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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Funny story. I just found out about an interesting Chinese hero shooter, but then found they literally copied Overwatch’s Gibraltar map (not the models/textures, but carbon copy of the layout).

At first I was offended, but then thought: It’s Blizzard, who the fuck cares about protecting them.

[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 61 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The Blizzard that made good games died many years ago.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's like the ship of theseus, but shit. The shit of theseus.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

shit of feceus. it was right there, man...

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

FYI, I posted your comment above on !funny@sh.itjust.works, I hope you don't mind!

https://lemm.ee/post/46703078

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The Diablo II remake was EXCELLENT

The rest of their games are trash now

[–] Seeders@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Blizzard didn't make the Diablo II remake, they outsourced it. Thank god.

[–] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, I've been actively boycotting them for many years by now.

[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I broke my own rule and actually preordered something – Diablo 4. Huge mistake.

Well, that's on you, really. :D

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 13 points 2 weeks ago

Two huge mistakes.

[–] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Why pre-order something digital? I never understood that.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're still asking that question, you aren't paying attention. Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, Warcraft III: Reforged. Do you need 10 more years of shitty games to prove this to you?

There is no such thing as Blizzard. They were bought out by Activision, which was bought out by Microsoft.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

From the comments, the remake of Diablo II was decent

[–] thirteene@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Remake already means they failed.
All they did was get rid of the free at&t servers, upgrade a couple 2d sprites and put it in a launcher with a new price tag.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

AFAIK it was done by Blizzard North, the same team that actually worked on D2 back then (when Blizzard was more like Blizzard). At least partly. Correct me if I'm wrong (I might easily be) but it is at least not a 100% match with regular Blizzard.

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Developed by Vicarious Visions, a recent Activision Blizzard acquisition.

And I thought it was an excellent product (although I stopped playing before they started making larger changes in patches).

[–] Seeders@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

They outsource the remake.

[–] hate2bme@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I've been playing Diablo 4 and loving it.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 weeks ago

It was PERFECT.

[–] Modva@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

It's not the Blizzard that used to make games we loved anymore. It's just a name now, and behind that a corporation focused on maximum profit exclusively.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.cafe 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Warcraft III Reforged shitshow was definitely something to behold

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The most amazing part was the claim that the in-game soundtrack was reencoded as lossless audio.

I looked at the new audio as a spectrograph and compared it to the original MP3s. Not only were they the same level of compression as the originals, they were the same exact graphs. The same files, renamed from .mp3 to .flac.

That’s some proper gaslighting!

[–] illi@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Well yeah - they recorded the MP3s as lossless audio, clearly

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Signing that one.

[–] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago

Lol, lmao, no.

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I don't really expect anything good coming from them. To me the likes of Blizzard, Ubi, Bioware, Bethesda, EA etc are shareholder-driven companies, that stopped innovating a long time ago and now only produce and regurgitate the absolute bare minimum slop.

I have been pleasantly surprised on occasion, like for ubi's Anno 1800, or blizzard's diablo 2 remake, but they're few and far between.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

of course not.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've long stopped caring about them, really. From what I've heard, the Diablo 2 remaster was pretty good, so it's likely that Warcraft 2 might actually be a good remaster, too. It's not like they're promising a whole world of stuff like they did with Warcraft 3 Refunded.

Me? I ain't buying it. BRL buying power is shit 🇧🇷 🏴‍☠️

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Broodwar remaster was also good. If they faithfully uprez the graphics, fix severe bugs, and do nothing else then there's hope. The 2D remasters have a good track record so far.

That said, had anyone played WC2 recently? It's pretty rough. It's fun for nostalgia sake and if you're into the lore of Warcraft or the history of RTS, but it doesn't hold up like Broodwar still does.

[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah like what’s actually the point? WC2 is not a game that holds up today compared to where the genre has gone.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Boycotting Blizzard is all about their shitty behavior as a company since long before the games they made turned bad too.

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Would be foolish not to go patient on it after Reforged. After D2R, I'm not completely writing it off, though.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Haven't since overwatch 1 came out

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This will be the big test of if being brought out will help them.

They're sitting on such amazing IPs but have just fucked everything recently. Except diablo 2. That was great.

I live in hope as warcraft is still my absolute favourite game series.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

I still have a lot of old blizzard games on floppy and played wow for years. Based on their behavior and treatment of both their workers and communities, they'll not see a cent from me again until they prove themselves in the long-term. I don't pirate so also no unofficial numbers from me, either

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 2 weeks ago

I guess they could make good games, it's in their interest, I'm not going to give them money either way.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don’t think trust is at issue here. If the game sucks, don’t buy it! There’s millions of other games to play.

There is reason to hope Blizzard will turn around. Bobby Kotick is gone. Microsoft owns the company now. Say what you will about Windows but Microsoft tends to take pretty good care of the gaming franchises they own. I think a lot of AoE fans are pretty happy with how that’s going. I could be wrong though?

[–] 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Are we talking about the same microsoft? Last i heard starfield kinda suck, redfall suck, studio got shutdown, tango rush pretty fine but studio got shutdown too.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

I only cared about the Diablo franchise, which means I'm done with Blizzard now.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, it's going to be shit. Might as well just play the GOG version version of Warcraft 2, it's pretty solid (albeit the UI/UX is somewhat old school).

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

To me the big drop in noticable internal politics happened somewhere shortly before or around the Overwatch release.

The original design of that game as-released showed a lot of the old design paradigms of Blizzard. But then all post-release direction was the "new" Blizzard, focus on e-sports, numerical balance over gameplay feel, competition over social engagement. The game is an interesting showcase for the fall of Blizzard as a whole in a lot of ways.

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Blizzard is doing pretty damn good with retail WoW if you're a casual player, and don't play any PvP.

Their games teams seem to be highly isolated from each other though, which is evidence by every other single game they currently maintain. Also that their employee's bonuses are segmented by how well their teams game performs.