blizzcon crown reacts to diablo immortal

Blizzard has decided that their fans are expendable and with that their design and production ethos that made them famous is collateral damage as they foolishly move toward their new goal of pleasing Activision shareholders.īlizzard is all about the benjamins now as their new business model is all about chasing the financially lucrative genre of mobile games. It’s not that Blizzard is going out of business, rather it is the fact that Blizzard is fundamentally transforming itself into something unrecognizable.

I love PC games too much to sit idly by to watch that happening without speaking out. If Blizzard goes down, the entire realm of PC gaming will go down as well or perhaps it will die a slow death of neglect. Today, the canary in the coal mine is often used as a metaphor for impending danger. If a canary died the miners knew that the air was poisonous, so they would watch them closely to prevent themselves from being poisoned. In the olden days, canaries were brought into mines by miners because of their sensitivity to noxious chemicals in the air. I believe that Blizzard is the canary in the coal mine for the entire PC video game industry.

Their video games and MMOs were masterpieces of design, art, and production that stood miles above their competition. What Blizzard achieved over the years was no accident. They produced some of the most beloved video games of all time such a Diablo, Diablo 2, the Warcraft and Starcraft RTS games and of course World of Warcraft. This fiasco has unearthed many troubling things about what is going on at Blizzard that affect all of us who love PC games and MMORPGs.įor years Blizzard was the crown jewel of the PC video game world. The Diablo Immortal catastrophe is a massive and unprecedented failure on so many levels that it has outraged, electrified and unified many PC gamers. After the Diablogate debacle this week at BlizzCon 2018 in Anaheim, I have decided to rescind my boycott and from today onwards I’m going to start writing about Blizzard and their games. After years of writing about World of Warcraft from a design perspective, I had finally had enough of Blizzard and their descent into identity politics. At the beginning of this year, I wrote an article where I stated I would be boycotting Blizzard Entertainment.

Blizzcon crown reacts to diablo immortal