Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years

Post by nottorp » Thu, May 06, 2021, 10:27 AM UTC

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If the developers of the game ever actually played the game, and experienced /2 or /guild, what we wanted was 4chan/reddit with the pretty visuals of Dal in the background and an occasional puzzle/challenge. Instead the developers thought we wanted more to do (anyone wanna do dailies? lol), more pretty colored loot, and dungeon clears (without really "earning it"). My favorite moments (and most hours spent) in that g…

I think that’s the thing they missed - WoW in the end is a glorified IRC client and removing every excuse to actually chat beyond your normal group stagnates those groups and the community dies. A game like WoW shouldn’t be made so “everyone can do everything” either - sure it’s nice to see a raid but I never really felt the need - I had enough fun plugging along at my own pace.

Post by nottorp » Thu, May 06, 2021, 11:11 AM UTC

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From my point of view, Blizzard has been slowly going downhill for ages. Some whines in chronological order: WoW died for me when they introduced the random dungeon finder in Cataclysm and cut down the player-to-player interaction outside dungeons by 99%. Starcraft 2 ... might have been polished and all, but honestly I don't see much difference from Starcraft 1. Also, I don't like memorizing openings (either chess or…

God, yah, D3 really is an imbecile's game. It's _hard to fail_ at it, to the point that it's completely forgettable. I beat it once, and I tried playing it through again with a friend, and it was just so utterly dull that we shut it off out of frustration.

Post by taurath » Thu, May 06, 2021, 11:36 AM UTC

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Overwatch is a frustrating game to play because they almost have it right. It's almost there, if they could just tweak a couple things. A good example is the overtime system. One of the worst ideas in games I've run into. For one, it creates artificial and spiky emotions in players, which just burns people out. It's amazing they don't realize basic things like that, which means they actually haven't had the right tal…

I think you are touching on some interesting points, but don't go deep enough. (Just as a point of reference I played up until the hamster release) I would say that the core design of characters with cooldown skills and very powerful ultimates that need to be chain to team wipe opposition ARE the crux of why everything is impossible to do right in the Overwatch. I have played ladder for first few seasons and its esse…

Post by loosetypes » Thu, May 06, 2021, 11:55 AM UTC

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I’m excited to see life in the Diablo franchise after (personal opinion) the abomination that was Diablo 3. But I’ve really lost trust in the company and have a hard time imagining Diablo 4 being much better than Diablo 3. Diablo 2 Resurrected looks intriguing and seems to be going about things in the right way, involving the community, etc. but I believe it’s a contract job by a third party? I have a hard time imagi…

Am I the only person who really liked Diablo 3? I introduced my wife to it as her first game in the genre, and we’ve spent a lot of hours making team runs through hard dungeons. For sheer “let’s kill 300 things at once” endorphin hits, it’s great.

Post by FreshFries » Thu, May 06, 2021, 12:21 PM UTC

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> Not to mention they seem to hate flying yet keep creating terrible zones unless you can fly. Yes, this is just an ongoing disaster. My sense from their communications over the years is that, when players fly through zones, that hurts the feelings of the artists, which Blizzard doesn't like. > There aren't clear routes between common locations like roads in Skyrim. I actually really liked how roads were handled in o…

>Yes, this is just an ongoing disaster. My sense from their communications over the years is that, when players fly through zones, that hurts the feelings of the artists, which Blizzard doesn't like. Flying should never have been allowed in WoW, period. Beyond the whole issue of players skipping content in zones artists spend months building, the mechanism severely distorts gameplay. A player being able to hover, des…