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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Meh, from what I have heard, Overwatch 2 sounds like it's gonna be a disaster. With Jeff Kaplen gone, I don't have much faith. We will see about Diablo IV though but man, so many companies don't seem to be able to get their act together these days.

I think it's partly down to all these companies taking on way too much baggage over the past decade, to a point where it has now reached boiling point (also doesn't help that either half of these companies has been playing a mix of follow the leader or play it safe and don't stand out at all) and is now showing the results of being too much to handle (like employees being lecherous, products outright flopping, poor choice of staff, poor choice of software/engine/tools).

It's kinda poetic in a way, because for years we've looked up to some of these companies as those that could do not wrong, but in reality they were just really good at hiding that until recent years, and now they can't hide it at all. Now they're all just another version of Asuka, reaching up to the sky, in vain attempts to staying both relevant and meaningful to the industry.

Yea that and all the good devs jumped ship. Many of them moved around to different companies because of all the stupid nonsense that's been happening internally. Together they were a golden team... Separately... Not so much. Like you look at what happened with Call of Duty after Vince Zampella and Jason West west left, they couldn't recreate the magic of MW/MW2 and instead kept giving us yawn worthy iterations for many years. The studio released Call of Duty Ghosts which was one of the worst games ever. It took them so many years to create something that comes close to the original MW/MW2 (MW 2019) but wasn't easy to get here.

hinch said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Meh, from what I have heard, Overwatch 2 sounds like it's gonna be a disaster. With Jeff Kaplen gone, I don't have much faith. We will see about Diablo IV though but man, so many companies don't seem to be able to get their act together these days.

That's a big yikes, a lot of old guard devs seems to be abandoning ship. Yeah they're definitely past their heyday of releasing gem after gem.

I'm optimistic about Diablo 4 (from what we've seen thus far). And with the work done to Diablo 2 Resurrected. They just need to clean up their act, and I think the whole Blizz debacle and management getting replaced might do something about that. Particularly WoW, which has been on a downward spiral since 2 expansions ago.

Yea Diablo IV looks good so far and hopefully, it will be. It's crazy how we don't yet have a sequel to WoW. Like a completely revamped game from the ground up. Like people always harp on Nintendo about relying on Nostalgia but WoW is on another level.