Blizzard has officially given up..

Asmongold Clips / Asmongold Reacts To: Blizzcon is no more

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[Astra_za]

They are afraid to have phones thrown at them.

[DarkAkuma]

Completely predictable. Few, if any companies, hate their audience more than modern Blizzard.
They are right up their with the likes of Disney now.

[TheDSHeavy]

$215 a pop, cant even play Tarkov with that

[Nuck_Chorris]

Translation:
"We only made ten billion dollars profit this year, and cannot afford this event. Don't you guys have more money?"

[anotherlover]

I love the idea of a scalper sitting somewhere with a dozen Blizzcon tickets they can't sell.

[ZorroVulpes]

For the past 10 years, Blizzard has been like watching an old loved one getting dementia and alzheimers, and at this point you'd feel kind of relieved for yourself and them if they just bowed out soon

[Queue]

I fucking love that scalpers got screwed because the thing they were scalping was so unpopular that it didnt even sell out.

[djf]

Blizzard used to be popular because the studio had an unblemished track record of putting out stellar, long-tail games that people were obsessed with and lived inside. The trouble was, maintaining that studio and that quality required it to maintain a degree of independence and autonomy from Activision, whose business model is exploiting successful franchises as much as possible while allowing quality to slide.

Bobby Kotick exploited a tragic incident in which a female employee who was having an affair with her supervisor killed herself to claim that Blizzard had a sexual harassment problem and a “boys club” culture and needed a “reckoning” and then he cleaned house of all the people who were responsible for making the games you loved. This enabled him to bring all the studios and their IP fully under his control so he could sell the company to Microsoft at peak valuation.

Now Blizzard is just a subsidiary of Activision which is a subsidiary of Microsoft. It no longer has the best lead creatives in the industry because it fired a bunch of them and destroyed their reputations for making jokes in 2013 about how the carpet in a hotel suite looked like a Bill Cosby sweater, and any senior creatives who survived that massacre have fled the studio. It no longer attracts top junior creative talent because the senior creatives are gone, the management no longer holds the same values and the studio’s reputation as one of the best workplaces in the country has been destroyed.

Blizzard’s games are now in the Guitar Hero/Call of Duty/Activision death spiral, declining in quality as Activision wrings as much revenue as possible from the shrinking player bases. The culture of Blizzard is no longer one of excellence and quality and enthusiasm for games, it’s now just DEI and ESG like every other big corporate entity.

Why would anyone go to a convention to celebrate all things Blizzard Entertainment in 2024?

[minaeru]

The craziest part is it's all self-inflicted and they're still going to sit around confused about why it's happening and making it worse.

[endarion]

they have nightmares about guys in red shirts at this point

[DrewMiller]

StarCraft’s community maps and balance patches are some of the most exciting in years. Don’t remind the corporate bean counters that SC2 exists.

[thereplyguyreviews]

Feels like the whole AAA industry is in death throes which if I'm being honest is well deserved at this point

[SkylineGuy]

"Do you guys not have phones?"
-Blizzard

[fullmetalarshole]

Apathy is worse than anger. People are just done.

[MangaGamified]

Blizzard: ChatGPT make a PR why we cancel an event this year.

[elocfreidon]

When being questioned face to face, you can't run away and hide as easily.

[Pasakoye]

RIP those who ordered Vulpera and Dracthyr suits ahead of the event.

[RaceBandit]

Watch 2025 not have a BlizzCon either.

[Rowrin]

Basically means that they have nothing worth announcing / showing. Honestly, Blizzard hasn't made a "new" game since 2013 when they released Hearthstone. Everything else has been re-releases or updates to existing games. They have no ability to actually innovate or create anything new anymore.

[NeoN-PeoN]

They catered to an audience that doesn't care about the game, they just care about what is in the games that other people play.