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I feel like wow died when the player base focused on meta gaming and you couldn't do raids unless you were X build for a certain class
I've given up on Blizzard long ago. Face it. Blizzard will never make bangers like Diablo 2 original and Lord of Destruction or Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne again. They are gone. Say what you will, but… Blizzard stopped caring the moment they realized they could do this.
Turtle wow new pvp server coming soon! fk blizzard
they better drop cata classic
diablo immortal is a far superior game. you actually interact with other players and build communities. it just cost so damn much thats all.
Gen X is a large part of the player base
Asmon talks shit about blizzard constantly but when he had the chance to let them have it when he interviewed ion hazzikostas he pussed out and rolled over like a big baby.
19:00 tbh gotta disagree there, there are so many people watching classic than retail because of the release of hardcore and wotlk icc patch. If retail brings its new patch, people gonna be watching retail, retail is just kinda dead rn because the patch is old
The Destiny 2 model works though. Only issue with it is sometimes the expansions are kinda ass but then you just wait for the next one or when they bundle the old shit. Ass in terms of lack of content for the price btw, I don't think I've played a bad destiny campaign or raid
people are watching hardcore because they want to see streamers die
i don't think just the battlepass can replace the income from the subscriptions+expansion sales they currently have, so that wouldn't make sense.
Oh I hate that diablo immortal is the only one that's doing good
3:51 The correct phrase is "Eat the cake and have it too", as in you ate the cake but still have it, otherwise it just means you have a cake and you eat it, which make no sense.
You forgot to mention the greatest failure of Blizzard: StarCraft.
Wow PR team convinced the entire playerbase that the "true endgame" was cosmetics and… guess what, Battle pass, skins, and etc. Whatever they can monetize, the entire idea was born from the fact that they realized that their players would legit pay a monthly sub to farm digital cosmetics skins on their character, instead of forcing them to give content instead of cosmetics.
The players who are willing to pay for a product that do not deliver quality, are not allowed to complain when said quality is not met.
You lost me at "no, it's because real gamers spend more." XD
Gamers want gameplay. They will spend money to avoid obnoxious gameplay, but will then spend 20 hours straight doing the same gameplay loop over and over because they enjoy it. (Or can tolerate it enough to get that epic drop finally)
Casual players, however, have a habit of spending money to skip ANY gameplay, obnoxious or fun, if it either allows them to gain an advantage or reach endgame sooner.
Which of these 2 groups is spending more entirely depends on how predatory the specific game was designed.
I disagree hard on the "difficult" aspect of WoW. I absolutely hate how easy classic is and am not playing it because of that, even if the overall game seems to be much better. Where's the fun in not having a challenge in the raids? I want to push myself, classic simply doesn't offer that.
Heyyyyy!!!! I am 45 and still care, thank you very much :-))) (my wife does hate it-you got that one right :))
WoW never had integrity. I never met a single person banned for buying gold from others, and I knew a lot of people that bought gold, way before wow token.
F2P is the death of almost every game and the worst business model to adopt.
Cheating and infinite accounts goes insanse with F2P garbage, I refuse to play anything that doesn't have a cost to entry.
Fake
Even though battlepass may be considered a definitive characteristic, it's meaning varies from game to game. When I first learned about it – it was a paid access to all future (potential) DLCs. Then I was surprised to know that in D4 it means something completely different, simillar to premium account model.
Fun fact: I am Argentine and Diablo 4 is more expensive than a month's rent in some provinces… BLIZZARD SACATE LA GORRA LOQUITA
Wanna fight Van Cleefe for that awesome loot? That'll be 15$ please
The wow token was a partially good thing because it eliminated the gold farmers. On the other hand it did remove a major sense of accomplishment for getting expensive items.
The WoW Guy in the current game only casting the spells the addon tells him to… that must be a pro-gamer.
Time to quit playing video games.
Hearthstone is at it s lowest because everyone learned that it's a FUCKING SCAM. Why would you play a game that has so much RNG in it? The guys who run that section of Blizzard admitted that they love RNG more than skill and I HATE that shit!
11 mins bros describing himself
I've been a gamer for decades, and a player of WoW 2 weeks into its original release. Used to buy all the Collectors Editions, boxed and digital. Since the decline of Blizzard I've stopped purchasing special edition products, and I've been far happier for it. More money in my wallet and less disappointment for having spent more on games that often do not pan out.
I highly encourage this for all my fellow gamers out there. We all deserve better.
Wow removes subscription and adds a battlepass… so a monthly subscription…
What a world we live in when you pay with your wallet to become powerful in a game… Not like we would enjoy playing games to save money and have something actually enjoyable that is not related to money… Leave it to this species to eliminate anything that doesn't involve throwing your money around.
Ya, the industry has totally compartmentalized classic game ethics. The new generations are completely blind to it and the industry has normalized it into them. The phone to these games, though some of them are indeed decent for what they are, Tiger versions of GOOD games. And they've made them more attractive, engaging, attemptedly profitable, and 2D within a 3D perception. Like taking Stephen King, giving an electronic chapbook equivalent tech and give you Goosebumps. Blizzard is dead. Won't buy D4
makes me think in a metaphoric way the industry did Steve Jobs thing to Woz. He took things into the proper to his mind business direction and the heart (Woz) began to die.
moder means moderate. WoW retail has more players than classic. I mean, who do you think retail does adress more? And which is the bigger playerbase? Hardcore classic is only popular on streams. Beside that, normal everyday joe has no interest in dying to murlocs.
normies can be long term, think about all the 30 year olds that have been play call of duty and warzone every year. its actually wild
16:40 I forgot who it was, but a developer showed evidence that having too many people working on a game often makes it worse, because people are spending too much time in meetings and not developing the game and also there's less accountability per person because each person has less responsibilities. I think he called it the "2 pizza approach", which is a guideline for deciding how many attendees should be invited to a meeting. Basically every meeting should be small enough that attendees could be fed with two large pizzas, and each department should only ever have that many members.
I wish I could find the link to the video…
Buying gold is what killed ultima online. It was never allowed, but it was such a huge widespread problem, they could not keep up. It threw the balance off. Ppl get annoyed to grind hours and someone all of a sudden have the best sword when there's no way
Wow needs to be free to play
Titles to play, both games that took quite a lot of joint work between larger devs or smaller indie devs (these are my personal recommendations): Baldur's Gate 3, Outcore, A Hat in Time, Tower Unite, Left 4 Dead 2, 4D Miner, Terraria.
Ignore all the larger, bullshit companies and if you do play their games, AT LEAST don't invest in those games with lots of in-game purchases that are free to play (Overwatch 2, VALORANT and many others come to mind)
To play WOW don't you have to pay monthly for the game? You should get access to all the content if you're paying monthly.
All lies and fake.
Blizzard has been trash since SC2 and they have just fed on the WoW money teat and decided to try to make every game a money stream. And again the best example is BG3. Larian crushed it, adamantly said not MTX, and have stuck to what they said. The main game devs, EA, Activision, Blizzard, the list goes on, even Valve is guilty with DotA, of seeing games and gamers as just a constant flow of money. And fuck me denuvo…..
well good thing this didn't happen
Just another reason why modern gaming is largely awful. In a given year, there's typically only somewhere around 2-4 games I truly look forward to anymore.
this was obviously fake
Return to work for certain jobs is stupid. Its just to inflate the real-estate market that is starting to bubble. All the rich corpos with investments in real estate are panicking because they have multiple houses, office spaces, and other real estate investments where if the market collapses they lose money. So either they lose money in real estate, or they start losing money to newer companies that aren't as invested in real estate and are based around work from home.
havnt given blizzard a dime in 10 years. play wow every day; just not their wow.
Bro can’t even write “shift” in tone, I don’t trust the source 😂