BFA is fucked. The biggest loss of subs in BFA was at around the one month mark of the expansion, it was an insane complete collapse of subs exactly one month into the expansion. The loss of subs after the one month mark wasn't too bad for several months through the new year, but after the release of the last raid it went into freefall, and there are less than 500,000 subs in North America now. I don't know the Europe and other regional numbers. The team has bascially given up on BFA, and the majority effort is on the next expansion.
Overwatch has pretty bad player numbers these days, but they made so much VC money off of the Overwatch league no one really cares. The Overwatch league was already more of a success than they ever thought because of all the VC money they made off of the teams, and they've actually managed to get a bunch of idiots to buy jerseys and crap.
"Overwatch 2" is a co-op shooter game with heavy story focus. Overwatch is planned to remain as the competitive game. There's a cellphone game being made that ties in with the co-op PC game too.
The Starcraft game cancelled was basically Battlefront. There was a working verticle slice of the game that played decently, I don't know why it was cancelled. Maybe they were scared it would affect Overwatch. The finance side of the company is really into Overwatch because they made so much VC money off of Overwatch Esports, and they all drink the kool-aid that they'll continue to make money off of Overwatch League.
Diablo 4 is in development hell. The development is pretty secretive within the company, but I know at one point the game was similar to Dark Souls, but with Diablo style loot drops. The team couldn't deliver a vertical slice of the game with multiple unique feeling classes, and the idea was scrapped. They were switching between perspectives a lot at one point (staying with the Dark Souls style camera, a classic diablo style isometric camera style, and some other ones), with them literally switching camera styles on basically the same build of the game from week to week.
Diablo Immortals is a small project with outsourcing, but the team was generally surprised to see such a vitriol reaction to its reveal. A lot of the older, senior employees are really into cellphone games (these are the people that made games like Vanilla WoW), and the massive success of Hearthstone has lead to a large amount of small teams within the company making Cellphone Games and other small projects.
The largest project is a Warcraft Pokemon Go game made by a bunch of old ex-wow devs. Basically you walk around to collect units and items for your raid team, and then you go to hotspots and battle raid bosses. There's also PVP battles. If you like cellphone games, it's actually really good, but they're having a lot of issues with the real world map data apparently.
There are a few devs working on an Autochess game.
Owen Nelson
There's also some kind of weird overwatch cellphone game being made with heavy story elements, it's going to launch at the same time as the Co-Op PC game. I don't get it at all, apparently it's similar to a bunch of weebshit cellphone games.
Hearthstone is basically dead. The active user numbers are down like 90% or something insane. I know they were debating basically completely resetting the card pool at one point in a desperate attempt to get people to come back, but they gave up on that idea and decided to just milk the remaining whales as long as they can. The game is in complete managed decline now. There was a huge amount of drama when Brode and Woo left the company, but I'm not connected to the team at all to know much other than it was a huge shitstorm in the company.
I can try and answer questions, but I have to be careful not to say anything that would reveal who I am.
Ian Morgan
kys
Joshua Hall
Ok so assuming this all true and not be. Is the cellphone shit mostly being backed or promoted by Activision?
Jack Sanders
implying i read all of that
Grayson Reed
>Supposed blizzard employee posting a shitty wojak meme Almost stupid enough to believe. But kill yourself retard.
Joseph Parker
>NPCtard Sure, kiddo.
Nathaniel King
no one cares fag
Jaxson James
big if true
Asher Lopez
ok but i don't think you know what VC is
Jaxson Thompson
tell us what the next wow expansion is and what it's going to be like
No, there are a ton of senior, older employees that got burned out from working on large projects, and they also unironically like cellphone games better than current games. Also a lot of long term employees that got promoted into positions of management where they no longer were making anything, and were really unhappy so they jumped at the chance to make games again, and without the massive crunch hours also.
Jackson Morris
nice repost you fucking faggot
Matthew Lopez
what's your favorite wow expansion and are you excited for classic
Kayden Gomez
Ok, that’s nice. I’d recommend finding a new job. Like many, I haven’t had a shit to give about Blizzard in over a decade. Your company is intellectually bankrupt at this point. I can’t begin to imagine what they would need to do to get me interested in their games and IP moving forward.
Caleb Garcia
>Also a lot of long term employees that got promoted into positions of management where they no longer were making anything, and were really unhappy so they jumped at the chance to make games again Unrelated but literally me irl, management is boring, I just want to go out and shoot documentaries again.
Julian James
Zoomer here.
What do you get when subbing to Warcraft? Seems like too much competition to get away with a subscription.
John Myers
>they also unironically like cellphone games better than current games Sounds like a big fucking problem for someone who works at a video game company.
Matthew Wilson
How's Ion reacted to his insane fuck-up with basically everything?
Christopher Nelson
Sorry to say but cellphone games are future. I get no joy in it but a shitty tetris rip off can generate billions and a computer RPG barely breaks even these days.
This is some serious roleplaying. Nobody really cares about video game leaks anymore. There's a new game out every ~3 months now. There's barely any excitement left since video games are on the instagram influencer/marketing level. The passion is gone.
Brandon Young
there's not really any competition with wow imagine if macbooks had over 60% of the pc market instead of like 10% and you've got the situation with wow. people pay because it's wow and don't even bother with the competition. ff14's doing all right but it's still no wow in terms of sales. even at its weakest (e.g. now), wow probably does better than most of the other mmos out there combined.
Ayden Parker
What do you get with a subscription?
Tyler Jones
access to the game
Eli Rivera
how's HotS? I know you're just gonna say it's dead, but if you know anything interesting about it (cut stuff, workplace attitude towards it, etc.) I'd want to know.
also, why are you leaking work info? are you mad at blizz? bored? ...excited?
Nathaniel Cox
A monthly subscription? Fuck that.
Grayson Watson
What was avalon
Kayden Mitchell
Whats the next WoW expansion going to be like? what theme? what major features? whats overwatch feature gonne be like? overwatch 2 own game or more of a overwatch 2.0 upgrade? sorry but you sound like a subhuman faggot that basically leaked nothing except some shitty phone games nobody cares about, so either give us real information about overwatch/wow new feature or fuck off
