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General discussionIs Activision Blizzard blundering and fumbling?(95 posts)(95 posts)
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Posted February 05, 2019
Doubt it. They probably will have to see a few Billion dollars in losses or worse before they realize they lost a portion of their playerbase.
Posted February 05, 2019
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Crosmando: dO yOu GuYs NoT hAvE pHoNeS??
"You're getting booed at your own convention. Do you guys not have a fan base?"
Posted February 05, 2019
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Spectre: Blizzard psychologically addicted kids to certain games then used that to extort extra cash from them.
lol, when was gaming ever not this? Were you around for arcades? The shining lights, rewarding sound effects/voice samples, highscores. Everything was created for that 'one more coin' gameplay.
Posted February 05, 2019
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Spectre: Blizzard psychologically addicted kids to certain games then used that to extort extra cash from them.
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Pheace: lol, when was gaming ever not this? Were you around for arcades? The shining lights, rewarding sound effects/voice samples, highscores. Everything was created for that 'one more coin' gameplay.
Stop supporting abusive practices.

This goes beyond some hard arcade game that kills your player off to get more coins.
Posted February 05, 2019
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Crosmando: dO yOu GuYs NoT hAvE pHoNeS??
Actually no, I don't.
Posted February 05, 2019
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DivisionByZero.620: This also shows Blizzard's sloppy incompetence. All the serious social media networks already have automated systems in place to prevent and overturn obvious ratings manipulation.
GoG doesn't and World of Warcraft puts you at risk of censorship or a ban if enough players make false reports.
Posted February 05, 2019
I don't get why people feel like different companies owe them something. If they have produced products you appreciated in the past, great. If they stopped doing that and went in a different direction you don't enjoy, stop buying their products.

But to stick to the topic, the glory days of Blizzard are sadly gone. I still have tons of fun with Starcraft II though.
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Posted February 05, 2019
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DadJoke007: I don't get why people feel like different companies owe them something. If they have produced products you appreciated in the past, great. If they stopped doing that and went in a different direction you don't enjoy, stop buying their products.
Stop supporting abusive practices.

They owe you a proper product without any of this nonsense especially after you've paid for it. Of course people should push back against it.
Posted February 05, 2019
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DadJoke007: I don't get why people feel like different companies owe them something. If they have produced products you appreciated in the past, great. If they stopped doing that and went in a different direction you don't enjoy, stop buying their products.
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Spectre: Stop supporting abusive practices.

They owe you a proper product without any of this nonsense especially after you've paid for it. Of course people should push back against it.
How is boycotting something the same as supporting it?
Posted February 05, 2019
I did not know the first Starcraft. From there, I discovered the whole universe and the gameplay of this game with the second episode, which is my first strategy game for a very long time. And I really do not regret play it.
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Posted February 05, 2019
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DadJoke007: I don't get why people feel like different companies owe them something.
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DadJoke007: How is boycotting something the same as supporting it?
because the top comment can come across as telling people not to complain about it.
Posted February 05, 2019
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DadJoke007: How is boycotting something the same as supporting it?
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Spectre: because the top comment can come across as telling people not to complain about it.
People should be vocal and criticize bad practise, that's a vital part of the free market. But there are some who take it too far and makes it personal somehow. I read something about fire earlier in this thread. *cough*

Companies have every right to make idiotic decisions, and the consumers have every right to call them out on their bullshit and boycott their products. But gamers are known for being very toxic and nasty when their feelings get hurt by companies, it's not proportional at all.

They tend to act like that obsessive girlfriend meme.
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Posted February 05, 2019
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Pouyou-pouyou: Isn't this the perfect example of a small company run by passionate developers making good games, getting success, becoming a major publisher in the video game industry, and then taken over by managers, marketeers, shareholders, etc., to change their goals and make money through any mean they deem necessary ?
Yes. One of many.
Posted February 05, 2019
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DadJoke007: People should be vocal and criticize bad practise, that's a vital part of the free market. But there are some who take it too far and makes it personal somehow. I read something about fire earlier in this thread. *cough*

Companies have every right to make idiotic decisions, and the consumers have every right to call them out on their bullshit and boycott their products. But gamers are known for being very toxic and nasty when their feelings get hurt by companies, it's not proportional at all.
How do you know it's actual gamers and not competitors or the work of "videogame journalists".

There is also a difference when people are upset by trivial game changes or sequels going in a different direction compared to ripping people off, out of money and man hours or outright denying people the product they've paid for.
Posted February 05, 2019
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DadJoke007: I don't get why people feel like different companies owe them something. If they have produced products you appreciated in the past, great. If they stopped doing that and went in a different direction you don't enjoy, stop buying their products.
The problem is that I can't "stop buying" products I've already bought. Well, I personally didn't buy anything from Blizzard, but people who bought, for example, StarCraft for the story and were disappointed by the story's ending in StarCraft II have all the rights to complain. Even if they didn't buy StarCraft II.
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