Has there ever been a larger fall from grace in gaming than pic related?

Bioware.

>From Baldur's Gate & Kotor
>to Andromeda and Anthem
>with Inquisition & ME3 in the middle
Fuck I'm mad

From a production quality, continuity, and organisation standpoint? Undoubtedly SEGA.

Valve

Valve

Valve

Not close. They still make enjoyable games. Blizzard has been constant garbage for a long, long time and completely destroyed several of their IP's.

>Any fresh fuck-ups by these fags?
the last wow expansion is so bad the game is on its death throes now

SHUT THE FUCK UP
ARTIFACT IS A GOOD GAME
ZOOMIE ZOOMER STREAMERS KILLED IT

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AHEM

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for me it will always be blizzard. they went from being my favorite developer by far to my most hated.

Valve, because they didn't even have the decency to die properly.
They are the "left you on seen" of videogames

The man that single-handedly ended Blizzard

Das rite, can't have any blacks in MY videogame

They died long ago.
For me, warcraft, and by extension Blizzard, died with the Lich King

I'd agree with Valve. They were once known as the heroes of PC gaming, modding, and FPS games in general. Now they just make flop after flop and known as Jews. Blizzard keeps constantly fucking up, but people still eat up their products so they're doing at least that much. Valve tried to bank on their name to get people to play Artifact and their autochess clone and failed miserably. Sad.

You mean fatfuck Wilson?

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Valve

I own this phone only.

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Illuminati Confirmed

Disagree. Assfaggots 2 is somewhat enjoyable with friends, so they have at least one good game + they are hosting the best storefront of everything in vidya. I think Blizzard and perhaps Sony as well has become some of the worst falls from graces in recent times. Especially Blizzard.

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Reddit Ruins Everything It Touches

Valve has several games that are old but still popular. Blizzard seems to be fucking up on every front. We will never know the true extend of their fuckups since they won't post numbers anymore, but it's clear most if not all their games are shadows of their former selves.

Blizzard still has popular games. SC1 set the standard for RTS, Warcraft III is one of the most cinematic games I've ever played, and the real root of World of Warcraft success ; WoW still thrives, and finally Diablo II remains unmatched for what it does.

valve

>Warcraft III is one of the most cinematic games I've ever played
clearly we have different definitions of cinematic

Valve
Bioware
Konami
EA

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EA was always shit

Fuck that loser

This, Blizzard is only following in Bioware’s footsteps into the dumpster. BioWare wishes they were in Blizzard’s position right now and that says a lot.

What was in his bag?

Dota underlords

The plot is simple enough but well-executed and delivered with a good sense of pace and esclation
The gameplay lends itself well to the way the story is told (see for instance The Tomb of Sargeras's mission in TFT)
The characters have interesting designs, if not complex ones

There is a sweet spot between "too serious/too bland" and "too goofy/not believable enough" that Blizzard always seemed to hit in their older games. Especially Starcraft's writing.

Blizzard Entertainment is the single greatest fall in the industry. A decade of going above and beyond to build up massive goodwill and earn a loyal fanbase. Only to piss it all away the very next decade. What burns me they didn't do it because they were desperate or hurting. They did it all because they knew the name "Blizzard" would carry them no matter what.

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Those are old glories from the good ol blizzard. Right now, after Activision had bought them, they cant stop shitting the bed and their legacy. Starcraft Remastered was a bare bones release and still has missing features up to this day and lost so many potential players due to this fact, WoW classic will be DOA, Diablo 4 will be FPS because daddy Activision wants a new looter shooter now that Destiny is gone, Warcraft reforged will probably have changes that will backfire in the end(they want to change the story so that it can connect with the WoW universe and more), Heroes is officially stale with some shitty and late on schedule updates and Overcuck is slowly dying because they decided to pander the faggots and the trannies and Overcuck 2 will be a hot mess. Honestly I can wait for Blizzard to die. It was fun at first looking them shooting their feet, but now its just sad and annoying. Just wait until Disney actually buy Activision stocks and have enough influence. Blizzard will be reduced into a mobile games making only company

That's just a good game and not a cinematic one. A cinematic game would more like the tomb raider reboot. Pretty graphics but obvious repeat assets since they have to distinguish a grabable ledge from a non-grabable one using the same thing to make sure the dumb fucks don't jump into the abyss for 20 minutes. A lot of story cutscenes(not just campaign intro cinematics),focus on execution/death cinematics.

D3 is the 10th best selling game of all time

Wind, fire, all that kind of thing.

Square and Enix.

>they won't post numbers anymore
enough said...

They're all super boring now.
Nintendo's quality at its peak was beyond reach to Blizzard's. Blizzard is worse now but Nintendo's fall is harsher.
It's the exact same, what are you smoking? There's no reason to get a Switch if you fell for the WiiU meme like myself. No way I'm ever paying for the exact same shit but with an online fee on top and worse ergonomics.

I don't think Daddy Activision wants Blizzard to touch the Diablo franchise anymore.
Besides, what is there to tell anymore

D1 set up a nice route for D2 and D2 ended with a good setup for LoD. All was said and done.

Are they putting fucking OCs in HotS now?

>with the Switch
only if you like shitty sterile stuff. I don't like Iwata as a president and his business decisions but he probably was the last real Nintendo person. (Shiggy is senile)

>Nokia
I will never not be mad. Symbian was the fucking tits in 2003-2010.
GBC and SNES emulation as well as full-fledged Opera web browser with multiple tabs coupled with multitasking unironically made my adolescence years.

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yes

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>published tons of great games and developed some of their own good ones
>eventually they turned into what they are today
You should look over their entire library and see the drastic shift they took.

They want. Check your facts. They have cancelled a Starcraft Fps (again) and took that team and put them to work on the new diablo 4. Does that ring a bell? It seems like the leaks are coming to reality

ign.com/articles/2019/06/06/report-starcraft-fps-canceled-to-focus-on-diablo-4-overwatch-2

>D3
>dude what if angels were actually evil
>D4
>dude, what if an ancient evil has awoken, but this time it isn't diablo

Bethesda has been comedically incompetent all gen.

They did it already at blizzcon back than with that goth loli

there are definitely more people subbing right now than 6 months ago
people think the new patch is good

Underrated post

>WoW classic will be DOA
I wouldn't call it DOA, it'll die if they rush out the phases and then refuse to update it after Naxx. It'll have a mass influx of players because all you have to do is buy a sub to play, but it'll be a litmus test if mmo's are a dead genre or not

BETHESDA when zenimax Moguls took more control

Some people would still sub to wow even if the entire dev team would piss all over them. They are beyond help.

Blizzard and Bethesda.

I'm just saying that what that guy said was probably wrong and that there are more people subbed right now rather than 6 months ago so it's not in it's death throes

>people think the new patch is good
the patch lasted like a week

obviously Atari and Sega

8.2 is decent and alot of the people who enjoyed legion but unsubbed to BfA are back. All the patch did was make everything but the new zones, raid and PvP content irrelevant and that's all that was needed for the current playerbase

I give it 3-6 months max lifespan, and Im being generous here. The numbers will be underwhelming, that's for sure

Was StarCraft 2 any good? I didn't really game from 2004-2013 and missed it.

D1 is one of my favorite games of all time and D2 was pretty good. I did get D3 right as it came out, but it sucked and I never played it after beating it one time.

WOW was always boring slow paced shit for autists btw, and Warcraft 3 was kind of meh.

D1 and SC, and to a lesser extent D2 were all time greats though.

>muh sales
I guess that means apple computers are the best ever too

WoL is enjoyable for the gameplay challenges of the campaign and the most "balanced" multiplayer with a good pace.
HoTS had a shitty, easy campaign and a meh multiplayer.
LoTV is enjoyable (except that fucking epilogue), the coop is fun times, but the ladder is just awful

I agree. I think it could go the OSRS route where the game has a spike of popularity, "dies", and gets revived after 3-4 years of content updates. With how little marketing the game has got anything more than 100k+ subs after 2 months is a "success" for blizz since it clearly isn't costing them to make it

only beacuse everyone wanted better d2, id they would release d4 now only the biggest blizzdrones would buy it

Literally who

Tons but Blizz is very concurrent, they fuckin up relentlessly these days. Not long before HotS tanks now and then we'll be working backwards

Interplay. Bioware. Unlike your example, they used to make actual good games.

ubisoft

Blizzard takes the cake but Konami really hit rock bottom and theyre never coming back.

Listen to Gabe's sons' latest interview. Some of the stuff he said there would spin wokefags' heads.

>I guess that means apple computers are the best ever too
But they aren’t the best selling computers

>completely destroyed several of their IP's
>WarCraft will be forever WoW
>StarCraft will be forever bullshit space opera
>Diablo...NO COMMENT
At least they cannot ruin Lost Vikings anymore.

what did he say?

Explain the reasoning behind this.
Game is on life support. The only people left playing are either die hard fans, literal retards, whales or combinations of the above.
So, developers need to add something to make people interested. So they make an OC DONUT STEEL hero. In a crossove game. Why the fuck? Really, why? Who would be interested in this? People who care about muh diversity are sure as fuck not gonna give Blizzard any money. Okay, say you absolutely need a black woman. Paladins in Diablo are canonicaly black. Trolls are basically Jamaicans + shitload of black cliches. Hell, fuck pull another literally who out of Starcraft like you did with Blaze. Female Reaper, liberator pilot, Spectre, just do whatever the fuck you want.
No. No, no, no. We'll add another 'original' character. Who JUST HAPPENS to look AND sound like Imani from Paladins.
WHY.

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Nah. In the past they published some good gems from time to time, but these days they are beyond bad.

This. This right here. Wrath was proof that Blizzard's original talent was gone and that they did not understand or respect their properties any longer. What they did to Arthas spat in the face of their biggest franchise and its fans. Long time fans saw that shit and knew what Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 would be. That was the point where we gave up.

Blizzard is literally a Metzen meme - the corrupted hero that must be destroyed.

Valve

>artifact literally has 86 people playing right now
Lmfao. Unironically heading to zero.

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this. How the fuck are they even still a thing

Then what is? Dell? Lenovo? You missed the point entirely anyway so it doesn't even matter.

>They still make enjoyable games
AH HAHAHAHAHAHA

Just watch it. It's on McVicker's channel somewhere.
He talks crazy stuff about the future of VR and human augmentation. None of that Elon's "it's in the works, now fuck off" shit.

That guys a fag but botw was awful.

Valve

Koizumi is longer tenured than Iwata.

Valve was never good

> Konami
SDVX almost killed Konami due to how many music licenses there are, they got lucky with there casino business and DDR making a slow comeback, but only time will tell if it'll last.

>EA
Always been shit, even if games they published back then were pretty solid

>Valve
Jews of the gaming industry, thet have too much money for they're own good and any other digital storefront for pc (Discord, Epic, etc.) Is conplete ass in comparison

>Bioware
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (Wasn't much of a bio fan desu)

at this point they have been trough so much embarrassing things I doubt that its even worth to mention. There is not a single week without Blizzard, EA, and Bethesda doing something incredibly stupid shit. Its now normalized and expected from them. Western gaming is a fucking disaster and the people who participate in any form in it too. Normalizing and pretending shit games are good and shit companies are good with come back even harder. Its pointless to even track whats happening withing these 3.
Lets be completely honest here. This game is solved, and the only reason it was even considered as an option was not because player demand, but because the colossal failure what BfA was. Then Overwatch shit the bed too, same with Hots. There is no way for a whole company to do a 180 in mentality where they themselves stated they have no interest in legacy content whatsoever. Of course dumbass Blizzdrones took the bait
>LOOK BLIZZARD CARES ABOUT US THEY ARE THE GOOD GUYS!
And then the vicious cycle continues and blizzard shits into their mouth. Again. Like it did since Wotlk.

I don't want to shit on you vanilla enthusiast, but you always forget, this is ACTIVISION Blizzard you are dealing with not Blizzard. Then people will leave before Christmas hits, since they already are uninterested in the beta, because they administered their MMO injection, so they'll be free for a while. The only question is what will be the next damage control after Classic tanks.

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The fuck are you talking about? They make fun games. Blizzard is the best at this.
As in 'I wonder how they will fuck up this time' fun, I mean.

Blizzard were so good that they captured the hearts of millions with 3 games and rode that glory for 20 years despite slowly and obviously dying.
I hate what they have become yet would still praise the original creators for their masterpieces. There is no greater fall.

>talking about sales
>apple doesnt sell the best
>YOU MISSED THE POINT

Thet never should have merged with Activision

If you've lived longer than 30 years you'd understand

Well the Playstation brand fell a lot lot harder with PS3 than blizz. Imagine THE console which defines gaming like the PS1 and PS2. There were so many good games to choose from it was mind blowing. Then comes this 499 NOGAMES menu simulator, with the 2007's bastardized nerd culture. You got some retarded ass movie games, a fuckload of mediocre titles which are tech demos in reality, shitty sub 30 fps, laggy ports, often weaker than their X360 counterparts. But hey it played blu ray, and it was cheaper than an actual blu ray player.

I'm by no means a multiplayer guy, but the gameplay itself was fun in the campaign to carry it. Up to Swarm anyway, where I couldn't take the toddler tier writing anymore.
The game had a lot of potential with the map editor and looked gorgeous (though I could have done with less cartoony wow graphics), but blizz killed that by curating maps themselves on top of claiming ownership of any ideas you'd realize in their map editor.

Nobody asked for these shit that are probably smokescreen to saw to the people that they are doing something substantial other than throwing monies into DOTA. They could make a AAA game and make people happy but the jew in them says no

Probably Bioware. Once they were one of the most beloved studios in the industry, now they nothing but a laughing stock. At least blizzard can make somewhat decent games still.

if you were actually a big brain like me, you'd be buying NASDAQ: ATVI (Blizzard's parent corp) and getting ready to sell 2 weeks after classic when they say "WE'VE GOT 7 MILLION NEW SUBSCRIBERS" but before they go "90% OF THEM LEFT AFTER THE SECOND MONTH"
guaranteed 20-30% profit easy

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zelda is a wii u game

They're a full-blown tech company now. Can't blame them, VR is pretty dope.

>Explain the reasoning behind this.
Because they planned on releasing content that included OC heroes long before the announcement they were slowing content. When the announcement came they also stated they would have content releases at a normal schedule until October of this year. Blizzard makes content in advance, so everything being released now is stuff that was either finished or close to being finished. Yeah it would be great to get another franchise hero, but this is what they had ready.

>WC3 was meh

Are you high?

I'm surprised EA didn't put a bullet to their head after Anthem flopped spectacularly.
Apparently they're working on the next DA but honestly, does anyone even expect anything other than plain mediocrity at this point?

Bioware, Konami and to a lesser extent Bethesda

RARE

>If you've lived longer than 30 years you'd understand
What does that have to do with anything

Valve. They used to make some fun games and now... nothing.
Sony from PS2 to PS4. Used to make affordable consoles, no paid online, to censorship and movie games
Bioware big time. Even ME3 was okay in my opinion. Now? Their games are just unplayable.

>OC Hero
>A literal 0815 "black female warrior" from Wakanda

Dis nigga right

I just want to say I hated them since Wings of Liberty's pathetic story.

Yup. Looks like she was in development last year. destructoid.com/heroes-of-the-storm-team-still-has-heavy-hitter-characters-in-the-pipeline-says-the-game-isn-t-winding-down--562233.phtml

Don't shoot the messenger. All these mobas suck when it comes to originality. League just came out with a brown girl from not-Wakanda, too.

Sales are not a reflection of quality. I purchased D3 because I thought it would be good, I was wrong and unable to return it. My purchase doesn't reflect the way I feel about the game. When D4 comes out I wont make the same mistake.

Bethesda for me.

How they handles lore in Fallout 4 was bad, and then before that they tried to pretend that Wolfenstein 2009 never happened when people actually enjoy the game and have been asking for it to come back. There's also no reason Quake Wars had to die.

Then recently we have FO76 and DRM in Doom, and before that we can't forget they tried to make their games all exclusive to their own launcher, but decided against it after Epic Game Store. Before that, there was the Creator's Club, which is going to make a big comeback...

Pete Hines or whateve rhis fucking name is hates the fans of his company. I just cringe knowing that nerds are going to soil themselves when TES6 gets announced, and people will forget all of these transgressions.

>Sales are not a reflection of quality
Wrong

no there has not been

Blizzards decline was more or less a slow burn but once Blizzcon 18 happened, things went down the shitter rather fast. On the top of my hdea, things went sideways since the merger in 08:
>Merger wqas in July 08, in August Trial of the Crusader released, further cemetning Blizzards "raid or die" endgame for every casual under the sun.
>Starcraft 2 was split in 3, failed miserably in Korea and tournament scene is basically laughably small compared to Brood War.
>Blizzard fucked up with Dota, refusing to hire Icefrog or do something about Assfaggots being the money maker before fortnite.
>Once Valve announced Dota 2, Blizzard had the worst case of sour grapes since IBM told Bill Gates to fuck off with Microsoft.
>Each expansion after Wrath saw a decline in subs, but an increase in cash shop shit. >Warlords of Draenor was straight up abandoned after Blizzard said "fuck it." and just stopped reporting sub numbers.
>Heroes of the Storm was a shit assfaggot game that nobody, including Blizzard, really wanted. The game is now life support, despite promising their "pros" and people who bought the 6 month xp boost, that everything is fine at Blizzcon 18.
>Overwatch was fucked up by painfully slow content cylces, stupid balance patches and overbearing censorship in the pro scene.
>heartstone is no longer printing money and everyone is pretty sure that the dev team fucked everything up by trying to reinvent the game every time a new card expansion comes along.
>Blizzard also started to sterilize their games of any "sexy" or "too brutal" content to appease china, inmstead of just making a chinese version of their game like with wow.

>cont.
>The whole classic debacle were Blizzard went from arrogantly telling their playerbase what they want to beggin for forgiveness and actually rereleaseing the original game.
>Blizzcon 18 outright tanked the actiblizz stock with Mr."is this an out of season april's fools?" and Diablo Immortal.
>Things got so bad, that Bobby Kotick had to calm down furious investors
>We're now here.

I don't know man, but we're not at rock bottom yet, but boy this derailed train os already off the cliff. I'm just waiting for the loud crash.

EA is in a shit PR position. Unlike back in the TORtanic days, were Fifabux and Maddenbux made them mad dosh and the golden poo didn't phase anyone, EA currently has to tread lightly with bad PR.
So far the have:
>Pissed off Dinsey by gettin Star Wars fans mad at BF2 and the lootbox shit, seriously jeopardizing any future leases of the Star Wars licence to EA.
>got so greedy iwth "surprise mechanics" that Governments around the world started stepping in and legislating Lootboxes/gacha shit out the ass because EA couldn't get enough.
>With the threat of major revenues streams getting killed off, any further bad PR, like "HEY GUYS LOOK, THEY KILL BIOWARE, EA IS AT IT AGAIN" might be the coup de grace for Ea.

It is currently more profitable to parade Bioware's corpse around for a few more years. I doubt that the next Dragon Age game will be good, but who knows.

Then why is half a game's marketing half it's budget?

the day gamers rised up

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>Then why is half a game's marketing half it's budget?
It’s not

I liked ToC, but the problem with it wasn't that it started "raid or die", but rather it legitimized nonraid content as catch-up content, quickly making old content obsolete. In Classic you had ZG/AQ20 but they were still raids, and you still raided MC and BWL. I wasn't around for TBC but i think you had ZA which was still a raid, and MgT, which was released in the final patch so it didn't have much impact. Pre ToC you had dungeons > heroics > naxx > ulduar. Now it was tournament > trial of the champion > trial of the crusader. Throw in the frozen halls dungeons in there for 3.3
For cata you had the ZG/ZA revamps and the 5 mans that came with dragon soul. Skipped MoP and WoD but WoD was mercy killed with 2.5 tiers of raiding so idk if that applies. With Legion you had two different catchup hubs in broken shore and argus, dungeons whose ilvls scaled with each path along with kara/cath/seat, and pvp which dropped scaling loot and legiondary upgrade essences. There were only two reasons to run old raids in legion, and they weren't to catch up. One was for a titanforged trinket, and the other was to boost ur legiondary drop rate. And on that second point, farming caches in the broken shore with 39 other people in one huge fuck train loop was more powerful than raiding for bad luck protection. Other than that, pretty much correct with everything.

Don't remind me man. I played too much of wow druing classic and guilds raided mc/bwl even after progress on naxx or aq started because each instance had nice wonky gear that was useful. Now I forget what the fuck i was even wearing on my char.

yeah there wasn't a colossal blunder like Square and Spirits Within. They just gave up and sold outl

There's plenty of fall from grace stories. How about redemption stories? Who is the most successful story of redemption and ascension back into good graces? Capcom?

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Doch.

Imani is hotter

Definitely Capcom. I'm fucking floored over how good RE2 and DMCV were.

They never came close to Blizzard's heights. There was never a point where I ever trusted the SoE brand to deliver anything good, despite managing to deliver several solid expansions to Everquest (which itself was a good game). There was always an air of sleaziness about them.

unless, you know, you want to play switch games.
Retard

oh god i forgot how much of a singular catastrophic failure spirits within was. They planned everything out for some franchise with their leading CGI girl in everything and make her almost like a mascot. Then the movie bombed so fucking hard that they had to merge with enix to salvage their existence. I mean they're still chugging along, making money like actiblizz is right now (tho not as much as they should) but compared to both squaresoft's peak in the 90s until SW and blizzard's peak in the early to mid 2000s it's embarrassing

>does anyone even expect anything other than plain mediocrity at this point?
expect the worst hope for the best is my motto at this point.
but barring a serious fuckup DA4 is guaranteed to make money so why would EA have shot them before at the least getting one last money maker out of the studio? though if it sells well enough I could see them getting one more shot afterwards

its gonna be sad when classic paypigs will save them

valve

>with the Lich King
You've spelled "after Beyond the Dark Portal" wrong.

What games?

>boomer team got old
>wants retirement
>sells game studio
isn't this what happened? you can't really blame them

It's more like the Boomers got old and the new blood they brought in became the majority. Say what you will about Metzen, but he made every Blizzcon great with his coke-fueled rants and his enthusiasm.

>hots
Didn't they themselves say that the game is dead?

bethesda

HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED XD

>Paladins in Diablo are canonicaly black
They're South Americans, Maiya and Aztec inspired, look at Zakarum.

Blame activision

Bethesda. They've pissed away all the goodwill they had with gamers with Fallout 76.

Valve

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Mainly due to it being a sequel to D2, which caused OverHype.

Capcom redemption won't last.

Capcom at a spiritual golden age is literally too good for this world and just isn't sustainable. DMC5 is already a borderline flop, not even being able to sell 3 million copies despite delivering exactly what the fans wanted and more, having a big budget, decent marketing and good critical reception.
The same would happen if they made Dragon's Dogma2, no matter how good it turned out or how happy the fanbase would be, it probably wouldn't make much of a profit.

The casual mainstream just doesn't seem to care about most Capcom IPs

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Add Bathesda to the list

>That dislike
How is it okay to be racist in 2019? Or did the SJW push to hard and this is some kind of pushback?

why dont you also post a screenshot that shows Black as a name that contains mature language?

Blizzard was on the way down by 2002 though.

The 1990s were the peak.

>Get into the RTS genre with some great titles with WC1 and WC2.
>Puts out Diablo. Invents a genre. Great art style and atmosphere that are hard to beat to this day. Easy to use reliable four player over the internet on realms is revolutionary. Things look good.
>Put out the most iconic and best RTS of all time with great online system and an amazing expansion.
>Put out a sequel to Diablo that loses some of the atmosphere and loses the high skill ceiling, but improves on a ton of other stuff. Game outsells a new Harry Potter book at it's height when it opens.
>Warcraft 3 does some cool stuff and is a solid game. It doesn't just try to copy StarCraft, and is ok in its own right.

I'll admit that WoW was very technically impressive at the time and it was cool just how much you could do. It also played like shit though and was paced so that it catered to autistic grinders who would sub for month after month instead of fans of fun games. The art style of WoW was goofy shit and for some reason Blizzard decided every game should look like that.

For making money mid 2000s was prime, but creatively and artistically 1996-1998 Blizzard was at it's peak.

sega
SNK
Konami

cope.

insecure white boi.
grow a pair dude, I'm 14/88 all the way but crying like a little faggot about a black character in a fantasy game is below cuckold tier

Yeah, only a matter of time.

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fpbp. they've STILL never fully recovered from the nogaems 64.

No, as private server experience tell us, the drying out of the servers is when naxx is out. There is no way people are gonna quit while mc and onyxia are current and not want to do the subsequent raids/patches.

If it was a white OC it'd be the same. Games basically on life-support so new heroes are going to be scarce. People have been clammering for Blackthorne and a multitude of other Blizzard characters so when an OC comes out it just looks bad even if they'd been working on it before the game went on life support.

>Was StarCraft 2 any good
yes and no. Multiplayer balance and especially design was iffy compared to brood war. Late WoL had brood lord infestor meta vs mothership vortex nonsense. Then hots came around and ruined it even more with widow mines and swarm hosts. Then lotv fixed a lot of shit and made the game a million times better. It's probably in its best state right now. Although i have to say that 2011-2012 wings of liberty was my fav era. Yes im a bit nostalgic. The emerging esports scene back then was so comfy.

They severely butchered the custom map scene tho. Not sure if it ever recovered from the initial fuck up.

The campaign gameplay is not bad at all. However, they completely butchered the lore and has become laughable compared to bw. But it's still worth it. I still watch streams and championships occiasionally, so it's still a game worthy of your time.

>I'm 14/88 all the way
literally cringe

Can someone post that trailer where it’s poorly animated characters walking up to the screen with shit music? I swear it’s a Hearthstone trailer but I could be wrong.

shut the fuck up zoomer, kys.

No it was Hearthstone you can never forget something that bad. I think they pulled from Youtube because of how bad it was.

Fuck off Maddox you fucking cuck.

here to shitpost

got a link or description or something? have no idea which trailer you guys are talking about.