So glad I never spent money on this past buying the first game—not only do they treat their employees like dogwater, they can't even squeeze out the big thing that justified Overwatch 2*
So glad I never spent money on this past buying the first game—not only do they treat their employees like dogwater, they can't even squeeze out the big thing that justified Overwatch 2*
When was the last time they didn't shit the bed with a release?
Diablo 4 was pretty well-received, as far as I know, though obviously Diablo Immortal was a catastrophe.
It was still disgustingly profitable. It had bazingas across the internet, including here, making excuses for it like "you don't have to pay money bro just don't pay money bro ignore the layers of psychologist-designed pressures from both the game and the game's community to pay money bro if you get sucked in it's your fault bro" :joker-shopping:
I mean, I'd hope that the first act of the game looks good. Usually things don't start looking threadbare until the latter half. Overwatch was the first release in years that wasn't plagued with issues. SC2 was fine I think?
SC2 was good when it came out and STILL has a big active playerbase thanks to the PvE "Allied Commander" mode (people also play the PvP ladder but its fallen off a lot harder). Blizzard should have learned from that game that there's a huge market for people who want to play these kinds of games but who don't want to constantly do stressful ass PvP, but I guess they didn't learn that.
Starcraft: Remastered was really well received too, but WoW 3 Remastered was a dumpster fire on release IIRC.
WC3 Remastered was outsourced to a mobile game dev if I remember correctly.
ActiBlizz is perfectly capable of making greedy trash in-house, too.
If I said "something/someone got corrupted and glowing eyes were involved and the finale is an ambiguous cliffhanger" I'd have spoiled most of Blizzard's Epic Storytelling games. :troll:
I know WoW's story telling went off a cliff, I think they've used elder gods like 3 or 4 times now.
I've gotten so much shit from :freeze-gamer: for saying that elder gods and "corruption" are boring, lazy, and uncreative, especially after so many repetitions.
"You clearly do not understand the story" :wojak-nooo: is the usual go-to reaction to that.
They did a good corruption plot in SC1 and then a serviceable bog standard fantasy version with WC3 and then forgot how to tell any other plot and just had repeated corruption/redemption arcs to fill in SC2
diablo 4 isnt out for another 2+ weeks though, besides these open betas theyve had, so they could easily fuck it up