Blizzard? Are you there?

Graveblade

Seriously.... what are blizzard doing? This is obviously just personal opinion here, but the quality has dropped soooo much in the past few years.

I know there are obviously tons of people who still like their games, but I would argue that the general quality lowers as every year passes. (apart from their cinematics!)

We are talking about a huge company here... Blizzard really need to announce something big. The last big game to come from one of the main IP's was actually Diablo 3, which was released in May 2012! Soon to be 7 years ago... and it had some major flaws too such as the auction house which was scrapped. Remasters are great but where is diablo 4? where is warcraft 4? where is starcraft 3? where is wow 2?

Or

where is any game that follows on from these in some way or have something substantial to them, like a new mmo perhaps, or an action game?

They all get scrapped it seems.

We got Overwatch (ok sure, some people love it but imo it has HUGE flaws and nothing to do with their old IP's), Hearthstone (I think this is fair enough, its an ok game but a card game, not a proper continuation of an existing IP, something substantial like a starcraft action game or a new starcraft rts) and HOTS (jumping on the moba train with characters from all IP's, very stereotypical).

I don't believe that these current games and IP's cannot be innovated on, they need some creative game designers to bring in new perspectives, and I meant that perhaps quite literally, a new game perspective on existing IP's and I'm not talking about card games or mobile games.

Octagon7711

I think games like people go through stages of life.  Young energetic and full of enthusiasm for the future.  Middle age, been around the block a few times and just enjoying life.  End game, missing the old days, dwelling on past victories, and out of touch with current affairs.  I think Blizzard has reached it's end-game.

Graveblade

Octagon7711 said:

I think games like people go through stages of life.  Young energetic and full of enthusiasm for the future.  Middle age, been around the block a few times and just enjoying life.  End game, missing the old days, dwelling on past victories, and out of touch with current affairs.  I think Blizzard has reached it's end-game.

You may very well be right.

As someone who has been there since almost the beginning and played every title, I truly hope it isn't the case.

bendyruler

AAAMEOW

How are they even going to reinvent the ARPG or RTS genre.

If they making a new RTS or ARPG it probably almost the same as the older game.  Or even worse.

I heard people saying starcraft 1 is more popular than starcraft 2 right now. Shrug.