Kenpachii
Member
Could be bullshit but sounds about right so far what i read from it, totally possible.
In short blizzard is in dark water, because they fail to move forwards, have no vision and basically lose consumers from the left and the right but this is mainly about wow. There is little to no hype around wow anymore even while they made record profits with there token shop and mount shop, its not looking to good for them in the long run at this point.
Main issue's
- Shadowlands being a shitshow ( newest wow expansion )
- Sylvanas story going the wrong direction
- FF14 starting to become a real pain the ass for them and its not ignorable anymore.
- Tactics on releasing expansions
- Mood in the company being complete shit, people not liking eachother, devs going wild against playerbase
- Devs avoiding blizzard it has no longer the reach of being of the best devs in the industry but more "the bad guy". which results in poor talent streaming in which drag development down.
- Devs being placed in positions they are not comfortable in or good in, because talent jumps ship and they gotta fill those positions.
- Brain drain in the company, and lack of experience all around because of jumpers.
- 2021 is so far a really bad year for PR for WoW, media / playerbase / anything evolving the game has been turned in negative news.
- From "this is how blizzard is able to fix this and that" towards "wow is no longer salvagable" is a serious issue with the mindset devs but also players and media in general + influencers are having
- Forums are riddled with "why still pay a sub and final fantasy 14 talk" is a good indication wow is in trouble.
- Problems with voice actors
- Interviews seem to be provided with approved questions from blizzard which palyers note and basically damages the company indirect on top of it ( its all negative )
- FF14 is something blizzard tries to avoid any talk or any hints from because they feel like they are far above the game even while playerbase is tanking hard. Arrogance.
- Activision is breathing down there neck and people are jumping ship because they feel the cuts coming next year if shadowland isn't going to pick up and the next expansion isn't going to do some record numbers. ( nobody on the dev side evne has faith in that )
- Blizzard moved into panic mode after there disasterious "don't u have a mobile conference".
- Forbidding devs to talk to consumers on twitter because it has been a shit show entirely.
- Asmongold seems to have a big impact on the company and it pisses devs but also blizzard itself off that one person that plays there game can have such huge amounts of impact on there product lineup, Dev groups consider asmongold "toxic masculinity and dog whistles to dangerous", while other groups of devs consider him, "saying like it is and and based"
- Probably moving more into mobile space in order to see if they can dig up that market which was already known.
In short its a shit show and frankly not suprising, we all know blizzard is moving down the drain the once so iconic PC dev that carried PC gaming on there shoulders and even gave us a peak into the future, is now a corpse that bleeds dry and has straight up nothing going on for it anymore other then milk there past success and even that people are tired off more and more it seems like specifically wow.
In mine opinion what blizzad needs to do is.
1) Move to consoles, make a console version of the game and even a mobile version. even if they look different and perform, they can always have there own servers its a good market they could dig into.
2) Hire company's and talent ( spend money to make money ) but also hire outside company's to co develop games with them and push them into the next generation
3) Make 2 mmo's one releases in 3-4 years, another one in 7-8 years from now ( long term plans )
4) Dablo 4 high budget game, dont rush it make it good and higih quality
5) Start making a high budget Starcraft 3
6) Revamp heroes of the storm or even make a second version of it
7) Produce new games and ip's a handful of them.
8) Replace there entire management team that sits at the top and get people with vision or hire them from outside other company's or even internal from people that do have idea's and push them forwards.
9) crossover games with sony/nintendo and push them also on consoles. To get free advertisement for your ip's.
10) start a big mobile division.
11) Make a new warcraft 4 with high budget going on for that one.
In short blizzard is in dark water, because they fail to move forwards, have no vision and basically lose consumers from the left and the right but this is mainly about wow. There is little to no hype around wow anymore even while they made record profits with there token shop and mount shop, its not looking to good for them in the long run at this point.
Main issue's
- Shadowlands being a shitshow ( newest wow expansion )
- Sylvanas story going the wrong direction
- FF14 starting to become a real pain the ass for them and its not ignorable anymore.
- Tactics on releasing expansions
- Mood in the company being complete shit, people not liking eachother, devs going wild against playerbase
- Devs avoiding blizzard it has no longer the reach of being of the best devs in the industry but more "the bad guy". which results in poor talent streaming in which drag development down.
- Devs being placed in positions they are not comfortable in or good in, because talent jumps ship and they gotta fill those positions.
- Brain drain in the company, and lack of experience all around because of jumpers.
- 2021 is so far a really bad year for PR for WoW, media / playerbase / anything evolving the game has been turned in negative news.
- From "this is how blizzard is able to fix this and that" towards "wow is no longer salvagable" is a serious issue with the mindset devs but also players and media in general + influencers are having
- Forums are riddled with "why still pay a sub and final fantasy 14 talk" is a good indication wow is in trouble.
- Problems with voice actors
- Interviews seem to be provided with approved questions from blizzard which palyers note and basically damages the company indirect on top of it ( its all negative )
- FF14 is something blizzard tries to avoid any talk or any hints from because they feel like they are far above the game even while playerbase is tanking hard. Arrogance.
- Activision is breathing down there neck and people are jumping ship because they feel the cuts coming next year if shadowland isn't going to pick up and the next expansion isn't going to do some record numbers. ( nobody on the dev side evne has faith in that )
- Blizzard moved into panic mode after there disasterious "don't u have a mobile conference".
- Forbidding devs to talk to consumers on twitter because it has been a shit show entirely.
- Asmongold seems to have a big impact on the company and it pisses devs but also blizzard itself off that one person that plays there game can have such huge amounts of impact on there product lineup, Dev groups consider asmongold "toxic masculinity and dog whistles to dangerous", while other groups of devs consider him, "saying like it is and and based"
- Probably moving more into mobile space in order to see if they can dig up that market which was already known.
In short its a shit show and frankly not suprising, we all know blizzard is moving down the drain the once so iconic PC dev that carried PC gaming on there shoulders and even gave us a peak into the future, is now a corpse that bleeds dry and has straight up nothing going on for it anymore other then milk there past success and even that people are tired off more and more it seems like specifically wow.
In mine opinion what blizzad needs to do is.
1) Move to consoles, make a console version of the game and even a mobile version. even if they look different and perform, they can always have there own servers its a good market they could dig into.
2) Hire company's and talent ( spend money to make money ) but also hire outside company's to co develop games with them and push them into the next generation
3) Make 2 mmo's one releases in 3-4 years, another one in 7-8 years from now ( long term plans )
4) Dablo 4 high budget game, dont rush it make it good and higih quality
5) Start making a high budget Starcraft 3
6) Revamp heroes of the storm or even make a second version of it
7) Produce new games and ip's a handful of them.
8) Replace there entire management team that sits at the top and get people with vision or hire them from outside other company's or even internal from people that do have idea's and push them forwards.
9) crossover games with sony/nintendo and push them also on consoles. To get free advertisement for your ip's.
10) start a big mobile division.
11) Make a new warcraft 4 with high budget going on for that one.
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