Why are you still playing Blizzards games?

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I have been blizzard fanboy for years and I dont even want to think all that money and time I’ve invested in these games. 2018 has been awkward year for Blizzard as the stock value is falling faster than the gnome I punted from Thunder Bluff.

Currently the only reason I am playing WoW is the ALL THE THINGS addon which makes playing old content fun for me. Running from old zone to another while looking for missed toys, achievements and loot.

All the other Blizzard games I’ve quit already. Pointless to play D3 as the franchise is sold to China. OW devs agreeing on the flaws but doing nothing to fix them. And lastly Heroes of the Storm, the first MOBA i’ve ever played. I’ve had tons of fun in HotS with my buddies but after Blizzard announced that they’re moving devs away to other projects (lol yes I do have a phone) all my buddies moved to other MOBA-games.

I am just waiting for the day that Blizzard kills Wow completely for me and I am free of this addiction. Meanwhile my new hobby is to follow the stock value. For some perverted reason I get joy from the dropping value. :sweat_smile:

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I still hope they go back to the way they used to be… silly me

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But its not just blizzard its alot of game company’s suffering from drops .
Yeah really funny for the 100 staff who just lost there jobs in Cork .

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the money isn’t “so bad”.
about £120 a year, so if you played since vanilla release (nov 2004) thats £1,700 for subscription time if you’ve never taken a break. then you have the cost per expansion. i cant remember what they were, so i will say £25 per game until mop, then £35 per game since. i wont be far wrong with that at THEN CURRENT prices. thats another £240. assuming you did NOT buy the collectors edition.

so thats £1,940 roughly you have financially paid if you have bought each expansion on release, have subbed the whole time, and have not paid for any collectors editions or any shop mounts/pets/services. over the course of 14 years. i spose that isn’t “tooooooo” bad. thats “only” about £2.66 a week.

THE PROBLEM IS… time invested. i myself am 447 days time played :frowning: and i would GUESS that i am on the LOWER end of people who have spent a lot of time online. someone like asmongold for example. and this is why i hate time sinks in game and rng.

TLDR: in answer to op’s original question, i still play mainly cause i think im addicted and a completionist. i have a couple nice memories from tbc/wotlk, but they are no coming back, no matter how many classic releases or whatever are done.

its worse than you think. have you ever lived in Cork?

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Because of the warm and fuzzy feeling from the player base :slightly_smiling_face:

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Why do people bring the stock price into this? It’s such false logic.

The markets where Activision is listed have just had their worst year in a decade and their worst December in history.

I get it, the game has big issues (the name of the magazine I believe Ion should be selling bad dum tssh) but stop using the falling share price to legitimise your opinion. They aren’t related.

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<3
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Yes it is as I own ~10 accounts for wow. :sweat_smile:

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i hope you haven’t been playing since vanilla on them. £20,000!!!

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I still play Blizzard games because I still have them installed on my PC and games like diablo 3 or sc2 can be played any time I feel like it.
I’ve long since stopped trying hard on games though, I just don’t care enough to git gud or try to be at the top of some leaderboard that no one in the real world even knows exists.
I’m fine playing a few silver matches on sc2 or collecting a few pets on WoW
I don’t feel any need to get my mythic + chest every week or month or whatever it is or get the ahead of the curve achievements.
I just don’t care enough.

I also play Blizzard games because despite the dip in quality recently I still consider them more well made than a lot of the trash that is pumped out by the asian market and milked by publishers like my .com

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The only Blizzard game i still play is WoW.

I still have my fun with it with the time i have to spare to dedicate to games and overall i am nostalgic about certain things,so i always end up returning to it for a short while. This character i post with here is the first character i created in WoW back in TBC,to this day she remains my main and nothing will change that.

Overall whenever i play it it’s a trip to the past and i remember it fondly for what it was and the great times i had and still do at times.

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blizzard would have to work hard to create a game worse then this thing omnisoft created i mean this thing called life don’t even have a respawn function and there mute for annoying people

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Well, as long as you were having fun that money wasn’t wasted, right?

That would be like saying that every time you take a dump you wasted money on food. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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I still enjoy the heart and soul of WoW, that deeply burried core inside it - (by now, used to be less burried before)
I also have ATT-addon and collect things, work on getting mounts and pets.

Playing with my BF and do things here and there, but I admit there’s a very present Apathy-emotion due to the reward system structure now.
Seeing people who don’t know how to play (which can be fixed!), don’t intend on doing any harder content than AFK-grouping, seeing them get pieces of 395 just takes out the reason for me to put effort in anymore as my luck is down the drain anyway, so I have always relied on skill and progress, effort and dedication - rather than luck, but nooooow… not so much, there’s just no point.
So it has turned WoW into more of a “Meh”-thing rather than the excitement it used to be, I was hoping the Residuum vendor would fix that but considering the amount of T.R you get from chests is random (+9 gave 23, +10 gave 19…) - and its random if you can even progress at it since you need Azerite-gear to DE, which hardly drops for me, it just fell flat on its butt.
I was hoping it’d be like the good ol’ WoTLK Badge System. :frowning:

But! Obviously not EVERYTHING is infected by the peepee-poo-poo-man, otherwise I’d not even bother typing on the forums.
I’m oddly enjoying Island Expeditions - eventho the reward system there also brings apathy in itself, the I.E is just something extra to do with my two best friends.

I also poke Mythic+ every now and then, but not super much anymore.
Stopped raiding this expac after having been in the Hardcore-Top down to Heroic scene for many years, I just feel it wasn’t as fun anymore.
I can poke the raids with pugs or such, but it’s not something I bind up my time to as it is, and a lot of the friends I used to play with don’t play anymore.

So there is that; Farming things for a while to “relax” the brain, basically.
I’ve turned to other games for skill, dedication and effort :stuck_out_tongue:
Oh actually trying to look into doing Island Expeditions - Pvp - more effectivly somehow, so I guess there’s that too :slight_smile:

I used to play Diablo 3 a bit, but got bored of it after a while.
BF was a hardcore fan of it but after the lack of content and the release of the news “PHONE”-stuff he just flipped a table so I guess thats 100% off now for us :stuck_out_tongue:

I also enjoyed HoTS, one of the only Mobas I enjoyed actually! - I’ve tried many others, but they didn’t stick.
The entire idea of them ain’t usually my cup of tea, but the introduction of familiar characters made it more fun.
Seeing Arthas swat his sword in Chromies face is something I didn’t think I’d see, or even more obscure, Ragnaros vs Diablo toons!
With the HoTS-cut back, and the introduction of Gems (Microtransactions on a whole new level than before) - I lost interest, sadly. :frowning:

Never been a fan of OW myself, I got it and thought I’d enjoy it but the novelty quickly wore off - for me.
Got friends who enjoy that tho and ask me to poke my head in once a year. :stuck_out_tongue:

So TLDR;
Only WoW but in a much lesser manner than it used to be. :turtle:

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wow still have fun things to do. Well, i enjoy pvp mostly, group up with friend or couple and going to deliver some mess into hordes who are feeling safe at wq with wm on. Or do some arenas (i was always altoholic, so i choose what to play if i get bored or want to tryr something new). Well I hate random in every aspect of the game, expecially in loot, because when you want to build a character of your dream, you just cant get a desired piece with mastery/haste etc, but i just trying not to think about it and just play whta i have.
Basically what i found out is that you are able to have fun even playing crappy game, but only if you are playing with friends. That is most important thing. Sadly many of my friends left the game “just because”. They are freaked out by changes but no one of them can clearly explain what is wrong.

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Well I still play Blizzard’s games - all of them actually - for a multitude of reasons.

I like the worlds.
Azeroth, Sanctuary, the Korprula Sector, The Nexus, and the world of Overwatch. I really like these fantasy & sci-fi worlds. Tolkien’s Middle Earth never did much for me, and I never quite caught on with the exploration of space in Star Trek either. But Blizzard’s worlds are some that I’ve come to be very interested in, and to see stories unfold in them.

I like the gameplay.
I have two preferences in terms of gameplay. Either pure gameplay-driven games, like Heroes of the Storm or Overwatch, where you just play and it’s the playing that’s the center focus.
Or it’s the very artsy games where it’s about a deeply artistic expression through an interactive medium. Journey, Braid, or similar.
Blizzard’s games are very gameplay-driven, even when they’re not. Of all the MMORPGs on the market, World of Warcraft is probably the one that emphasises the gameplay the most. Quest texts are kept to a minimum in size, and story is generally delivered on the fly whilst you’re playing - it’s not something that takes a front seat.
I can never get through story-heavy games like Baldur’s Gate or Skyrim or whatever. The amount of reading you have to do is just too much for me. World of Warcraft is sort of the limit to how story-heavy I like my games.

I like multiplayer games.
There are exceptions to every rule, and I can spend ages playing Civilization VI all by myself, and be perfectly happy doing so.
But for the most part I enjoy playing games with other people, or among other people. Even if I spend a day doing mostly solo stuff in World of Warcraft, I like the fact that there are other players around me.

I like never-ending games.
I’m (to some degree) a completionist and achievement hunter. I can get a lot of satisfaction out of getting more levels or unlocking new things or whatever. Ongoing in-game progression is just something that really appeals to me.
Blizzard’s games keep getting new stuff, new things to progress toward, and new accomplishments to aspire toward.
And I love that hamster wheel so much. Finishing a game, reaching the end, and being done with it, is the worst thing that can happen. I want my games to go on forever and have infinite longevity. Blizzard’s games are some of the best in the industry for that.

My gameplay preferences resonate well with Blizzard’s game design.
The worst games are those that you end up analyzing and criticizing as you play them, because you run into all these design decisions that you don’t like, and then rather than enjoying the game you end up sitting there thinking about all the things you would have done differently.
I remember when I played Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 I really struggled to enjoy the game - despite being a big Naturo fan - because I just didn’t like the game design. I lean much more toward the design of a fighting game like Tekken 7.
Blizzard games are perfect for me, because my own game design preferences resonate almost 100% with Blizzard’s game design philosophies. I almost never run into any design in their games where I feel like I would have done the opposite. Everything always feels like it was specifically made for my tastes.

There are a myriad of other reasons as well, but these are some of the main ones, I think, as to why Blizzard’s games keep being my go-to games year after year.

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oh you’re a weeb, nobody is gonna take ur opinion

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I play because im addicted to wow.

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I play all sorts of games regardless of who the dev/publisher is. Still playing D2/SC/SC2 because I like them. D3 is meh, finished the main story and never looked back, Hearthstone is not my cup of tea, Overwatch is probably good, but when I want to play FPS I play Quake3, so idc about it.

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These days i play one Blizzard game: WoW.

Why?
Because i like it alot.
99% of time spent playing WoW im having fun. I find the ratio time spent/time having fun quite good, compared with the rest of all of the other stuff in life. :wink:

And lets be honest, the game is just too damn good.
(This is just my personal opinion and of course im not saying the game is perfect or that it doesnt has any flaws.)

Cheers