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Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.cafe to Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 6 months ago

In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games?

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In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games?

Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.cafe to Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 6 months ago
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https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/warcraft-2-orcs-and-humans-remastered-apparently-leaks-ahead-of-the-rts-series-30th-anniversary-direct-next-week

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  • Modva@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s not the Blizzard that used to make games we loved anymore. It’s just a name now, and behind that a corporation focused on maximum profit exclusively.

  • Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Lol, lmao, no.

  • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.website
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    6 months ago

    No, I’ve been actively boycotting them for many years by now.

    • minibyte@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      I broke my own rule and actually preordered something – Diablo 4. Huge mistake.

      • avattar@lemmy.sdf.org
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        6 months ago

        Why pre-order something digital? I never understood that.

      • dwindling7373@feddit.it
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        6 months ago

        Two huge mistakes.

      • TotallyNotSpez@startrek.website
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        6 months ago

        Well, that’s on you, really. :D

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    No

    • rustyfish@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Signing that one.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    To me the big drop in noticable internal politics happened somewhere shortly before or around the Overwatch release.

    The original design of that game as-released showed a lot of the old design paradigms of Blizzard. But then all post-release direction was the “new” Blizzard, focus on e-sports, numerical balance over gameplay feel, competition over social engagement. The game is an interesting showcase for the fall of Blizzard as a whole in a lot of ways.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Boycotting Blizzard is all about their shitty behavior as a company since long before the games they made turned bad too.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.works
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    deleted by creator

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    of course not.

  • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.cafeOP
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    6 months ago

    The Warcraft III Reforged shitshow was definitely something to behold

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      The most amazing part was the claim that the in-game soundtrack was reencoded as lossless audio.

      I looked at the new audio as a spectrograph and compared it to the original MP3s. Not only were they the same level of compression as the originals, they were the same exact graphs. The same files, renamed from .mp3 to .flac.

      That’s some proper gaslighting!

      • illi@lemm.ee
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        Well yeah - they recorded the MP3s as lossless audio, clearly

  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org
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    6 months ago

    The Blizzard that made good games died many years ago.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The Diablo II remake was EXCELLENT

      The rest of their games are trash now

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      It’s like the ship of theseus, but shit. The shit of theseus.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
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        6 months ago

        shit of feceus. it was right there, man…

        • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee
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          6 months ago

          hahaha excellent

          • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.cafeOP
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            6 months ago

            FYI, I posted your comment above on !funny@sh.itjust.works, I hope you don’t mind!

            https://lemm.ee/post/46703078

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    6 months ago

    I don’t really expect anything good coming from them. To me the likes of Blizzard, Ubi, Bioware, Bethesda, EA etc are shareholder-driven companies, that stopped innovating a long time ago and now only produce and regurgitate the absolute bare minimum slop.

    I have been pleasantly surprised on occasion, like for ubi’s Anno 1800, or blizzard’s diablo 2 remake, but they’re few and far between.

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    Blizzard is doing pretty damn good with retail WoW if you’re a casual player, and don’t play any PvP.

    Their games teams seem to be highly isolated from each other though, which is evidence by every other single game they currently maintain. Also that their employee’s bonuses are segmented by how well their teams game performs.

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    Would be foolish not to go patient on it after Reforged. After D2R, I’m not completely writing it off, though.

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Nope.

  • dwindling7373@feddit.it
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    I guess they could make good games, it’s in their interest, I’m not going to give them money either way.

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