Xexx
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I’d rather the brand just die at that point. Hopefully no female in your family has to go through that level of stupid just so you can play a video game.
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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I’d rather the brand just die at that point. Hopefully no female in your family has to go through that level of stupid just so you can play a video game.
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Man all of these "analysis of what killed blizzard" videos just blather about different monetization complaints and "bad communication" while avoiding the real issues: wearing out the old brands with the only innovation being to make them more woke and shitting on the source material. the same as in new movies, new TV series, and other games.
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Palum
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I think there's two stories that dovetail: what caused the initial cracks in the dam to form (bad management and those initial failed products) and then the shifting state religion tends to take care of the rest by replacing competent white men whenever the opportunity arises.
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Chris
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WoW reinforced the slow development cycle. Games didn't need to come out so they didn't.
This led to the staff who knew what they were doing for RTS and ARPG leaving. WoW also lost it's staff due to the sheer attrition of the time it's been out.
Meanwhile the staff who stayed started spending the money on nonsense like the Alliance/Horde themed motorcycle show, Activision's money grubbing clashed with this and they left too.
Now there's no Blizzard and the diversity hires are struggling to keep up.
This led to the staff who knew what they were doing for RTS and ARPG leaving. WoW also lost it's staff due to the sheer attrition of the time it's been out.
Meanwhile the staff who stayed started spending the money on nonsense like the Alliance/Horde themed motorcycle show, Activision's money grubbing clashed with this and they left too.
Now there's no Blizzard and the diversity hires are struggling to keep up.
TJT
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If you read the WoW dev diary the only reason the game even had a hard Horde/Alliance faction split was because some of the team were deep into DAOC at the time and thought it was awesome. Really interesting book by the way do recommend. Author was one of the map designers. Mordhaim got in a shouting match repeatedly with how the team wanted to design Ironforge and Undercity as he couldn't stand it. To him the Undercity should have been a labyrinth of twisting tunnels and catacombs because that would have been metal AF.
The original idea was to not bother with that and follow the model of letting players group and play with who they want.
The original idea was to not bother with that and follow the model of letting players group and play with who they want.
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TJT
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Yeah but note the more open circular design that UC and Ironforge have. It is ultimately more convenient this way rather than Stormwind or Orgrimmar. They moved to this design because the original fears of lagging out were unfounded with the efficiency of their network code.
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I recall reading articles back in the day with interviews with the devs - it really came from a hard PVP-oriented mindset, as they wanted to preserve the adversarial nature of the RTS games. That was one reason they took away the ability of the forsaken to be able to speak to the alliance back in beta. Of course, they got called out repeatedly because of how the WC3 story went and as a result it felt like they were constantly trying to reset the board in WoW.
I think part of the issue is the relation reset feels almost like a sitcom at this point, where all the events of the prior episode go largely forgotten. They frequently sacrifice character and lore development and story complexity to maintain the horde vs. alliance thing.
Utnayan
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This is exactly it. And the place is infested with DEI hires with zero talent. I would reckon at this point close to 85% of the place is filled with completely talentless hacks.
If any company wants to see what happens when the company "culture" goes this route, look no further than Blizzard and Ubisoft to see the not shocking at all results of what anyone with a pulse could have told you what would happen.
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spronk
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343 has rebranded to Halo Studios, multiple games in development with UE5.
with her in charge the future is bright at 343!
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I just look at a person like her and ask myself, how the fuck is she a gamer, or ever was? I mean, I might be wrong here and she could be a 3x champ, but holy hell appearance does not match.with her in charge the future is bright at 343!
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No tranny colors on her fag flag? That's not very inclusive of she/her.with her in charge the future is bright at 343!
That said, I definitely prefer someone like that only taking steaming shits on Halo (which is already dead anyway thanks to Infinite) instead of the previous position fucking up all of MS' first party stuff.
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Both my kids, which were huge COD enjoyers for years say this game is trash. Played the beta like a few hours and walked away. I asked whats wrong with it and they said movement was ass.
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Palum
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Vorph
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Did her company go under? That's a six month old story and I don't see anything in the news about Unleashed Games folding (unfortunately).