Blizzard Is Worse Than You Thought
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Nah sorry
Maybe later
Bag that money bro
Even though it tries to get my retention. This game will never made for me.
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"Do you guys not have phones?" is *the* perfect example of corporate not understanding their customer base, it's just too perfect.
The funniest part of that whole long line of fuck-ups is that blizzard was pandering so, SO hard to the chinese market with all that phone game bullshit.
And then one of their employees made a tweet that was *slightly* critical of the Chinese government and now they've got a company wide lifetime ban from selling any of their shit in china, forever.
They sold out and alienated their core western audience trying to suck China's dick and now they have nothing and nobody.
What a loser company run by by losers.
Blizzard: Diablo is mobile.
Fanbase: BOOOO!!!
Blizzard: Do you guys not have phones?
Fanbase: "DEMON SCREECHING"
Diablo Immoral was still a massive financial success, they just didn't realise that BlizzCon isn't the place to market it, since mobile users tend to be on the casual gamer side and dont really go to gaming conventions, while more serious PC gamers go to BlizzCon.
It was one of the devs, not one of their pr people lol...
I can't imagine anyone I've met who loves video games, being able to say those words to an audience with a straight face. If their entire audience was neglected alpha babies who were stuck on tablets all day, they might be right, but a lot of Blizzard enjoyers haven't even touched a mobile game beyond, like, an idle game.
One of the reasons Blizzard caved for refunds, at least in Europe, is because they are forced by European Union law to accept them, I really doubt outrage and gestures of good will were the main deciding factor.
Yea when have they cared about optics, maybe before activision acquired then but certainly not anytime recently
Blizz has had amazing refund policies for their entire existance.
@@RazanaArcclawYeah right meat rider
@@RazanaArcclaw Please stop lying, they really did not have a good policy for refunds and it was not enforceable upon them if you even looked in the direction of the purchased item.
Blizzard refund policy: "We'll refund most items that you buy with real money and receive in-game within 14 days of purchase, as long as you have not claimed, opened, or otherwise used the item".
What this means is that if you bought a game and opened it (even if it was opened for 1 minute) then you are not legible for a refund, even more stringent for ingame microtranstactions which do not care if you used them or not, you will not get a refund!
@@RazanaArcclaw blizzbot
If Blizzard owned the Titanic, they'd have charged tickets for the lifeboats
And still not have enough
And not have lifeboats
It's funny to think about how bad diablo game pass was. Compare it with Fortnite. You always feel like you get value from a Fortnite game pass.
Of course, people desperate for their lives are ripe for exploitation. Politics have mastered this principle.
Makes sense that Titanic prioritize women
My favorite fun fact about the McCree naming situation is that after they changed McCree's name in the game, they gave everyone a free rename token so that players with the name McCree could change it to avoid having their accounts tied to that name. This resulted in EVEN MORE players named McCree.
LMAO! That's awesome.
In my opinion, with or without the controversy, Jesse McCree just sounds way better cooler than Cole Cassidy, not to mention how long it's been in use so it's not like people will get used to the name change or accept it so easily.
don't forget cole cassidy is the name of a pronstar
@@gunznblades3547Yeah you cant force a cultural zeitgeist change, is the same reason people still call X Twitter despite their best efforts
@@obsu exactly that too, bro
I was at Blizzcon for the “you all have phones right?” Moment. The tone deafness was incredible.
Core memories
I'm surprised the crowd didn't unanimously respond with "f*** you" but I guess he stunlocked everyone with such an insane line
The line was "Do you guys not have phones?".
Nice
Epic gamer moment
I think the quote from FUNKe describes blizzard perfectly, “whenever they get into a PR controversy they’ll drop a trailer with no release date for one of tracer’s new skins.”
Now with 2% more ass crack!
So same as Nintendo
@@chjk122_ Who hurt you? What's the problem with a RUclipsr trying to make revenue?
@@sargasm169it posts the same comment over and over. It’s either a bot or a very sad individual. Hopefully the former.
Cheers.
@@chainsawplayin Atleast Nintendo release a full game
starcraft, warcraft were big part of my childhood , Blizzard went down bad when the microtransaction desease arrived
Im right there with you. At least we got to enjoy the golden days of gaming and the internet.. it is sad to see what all my beloved franchises and IPs have morphed into. I dont even recognize them anymore.
Same, I distinctly remember Starcraft 2 being one of my staple childhood experiences. It is great to revisit the old glory days sometimes, while not paying current Activision a cent.
lol. i got all of their games. lol
Honestly the players are as much at fault as Blizzard is for that. The $15 horse mount for WoW made more money than one of the Starcraft games in like 2 weeks, so I mean if you're literally giving blizzard your money for trash why wouldn't they capitalize?
If i made a dollar everytime Blizzard and Activision fucked up
I would be a millionaire
you could have bought Blizzard by now
blames blizzard --- check pinned comment. its a sell out . which is what killed blizzard. you're not a passionate dev youre playing the algorithm. hypocritical trash not worth watching
You could max out two whole Diablo Immortal characters!
@@chjk122_ Oh no, a youtuber uses ads to make money?
Not a sell out, would be if it was an ad for gambling or something as damaging as that. Blizzard screwed up through a history of bad choices and poor management... Hopefully they recover, I loved diablo 2 and Overwatch when it was released, it just got worse the longer it was out.
@@chjk122_ 🤡
I remember that Hong Kong event. I cancelled my WoW subscription during that. I was required to provide a copy of my drivers license to close my blizzard account (despite not being required to provide it to open one). I have not touched a Blizzard product since. I don't miss it.
Its almost like thats been their policy for years. If someone has an account that they paid for shit on and then the user wants to delete the account they want to make sure its actually you and not some random so they dont have to deal with legal issues. Their privacy policy goes over this in detail.
@@Noriaela on mobile if you click on a username you can see the other comments they've made on that video. You may want to switch to your alt soon so that you can hide your embarrassing blizzard cuckolding.
@@Noriaela cancelling a sub doesn't mean deleting the account you numpty.
@Noriaela wait, you have to send a photo of your licence to them?
I feel that all this controversies around Blizzard started happening after Overwatch and Legion ended or stopped being popular. Say what you will about Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria and or Heroes of the Storm, but if you look back at those games you will see that they are much better quality than what they offer today (BfA, Shadowlands, Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, etc...)
I basically stopped playing Blizzard games after the massive disappointment that was BfA and the Hong Kong event added insult to injury. Certainly don't regret it one single bit, no more subscriptions to play games I already own, no more lackluster content, FOMO, collectionist hell and predatory tactics to keep you engaged every day (Radiant quests, Raid limits, tedious leveling system, etc)
Guess thats what happens when accountants run the company and not gamers.
Its funny how 3 blokes in their mums cellar can make a world changing game that kickstarts a company with thousands of employees, but a multi billion dollar company can’t do much of anything.
Research on this topic indicates that marketers rise above the rest in corporate environments because their increase in profit is far more visible than a designer's influences.
Unchecked capitalism is a wealth extraction schema in which all money in the world is funneled upwards on a tiering system. It has no inherent truth or good qualities to it, and its ultimate end point is that all wealth is owned by a couple people and meted out only for the benefit of those people to continue to extract wealth, as it has no end-point. It's a finite system based on a principle of infinite trends, which are impossible, and therefore it is structurally impossible for unchecked capitalism to last.
holy shit the silicon and synapse logo unlocked a core memory of all the hours I spent playing rock n roll racing on SNES. what a game.
It was one of my favorite SNES games. It was alot of fun.
I still think about this game regularly.
There's a version of that on the Battle net, is it any good?
I'm making a top-down racer and I want to play it!
Facts.
@@sonictimmit’s amazing.
You forgot the part in 2012 after the Acti/Blizz merger, Activision forced Blizzard to lay off 600 employees to "cut cost" after a record profit year. The first time ever Blizz had laid off any employees and it was a HUGE deal. They even had police escort for laid off employees thinking they would go on full rage mode.
The fall of blizzard was due to the executives yet they have the gall to blame and fire the devs who were just following and were actually forced to follow orders and yet no manager gets fired
@@Omega-mr1jg Happens everywhere; the overseer's boss(es) demands improvement, and the blame-whip lands on the actual workers. The overseer's boss(es) receives boons and bonuses galore, the overseer receives a head pat and the whisperings of how he is such a good boy, while the workers receive unemployment and/or homelessness should they be out of a job long enough. The stupidest, greediest or most immoral people rise to the top, while the ones who really want nothing to do with this horrible system but to simply be able to work long enough without getting fired for no reason in order to provide for themselves and/or their families and work their way into a better job/life get pushed down.
Police escort to protect them, and people still don't think the police are the elite's goons?
Has nothing on the Microsoft/Activision merger that forced more than a 1000 layoffs to clear overlaps after telling regulators they wouldn't do so.
Welcome to late stage capitalism, where shareholder value must grow every year at nearly any cost.
Blizzard no longer exists. Ppl need to stop calling it that. Blizzard died years ago.
Right? I jumped ship after Wrath of the Lich King, after it had become clear that Blizzard no longer cared about making quality content. Not gonna lie, I got excited when Warcraft 3 reforged was announced, and was keeping an eye on it, but knew better than to pre-order a blizzard product. And I'm glad I went with my gut. Idk how you can so badly botch a masterpiece of the game that you already made and have as a reference point, but it's clear to me "Blizzard" no longer makes games for the fans. It makes them in spite of the fans.
The last expansion I enjoyed was Legion. Since then, we have always received the same thing in slightly worse quality. They deliberately lower the quality. I hope one day there will be a usable single player mode for it.
Let's call it Shitard.
@@robbnoble1509SAME DUDE after wrath and cata the game wasn’t the same and seeing what they did with diablo 3….. I also jumped shit. So glad for grinding gear games for path of exile which has true blizzard engineering in it
Blizzard is gone. Blizzard north is gone.
The best part of coming back in April of 2024 and watching this is knowing that by "Sprinkling in some PvE missions every few seasons" they meant "We are going to give you 3, and then nothing else ever again. Whomp whomp."
I have not played one single Blizzard game ever and this made me sad. I know that fans of these games are even sadder. But the devastation the original founders must feel to see how their dream was tarnished, undermined and destroyed beyond recondition, while they are forced to just sit and watch it happen before their very own eyes, helplessly, not being able to do anything about it has to be one of the highest forms of sadness one can feel...
I have blacklisted any Blizzard games, regardless how good the game is, I will never touch it.
The sexual harassment suit was the last straw.
The original warcraft 3 was out of this world. The polish and attention to detail was breathtaking. It's absolutely heart breaking now. It feels like meeting your highschool sweetheart, realizing she has been doing crack for 10 years
The founders surely cried all the way to the bank.
@@thecandlemaker1329 Guess you never made anything original in your life that someone corrupted.
Yes, they were upset for a while, but they are still millionaires so we can't feel too sorry for them. It's the slaves in suits working at Blizz that are the sorry bunch. Being a corpo drone is one of the worst jobs in the world.
Just to clarify on 23:00 The reforged launch did not can the classic team. The classic team got canned HALFWAY THROUGH DEVELOPMENT because Activision said to the OG team "nobody is going to buy this. It's not like diablo immortal". You can find this information by hearing one of the original devs talking about it on a stream he hosted. Reforged WAS gonna have all of the promised features, it just couldn't because people got fired before they could even start working on them.
Such a shame. I noticed it genuinely got a bit of attention on release (e.g on Twitch it was in like the top 10 or so streamed games for a few days) but it was such a garbage 'reforge'. I still keep up with the Wc3 scene a little because the original game is just so well designed and fun to watch. I don't think it would have been huge if it had been good but I think it genuinely would have expanded the small pool of dedicated players to have modern conveniences with the UI, graphics, world editor, and controls.
Just a heads up, DesignerDave is a kiddie diddler and pathological liar, he is trying to shift the blame for Reforged on Bobby Kotick and ignoring all the culprits from SC2 and other rotten apples from Blizzard, you shouldnt believe anything he claims as he was caught lying and censoring people on his youtube vids.,
Just a heads up, DesignerDave is a kiddietoucher and pathological liar, he is trying to shift the blame for Reforged on Bobby Kotick and ignoring all the culprits from SC2 and other rotten apples from Blizzard, you shouldnt believe anything he claims as he was caught lying and censoring people on his youtube vids.
Just a heads up, DesignerDave is a pathological liar, he is trying to shift the blame for Reforged on Bobby Kotick and ignoring all the culprits from SC2 and other rotten apples from Blizzard.
@@JackMarcuson And what information do you have that contradicts his, exactly? And where is it from?
"you all have phones, right?"...that's like Ferrari disappointing fans at a launch by announcing a range of running shoes instead of the anticipated new supercar...and responding to the disappointment by asking "you all have feet, right?"
Thanks for metaphor! I dont play video games so that helps illustrate the frustration
Except that Ferrari People would gladly shell out four digits for Ferrari branded shoes.
@@heirofaniushhhh
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Who are these absolutely moronic executives in charge of Activision-Blizzard?
How could they not forsee that firing 10% of their workforce would reduce their revenue in the future? How could they not see that destroying HotS would reduce revenue? How did they not realize that creating a classics department to remake older games, and then not giving that department enough resources to make a decent product would result in a terrible product, and reduce revenue
How did they not realize that destroying Overwatch gameplay by filling it with microtransactions, then changing the game to make more money from microtransactions, would reduce player numbers, prevent Overwatch from developing into an esport, and would reduce revenue?
How did they not realize that doing all that would destroy any possible goodwill left from the fans? That goodwill puts money in their pockets. Like, I get that they want to make money, but destroying future earning potential for a quick payday today just seems so shortsighted, and just plain... Stupid.
Those execs are business people. They only see "number go up=good" and "number go down=bad".
They're literally not morons because they're making more money now than ever before. Their plans worked and they have suctioned vast amounts of wealth out of the lesser number of players who stuck around. They aren't dumb, gamers are.
@@TRAMP-olineRelying on Whales isn't going to end well for Blizzard ..
The editing on this video is.... purely magical. Consider me subbed.
Reminds me very much of Internet Historian, but like, without the plagiarism
I hope they continue to forget about the single dev that lives in the cleaning closet so he can keep working on SC2 in peace
Did the closet intern got promoted to Dev?
And one works with HotS. Maybe in same closet.
@@user-wr8sr9fe4m same dev
Man the state of star craft 2 now. The ladder means nothing as you constantly fighter former masters players in bronze and the player base is so low that you are likely to be pitted against current masters players in bronze league just so it can find you a game.
@@user-wr8sr9fe4m i imagine the scene from the last airbender, when the gang passes through the village on the polluted river, and there is one guy pretending to be three by switching hats.
Never forget the time Blizzard sided with China against human rights.
And don’t forget how Actiblizz left China in shame later
As sad as that is. 🤣🤣
What's the freedom of Hong Kong versus hundreds of millions of dollars of China's market money? As being a soulless company there wasn't really any other option to logically take.
So have the rest of the world... anyone who buys shitty products made from there by child and slave labour.
Every big company does that to get their hands on that sweet juicy communist dictatorship money
Executives make a huge difference to the culture of your company. If you have an executive that just wants to cut and slash your employee base, doesn't provide value for customers, and doesn't please employees, you're just going to destroy even a great company. Losing their founder and replacing him with a jughead, was a HUGE deal.
That "you think you do, but you don't" line always gets me. Telling your customers what THEY want, and in a condescending manner as well. It'd be like going to a hardware store looking for paint and the associate tells you "well you THINK you want paint, but you really want a lawnmower!"
Exactly!
they learn marketing the wrong way LMAO
they need to fire their marketing team for not even passing college first class
Dude think he can Jedi mind trick
@@3takoyakis that's the problem, they only go for class in corrupt broken universities like harvard, that's what you get. they think marketing is telling the customer what to do instead of the other way around.
and the stupid "social scientists" (that's not even real science) will say that you're a bigot and privileged and that there's class division in society. on this they're kind of right, there's a class division created by those with fancy diplomas, but that's slowly going to hell as no one can pay for student debt and people realized the racket. university is a MLM scheme
Just goes to show how low studios think of gamers as customers. If that happened in a hotel or a restaurant, that employee would be fired immediately. But somehow it's completely fine to talk to gamers like that even though we're just like any other customer. I think it's because a portion of the fan base gives all gamers a bad rep. Those zombie consumers who will consume anything the company serves up. They think we will all eat up any crap they serve.
To be fair, they DID in fact redefine what a sequel means.
It means you slap a '2' at the end of the title of the first one, throw in extreme predatory monetisation, and call it a day.
Dungeon keeper?
Can't wait for WoW 2
Don’t forget to add plenty of salt to the player base, and a generous dose of extra spicy toxic social media “infotainment” streamers, to really zhuzh it up
And remove features lmao
Yup, to them a sequel just means a big update that lets them break all the promises they made about OW1
"No King Rules Forever"
I see only cubicle crawls and layoffs.... before me
thing is as much as i hate blizzard , this is not even core of problem , core of problem is stock exchange , once game companies stopped seing people who buy their game as "clients" , but "product" , (investors are clients now) things went down hill , and its not just blizzard or bigger studios doing this , cyberpunk is forever tainted by same reason and had one of worst releses in recently history.
"All good things come to an end."
cgp grey?
blames blizzard --- check pinned comment. its a sell out . which is what killed blizzard. you're not a passionate dev youre playing the algorithm. hypocritical trash not worth watching
Issues arose prior to Vinvendi. Things started already to go wrong around a half a year after the debut of WOW... around that time the good people started to leave and the greedy ones increased.
Blizzard has been dead to me since warcraft 3 reforged
Damn, you forgot about Starcraft 2 just like Blizzard did
who cares about it lmfao
@@don_chanGDconsidering it was a massive esport and was stupidly popular for a long time and IS still played and this is a video about the history of Blizzard, I assume people watching this care about this being accurate
XD
No he didn't. It was briefly mentioned!
and heros of the storm
It's kinda wild how "And stolen breastmilk." isn't a joke, but something that actually happened.
Keeping breast milk in the fridge at work, if it was a public fridge, is actually kinda disgusting.
@@CT2507not if its labeled, its super important for a woman to preserve milk in the event she has an issue and needs extra (also letting it build up is painful apparently) the gross thing is feeling entitled to taking someones stuff.
@@when-do-we-get-a-block-button A lot of things in this world are important. Why not keep blood vials in the fridge? Why not keep medicines in the work fridge?
It's still disgusting to keep your bodily fluids in the fridge others use to keep their lunch. Every time someone opens the fridge, they get reminded about someone else' breast fluids. They have to worry if they accidently touch the container by chance, they could get someone's fluids on them, and so on.
So, if someone removed the breast milk from the work fridge as a protest, I can fully understand it.
they will pay for their crimes
@@CT2507They didn't bring their toddlers to work, what are you even saying lmao
New to your channel but LOVE the way you make these videos. So much more entertaining with the snippets of shows and movies
Stupid scammers. They absolutely don't deserve peoples' trust. I did not know that there is such shit in Diablo 4.
“This entire studio must be purged.”
"At once sire!"
LOL, well met.
LOL
Stalinist mindset
Chris Metzen: Execute Order 66
First Bethesda, Now Blizzard
I’m hyped
Ubisoft next.
Rocksteady when?
Waiting for EA
@@fr0ck360suicide squad
next up: The Creative Assembly
at some point, these incompetent executives at bliz will be old and messed up in the head at some caretake home, and they will just loop saying "battle pass. battle pass. battle pass. battle pass" staring at the void.
Like the end of Fleekazoid's Skull and Bones video? The Purple Cannon strikes again...
As a Warcraft III editor content creator, I can tell that Blizzard can suck a dick since the point they decided to "own everything" from the map editor.
This whole story is what we watched in movies as children when greed simply destroyed all fun. Also, involving rich Chinese people into gaming industry is a self-destructing maneuver by itself.
The beginning of the end was the release of Cataclysm. Also, when you see people announcing Diablo III more than 7 years before the actual release should have made you absolutely aware of what was yet to come.
I was invited into participating in the creation of Warcraft III Reforged. It was initially a respectable fan-made project, named "Warriors of Azeroth", later quickly owned by Blizzard at the time when they decided to self-proclaimingly own other people's work on their Editor platform. But I was busy with real life things and declined; and to be honest I'm not even sorry for this.
Respect your taste, brothers and sisters.
I lost my eight years long job at Blizzard at the end of 2018. Also, we were shown the Diablo Immortal trailer in April that year, way before it was public and everyone was silent when normally, we all clap our hands when then announce something. It was apparent to everyone that it was doomed.
I don't understand.. It was unanimously disliked by literally every single person.. Every single higher up in the meeting where that game was pitched KNEW it would suck. Why would they do it? I'm trying not to put on a tinfoil hat but it really seems like they're TRYING to destroy the company and I cannot understand
@@moralesterdesperation and greed is a good motivator for bad decision making
@@Cairo40000 so wouldn't you want to be the one guy who tried to save the multi billion dollar company by saying the obvious? you'd surely be promoted to a million dollar job for doing nothing
@@moralester Nobody wants to hear the truth, especially the execs, and they knew that the guy would be right
@@moralesterthats thinking like a mentally stable human being. to the higher ups, the goal is money, not legacy, at the end of the day, they get to swim in their money while everyone else loses jobs.
Making a good product is always a risk, but using an already established ip is a guarantee that it will at least sell and get word of mouth before release. doesn't matter if its good or not, just that it sells enough, and the less money you put into it means higher profit. if the company fails completely from a bad product, the higher ups jump ship and move on like the parasites that they are to the next company cashing out on the one theu ran int the ground cutting corners. fir Activision/blizzard they knew the company would last longer to make more anyway after this but thats not what you were asking.
its the mentality of certain psycho paths (they aren't all this bad) but usually the ones that get into business get to the top and thats why you see this same issue repeat itself in every corner of established media when corporate is to blame.
Blizzard is literally the definition of "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
Westwood is another side of this coin.
If a company gets bought out and has to appease share holders; it's only a matter of time before they go under. There is a reason why EA and Activision are both know as the killers of game studios.
And Kotick got away with the whole thing
Literally? Literally? It was literally, huh? Was it, literally? Oh, literally? Literally literally literally! Literally is all I can say! Literally! I HAVE TO USE IT IN EVERY SENTENCE, CORRECT OR NOT!!! LITERALLY!!!! LITERALLY LITERALLY!!!!!
Is there anything in california that isnt villainous? Seems like everything there is pedos, sexism, racism, rape, crime, and violence.
wow ... The amount of editing is next level .. you are a true master of your craft my friend ... One of the most beautiful videos all over the internet ... THANK YOU for you great content 🤩🤩
Dota in the hands of Blizzard would've lasted 1-2 years and then died, forever forgotten.
Thankfully papa Gaben took it and made the biggest e-sport game in history out of it
You forgot 2 huge moments: first when Blizzard threatened all players that they will track what they do/say on the internet outside the Blizzard community and if they find out that they say unpleasant political stuff on any other outlet online they will ban them on the Blizzard community, and the other gem when they started banning players from Overwatch for playing too much with one particular character. These 2 show the absolute insanity of Blizzard and too bad they were left out of the video.
For the case of Overwatch, their balance team has 0 braincell and created the non-counter hero to turn OW into Shield and Support. They did not even make ban/pick system used on tournament of DOTA2 and LOL as the countermeasure of so broken meta
The only thing Overwatch is now good for is rule 34.
Winston x. Roadhog for life.@@markosimunic4770
@@markosimunic4770 amen brother, amen
@@markosimunic4770 Truth.
The saddest thing about Heroes of the Storm is that it is currently the least predatory monetized blizzard game there is, simply because it hasn't been touched since 2019.
(Excluding SC2 because it never had any loot boxes or shit like that)
Yup, and they could easily revive the game and do a lot with it. The engine is amazing, I just hope they dont make a 2nd one and kill it with a less smooth experiance. Current hots feels like sc2 and has the best champions in any game. When I quit playing LoL I went back to HoTS and play it all the time. Tried going bsck to league and I cant play it, it doesnt feel smooth.
And is easily the best moba.
Dota 2 is better than HotS due to its lightning in a bottle beginnings, the cumulative effort that has been put into it since Dota Allstars (2 decades of balancing), an extremely successful custom game option that has spawned moba subgenres like chess aka Teamfight Tactics and Dota Underlords, and so much more. But I will say that from personal exp, HotS is a much more enjoyable game to play with friends on a casual and competitive level, and is actually an amazing game altogether
I don't think I've ever played a game like I played HotS. It hit a perfect spot for me and felt like the first online community I was ever a part of. I played it so much I unlocked every character for free. I put money into it because I wanted to reward the game, in some misguided hope that support above and on top of what I put into the twitch scene could keep that community alive. And look how Blizzard rewarded all of us...
HotS is the only Blizzard game I still play
well put together and special effects buff on the edits man! well done
I like the style of your video editing! thanks!
Fun Fact..ughbarf: The HotS esports layoff situation was so bad that South Korea passed a law with the games namesake to make similar situations illegal.
To be fair, south korea sucks.
I am starting to doutb I don't know what fun is. Every time I see a fun fact, I might think its cool, but never say its fun...guess a turn of phrase?
@@ravinraven6913 Yes now it just means "a random trivia" or just "interesting fact". Or people use the term ironically, like probably in this case.
This is the reckoning you deserve, Blizzard.
You are so goofy 😂
what reckoning bro? they are making billions
Their stock is on the rise, they are doing fine unfortunately
blames blizzard --- check pinned comment. its a sell out . which is what killed blizzard. you're not a passionate dev youre playing the algorithm. hypocritical trash not worth watching
@@chjk122_”leave the billion dollar company alone guys”
This video isn’t just a work of art. It’s entertaining, educational, historical. It needs to be watched by anyone who has ever played or thought of playing a Blizzard game.
I deleted all my Activision-Blizzard accounts after the Blitzchung incident. As an American, it would've felt wrong to claim being pro-freedom while actively supporting a company who showed their true colors of being anti-freedom. And I've honestly missed WoW (and many other A-B games). Who knows how many thousands of dollars I've spent on them over the better part of two decades... I've been hit with nostalgia time and time again, finding myself trying to justify a reason why it's "okay now" to go back, alas I never did, because it will never be okay as long as the same greedy/anti-freedom people remain in charge of that company.
trust an american to bring being an american into it. not that your argument is wrong, but it's like 4th grader getting their maths answer correct by accident. as an american. you dont even have "freedom". fix your democracy and gun issues, then we can talk about freedom
Good. Nobody else who plays their games misses you.
Imagine trying to watch a videogame tournament to get some escape from the real world only to have a player in said tournament use someone else's platform to push their political agenda on the viewers.
Dude should've got a *lifetime* ban from all Blizzard games, and if his dumbass behaviour caused any monetary losses, be forced to pay those back as well. It's morons like you that think your social justice is above all else that are the problem. He had no right to do what he did, regardless what his message was or his reasons for doing so.
Id like to point out that Heroes of the Storm was originally called Blizzard Allstars, or BALLS for short
I'd like to point out that Blackthorne was my favorite title from Blizzard
Its been balls in our face for years now from Blizzard
Also hearthstone is pronounced ‘harth stone’ not ‘here-th stone’. Had to rant somewhere
@@JohnMcSmithI got to that part right as I read this, had a double take.
38 yrs old and this comment had me in stitches...I need to grow up.
I remember being 11 years old, seeing people at an internet cafe playing wow. Damn i will never forget how badly i wanted to play.
The days of Wrath of the Lich King were magical 🥲 what a shame
Dude, the first year of wow were AMAZING! My first wife almost left me because it was work and WOW, thats it! 😂
@@DaRealKing303 Damn, son! 🤣 I'm guessing you backed off the throttle in the following years?
@@DaRealKing303 You aren't kidding. I was a Day One player (beta player) and that first year was magical. I'm not sure I slept more than 4-5 hours a night in 2005.
Everytime a studio becomes really big and you start adding executives, shareholders, marketters, and all people who want to optimize money before everything else, you suddently see a drop of quality and innovation but also a big step in the prices.
You also start seeing marketing methods to make players pay more and more. Blizzard was doomed when they started to become too big to stay that good old indie game studio
Hearth, like heart.
Not hearth, like earth, or hearth, like bear.
To me the 2020s will always be labeled the "decade of decay".
I think the change from "kinda bad" to "everything rapidly becoming terrible" happened around 2016 but yeah, it's going to mark this entire decade. People were still pretty optimistic in the early 2010s.
@@poika22 atleast we had Doom in 2016, I still believe it did some things better than Eternal, not that that means I didn't like it though.
We're getting some of the most banger modern games in the market, though.
The old giants are dead and decaying, those that remain stumble upon rotten limbs. The new sprout from their corpses and the now-fertile soil.
It's sad, but I feel like the gaming industry is slowly going back to the way it should be.
Slowly.
@@poika22
I’d say things became rapidly terrible more so around 2019. But yeah, something to that effect.
Don't say that, bro. We aren't even halfway through.
_"Well, Blizzard is dead. It is a corpse being puppeteered by Activision and Bobby Kotick and it's going to be used as basically a factory to put the Blizzard stamp on things and stoke nostalgia to get sales and that's it. So, stop holding out hope that Blizzard is going to come back. Everyone who founded Blizzard; all of the principles that Blizzard was founded on, they're gone or they're dead... The principles that Blizzard was founded upon are dead. They've been desecrated and are destroyed. So, let Blizzard go. That's my main message. Let Blizzard go. Appreciate what was created back when it was done and stop holding out hope that it's going to come back, because it's not."_
_-Former Blizzard designer_
I remember realizing in 2010 that the Blizzard I knew from 2004 until then was gone. I was only 19 and at the time did not fully grasp corporate structures and such but I could *sense* that things were different. From 2005-2008, if you needed help with something, you could open a ticket in-game and a GM (game master) Blizzard employee would send you a private message within minutes, sharing game secrets and memes and role-playing playfully. Whatever you needed--they had your back. By 2010 tickets were taking 6-12 hours and you would get very obviously pre-written template messages from support members who did not feel like they were also players, the way GMs did. Then the "RealID" crap was introduced.. and yeah.. everything slowly diluted into what is now the ultra corporate clean accessible WoW that is devoid of the magic and spirit the original WoW experience had. I grew up playing Warcraft 3 before WoW and then poof, gone, all interest in the franchise and "blizz" as we knew it just vanished.
The unfortunate truth to a decent chunk of older gaming companies.
Nice to see you here btw man!
The main founder realized there was no plugging the hole on the sinking ship and realized better to leave with his dignity than stay and be used as a scapegoat
Original WoW was pretty amazing. But the context of its time was important.
My stepson had the Legendary An-Qiraj mount as he rang the gong. What an event! I knew people who _planned their vactions_ around the release of Burning Crusade so they could rush the level-cap for endgame.
It was a wild time!
Great video! You missed the epic pooh bear protests at blizzcon in 2019.
EA, Bethesda, Blizzard, what about Ubisoft?
Go watch reviews of skulls and bones.
I'd say Activision, specially with how much Bobby took down
It was always bad, now is just worse than before
Ubisoft in all honesty is just consistently extremely mediocre, rarely awful, but never good either.
@@sozius0 Ubisoft has mobile style monetization even in single player games like Assassins creed .
"Don't you have phones?"
"You think you do, but you don't."
Some great moments. 😊
Immortalized, and will live forever lmao
When attempting to gaslight the audience goes wrong.
Still remember that day. Playing in Path of Exiles, preparing to end league and my PoE Discord gone uts because of this. Entire PoE subreddit exploded with joy and beginning guide for Diablo players switched to. The final cherry on the cake is GGG announced the next league: Betrayal league with entire content and trailer were a mockery to this moment.
@@superspies32 LMAO
GGG is master trolls
31:49 "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle..." - from Bizet's _Carmen_ was the *perfect* choice of background with which to close this recap! ❤ The subtextual allusions and associations are spot-on, there.
i have to keep waiting 6 months for these golden vids
The more money is on the table, the worse the product is going to be. You start getting the corporate stooges involved, responsible for making millions/billions, you can expect the end result to be a travesty.
Story as old as time, and the one where everybody forgets the adage, “ those that don’t know history are doomed to repeat it”
That’s why we call them the corporate machine. No soul, only crime and cash
Even Cyberpunk was a victim of corporate greed. I don't think there is one gaming company that didn't ruin their reputation other than perhaps Supergiant.
Unfortunately, the future seems bleak for all games since gacha-models inherited and refined from early games like Maplestory have taken root in the industry.
When games Clash of Clans or Genshin Impact both make 10x more money than amazing projects like Elden Ring or BG3, you know the industry is doomed. Over 80% of gaming is mobile nowadays too.
I remember when between 2005-2015 amazing games released every year, but now that gap between truly amazing games is getting wider and wider. Even BG3 took so long. Quantity over quality dominates the industry now.
@@thecolorgreen9022 Dude last year was some of the best year in terms of good games in a long time.
@@AL-lh2htif you are a pathetic normie who enjoys watching cutscenes in AAA garbage sure, to me last year was absolutely fugging awful
I deleted my Blizzard account back in BFA after having played since 2004 and its the best decision i have ever made. Its so liberating to not have to care about any of their bullshit or having to constantly be on guard to them trying to screw me over. Blizzard will literally never improve, they will keep promising you the world while sucking your wallet dry. Everyone has a limit to the amount of bullshit they will put up with, hopefully this is yours my friend. Good luck.
This sounds like the recovery story of a drug addict.
Deleted my account after the 'difficult Hearthstone moment'. Had to remind them of the law to make it happen, of course. What a fun bunch.
I deleted it after they murdered Overwatch 1 and I don’t regret it for a second.
@@Detective_L I also fucked off after they took my favourite game (at the time) and turning it into complete garbage
Deleting an account never felt so good. Overwatch was my breaking point as well, good riddance.
2:01 I don't recall there being click and drag in Warcraft 1. I remember having to shift click each unit (up to 4). Then WC2 allowed for click and drag units (I think up to 6/8?)
32:22 "But with the acquisition from Microsoft, who's currently focusing on making good exclusives to slap on their Game Pass..."
If only we knew...
If only we FUCKING knew...
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain”
The Dark Knight. Harvey Dent.
kotick is worse than any villain or dictator...
A guy with a funny mustache: impossible
Things are not that simple. Those are two extremes. There is always middle ground between two extremes on opposite ends of a spectrum.
... become a joke to be exact, blizzard dota without reaching icefrog, lmao !
stolen booba milk has to really be ''the hell is wrong with you?'' moment
That whole thing was blown WAY out of proportion. It was never stolen. Janitors had to clean out fridges every night and morning and throw out everything that was left in there, be it still fresh food or booba milk, it was chucked. Blizzard's offices (well, Irvines at least) are very clean and hygienic
@Mortiferous89 Written by someone with a suspiciously large amount of breast milk in their fridge with unknown origin.
@@Mortiferous89Activision ain't gonna fuck you, bro
@@Mortiferous89 hey look its the blizzard employee
@@Mortiferous89 "One day, I went to retrieve my supply at the end of the day, and it was gone."
I'm guessing that the "Janitors having to clean out the fridges every night" start cleaning out the fridges during office hours is your defense?
You just hit blizzard with tons of sarcastic napalm bombs! .. Bro, you made ma laugh :D
You know, sometimes I keep forgetting that I am old enough to remember these events. Nothing really past 2004 because I was still a small kid, but that one Starcraft trailer, and WoD, I remember quite well.
A year after Warcraft 3 Reforged launched my grandpa gave me his copy of Warcraft 3 (Version 1.00) and later I bought the expansion The Frozen Throne and still never had to update because I was playing on an actual dvd version
Based grandpa 👍
More reasons to have physical media! :)
More reasons to have a physical grandpa @@phantomtr1
The last proper version is 1.26 if I recall correctly
That’s awesome! You can find software copies of WC3 pre-reforged online. I recently held a classic WC3 LAN with 9 other mates for a long weekend.
Damn dude, your editing is superb. As someone who's done editing, I can't imagine how long it took you to make this 30+min video. And your delivery and style made it both easy to follow and kept my hooked.
It's hilarious and spot on every time. Reference game 110%.
The real question is. Does he do Internet historians editing, or does Internet historian's editor do his. Cuase this is exactly how I.H's content looks and sounds
Absolutely. The memes and clips throughout the entire Blizzard history was exceptionally well done. That absolutely took a lot of time. Just finding all of that shit to use would have taken forever. Let alone editing "Blizzard" and whatnot on people's foreheads in videos he used.
@@josepreciadocortes8224this!7😊
Well his videos are months apart.
It was the mandatory authenticator on the phone that pushed me way, that intrusion unforgiveable just to play a game.
I was in basic training at Fort Benning with one of the founders Allen Adham. He went off to be an Airborne Ranger. I wrote to him years later and he said he liked making up the new concepts of games but left the other stuff to the other guys while he travels the world. All I can say is they had a good run. I am 55 now so he must be around the same. They probably let all the Corp do all the thinking at this point I would figure.
its a classic where the OG didnt want to intervene because the new ppl is so bad and so greed. at this point, he would just take it as passive income since its too much hassle for him to intervene. ppl would remember the sequel never built under his hand anyway
I played the warcraft 2, 3, starcraft 1, diablo 2, wow burning crusade & the lich king and i still have the CD copies of those games. Those were the most fabulous and the most fun times i've had. Maybe im getting too old now, but nothing will replace those great feelings back then. Blizzard games today are not just as good as they were back then.
Oh dude..... Get back into D2. It's ALL had a MASSIVE graphics upgrade and looks STUNNINGLY beautiful. Instead of 2D art getting rendered in 2.5D iso to give the ILLUSION of 3D, it's all been redrawn in 3D.... and whats more, the Runewords still work, the Cow King has been fixed (yes you can now kill him and re-enter the same level for more killing), and that annoying Multishot-Lightning Enchanted combo has been removed.
@@chalk6ix_nz950Oh yeah the D2 remaster is totally awesome! Im huge fan of D2 and this blew my mind how great the remaster actually is. Although i find myself sometimes switching to the old graphics just for the nostalgy.
Just not as good is quite an understatement. Those old games revolutionized their respective genres. Even if their releases were delayed multiple times and Blizzard just gave their "when it's done", people knew the hype was justified. Now, D2R is the only game that wasn't a huge disappointment.
Old D2 is still better than resurrected. People will never understand. You are not too old. Blizzard died with its last game in 2012.
Ah man, your mention of WotLK brings back memories!
Thank you for keeping the torch high w these videos.
24:08 - Fun fact: Activision-Blizzard had a "The Boys" show crossover event for the current CoD game at the time, with even the actor of Homelander getting a tour of the studio.
So for those who watched the show and know all of Homelander's quirks, it all makes perfect sense. 🧐
🍼🥛
He must've been envious of their (at the time, anyway) ability to also get away with doing anything no matter how heinous.
I still remember how Blizzard was in it's prime and it really hurts to see them now
theyre good now wow is great df has tons of positive feedback
@@wm1573 yea right
@@jannesrosenberg926 just look it up weirdo. I understand it’s cool to hate and follow the trends, but it’s in good state. Classic and retail have been insanely popular for the past few years
I think this is why people are hesitant to leave or boycott. They have a lot of love and connection to what they USED to be . They keep holding out hope , when they should just outright refuse . It’s yet another layer of exploitation.
Everything goes in cycles. Usually guys who can start a studio and make good games cannot also handle a big company. Bungie is a good example of the same problem. 20 nerds in an office making a masterpiece is not the same as 9000 people across many countries trying to coordinate on something. One is going to figure it out and the other simply costs too much sustain without screwing the player-base for every cent just to keep this 9000-person machine going. I'm convinced you could strip Blizzard down to like 50 people and they would make better games. They wouldn't be live service, and they wouldn't be as big as e.g., D4, but they'd be playable. They'd be priced fairly and they'd patch mistakes (instead of showing up at camp fire chats and over-promising on some BS no one really wants anyway).
Your video reminds me of what The Internet Historian used to be. Subbed. ❤
this was for sure the most entertaining video i have ever watched on youtube, gratz! how much time did u took to edit it? im truly curious xdd
Activision killed Blizzard
I love how every “the fall of blizzard videos” never mentions the disgruntled SC2 players and the franchise of starcraft. StarCraft made esports. Fuck blizzard
Because SC2 was a good game and the players' "disgruntlement" is due to the genre falling in popularity, which isn't Blizzard's fault. SC2 is still the most popular RTS game 14 years later.
can you fill "us" in abooot the starcraft bs ? i still play sc2 ... but i dont know all details of the bs ... i wish could still play legacy of the void rules
@@poika22 I'm just glad they left SC2 alone mostly. Let me keep playing Oh no it's zombies and Civilization sapphire, and my parasite games... and all the other amazing arcade games.
It blows my mind that they could've had Dota but didn't reach out to the guy. Og Dota was nuts and they probably could've scooped the modder up at a discount and had another massive hit.
I like hots more, it feels like starcraft smooth but has the charecters I like. If they did a lot with the game to make it more in depth like dota but keep it the same champion wise and feel it would be one of their best games. It was a big missed opertunity on their end.
Typical Blizz L and Steam thanks them for the mountains of free cash they made as a result of Blizzard's shortsightedness.
it's a good thing they never got it. imagine a dota 2 owned by blizz. the game would have been super casualized and probably discountinued already lol. valve getting it was the best case scenario.
So funny! xD Excellent use of stock footage, cracked me up proper
Give your editor a raise man.
editing made this video so fun to watch
What’s really scary is that this is pretty much the same thing that happened to Boeing
ivy league trash CEOs
Right? Instead of problematic games they release problematic airplanes that kill people
?
bad video games drop people outta the sky trapped in a cylindrical death box 40000 above the pacific?
and boeing execs r@pe and drive female coworkers to near suicide????
man whatever youre smoking that sh!t need to be confiscated cause its *S T R O N G*
also.
"happened to"?
sh!t didnt know boeing was an innocent victim that was just minding its own business instead of actively putting thousands of people's lives at risk to save a buck
@@aa-tx7thYes, happened to. A bunch of grifters with no technical skills and a document saying they're better than the engineers take over and force everyone to cut corners.
heres something funny guys; im playing prison architect lately and guess whos one of my guests? "Bobby Kotick" His info card is saying "He deserves everything thats happening to him" :-D
That man is right up there with many other Epstein listers in deserving their spots in the bad place.
No one cares , loser
Though it’s a lengthy watch, it’s good! The ingenious editing injects are F^%$ing hilarious. Your boss narration pinpointed the Blizzard timeline.
I grew up on Blizzard games, loved them all. And now they'll never get another dollar from me. What a disaster
I had a motorcycle accident in November the year WoW came out. I was bed ridden for a year so I started playing it. I was bed ridden for 14 months, and played it non stop 12+ hours a day. Soon as I was able to walk again I sold my account for £850 and never looked back.
xD
Wow, must have been quite a time
No other real options than to play one of the greatest MMOs of all time, at its peak, all day long!
@@Philip_Taylor life was hard lol
Damn, smart decision making.
Good story, but nobody will buy account for £850. I really doubt that you have something like spectral tiger or scarab lord title. Maybe mutli glad title/mounts. So i hope that you did enjoy your time in WoW, but dont lie to us. Especially, when you mostly cannot even borrow your account to friend, bcs Blizzard love to ban for sharing :D . But as i said, nice fairy tale.
Blizzard not capitalizing on Dota before Valve did, has to be one of their biggest f*ck ups. You had a potential gold mine sitting inside your own game and never moved on it, until someone else did.
But i guess it turned out for the best. It wouldav been a disaster in blizzards hands hell bent on monetization of every godamn element.
At this point Blizzard was already starting to chase trends instead of innovating. Valve however created an entirely new, untapped market.
Bethesda did this by not making starfield mod focused, that alone would've keep the game alive for a decade to come.
Same for Palworld & Nintendo no? 0 understanding of their player base, yet wants to milk every game cash cow for all it's worth and then some.
wow is 20 years old? im officially feeling time fly by..
Seems like much work has been put into this video, and it is very good.
The amount of editing that must've been involved in this video is insane.
Yeah props to this channel.
Good keyframe tracking always brings a tear to my eye.
a couple of odd pronunciations but excellent video. It's Harthstone not HereITHstone
@@bt7482 he is not supposed to pronounce as you want to, for he might not be native english
@@StallionStudios1234 He basically just copied off of internet Historian.
Looking at how insanely popular a PvE game like Helldivers 2 is in 2024, imagine being the guy at Blizzard who scrapped OW2’s PvE last year.
PVE was always popular… i mean… look many years back at the PvE Servers of World of Warcraft. Or Other games like Halo with the Coop, Dead Island… there are so many positive examples. But the industry is always thinking that PvP and Competitive things are the holy grail…
WoW is mainly PvE. The PvP is just a game mode (minigame) that a couple tryhards keep alive by being super loud and toxic towards any actually positive change.
@Nathanyel the tryhards are the pve nerds who rage when they keep wiping to the same mechanic week after week 20 times per raid and then nerd rage at eachother. 😂 can't even beat the damn computer lol. Your comment was a clownboi comment😂😂😂
It would have been massive for OW2 if there was even a small amount of PVE content on launch, they fumbled the bag so hard and practically killed the franchise for a second time before the sequel came out. Its gotten better, but its still impossible to justify all the money and dev time that went into what boils down to removing a tank and some graphic overhauls.
Not only helldivers. Look at granblue fantasy relink. Reached 1m sales in 11 days.
Amazing video. Very very good editing
And you didn’t even mention Warcraft Arclight Rumble. It was hilarious! :D
LOL huge props on the very effective use of memes and movie snips. This short documental was both very informative, and laughed all through with the memes. You sir have become everything Michael Scott could not in his office meetings; Teach something and entertain at the same time.
"-You guys don't have phones" still hurts lol
"Don't you guys have funds?"
@@AllenLSwain 💀💀💀
It's 2024 and I still don't play a single game on my phone lol.
@@TwistLosi I have but are all emulated games. Cause app games suck!
@@lengeyart np, we'd expect this from a user who overuses skull emojis on youtube
I love how when they introduced immortal they thought it was both something we wanted and something that would be cheered.
It wasn't as obvious that they were tone death to their fans, till right up to that point.
That was when the world knew, Blizzard had died and was no more.
Hearthstone recently banned thousands of accounts saying they were taking a stand on botting. Their forums filled up with messages from hundreds of innocent players banned for things they never did. I was one of those hundreds who was banned for botting when I have NEVER botted. I had been playing the game since their Beta release. Blizzard's response to this outcry was to release a forced arbitration agreement. Paying to play their game is insanity.
They have not only not changed they have gotten worse.
I believe what you are saying, however the game is only 10 years old.
@@kspau13 Lol. I'd tell you a memory loss joke but I keep drawing a blank. Thanks for the correction. I did start playing during Beta though.
Expecting Microsoft to do good by Blizzard is like expecting Disney to do good by Star Wars.
Back in 2012 we knew that "those 6bil$ aren't going to make themselves back".
Now in 2024 we also know that "those 70bil aren't going to make themselves back".
And mark my words - Blizzard would likely be shut down the same year as WoW. At this point it's nothing but a minor subsidiary, whose IP ownership can be re-appropriated by the ever-shrinking workforce, not without AI's involvement.
In other words - you don't need BLIZZARD to make Diablo or Starcraft or even Warcraft. If Rumble, Immoral or, let's be honest, TARISLAND are of any indication.
Blizzard's only lifeline are the subscription money they make. Their creative team was shut down the moment Activision prohibited them to make Titan to make room for Density.
Microsoft will probably lay off most of Blizzard's current employees and farm the games out to somebody who knows what they're doing. They've done pretty decent over the years as a games publisher, especially with the Age of Empires series.
@@damianjblackI lost hope when blizzard failed me on dragon fight and I stopped playing Diablo four because of the way treated the game.
Blizzard will never be shut down. The brand is too recognizable. Blizzard is itself at least as big of a name as their games are. Why would Microsoft give that up? Even if the game is developed by NetEase or whoever, they can advertise it as "the next Blizzard game" and edit together trailers showing all the old games people remember fondly.
@@poika22 Of course, if WoW would never be allowed to die, whether with xpacks or WoW 2 or whatever, Blizzard could be kept around.
But plenty of studios have been shut down or killed, and when EVERYONE is making videos about how bad Blizzard is - do you really think Microsoft would care for a miracle to turn it around?
People want Blizzard to die. Nobody is rooting for them.
Starcraft 2 is a deadweight. Hearthstone and Overwatch a penny collectors. Diablo 4 is a neither here nor there.
WoW is is the cornerstone of Blizzard, the reason they got bought by Activision in the first place.
Rememebr all those controversies with PS? It was about Call of Duty. That's the big name. That's what Microsoft has been interested in in the long run. And even THAT part is being "optimized now".
If even Call of Duty's future isn't bright - do you really think Blizzard is safe?
@@WirxawTanev Yes, I think Blizzard is safe. Not the employees of course. It might just be one guy in an empty office or just a name in the books. But there is absolutely no reason to shut down company. "Everyone" is making videos about how bad Blizzard is, but first of all people who watch this type of stuff are a tiny, tiny, minority of people who buy video games, and secondly even the people who do watch this stuff will forget in a year or two when they tease the remake or sequel for a game from their childhood.