Sorry that I want the company I've previously enjoyed games from to make games I'd enjoy playing instead of shit I'd never touch in a thousand years
Sorry that I want the company I've previously enjoyed games from to make games I'd enjoy playing instead of shit I'd never touch in a thousand years
That's just one dumb shitpost, considering that a) we already know they are working on a proper Diablo and b) the mobile game isn't being made by them to begin with.Sorry that I want the company I've previously enjoyed games from to make games I'd enjoy playing instead of shit I'd never touch in a thousand years
This is an excellent point. I forget about them honestly. Regardless, I'm nothing but excited to see how Apex Legends does.Unlocking new characters will be a big draw, and new ones are coming soon. This is basically how Rainbow 6 operates.
Yeah it's a different ballgame. BR has really changed thigns up.Losing Destiny has to hurt. They have pretty much nothing to replace it in terms of service games with wide appeal. Battle Royale is likely pulling people away from COD, and even the people who stick around for Blackout are probably harder to monetize since you can't sell map packs to them.
Well, for years, Activisions whole model has been to annualize successful franchises in order to wring every last dollar they can out of them. In the process, franchises like Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk became dried husks. They were also one of the first companies on the toys-to-life train, but Skylanders has died out with the fad.Its kinda nutty we are heading into next gen and Activsion has nothing in the tank "new"
COD, Diablo 4 and probably getting numbered Overwatch sequels every 2 years seems like the plan for the next 10 years.
I don't know much about the stock market but I would've thought losing roughly 2 years worth of gains in a single week is pretty catastrophic.
Totally, fuck all those folks trying to work. They deserve to be forced into unemployment because Era users are angry that Diablo is coming to phones.
I'm willing to bet that funding Destiny hurt more than losing it.Losing Destiny has to hurt. They have pretty much nothing to replace it in terms of service games with wide appeal. Battle Royale is likely pulling people away from COD, and even the people who stick around for Blackout are probably harder to monetize since you can't sell map packs to them.
No, Call of Duty fans gobble up the microtransactions like crazy.Losing Destiny has to hurt. They have pretty much nothing to replace it in terms of service games with wide appeal. Battle Royale is likely pulling people away from COD, and even the people who stick around for Blackout are probably harder to monetize since you can't sell map packs to them.
To be honest, a drop like this isn't necessarily indicative of long-term catastrophe.I don't know much about the stock market but I would've thought losing roughly 2 years worth of gains in a single week is pretty catastrophic.
Posts like these make it very difficult to remain part of this forum.
I am also in the industry and while I don't like that layoffs and closures could, might, will happen ... it's this kind of stuff that has to happen unfortunately to initiate any kind of change in how things are ran. ...
EA is NOT doing well. Compare to half a year ago their stock is still in the abyss.Sounds like a lot of video game stocks are tumbling, only reason EA is doing well is Apex Legends came at just the right time!
Activision is not a company I would put any money or faith into right now. What do they have going for them besides King?
They don't have Destiny anymore, and it's not like Destiny 2 was a real success anyway. The reception of the game was not good, and the expansion pack clearly failed to meet expectations because the base product was not a good experience.
Call of Duty is past its prime, they didn't manage to outpace last year's game even with a Battle Royale mode that launched when Pubg's reputation had soured and people were looking for a different game.
What else does Activision going for them? Almost nothing. Crash and Spyro aren't franchises worth anything in 2019.
Blizzard is in complete freefall, all of their franchises are suffering. BFA is WoW's lowest point ever. Hearthstone has long since passed its prime. HotS is dead. Overwatch is clearly suffering massively from the popularity of games like Fortnite, Pubg, and now Apex, and is passed its prime anyway. Starcraft is dead. Diablo had one of the worst public reactions to a game announcement ever. The only hope at Blizzard right now seems to be their "incubation" team working on other new mobile games, but Diablo Immortal is not a good first impression of that. Classic WoW could be big, but its running on a Frankenstein of 1.12 imported onto the 7.3 legion client, they could easily fail to match the original experience and sour the playerbase instantly.
It was selling like crazy and keeping audiences engaged year-round. It wasn't hitting whatever numbers Activision wanted it to hit, but it was certainly better than having nothing at all.I'm willing to bet that funding Destiny hurt more than losing it.
You get used to it.
I'm willing to bet that funding Destiny hurt more than losing it.
Sold so well they gave it away at one point.It was selling like crazy and keeping audiences engaged year-round. It wasn't hitting whatever numbers Activision wanted it to hit, but it was certainly better than having nothing at all.
This is allowed here?
I don't really like this line of argument, even if I see why people make it and agree we need to support the people who actually make the games.Yeah, real "good" for the thousands of people that work there and are already worried about their future job security.
They upset some gamers over a mobile Diablo game so I guess it's time to watch em burn right? /s
You're not wrong.Posts like these make it very difficult to remain part of this forum.
This post is crazy out of touch. Crash saved their shitty 2017 by itself.Activision is not a company I would put any money or faith into right now. What do they have going for them besides King?
They don't have Destiny anymore, and it's not like Destiny 2 was a real success anyway. The reception of the game was not good, and the expansion pack clearly failed to meet expectations because the base product was not a good experience.
Call of Duty is past its prime, they didn't manage to outpace last year's game even with a Battle Royale mode that launched when Pubg's reputation had soured and people were looking for a different game.
What else does Activision going for them? Almost nothing. Crash and Spyro aren't franchises worth anything in 2019.
Blizzard is in complete freefall, all of their franchises are suffering. BFA is WoW's lowest point ever. Hearthstone has long since passed its prime. HotS is dead. Overwatch is clearly suffering massively from the popularity of games like Fortnite, Pubg, and now Apex, and is passed its prime anyway. Starcraft is dead. Diablo had one of the worst public reactions to a game announcement ever. The only hope at Blizzard right now seems to be their "incubation" team working on other new mobile games, but Diablo Immortal is not a good first impression of that. Classic WoW could be big, but its running on a Frankenstein of 1.12 imported onto the 7.3 legion client, they could easily fail to match the original experience and sour the playerbase instantly.
It was the 3rd best-selling game of 2017, outperforming Zelda, Battlefront 2, and Madden. By pretty much any metric Destiny 2 sold really well.
Agreed. It sucks that people may lose their jobs and the people at the top will keep getting bonuses, but if a company wants to release shit products filled with MTX and lootboxes I'm not going to shed a tear when they do poorly. Should I want them to succeed so that stuff infects games even more? Should I be buying Call of Duty and purchasing every lootbox I can just so someone doesn't lose their job no matter how it affects the industry?Why? Do you think he's happy about people losing their jobs? It seems to me that the schadenfreude that people are expressing is more targeted towards the leadership at Activision/Blizzard. If you were working there, how could you not be upset with the leadership?
People complaining about Diablo Immortal on the Internet aren't the reason why Blizzard is laying off so many employees.
Because these things rarely, if ever, effect the leadership of the companies. They always effect the people lower on the ladder.Why? Do you think he's happy about people losing their jobs? It seems to me that the schadenfreude that people are expressing is more targeted towards the leadership at Activision/Blizzard. If you were working there, how could you not be upset with the leadership?
People complaining about Diablo Immortal on the Internet aren't the reason why Blizzard is laying off so many employees.
Which failedIt was the 3rd best-selling game of 2017, outperforming Zelda, Battlefront 2, and Madden. By pretty much any metric Destiny 2 sold really well.
The giveaways were like a year after launch, and meant to drive audiences towards the Forsaken expansion.