Diablo II, but modern."
after shitting on fans repeatedly that complained d3 isn't dark enough because it looked like fucking wow?
fuck those losers…
15abb5 No.15764735
>>15764730
Blizzard North is dead, Diablo characters are in that atrocious Smash + ASSFAGGOTS game of theirs, it's a fucking joke to think they want to make a Dark Souls-Diablo game when the entire Blizzshit design philosophy will not let them do it.
a66012 No.15764771
>>15763396
Let it die is exactly what you want, but it's a shit game because it apes a shit franchise made by people who honestly thought they could make a decent action game, even though all they've shat out before it is slow """action""" games starring mechas and complex first person dungeon crawlers.
338c37 No.15764784
>>15764295
Fucking retarded cuck faggots. Who the fuck reads this garbage? I just don't get what kind of fucking retard needs to read """"""""""gaming journalism"""""""""" as a part of their life.
6fd5f6 No.15764788
>>15764735
to be fair hots, while still being a shitty ASSFAGGOTS, somehow gets away with thicc and lolis.
but yeah, diablo probably would have way too much oversight to not be a commitee-approved focus tested puddle of diarrhea
2805d2 No.15765063
>>15764730
"Dark" to Blizzard means "exactly the same with a blueish filter over it".
df5d25 No.15765335
Why are people talking like Blizzard and Activision are two different companies and Activision is the head company? They merged, they are one company now. Blizzfags try to defend Blizz and blame the shit on other people but they are the fucking same
3d9bd9 No.15765441
>they were going to make Diablo 4 which may have been a decent game
>cancelled for no reason
>bet on iAblo intended for bugmen to take the stage and sweep everyone off their feet
>that backfires so horribly to the point that company stocks begin to plummet
When the drones who paid for Blizzcon don't want your chinkshit, then you should take a hint and try something else, however -
>- The shadows of StarCraft Ghost and project Titan haunts Blizzard
No shit.
Those projects were probably well on their way to completion and had good direction, but were for some reason discarded.
Now that faith in Blizz is at its lowest ever and they have no new games on the horizon, they really should be worried.
No games, no future.
77b51c No.15765462
>diablo soulslike with proper classes, skills, armor sets and runic words shit
>tfw i actually wouldnt mind this
fucking shitters after seeing souls success and knowing diablo has established fanbase they decided to scrap it? my fucking god i'm mad
943eb9 No.15765497
>>15762809
>15762809
>poo in the loo female is the new financial officer
the company is ruined
2805d2 No.15765516
>>15765497
With a name like Amrita I figured it was a Toad.
d2c9b9 No.15765576
>>15765462
This rant is barely related, but it's fucking pathetic that it took until dark souls for people to realize that an ARPG could and should be a decent action game
But even now after dark souls has come and gone, after dragon's dogma, after nier automata, after ni-oh what do they do? Hurf better make more isometric shit for autists and gooks FUCK YOU
2b7baf No.15765625
>>15762806
Blizzcucks just can't stand that their gods have fallen and want to pass the blame to Activision. Blizzard bought back a large portion of their shares back during Vanilla WoW with the money they made, so there is even less justification to blame it on Activision.
2b7baf No.15765662
>>15765063
…and thats what they did in the D3:RoS expansion. Made everything dark blue.
>>15762806
D3 was shit, their expansion didn't do shit. They tried to blame everything on the RMAH when the only reason anyone played it was to make money off the RMAH selling to the whales. The release of RoS was a net loss in players. Every time they fucked up more people went to Path of Exile. One month after D3 release and the new game smell was over everyone went to PoE, after the RoS expansion everyone left for PoE, after the Necro Pack people went to PoE since the necro was just a wizard that shot skeletons rather than maintain an army and then recently merely the announcement of Diablo Immortal led to a massive influx of players into PoE.
The Path of Exile devs even said they had some announcements prepared to compete against the Diablo 4 announcement but since that didn't happen they're post-poning that and advertising their new league instead.
2b7baf No.15765672
>>15765063
They didn't even pick a lower saturation or brightness blue, they picked close to blinding white blue to some how make it "darker".
2805d2 No.15765675
>>15765672
>>15765662
I was more referring to WoW here but this is pretty funny. I stopped caring about Diablo 3 after seeing that embarrassing cutscene where Deckard dies.
ea717c No.15765714
>anons ITT don't understand how fucking cancerous corporate culture is
Even in the government, the managers are so far disconnected from what's actually going on at the lower floors that they actively interfere with the work to fuck it up even more. They don't teach you how to run a company with a long-term strategy to keep it thriving for years on years end in business school. They teach you how to suck the life out of a company, extracting shekels from it until it's a lifeless husk and then jumping ship to a new business so that you get that nice severance package for millions of dollars before the dead company finally implodes, ruining the career of the poor sap you handed the rein to.
2b7baf No.15765717
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>>15765675
the gameplay is also like wow, you maintain buffs or persistent spells whilst rotating attacks now. It's not like in D2 where you had 1 or 2 damage skills and then a bunch of utility spells you used depending on monsters/environment. I remember being peer pressured into playing D3 with some IRL friends because the seasons supposedly made the game fun. I ended up pretty lucky and getting a new armor set quickly which resulted me in getting top 100 on the ladder. All i did was buff, put an exploding palm debuff then fly kick. Using those 2 buttons I would clear the whole screen and if mobs were close enough a chain reaction would occur and the whole map would be cleared, fucking stupid game. Don't believe me, look up videos of "Uliana's Seven Sided Monk". This kind of retarded gameplay is not restricted to that build btw, all the current D3 builds result in a game that doesn't even play like D2 or PoE. It's unironically the "button = awesome" meme from Dragon Age 2's disastrous PR and shitty release.
8bb3ef No.15765719
>>15764328
>perfectly practical fashion choice
No one is going to steal your bus pass.
2095f1 No.15765726
>third person Dark Souls style game
>with Diablo style skill trees and loot system
>never ever happening
Oh well…
2b7baf No.15765730
>>15765714
they do, it's just that good grades don't get you into management. Dick riding is what get's you management jobs.
What you're talking about is identifying and growing the "key success factor" or KSF. Most big companies lose sight of their KSF or never even knew what their KSF was. These companies are just lucky. A great example is Blizzards choice in deleting Blizzard North and releasing the garbage that was D3 and now Diablo Immortal.
cf05e8 No.15765736
Blizzard can't do dark toned games anymore because they only have one visual style and have zero writing talent remaining. They will never take the risks required to make a compelling Diablo sequel that would involve hiring artists that aren't trained on pumping out mobile tier assets or writers that don't down SJW koolaid by the gallon. If they had an ounce of awareness they'd develop small, semi-independent teams to work on sleeper projects that they fund and guide but don't directly interfere with too much. Similar to how Blizzard North was for them.
>>15765717
The power jumps in D3 from sets is just disgusting. You can see things like 200x DPS jumps after getting certain set bonuses. POE has issues but at least it doesn't suffer from set bonuses having a stranglehold over build choice.
2b7baf No.15765759
>>15765736
PoE's issues stem from the Ascendency Classes imo. Prior to that there was way more diversity. But at-least there's like 10 or so viable budget builds that can do end game shit and astronomically more if you're well farmed. In D3 there's usually only 1 and if you're lucky with the patch cycle 2 relevant builds per class in a season, some classes like crusader for the longest time was not competitive at all in clear speeds and until the patch i played, monks were a "support class" for the longest time used for their auras and the cyclone skill to suck in mobs, nothing else (zDPS aka zero-dps builds).
c039bb No.15765767
>>15765736
>>15765759
>Path of Tencent
sage
2b7baf No.15765774
>>15765767
Tencent has been hands off on all their acquisitions so far. They just wanna rake in the cash, but anything can happen in the future.
c039bb No.15765782
>>15765774
>Tencent has been hands off on all their acquisitions so far
Keep telling yourself that while they buy up the rest of your country.
2b7baf No.15765786
>>15765782
My country has laws against massive foreign ownership.
c039bb No.15765789
Maybe they don't want to make another diablo game because it would be "too realistic" and they don't know how to go back to fantasy
2b7baf No.15765792
>>15765789
At this point I reckon Activision could make a better Diablo than Blizzard could.
9ba3f7 No.15765793
>>15765767
>>15765782
Tencent is buying foreign game companies because the chink government put limits on how many new games could be introduced in the country. That being said I'm not a fan of the purchase since PoE is a fun game
c039bb No.15765797
>>15765793
Tencent literally is the chink government though. Really boggles the noggin.
9ba3f7 No.15765819
>>15765797
they probably had a backer who lost out on some internal party politics or something.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-24/china-said-to-halt-special-approval-process-for-new-games
Really odd too since tencent is massively huge
2b7baf No.15765835
>>15765819
i don't think they're literally a government body, but all companies in China fear the government since they'll just send death squads to the head office if they don't like em. There are plenty of stories of CEOs going missing in China, mostly in Chinese companies but some times in foreign companies too.
http://archive.is/eLd2a
3823d1 No.15765839
>>15765835
I think we need to Shoah game companies in the states too. No more loot crates and cutting up full games into tiny DLC pieces.
9ba3f7 No.15765843
>>15765835
nah I mean tencent is one of the most valuable companies in China but the government has been looking at ways to fuck them over lately. Just seems like it came out of nowhere. Anyway I think the recent buying spree also has to do with the risks of the yuan devaluing massively so they figured to invest in game studios that already had licensed games in china like PoE. Probably at a premium too. Still as long as its just shitty skin mtx then I wont worry too much
bcc2e0 No.15765866
>>15765625
>Blizzard bought back a large portion of their shares back during Vanilla WoW with the money they made, so there is even less justification to blame it on Activision.
% of shares owned has very little to do with the direction of the company unless you have 51% and decide to go nuclear on the rest.
3823d1 No.15765869
>>15765866
yes it does, the % of shares give them literally more control of the company and more powerful voting rights at general meetings. Shares are literally ownership of the companies.
3823d1 No.15765878
>>15765866
going berserk only requires at least 10% of the shares, that's how a lot of aggressive take-overs start.
70e6f1 No.15766081
>They want to make this gross, make it dark, [get rid of] anything that was considered cartoony in Diablo III… Make what people were afraid of in Diablo II, but modern
This sounds good on paper, but it's fucking modern Blizzard we are talking about.
I don't think they would outgross POE and GD even if the didn't fuck up anyway.
3823d1 No.15766087
>>15766081
have them give it to activision, they;'d at least make it gritty.
43c877 No.15766114
>>15765726
Play Nioh, faggot. It has most of what you are looking for.
6fd5f6 No.15766124
>>15765843
from what I remember the entertainment/censor/etc changed ministries, so the people tencent was tight with don't have much pull anymore. plus the whole limited gametime and social credit etc
64c040 No.15766353
>>15764784
>Who the fuck reads this garbage? I just don't get what kind of fucking retard needs to read """"""""""gaming journalism"""""""""" as a part of their life.
I met a guy who was really into gaming (to wit: AAA PS4 games) and who got most of his advice from IGN videos, etc. I asked him why he watched video reviews instead of making up his own mind from footage, or waiting a week to see if anyone discovered something about the game beyond the first few hours, and his response was literally:
>yeah, well, bro, I don't know enough to make up my own mind. i like being told what to think about new games before they come out
This is also a "man" who spends upwards of $1000 on take-out food every month and then wonders why he's hurting for money.
To make a long story short, it's the same kinds of human trash who uses food stamps to buy candy and welfare to pay for data plans on their iPhoneXs and can't hold down jobs because they're social media addicts with zero ability to think critically, or to focus on something for more than a few minutes. They are more like talking animals than humans.
>>15765672
>>15765679
Where did you pick up this habit of only posting a single image per post, fellow hatechannel user?
bcc2e0 No.15766471
>>15765869
>>15765869
>>15765878
Yes, but if you use your 51% to make radical alterations or aggressively bully others into agreeing with you for aforementioned radical alterations shareholders take notice immediately. This usually leads to a massive stock drop as people are panicking, any scent of uncertainty scares people who just want to continue making the same bucks they've been making. You have to diplomatically convince people to slowly shift a company in your direction and that takes a lot of time and effort. And this is assuming that Blizzard all agrees on how things should change, in reality they probably don't have a consensus which adds another hurdle.
0e67de No.15766522
>>15762806
>launch a failure of greed title with Diablo 3
>first expansion does okay, but doesn't sell anywhere where the execs who get paid tens of millions want it to
>start diablo 4, make it into a souls clone
>haven't_learned_A_damn_thing.webm
>execs cancel that shit because too stupid to spin it off
>actually stupid enough to push mobile garbage after the chinese market clamps down on gaming because they sure as hell aren't going to clamp down on their women
>reboot game
>make shitty destiny style hub world with social as a core function
>JustFuckingPutThemDownAlready.png
>still haven't learned their fucking lesson about how to make a good diablo clone yet claim management is the problem.
>chinese bullshit happens
>chinese bullshit bites company in the ass hard
>they still don't understand the mobile demographic and assume its like PC because a card game which sells well on mobile sold well.
>spending hundreds of millions on two failed projects pissed off management and investors
>devs and management solution is to run company into ground with mobile garbage
>Activision realizes Blizzards management is fucking retarded along with incompetent and is taking over
The devs are honestly the biggest cancer for that company it would seem. Actively pushing mobile because China and a retarded understanding of the market has left the company in a position where they are screwed. It'll take 3 years to court correct away from mobile and by then they'll have lost hundreds of millions because what analysists warned about the games as service model is finally coming to pass. Gamers are just hitching their wagons to one or two of them and not shopping around.
Post your feeling when Games as a service sucked the normalfags from the general market and will now probably kill the large companies.
75190b No.15766627
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>>15766081
Modern Blizzard could put all kind of horrifying monsters in their games that would terrify their core audience. They could put in a person that doesn't respect pronouns, or even someone who has reservations on extreme leftist ideals. They could even go so far as to put in the god damn GooberGators.
>>15766522
>Post your feeling when Games as a service sucked the normalfags from the general market and will now probably kill the large companies.
This, but Zucchero's head is Blizzard and/or it's fanbase
c4043e No.15766694
what the fuck, i knew Blizzard fucked up with the new announcements but this suggests its even worse
why the fuck would anyone scatter development team that had the right ideas and people to do what was necessary
doesnt blizzard understand this was golden opportunity, they havent done single fucking proper title for decade and they piss this away, its pathetic to be honest
2095f1 No.15766709
>>15766114
Is the Windows port of acceptable quality?
2805d2 No.15766723
>>15766694
This is what happens when you treat your labor like disposable drones on equal utility.
d78894 No.15766767
Fucking called it as soon as Activision got their hooks in.
Still the Bliz I knew and loved from my youth is long dead so the faster someone burns the body the better.
f5e29c No.15766804
>>15762809
>- Co-founder Mike Morhaime was a massive shake. He was the ANTI CEO: he didnt care about profits, he only wanted the employees and community to be happy and make good games.
I dont believe this for a second.
2805d2 No.15766850
>>15766804
Yeah that Real ID and sucking off Megalia really made the fan base happy.
1bf59a No.15766852
>>15766804
It shouldn't surprise you
The reason Warcraft isn't a Warhammer license isn't because they couldn't get Games Workshop to play ball; the company had recently finished a Justice League fighting game for the SNES and the employees hated the restrictions that a license holder can wield over the development process. They didn't want to deal with it again so the higher ups abandoned the goal of making it a WH license
65cc5f No.15766857
>>15762878
You’d be surprised how many investors are absolute retards. I used to work for a decent sized company where I came in contact with a lot of these fuckwits and you won’t find a bigger bunch of gullible dumbasses anywhere in the world, even when they are otherwise intelligent people and should know better.
43c877 No.15766859
>>15766709
Yes it runs fine for the most part. Toasters will fail to run it, but if you built within the past couple years, you'll be fine.
2805d2 No.15766888
>>15766857
Most of the investors are probably friends with the higher ups anyway.
8f855f No.15766895
>>15766857
Rich people with lots of money make these decisions that aren't wise because blowing a shit load of money for them is like us blowing some extra money on junkfood at the grocery store. They don't have to stick around and work on and nurture their products they just have to dump stake in and rake whatever they can out.
>>15763896
this
8bc868 No.15767575
>>15765625
For some reason that drop for Cataclysm almost seems like a case study about the psychology behind naming your products. Cataclysm has a powerful negative connotation in the mind, and the subscriber base suffered during it.
2805d2 No.15767811
>>15767575
>>15767805
It was officially the point where the game lost all identity. People saw "ooh big spooky dragon" and thought it looked generic. Also, the graphical changes made it run like shit on half of the playerbase's toasters and they weren't really feeling in the mood to upgrade after how sour Wrath ended up.
f5e29c No.15767831
>>15767805
Panda expansion was good though.
45c782 No.15767936
>>15767831
only furfags liked the pandas in warcraft 3 and not even they gave a fuck about bringing a joke race that had no place in the world back from the abyss.
f73a11 No.15768123
>>15762878
They're white collar niggers, sophisticated rent seekers.
3823d1 No.15768258
>>15766767
nah, it was the Activision suits keeping em in line. Since WoW they are largely independent so their pozzed staff are going wild.
019a56 No.15768264
>>15765719
Niggers will steal floor mats from a gas station if they can't reach the chips. Your bus pass isn't safe.
3823d1 No.15768341
>>15762806
nah mate, Blizzard killed itself.
3823d1 No.15768386
>>15767811
WoW players at the time were unironically accusing other MMOs of copying WoW for having a dragon as a big bad at the time. I imagine these players are the ones left subscribed.
>see pic
secondary purchase means they got it via buying something else on the blizz store as a promo.
376510 No.15768429
>>15768386
didn't you know warcraft invented dragons goy?? Look at this beauty!
376510 No.15768875
>>15768762
i wonder how many lefties actually play online games. Recently playing Path of Exile and Black Desert Online, besides all the shit posting, most people seem to be centrist or right in global chats, literally no-one defends commies etc unless they're trolling.
a1bce0 No.15769881
>>15766857
>You’d be surprised how many investors are absolute retards. I used to work for a decent sized company where I came in contact with a lot of these fuckwits and you won’t find a bigger bunch of gullible dumbasses anywhere in the world, even when they are otherwise intelligent people and should know better.
How? How can this happen? I'd assume nobody this retarded manages to keep/accumulate wealth. Some people couldn't biz their way out of a wet paper bag and they still have money??
2805d2 No.15769888
>>15769881
All investors are now fortunate sons because everyone that actually kiked themselves to the top is dying off.
6df052 No.15770372
>>15762878
>Why does this happen so often? You'd expect suits to understand the industries they invest in.
Simple. You can short a company and make bank. It's how the world works. It's how the megarich got even richer throughout the 2008 recession too.
334ba6 No.15772033
>>15766852
>the employees hated the restrictions that a license holder can wield over the development process
Heaven forbid that someone regulates the extent of lore rape, especially in the hands of Blizzard.
e5f0ff No.15772085
>>15765625
It's about time it died, wonder how long they can drag it out for.
e5f0ff No.15772102
>>15770297
I take issue with you calling women talking dogs, in my experience dogs are far kinder, more likeable creatures with less disgusting behaviour.
9ce1bd No.15772385
8df1a9 No.15777209
>>15762806
>-Diablo is a success in China
And before you know it that's when Activision was like "fuck the original audience all we need is Chinese money".
0a9df7 No.15777256
>>15767575
Well it was aptly named. they fucking ruined the base game that the fans adored. It was at this moment i knew this was no longer the game for me.
ac74d6 No.15777365
>>15762878
When companies go public it can often be more profitable for investors to crash and burn the company for big short term profit gains. And chasing bigger and bigger profits tends to sacrifice what made the company successful and profitable in the first place. It isn't of huge consequence to many of the investors if the company is ran into the ground since they can pull out their stock early and just move to a different company to invest in and repeat the cycle.
0c97d8 No.15779059
>>15777256
6th panel is inaccurate. The founding members don't casualize the game to make it easier to play and understand to the throngs of newcomers in an attempt to salvage the game itself. They, or at least a Judas among them, will see the growing interest and want to start monetizing it heavily. They'll set themselves up on the ground floor of a new business, using their core audience cred to gather investors and advertise. The game is then casualized to oblivion in an attempt to cast as wide a net as possible and maximize sales. This causes a rift in the core playerbase as some people begin to resent each other for inviting the cancer in - and others are defending the cancer because they're making cash/celebrity status.
In the final panel, the game has gotten popular enough through casualization that it's caught the attention of larger financial entities who want to monetize it even further. If they don't bite, the growing resentment against each other among the core audience will cause the fanbase to fracture and rot from the inside. If they do bite, then the core members who originally monetized the game/fandom will be either absorbed or driven out to get at their stake in the hobby, and the core members who didn't sell out will be actively persecuted and derided by the hobby's new owners because they hold standards of quality and demands for consistency which simply don't fit with the expansion into new markets. There will always be new markets to be tapped, because investors are only pleased when the brand they've invested in is actively growing. Yet the original core members still hold a larger degree of influence than they realize - as there is a human propensity/instinct to seek out purity and to "go back to the source" - which they represent. So the core members must be corrupted (or made to seem corrupted) in order to poison the well and prevent the casual masses from rebelling against the direction the new owners of the hobby are taking it in in their eternal search for new markets.
In the end… it's not just that the original members leave the hobby to go found a new one. The original members are fractured and broken, with bitter resentment between them - each going off in their own directions to create something new largely independent of each other.
153c49 No.15779228
thats a lot of reading for something everyone knew
1bc7f8 No.15779878
>>15763396
You literally just described Nioh.
61db83 No.15779891
>>15779878
It's hard to call Nioh a hack-n-slash though. There's a certain mindlessness to games like Diablo that these super-focused intense games like Nioh don't have. Sometimes you just want to sit back and relax while turning a room of demons into red stains, and Nioh doesn't let you do that.
Really a third person Diablo would be more similar to a musou than a souls game.
b78d14 No.15780094
>Goldstein actually owns ratstein company
Amazing.
000000 No.15780281
>>15779059
As always, killing the corruptors solves that.
3f1257 No.15780658
>>15780281
The world doesn't get better by chopping the "right" heads off. That's what communists think.
2147c0 No.15780689
>>15780658
They chop the wrong heads off and it seems pretty effective at a general long-lasting societal and economic fuckup . Pretty good strategy, tbh.
000000 No.15782042
>>15780658
So? It does get better. Killing those who cause the problem always ends the problem.
Killing leftists and also greedy corporate suits/jews solves all problems in the current industry
fdd212 No.15782050
>>15780658
>if you kill your enemies, they win
3f1257 No.15782753
>>15782050
Don't put words in my mouth. Nothing good comes from mob lynchings.
9104dd No.15782769
>>15782753
Is the death of your enemies not good?
3f1257 No.15782925
>>15782769
I am done with you lunatics. Embrace Christ.
fdd212 No.15782938
>>15782925
>still buttmad
>hurr durr you can't kill your enemies, or else they win
>don't put words in my mouth though
>even though that's literally what I said
0d6035 No.15783060
A 3d Diablo action game could be really cool if done well with good itemization
3f1257 No.15783157
>>15783060
Diablo and good no longer go together. All AAA studios will increasingly focus on monetizable multiplayer. Whatever hope there lies in singleplayer now rests in indies.
ddf6d2 No.15783213
>>15762806
>Seems weird because after all, D3 and ROS are successful games.
3f1257 No.15783286
>>15783213
D3 and ROS sold over 30 million copies altogether.
000000 No.15783560
>>15782753
Yes, it does. Killing those that cause problems for us solves the problems. They don't deserve to live.
Impotent numales such as you are also the ones to be killed.
It is always ok to kill an enemy.
>>15783286
And made the company be seen as a failure. Sales means nothing. Quality is what keeps anything going.
000000 No.15783693
>>15783560
>And made the company be seen as a failure. Sales means nothing. Quality is what keeps anything going.
Good point, I guess, although ordinary people don't get the message until shit like Immortal pops up.
Fuckers banned me for >>15782925
000000 No.15783733
>>15783693
Report those impotent numales. And never stop telling the truth: killing leftists is a good thing and must always be done.
As for normalfags, they are waking up fast. Companies have no power anymore.
ab3168 No.15783990
>>15762806
>>15762809
>it's all Activision's fault, they're ruining Blizzard!
One of the most notorious lies of blizzdrones
>2007 blizzard releases a paid-for expansion to a game that has a subscription AND you have to pay for the base already
>2008 acti blizz merger
51f89c No.15783993
>>15777365
>>15762878
This. Investors have money to throw at the company, they do so expecting a return, a return they want to grow each year even at the death of said company. Instead of having a stable company turning over games at a steady rate and getting a long-term profit out of it, they'd rather get X30 what they paid in in 5 years and crash the company.
>>15762809
Thing was Activision use to be stable, it use to be small, hand out licences like Star Trek when Voyager was ending to different studios and publish the games that way. They still answered to share holders but they were small in number and happy with what they got. When Activision got big with Modern Warfare, that saw massive investment, meaning more people they had to answer to and more profits they had to grow. And as a result it's hampered long term IP sustainability and corporate sustainability in the pursuit of profits.
3f1257 No.15783999
>>15783990
They try to PR as if they had been acquired by the big bad firm instead of having merged with them.
>>15777365
>>15783993
This is the problem with public companies. Upholding shareholder's "profitability" ruins everything that was good in the business and the true continued success they could have while making their customers happy and the world a better place.
Pic related with my ongoing anger at being banned.
f6b596 No.15784002
>>15783733
>kill leftists, goy!
You first, chaim. I'm not doing your work for you.
000000 No.15784100
>>15784002
Trying to prevent people from killing your kind?
Also, i am killing, where i live.
You are not safe.
c59f7e No.15784253
>>15784100
How are you killing? Gib details pls
2805d2 No.15784297
>>15784253
Contaminated monkey meat.
ef9165 No.15791948
b3b02b No.15792015
>>15765576
It is easier to make an isometric game, especially if you don't want it to be shit. You have hit boxes, more animation concerns, more level design concerns.
>>15768429
Is that yet another rip off of a DnD monster manual dragon, specifically the black dragon? Why is it always the black dragon? There was a thread a good year or two ago that went into how some guy was making thousands by tracing the monster manual black dragon and giving it different colors for furries/scalies.
6f5893 No.15792713
>>15762806
>Diablo IV
Oh boy i can't wait for online only and Error 37 part 2! :^)
>>15784100
>Also, i am killing, where i live.
Sounds to me like you're just shitting up every thread in the board LARPing about it instead of actually doing it, TORpedo
3a2302 No.15796096
>>15762878
Most of the corporate world stares at spreadsheets with numbers and that's all they care about. Context means nothing to them. It's a shitty boomer mentality that's behind most of the shitty practices that we see today.
3a2302 No.15796164
>>15767811
I remember when D3 came out, all the wowdrones were complaining that they couldn't play it on their toasters and that it wasn't fair that they had to upgrade from their 10 year old pre-built PC.
3a2302 No.15796198
>>15782753
>>15782925
History has taught us that the only way to stop an injustice is to make heads roll. Not always literally, but sometimes it's necessary. It's only a matter of time. I believe in Christ too, but the reality is that there's very few options in finally dealing with the wicked people. I guess you could say, god wills it :^)
000000 No.15796952
>>15784297
Still impotent to stop me from posting.
>>15792713
If you say so, keep believing it.
>>15796164
Why buy new when you can keep the old that still works?