Of course they support Horde - the managers are goblins.
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Activision didnât take control from the beginning. Do some research first and then come back.
You can roll your eyes however and whenever you want.
This is the truth. The control over blizzard is being felt more and more as activision is screwing their own titles and they are milking blizzard.
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What control? And screwing what titles? The last title Activision published was the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, I believe, and that was received really well. So what are you even talking about?
Tell me more about Call of Duty and Destiny2.
Spyro was developed ages ago, remastering it is not precisely new, is it?
(less angry reply)
What do those games have to do with Blizzard? 
The discussion was about activision.
Yeah, and you brought up 2 games. And I asked what the context was to Blizzard.
Do you know why I ask for the context? Because Activision is a publisher who releases a lot more games than simply Call of Duty and Destiny 2.
Here, have a look:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Activision_video_games
So I ask again, out of the insane amount of titles Activision has published, whatâs so special about Call of Duty and Destiny 2 as far as Blizzard are concerned?
Few people are bashing devs, most are going after publishers which are basically sharks in any field, wether its writing, theatre or gaming
Its mostly Publishers like EA and Activision buying up succesfull game companies, taking over their titles and then filling it with microtransaction for a quick Buck, when it crashes cut your losses and go for the next success story
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Sylvare answered your question.
Not really.
Because Blizzard are also a publisher. They publish their own games, they always have.
And a publisher doesnât meddle with the games at all (unless they of course made the games themselves!). They just publish them. Just like Steam is a publisher - a platform for people to sell their games - then so are Activision a publisher. They do the work of ensuring that various games end up in Gamestop, Wallmart, or whereever. Thatâs all a publisher does - getting the games on the shelves.
But maybe youâre confusing Activision with Activision Blizzard? One is a subsidiary, the other is a parent company.
You either refuse to see the issue or are just trolling.
Either way, the internet is a vast resource of information, I am not you mother to spoon feed you. If you want to learn more about the subject, do the research.
Have a great day
lol.
Youâre just out on deep water and donât know what youâre talking about, so you just go along with the âherp derp Activision are taking control!â
And then when you get poked and prodded a bit you donât really have more to say, because you donât know squat about anything.
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Was anticipating a reply of this sort.
Flopped.
Learn why people are against it on your own, stop acting entitled and then come back for a real discussion. Try some YouTube videos if business articles are too much of a hassle.
Maybe youâll also learn how businesses work too. So many learning opportunities for you. Best of luck.
Publishers make deals with game developing studios who do usually publish independently, the Idea is that because the publishers take care of the publishing the studio can just focus on making games without worrying about Publishing, on paper a very Nice deal for Both of them
Yes technically these independent studios publish games and are technically publishers but the above context should be applied here to differentiate between what atleast I mean with the two
The problem is that publishers often determine what happens fiscally because theyre the ones preparing the selling, while I dont believe it was activision-blizzards merger that caused gutted dev funds it is what caused the ingame shop and the monetization behind it, therefor, when a game studio gets taken over by a Publisher and you start seeing a decline in quality, pushes for too early releases and generally microtransactions, thatâs mostly always Publisher influence and because theyre the ones doing the publishing most employees at the studios who did the publishing are gone because theyre no longer needed and thatâs when Publishers gain a power position
The issue here is that the interbal Blizzard CFO (so not the one that went to Netflix) in this same time demanded cost cutting from the devs (alledgedly) so if that is true its still not all Activisions fault, so take that in consideration when you choose to be mad about bad development (Blizzard) or gamestore (Activision)
I dont presume to know it all but this is what I have understood from different bits of news from different sources
Dude, youâve written 7 posts now, and theyâre all crap. You present nothing of substance, you donât even clarify or elaborate on your point of view. You just float some haphazard side-commentary without any context or meaning.
Beyond that you seem to struggle with a simple understanding between Activision Blizzard as a parent company, Activision as a subsidiary who acts as a publisher, Blizzard as a subsidiary who acts as a publisher and game developer.
You seem to confuse Activision with Activision Blizzard, but theyâre not the same.
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Activision-Blizzard happened because Activision bought blizzardâs shares. It did not just happen out of the blue.
The issue people have with activision is top management from activision is more concerned with profits vs costs, effort vs result and quantity vs quality which all derive from a very basic min-max business model. Nowadays buyers and consumers are more connected to higher quality products at reasonable prices. The min-max business model no longer applies, in order to maintain a market share you have to invest in quality, communication with your audience and so much more than what older and bigger companies are now doing. On a side note, this is one of the reasons people have an issue with Apple as well, after Steve Jobs died, the company moved from innovation business model to min-max.
Activision bought Blizzard after wotlk was published and people are noticing a decline in quality ever since that point. Talent trees have been dumbed down, skills have been pruned and classes have been simplified. Everything was done on a min-max pattern which translated into less effort balancing so many skills & talents, and expecting the same results in terms of consumer contempt. People perceived this âwe will take the development and design power and move it somewhere elseâ management point of view negatively, at first it was mainly ignored and now it surfaces again as more and more players are expressing their discontent.
The continuous decline in quality in the blizzard games made people look for answers, journalists started digging and inside information started to come out, mainly the reports are in terms of âactivision is looking at cutting blizzard costs severely and even threaten to completely overtake blizzard and 100% merge with activisionâ.
Now this is what made people angry because we have several cases in the gaming industry where the bigger fish devoured the smaller one and then didnât give a crap about it. See EA and bethesda. And this is what blizzard fans are fearing.
To support the inside information you also have top management changes that have been made public: CEOs and CFOs leaving the company, original founders expressing concerns for the future of Blizzard and so on.
People are mad and scared their favourite game will die because of Activisionâs greed and the state of the game so far is not helping dismiss these fears. We have a badly perceived expansion, poor class design, major changes promised and none implemented, no feedback from beta has been taken on board and on top of all of this, BlizzCon showed where all the development power is redirected: mobile games, with multiple titles being developed at this time as confirmed at that event. And gamers are pissed.
Furthermore, the old employees at blizzard stated in the past blizzard does not really care for resources, they develop multiple titles and only 50% are being published, because they take pride in their work, and now that we have unfinished products being sold, this is Activision demanding profit and cutting costs.
Logically speaking when CEOs and CFOs leave changes are to be expected. Either a full merger or the parent company âplantsâ their managers in key positions because they want that company to go in a certain direction.
People at upset because WoW was supposed to evolve but it did so only graphically, technologically, but game and Class design suffered an unjustified involution. Everything is simple now and all looks like laziness.
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Keep burying your head in the sand. Iâm sure the game will improve with the likes of you players who shill for Blizzard so defiantly.
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Call it a conspiracy or whatever you want but it just so happens, just so happens that Blizzard games took a grand turn for the worse as soon as one of the greediest companies in the video game industry got heavy influence over them.
But hey, thatâs just a theory, a huge coincidence
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