I know =) lol. I was just taking a piss. However, I do feel that many of their decisions are still plagued by the merger. Like chopping the game up into three different games. Some features on Battle.net, or the lack of certain features.

Even though their name is Blizzard Entertainment, their name (and game) has still been tainted, in my eyes.

Surley they take a long time making a game but wow is stll alive and u don't need to release a successor unless it starts to fade , the sc2 is doing well , with many people now turning away from strategy genere

I think they didn't fall , but I do beleive that their name should be around much more they need to produce more titles , and not all titles should be as big as wow or sc2

Ooh, ooh, and some Rock n' Roll Racing while we're at it!

That is ridiculous. As if big budget PC exclusives would be coming left and right had WoW not come along...

@OP: WoW is still doing great (try patch 4.0 if you're bored), with Cata on the way. Starcraft 2 is, well, Starcraft. Ignore the 3 part game thing, Wings of Liberty stands on its own as a full game. As long as Diablo III doesn't disappoint, I don't see the problem at all (besides insanely long release times). Your disconnect from Blizzard is just your own disinterest.

Blizzard is still the best gaming company around. (least in the west, IMO)

Why would big budget PC exclusives come around when the 360 and PS3 serving larger markets and almost on par (not Crysis like graphics capability) with the PC in terms of graphics arrived as a platform for higher sales? No need to answer as I did in the question.

SC2 is not hardcore. It's a severely dumbed down BW

It seems that Blizzard are doing their best to destroy the E-sports that was built up becasue of SC:BW.

Signs of them falling emerged when they announced no LAN for SC2.

They still make the best games ever, mostly because allmost all game makers suck nowadays, so their games look good when compared to the usual crap the game industry shovels out. But the magic is not there anymore.

I hope the next Blizzard game bombs hard. That would teach them a lesson about not changing what made them good.

I loved Starcraft, never played Diablo but played WoW for quite a bit. I played SC2 for 2 hours before stopping and give away it. And after trying Guild Wars WoW seems just an extremely overstimated game...really, I don't think Blizzard is a bad developer, they're one of the greatest for PC gaming. Just that they're not perfect as some people want to believe...Starcraft 2 to me seems pathetic compared to other RTS...ok, nostalgia factor, but how about bringing in something really new into the formula?

Lol, uhm SC2 in my humble opinion is one of the best games of the decade. I play it almost every day and I'm loving every second of it.

And I love that they give us 3 campaigns that feature everything they want instead of making compromises by giving us 9 or 10 missions per race. Btw afaik the other 2 campaings won't be full priced and well even if they are PC Games are like 20€ less than console games anyway.

So you don't love 2 of Blizzard's most recent games (WC3 and SC2) and you just assume they've fallen? And I applaud the decision to split SC2 into 3 games. WIngs of Liberty is great on it's own. The single player experience is leagues better than SC1 BW's single player experience, and it's only 1/3rd of the pie? Hell yeah! Give me more!

As someone else stated, I think your perspective has changed. SC2 is one of the highest quality releases I've seen. Not that this means much, but one of my friends HATES single player in games, he thinks it's a waste of time. He played the entire single player of SC2 in one sitting. If Blizzard can make someone like him do that, then there's no way I can believe they've fallen.

You say "or perhaps Blizzard has failed to come up with something original in 8 plus years" but they are innovating. They aren't creating new franchises, but strenghtening what they have. Their goals don't seem to innovate for innovation's sake (which is wrong in my opinion) but to create solid and fun gameplay experiences (well, and make money of course). In that, they are the kings.