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@arzkaful1

2 жыл бұрын

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@jundesuwa

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah we know how it feels

@Elitegameing-tr2wv

2 жыл бұрын

Poob

@DimitriTacoEater

2 жыл бұрын

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@QuestionMarking

2 жыл бұрын

Ah...so deserved honestly.

Who knew terrible business practices actually diminish consumer goodwill? I guess not Activision, apparently

@justin9202

2 жыл бұрын

Wow it's almost like being a greedy millionaire gaming company doesn't work out long term when your own revenue comes from the same people you screw over

@Demonsouls1993

2 жыл бұрын

sadly thats every AAA company now

@James-gj8rn

2 жыл бұрын

my thought in a nutshell, you nailed it

@arrowghost

2 жыл бұрын

All they care is short term BIG profits and worry of long term losses later, which finally came back to bite them.

@arrowghost

2 жыл бұрын

@@Demonsouls1993 , quality takes lots of time and lots of money, hence it's so difficult to make a good & clean AAA. Being dirty is easier to make money but sacrifices good will.

As long as Activision Blizzard loses cash in some way, it's a big win for us

@Aredein

2 жыл бұрын

no win, because these players who left, already gave their money to them. It's win for them, not us.

@outSAN1TY

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aredein Not true, if they don't have reoccurring income, they are losing money hand over fist because peoples' salaries are continuing to be paid. It's definitely a win but a loss for the employees, Activision won't be hurting for a while.

@ReigoVassal

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aredein not entirely true. It's a loss of future revenue. All of the live and/or gacha games need those active users. Unlike the game where you buy one and get a complete game.

@Krejii05

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aredein its a loss, just a micro dent. If i could have any wish it’d be make them bankrupt and billions in dept lol

@sam93931

2 жыл бұрын

they aren't tho, their stock is sky high!

"He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did"

@Tragedous

2 жыл бұрын

“Is it possible to learn from these mistakes?”

@Norrikan

2 жыл бұрын

"Not if you're a CEO."

@seiaka

2 жыл бұрын

this is a godly comment thread

@heavyrain4485

2 жыл бұрын

@@seiaka I know right lol

@VAL3NTIN3

2 жыл бұрын

From what hentai is that quote from?

Corelating team size to development speed and quality is one of the most fundamental fallacies of project management. The key problems are that they destroyed the company culture that created quality via pernicious penny pinching, bled out the star talent that worked on its past genre defining titles and now they increase the workload via constant onboarding of new hires. These are all well known facts, and Blizzard should have anticipated this result.

@Ragnarok540

2 жыл бұрын

Corporations are often not really self aware.

@atraxian5881

2 жыл бұрын

Project managers are people who think that if a 1 woman has a 9 months pregnancy, then 9 pregnant women have a 1 month pregnancy.

@Rokuns

2 жыл бұрын

Beat me to it and hit the major points as to why this came to little to late! With all the lay offs, chasing off talent for underpaid and over worked interns has never given any game the quality treatment it needs. With how they bastardized the franchise, (Diablo Immoral being the most recent kick in the face to fans) I'm sure this new "Talent" is only going to be focused on how they can make the next set of "Games" far more predatory then they have.

@KaiserAfini

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rokuns Yep, they think that the label holds the talent. AAA executives think owning a name like Blizzard, Bioware or Naughty Dog means they will always output blockbusting hits. So if they continue to make things cheaper and more monetized, they are improving on a system that has a development quality and customer dynamic that will perpetually pay higher dividends. Its a very deluded train of thought.

@omegaman7377

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Ragnarok540 The administrators of these corporations believe that nine women can give birth to a baby in one month.

Activision Blizzard: Hey, let's make our business model predatory and focused entirely on monetisation! Gamers: Okay we'll just stop playing your games then. Activision Blizzard: *surprised Pikachu face*

@upthebracket26

2 жыл бұрын

Gamers: proceed to give them hundreds of thousands of dollars to level up a character for their Twitch viewers

@starburst98

2 жыл бұрын

It is a few of them. Losing the majority for the few. Instead of 1 million people buying a game for 60 dollars each, aka spending 60 million dollars. They have 100 people spending 10000 dollars, which gives them only 1000000 dollars.

@Deliveredmean42

2 жыл бұрын

@@upthebracket26 The influencers that does it we must count them as the whales, not regular players.

@Luna_Kirisame

2 жыл бұрын

ya, basically

@judyh3707

2 жыл бұрын

I think they vastly underestimated how many whales are swimming around out there

To put in perspective, 47 million is roughly the total population of Spain. Imagine losing as much people as a country because you goofed in the worst ways possible.

@lolstalgic9602

2 жыл бұрын

On the side note, I’m impressed us gamers can literally outnumber entire countries We should start our own Outer Heaven

@Crysis96aden

2 жыл бұрын

There's only 26 million people here in Australia, couldn't imagine messing up so bad you lose the population of a country twice

@captainmurphy4948

2 жыл бұрын

That's not the way they calculate MAUs. If you are one person but log into hearthstone, wow and SC2 in one month then you're counted as 3 MAUs. So it's probably more the size of Australia than Spain.

@CMTechnica

2 жыл бұрын

@@captainmurphy4948 then they lost the population of Austria twice over. Point still stands

@MiS_4n_THr0_pic_NiH_il.i5t

2 жыл бұрын

"Goofed"? These were deliberate anti consumer choices they made every step of the way.

Honestly glad Activision Blizzard is going down hard. They’re a really good example of how consumers won’t always blindly pay for your product, especially if you’re going to be predatory about it.

@poggybiscuit862

2 жыл бұрын

There an even better example of people buying their products despite knowing they're messed up

3:38 Let this fact sink in : Among the Diablo Immortal players, one had a significant and visible effect on Blizzard's title revenue. 0.1% of the $100M Blizzard reported after two months is coming from ONE FREAKIN' PLAYER! This is NOT normal!

@romankvapil9184

2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing this is from a billionaire that is happening to play the game, or somethin' else is going on here.

@dynad00d15

2 жыл бұрын

@@romankvapil9184 its the guy that spent 100k maxing his character and got locked out of pvp..

@whoahanant

2 жыл бұрын

@@romankvapil9184 yes you're right. Majority of their money comes from extremely rich people or by affecting people with addictions. Probably not a billionaire but someone who makes alot more than normal people.

@vallejomach6721

2 жыл бұрын

Their entire spiel surrounding this dumpster fire of a game has been disingenuous from the start. Only last week or so when they claimed '30 million Installs'..as being a big thing on their socials, whilst conveniently obscuring/ignoring and refusing to acknowledge how many of those installs had now actually uninstalled the filthy piece of plop game...never mind what their actual concurrent active user numbers amounted to.

@flimermithrandir

2 жыл бұрын

@@romankvapil9184 No. He streams and does make Content out of it on YT as far as i know and he said he is on a good Way to get his invested Money back but he isnt there yet as far as i understood. (Saw an Explanation Vid on him) So he is investing it to get back Money. And he almost wanted to get his Money back because he was too strong to still play the Game. Something like that. Probably would not have gone through with it. Maybe 20k he could have been able to get back. Dunno.

If Activision keeps pulling shady monetization crap like they did in Diablo Immortal then it's no wonder players are leaving in droves! (sigh) i miss old school games man, when they weren't concerned with getting as much money as possible out of you and just released a quality game for one price and that was it :(

@clydecraft5642

2 жыл бұрын

If you like games of quality look at rockfish games, they did legit mobile games with a story they made galaxy on fire and now everspace

@Astaticembrace

2 жыл бұрын

NOT gonna lie... I'm actually surprised. I expected the consumers to gobble it up like a cheap beer. But then again their demographic is the older fans who grew up with them and the younger gen who showed up before this fiasco. Seems like most of them know better, which is great to hear!

@CMTechnica

2 жыл бұрын

(sigh)

@Miriam_J_

2 жыл бұрын

Old games literally made themselves arbitrarily harder to beat out renting, which was a cheaper alternative to buying the games. Arcade games are known for making themselves almost impossible to beat specifically to suck as many coins out of you as possible. They have ALWAYS been trying to get all of your money, you were just young back then and didn't notice.

@James-gj8rn

2 жыл бұрын

@@Miriam_J_ yeah but now it feels so blatant, it's disgusting

I haven’t played anything Activision or Blizzard related since the unearthing of all the horrid work conditions people were going through and I refuse to play anything they release until Bobby Kottick is kicked out of Activision

@prezzeruk4054

2 жыл бұрын

I still play cod, but i always buy preowned and never buy anything ingame.

@shydow6870

2 жыл бұрын

The last game published by Activision Blizzard that I've bought was sekiro, which is a fromsoft game before being an activision one

@jasonthehunters2919

2 жыл бұрын

I just want Bobby kottick leave Activision

@trolldrool

2 жыл бұрын

With how long he's been in the company, I don't think there's any hope that he hasn't corrupted it beyond repair. Activision or Blizzard, removing Bobby isn't going to remove the poison.

@Bethgael

2 жыл бұрын

I shut down 3 WoW accounts and the 100-char strong guild I was GM of for 10 years (all of my guildies agreed, anyhow and were leaving to go elsewhere). Made it very clear in my exit comments that none of us would be back while Kotick was still CEO. Guess they don't GAF.

Sacrificing customer satisfaction and respect, prioritizing short term profit rather than long term prosperity is a choice. It was a conscious decision too, I hope they are satisfied with it.

Every time I hear a greedy publisher lose their players and money, I'm happy.

I just hope people don't see this kind of news and see it as a reason to stop pushing back. A reminder that they elected to keep Bobby as CEO, and Microsoft explicitly said they don't plan to make any real changes. They think that like so many times before they can do nothing and this will eventually blow over. If the masses prove them right yet again over what will likely be the biggest fall from grace we'll see, then the entire industry's fate is sealed for all but the indie-space.

@felipesantos-er4kk

2 жыл бұрын

"Microsoft explicitly said they dont plan to make any real changes" thats not true.

@Tjoeb123

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. I've already despised Activision Blizzard and Bobby Kotick even before the lawsuit, and one of the reasons is the fact that all of their studios are only working on Call of Duty and Blizzard stuff. Basically killing off all of their other IPs like Crash, Spyro and Tony Hawk (goddamn I'm still pissed off at what they not only did to that series, but Vicarious Visions in particular). Call of Duty itself has evolved into a hive of Bobby Kotick's avarice. Fuck Call of Duty, fuck Bobby Kotick, and fuck Activision Blizzard.

@LaztstaNd

2 жыл бұрын

@@felipesantos-er4kk They literally said the opposite, lmao 🤣🤣 Not only that, they're allowing employees to fully unionize, I mean...

@ofearghailthefearless6481

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure once the acquisition is done, Bobby is getting kicked out.

@PrussianZwei

2 жыл бұрын

Course they're going to re elect bobby. His job is to make money for the company and thats what hes done. Doesn't matter if they tarnish and butcher the name Blizzard and its reputation the ground just as long as they see that green pouring in. Not to mention trample unionizing, harassment of women and degrading of them as long as they can reap profit, they'll sacrifice anything.

I guess publishing extremely mid video games for 5-8 years straight finally has caught up to them

@pizzagamecube2564

2 жыл бұрын

They were doing great stuff with Crash, Spyro and Tony Hawk, but man/women with gun game #47 was far more important to them.

@scumweather3219

2 жыл бұрын

@@pizzagamecube2564 100%

@hostileenvironment6107

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the remasrers sure were interesting. Activision blizzard could never hit a tier such as GSC developers for the stalker franchise. Those developers actually know a thing about time investment and immersion mecanics. "Of course mods will also help the experience since they can be dated nowadays."

Gotta say, I’m pretty proud of just how many people stick to their morals and decide not to encourage predatory practices. Our situation is much less hopeless than I might’ve thought it was.

@Halfbad-bf1lt

2 жыл бұрын

While I agree that shitty business’ shouldn’t be encouraged it might not be because of moral protest that people aren’t engaging. Activision Blizzard has been sacrificing quality for monetisation; so could just be people are bored of their crap

@elhazthorn918

2 жыл бұрын

I had to stop myself from getting Diablo 2 Resurrected. Glad I didn't buy it.

@Valn91

2 жыл бұрын

The real test will be when Diablo 4 is released. As much as I've been looking forward to playing it, I'm going to sit it out, and hopefully not alone.

@ohsnapsonbro4260

2 жыл бұрын

Haven't bought anything blizzard nsince diablo3 monetized the auction....or at least they tried.....I could tell what disgusting corporate stuff they'd try on the future

@anti-macro

2 жыл бұрын

It's easy to boycott when they haven't made anything recently, aside from an awful mobile game. We'll see when Wrath Classic/Dragonflight/Diablo 4 release. Blizzard fans have always been pretty rabid (I was one as well) and I feel like the smallest positive news is all it's going to take for people to crawl back. Personally I won't touch anything Blizzard related again until they have a long and proven record of positive changes

I loved the way you explained what happened with WoW. Played for 10 years, stopped because of health problems, but by the time I thought of playing again, all the issues said reared their ugly heads. The handling of Immortal and their "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong were the absolute nails in the coffin though... lol

@arkvsi8142

2 жыл бұрын

U we're wasting life playing a game made to milk money

@vykyr

2 жыл бұрын

@@arkvsi8142 pretty sure that's most games nowadays... >.>

Not surprising. This video is the most pleasure I got from blizzard in ages

The problem is Blizzard is trying to use their model in Western Nations, which has found itself harder to apply a gacha/microtransaction heavy systems to without a lot of pushback. Maybe if they advertised to the Asian markets, they'd have success but you know - your audience besides Starcraft 2 is mostly found in the US.

@TheNapster153

2 жыл бұрын

What's weird is that Eastern Nations like Japan and China have gacha games that technically are on the same field as these 'live service' games and they are reasonably successful. Guess catering to customers is a real important aspect of business afterall.

@mysteriousastrolabe

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheNapster153 Asian gachas are a league above whatever this pile of garbage called “Diablo Immoral” is. Look at Arknights, FEH, FGO, hell, the Genshin/Honkai/(soon to be released) ZZZ trinity. All of these games have polish, know their audience and it seems Activision wants to both have their cake and eat it too💀💀

@cedrickalba7081

2 жыл бұрын

Don't give them ideas, The gacha is already bad.

@aahzmandiaz2767

2 жыл бұрын

No longer. Maybe they should just move to China.

@TheNapster153

2 жыл бұрын

@@mysteriousastrolabe EXACTLY!! I speak mainly for FGO, but even in games like Arknights and Genshin there exist a certain level of depth and passion there that continues to bring people back over the course of long periods. Arknights for me still holds the crown for some of the best gaming OST's out there whereas Genshin from what I know from friends gives you a crap ton of Gear and has a decent pity system for players. Now, in FGO at least, I can confirm that there exist plenty of lower tier characters that outperform their high tier counterparts in certain situations or requirments. An example being Arash for as much as people meme him, he's still one of the most reliable methods for farming. Then, there's David (my fovourite) who's carried me so many times as a support for the party. All I'm saying is that a cash game should still be a game and try to cater to players in someway shape or form. For FGO, players regularly compete to beat tough bosses with Bronze tier Servants whenever possible.

No doubt YongYea, coverage like yours and others have opened the eyes of those on the fence or already over it and lessened the impact on the gaming marketplace.

@yawnyeah7291

2 жыл бұрын

Not really

EA : "We are worst company in the world" Activision : "Hold my Pre-Installed Diablo Immortal Phone"

Bad news for ActiBliz is always great news for us

@stupidragerantroastoftakes2981

2 жыл бұрын

Mega win.

@kanthanesankandiah760

2 жыл бұрын

Victory. Those who are playing are far right bots

Can't feel bad for them knowing the shit they've been pulling this whole time

@SoneGurke

2 жыл бұрын

i'm wondering if microsoft pulls a musk soon 😅 imagine paying ~70bn$ for that shitshow

@Journeyagain0

2 жыл бұрын

Specially towards how they treat their employees behind closed doors. That one story with the woman being pushed to suicide was the final nail in the coffin for me.

Two years in and committed to never playing a Blizzard-Activision game again. This is just the cherry on top. I hope Blizzard can leave Activision and start making good games again.

@aahzmandiaz2767

2 жыл бұрын

I will never ever buy or play a game from them ever again. I even deleted Diablo 3 and their launcher, to never touch it again.

I just want to buy and play a game, not bullied and pressed into greed for CEOs to fill up the Lambo at the beach house. I feel sorry for the generations that never experienced games made for gamers.

@Justacheese

2 жыл бұрын

Introduce them to emulation. Let them experience some good stuff from the past, that is so old the publishers don't want to go back and change anything.

Shame gaming was corrupted to the core. I miss the old days.

@clydecraft5642

2 жыл бұрын

The next big thing always gets infested by the sociopathic money-makers

@stupidragerantroastoftakes2981

2 жыл бұрын

It's to the point hashtag GameOverforGaming is a talk of the search, articles, and blog sites. And as of late. my money's on the indies.

@SamsarasArt

2 жыл бұрын

I'm honestly expecting a video game crash like what happened almost 40 years ago. Something gotta give here

@CookyMonzta

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamsarasArt Quite a possibility...💰🚽🧻🪠

@anti-macro

2 жыл бұрын

There are still a few good apples. And if everything else fails, indie devs will be there to save us

Oh no! It's almost like concentrating on minor graphical changes to placate whiners, instead of fixing core systems, isn't conducive to good business.

Yong: So let's check in on Activision Blizzard... Everything's on fire. Everyone: Yeah, that seems about right.

@victorcharles27

2 жыл бұрын

😌

@stupidragerantroastoftakes2981

2 жыл бұрын

Just a building burning slowly to death.

I'm one of those 47 million... i uninstalled Battlenet launcher and my blizzard games. As a long time Blizz fan I've lost faith in the way the company is headed atm. Even Diabolo 4 doesn't give me any excitement after the way Diabolo immortal was a massive no for me...hate gatcha mobile games. The blizzard i knew back in the day is long gone..the blizz we have now i don't recognise...sad days indeed.

@Franky_Sthein

2 жыл бұрын

When I want to start up a good Blizzard game, I turn to those that are almost as old as me. Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, Starcraft 1 (never owned 2) heck even Diablo 1 is better then whatever Immortal is supposed to be. Meanwhile young indie developer make great games that are sometimes marvels of programming skills or have great quality gameplay. The days are only sad when you look at the rain.

@Journeyagain0

2 жыл бұрын

I feel you, I've been a Blizz Fan since 2005 but ever since the last several years, over the decade, their greed and lack of empathy towards the gaming community has gotten worse and worse. What got me to put the final nail in the coffin for me is when news rose up how they treated their employees, specially, towards how treat their female coworkers. I quit WoW, Overwatch, and deleted battlenet after that.

Time for the company to pay.... by laying off low level workers rather than cutting executive bonuses

@vallejomach6721

2 жыл бұрын

Bobby needs another yacht.

@steve112285

2 жыл бұрын

Who needs programmers and artists and writers?

HELL YES!!! I hope they lose even more money

@EmeraldMage7188

2 жыл бұрын

As the old saying goes “ vote with your wallet “

@admiralyeet6151

2 жыл бұрын

like any conflict with a rich enemy hit them in the wallet

@stupidragerantroastoftakes2981

2 жыл бұрын

I'm keeping my money and let'em ActiBlizz rot.

@jakeastside

2 жыл бұрын

Spoilers: they didn’t lose any money, only players. Sadly.

Every time Activision Blizzard fails it puts a smile on every gamers face.

@Red_MOON187

2 жыл бұрын

I want them to succeed, but NOT at the cost of our trust and goodwill. They deserve to face the consequences of their greed and terrible decisions.

@SteelShroom256

2 жыл бұрын

I'm getting more of a feeling of grim necessity out of this whole thing myself.

@milanpetrovic4952

2 жыл бұрын

"Gamers rise up"....

Good to Yong making daily videos! Keep up the good work calling out these greedy companies

@poggybiscuit862

2 жыл бұрын

Maximillianmus simps need to be ended. Below the standard of living.

All the big gaming publishers are losing players. I blame bad/lazy developments- sleazy business practices.

@Demonsouls1993

2 жыл бұрын

sadly most devs arent lazy or bad its the publishers telling them what to do and not to do most devs just want to make a good game for us to enjoy but publishers want to push the greedy bullshit and release games that arent ready

@fakeperson9788

2 жыл бұрын

@@Demonsouls1993 343, Dice/Frostbite, Treyarch. Those are Devs under big publisher companies, that have given horrible responses to the failures of their recent game. Most people have seen the Publishers push blame around and make excuses, reading patch notes and reading updates by the devs shows they are also to blame.

It’s satisfying beyond words to watch karma come back and screw over Activision Blizzard for all their corporate buffoonery

@alewis514

2 жыл бұрын

but how this is screwing them over? They're still making millions. Those select few elites have so much money that they'll never run out of it, even if they move onto a yacht full of hookers and cocaine. It's screwing over regular employees of these companies if anything. They'll lose their jobs.

I'm a huge blizzard fanboy. Grew up with warcraft, StarCraft, all the greats. I'm also a COD fan. I've stopped playing all of Activision blizz games since the launch of diablo immortal. It was the last straw.

@shadowninja6689

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't given them a cent since they announced Diablo Immoral because of how tone-deaf it showed them to be. Pretty much all of the games Blizzard still supports are being screwed up in some major way at this point, and Diablo Immoral shows that things won't get any better when Blizzard's leadership is this tone deaf as to what kind of games fans want.

I'm still rolling my eyes at the Diablo streamers and the Diablo community who are tripping over themselves in their excitement over D4. You would think after Blizzard's last few releases taking up so many of the top ten worst games in metacritic history, and then Immortal as the icing on the cake, that there would be even some slight hesitation but nope. I can't really blame Blizzard for their sub par quality as of late when their consumer base is so mindless and subservient. Why put any effort in at all when you can do the absolute bare minimum and your consumers will still rush to buy preorders no matter how bad the quality of your product, nor how badly you treat those consumers.

@judyh3707

2 жыл бұрын

Don't blame the victim (it's not ActiBlizz)

@yoshiiscool2002

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing im seeing with the overwatch youtubers

@yurikendal4868

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah hype is a great drug. I find hype over rated and the click bait obscene

@Justacheese

2 жыл бұрын

@@yurikendal4868 Clickbait is the worst. Paired with hype its terrible. I got hyped over an update to a game I used to play. The whole update flopped and the promised features were pathetic compared to what the playerbase was promised. It wasn't a fun experience for me at all.

@HarbingerOfRespite

2 жыл бұрын

@@yoshiiscool2002 There comes a point when one ceases to be a victim and becomes complacent in their own abuse. Yes, technically they are still a victim, but they are also their own abuser.

If they can’t get schools of fish, they can subsist off of whaling instead. Until that changes, nothing will.

@Ragnarok540

2 жыл бұрын

There are not enough whales. But I can imagine them focusing on those players that have unlimited money.

For me it was an easy decision; spend a hundred grand on Diablo Immortal, or spend £18 buying Diablo 3 for my Switch on eBay which is a complete and superior product right out of the box. I made my choice and stand by it

@flimermithrandir

2 жыл бұрын

Give Path of Exile a Try. You may need to look up Guides for it to get into it because its really complex but i would assume you can do that later as well. Its the Way better Version of a Free Game.

@alewis514

2 жыл бұрын

@@flimermithrandir this is the main problem with POE. "you may need to look up guides for it" is propably the worst line of advice you can give to a new player that is interested in trying it. This line alone completely kills his / her interest. It's like a really bad pickup line spoken by a wasted incel in a club. I do play POE and consider it a better game than D3. Maybe even the best ARPG on the market right now. But it's way too complicated and it doesn't communicate itself well to the player. Players hate having to rely on 3rd party resources in order to succeed at the game.

@flimermithrandir

2 жыл бұрын

@@alewis514 Then thats that. I dont play it so i dont care. You either look into it or dont. I really dont care since i wont start playing it myself. But i still think its the Way better Option even if it takes a little bit to get into it. If you cant do even that since the Game is Literally for free as well… then so be it.

This is the best news I've heard in a long time. Thanks for delivering it.

They killed Crash, Spyro, HoTS and recently TH Proskater for all hands on deck with Immortal, D4, WoW, CoD, Overwatch.. im not even sure they will want to continue Starcraft or kill it off too. When you really think about it, all these titles they have on life support has a live service attached to them in one form or another, kinda like EA backing its games as a service.

@thespectraldogg1277

2 жыл бұрын

And I thought E.A was the only one that ruins and kills off the ips.

This is the best news I've heard this year in the gaming sector.

Immortal's going to be interesting to watch, long term. From what I understand, it's already underperforming in comparison to where Diablo 3 was back at launch. At a certain level, it doesn't really matter whether the game is F2P or not, if the game can't match the sales numbers of a traditional box release, it's going to say volumes about the future of F2P titles.

The sad thing is that people still waste money on that shit and give them confirmation

@aahzmandiaz2767

2 жыл бұрын

These whales are part of the problem. Some of them need serious help for their addiction.

@silent0089

2 жыл бұрын

@@aahzmandiaz2767 i wanna wish they gonna living on streets and regretting what they done they're too late to change

GOOD! I hope that everyone working there finds better jobs at less crappy companies and that Activision Blizzard's value drops so low that they get sold to someone else that will manage their IP better than they have.

@The_Highlander001

2 жыл бұрын

You do know Microsoft is buying them right?

Bad news for bad companies is good news for us.

I am a gamer. I have studied game development. I love games. And I just want the entire gaming industry to come crumbling down so they have a reason to start over. The same for much of capitalism though. Long as they get away with it, they will keep being their worst selves. For they have no reason not to be. Despicable.

The microsoft aquisition couldnt come sooner. May it go through and bring Blizzard to a new age of better management and less predatory practices.

@aahzmandiaz2767

2 жыл бұрын

Microsoft will lose big time in this "deal"

@vallejomach6721

2 жыл бұрын

@@aahzmandiaz2767 Clueless.

Good job, Agent 47. You've convinced 47 million players to live and made several key members of Activision take an "extended vacation". I'm joking, this is not a threat.

love that Activision gutting and throwing all their studios at COD is finally biting them in the ass. Well deserved for doing such a dumb thing.

@iandubs4560

2 жыл бұрын

Cod should of died a decade ago. Dhit franchise

They don't really make games anymore, and endorse hurting their own employees. They deserve to lose everything. Good on players for not continuing to endorse what Activision is doing. The developers that continue to work there are trash.

Can we say that things went to HELL??? Thank you, thank you, I'll be selling t-shirt in the lobby.

I mean diablo immortal is literally a scam and Cod Vanguard was made by brainless minions who don’t even know what WW1-WW2 even means, but ay let me equip my Purple robot Skin in a WW1 game. And here I was thinking Cold War was a bad cod game but that game compared to this is literally like godsend, just proves that sledgehammer is no where near a good company, even when Treyarch gets the short end of the stick and only has less then a year to make a game, it still comes out better then sledgehammers games that are in dev for multiple years. And back to blizzard I mean like what is there to even say about them 💀

idk why this mans outro's have me chuckling every time, his voice changes and it gets all I guess enthusiastic, but its amusing

ABK needs to fail. These major publishers are a drain on the gaming industry. Throw in the towel, let the independent developers/small businesses fight for your wallet. I've had more fun with Bad North, FTL, and Into the Breach than I've had with all of ABK combined for years.

I'm glad I missed out on buying Overwatch 1.5 founders pack for the Sombra skin.

I guess time to quadruple the prices to upgrade in Diablo Immortal to help compensate the loss!

I Feel bad for all the game devs and everyday hard working people in those buildings who got into this to do their dream job - but for companies who run things into the ground and put them in constant fear or layoffs

Today's Game Devs: "We're losing money, people aren't playing our games" Players: "How about making games we'd like to play instead of churning out the same old crap every year and monetizing it to hell and back?" Today Game Devs: "No, it's players fault we're not making money."

@stupidragerantroastoftakes2981

2 жыл бұрын

Players: Don't you put that on us. you made the game for the whales to kill your player base.

Great news!

Yeah… That was absolutely the right time to pay a record setting amount for this crumbling pile of garbage… 🤦🏻‍♂️ Well done MS. You guys definitely know perfectly well what the hell you’re doing 👍

us old time gamers saw this coming in 2010. their move to games-as-service is the problem. their focus on online gaming is the problem. their older games came out with lots of weapons and quite a few maps and usually single player campaigns. they got rid of that because they wanted to focus on the game lasting 2-4 years not realizing if everyone finishes your game in the first 2 months, when you release your next map in 6 months, people will be on the next game already. they kept cutting content saying "its a live game, we will just release it in a month or 2" which then kept getting delayed and delayed resulting in really poor initial offerings. then causing them to start failing on all their "roadmaps" because they kept telling themselves, "release now, patch it later" would work long term.

Good... they need to realize scummy monetization is not the way to go. It has been too "in your face" with them the past few years, especially Diablo Immoral: the Out of Season April Fool's Joke.

I'm sure Microsoft will clean all of this up completely and we'll get nothing but good things from Acti-Blizz once they are assimilated .... heavy /s here, in case that wasn't clear

@Alex-vf8ww

2 жыл бұрын

this but not sarcastically being as Microsoft is the best publisher in the game right now

@pizzagamecube2564

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alex-vf8ww If Bobby Psykotick is staying, I'm skeptical of how much things will change there. Here's hoping.

@conor6436

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Alex-vf8ww biggest load of bullshit condensed into one single sentence, bravo XD

@Alex-vf8ww

2 жыл бұрын

@@conor6436 ? they won publisher of the year in 2021

Unfortunately I'm convinced all this does is persuade them to abandon traditional games and accelerate towards even more monetization.

@poggybiscuit862

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Yet these kids in the comment section celebrating like they understand something lol 🤦

As they close the skill gap to make the games more inclusive, they also make them less fun and rewarding. As a player gets better they should see an improvement, but this is not the case because restrictive matchmaking and skill nerfs actually make it feel as though you are regressing. It's been getting progressively worse since COD WW2.

I fear that this downturn in ActiBlizz's fortunes will mean more layoffs for their devs. I know that a couple of high-profile senior leads have already left the WoW team in the last few days, though it's unclear if they quit or were let go. One of the easiest ways to make your company look better is by cutting your spending, which means dropping employees. It's a complicated feeling when you don't want people to lose their jobs, but also don't want the company to get rich through anti-consumer practices. It's like Actiblizz is holding hostage innocent devs

I wonder if the joining between Activision and MS turned off their PlayStation audience

Good. More people are finally waking up and seeing Activision for who they really are.

Can’t wait to hear about the mass layoffs Activision will undergo from this.

@poggybiscuit862

2 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with you...?

now even in videogames it has become rich vs poor. why cant us humans be on an even playing field for at least THIS? it's so pathetic..........

I stopped playing WOW at Legion expansion. To me that is where the story should have been wrapped up as the Legion have been the "Big Bad" for 20 years. Now they just force expansion after expansion with even bigger "Big Bad's" and the plot now is just a mess. Also it would take 1000s of hours for a new player to run through all of WOW's content. Overwatch was fun for 6 months and then i moved onto other shooters. Overwatch 2 looks more of the same. Diablo 4 is really the only title i was looking forward too from Blizzard, and even that looks in doubt now with some of the new systems that game has. Blizzard, Dice and Rockstar were my favourite game studios for 20 years and now all of them seem to be falling apart.

@alewis514

2 жыл бұрын

legion expansion was also the end of my persistent subscription. From that expansion onwards I just played on and off. A month here, two months there. Breaks are very long, I quit the game in March of 2021 and haven't played a second since then.

Power to the people! Gamers rising up to say FU to corporations wasting our time and trying to psychologically worm their way into our wallets is great to see.

I am totally surprised that supposedly unfashionable match 3 games are making so much money for the King division

There is a really big problem with this report. The only lesson ABK will take from this is that shit like Diablo Immortal is the way to be successful, and that is what they should pivot _all_ of their products to. It's gonna make things worse and I don't think there is a good solution for that.

@AI-hl5xl

2 жыл бұрын

but that is also a short term profit, eventually even those few people left who still around will said "ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT" and then left them alone without anyone to sell their products anymore

Diablo Immortal: short term gains, long term issues.

I've been a blizz fan since TBC days, the last 5 years have been.. rough lmao, it took me half of BFA to make me accept that it's over

@toof987

2 жыл бұрын

Been playing Blizzard games since Rock n Roll Racing in the early 90s on the SNES and playing Activision games on the Atari 2600 in the early 80s. To see how they have fallen over the decades is such a shame.

The collection is growing quite large, Yong. It is time to get a bigger shelf/ Display cases.

Crazy thing, those executives still aren't going to learn a damn thing🤦🏿‍♂️

It's going to be very interesting to see what happens when Microsoft takes the reigns next year

@sheeptasticSeb

2 жыл бұрын

M$ already said that they're gonna change nothing

@The_Highlander001

2 жыл бұрын

@@sheeptasticSeb Bobby Kotick is gone after Microsoft finishes acquiring Activision, it was reported in the Wall Street Journal, you can look that up.

It's like that injured meme "Injured? Good" Honestly after the shitstorm Activision has been brewing, I lost my faith on them, hope Microsoft gives them a wake up slap cus my God

Imagine that, a few hundred pay whales doesn’t equal millions of excited, enthusiastic regular customers. Who could’ve guessed?

Image if you spent $100k on a single character and sudden they go bankrupt.. There goes your $100k down the drain.

100 million is not enough because warzone generated billions of dollars same with cod mobile

@vallejomach6721

2 жыл бұрын

It really isn't a lot when it's compared with other mobile releases earnings over a similar time frame. I mean, depending on what estimates you look at, Genshin over the same time period raked in between two and four times as much according to various sources. They imagined it was going to do a LOT better than it has done...whereas, now...in all probability it's hit its peak and will only be downhill from here. I will be interested to see how they support it from here on out...there are those that still defend it and play it, and I just wonder how much content they're likely to see given the low numbers the game has done to date.

@cbgg1585

2 жыл бұрын

@@vallejomach6721 Ever heard of paragraphs?

@kevingame3198

2 жыл бұрын

@@vallejomach6721 like God knows how much money elden ring made

I would like to see Microsoft wiping out the Activision influence that creeps in and infects good properties. Not likely, Activision makes money (for now) but they also destroy good properties and Microsoft seems to be in the market for good properties.

This is good to hear.

Let's put it this way - if at the time of Diablo 2 (the original) someone told me, that Blizzard would end up as an exclusively mobile developer raking the easy mobile money, I would've asked, what was he on. Today I am well able to envision such a future.

At this point I'm more sympathetic towards these companies for being unable to understand how their actions are making things worse.. Either that or they're all just so far gone, they can't see or care for the immorality in their actions..

@judyh3707

2 жыл бұрын

Never feel bad for a corporation. They know what they're trying to do, and they fail to care.

@ObsidionshadowX

2 жыл бұрын

@@judyh3707 I don't actually feel sorry for them, I understand they know what they're doing.. they have multiple meetings about things before moving forward. I think it's just sad that for some reason companies can't just see what they're doing wrong and just genuinely improve. Lip service is great, but actions matter, and a compromise between profit and consumer friendly mentality can be made.. so why even do obvious things that would anger people? Just because of the potential in profit..

@cbgg1585

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao, ‘immorality’? Immorality is their mistreatment of workers, NOT implementing measures that affects their bottom line. ANY corporation in the world whether it is Kellogs , a powerhouse institution like Blackrock or a gaming company, these corporations exists for profits. If they can make money through legal means, even though it pushes the boundaries, how is that immoral. People know what a they are buying and as long as people stay engaged and unless they start losing out financially, WHY would they stop? We know they are still profiting heavily off Warzone. This is a dog eat dog world.

My thoughts and opinions on Activision's Decline into nothingness: "Good."

Who knew that screwing over and scamming your customers for short term gains would wind up hurting you long term because you drove all your customers off! I never would have seen that coming.

I feel both schadenfreude and worries. On one hand acti blitz deserved it but on the other hand as an up and coming game dev student who want to work at blitz as well as knowing a few people who works at acti blitz I’m really worried for them and the future.

Hell yeah. Even though I really liked MW 2019 and I was looking forward to a sequel, I think I'm gonna skip MWII. I just really don't wanna give Activition/Blizzard money that they don't deserve. If every Call of Duty comes to game pass next year, maybe THEN I'll play it. But until that happens, I'm not giving them a dime We're doing it! We're telling them that this shit is wrong!

@kriskater

2 жыл бұрын

I hear you… and I was just thinking the same thing

And THIS is why I'm not worried about Microsoft getting Activision/Blizzard

@Zarcaster

2 жыл бұрын

Ok Sonyboy

Nothing is immune to franchise fatigue, not even CoD. Every franchise has their tiring point.

Making a prophecy real quick. Once OW2 and D4 are released, they are going to lay off all those developers and then report massive profits.

Honestly cod vanguard was the worst game in cod history, i had more fun with ghost, AW and IW, im not excited for MW2 either as the first was really overrated for its animations I dont see any point in buying the same campaign and characters, same guns, same animations, same unrealistic and really slippery sliding and sprint boost game. I feel cold war was the last good cod. Like it wasn’t the best, but it felt the closest to true cod since like, what 2010?

When a gaming company lost that many players during a COVID year says a lot about the company.

I would love to see them shut down, like publishers do with studios that doesn’t perform well. I am so glad, that I am away from these brands as far as I can be. I congratulate every ex fan that decides «enough is enough». Vote with your wallet and don’t interact with their products. Forgetable remakes, sequels that are more like 1.5, the same game over and over again and slot machines that create addicts who lose more money than they get value out of. Thanks for reporting something good. I needed that.

Yikes that's a huge amount of players.

Oh no. Anyway