In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games?

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tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The Blizzard that made good games died many years ago.

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- GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s like the ship of theseus, but shit. The shit of theseus.
  
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  - lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    shit of feceus. it was right there, man…
    
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- Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The Diablo II remake was EXCELLENT
  
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  - Seeders@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Blizzard didn’t make the Diablo II remake, they outsourced it.
    
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TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No, I’ve been actively boycotting them for many years by now.

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- minibyte@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I broke my own rule and actually preordered something – Diablo 4. Huge mistake.
  
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  - TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well, that’s on you, really. :D
    
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  - dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Two huge mistakes.
    
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  - avattar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Why pre-order something digital? I never understood that.
    
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Modva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s not the Blizzard that used to make games we loved anymore. It’s just a name now, and behind that a corporation focused on maximum profit exclusively.

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InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No

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- rustyfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Signing that one.
  
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Lobreeze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No.

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Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lol, lmao, no.

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absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Nope.

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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
of course not.

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taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Boycotting Blizzard is all about their shitty behavior as a company since long before the games they made turned bad too.

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Mandy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Haven’t since overwatch 1 came out

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Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Would be foolish not to go patient on it after Reforged. After D2R, I’m not completely writing it off, though.

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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t think trust is at issue here. If the game sucks, don’t buy it! There’s millions of other games to play.

There is reason to hope Blizzard will turn around. Bobby Kotick is gone. Microsoft owns the company now. Say what you will about Windows but Microsoft tends to take pretty good care of the gaming franchises they own. I think a lot of AoE fans are pretty happy with how that’s going. I could be wrong though?

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- 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Are we talking about the same microsoft? Last i heard starfield kinda suck, redfall suck, studio got shutdown, tango rush pretty fine but studio got shutdown too.
  
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- TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Halo.
  
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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve long stopped caring about them, really. From what I’ve heard, the Diablo 2 remaster was pretty good, so it’s likely that Warcraft 2 might actually be a good remaster, too. It’s not like they’re promising a whole world of stuff like they did with Warcraft 3 Refunded.

Me? I ain’t buying it. BRL buying power is shit 🇧🇷 🏴‍☠️

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GetOffMyLan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This will be the big test of if being brought out will help them.

They’re sitting on such amazing IPs but have just fucked everything recently.

I live in hope as warcraft is still my absolute favourite game series.

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dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I guess they could make good games, it’s in their interest, I’m not going to give them money either way.

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Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Blizzard is doing pretty damn good with retail WoW if you’re a casual player, and don’t play any PvP.

Their game teams seem to be highly isolated from each other though, which is evidence by every other single game they currently maintain. Also that their employee’s bonuses are segmented by how well their teams game performs.

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Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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).

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