Activision Blizzard 28% YoY decline in sales - Kotaku In Action 2

Activision Blizzard 28% YoY decline in sales (archive.ph)

posted 3 years ago by Galean 3 years ago by Galean +38 / -0

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– cccpneveragain 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Let's see I've done:

WoW for about 4 years and it was damn near the only thing I played during that time. On top of the fact that I was having trouble with MMOs being a time-sink to your life, it was really losing it's fun factor in lieu of queuing up to be bitched at by random people.
Diablo III late in it's life. Had a lot of fun. If they'd made a legit sequel I'd want it, but let's face it there's plenty of Diablo clones out there that aren't mobile gacha games.
Hearthstone, I really liked it until I got better at it. I don't think high level card games were for me since you just run into cheap meta strats over and over at a certain point. It also loved to sell you shit that I didn't want to buy and you had to to keep up at a certain point.
Overwatch, meh. This was early on. If my friends had played it more I might have gotten in to it, but just for friends not because I loved it.
Starcraft II I tried, but it catered way too much to the players that wanted so much shit going on that you had to use your fingers, toes, and dick as an extra finger to be able to control enough shit to keep up.
Call of Duty for a decade probably. Left it as a case of screw me once shame on me, screw me twice shame on you. Probably my favorite of this whole list but they've burned their chances for forgiveness multiple times over. I wouldn't buy if they made the game exactly how I wanted it..

So yeah, obvious long term customer done with them. I can't be the only one. None of this has to do with social justice or wokeness either. It's due to bad product.

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– Galean [S] 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Diablo III got much better but it was not a great game. I had more fun with path of exile then Diablo 3. Wow I played for so freaking long and I can't say it was good for me. I still can't believe how addicted I was to that game, I played vanilla, bc, I kind of played a bit of wotlk but had to drop do to real life problems, I returned in MOP, I played WOD and Legion.

I tried BFA but it had to many red flags that it was going in to the wrong direction.

I honestly thought I would be playing wow on and off for the rest of my life but during BFA I just knew I will not be returning.

Overwatch was sort of fun but I was not good at it. I was more old school with CS:GO and BF3

WC3 reforged was an easy cash grab for them but they had to cut corners to the point you were better off playing the original but they did take time to make Arthas like an emo beta looking soy drinker and added female demon hunters that looked like drag queens.

Overall I honestly do not mind if Blizz falls in to irrelevance, let them die. It is just a shell of a company, a name attached to nothing of value.

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– MattTheBlack 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

I really need to start back playing PoE

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– fauxgnaws 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

PoE really needs a way to actually limit the graphics spam.

The game even on lowest settings throws so much random shit to the graphic card that it gets swamped, then dynamic resolution/particles is supposed to lower it resulting in 100% GPU at any framerate and resolution except postage stamp.

I wouldn't care so much about 100% GPU except after playing a while PoE crashes the driver or freezes up the whole system, maybe from overheating or race condition - whatever the cause, it's only PoE that does it. So I just don't play it.

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