• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    37·
    15 days ago

    If you’re still asking that question, you aren’t paying attention. Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, Warcraft III: Reforged. Do you need 10 more years of shitty games to prove this to you?

    There is no such thing as Blizzard. They were bought out by Activision, which was bought out by Microsoft.

      • thirteene@lemmy.world
        41·
        14 days ago

        Remake already means they failed.
        All they did was get rid of the free at&t servers, upgrade a couple 2d sprites and put it in a launcher with a new price tag.

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
        2·
        15 days ago

        AFAIK it was done by Blizzard North, the same team that actually worked on D2 back then (when Blizzard was more like Blizzard). At least partly. Correct me if I’m wrong (I might easily be) but it is at least not a 100% match with regular Blizzard.

        • Ashtear@lemm.ee
          2·
          15 days ago

          Developed by Vicarious Visions, a recent Activision Blizzard acquisition.

          And I thought it was an excellent product (although I stopped playing before they started making larger changes in patches).

  • Modva@lemmy.world
    14·
    15 days ago

    It’s not the Blizzard that used to make games we loved anymore. It’s just a name now, and behind that a corporation focused on maximum profit exclusively.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
      4·
      15 days ago

      The most amazing part was the claim that the in-game soundtrack was reencoded as lossless audio.

      I looked at the new audio as a spectrograph and compared it to the original MP3s. Not only were they the same level of compression as the originals, they were the same exact graphs. The same files, renamed from .mp3 to .flac.

      That’s some proper gaslighting!

      • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        15 days ago

        Well yeah - they recorded the MP3s as lossless audio, clearly

  • absquatulate@lemmy.world
    10·
    15 days ago

    I don’t really expect anything good coming from them. To me the likes of Blizzard, Ubi, Bioware, Bethesda, EA etc are shareholder-driven companies, that stopped innovating a long time ago and now only produce and regurgitate the absolute bare minimum slop.

    I have been pleasantly surprised on occasion, like for ubi’s Anno 1800, or blizzard’s diablo 2 remake, but they’re few and far between.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    15 days ago

    Boycotting Blizzard is all about their shitty behavior as a company since long before the games they made turned bad too.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    5·
    15 days ago

    I’ve long stopped caring about them, really. From what I’ve heard, the Diablo 2 remaster was pretty good, so it’s likely that Warcraft 2 might actually be a good remaster, too. It’s not like they’re promising a whole world of stuff like they did with Warcraft 3 Refunded.

    Me? I ain’t buying it. BRL buying power is shit 🇧🇷 🏴‍☠️

    • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      Broodwar remaster was also good. If they faithfully uprez the graphics, fix severe bugs, and do nothing else then there’s hope. The 2D remasters have a good track record so far.

      That said, had anyone played WC2 recently? It’s pretty rough. It’s fun for nostalgia sake and if you’re into the lore of Warcraft or the history of RTS, but it doesn’t hold up like Broodwar still does.

      • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee
        1·
        15 days ago

        Yeah like what’s actually the point? WC2 is not a game that holds up today compared to where the genre has gone.

  • Ashtear@lemm.ee
    3·
    15 days ago

    Would be foolish not to go patient on it after Reforged. After D2R, I’m not completely writing it off, though.

  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
    31·
    15 days ago

    I don’t think trust is at issue here. If the game sucks, don’t buy it! There’s millions of other games to play.

    There is reason to hope Blizzard will turn around. Bobby Kotick is gone. Microsoft owns the company now. Say what you will about Windows but Microsoft tends to take pretty good care of the gaming franchises they own. I think a lot of AoE fans are pretty happy with how that’s going. I could be wrong though?