I've reached a point where I'm no longer shocked or surprised.
GO WOKE, GO BROKE
THIS
Hire a sexual harassment attorney and go after faggot and faggot company
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Diablo: Immortal is a fully fledged unemployment experience.
The funniest thing about the Kul'tiran humans, user, is that either Blizz fucked up their scheduling so bad or they were so far behind schedule that they ended up delaying the release of the Zandalari Trolls allied race. Bear in mind that we're half a year into the new expansion and the ZTs were mentioned at Blizzcon 2017 as damn near a launchday feature.
And Blizz said they delayed them both because of muh lore, I shit you not.mfw people on the PTR found out that Blizz was full of shit and the new races clearly just weren't made and are full of bugs and barely work
If you've been paying attention to Blizzard leaks and what their employees have been saying, Blizzard really is the perfect example of corrupt corporate level tomfuckery mixed with an unstoppable "get woke, go broke" attitude. Nearly all of the old cornerstone developers were forced out of the company from paycuts and removal of their bonus incentives, while damn near every new hire is based on politics over merit.
Activision/Blizzard is held together by Chinese duct-tape and good will, and their good will is very quickly being depleted. That's why they're making such a massive shift towards the Chinese market. They know that they can't continue to compete in Western markets, but China is big enough to keep them solvent long enough for them to bullshit everyone into thinking they're still worth a damn. That's the real reason why Diablo: Immortal exists and why they're censoring everything. The higherups on the boards don't even give a shit about games/gaming, they just want to shift the market towards what they see as a way out of insolvency when WoW eventually dies and CoDcucks get bored of buying the same game for over a decade.
A similar thing is happening with Bethesda, actually. The highest level influencers don't even play video games.
Glorious.
Blizzard has been bleeding out for a while now. There was the race reskin expansion for WoW, half of which still aren't released. The Diablo debacle. Their CCG game is collapsing under power creep and their refusal to nerf or ban paid for cards. With Overwatch they spent shitloads trying to turn it into the next big e-Sport, they failed Fortnite is king because it's free. Starcraft has been shit for nearly a decade, hell they even went Free to Play. They've desperately been trying to come up with something, anything to pay the bills.
Sorry to differ with you user, but a lot of what you said isn't accurate. Here's what's generally understood to be going on with Blizzard:
>downfall starts with Mists of Pandaria, a blatant attempt to court the Chink market rumored to have been forced by Activision
>WoD comes out and is headed by a new creative director Ion, who has a wildly different vision for the game
>separately, pozz starts reaching critical levels in the company, and the old guard start to see the place mutate and get continually fucked by Activision consequently, many veterans start to leave
Short version is, Blizzard got arrogant, let the wrong people in, fucked up their games, and Activision tightened its grip on them.
All the Amanda Hugginkiss suddenly without a job. Boo hoo.