Once a Jewel in the gaming industry blizzard truly hit rock bottom,
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Bobby duping Xbox into buying ActiBlizz has also made the overall situation in the industry worse because Microsoft still needs to find the money to recover from that acquisition. That directly resulted to all the studio shutdowns and layoffs in a desperate attempt to maintain their perceived success for investors.
And it's not even working anymore.
Omg it's the legendary hero big boss
thought* also nice Hearthstone music
Is it supposed to be though not thought?
12:44 Hoo boy, that line-up is looking pretty different these days.
Liked this fella's video about EA more. That one had less back and forth.
Anyway, good thing about Blizzard focusing 100% on multiplayer after W3 is that i no longer cared about them, so did not affect my gaming.
43:00 i wasnt aware of this one damn, didnt know Homelander was an Blizzard employee.
WotLK also was my favorite expansion for I am a Warcraft III simp. I just loved it, with the exception of the stupid-ass "without a Lich-King the Scourge will be even more dangerous now" ending.
I find amazing that Blizzard was a gaming titan and had been loved by so many people, but the ""first"" time I heard about the company was in the lawsuit.
Never cared about their games, mostly because the multiplayer focus and internet starting to be a (bad) thing in my life only after 2013 or 14.
Might be not the fitting one for reactions, but the german youtuber julez made a pretty good summary about blizzards missdeeds (I am just asuming that you can understand german somewhat as a dane XD), might be neat for personal enjoyment
Thanks you, it was so interesting to listen about your experience with they games at launch and stories about life in general at that times. Have fond memories about Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 as well, so it always curious to see similarities, especially in different countries.
Yeah, watching they downfall are depressing, but oh well, nothing is eternal. So let's just cherish this memories and move on.
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I love your reactions, and honestly it's amazing how much you already know and use that to make the upcoming reveals more entertaining, while also making the rare moments you don't know something (like the warcraft 3 reforged menu) all the funnier cause it really shocks you xD
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An argument I've heard that makes sense to me on WoW's slow decline. Part of the problem with WoW is that as difficulty lowered for ease of access game knowledge and skill continued to go up, so it was an even sharper thing for older players.
This was reinforced in my mind when my friend, who plays WoW (I don't really) went back to vanilla and said it wasn't what he expected. People were hardcore optimizing from the get go and it just felt… different in not good ways. Because people weren't just getting on to "play wow and hang out" as they did when they were younger and it first came out, they were getting on to Play WoW RIGHT
Fascinating to think about
Also, as sad as it is I am vindicated constantly nowadays. Back during diablo 3 stuff I was a big Blizzard fan, but with the auction house I posited that it looked like Activision was more heavily influencing Blizzard and that the Blizzard we knew was dying and we'd lose them soon. I got shitcanned all over reddit and it actually became a small spread meme amongst some communities I was in, actually had to leave em cause of how annoying it was.
Fast forward…
looks over from playing Overwatch 2 Uhh… Yeah.
HotS could have been bigger than LoL thanks to how well established their IPs are, but it's one of many casualties during Blizzard's greatest streak of somehow taking every bad decision it can.
It's interesting to hear about all this from the perspective of a man who is interested in games so he's heard about all these famous Blizzard franchises but I've never played them. I preferred to play other games.
When people were playing Diablo I was playing Revenant/Dungeon Siege.
When people were playing Warcraft I was playing Age of Empires.
When people were playing Starcraft I was playing Warhammer.
When people were playing HearthStone, I was playing MTG.
When people were playing WoW, I was playing (with a distaste for the genre) Guild Wars 1 and 2.
When people were playing HoTS, I wasn't playing anything from that awful genre.
Blizzard never (I think) made a turn-based game so I played the wonderful Disciples 2 for a long time.
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I was late to play their games. Their first game I played in due time was Diablo 3. I liked the game completed it 3 times. I never went through any hack'n'slash again. I started to get bored with these games. I never caught on to that famous “hypetrain” when it came to Diablo 2. I turned on D2 for the first time 20 years after its release and the outdated gameplay ideas just bored me. It's one of those games I probably would have liked if I'd played it since launch. But instead of D2 came Gothic 2. It turned out to be my favorite action crpg game of all time. Probably because of the old way of making a game – it takes the player seriously and doesn't lead by the hand. With great Polish dubbing. Polish dubbing is legendary in cartoons but in games we do worse. The best dubbed games into Polish are Gothic and The Witcher. Goodness gracious, The Witcher 3 is already 9 years old. Stop the time!
43:25 I didn’t they had Homelander working at Blizzard.
I still hate them for what hey did to the original Kael'Thas voice actor. He got accused of sexual misconduct, Blizzard replaced his voice lines immediately. Once the man was show to be the actual victim in the situation by court proceedings, Blizzard didn't even have the decency to mention it.
Moral of the story, don't let Bobby "The Industry Fucker" Kotick; touch your company/video games. Everything he touches turns to shit, it's short term gains for long term failure, he is like a Djinn. You get your money now, but it will cost you literally everything.
34:10 Steve Jobs gave a great response during an interview about why technology companies often lose their edge after great initial success. (IBM, Xerox, Blizzard, etc.).
You can find it (only about 2 and a half minutes long) using the search words "Steve Jobs, role of Product people versus Marketing".
The 666 platinum thing was: You can get your seasonal premium battle pass for a 1000 platinum. So you are good for one purchase buuut 666 x 3 iiiiis.. 1998. Juuust a liiiitle bit short for your second purchase. How unfortunate. 😉
ah! i see it only took about 7 months from Jules video "32 Jahre Blizzard Entertainment" (a german breakdown of blizzard in its entirety) to finally hit the english speaking stage. about damn time.
Back when overwatch was at its peak, ow 1, i never played bc i actually went outside back then. But now i know about overwatch and hate but love it
also what only few people know, the same thing happened with Rocket League, its first iteration on PC was a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 called "CarBall" and afaik the head mods-men were then also hired to create Rocket League
Like and good reaction.👍👍 “Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insideous killer” – an ancestor that ruined everything (Darkest Dungeon1)
Jack I have a request. Please react to EmpLemon's documentary on Talladega superspeedway. Titled "TALLADEGA: NASCAR's most fear track".
i love nsfw overwatch artist lmao
A video by Reggie named " I Entered a CK3 Death Race Against 2 Psychopaths " sounds like a good idea for you to react to.
I would like to put forth the idea that Blizzard was always this bad. If recent events are of any indication, it doesn't matter how big or small the game studio is, unless they got iron-clad standards and rules against harassment, then it's going to just be swept under the rug. Remember the first time when one of the WoW devs had to be programming while his first kid was being born? I'm sure whoever it was is wondering if it was really worth it at this point.