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If Activision Blizzard disappeared from the gaming industry and all their IPS and franchises, would you miss them? Let's say they were Thanos snapped going forward. They won't be making future titles, etc. Companies dead, reputation in the gutter, their executives are all fucking scumbags, etc.
Would you miss them at all if they up and vanished from the gaming industry?

What would your reaction be?

Good riddance?
Fuck'em
I don't play their games anyways?
All their games are fucking exploitative cash grabs anyways, they won't be missed? etc.
Their game franchises should be owned by a different company?

What's your response?

Curious to see what GAF personally thinks.

 

[Kilau]

Ok, now that the unrelated FF7 image is gone…

I personally wouldn’t miss anything they do but I’m not for all those IPs just vanishing.

 

[Aenima]

Dont really care. I dont play any games from them for a long time, last game i played was Diablo 3 last gen.
I dont really want them to die, i want them to see the criticism against them and get better.

 

[DoomGyver]

Another company would just fill the void.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

Yes I would miss Diablo and Starcraft. The rest aren't my thing. Although I did play a bunch of Overwatch, but not anymore and I don't care for a sequel.

 

[Kerotan]

Call of duty Modern Warfare 2019 a classic.

Outbreak zombies in cold war was good.

Good cod campaigns.

Warzone the best BR the last 2 years.

Next year modern Warfare 2 will be epic.

Not to mention future crash and spyro games. So yes they would be a big loss.

 

[Hexa]

10 years ago I would, but now? Nah. Don't care in the slightest though I suppose I lean towards letting them die just to see who takes their place. The replacement may be just as bad, but it's worth a try.

 

[just_like_that]

no and goodbye

 

[captainraincoat]

take two would fill the void I think

 

[Jennings]

I've already played enough of them, I'm fine not playing them again. Let them die.

 

[Tschumi]

Their best work is done, torrent it all and let them die

 

[R6Rider]

Voted no. I like the Tony Hawk games, but we got the Remaster and that's enough for me.

 

[lefty1117]

Just because people are mad at the company now shouldn't erase all of the great franchises they've created over the years. Yes I think no more COD, no more Diablo or Warcraft or Starcraft stuff ... yeah I think people would start to miss that pretty hard and the nostalgaz would kick in

 

[ReBurn]

Probably

 

[Topher]

Blizzard, yes. Activision, no. Mergers and acquisitions are not always a good thing.

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

I only liked OverWatch for a time, but they let it die. Don't care about the rest.

 

[SZips]

That company has been largely dead to me for a while anyway. Their BS lately just ensures I'll not be tempted to support them.

I used to somewhat enjoy the CoD franchise for both the SP and MP. I can't keep up really with the MP anymore so I probably wouldn't even play that. As for the SP, I can just watch someone else play through to save me the $60+.

I used to love WoW but as with most things, I fell off of that one. I sometimes get a real strong urge to play it and I'll re-sub here and there for maybe a month or two at a time, but I haven't done that now for since September 2019 (according to my email).

Overwatch died off real fast for my friends and I ages ago. Couldn't care less about Overwatch 2.

Was excited for Diablo IV. I mostly had fun with Diablo III. Didn't bother with the recent Diablo II release because fuck them.

Sell the Tony Hawk franchise to a studio that would actually make something of it (besides just a remake), then they can go under overnight for all I care.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Crash and Spyro are my homies. That being said.. I didnt buy the recent Crash. So maybe it doesn’t matter.

 

[Javthusiast]

Only game I ever truly cared about from them was Overwatch and the let it die for Overwatch 2 nonsense.

So I am pretty indifferent.

Edit: Oh we talking Activision too. Well it's not like they will bring Guitar Hero back. Vicarious was put into Blizzard instead of making new Tony Hawk remakes, Cod is stale as fuck and I had my Crash fix, so yeah, still indifferent.

 

[Sean Mirrsen]

If it were just the games in the OP, I'd be perfectly fine with them being gone.

However there's one game still dear to my heart, from way back - Rock'n'Roll Racing.
I would not want to lose that, even if it meant StarCraft going away and ceding its place in RTS history to Total Annihilation.

 

[bentanchorbolt]

I don’t play their games, haven’t in years.

 

[IFireflyl]

They've done nothing innovative or exciting in a decade or more. Let them burn, and then scatter their ashes.

 

[HTK]

Been playing CoD since early 2000's and now they have the best BR, that alone for me is worth it. Not to mention StarCraft and Diablo, I grew up with these games. I feel like this thread is just let's hate on Activision/Blizzard, I understand they have a lot of issues but they have produced some amazing stuff the last 20 years and nobody can deny that.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Fucking them taking games off of Steam! Fuck Battle Net! Fuck COD using a 1998 Engine!
Fuck wasting High Moon Studios/Transformers! Fuck all of there franchises except the former HMS/Transformers and Sekiro,Starcraft.

Fuck them!

 

[arvfab]

Farewell party when?

 

[Frayed Ends of Sanity]

I'd greatly miss the orange marsupial. But other than that, throw them with the wolves in the throne room.

 

[MightySquirrel]

The last games I enjoyed from them was CoD 4 [2007] and Star Craft 2 [2010] so in a sense both of these stopped existing over 10 years ago.

 

[TransTrender]

 

[Kittehkraken]

That Blizzard magic is long gone.

 

[njean777]

I would miss COD and Diablo

 

[01011001]

THPS is gaming history and the remake was fantastic.

so yes, I would miss them.

 

[LordBlodgett]

I care about Diablo, StarCraft, Warcraft, and I enjoyed the Crash games. Unfortunately, I'm not sure Activision cares enough to make a good StarCraft or Warcraft again. Them disappearing from the industry would be fine, their IPs would probably love on anyway

 

[BigBooper]

They've got a huge catalog of old IP that I'd definitely miss so yes I'dmiss them. If you mean only their upcoming games disappeared, no I haven't been into their stuff for a while.

 

[Griffon]

Blizzard is history.

 

[Black_Stride]

THPS is gaming history and the remake was fantastic.

so yes, I would miss them.

We are talking about going forward not counting the past, cuz hell Call of Duty alone added so much to the gaming industry.

Literally the only Activision Blizzard game ive played in forever is the THPS 1+2 remake.
Without THPS Im actually kinda shocked I dont give a fuck about Activison Blizzard.

And just so you can feel my pain and hate Activision Blizzard more.....Vicarious Visions the developers of THPS 1+2.....well, lets just say they wont be make anymore of those games.

Activision Blizzard can fuck right off, I sleep like a baby if they disappear tomorrow.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Big downer for me. COD and Diablo are great. Lots of imitators, but none beat them. Funny too since these games arent the best looking, best sounding and the storylines are either cookie cutter (COD) or non-existent (Diablo). But it goes to show if you got smooth gameplay thats fun, you dont need the best tech.

The rest of the franchises I dont care.

 

[Shubh_C63]

Personally, don't care much. Warcraft/Starcraft is dead. Diablo is the only one.

For gaming industry though : Cod, Overwatch are too huge and aren't easily replaceable.

 

[adamsapple]

No.

None of those franchises do anything special for me.

 

[Y0ssarian]

I might miss Diablo. Otherwise, nah, they can go

 

[nkarafo]

Well, lets see:

Starcraft 1 > Starcraft 2

Diablo 2 > Diablo 3

WoW Vanilla > WoW + expansions


Nah, i stopped caring about them and their games a long time ago.

 

[Fare thee well]

The thing is, you should already miss them if you ever loved them when they were at their apex. They have already been dead for quite some time. The denial just runs long and strong.

It's like saying anything today by EA still represents Maxis. Not a fat chance.

 

[Kagey K]

Less games to choose from is always a negative, not sure why some here want to celebrate it.

I want more games from everybody all the time.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Yes i like some of their game

Diablo

Crash

Spyro

Call of Duty ( not every cod game)

Guitar Hero

StarCraft

Im here waiting for Diablo 4

 

[Elysium712]

For me, no. There are multiple replacements for some of Blizzard IPs, if they did croak I wouldn't be bothered, personally.

 

[Banjo64]

Only good thing they’ve done since Modern Warfare 1&2 is the Crash trilogy, Crash 4, Spyro trilogy and Tony Hawks remaster. And then they put the Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions devs, the only good devs under their umbrella, on CoD/Blizzard properties.

I’ve played Overwatch for a decent amount of time, it’s just unbalanced and unfun.

Acti are just muppets.

 

[RafterXL]

There are a couple franchises I still care about. The problem is, I don't trust current Blizzard with anything, so them going away is probably superior to whatever they finally manage to shit out. Basically, good riddance. Besides, someone else would swoop in and buy the few IPs worth saving.

 

[Coolwhhip]

I still hope Blizzard will go bankrupt. So they can sell Warcraft and World of Warcraft to a company that isn't complete shit.

They somehow managed to ruin Classic Wow, one of the best games of all time. All they had to do was re release it and take care of it, but within months it was swarmed by bots. They never took care of it. Despite Blizzard being absolute trash, Classic was still a huge hit in 2019. Then this year they release a new "season" of Classic Wow and managed to completely ruin it with bizarre nonsensical changes to the original game AND they still let bots go rampant. In addition to that, they went woke and removed "offensive" emotes, jokes, paintings and names.

Just a horrible, horrible company. Please go up in flames.

 

[SpongebobSquaredance]

Crash, Spyro and Tony Hawk is the reason I would say yes. I guess Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo are nice too, but I was never into those. Anyway, I am pretty sure that the devs who made those games would find a place even without Activision and the IP's would be just sold off THQ-style.

 

[LOLCats]

just diablo...

 

[420bits]

No, let the company die, they are living on old merits.

Blizzard got some amazing franchises but they don't know what to do with them, they can't pull it off. This titan of a house needs to die, not because of the lawsuits and what some people has done, but because they don't make great games anymore.
They lost touch and there is no solution on the horizon for Blizz to fix it.

Other studios needs to see that the gigantic house of Blizzard has fallen so they don't make the same mistakes.