Lots of people here talk of players as if they are the customers of this company, and i think that's where the issue arises. In 2021, the customer for Blizzard is not really the player anymore, it's the shareholder. They have one goal and one goal only, which is to print as much money as humanely possible without self-destructing. That's why you see store mounts and boost in "classic" (kekw) and that's why you see 9.0 patch lasting 8 months (resources are clearly reassingned to classic at this moment). So while we pay 13 euro a month to play retail, they delay the patch and use our money to develop p2w TBC which will print them even more money. The real issue is the MMORPG genre is dead and there is no competition for them, so they can get away with whatever scumbaggery they can think of. When you are the only company providing a product, you can drop your standards like hell and still charge more than twice what it's worth, it's just capitalsm really. For Blizzard to make good games again, someone else needs a make a good MMORPG that puts them in the spot, which realistically, isn't happening any time soon considering the whole new world cashgrab fiasco.
Another article for public relations. oh blizzard still the same, there is no problem, it is just speculation to make us look bad but it is not the same blizzard. those people spent most of their lives on blizz now leaving but you guys say everythng is okay. it is just a damage reduction. Customers learning that the people who made those games leaving the company has bad effect on how ppl perceive blizzard. I will talk personally, when I read about those departures, I felt that blizzard never gonna be same, maybe it is true or not but that s how some people feel. Also, the recent mistakes made on blizzard games and price>customer satisfaction policy came together and made me stop paying wow. hope there will be a decent competitor to wow so they change the policy.
as a heroes of the storm fan i really got it by the change and now there is less and less content each year.
Lets be real even if Activision did tell Blizzard to do things in the game you think they would tell us ?And the bit about him saying they are happy with them, I would be too if I was milking that much money from people for stupid things .1 of the biggest patches? LMAO ITS A RAID AND A MEGA DUNGEON 1 year for that, oh and an aread with wqs that will be forgettable.Should take me 2 months and ill be done and then we have what another year till 9.2 knowing them?Is there a board in the blizzard office that has a goal to reach like 100 million dollars of milked money before working on the next patch?