>no diablo 3 general, nobody plays it anymore even though they just released a big update >PUBG has more concurrent players than overwatch 24/7, overwatch interest at its lowest, pros leaving for CSGO due to bad balance and design >all time low world of warcraft subscription numbers >what was their other game? oh right starcraft i think? what's that?
is blizzards time over? are they finally fading away? what do you think they will release or announce at blizzcon to save themselves?
Financially Blizzard is doing fine. If they money runs out of their IPs they have more than enough to make something new. I think you need to calm down just a bit OP.
Cameron Ross
i don't give a shit about financially. literally all their games are at their lowest right now they've ever been.
Josiah Stewart
diablo never recovered from the launch and general boringness even though they kinda fried to fix it overwatch is their biggest mistake yet, they tried to make it contend against other e-athlete games and they failed massively, all of the updates they've released are shit, they take multiple months to just release 1 map/ 1 hero at a time (not skins though, buy more of those lootboxes, goy) wow has outlived its time and there's simply nothing to do anymore when shit like BDO exists i only play hots and it takes me 2 games to get bored and put it down for the day
Michael Scott
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Ryder Stewart
D3 did not release a "big update" there was no balance changes, all they did was add a few new tilesets and released necro as a pay 2 win character. Thats literally it.
Sebastian Cox
Isn't it funny how Blizzard's first sign of decline was named Cataclysm, rather ironic, don't you think?
Aaron Clark
THIS JUST IN: GAMES GET OLD! WOWWW
Jeremiah Walker
yes, see question in OP: >what do you think they will release or announce at blizzcon to save themselves?
Mason Peterson
>no diablo 3 general, nobody plays it anymore even though they just released a big update [citation needed] >PUBG has more concurrent players than overwatch 24/7, overwatch interest at its lowest, pros leaving for CSGO due to bad balance and design [citation needed] >all time low world of warcraft subscription numbers [citation needed]
Is 'guessing' the new 'facts'?
Hunter Cooper
really gets my noodles firin'
Kayden Jackson
WARCRAFT 3 REMASTERED BITCHES
Levi Martinez
really activates those almonds
Carter Gonzalez
came here to write the same
do you also have numbers or is it just wishful posting?
Carter Young
go look for a general in vg, there is none pubg has 300k+ concurrent players, overwatch has 200-250k do you really need citation for wow subs, it's not a secret and discussed every day
Dominic Kelly
don't forget they keep saying they are working on improving hearthstone and removing RNG, yet they do the opposite of what they say every time and instead add more RNG and bullshit mechanics that make game victories reliant on chance rather than player skill
Tyler Gray
next expansion at gamescom, probably a new game at blizzcon.
Possibly another RTS, since Dusting Browder is working on it
Isaac Wilson
>over year old MP only game still has about a quarter million concurrent players >current fad is outdoing it
it's almost like one is new and more popular and the other one is old but still somehow popular
Aiden Morales
yes except you forgot it's some shitty indie devs vs the literal biggest game studio there is
Josiah Gutierrez
>go look for a general in vg, there is none wow ok, it's settled then i guess
>pubg has 300k+ concurrent players, overwatch has 200-250k uhm pubg has 400k at max, overwatch still has over a million active accounts are you just fabricating those numbers dude?
>do you really need citation for wow subs, it's not a secret and discussed every day didnt see the official world of warcraft sub counter in the bottom right, my bad
Dominic Morgan
They're making a Diablo MMO.
Nathan Bailey
do you know what currently playing means you cunt >overwatch still has over a million active accounts this is not the statistic we give a shit about here. current players, playing right now. PUBG has had more than overwatch for several months now 24/7.
John Sanchez
get back to us when pubg is as old as OW is currently and still rocking those numbers
Carter Johnson
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Liam Allen
I truly, sincerely hope Blizzard dies but since idiots keep eating up their shit and spending hundreds of dollars on digital cards and OW loot boxes, regrettably they're fine for the time being. Still, there's an ever-increasing chance that their building is the site of a terror attack with all the muslims around, and if that doesn't work out, hopefully that global warming thing is real and kills them. Gotta keep up the hope.
Nicholas Roberts
Why are you defending overwatch even, seriously it's a dead, bad game
Adrian Fisher
Really doubt PUBG has more players than OW if you include consoles.
Henry Cooper
I like how you mixed the fears of bible-thumpers and scientists. 10/10
Ryan Phillips
that still doesn't make me wrong.
the battle royale format has long been popular across multiple games. someone new coming along and doing it well doesn't make the studio an important factor
Adrian Murphy
I'd play it
Justin Myers
I'm pretty happy Blizzard are dying. They've run their course, and we really need some fresh blood in this scene.
Joshua Brooks
but i'm not defending overwatch, i'm pointing out the false equivalence of pubgs current success to OW's it hasn't been proven to maintain the longevity yet with the playerbase numbers.
Bentley Wright
i honestly don't think blizzard will be able to revive overwatch, if even the most anticipated hero release can't do it, what will so peak numbers will never increase from now
Ayden Edwards
WoW subs are actually quite decent at the moment. Legion launch was a peak and it's bleeding slower than WoD did due to actually having lots of updates (too many, arguably). I'd say WoW is currently Blizzards healthiest game, besides possible Overwatch which will take a while before the dropping number of players really hurts it.
Levi James
but overwatch is blizzards fastest game to die. even sc2 lasted longer.
Jack Ortiz
general blizzard thread ? general blizzard thread
Calling it now, DK gul'dan's hero power will be something along the lines off: "Add a random discarded card into your hand"
Grayson Hughes
It's dying fast, but it's still currently in a decent spot.
Jaxon Collins
why does Jaina not wear shoes now that she's a death knight?
Xavier Thompson
sources: my ass
Nathaniel Gonzalez
>PUBG has more concurrent players than overwatch 24/7, overwatch interest at its lowest, pros leaving for CSGO due to bad balance and design >all time low world of warcraft subscription numbers
I don't remember blizz releasing such numbers. Unless you got a source to back that up (your ass does not count) shut the fuck up.
Carson Long
>pubg twitch viewers: 100-200k >overwatch: 20k during tournaments, less than 10k otherwise
>pubg steam: 300-400k concurrent players >overwatch leak from a few months ago: 250k
hmm
Charles Jackson
PUBG has more players than CSGO.
Hunter Murphy
i mean pubg is literally a streamer bait game, though it's certainly taken off more than one.
general reminder before you give Blizzard any of your money
Isaiah Johnson
>quickplay takes 4-10 minutes on eu pc at peak times funny, it takes 10-15 secs on my end. sometimes it hangs, just like csgo but when i cancel and requeue it always finds a game in 5 secs or so
Ian Bennett
I love how Sup Forums talks about D3. Its obvious no one who talks shit about it has played it since ROS. Game is pretty solid.
Nicholas Williams
I want to know what's going on in your image friend
Benjamin Allen
you must have a really really average hidden SR for that. what level are you? it seems, from asking around people on my friends list, beyond lvl 50-100 quickplay takes several minutes.
Thomas Hughes
>Game is pretty solid.
Garbage opinion
Benjamin Ramirez
>a big update
Isn't it a shitty 15€ DLC that just gives access to a new character?
Ian Ramirez
filename isn't lying
Camden Smith
>citation needed how retarded are you? kill yourself
Bentley Moore
>thinks it's bad
Pleb tier taste.
Owen Wood
yep
Jeremiah Rogers
dude nightmare+++++ and no variance in builds lmao
fuck off and die.
Brandon Garcia
Hearthstone is probably the biggest money factor at the moment. Shit still manages to print Blizzard money.
Leo Collins
610. my visible sr is 2850. i mostly queue with my gf whose account is 800-ish or so. her sr is 2700. we never experience any wait while searching games or encounter same guys twice, solo or duo. i dunno matey maybe you guys are low priority?
Thomas Campbell
Yeah dude, Blizzard is doomed like Nintendo.
Bentley Bennett
It's called Torment and there are loads of viable builds for different play styles. Keep being a shitter though.
Jaxson White
I believe it. All the people at my work who were obsessed with OW not play PUBG instead.
Ryder Hall
>loads of viable builds for different play styles wrong
Even if they were, still a shit game. Might as well be a free flash game highschoolers play on their lunchbreak.
Dylan Rogers
yeah that is the literal average so it goes faster for you. anything above 3.3k seems to be several minutes to get into a match with people i play or if we queue alone. i reached top 500 and stopped playing, and played casual quickplay every now and then, it it takes fucking 7 minutes sometimes for a quickplay match and i don't even know why, the matches are still awful and players have random SRs. blizzard is stupid
Isaiah Cooper
>Legion launch was a peak
In terms of total subs, which includes china. In terms of NA/EU subs it's still struggling.
Jordan Anderson
You can steamroll it by drooling on the controller once every 30 seconds. Even on like expert the game poses no challenge
Carter Lopez
>I don't remember blizz releasing such numbers.
Exactly. When their games do well they hype up their numbers. They did it for WoW and SC2, then as soon as they declined they stopped releasing numbers.
Gavin Martinez
Rathma has at least 4 variants in one set.
You haven't played it so I don't know why I'm bothering. You're the reason Sup Forums is shit
John Garcia
>I don't know why I'm bothering post-purchase rationalization is a powerful thing
off you go to grind your content on a new difficulty again! bye faggot!
David Harris
It was stupid to release them in the first place. They only did it in the first place because of WoW's monstrous success at it's peak.
Daniel Butler
how is it stupid? legitimate player stats should be available all the time. just look at what valve does. there is no reason to keep them secret.
Noah Sanders
Are these overwatch numbers counting consoles as well? I know at least in the UK most of the retards here are on playstation.
Elijah Ross
Most companies hate what Valve does because it hurts their games.
William Phillips
Thanks I will! I'm sure your dad loves you really user, he just hates that you have gown to be a hateful shit with no friends.
Bentley Gray
>player statistics hurts their games
just lol
Nolan Bennett
It does when they're low.
Aiden Johnson
>being so poor you have post-purchase rationalization for something you bought years ago Shouldn't you be working instead of shitposting on Sup Forums, poorfriend-kun
Landon Ward
no.. valve has been doing it since forever and it never hurt them
Brandon Jones
>Mr. Kotick: I would have Call of Duty be an online subscription service tomorrow. When you think about what the audience's interests are and how you could really satisfy bigger audiences with more inspired, creative opportunities, I would love to see us have an online Call of Duty world. I think our players would just have so much of a more compelling experience.
WSJ: Is that coming?
Mr. Kotick: Hopefully.
WSJ: Are the customers ready for it?
Mr. Kotick: I think our audiences are clamoring for it. If you look at what they're playing on Xbox Live today, we've had 1.7 billion hours of multiplayer play on Live. I think we could do a lot more to really satisfy the interests of the customers. I think we could create so many things, and make the game even more fun to play. We haven't really had a chance to do that yet, so that would be my snap of the fingers.
Thanks, Microsoft
Gavin Lewis
No shit, their games are always at the top because it's their platform. I'm not talking about just Valve, I'm talking about other companies who use Steam. So many people use Steam stats as evidence when they claim that a game is dead.
Cameron Thompson
so? hiding stats, especially when you're as big as blizzard is just cowardly as fuck
Gavin Nelson
I have played Blizzard games for a long time but I do not understand why people so vehemently defend them on everything Blizzdrones are a real cancer
Cameron Foster
I liked how Gwent got a positive reception and a lot of people said they're quitting HS for it, and only then, years after release, Blizzard "suddenly" decides to make packs more generous. Guys Blizzard are good guys! See? They care about us!
Benjamin King
>quickplay takes 4-10 minutes on eu pc at peak times That's because it's calculating the worst possible teammates for you so that you don't win the loot boxes they want you to pay for.
Lincoln Russell
See you no company cares about you bye bye
Hunter Evans
the problem is the game is more reliant on RNG over anything else, player skill has very little to do with it. making packs more generous won't fix that problem at all, they need to make the game more like MTG and have more ways for players to interact with each other, especially during the opponent's turn, and remove almost all of the RNG except the things you can't touch, such as card drawing.
John Butler
(You)
Jose Lewis
yeah i always suspected there being some foul play in blizzards idiot matchmaking. because there is no way they are so incompetent they just make it garbage accidentally.
Bentley Johnson
>the problem is the game is more reliant on RNG over anything else, player skill has very little to do with it. For a moment there I thought you were talking about Overwatch.
Nathaniel Williams
Yeah the whole RNG thing is very correct.
Even the very best players of HS can't maintain top spots and get constantly knocked down to like rank 5 until they climb back up again. It's honestly nuts how RNG the game is and how little skill it actually takes.
Andrew Howard
Companies don't give a shit because their fanboys will blindly defend them. People say that console games have more people playing than PC, and nobody can disprove that.
People say XIV has more subs than WoW, nobody can disprove that.
Jordan Gomez
>PUBG has more concurrent players than overwatch 24/7 Feels good, man.
Ryder Hill
That's why you play it for fun when you're bored.
Grayson White
You're retarded, if you know there's a junkrat in the other team you should be wary of going into choke points without a shield in front of you. Overwatch is not RNG-based, it's team-based, individual skill is lessened not for RNG like in Hearthstone but for ability to communicate and coordinate with people.