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Chris Metzen Reaffirms Commitment to Blizzard in New Interview | MMORPG.com
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Chris Metzen Reaffirms Commitment to Blizzard in New Interview | MMORPG.com
In a new interview, Chris Metzen talks tabletop game development versus video games, his return to Blizzard , initially to work on World of Warcraft, and whether he'd want a video game of
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But THAT guy is just a legend, a reference in the industry, a true artist.
Yep, I admire him. Blame me.
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- PANTERA at HELLFEST 2023
Well World of Warcraft will always itself be in a downward spiral. It will never be like it was in its prime and will just continue to trend downward until such a time Blizzard releases another big MMO if they ever do that again. WoW overall is just a big cost to Blizzard compared to all of its other games.
If it wasn't for his creative art and story telling I really doubt we would have Starcraft, Diablo, and Warcraft.
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If you had done half the work Metzen did in his life, you'd probably also get an "advisory" role somewhere. Knowledge is power.
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What the heck, most great physicists in history made their greatest contributions before they were 40... perhaps the same is true of creative game developers as well.
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When they fired their Blizzard North staff in 2010, that was a turning point of their downfall. They have pretty much been subpar since.
Not saying Blizzard North staff was the only good group of employees at the time. I am just saying it shows the culture changed when they can fire an entire popular studio like that in the prime of their development. They were making a different version of Diablo 3 and another unnamed Space game that got cancelled, when they shut down Bliz North studio.
Most big companies become like this so we must always pray that the developers we like stay small as that will at least keep them within this realm and not sink them down into the pits of money driven hell.
It's entirely performative. The activists who co-opted and took over the company have been driving it into the ground, so bringing Metzen's name back is an attempt to draw old fans back to the franchise, but those same people who took over the company are still in charge so nothing is going to change as it concerns the direction World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles have gone with their storytelling.
When it's time to actually start noticing what they're doing and when genuine change is going to happen is when they publicly start firing the people who openly mock and deride the target demographic for these types of games and settings. Until then, all other noise they make is just marketing tactics.
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Especially in these times...Everything is constantly changing and very temporary.