No, it’s going to be shit. Might as well just play the GOG version version of Warcraft 2, it’s pretty solid (albeit the UI/UX is somewhat old school).
No
Signing that one.
I guess they could make good games, it’s in their interest, I’m not going to give them money either way.
To me the big drop in noticable internal politics happened somewhere shortly before or around the Overwatch release.
The original design of that game as-released showed a lot of the old design paradigms of Blizzard. But then all post-release direction was the “new” Blizzard, focus on e-sports, numerical balance over gameplay feel, competition over social engagement. The game is an interesting showcase for the fall of Blizzard as a whole in a lot of ways.
Lol, lmao, no.
of course not.
Haven’t since overwatch 1 came out
I don’t really expect anything good coming from them. To me the likes of Blizzard, Ubi, Bioware, Bethesda, EA etc are shareholder-driven companies, that stopped innovating a long time ago and now only produce and regurgitate the absolute bare minimum slop.
I have been pleasantly surprised on occasion, like for ubi’s Anno 1800, or blizzard’s diablo 2 remake, but they’re few and far between.
I still have a lot of old blizzard games on floppy and played wow for years. Based on their behavior and treatment of both their workers and communities, they’ll not see a cent from me again until they prove themselves in the long-term. I don’t pirate so also no unofficial numbers from me, either
Funny story. I just found out about an interesting Chinese hero shooter, but then found they literally copied Overwatch’s Gibraltar map (not the models/textures, but carbon copy of the layout).
At first I was offended, but then thought: It’s Blizzard, who the fuck cares about protecting them.
Boycotting Blizzard is all about their shitty behavior as a company since long before the games they made turned bad too.
The Blizzard that made good games died many years ago.
It’s like the ship of theseus, but shit. The shit of theseus.
shit of feceus. it was right there, man…
hahaha excellent
FYI, I posted your comment above on !funny@sh.itjust.works, I hope you don’t mind!
Aw thanks.
The Diablo II remake was EXCELLENT
The rest of their games are trash now
Blizzard didn’t make the Diablo II remake, they outsourced it. Thank god.
Nope.
Would be foolish not to go patient on it after Reforged. After D2R, I’m not completely writing it off, though.
The Warcraft III Reforged shitshow was definitely something to behold
The most amazing part was the claim that the in-game soundtrack was reencoded as lossless audio.
I looked at the new audio as a spectrograph and compared it to the original MP3s. Not only were they the same level of compression as the originals, they were the same exact graphs. The same files, renamed from .mp3 to .flac.
That’s some proper gaslighting!
Well yeah - they recorded the MP3s as lossless audio, clearly
