beepWhen the game franchise you used to love keeps going downhill, and you realize it is finally time to let it go
prettybunnyseverything blizzard made.
MentalEdgeBlizzard is a corpse being puppeted.
It’s just Activision. Has been for years.
Until you learn about Blizzard’s bro culture that has existed almost as long as the company that resulted in a female employee committing suicide because no one would take her sexual assault allegations seriously.
What “until”?
Blizzards artistic merit was killed by Activision, until you find out they have always had a female-abusive work environment.
What?
It’s another valid reason to boycott blizz… But you’re adding that factoid as if it counters mine? It’s also not relevant for why their IPs are souring. It’s another reason why they don’t deserve customers, even if the games were still good, but its not the reason their games are suffering in terms of quality.
What “until”?
It’s just Activision.
You think it’s all Activision’s fault until you learn that Blizzard was toxic from the get go. Blizzard products had issues before Activision bought them, they cut content for time, overworked & underpaid people, killed what could have been great games, all on their own.
Activism is just a corporate scapegoat for the mess Blizzard has always been. Separating Blizzard into its own company won’t fix any of its problems.
I didn’t say it was all Activisions fault. Blizzard had to be the kind of company that would join forces with Activision for the merger to happen. I’m well aware of the smaller details.
I’m saying the Blizzard that created the IPs people love, has long been dead (in that the people who made those things are no longer in positions to do so again).
What’s left, is “a corpse being puppeted by Activision” in that actiblizz is lead by the type of people and decision-making that Activision is a lot more known for.
It’s a really short way to express to people who still have nostalgia goggles for Blizzard, that the things that allowed them to make good things, are gone. Replaced by profit motivated suits that have no respect for art.
Blizzard doesn’t need saving. It’s a rotting corpse of a brand. Remove activision, and you still have just a rotting corpse.