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Today, we learn how Blizzard fell apart, shedding new light on how their largest failures happened.
Jason’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Play-Nice-Future-Blizzard-Entertainment/dp/1538725428
00:00 New Details Emerge
02:24 How Bobby Kotick Thinks
05:13 Bobby Kotick’s Influence Grows
10:00 The Fall of Team 1
13:32 A Graveyard of Games & Netflix Shows
17:59 Blitzchung & Overwatch: Everyone Failed
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Sorry. I love Blizzard but they chose to infuse with Activision, when you deal with the devil you get a shitty hand.
🎉Mike created irl loot boxes on wow back in bc, still the most expensive items in the game, what did u expect from someone like that. He's the reason blizzard fall
Disagree with Kaplan making the wrong call. Time after time, developers have indicated that quality and sustainability does not scale with size. There's a reason so many prominent devs splinter into small indies.
Ok so alot of greed and people who dont understand games, thats… what everybody was saying anyway. Sad to see with life in this timeline.
yawn Bellular is boring…
RTS didn't die because of executive interests. It died because the genre is not that popular.
What baffles me about Stormgate is that a crew of experienced RTS creators decided to try and revive the genre with the most generic setting and art style ever conceived. It's SO bland…
Look at Starcraft 1… It has so much style… It's dark, violent, mysterious, it has a vibe.
that happens when you corporitize a hooby…. now it is industry and industry attracts vultures.
it is exactly according to plan, satanic control over everything
17:35 hundreds of years?
Great vid
This is downright embarrassing. We really need to make highlighting influencers who promote predatory practices a new content meta. It’s time to shine a spotlight on those who are cozying up to big companies like Blizzard, normalizing exploitative practices in the gaming world. These influencers may act neutral, but let’s not kid ourselves—many are subtly steering players toward harmful monetization schemes.
Just look at the state of Diablo IV. It's a cash grab, stripped of meaningful gameplay and iconic sets and gear, all in favor of selling cosmetics. If we don’t start pushing back against these billion-dollar tactics, the gaming experience will continue to feel empty and frustrating.
We need to call out these influencers who are turning the industry into a hollow shell. It’s disheartening to see how easily this generation can be swayed, compromising their integrity for a little early access or clout. If we can rally behind voices like Jim Sterling to challenge this trend, maybe we can inspire a shift toward more pro-consumer values in the community.
Money greed over entertainment fun.
really they released a dlc on d3 thats why it failed ? how about they released adventure mode too late . a simplistic case of too lil too late . they gave us random games and not diablo….
Hiring a soap CFO to operate a software gaming company. Genius.
Dude, any chance of a positive video??
Its all Bobbys Fault
Activision was 100% the reason Blizzard Died, they should never have been bought up by them
Shareholder capitalism baby! Look at the stonk, it's skyhigh!
WOW, They cut the branches under them in a fast-paced in toxic manner, quite sad and childish of adults.
OW2 is a game dying by it's own stupidity. The team lied MANY TIMES to the player base. They destroyed what was the original OW and now they are stuck in an endless loop of releasing pretty much ONLY female boring characters with meh abilities that no one plays unless they are OP. The story is gone now and no one cares, they made 2 of the most popular characters gay while at the same time having problems with one of those characters butt's being too big. Of the last 10 characters, 7 are female, 1 is a robot, 1 is a (she)male and 1 is an actual male. They clearly don't know anything about marketing or have forgotten and don't know who their player base is because if they did, it wouldn't be Femalewatch (with generic ugly characters that don't get played) and sidekicks and they wouldn't have lied so many times. They destroyed the games core by going to 1 tank per team, they are woefully inadequate at fixing broken characters like Hog who continues to be a high health self healing DPS masked as a tank that can't even be killed by the tank buster (reaper) because his kit is broken OP and has been for YEARS. Glad i haven't bothered with the shit show of OW2. I almost gave it a try when they had the Transformers tie in, updated the game for the first time since OW2 was released, got in and went to buy them…$50 ROFL. I logged out and haven't been back in the game yet and don't plan to ever go back. The fact that they think 4 skins in a game is worth an entire title or even several games on Steam is laughable and shows EXACTLY what the problem with Blizzard is. They could have sold those skins for $20 and i probably would have bought them all as a package for $20 but just like with WoW, they overpriced their garbage and i laughed and let it sit. Goodbye OW, 3k hours was fun but i don't ever anticipate returning no matter what they do, can't trust the team that runs it, can't trust the company that owns the IP, not interested anymore. Plain and simple.
For me the RMAH of D3 was the peak of Blizzard. It was extremely fun and addictive, and only lasted for few months since the crybabies managed to take it down 🙁