Posted August 11, 2015
LiquidOxygen80: ...
Blizzard lost their grasp on originality once they figured out that WoW prints them money. I've played Diablo 3. It's cartoony, it lacks the same eerieness of the originals, it feels like someone's flash version of the game.
When was the last time Blizzard put out any new IPs that weren't clones of established games for dummies? Hearthstone? It's popular, but it's also Magic for dummies. Their new shooter? TF2 for dummies. HotS? Dota/LoL for dummies. At this point, they NEED WoW to continue doing well, because I'm certainly not psyched for Overwatch.
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Sorry, feel the need to digress for a moment... Blizzard has NEVER done anything original and they make no bones about it, thats why they succeed. Creativity has never been their talent. Story, polish and accessibility always have. What you call "dumming down" they call "net gain". Creativity has nothing to do with quality, presumably the point (or at least factor) of the OP.Blizzard lost their grasp on originality once they figured out that WoW prints them money. I've played Diablo 3. It's cartoony, it lacks the same eerieness of the originals, it feels like someone's flash version of the game.
When was the last time Blizzard put out any new IPs that weren't clones of established games for dummies? Hearthstone? It's popular, but it's also Magic for dummies. Their new shooter? TF2 for dummies. HotS? Dota/LoL for dummies. At this point, they NEED WoW to continue doing well, because I'm certainly not psyched for Overwatch.
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