Comment on World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true

Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AlolanYoda@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And to their employees

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• NekkoDroid@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Overwatch

  Don’t worry, the person behind Overwatch 2 left in 2021 and is still held in high regard by a lot of people :)

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    person behind Overwatch 2

    is still held in high regard

    Ouff. I guess marketing earned their bonuses, sure.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you talking about Jeff Kaplan…? He was against making a sequel, and was against locking heroes behind a battle pass.

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    • NekkoDroid@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He is the one that still wanted to make Project Titan work. Overwatch was the crawl, PvE was suppose to be the walk and then they’d have the run with the MMORPG.

      twitter.com/jasonschreier/…/1771227101112205572

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• redracc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good. Blizzard has been transparent with their changes and have been listening to the community. Recently the alpha for the next expansion has released and seems very promising with positive response from the community.

  So I disagree, I’m glad microsoft is letting blizzard developers do their own thing. After the tumultuous expansion Shadowlands, a lot of the old guard for blizzard were removed and the current executive producer Holly Longdale has been doing a great job.

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  • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good.

    Vanilla good, Wrath good, or Legion good?

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    • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not Wrath or Legion good, if the numbers are any indication. While the community has generally been positive, Dragonflight simply hasn’t sold very well.

      The expansion’s over, anyway. They have officially moved the expansion cadence to only two major patches from three.

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    • redracc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thats a disingenuous question…

      I can’t speak to your preferences as there are multiple different ways to play an mmo. I can, however, speak to the community’s perspective and I have not seen the wow community be more positive about the current expansion since modern wow.

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      • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not really, since those have been the most popular expansions. It’s easiest to measure up to, no?

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh I had not yet heard that they’re turning the ship around. That’s really really cool. After all this time I just stopped following stuff around it since it got so depressing over the years.

    She’s the one from WoWC, right?

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    • redracc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      She was working on classic before being promoted to her current position. Regardless, the entire wow dev team has been incredible these past few months. There has been such an influx of news of upcoming content these coming weeks its almost hard to keep up. Hoping that they can keep on the gas as The War Within comes out.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have they done something to SC2? I quit playing that game years ago, but it seemed like they were done touching it, and it was still in its original glory.

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  • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah they just stopped updating it and let all their RTS talent go to other companies to make their own games.

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• Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The age of empire remasters was pretty so probably nah

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