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The degree to which normies don't understand what is actually happening at Blizzard right now is depressing. People like asmongold are mad about Warcraft going to shit, so they're dunking on Bliz for the "sexist workplace" lawsuit. Meanwhile, in reality, the people who helped make Warcraft shitty are the same people bringing the lawsuit. Radical leftist retards made your favorite game gay as hell, and you are celebrating their hostile takeover of the company? You think the fact that the corrupt socialist state of California is involved somehow makes the process more legitimate?
It’s a ship that was sinking and then split in two to sink faster. Not sure how our reaction should be.
At first it was just sinking. Then it took a torpedo to the ammo locker.
Warcraft has been satanist programming for decades. It literally can't GO to shit when it's already there. As for my fedposting thoughts about that group of individuals, just use your imagination.
The Blizzard that we loved in the 90s and 2000s is gone. I'm rooting for the company's complete collapse so that maybe the IP will be sold off to someone who actually cares about the content. Barring that, the end of Blizzard will at least disabuse anyone of the notion that this company full of woke weirdos is the same company that made the OG Starcraft or WoW.
Its justified tho. blizz has been gay self righteous cunts for well over a decade, now.
No, thats not whats happening. the new hires who were women were sexually harassed and raped. most of the lead roles for warcraft are men, and some were the people doing the raping.
I believe that most or all in the 'lawsuit' are not currently working at blizzard.
Nope. They made it gay way before this pic in the op was taken, Warcraft was turning to shit before they went woke, but activision was around the start of it beginning to suck hard.
Who? Corrupt faggots who hate gamers were in charge before. The cuck who stepped down told people they didnt actually like the original WoW, then it was such a success years later that Blizz made an expansion for it.
Virtually all the leadership has been cunt faggots for many years back, it was nice pleasant cake seeing that fagass ghostcrawler having to admit irl he was privy to the rapes, as most of them, he was an insufferable faggot towards ANY gamer who dared question his designs, and resorted to silencing most who had that opinion of him. If your fear is that some fat sjw tranny is taking over the company, I doubt it, bobby is appointing more of his money grubbers so it will be similar to before, maybe with slightly less rapes going on at Blizzard HQ.
They might be corrupt, but some lawyers are actually legitimate. Seeing how they are investigating because blizzard rapists bullied an intern into suicide, I think they may be right on this one issue.
No tears shed when blizz shuts down, its grown from a slightly woke place, into an insuferable preaching corporate asshole who drinks his own jizz. I for one, am fully done with blizz. No classic for me, no D2R, nothing anymore.
It is literally a hive of craven rapists and no one should give them a penny.
Don't forget that Blizzard also sucks CCP cock.
So you've 100% drunk the kool-aid lol
California is the state that made it illegal to have an all-male corporate board. As I said, their involvement makes the lawsuit more suspect, not less.
Picture says everything people need to know about Blizzard and exactly why no one should be supporting them anymore.
A bunch of insecure losers who have to shove their activism down everyone throats.
I hate to point it out, however, this shit just didn't happen before women began joining studios. Plain and simple.
I hope people stop supporting these companies. The idea that somebody else will do it for them and their one purchase doesn't matter is dumb — because there are countless others who think the same exact thing.
Why do you hate it? The stark, emperor has no clothes, reality is that men and women working together is a bad idea.
Of course nobody without either fuck you money or absolutely nothing to lose can say it publicly.
True.
I don't like pointing it out because I have worked with some great women who bust their ass. The types in the picture are a very specific subset of women who are like an invasive species. They're not exactly representative of the whole, but they do make up a major portion within certain fields.
LGBTQ YES!!!! equality woo!!!! everyone should be treated fairly!!!
behind closed doors*- literally rapes interns
wow, you are a galactic retard. blame these cunts for being woke rapists, not the women for getting raped by woke retards. wow
The kind of women living in California and working at blizzard are 99% pieces of shit.
"Everything we like is nonpolitical we aren't political" was the rallying cry of 2010's. "We are political, and you're going to bow down to what we say" is the cry of the 2020's if they have their way, now that they took the time to install enough of their cronys
It’s like when they call just basic conservative stances extreme despite being the same conservative talking points from 20-30 years ago.
Conservatives are condemned for using the same liberal talking points from 5 years ago, although that gap is shrinking rapidly.
and blizzard china said they support everything the chinese govt does
Right next to a high school. Groomers.
"What are your priorities as a video game maker?"
"We have to have a rainbow on our name!"
"Aaaand?"
"And lots of People Of Hair Color representation!"
"aaaand?"
"And what?"
"Making good video games?"
"Making good what now? Sorry, we don't do that here, all our budget is tied up in virtue signalling."
WAOW, EQUALITY+!!!
Guess this was Blizzard celebrating pride something? Hope they go bankrupt.
I honestly have a lot of contempt for them since BFA, they went for diversity and feminism.
But at least it explains why new hearthstone art was shit.
Blizzard died when Activision bought them. There is no Blizzard.
Communist in skin-suit: "WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME"
Blizzard was not bought by Activision. Blizzard was sold to Vivendi and was a part of Vivendi games along with Sierra. Activision proposed a merger with Vivendi games and Vivendi agreed under the condition that Vivendi maintains the majority of shares in the company (they started with 52% and ended around 63% of shares) once merged the new Activision-Bizzard axed Sierra. Under this Blizzard entertainment mostly maintained their autonomy. In 2013 Activision-Blizzard purchased about $5 Billion of their own stock from Vivendi reducing Vivendi share ownership to roughly 11% making Activision Blizzard an independent company.
Honestly it’s probably not activision that’s causing the problems so much as it would have been under any corporate entity they were owned by. They weren’t even an independent company when they made WC orc and humans. By the nature of corporations, they are terrified of risk. But video games are a creative and risky business. 2 things that corporate drones do not understand and have an instinctual revulsion to. So when you have creative people move on for whatever reason someone has to be hired or promoted to replace them. And guess who picks the candidates for the most important positions. Corporate drones. So uncreative, risk averse, yes men are now placed in creative positions, like editorial boards or creative directors deciding what gets made and what doesn’t. Add on sjw brought in by hr who get mixed into the bunch kowtowing to communist China is obviously the next thing to happen. It just sucks so bad for blizzard because they had talented people in the creative positions for so long and when people left it was obvious in the product.
From the inside, I'll say that the Activision influence, coming directly from Bobby Kotick, was a meaningful element in the company going to shit between 2010 and 2018. It wasn't the only factor, but I was personally affected by Kotick's mandates.
I don’t doubt it. My point was that it was likely to happen regardless of who their corporate overlords were. It’s hard to name a major studio who made a hit series that is owned by a major corporation that doesn’t eventually make rehashed low quality trash. It probably would have happened under Vivendi too as soon as wow subs slipped.
I do agree with this. Creative industries do not make for sustainable companies, because creativity is a flash in the pan unless you're Brandon Sanderson.
And Brandon is an individual who has sole creative control over his work. He may have had some guidelines over what he had to do for his work finishing up wheel of time but at the end of the day he makes the decisions. Games are typically collaborative works. If the creative director or narrative director are good at their job they can wrangle a bunch of cats to all pull in one direction (and as long as some corporate blown doesn’t get the idea to play creative for a bit) their chances of making a good game is high. But if they have crap directors at the top who let in every bad idea because some associate designer thinks it would be really cool to implement a bad idea they will flounder.
Look at wows story after metzen left. Sure not everything that was put out under his watch was gold but cataclysm, mists, and warlords are all better story wise than bfa and shadowlands. Or overwatch, he leaves and every bit of story drip turns into a tumbler page discussing each character’s sexuality.
Rockstar devs can cause huge problems for teams if there is no collaboration on a project, but there needs to be someone in the room capable of saying no whether that’s to others on the dev team or some overpaid corporate twat.
tl;dr
they were owned by a company that was bought by them. Activision runs Blizzard corporately. But there is no difference because it is just as if they were bought by Activis.
It started under activision, so yes it is. compare wc's sequels to sc, and you can tell how much of the quality had left after the merger was complete.
Point was that blizzard would have eventually gone to crap regardless of who their corporate overlord was by nature of how corporations operate.
I believe they also introduced the first “transgender” Hearthstone minion some time back.
They mocked the fans at that early blizzcon, that was the beginning of the end. Then promised pvp for release year, didnt deliver. Activision was already fucking blizz ~2010ish or so.
i didnt look at blizzard after diablo 3.. but overwatch porn made me check out overwatch lol.
All I see is a giant ad for repealing sex discrimination laws.
So in your hatred of women youd rather let these woke fags be hipocritical sexist fucks so they can keep women out of the workplace?
There's no need for a law that protects a group that is clearly facing no risk of being shut out of the workplace.
Absolutely insane that 50% is a fucking minority in the eyes of the law.
So glad I’m an 80s baby and can remember when video game companies prioritized video games
You get what you fucking deserve
If you game, and you’re a white heterosexual, you are funding your own demise. Only money made this possible. Only money will correct the issue. Just stop.
Playing WOW is as representative of "gaming" as consuming shit sandwiches is of eating. Your mistake is to confuse the corruption of a thing for the thing itself.
Just keep doing nothing about the source of the problems, and keep giving them as many chances to succeed as they need. I'm sure that will work out just fine.
I wasn’t suggesting you give them more, just the opposite. This issue is systemic. Spending your money elsewhere is the only way to choke them out. Burn the fallow field, and new growth will return.
Your initial claim seems excessive. Have you been playing terrible video games? Have you never played at all?
https://www.moddb.com/mods/shattered-paradise
Am I funding my demise by playing this free upgraded version of Tiberium Sun? Is my 10 year old MeinKraft account doing me in? How about DayZ?
Are you even limiting this blanket statement to games on computers? I see what you're 'attempting' to say, but you've corrupted your own advice by claiming it's every game, which seems obviously untrue.
If you were trying to say that many of these companies turning out those shitty games use the money you give them to attack you, your people, and your society, then I would agree.
Considering your accusations of being excessive, have you observed the irony in your own reply? It sounds like you arrived at the correct interpretation without further assistance which is great! That you could use context, and locale to derive premise, and because you filled in the blanks that I left leads me to believe that you are going places. I could agree with your arguments if only for pedantic reasons, but when you allege that I claimed that it was ‘every’ game, when I clearly didn’t, I won’t. C+, Thanks for playing!
One quality I do possess is extreme pedant (a formalist or precisionist) skills. When you say, "if you game" with no qualifications added, that is inclusive of any and every game.
And maybe I'm just a linguistic elitist, but the ability of others to figure out what you were attempting to say is no defence for failing to master what is presumably your primary communication protocol.
If you really are a hog butcher, then the ability to communicate well is probably not a priority, or at least your top priority. Still, pointing and grunting to communicate your thoughts and wishes leaves a lot to be desired, even when some can deduce your intended meaning.
Make your time!
I love you man, and Im glad you’re here to set me straight! Also - my comms are even less useful as a software engineer. Hogbutcher is where Im from, not my vocation.
Thankfully, I diverted my path from coding and computing as a profession. I spent way too many hours tracing assembly code back in the 80s, and pouring over the 68000 technical manuals. Was a close call there, but I successfully escaped.
But jumping into years of studying the human OS at the same level might have been worse, in the sense of knowing how the sausage is made leaving one feeling a bit queasy. The ease of 'hacking' humans is why everything is the way it is, with marketing and advertising just being the tip of the iceberg.
Anyway, hope you enjoy your software engineering. Cheers.
What about retro gaming?
Retro gaming is the shit on modern hardware.
My original copy of Warcraft II still works in dosbox, and my laptop can run at least 8 instances of the game simultaneously without breaking a sweat. Get a couple multi-monitor graphics cards and run an entire LAN party on a single machine.
Or install a bunch of Windows 98 instances on a VM server for games that need Windows and remote in.
Some cleaver Eastern Europeans make game cartridges for a bunch of old consoles that can load ROMs off an SD card, so you can play every game ever released (and some prototype/demo games that weren't) on original hardware from a single cartridge.
Someone did the same thing for the Dreamcast, where it will emulate the disc drive using a USB stick. Assuming of course you don't just want to burn all the games to CD because the copy protection on that system is completely broken.
There's never been a better time to play 30 year old games.
I’ve thought about downloading a bunch of old Sierra games. I wasn’t allowed to play Leisure Suit Larry so I’ll start there
Somehow I grew up having never played Ocarina of Time, so I fired it up for the very first time last night on the ol' N64. It was like being 13 years old again.
Modded Skyrim is a game I’ve been playing forever. Elder scrolls 6 will be one I get but mainly I think I’ll go after older stuff. Maybe even buy a PS2 again.
The only way to go IMO. My MiSTer gives me blisters.
What? Do you even know what this sub is about?
Faggots. Removing faggots.
I gave them fuckloads of money and idgaf. Because modern blizz doesnt get a dime and I let everyone know how utterly corrupt they are. Also, you're funding your own demise by using card processors and any banks that cancel people for opinions, so good luck at avoiding all of that shit, right now.
The only reason the small hats at the banks can flex on social issues is because they are profitable doing so. Unless you’re planning on going Christchurch on them, witholding money is the only effective weapon. The root will die off once the growth is stopped.
Most likely an old picture. The lack of rainbow / trans / dildo plastered masks gives it away. Otherwise everyone would be rocking a mask for extra virtue signaling points.
These degenerates are bold enough to gather in a large cloud in broad daylight.
Nostalgia cuck is nostalgic: I remember back when people were complaining that Pride was becoming commercialized. The first corporations to set up booths were the banks and beer types, the same ones who exploited the community and were the first to dump us when it was convenient outside of pride. It made us look bad to welcome them, but the more aggressive members wanted corporate sponsorship, they said it made us more mainstream and meant more acceptance. This was such a problem that it nearly destroyed GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign, the champagne socialists groups of the gay democrats when it was discovered the members of their boards were corporate whores by gay media. The community had already known this as they were the biggest "We need corporate acceptance" cunts. When this stopped being a problem six months later, I started to phase myself completely out of the community. A good thing too, because when most people were defending Parker Malloy for being a bigot, I was already out the door.
The thing is, it was never NOT going to be commercialized. That was always the intent.
They needed an easy-in to mainstream acceptance. How do you achieve that? Commercial consumerism.
The majority of the general public has always been against the spread of the Rainbow Reich nonsense, which is why every time it was put to vote it was always a universal "nay" for gay marriage. That's why they ended up bypassing the legislature and going straight to the courts. The media called it a giant victory for "acceptance", when in reality it was just another step towards tyranny. The people didn't accept it, they were literally forced to tolerate it.
It was all part of Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen's plan from the start. They literally discussed the long term outcomes back in the 1980s. It was covered in another book by Ryan Sorba, who goes over how the propaganda was designed to evolve into what it's become today: https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08a/born_gay_hoax/TheBornGayHoax.pdf
I remember when faggots were beaten to death if they peeked out of their closets.
Then your ear must still be pressed against the cracks in fear.
Burgers?
after all that, no black people either.
good eyes
SELL SELL SELL!
Lol, imagine buying a Blizzard game after Diablo 2.
Gay.
and how did that pandering workout for them?
For the record... they did all this gay shit because they are rapists. #Fuck blizz