This is the biggest piece of shit company that ever existed.

Valve is pretty greasy, Nintendo is getting there too. However, Blizzard wins by default on account of having once had such an unbelievably high standard of quality and sinking so fucking low.

>>387314593
Yes, so?

>>387314593
Agreed

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>>387314752
No, EA is still worse. Mostly because they've broken more quality studios. All the EA victims combined are worth a lot more than Blizzard at prime.

They managed to put a price tag on a game they are giving away for free.

>>387314593
Activision bought Blizzard a long time ago

>>387314593
I'm really not sure what to think about Blizzard. On one hand, they are absolute megajews. On the other, their games have extremely high levels of polish and a shitload of different content.

EA is so much worse

>>387314593
That's not Nintendo.

blizzard did nothing wrong

Their games are only good because of the serotonin reward you get from the RNG.

>>387314593
they're bad but nowhere near as bad as ubisoft, EA or warner brothers. At least blizzard still makes good games

>>387314593
These are the rich liberals whos bank accounts you pad when you buy their games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEI9OazzZpg&feature=youtu.be

Went from Number 1 to Utter trash shill company, you can pretty clearly see the degrading after the Activision infusion with Blizzard. They literally do NOTHING for years and get massive money, it's like they are on welfare except they shit out some casual game that can be made in 5 months and then get the most cash the gaming industry have ever seen.....
The only true gaming company left is Valve.

>>387314593
I used to be a blizzdrone, now I see them for what they are.

The enemy of gamers.

I've spent close to $10k on Blizzard games, products, collectibles, micro transactions, etc.

Feels good seeing the poorfags itt whine.

>>387315780
>The only true gaming company left is Valve.

It's not 2011 anymore

>>387315881
That's nice Timmy, but me and daddy told you not to play with our credit card.

>>387315956
That's nice poorfag, but I have more money than your entire family tree.

>>387315694
>blizzard still makes good games
umm...

>>387316009
Doubt it, infidel, I am son of sheikh.

>>387315780
Valve is trash too

The best studios are Larian and CDPR

>>387314593
They were fine pre-activision merger.
One more reason game companies should be required to change their names when enough of the original staff are removed or changed beyond reasonable levels, such as mergers. Would do a number of bioware as well.

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>>387314593
yep.
but at the very least their customer support is really good.

About to pick up some McDonald's for breakfast, anyone have some suggestions?

>>387314593
>not sony
>not konami
>not capcom
>not valve
>not ea
uhhhhh

>>387316021
as much as /v/ likes to pretend otherwise a lot of people loved hearthstone and overwatch and are still playing long after release

>>387315881
Some blue haired liberal bought a nice swimming pool from your money.

>>387314593
im no fan of blizzard but you are living in a happy little bubble if blizz is the worst scum to you

>>387316150
just 4 bacon egg mcmuffins please

>music, film and video game industries have all gone to absolute shit since the turn of the millennia
What went wrong?

>>387314593
Agreed.
I've never actually genuinely enjoyed a Blizzard game.

>>387316507
Video games became a serious source of profit rather than work of people who love video games. Watch Dead Rising 4 interviews, the developers refer to it as a "product for customers"

>>387316198
so by your definiton candy crush is good?

>>387314593
Blizzard was okay until Activision came around.

>>387315593
Nah, EA used to be GOAT back in the day.
Blizzard has always been shit from the very beginning.
You must be 18+ to post here btw.

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>>387314593
OP here, accidentally posted the wrong image.

>>387316507
Greed

>>387316507
Small studio's turned into large multi-milion dollar corporations. Then there's also market expansion and your typical Jewery.

>>387316626
EA shilling in 2017 even Ubi is better

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>>387316507
>yfw Just Bieber is hailed as the next Michael Jackson and Rihanna as the next Aretha Franklin

>>387316856
>>387316507
On the other hand, Hollywood is shitting pants hard

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I can't think of an MMO that I'd ever be ok with playing for a decade other than WoW, I also find HotS to be the only MOBA other than Smite that I can play forever without getting pissed or bored. I've only ever been to one Blizzcon but it was the coolest convention I've ever been to and I know its something that most people don't even notice but they are so kind to the handicapped there it's insane. I think a lot of the hate they get is just narcissism of small differences.

>>387316909
Hollywood only shits out reboots of old IP's for easy cash grabs and they steal foreign films and make a Burger version out of it.
Fuck Hollywood and the Jews that run it.

>>387316768
>hur durr shill
Where am I shilling, nigger.
I said they were great back in the day and have the track record to prove so. They obviously suck monkey balls these days you retard.

>>387314593

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFKnv1YzI3k

Fuck all of them.

>>387316150
Quarter pounder with extra cheese or bust

>>387316142
>sat on Dungeon Keeper for years
>brought it back as freemium bullshit
>"We innovated too much."
I didn't think EA could make me not like them more than I already did, but they found a way.

>>387314593
I'd say their parent company Activation deserves your hate,

>>387317147
This is why piracy and theft from corporations in general is morally right.

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>>387317763
And the chinese jews are behind it all

>>387317909
I have no idea how can Chinese be such a fucking subhumans, they're souless, have zero creativity, they're fucking human waste for real. They came up with sick inventions like gunpower and nowadays they're just copying whatever makes them money.

>>387317909
This explains why there is so much chinese cultural propaganda in games now.
>Overwatch Chinese won the space race, chinese new years event
>HotS Chinese new Year
>WoW MoP
I wonder if hi-rez is owned by them too. A quarter of the characters in their latest game are chinese themed even the whites ones.

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>>387314593
Blizzard is like a best friend who stabbed you in the back. I held them in really high regard for years. Their "it's done when it's done" attitude towards releases to ensure quality was one I could get behind, and it paid off. They had a nearly flawless record of consistent top tier games. Seeing the care they put in WoW with the frequent patches convinced me to invest heavily into that game. I was certain they wouldn't fuck it up.

Looking back, I can't believe the piece of shit WoW has become. I sunk years into that game, playing from vanilla to cataclysm. I have so much in that game, but it's no longer the game I want anything in. None of it matters because it's a game I can't enjoy.

>>387314840
The sad thing is that is maybe 1/3 of full post. EA just cretaes games to farm money. Or create half a game, give it 200% tag and shill it on /v every time

Well, blizzard uses paid shills/marketers too. But i can expect some quality even from newest blizz games. lets compare buying wow + legion vs star wars battlefront. In first, i get rpg with content created over 15 years. From second, i got overpriced shit in SW universe that died 2 months after release

Anyway, blizz jews money from everything. But its just a lesser evil compared to fucked up EA

>>387317909
This is what Trump was saying about the chinese stealing intellectual property.

>>387317116
>EA
>good games

They never produced anything good themselfs. All good titles were produced by other companies owned by EA and later butchered after serious money milking

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>>387318010
>gunpowder
Dont remind me of what this world could have been like without it.

>>387317909
Christ, how much of a better place the world would be if China and the chinese just disappeared?

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>>387314593
>>387314593
>>387314593
It was good before the merger.

Activision and Bobby Kotick the Happy Merchant are to blame.

/thread.

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>>387316198
>and are still playing long after release

Apart from my picture response I'd also like to remind you that Blizzard refuses to release stats on current active users, and you can't say with any sort of confidence that "a lot of people are still playing".

>>387319064
>Bobby Kotick
That's Sseth Tzentaach

>>387316198

It's more impressive that not only is Diablo 1 multiplayer still available since fucking 1997 (that's 20 years) but it still has around 100 players at any given time.

>>387318010
Communism doesn't help either. You get subhumans and then you add a soulless ideology.

>>387319269
Old blizzard games are timeless.

>>387319220
I vaguely remember that name as a guy who makes league of legends youtube videos with gay porn snippets in them which I didn't really find funny, but if you're being serious, it's Bobby Kotick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick

Bobby "Games should be more expensive" Kotick

Bobby "We want to take the fun out of making video games" Kotick

Bobby "We want to create a culture of fear in the industry" Kotick

THESE ARE REAL QUOTES

>>387319192
I was on board until you brought up Starcraft. Starcraft is absolutely a competitive game.

>>387319465
It's not me in the screencap and I don't fully agree with it either, Starcraft BW is a great game

>>387319465
I think his general point is just that Blizzard's thing is creating Skinner boxes

Diablo 3 keeps you playing with the hope of loot
Starcraft 2 keeps gooks playing with the hope of fame
Overwatch keeps retards playing with the hope of fame
WoW keeps people playing because they're trapped in that classic "small reward makes you endure hours of grindan" loop

etc

>>387319437
Typical corporate kike ruining the industry, the culling is coming.

>>387316507
When producers of media operate in a capitalist environment this naturally warps the incentive to create a good product into an incentive to create profit. This makes these pieces of media turn to shit

>>387320081
as opposed to the communist environment, where little to no media is created at all other than state propaganda

>>387319662

It's probably for the best, but I can never get addicted to this stuff in that way. I even preordered World of Warcraft and went to the midnight launch and I gave up the game after 2 weeks. I mean why would you subject yourself to all that and then pay monthly for "grindy" content?

I enjoyed Diablo 1-3, but I was never doing magic find runs or hunting for Stones of Jordan or whatever. Just go through the game, alone or with bros, use what items you get but don't obsess about it, move on to higher difficulty etc. Diablo 3 is almost too polished and its like it lacks a soul. Of course it hits you over the head with metagame loop treadmill bullshit too instead of just letting you enjoy the content.

I really liked Diablo 1's thick oppressive atmosphere. It was almost a horror game instead of a hack and slash RPG. Combat had a lot of weight to it and it didn't really have a "run this segment 50 times to get a dank purp" deal going on.

Do people really play video games obsessively with the hope of fame? That's really depressing too me. I play games for a two reasons, for unique experiences (as much as /v/ would like to say otherwise Hellblade definitely delivered here) and competition, which is why I like Starcraft.

I forgot what point I was making, I have ingested some plants (dude) but I hope you enjoyed my blog.

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>>387314593
Anyone else experiencing spontaneous pc crashes with blizzard games? Literally no clue why it happens, but HotS especially seems to have decided to do that during the loading screen despite it being fine for months
WoW did the same thing for me whenever the screen was fille with particle effects. ONLY Blizzard games do this

>>387320838
chinese botnet

>>387320702
A well-written and on topic blog I'll give you that
did you post about diablo 1 earlier today in a vidya music thread

>>387316507
Your attitude went into the gutter
Work on yourself, and maybe you'll be able to enjoy vidya again

>>387317909
You guys sure tencent owns activision blizzard?

>>387320895
what does that even mean in that context

>>387320936
I haven't seen any music threads on here in awhile. You've got me curious though, what about Diablo 1's sound? Because I do enjoy it.

>>387320995
not him but they are definitely the owners of Riot and major shareholders in ActiBlizz

>>387320838
Blizzard games are the only games that cause hardware failure ive ever encountered. Its not just one of them but all their new games do it. Their programmers are so shit.

>>387321074
just the start menu music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpDYjywb7-A
anyway nice talking to you anon

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>>387321096
Man I thought I was crazy. Thanks, at least I'm not alone in this.
However there doesn't seem to be ANY solution to this. Its infuriating, not only is it probably trashing my pc in the long run, I couldn't raid without lowest settings in WoW either and I'm already lapping up penalties in HotS aswell.

>>387314593
Bet you still play their games on release date.

>>387314593
They just released scr and wc3r is on the way, so I can't hate them as much anymore. I still hate all of their games released after wol though.

>>387321205
They dont even acknowledge it. Ive had to rebuild at least one pc from this shit. Happened on multiple pcs and just about all of their new games and wow.

>>387321205
Checkyour RAM my friend
If you're using Windows 10 you should also check out your hard drive with the OS on it, because windows 10 likes to fry them

>>387319662
>Overwatch keeps retards playing with the hope of fame
what? overwatch esports is completely dead, did you mean new limited lootboxes every month?

>>387321217
I have never played a Blizzard game long-term in my life, played Overwatch, WoW like 2 hours and like 30 minutes of Diablo 2.

>>387316507

Marketing departments, shareholders, and, investors gained an overweight of influence.

Games aren't being conceived by developers. They're getting engineered and framed by businessmen.

>>387317147

This deserves more attention. These companies gross excessive sums of revenue and store it across the border in foreign tax havens.

>>387321524
>Checkyour RAM my friend
explain
I have 8 GB of RAM according to windows
>If you're using Windows 10
I'm on W7

>>387315694

Name a good game theyve released in the past 10 years. At LEAST

>>387321787
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

>>387320995
>>387321082
they own about 12% of the investor shares of activision blizzard but they're passive investors which means they literally have no say in what activision blizzard does.

So it's goofy to think they're behind what blizzard is doing.

>>387321946

Nigger thats an expac. Not a game. You realize majority of the content in TBC was already in the main game just simply not finished?

>>387314593
>This is the biggest piece of shit company that ever existed
YET

>>387322120
ok I concede

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>>387321787
Hearthstone
Overwatch
Starcraft 2, all of them
Diablo 3
Heroes of the Storm

>lol but ur wrong

>>387321715
Defective RAM can cause these kind of crashes

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>>387321787
all of them.

wow, that was easy

>>387322631
Huh, could be possible. My PC is quite old now and the RAM has been around since the start I think, while I've already switched out other parts.
Then again, most of the symptoms don't seem to apply. Can I use a program to test my RAM functionality?
Also, a bit random, but; one of the most odd defects I have is that sometimes my windows won't actually shut down, but instead enter standby mode after failing to shut down in 30 minutes (my standby timer). Could that have to do with RAM or is that a corrupt Windows?

>>387314840
>this makes me so angry to read

>>387316626
lmao clown

>>387320838
>>387321096
>>387321205
works on my machine samefag

>>387322046
But 12% sure is a big percentage

>>387314593
Now? yes.

Blizzard during 1998~2005 was great though.

I never played Blizzard games till I quit TF2 for OW.

A year later I hate Blizzard even more than Valve. At least Valve keeps consistency with their game balance instead of breaking shit on a bi-monthly basis just to keep the players interested.

>>387324313
>he fell for the marketing jew
good job retard

>>387324449

Yeah well when you put up with how Valve treats CSGO and TF2 for the past 4 years you get desperate.

>>387324313
Stop getting mad at videogames

>>387321096
>Giant AAA company misses huge gamebreaking bugs
>Instead of getting of their ass and fixing them they just ban anyone for using them.

>>387316972
here's your (you) now go away

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>>387315649
>blizzard did nothing wrong
Of course they did, just a few days ago. Company will go to shit really soon, just look at Goolag.
This is why they booted Rob Pardo and why Metzen left.

>>387328056
Because we know how it turns out when women make a video game.

Mass Effect Andromeda was ahead of it's time.

>>387328056
Metzen left because he's in his 40's and is a millionaire able to retire comfy. You can only be a cokefiend for so long before you want to settle down with your family.

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>>387314593
You either die as a hero...

>spergs would rather whine about nintendo making amiibos, valve making vr games, blizz making overwatch, and ea making more mass effects than banks/megachains/governments literally fucking millions of people over

show of hands who thinks of themselves as privileged?

>>387314593
>me wanting to play overwatch after months of not playing
>go in qp
>pick hanzo because I like flickshotting with him
>other people choose genji and widow, no healer
>thats ok its qp
>"give me hanzo pls"
>i'll switch off mid way through
>"GIVE ME HANZO YOU DICK YOU SUCK WITH HIM OH MY GOD IM REPORTING YOU FOR THROWING"
>exit game
Mistake

>>387328748
I disagree. That man lives more inside his head than outside. He was 110% dedicated to the company. They even said that when he left, the soul of the company left with him. They made him a statue too.
It's true that he's very rich now but i don't think he quit because he could. There was something else eating at him.

Ex blizzard employee amaa

>>387316150
1 sausage+egg mcgriddle
1 sausage burrito
hashbrowns

>>387329225
>There was something else eating at him.

Yea, all the panic attacks from the stress of being the face for a multi million conglomerate and having a new child. Dude worked there since he was barely 20, he got burnt out.

Tencent also now owns 13% of blizzard which is why they started to do stuff like loot boxes in Overwatch. It will only get worse and worse at this point

>>387316507
Jews, not even a polfaggot but still jews with their greed ruin everything, devs and artist are not allowed to be autistic as fuck

>>387329453
He's also obscenely rich, when overwatch launched, the game directors each got multi million dollar bonuses, and he was the VP/exec in charge of the game, I wouldn't be surprised if his bonus was 15-20m

>>387316626
All your shit is ass backwards and you're probably a massive faggot. Go kill yourself

>>387329168
Seriously though, why the fuck is there so much rage/ throwers in overwatch? I say this as a csgo player as well, so I've seen my fair share of rage, but overwatch is just on another level and I can't understand it

>>387331359
>baaah they insulted my Jaina and Mercy waifu :( original and developed characters!

It's actually jarring how much worse Blizzard became after the Activision merger

World of Warcraft went to shit almost immediately and all their other games since have been casualized cash grabs

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>>387316507
>music
With Michael Jackson and Madonna, the industry realized that they can produce lower quality music that sells incredibly well if the face for the music is well-received by women and blacks. 90's was a slight hiccup in this plan, but they have been steadily on track for over 20 years now.

>film
Budgets have been through the roof for a good while now. This means that directors are given way less chances and freedom to experiment. The same target group thinking that wreaks havoc in music industry also exists here in form of pandering to chinese and black people.

>games
Budget explosion and meddling suits have caused middle-sized developers to mostly disappear. Retail chains also had a lot to do with this ten years ago when they had more power: they pretty much forced everyone to get a blood-sucking publisher like EA, Activision and Ubisoft. Thankfully indies have gained some traction, but I feel they haven't had enough time to develop into more mature companies.

>>387316626
>back in the day
No such thing exists dear shill (because I believe you can't be this retarded). EA has been actual malevolent company from the start.

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>>387322490
>Hearhstone
Because my entire vidya library is virtual card games. Or is it Blizzard titles? Sorry, I might have mixed myself up with you.
>Overwatch
You mean poor FPS mechanics, skinner box, no skill, bland character boogaloo?
>Starcraft 2, all of them
The people that still play it agree with you! Both of them, in fact.
>Diablo 3
Lol, that's not Diablo 2. I thought this was supposed to be at least mediocre games.
>Heroes of the Storm
>Assfaggots. Ever. See pic related.

>>387333054
You're trying way too hard to fit in

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>>387333150
Pardon me? I thought we were on /v/. Nobody fits in, that's the point.
Here, take a shutdown image for whenever questions you when you call Overwatch shit.

>>387331935
>film
I don't think the problem is the freedom of experiment. The attention shift of audience is where the problem at. Most people won't spend their time in theater now and most likely subscribe Netflix or something else for the same kind of entertainment.

Hollywood at the brink of creativity bankrupt because the top ten box office films in recent years are reboot, sequel or capeshit.

They need to spend more money to advertise and encourage their audience to go to cinema for bucks.

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Old Blizzard, good Blizzard, is long gone.

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>>387333054
>Loot box
>You wanna buy shit? Sure, here pay us money we will give you some boxes that you can open, things you want may or may not show up at all.
>I can buy it with in-game currency.
>The only way you can earn those is loot boxes.

Loot box is the most fuckery I can think of Blizzard have done in years.

I thought diablo 3 was boring.

I hated legion, it was the first time coming back since wrath of the lich king, liked leveling up but the end game was BORING and world quests were GAY.

I don't like RTS anymore, it's not 1998.

I hate overwatch because I hate the genre. hate TF2 even more.

Diablo 1/Diablo 2 were my favorite games desu. I also liked starcraft once upon a time. WoW TBC was my life for that entire expansion. I lost my gf who would have married me, because of WoW and no regrets.

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>mfw my mate has bought 200 pounds worth of lootboxes for overwatch

>>387333328
what is this trying to prove?

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>>387333917
How objectively, inarguably bad the level design in Overwatch is, how incompetent the design team for Overwatch is, and how terrible of a game it is.
It's not trying to prove it, by the way. It's proof, not evidence.

>>387333623
>good Blizzard
Blizzard was never good.

WoW is exactly the same thing as Overwatch is to FPS today, a casualized cartoony games aimed toward kids.

Hey guys, I found the /v/ echo-chamber thread!

Sheesh, bronze league must be tough.

>>387317283
Shit, nigga, what part of the world do I have to move to where I can get the lunch/dinner menu during breakfast hours?

>>387334296
>implying anyone ITT plays Overwatch
sad, your life must be tough if you play Blizzard games :(

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>Reminder that Blizzard had the biggest quarterly online player community in its history with a record 46 million MAUs, up 38% year-over-year. MAUs have doubled since early 2015.
>Reminder that Blizzard had all-time record DAUs
>Reminder that The Overwatch community continued to grow more than a year after launch, setting another all-time MAUB record with the release of two seasonal events in the quarter
>Reminder that Hearthstone MAUs grew year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter to an all-time record, driven by its expansion, Journey to Un'Goro
>Reminder that World of Warcraft time spent grew year over year, and Legion continues to outperform the prior expansion.
>Reminder that Blizzard plans to release another large content drop this quarter, with more details at Gamescom.
>Reminder that There are multiple dedicated incubation teams working on new games, experiences, or IPs being lead by some of the most experienced game designers at Blizzard. The company is thinking about different platforms, especially mobile.

>>387333780
So? I spent thousands of dollars on league of legends. It's a hell of a drug. Kind of like gambling. For example, I spent months buying loot boxes till I finally had enough gems for hextech annie.

>>387334114
It's a design doc
in practice the maps are fine

>>387333667
But there is nothing gameplay affecting in those boxes, right? It's just costumes and voice lines and all that vanity shit, right?

This thread should be permanently stickied
It's the quintessential /v/ contrarian experience

People itt actually pretending blizzard isn't/wasn't one of, if not, the greatest gaming company of all time

>>387317909
>Chinese
Rape mutts are not real chinese. Not that being real Chinese is anything worth a damn. Real chinese people have been subjugated most of history.

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>>387334423
Who cares? They still make shitty games for normies and casuals.

>>387314593
Blizzard are the western Nintendo.
They have their own private platform, they try different styles for their games, they have a very passionate fanbase, they make buckets of money even with their least successful projects and, most importantly, they are hated by jealous people because of the previous reasons.

>>387335102
>has excellent tastes in games
>listing games would be too subjective

another pretentious chart 2deep4u made by basement dweller who felt really smart at the moment

>>387317909
>tencent is tricking chinese youth into thinking westerners are copying tencent

absolutely no one believes that, in fact, there's a reason rich chinese people avoid chinese products and prefer foreign products. its because people know they're cheap knock offs

>>387335440
Oh, and, other companies constantly copy their ideas.

>>387335648
Blizzard's whole existence is born from plagiarism.

>>387335648
>lootboxes are not in every new release
>including fucking singleplayer

>>387335102
>stop liking what i don't like

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>>387335648
>Oh, and, other companies constantly copy their ideas.

>>387335756
Didn't Valve popularize the lootbox shit?

>>387335102
Where is the nintendofag section?

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>>387334490
>fine
Do you call a Loop so fucking base that when you are forced into a choke, that the choke is entire game?
You cannot advance, you cannot attack without being in a comp. Oh look, single player no longer works. That's fine though because it's Blizzard, it's like nobody plays multiplayer games by themselves, and you see nobody relying on team-mates. Although, that's why Call of Duty is popular, btw. Because they have a progression system/gameplay loop which rewards person(s) choosing single player as opposed to punishing them relentlessly for daring to attack when the rest of the team isn't advancing.
If a core loop is that bad, how can it not affect the game?
How bad must the level design be if you cannot possibly affect this type of gameplay through user action?
The only other loop in the game is hilarious as well. 30 second downtimes by walking from spawn to objectives in games ranging from 5 to 10 minutes. So for every 2 deaths, you lose 10% of the game. Trying dying 4-7 times like the majority of players every single game. Between 35% and 20% of each game. Then for some players, 10+. congrats fucko, you played less than half of the entire game actually doing something interesting. To do nothing except run back to the objective. Wow, how incredibly well designed, I love having to experience experiencing the same level design all over again, I love how bored of it I have gotten. Sorry, if you can't do something basic like actually balancing your downtimes/respawn time, which is something that Blizzard managed to overlook. Incredible. Now consider that it takes games such as Quake, Call of Duty, Doom deathmatch, or anything with multiplayer, it will take you pretty much at most 10 seconds to reach uptime, where you're playing the game again. They did it correctly.
Then you've got ultimates killing you left right and centre, because they're 'ultimates', potentially something you can spawn with. 10/10.

Good troll senpai, pick a better game next time.

>>387315753
What the fuck is the point of this video besides to masturbate their own egos?

>>387318792
Even if they hadn't invented it for fireworks first, White folks would still have invented it for subjugating fuzzy wuzzies eventually.

>>387316856
Weeknd will be next mj

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>>387317909
>>387318010
>China
Let's get this shit started.

>>387337523
>>387333328
wow you really are trying too hard

Anyway Overwatch has some serious problems but your criticisms are kind of off the mark.

>>387314752
>thread shitting on blizzard
>first reply is about valve
everytime

>>387314593
Blizzard made some of the best games of all times and was great.
Acti-Blizzard on the other hand is EA inside the carved out skin of Blizzard's body.

>>387322490
None of those games stood up to any scrutiny at all. They may be fun but they're certainly not good games. Kinda how I really like playing quake 4 for God knows why

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>>387314593
Reminder

>>387319192
>asymmetrical games can't be competitive

>>387314593
It was good before the merger.
sc1
d2
war3
then merger and wow, d3, hots, ow
straight garbage.

>>387334958
Those are the only contents that valuable in this game tho.

>>387338337
To advertise the location of where they work so they can entice talent to come work with them? Why else would they even mention the schools

>>387315753
As opposed to filling the bank accounts of the rich ultra conservatives when buying something else?

>>387318424
This is true.
Even Diablo 3 that was watered down bullshit had a great game feeling.

>>387320702
The reward loops are just way more vicious nowadays.
You might be immune to them but many people aren't. Actually those people made blizzard millions of dollars.

You chucklefucks change your mind every week. One week EA is the big bad wolf, then ubisoft, then capcom, then activision, then nintendo, then sony, then valve, now it's blizzard? They're nowhere near as bad as the other publishers listed. Blizzard's main flaw is that they listen to their fans too much which causes poor balancing. That's honestly not the worst issue they could have.

>>387338803

Jewish people are probably the rudest pieces of shit you interact with while doing business, with Chinese (from China) being pretty bad too, but I don't let that affect my perception of them outside of work.

>inspector fucked up with checking the factory
>China's fault

>somehow taking responsibility for paying for their fuckups and shipping despite them most LIKELY being the unreliable party in the relationship in exporting
>not stipulating that they should be responsible from the beginning

If you're a sucker, you're going to be played like one. Majority of those anecdotes are avoidable and even so, it isn't that hard to check the reputation of a company. Especially with smaller ones, you should be wary.

OP that's not EA you posted

>>387314593
Blizzard have mastered the art of creating digital crack long ago.
There was a time where I bought all their games because I knew they would be good.

That feeling was almost gone when i saw that the auction house destroyed D3. They did what no other dev would tho and removed it from the game, which was a massive service to gamers. Bethesda would just watch the franchise burn and blame toxic superfans.

I hope blizzard recovers and becomes good again. Their freemium games are cancer.

>>387314752
>nintendo

why do you say that? the switch is great so far and there is nothing but good things ahead currently. they still care about fun and quality more than most triple A shitheads (although the amiibo stuff is absolute shit)

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>>387314593
>being this mad that Blizzard made a game more successful than his favorite piece of shit game

>>387343687
>mfw steamfags will never stop being butthurt at being badblizzard
They may be megajew, wow may be decayed, ow may have the worst maps of all time, but blizz always wins baby.

>>387317909
Tencent owns almost all of Riot Game while only owning 12% of Activision Blizzard, leaving 88% of the control in other hands. Acting like they are the same thing is frankly retarded.

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>>387342626
Ninetndo is fucking cancer incarnate.

They threw a cease and desist at Project M.
They made a better game than nintendo has ever made.
If this was any other company they would have hired theese people but Nintendo, being the stagnant gooks that they are, they just shut that shit down.

Nintendo also banned Melee to ever stream on twitch. They only reversed the ban cause of huge backlash. I mean, why would they ban thei own game from twitch?

Nintendo does not care about fun. It's nu-fun. Their games has no depth, they are as shallow as they get. The lowest skill ceiling next to fucking FIFA.
Im not saying casual games are bad. I'm just saying that they make casual games and then they lower the skillceiling on purpose as to make everyone get the chance to win.

>>387314593
Nah, that title still goes to Microsoft, followed by EA and Bethesda, for transforming every other major AAA company into the nickel-and-dime factories they are today.

Valve gets an honorable mention for biggest fall from grace ever witnessed.

>>387314593
>Once a high quality game
>invtented an mmo that prints money
>vivendi and activision buy them out, turn them into their personal money printing press
>blizzard is so rich they buy their freedom
>they remember the lessons taught to them by papa vivendi
>still use those practices today to buy golden swimming pools for everyone
Theyre a piece of shit but they know how to be a business and manipulated their stupid audience

>>387344387
game company*

>>387314593
what hurts the most is Blizz' BETRAYAL

>>387339274
It's because a lot of people jumped ship from DOTA 2

>>387314593
I am unironically enjoying Diablo 3.

>>387316602
People use this strawman a lot, but no one can ever explain why Candy Crush is bad. Or is it just a case of
>My opinion > your opinion?

I'm bored and want to get back into WoW.

I quit early MoP Launch since school didn't let me have time for this game anymore.

I'm a casual scrub so high end raiding isn't gonna be a big deal to me.

>>387345025
Okay, let me give you something easier.
Do you like McDonalds?

>>387314593
>enjoyed warcraft 2
>enjoyed diablo
>enjoyed starcraft
>enjoyed diablo 2
>enjoyed warcraft 3 before mapbots took over
>enjoyed 4 years of WoW before moving on to TERA
>enjoy hearthstone
>enjoy overwatch
why though
been playing with the same mates since highschool and their shits still decent
D3 was ok but expectations were really high because of hype

>>387345426
I only dislike them because WC4 isn't a thing and the existence of Overwatch.
But I know they will never forgive themselves over what became of DotA, so WC4 is out of the picture.

>>387334457
>So? I spent thousands of dollars on league of legends.
You gave thousands of dollars to feminists and Chinese. Kill yourself.

>>387346041
its no longer cool to be /pol/ anon-kun

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>>387314593
>S&S/Blizzard pre 2004
>Creative people in control pushing quality. Jews kept in the accounting room.
>Blizzard 2004+
>Creative people pushed out in favor of quicker $$$, Jews take control and hand Vivendi then Activision the helm
I WONDER WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED?

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>>387314593
>Activision acquires Blizzard one month before WotLK release
>The expansion effectively finished, their claws don't dig in until ultra late WotLK and Cata dev time
>Free Falls from there to this day

Think about it, literally everything people griped about came post Activision. It's possibly the best real world example corporate take over into downfall of quality.

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>>387335775
They do. Blizzard released HS and now everyone and their mother want to create a TCG. Even valved jumped on the bandwagon with their DotA hearthstone knockoff.

Same thing when WoW became huge and everyone tried to copy them.
Same thing when their first RTS games became huge ("huge" at the time anyways) and everyone tried to copy them.
Same thing when D2 became huge and everyone tried to make diablo clones back in early 2000s
Same thing now with a bunch of people trying to make Overwatch knockoffs.