Blizzard Is Worse Than You Thought

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"Do you guys not have phones?" is the perfect example of corporate not understanding their customer base, it's just too perfect.

I was at Blizzcon for the “you all have phones right?” Moment. The tone deafness was incredible.

If Blizzard owned the Titanic, they'd have charged tickets for the lifeboats

Blizzard no longer exists. Ppl need to stop calling it that. Blizzard died years ago.

I think the quote from FUNKe describes blizzard perfectly, “whenever they get into a PR controversy they’ll drop a trailer with no release date for one of tracer’s new skins.”

"you all have phones, right?"...that's like Ferrari disappointing fans at a launch by announcing a range of running shoes instead of the anticipated new supercar...and responding to the disappointment by asking "you all have feet, right?"

starcraft, warcraft were big part of my childhood , Blizzard went down bad when the microtransaction desease arrived

Never forget the time Blizzard sided with China against human rights.

If i made a dollar everytime Blizzard and Activision fucked up I would be a millionaire

My favorite fun fact about the McCree naming situation is that after they changed McCree's name in the game, they gave everyone a free rename token so that players with the name McCree could change it to avoid having their accounts tied to that name. This resulted in EVEN MORE players named McCree.

"Well, Blizzard is dead. It is a corpse being puppeteered by Activision and Bobby Kotick and it's going to be used as basically a factory to put the Blizzard stamp on things and stoke nostalgia to get sales and that's it. So, stop holding out hope that Blizzard is going to come back. Everyone who founded Blizzard; all of the principles that Blizzard was founded on, they're gone or they're dead... The principles that Blizzard was founded upon are dead. They've been desecrated and are destroyed. So, let Blizzard go. That's my main message. Let Blizzard go. Appreciate what was created back when it was done and stop holding out hope that it's going to come back, because it's not." -Former Blizzard designer

One of the reasons Blizzard caved for refunds, at least in Europe, is because they are forced by European Union law to accept them, I really doubt outrage and gestures of good will were the main deciding factor.

"No King Rules Forever"

That "you think you do, but you don't" line always gets me. Telling your customers what THEY want, and in a condescending manner as well. It'd be like going to a hardware store looking for paint and the associate tells you "well you THINK you want paint, but you really want a lawnmower!"

I have not played one single Blizzard game ever and this made me sad. I know that fans of these games are even sadder. But the devastation the original founders must feel to see how their dream was tarnished, undermined and destroyed beyond recondition, while they are forced to just sit and watch it happen before their very own eyes, helplessly, not being able to do anything about it has to be one of the highest forms of sadness one can feel...

holy shit the silicon and synapse logo unlocked a core memory of all the hours I spent playing rock n roll racing on SNES. what a game.

You forgot the part in 2012 after the Acti/Blizz merger, Activision forced Blizzard to lay off 600 employees to "cut cost" after a record profit year. The first time ever Blizz had laid off any employees and it was a HUGE deal. They even had police escort for laid off employees thinking they would go on full rage mode.

First Bethesda, Now Blizzard I’m hyped

I deleted all my Activision-Blizzard accounts after the Blitzchung incident. As an American, it would've felt wrong to claim being pro-freedom while actively supporting a company who showed their true colors of being anti-freedom. And I've honestly missed WoW (and many other A-B games). Who knows how many thousands of dollars I've spent on them over the better part of two decades... I've been hit with nostalgia time and time again, finding myself trying to justify a reason why it's "okay now" to go back, alas I never did, because it will never be okay as long as the same greedy/anti-freedom people remain in charge of that company.