Blizzard has fallen

[vlad321]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

vlad321 said:

I dunno if it has fallen, but Blizzard has definitely started to have worse quality. The last game the realeased before SC2 was WoW back in '04. That means in 6 years they only managed to release SC2. What do they have to show for it?

Split campaigns, there is NO reason why the Specter and the Colonist arcs, as well as the Protoss, couldn't have been scrapped and in their place they could have put int a valid Protoss and Zerg Campaigns, none other than wanting to milk you for the money.

Battle.net 2.0, the biggest abomination of online gaming in a LONG LONG time. They removed so much that it's kind of sad, on the up side though, they added facebook integration! As it stands, Gamespy back from 2000 is better than this shit. Let that statement sink in.

Multiplayer is a similar, yet dumbed down, versoin of BW. Cut it whichever way you want, the multiplayer is still the very much like BW's, and the fact that I can actually get to the 2nd highest league only means it had to be dumbed down to hell (I certainly didn't get better at this) for this to happen. Then again, if you cater to the chobs and noobs they will praise, so that's why SC2 has been getting so much praise.

Also SC2 cost$60, and Cataclysm is $40. For $40 for an expansion pack I would expect it to come with a model and have her give me a blowjob, because I cannot imagine any expansion packs worth $40.

Diablo 3 is looking pretty fucking good though, they havent made an announcement that will cripple the game, yet.

As for the "your tastes are chaning" argument, go play WC3 or Diablo 2 and tell me if you enjoy them. If you do then your tastes haven't changed and Blizzard has changed. As it stands, as a whole package, SC2 has been their worst game so far, and I enjoy playing any of their previous games more than what they released.

Stop playing into the elitist generic egotistical PC fan stereotype you so often personify. You sound like a certain no avatar having member we all know. As far as your cost argument goes, give it up. That is the fair market price non-piratable games go for nowadays. Since Blizzard does have online validation, they don't have to slash the prices on their games to get PC fans to pay for them.

As a brand new high end gaming PC owner myself(see my thread) I have to say the only good exclusive AAA stuff coming down the pike for PC is from Blizzard, and luckily, Blizzard is imo one of the best develpers in the world even if they ONLY released WoW patches and expansions, because that is one hell of a game and almost certainly the biggest and most profitable game in the history of time.

How many people does that game employ? Farmers, GMs, devs, authors, artists, designers, developers, producers, support staff, web designers, managers, accountants, gaming teams, the list goes on and on.

It's funny, because nothing I said is elitist, just the plain, brutal truth of how things stand. You also proved my point in the last half, they can do whatever they want, so they milk their playerbase. As far as I can remember, Diablo2: LoD is the Best exapnsion I have ever bought, ever, so far and it only cost me $30. I remember thinking "Holy Shit $30 instead of $25" but I did buy it and it was just mind blowing how much they improved. So far, Cata doesn't seem to be nowehere near as amazing as LoD unless they pull some serious rrabbits out of their hats before Beta ends and it goes live. SC2 is ajust a pathetic excuse for a game, I would have been feeling ripped even if I had paid $50, the game was worth $40 through and through.

I saw your thread (really shitty cpu for the gpu you have btw) and I hope you realize all new games from Blizzard can run on at least 5 year old mediocre models. I remembe being able to play WC3 on a mediocre machine from '98. when it first came out. Also, WoW is a fairly decent game, however it is just 1 game, and honestly their patches ave been hit or miss. It feels like now they are just rolling out patches because theu feel like, so when they have everythign kind of balanced out, they purposefully unbalance it somehow so they can "fix it" later on. Another disgusting practice on Blizzard's side.

Edit: Blizzard has always had "easy to play ahrd to master" games, however SC2 is more or less "easy to play, easy to master" as well, again. I'm terrible in RTS and I can beat more than 75% of the people it seems, the only explanation is that they dumbed it down for all the noobs to play. It's the same as FPS getting slower so all the chobs could keep up with people.