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What'd Blizzard do?
Warcraft 3 reforged, Diablo Immortal, Diablo 4, ow2, anything else?
That was when I stopped playing too. Good decision. It was addiction more than anything.
They completely botched the WotLK server situation launch as well.
I waited for that shit for years, and me and many others couldn't play no matter how much money we were willing to spend to do so. I don't know if they ever fixed the servers, but back in December they were still a hot mess.
Also, to a lesser degree, SC2.
They certainly lost a loyal customer in me, at least.
Those were good business decisions though
Well this year was overwatch 2, which was pretty much the same game but wrapped in skeezy monetization, with the excuse that they needed to drop a sequel (and delete the original) for their new PVE content. Then a few months later, they announced they weren't even going to do the PVE content, but they were keeping the new monetization.
That right there is the root of the overall problems we're seeing: licensing, and the increasing willingness of assholes with MBAs to use licensing as a weapon to increase profits.
When you pay your money, you're not getting anything but the right to use the thing for as long as the company decides to let you keep using it. They take your money AND they retain the right to revoke or change the license whenever and however they want.
The only way to win this kind of game is to a) not play it, and/or b) take to the high seas.
This year was also Diablo 4. And they have been driving that one further and further into the ground. The OW2 lore shit is another turd on the pile. Dragonflight is continuing a "more of the same but we told it'd be different" trend, but is honestly their smallest fuck up in a list of fuck ups.
Was HotS dying last year? OW1 was basically on life support for the past two years in order to support the OW2 fiasco so I feel like that should count as it's own entity... Once we're into last year, there's Diablo Immoral
The list goes on.
They took the dev team away from hots (only blizzard game/moba worth playing) so they could work on their pve
Wasn't that last year?
Maybe? It's all blurring together for me. It was at least this year that they cancelled the PVE stuff.
That'd make sense, I just remember visiting my brother in-law around christmas last year and he was playing it and telling me about the controversy about it being the same game.
But yeah everything blurs together lately, don't know if it's because everything is so chaotic, or just because I'm getting old lol
Overwatch 2 PvE got cancelled, although it was basically the selling point of OW2.