Why Does Everyone Hate Blizzard?

[Bubble Tea Bunny]

I’ve noticed a growing wave of negativity towards Activision Blizzard, and as someone who’s not terminally online, I’m a bit out of the loop. Can anyone shed some light on why there seems to be such widespread hate for the company? All insights are appreciated!

[Sel Und Irae]

引用自 PopCornFlakes：

引用自 Sel Und Irae：

You know why people hate them?

Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne.

Where is it blizzard? Where's the product i paid for and why is it auto updating to Reforged?
Hello? Blizzard? Where's my product?

Reforged casually destroyed World Editor; Y'know that thing that made Custom Maps?
1 Trigger became 9 that all do slightly different things but if you don't pick the right one? Trigger doesn't work. Thus, Everyone either adapted to Vjass or Lua or just left the game completely.

The Frozen Throne had 10x the users Reforged has on a good day, They killed a game for no reason and didn't deliver on over half the promises. We are still lacking tons of features only just recently got clans.

Yes ,i hate to have to download 30 Go to play Warcraft III vanilla too , oe of their best game . Will never buy Reforged , i dont like the remaster style

Half my friends did that too, The Anime Community used to be LIT we had stuff like this; https://youtu.be/rrKv60ree6A?t=169 (Skip to 2:50 if video doesn't auto start there) and now you never see it, The Anime Community pretty much died overnight and all went to the emulated The Frozen Throne.

I'm waiting for them to plug pull on Reforged and then i'll probably do the same cause i paid for the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ product and i'm getting my use of it.

[Bubble Tea Bunny]

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[Knud den Store 🧙‍♂]

引用自 Vincent：

引用自 Xiane：

1. During a blizzcon when they announced a mobile game Diablo instead of D4 the crowd universally boo'd and heckled them to heck and back. Their response? "Do you all not have phones?"

2. To sell digital product they reskinned Overwatch, slapped a 2 on it, killed the servers for it and didn't let any of your skins, bought or earned, transfer over. They also based the sequel on it having an ARPG PvE component down the line. They were still promoting that feature for a good year and a half AFTER it was officially cancelled internally and announced then later publicly they couldn't do it..

3. They 'remastered' Warcraft 3. They did the BARE MINIMUM with the remaster to sell it to fans for the full price. 90% of the promised features, weren't there, such to the fact blizzard had to take down the original advertisement website to not get charged with bait and switch.

4. Diablo 4 released with no endgame (Do nightmare dungeons forever to get the exact same loot you're wearing except the variable bonus %s might be 1 or 2 points better), broken mechanics (Resistences are only NOW being fixed, being chain stunned by mob CC is a thing, weak as tissue paper world bosses, whenever a player is on screen your game loads their entire likely filled stashes, weak classes getting nerfed, strong classes being nerfed, seasons that promote new enemies which are reskins of old enemies... the list is extensive), a whale in game shop (most armor sets are 20-30 bucks american, horse armor is around 10), always online, Nightmare dungeons are literally all the same - the texture set varies but the layouts are 100% copy and paste, the campaign can legitly be finished at level 30-40... level cap is 100.

And that's just the blizzard side of things. Add activision and then there's the mire that is CoD.

Not to mention the whole, sexually harassing an employee until she killed herself (as well as the sexual harassment of many other women employees) and the rape of another, all of which was known and covered up by Bob Kotick personally.

Is this one true? because it came at the time where lawsuits like these were exploding all over.

[Bubble Tea Bunny]

Idk man, im 100% sure that you guys wouldnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about any of this if they released a really good game, you would buy it anyway and love it, you just love to hate and Blizzard is an easy target and rightfully so

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Money > fun.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

引用自 Bubble Tea Bunny：

Idk man, im 100% sure that you guys wouldnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about any of this if they released a really good game, you would buy it anyway and love it, you just love to hate and Blizzard is an easy target and rightfully so

But they haven't released a "really good game" in over 20 years.

[Jolly Devil]

You don’t have to be terminally online to dislike blizzard. Their horrible monetization practices are pretty obvious. They want to exploit their audience for everything they can instead of trying to build, or in their case keep, a community where people want to play in droves. Instead they do anti consumer practices and actively go against what fans want so they can increase the grind. Blizzards 2023 moto has basically been, kept them content but never happy.

TLDR; shareholders ruin gaming

[AutumnWolf]

Because this company has to many Predatory practices in a bunch of their games and after making literal BILLIONS of dollars they are still begging us to open our wallets. I mean its all over D4 and youve got to be crazy to sit here and argue against it.

[Bubble Tea Bunny]

引用自 LadyOfDarkness：

Because this company has to many Predatory practices in a bunch of their games and after making literal BILLIONS of dollars they are still begging us to open our wallets. I mean its all over D4 and youve got to be crazy to sit here and argue against it.

It is? Isnt it only skins and a BP which no one needs?

[Tommy Wiseau]

From what i understand u cant play overwatch 1 online anymore which everyone loved and overwatch 2 is subpar, i think OW style games are garbage through and through but thats just me. On and they copy and paste the same COD game every year and release it for $70

[Feels Good..]

引用自 Bubble Tea Bunny：

Idk man, im 100% sure that you guys wouldnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about any of this if they released a really good game, you would buy it anyway and love it, you just love to hate and Blizzard is an easy target and rightfully so

They'd have to release a good game first.

[Cyberaapje]

引用自 Chrollo：

wallet vampires

So same like every other company.
Welcome to the gaming industry (of today).

[tikiman572]

For me, hate is a particularly strong word when it comes to Blizzard. I don't hate them, per se; I hate what they have become, which is a mockery of what made them so great in the first place. I'm disappointed that they have fallen so hard, so fast, and seem utterly incapable of recognizing and acknowledging their failures. This is the same company that famously canceled Titan and claimed that despite the work they had put into initially developing it, they ultimately realized it wouldn't work the way they wanted to. I can guarantee you all if that Titan was being developed today? They would GLADLY release that thing into the wild despite their own internal testing telling them all that it just wouldn't be a fun experience for anyone to play.

Their failures are numerous at this point, with the one that is closest to me being how they took WoW from being the greatest MMO out on the market to just barely treading water thanks to an ocean's worth of incompetent and short sighted design decisions. They've had to pull the plug on two expansions early because of how bad things got (Warlords of Draenor and Shadowlands) and have only NOW just realized that basing an entire expansion's content on borrowed power mechanics that DON'T carry over into the next expansion is not a great idea long term. There's the horrendous storytelling (who thought Discount Thanos was a good idea over there?), the predatory monetization with the WoW token more or less legitimizing RMT in the game and causing all sorts of botting and gold farming problems, Cross-Realm Zoning, or CRZ, to help simulate the feeling of a player filled world but ends up causing more problems than solving them, and so much more. I am so glad I left prior to Warlords of Draenor launching, when I saw the writing on the wall when they started cutting originally announced features to that expansion on a scale hitherto unseen before. I remember my last words fondly on the forums before I left, warning people of what was to come, even though myself and others were treated as pariahs and doomsayers at the time for calling out that something was wrong: "On a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of savagery (their tagline for Warlords of Draenor) where 10 is Macho Man Randy Savage savagely tearing into his enemies as though they were Slim Jims and 1 being Fred Savage from the Wonder Years just being Fred Savage, you all are looking towards 1 and a half years to 2 years of Warlords of the Wonder Years."

And, wouldn't you know it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0bK-vUlw6M

[Bubble Tea Bunny]

引用自 tikiman572：

For me, hate is a particularly strong word when it comes to Blizzard. I don't hate them, per se; I hate what they have become, which is a mockery of what made them so great in the first place. I'm disappointed that they have fallen so hard, so fast, and seem utterly incapable of recognizing and acknowledging their failures. This is the same company that famously canceled Titan and claimed that despite the work they had put into initially developing it, they ultimately realized it wouldn't work the way they wanted to. I can guarantee you all if that Titan was being developed today? They would GLADLY release that thing into the wild despite their own internal testing telling them all that it just wouldn't be a fun experience for anyone to play.

Their failures are numerous at this point, with the one that is closest to me being how they took WoW from being the greatest MMO out on the market to just barely treading water thanks to an ocean's worth of incompetent and short sighted design decisions. They've had to pull the plug on two expansions early because of how bad things got (Warlords of Draenor and Shadowlands) and have only NOW just realized that basing an entire expansion's content on borrowed power mechanics that DON'T carry over into the next expansion is not a great idea long term. There's the horrendous storytelling (who thought Discount Thanos was a good idea over there?), the predatory monetization with the WoW token more or less legitimizing RMT in the game and causing all sorts of botting and gold farming problems, Cross-Realm Zoning, or CRZ, to help simulate the feeling of a player filled world but ends up causing more problems than solving them, and so much more. I am so glad I left prior to Warlords of Draenor launching, when I saw the writing on the wall when they started cutting originally announced features to that expansion on a scale hitherto unseen before. I remember my last words fondly on the forums before I left, warning people of what was to come, even though myself and others were treated as pariahs and doomsayers at the time for calling out that something was wrong: "On a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of savagery (their tagline for Warlords of Draenor) where 10 is Macho Man Randy Savage savagely tearing into his enemies as though they were Slim Jims and 1 being Fred Savage from the Wonder Years just being Fred Savage, you all are looking towards 1 and a half years to 2 years of Warlords of the Wonder Years."

And, wouldn't you know it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0bK-vUlw6M

cool

[Cosmo 🐲]

引用自 Bubble Tea Bunny：

I’ve noticed a growing wave of negativity towards Activision Blizzard, and as someone who’s not terminally online, I’m a bit out of the loop. Can anyone shed some light on why there seems to be such widespread hate for the company? All insights are appreciated!

For me its simple, i feel cheated and scammed.

They release unfinished products that dosnt live up to what they promise, they monetize a 70€ game in ways that only have a place in free to play games, they even nerf game mechanics to make the grind bigger, so that more people will have to pay 10€ on top of the 70€ they payed, for a grind fest.

But if you got time, try watching this, it gives way more detail than i can write here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uEKI_u4eMQ