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It's really not xD
The vibe in the games from 1996 – 2005 was something special..
I agree that the Diablo 3 real money auction house on its own wasnt a bad thing. But the reason it ruined the game for me was that they built the mechanics of the game around the auction house. To the point weapons never mattered. In D2, if you equip a sword, you can swing the sword at an enemy. If you equip a bow, you can shoot arrows at your enemy. In D3, it didnt matter what you equipped, you could only do your characters abilities. Because they didnt want to limit swords to only barbarians, they wanted everyone to use them so more people would engage with them on the auction house. Wizards could equip swords and bows, but could never actually use them, they only could cast their spells. And the stats would roll randomly so that all weapons could be useful for all characters. You wouldnt get things like two handed swords being geared towards melee fighters. You could just as likely as a wizard, be running around with a giant battle axe because it had the best intelligence stats.
If not for the auction house we could have had actual weapon attacks, and types of weapons actually meaning something.
People praise WoW that launched in 2004, but you should've been there to know there were TONS of bugs.
Well storing breast milk in your work refrigerator is weird as fuck anyway…
For a great content see Diablo: Development Hell by Indigo Gaming.
What the video fails to tell is that WOW wasn't their initial plan. The game was named Warcraft Adventures (if my memory is right), and it was a point an click adventure game with the main protagonist being Thrall. They had art and some footage as well. The abandoned the project 1 year later and WOW was born.
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The argument that the problem was not money-trading in D3 auction house is completely false, IMO. D2 was super obscure in 2012 and only played by looney die-hards. So if some people were peddling D2 runes for cash online in 2011, I'd say that's irrelevant. When D3 was released it was the return of Diablo as a franchise to mainstream gaming. Two things: Trading with money was outlandish and repulsive to most casual and hardcore gamers alike. Money mixed with gaming reeked of smoke-filled farming dens in the far east. Second: It emphasized so much focus on ITEMS that it ruined the branding of the Diablo franchise forever. Yes, the Diablo games are a lot about loot, but Diablo 3 said it loud and clear : "It's all about the loot and nothing else!". This is fine for the hardcore scene, but too bare-bones to capture the imagination of the mainstream player. It was part of what broke the magic and immersion found in D1 and D2, the same magic and immersion that is completely absent in D3 and D4. ""Take heed and bear witness to the truths that lie herein, for they are the last legacy of the Horadrim…"
Microsoft buy activision and blizard didnt help at all. I thought microsoft will make blizzard and activision better
WTF that's an Jules video just turned into english
need for speed underground graphics hit like a freight train.
also, "that's why diablo 3 sold so many copies, not why it was so "big"… it wasn't big, it was trash on release and remained that way for 2 years. everybody hated it.
the real money auction house fucked the game in the same way they bloat single-player games now to encourage the buying of progression. they made drops so bad that you HAD to buy off the real money AH. it was 100% damaging to the game. the game was designed around the real money auction house. with people selling d2 items the game already existed without it. so teh game was not balanced around those sales.
you're very wrong on this one
mists was china based and rode the coattails of kung fu panda.
WoD had too much hype with those shorts about the warlords but the game itself sucked.
china game made by china for china, sold by blizzard.
Get woke. Go broke.
no, blizzard is not worse than I thought
In short: Bobby happens
I am getting old. 2010 feels like yesterday
blizzard eventually will be dissolved into other microsoft studios. microsoft has so many issues with their existing studios that are producing junk. projects that are in twilight for years. they won't put up with blizzard for long.
Blizzard should be a case study in economics for how NOT to run a business!! In one year from now no one will play Diablo anymore if they keep it that way. Mind my words, especially when PoE2 comes out, RIP Diablo and Blizzard! They asked for it, they got it!
I recently decided to give wow another shot after not playing this whole xpac. Feels like a waste of 15$ tbh.
A video called Blizz is worse than you think shouldn't start with a long history about the company. Just cut to the chase!
I love asmon, though his takes on MOP are something I will forever disagree with.
Wow, he copied jules like me a wiki page for my essay. Except its worse, less fun, less emotional. Well just like Warcraft 3 reforged.
Blizzard, Ubisoft… companies that will never receive my money again
(That’s how you apply chance)
24:42 Such a bad take… last tier of WoD was raided by 3 times more guilds than last tier of shadowlands… this is common knowledge that you can check on wowprogress
I started thinking Blizzard is shit since they released Cataclysm/Legacy of the Void. After that I failed to see anything good from what they do.
Asmongolds transformative content for this video is him saying: “yep” “jeeeesus!” Or reflecting on how big the game most of us played was. Being a streamer is hard work don’t forget it. Hasan was right.
I bought warcraft 3 for the custom maps
The title of the OG video is so misleading but if it was properly titled "A history of Blizzard Entertainment" it wouldn't even get half the views.
I wonder why the "free Hon Kong" drama was left out
Everquest 2 had better graphics for the time
wow battleground is dead not gonna play.
I never got into wow, because as a child i didnt want to spend money every Month on the same game. I tried it out a few years ago but i guess it is something you have to grow up with or have smb lead you in to. I really hope the riot mmorpg is good.
Only came here to get the original link
d2jsp isnt real money trading…
if a company bends back on China, my respect for that company goes from 100% to -100%
I remember the day I started playing wow, I was against it hard.
I was a diehard Diablo fan, and went to play Diablo 2 with my then gf and one of my best friends (who I met through d2). I flipped my shit and left when I saw them playing WoW at the lab cafe as if they were both cheating on me in front of everyone there. It was just after the launch of BC. My GF told me she already bought me the game and xpac and they said to come back and play with them.
I played that game so damn much I wish they had just introduced me to crack instead.
I loved it. I was into the raiding scene as a healer and loved the hell out of it. I was in a hardcore raiding guild for a bit as well until about 5.5 yrs ago when my daughter was born, and I have only had time to play WoW classic when the bc portion came out to lvl my old druid again to relive the feel. I wish I could have raided again then too, but, sadly, dad life won't allow for it.
I still miss WoW and all the fun times and friendships that game has started and ended. I just wish I had the free time to play the shadowlands because of how much praise it has gotten. I'd have to raid with the Aussies instead of having Aussies raid with us haha