Dear Overwatch and Diablo teams, thank you for taking the careful time to ensure your games are ready and for also influencing a desperately needed change of leadership. 💙
In an interview with GamesBeat, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick explained his motive for selling to Microsoft, citing the delay of Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 as having a principle effect on declining stock prices.
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-"Uniting the elven tribes" is too big a story to tell in one expansion. Midnight will only show the beginning steps of that unification.
-The expansion begins with your player character getting summoned through the Sunwell at the end of the cinematic. (2)
This is categorically false. I was there at the time. I would have definitely remembered such a non-standard oversight over my work.
Believe me, I have a lot of reasons to be critical of the company, on business and quality, but I keep my criticisms in the spectrum of accuracy.
The exact moment Blizzard went woke:
I was talking to an old friend from OG Blizzard and learned something disturbing that actually explains a lot.
Sometime before 2020, a LGBT council was formed at Blizzard. One day, they proudly sent out a company email, saying that the LGBT
While the $90 price shocked me (absurd), I’m more shocked at the notion of introducing another auction house/mail mount considering all of the dev opinions on the negative impact the first brutosaur had on the sense of world and player hubs.
I wish we had Alliance and Horde campaigns in addition to whatever the main expansion/patch campaign was.
Whatever is currently happening affects the factions. Let’s keep that in focus too.
Games I’ve worked on in the past 10 years:
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
Unannounced ARPG (cancelled)
Many incubation projects (cancelled)
Diablo IV
World of Warcraft
- Warlords of Draenor
- Legion
- Battle for Azeroth
- Shadowlands
- Dragonflight
- The War Within
Unannounced ARPG
Games I’ve worked on in the past 10 years
Scalebound: canceled
Resident Evil 7: successful
Injustice 2: successful
God of War (2018): successful
Transformers Reactivate: canceled
New World: successful
The Last of Us Part I: successful
Bend Studio IP: canceled
Ready or Not:
I was blown away by just how upfront and on the nose they were willing to be with the modern day allegory eat the rich stuff. Never did I imagine a WoW quest where you help protestors who have been tear gassed.
In an interview with PC Gamer, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas explains how raid encounters will change with the removal of combat addons.
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