>The only people still interested in Overwatch are Koreans, apart from patch days the game is basically deserted
>Hots is dead
>WoW is dead
>SCII is dead
>Diablo 3 is dead and irrelevant
>Their most successful IP is Hearthstone - a mobile skinnerbox game aimed at casuals
How did Blizzard manage to drop the ball so hard? Will we ever see a good game from them again?
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They are the new cancer on gaming. Activision infected them for good.
They are not interested in good games but in profit. And casuals make them the most profits.
All of their games are doing just fine, stop being salty kids...
Hots is doing better than it used to. It's not as populated as League or Dota obviously, but I have a lot of fun with it with friends.
WoW is dying slowly, but it probably has quite a bit of time left given the number it's dying slowly from.
Sc2 is hella dead.
Diablo 3 was taken behind a shed and beaten to death with a shovel, I don't even think they're doing anything at Blizzcon for it, not even a tiny scrap.
Overwatch was unironically a flavor of the year game.
Hearthstone is raking in far too much money.
But I'm pretty sure they're still greatly netting a profit so not sure how they dropped the ball.
Friendly reminder that blizzard is the undisputed king at tax evasion.
They have 2 panels for diablo at blizzcon
1 hour total worth of content
One is a panel about necromancer art, the other just a bunch of streamers they paid to show up and do a quick Q and A
But they are hiring new people for a diablo related project. No mention if it's 3 related, a remaster of 2, or an entirely new game. We're just in a bad period for the game.
My point is that none of their new games have any longevity. WoW might be bleeding players on a daily basis, but it came out 12 fucking years ago and people are still actively discussing it.
Who the fuck is talking about Hots or Overwatch? Unless there's a "LOOK THERE'S CONTENT" announcements being made, these games are practically irrelevant in the public discourse. They got *solved* as soon as they launched and people forgot about them.
It's clear that Blizzard as a company will never have a WoW-tier success again because their passion has been thoroughly drained, but holy hell does it look like they're not even trying at this point.
>tfw the Diablo 3 engine and gameplay are the best in the ARPG business but the content is fucking non existent
hurts a lot
>It's clear that Blizzard as a company will never have a WoW-tier success again
Hearthstone, shit game or not, is definitely a WoW tier success if you compare how much it costs them versus how much it makes them.
>look up OW channels during korean prime time when it's deep night in the US and 12 AM in the Europe
>complain about Koreans
Ok
I don't know about the cost:profit relation, but Hearthstone is not even close to being a WoW tier success in absolute profit terms.
If I looked up Overwatch during US or European hours, the game would be 20th in the list with like 8k viewers, at best.
>Overwatch is dying
when will this meme end?
it's still on top 10 most played pc games and so is WoW and Hearthstone
World of Warcraft made about 1.5 billion in 2016, and the game launched in 2004.
Hearthstone made 400 million in 2016, and launched in 2014.
Considering Hearthstone is, at core, "free to play", no base costs for the game/expansions, no subscription fee per month, I think that's actually pretty damn impressive.
Obviously not so much as League of Legends, but then I'm pretty sure even WoW wishes it had League's number of players.
They paid good money for their aimbots. Of course they'll stay.
almost all of league's "players" are chinese bot accounts, at least they had to pay a sub fee in wow
>World of Warcraft made about 1.5 billion in 2016, and the game launched in 2004.
Well yeah, that's what's so incredibly impressive about WoW. I'm having a hard time believing that Hearthstone will make anywhere near what it's making now in 12, shit even two years time.
I'm not downplaying Hearthstone's success, by any means, but calling it on par with WoW, in terms of profit, is a stretch.
>WoW is dead
Now you are just meming nostalgia fag
I think Hearthstone is starting to get even too filled with RNG for normies. Even Kripp is starting to stream/play it less, despite it being a massive cash cow for him and his youtube channel. Not to start any e-celeb shit, but when multiple of the top streamers are getting too bored to even play something that nets them a ridiculous amount of capital, you know something's going wrong.
I wouldn't let my kid ski down that playerbase slope.
I didn't even know he still streamed HS. I think the last time I watched his stream was a year and a half ago, when he was already growing extremely tired of it.
He mostly streams Hearthstone still, but he's doing a lot more variety streams now. Half of them are sponsored streams of shitty mobile games, and the rest are shitty mobile games that he apparently genuinely enjoys playing.
He's literally turned from a poopsocking world firster into a casual. Sometimes I envy it.
I hope the will release diablo 2 remaster, after that they can die.
Nice numbers there