Blizzards time is over

Financially Blizzard is doing fine. If they money runs out of their IPs they have more than enough to make something new. I think you need to calm down just a bit OP.

>>385248680
i don't give a shit about financially. literally all their games are at their lowest right now they've ever been.

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diablo never recovered from the launch and general boringness even though they kinda fried to fix it
overwatch is their biggest mistake yet, they tried to make it contend against other e-athlete games and they failed massively, all of the updates they've released are shit, they take multiple months to just release 1 map/ 1 hero at a time (not skins though, buy more of those lootboxes, goy)
wow has outlived its time and there's simply nothing to do anymore when shit like BDO exists
i only play hots and it takes me 2 games to get bored and put it down for the day

>>385248538
D3 did not release a "big update" there was no balance changes, all they did was add a few new tilesets and released necro as a pay 2 win character. Thats literally it.

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Isn't it funny how Blizzard's first sign of decline was named Cataclysm, rather ironic, don't you think?

>>385248740
THIS JUST IN: GAMES GET OLD! WOWWW

>>385250439
yes, see question in OP:
>what do you think they will release or announce at blizzcon to save themselves?

>>385248538
>no diablo 3 general, nobody plays it anymore even though they just released a big update
[citation needed]
>PUBG has more concurrent players than overwatch 24/7, overwatch interest at its lowest, pros leaving for CSGO due to bad balance and design
[citation needed]
>all time low world of warcraft subscription numbers
[citation needed]


Is 'guessing' the new 'facts'?

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>>385250374
really gets my noodles firin'

WARCRAFT 3 REMASTERED BITCHES

>>385250374
really activates those almonds

>>385248538
>>385250767
came here to write the same

do you also have numbers or is it just wishful posting?

>>385250767
go look for a general in vg, there is none
pubg has 300k+ concurrent players, overwatch has 200-250k
do you really need citation for wow subs, it's not a secret and discussed every day

>>385248538
don't forget they keep saying they are working on improving hearthstone and removing RNG, yet they do the opposite of what they say every time and instead add more RNG and bullshit mechanics that make game victories reliant on chance rather than player skill

>>385250687
next expansion at gamescom, probably a new game at blizzcon.

Possibly another RTS, since Dusting Browder is working on it

>>385250970
>over year old MP only game still has about a quarter million concurrent players
>current fad is outdoing it

it's almost like one is new and more popular and the other one is old but still somehow popular

>>385251309
yes except you forgot it's some shitty indie devs vs the literal biggest game studio there is

>>385250970
>go look for a general in vg, there is none
wow ok, it's settled then i guess

>pubg has 300k+ concurrent players, overwatch has 200-250k
uhm pubg has 400k at max, overwatch still has over a million active accounts
are you just fabricating those numbers dude?

>do you really need citation for wow subs, it's not a secret and discussed every day
didnt see the official world of warcraft sub counter in the bottom right, my bad

>>385248538
They're making a Diablo MMO.

>>385251386
do you know what currently playing means you cunt
>overwatch still has over a million active accounts
this is not the statistic we give a shit about here. current players, playing right now. PUBG has had more than overwatch for several months now 24/7.

>>385251370
>>385251512
get back to us when pubg is as old as OW is currently and still rocking those numbers

>>385251682
>>385251370

>>385248538

I truly, sincerely hope Blizzard dies but since idiots keep eating up their shit and spending hundreds of dollars on digital cards and OW loot boxes, regrettably they're fine for the time being. Still, there's an ever-increasing chance that their building is the site of a terror attack with all the muslims around, and if that doesn't work out, hopefully that global warming thing is real and kills them. Gotta keep up the hope.

>>385251682
Why are you defending overwatch even, seriously
it's a dead, bad game

>>385248538
Really doubt PUBG has more players than OW if you include consoles.

>>385251770
I like how you mixed the fears of bible-thumpers and scientists. 10/10

>>385251740
that still doesn't make me wrong.

the battle royale format has long been popular across multiple games. someone new coming along and doing it well doesn't make the studio an important factor

>>385251498
I'd play it

I'm pretty happy Blizzard are dying. They've run their course, and we really need some fresh blood in this scene.

>>385251776
but i'm not defending overwatch, i'm pointing out the false equivalence of pubgs current success to OW's it hasn't been proven to maintain the longevity yet with the playerbase numbers.

>>385252337
i honestly don't think blizzard will be able to revive overwatch, if even the most anticipated hero release can't do it, what will
so peak numbers will never increase from now

>>385248538
WoW subs are actually quite decent at the moment. Legion launch was a peak and it's bleeding slower than WoD did due to actually having lots of updates (too many, arguably). I'd say WoW is currently Blizzards healthiest game, besides possible Overwatch which will take a while before the dropping number of players really hurts it.

>>385252712
but overwatch is blizzards fastest game to die. even sc2 lasted longer.

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>>385248538
general blizzard thread ?
general blizzard thread

Calling it now, DK gul'dan's hero power will be something along the lines off: "Add a random discarded card into your hand"

>>385252838

It's dying fast, but it's still currently in a decent spot.

>>385252920
why does Jaina not wear shoes now that she's a death knight?

sources: my ass

>>385248538
>PUBG has more concurrent players than overwatch 24/7, overwatch interest at its lowest, pros leaving for CSGO due to bad balance and design
>all time low world of warcraft subscription numbers

I don't remember blizz releasing such numbers. Unless you got a source to back that up (your ass does not count) shut the fuck up.

>>385253154
>>385253291
>pubg twitch viewers: 100-200k
>overwatch: 20k during tournaments, less than 10k otherwise

>pubg steam: 300-400k concurrent players
>overwatch leak from a few months ago: 250k

hmm

>>385251957
PUBG has more players than CSGO.

>>385253808
i mean pubg is literally a streamer bait game, though it's certainly taken off more than one.

>>385253808
oh jesus how the fuck is overwatch this dead?

>>385253808
>overwatch leak from a few months ago: 250k

All i can find is this, which seems to be a fake, plus its from july 2016;
https://www.tentonhammer.com/articles/overwatch-concurrent-users-falls-by-97-due-to-pokemon-go

Care to give me your source?

>>385250374


the neurons are firing.

>>385253808
>twitch viewers
retards who play games aren't the same as mentally challenged retards who watch retards play games

>>385254841
you didn't read the second part

you really think overwatch has more than 300-400k concurrent players? lmao,

quickplay takes 4-10 minutes on eu pc at peak times

>>385254920
i dont play that shit to know that

>>385255002
good

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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/starcraft-2/128252-a-short-history-of-activision-blizzard-or-how

general reminder before you give Blizzard any of your money

>>385254920
>quickplay takes 4-10 minutes on eu pc at peak times
funny, it takes 10-15 secs on my end. sometimes it hangs, just like csgo but when i cancel and requeue it always finds a game in 5 secs or so

I love how /v/ talks about D3. Its obvious no one who talks shit about it has played it since ROS. Game is pretty solid.

>>385248538
I want to know what's going on in your image friend

>>385255189
you must have a really really average hidden SR for that. what level are you? it seems, from asking around people on my friends list, beyond lvl 50-100 quickplay takes several minutes.

>>385255201
>Game is pretty solid.

Garbage opinion

>>385248538
>a big update

Isn't it a shitty 15€ DLC that just gives access to a new character?

>>385255229
filename isn't lying

>>385250767
>citation needed
how retarded are you?
kill yourself

>>385255335
>thinks it's bad

Pleb tier taste.

>>385255343
yep

>>385255428
dude nightmare+++++ and no variance in builds lmao

fuck off and die.

Hearthstone is probably the biggest money factor at the moment. Shit still manages to print Blizzard money.

>>385255301
610. my visible sr is 2850. i mostly queue with my gf whose account is 800-ish or so. her sr is 2700. we never experience any wait while searching games or encounter same guys twice, solo or duo. i dunno matey maybe you guys are low priority?

Yeah dude, Blizzard is doomed like Nintendo.

>>385255568
It's called Torment and there are loads of viable builds for different play styles. Keep being a shitter though.

>>385251957
I believe it. All the people at my work who were obsessed with OW not play PUBG instead.

>>385255784
>loads of viable builds for different play styles
wrong

Even if they were, still a shit game. Might as well be a free flash game highschoolers play on their lunchbreak.

>>385255746
yeah that is the literal average so it goes faster for you. anything above 3.3k seems to be several minutes to get into a match with people i play or if we queue alone. i reached top 500 and stopped playing, and played casual quickplay every now and then, it it takes fucking 7 minutes sometimes for a quickplay match and i don't even know why, the matches are still awful and players have random SRs. blizzard is stupid

>>385252712
>Legion launch was a peak

In terms of total subs, which includes china. In terms of NA/EU subs it's still struggling.

>>385255201
You can steamroll it by drooling on the controller once every 30 seconds. Even on like expert the game poses no challenge

>>385253291
>I don't remember blizz releasing such numbers.

Exactly. When their games do well they hype up their numbers. They did it for WoW and SC2, then as soon as they declined they stopped releasing numbers.

>>385255876
Rathma has at least 4 variants in one set.

You haven't played it so I don't know why I'm bothering. You're the reason /v/ is shit

>>385256078
>I don't know why I'm bothering
post-purchase rationalization is a powerful thing

off you go to grind your content on a new difficulty again! bye faggot!

>>385256035
It was stupid to release them in the first place. They only did it in the first place because of WoW's monstrous success at it's peak.

>>385256278
how is it stupid? legitimate player stats should be available all the time. just look at what valve does. there is no reason to keep them secret.

Are these overwatch numbers counting consoles as well? I know at least in the UK most of the retards here are on playstation.

>>385256383
Most companies hate what Valve does because it hurts their games.

>>385256168
Thanks I will! I'm sure your dad loves you really anon, he just hates that you have gown to be a hateful shit with no friends.

>>385256461
>player statistics hurts their games

just lol

>>385256525
It does when they're low.

>>385256168
>being so poor you have post-purchase rationalization for something you bought years ago
Shouldn't you be working instead of shitposting on /v/, poorfriend-kun

>>385256590
no.. valve has been doing it since forever and it never hurt them

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>>385255101
>Mr. Kotick: I would have Call of Duty be an online subscription service tomorrow. When you think about what the audience's interests are and how you could really satisfy bigger audiences with more inspired, creative opportunities, I would love to see us have an online Call of Duty world. I think our players would just have so much of a more compelling experience.

WSJ: Is that coming?

Mr. Kotick: Hopefully.

WSJ: Are the customers ready for it?

Mr. Kotick: I think our audiences are clamoring for it. If you look at what they're playing on Xbox Live today, we've had 1.7 billion hours of multiplayer play on Live. I think we could do a lot more to really satisfy the interests of the customers. I think we could create so many things, and make the game even more fun to play. We haven't really had a chance to do that yet, so that would be my snap of the fingers.

Thanks, Microsoft

>>385256759
No shit, their games are always at the top because it's their platform. I'm not talking about just Valve, I'm talking about other companies who use Steam. So many people use Steam stats as evidence when they claim that a game is dead.

>>385256929
so? hiding stats, especially when you're as big as blizzard is just cowardly as fuck

I have played Blizzard games for a long time but I do not understand why people so vehemently defend them on everything
Blizzdrones are a real cancer

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>>385251102
I liked how Gwent got a positive reception and a lot of people said they're quitting HS for it, and only then, years after release, Blizzard "suddenly" decides to make packs more generous.
Guys Blizzard are good guys! See? They care about us!

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>>385254920
>quickplay takes 4-10 minutes on eu pc at peak times
That's because it's calculating the worst possible teammates for you so that you don't win the loot boxes they want you to pay for.

>>385257301
See you no company cares about you bye bye

>>385257301
the problem is the game is more reliant on RNG over anything else, player skill has very little to do with it. making packs more generous won't fix that problem at all, they need to make the game more like MTG and have more ways for players to interact with each other, especially during the opponent's turn, and remove almost all of the RNG except the things you can't touch, such as card drawing.

>>385248538
(You)

>>385257454
yeah i always suspected there being some foul play in blizzards idiot matchmaking. because there is no way they are so incompetent they just make it garbage accidentally.

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>>385257572
>the problem is the game is more reliant on RNG over anything else, player skill has very little to do with it.
For a moment there I thought you were talking about Overwatch.

>>385257572
Yeah the whole RNG thing is very correct.

Even the very best players of HS can't maintain top spots and get constantly knocked down to like rank 5 until they climb back up again. It's honestly nuts how RNG the game is and how little skill it actually takes.

>>385257005
Companies don't give a shit because their fanboys will blindly defend them. People say that console games have more people playing than PC, and nobody can disprove that.

People say XIV has more subs than WoW, nobody can disprove that.

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>>385248538
>PUBG has more concurrent players than overwatch 24/7
Feels good, man.

>>385257718
That's why you play it for fun when you're bored.

>>385257686
You're retarded, if you know there's a junkrat in the other team you should be wary of going into choke points without a shield in front of you.
Overwatch is not RNG-based, it's team-based, individual skill is lessened not for RNG like in Hearthstone but for ability to communicate and coordinate with people.

>>385250164
your waiting time artificially increases with reports. Either you are playing at the asscrack of dawn or you a cancerous shitty player.

>>385258301
i never use the chat or even have a mic and i only play mccree and have a 70% winrate in qp and 60% in comp at rank 4250 and my wait times are sometimes up to 10 minutes

>>385258368
My penis is 10 inches as well m8

>>385248538
>all time low world of warcraft subscription numbers
according to what? nobody knows the numbers except blizzard

>>385250374
Early Cataclysm was unironically the last time the game was good

>>385258368
you know there are very little players in that rank? also people might be reporting you just for being salty that you have good aim

>>385258657
but this is for quickplay, and it doesn't even match me vs or with players at my rank. it just randomly takes several minutes longers than for others for some arbitrary reason

>>385258793
that just means that their system for high ranking players are shit. i can find games easily and have no problem with that.
overwatch certainly is not dying, and it will be around for a while. since blizz will never release concurrent player numbers unless the data fits their marketing, there is no point discussing it.

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Hearthstone probably makes more money from packs than all of their other games combined.
The company is on Candy Crushbux life support right now, but so is Activision.

Eventually that shit design philosophy will catch up to them.

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Could a remake of pic related save blizzard

>>385249225
>No one here gets out alive!
Perfection

The sheep think that these players leaving ow aren't being paid by pubg devs..... haha they are on contract.

>>385250374
Cata was the closest thing to a sequel to WoW that we ever got. Think about it, they redid the entire world so the leveling experience would feel fresh again. Where they fucked up was listening to whiny babies who couldn't handle the fun heroic dungeons, and making leveling too fast to actually enjoy all the content a zone has to offer.

>>385250374
>Blizzard's first sign of decline
>implying it wasn't WoW itself
they pretty much just became an MMO company at that point.

>>385259367
>A shitty clone of Prince of Persia
No.

>>385250164
I play on Xbox in Europe and I find a quickplay game in genuinely 4 seconds. It gives a random wait time but puts me in straight away every time. Ranked takes about 2 minutes on average in middle Diamond this season. If it's like this on Xbox it must be quicker on Pc. You must be cancer.

>>385260956
Was Flashback a Prince of Persia clone?
Was Another World a Prince of Persia cone?
Idiot.

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When they can't afford Blizzcon, I'll believe they're hurting.
Until then it's just bullshit.

>>385250374
actually got my tinge twinged.

>>385248538
>all time low world of warcraft subscription numbers
I seriously doubt they're lower than Vanilla/BC numbers.

"On the Blizzard side, [we need to] really be figuring out things like the StarCraft business model for the future, with in-game advertising and sponsorship, [which have] really not been something that has moved the dial for anybody in the videogame industry"

Yeah, for good fooking reason, it's a terrible idea to put paid advertisements in a product people pay for.

>>385261664
they are.

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I'm still waiting to see what these jokesters make.

>>385262173
It's the team that thought hearthstone was a fucking great idea, so good luck with that.

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>>385262309
>rob pardo oversees small group that create card collecting game for fun
>becomes super popular
>blizzkikes start figuring out how they can use it to maximize profits
>rob pardo leaves in disgust

i'm optimistic

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>>385261008
I too play, but on ps4. Can confirm that finding matches is masters last like 10 seconds

>>385252920
imo the hero power will be a life drain, he costs 10 mana so its balanced
the battlecry should be:
add all previously discarded cards to your deck, your discard cards no longer discard

>>385248740
Legion is worse than wotlk/tbc but better than (or at least on the same level) as cata (everything else is worse than that).

If you meant sub numbers its apparently slightly above the wod numbers.

>>385262620
Pardo left because they were fucking up WoD royally and wouldn't let him unfuck it.

>>385251370
By that logic every other studio is beaten too, why single out blizzard?

>>385262060
Any proof?

>>385262620
Read The Verge article about Bonfire. Pardo explicity says Hearthstone was something special and he wants to replicate games like it, along with a studio (((family))) (i.e. slave labor) culture.

>>385248740
>Hey everyone, Blizzard stopped making tons of money and is now making less than a ton!!! Blizzard is OVER!

>>385264058
I interpreted that he wanted to replicate the experience of making hearthstone, not hearthstone itself. He liked being able to actually work on the game, communicate ideas, and interact with fellow employees. Higher ups at bloated companies like blizzard have to just sit around and have meeting after meeting.

>>385250374
WotLK was when WoW started losing players, Cata was another mess that caused even more players to leave.