Yeah, like the average developer has been looking out for us for so long now. Exactly what planet have you been living on all these years?
I've been living with so many awesome games that I don't have time to play them all. Unlike the average Blues poster, I actually play games more than I bitch about them. I'd list the games I'm playing, but hell, you'd think they're crap anyway so it's not worth it. Seems like only you and the rest of the jaded Blues people are the people thinking everythings going to shit.
No reason? They merge with Activision and then do a complete 180 on how they always used to operate. Whatever happened to "when it's done"??
Like someone said above, this is the new Blizzard, and the sooner we get used to it, the better.
I love how all you people are accusing Blizzard of turning their backs on you. How have they? They haven't released a single damn game unworthy of your dollar.
In fact, it's you who's turning your backs on them because you think you're getting screwed over by a situation that you've obviously not read enough about to understand.
Where did they do a 180 from how they used to operate? How has Activision changed a single thing they've done? How is their game "not done" when each of the three games they're releasing promises to be even bigger than Starcraft itself?
No, Blizzard isn't doing any 180s here. They haven't changed, there isn't any "new Blizzard", and there's no evidence whatsoever that they've been influenced by Activision. Blizzard holds too much sway to be influenced like that.
The only people who have changed are the supposedly devoted fans that suddenly lose every bit of confidence in a developer that's spent more than a decade earning it, because they completely misrepresent a single controversial decision.
Blizzard doesn't need fans like you. Countless millions will still deem their games worthy of purchases because they trust them to make games just as they always have.
This comment was edited on Oct 11, 2008, 00:29.