Microsoft has big plans for Blizzard. From doubling down on their big franchises, to creating a small internal team focused on 'AA' level projects. More and better Blizzard games, that's the plan anyway.
@@MasterSwisher It looked so fun but I played for 20 min while taking a shit and just couldn't do it, it was so boring. I guess I'm just not into those games.
or my last drink , Microsoft paid bilion and what the money back now not in 10 years. With microsoft the shareholders want their money back fast as possible that was the deal + they get a huge fortune by releeseing wow every like NBA 2020..2021.2022 etc - Good money shitty games
I said that too, last cigg, tomorrow I'll quit, and the day after that but eventually I did it. Now I've been free from ciggarettes for 10 years. Sooner or later it'll happen as long as you strive for it.
I remember when I would unquestioningly buy the new Blizzard title. They were the synonym of quality for me. Now I can't imagine even playing their stuff.
@@theanti-hypemonitor9079 D4 was a bit to late to realise how shit they are but welcome to the real world. We been seeing how shitty blizzard been for a decade. I was also a late quitter.
It was their last chance with Warcraft3: Refunded; It was their last chance with Overwatch 2; It was their last chance with Diablo 4; It was their last chance with WoW expansion; Yeah, sure. It will stay being their last chance as long as you keep giving them last chances.
I think people have to much expectations from games. The industry is this way in general. Games try to hard to be good for people who conplain to much about everything! We should just stop, and enjoy whatever we have
@@sorincosma5185That is an unhinged amount of copium. Especially if you're old enough to remember what Blizzard used to be. "Enjoy whatever we have" and these greedy corporations will only give you casinos disguised as games
so true.. the history is written. old times will never come back. but with a little hope, maybe windows burns it all down and come back like a phoenix with new people in power.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I get that people don't want to let go of their favourite fantasyworld that Warcraft/Diablo etc. is, but you gotta realise that Blizzard is not the same people anymore, who brought us those worlds. There are so many other great studios you can put your faith into, it doesn't have to be and shouldn't be 'Blizzard' anymore. The company's name alone is nothing than a mask of nostalgia anymore.
I was gutted when they cancelled that Blizzard survival game. I'm absolutely with you, give me survival base building with Warcraft lore/storytelling, and oh momma. . .money = printed
Considering the quality of their recent actual releases I don't even want to know what a game would have looked like they didn't deem good enough to finish developing/releasing.
@@Aztiren The fuck are you talking about? They haven't tried worth shit. Xal'atath isn't even working behind the scenes and rather in the open which is completely against her character, everyone in the world already knows her and keep on building her up like she's the next jailer, Anduin already gets kidnapped, and basically your hero is once again a champion. It ain't the world of Warcraft that you play anymore. There's no love in it. It has died. Let it die. There is no world to explore. There is only money. Money me, money now. World of Moneycraft. World of Nostalgiacraft. World o Puppetcraft. Good luck, son, we wish you good fortune in the days to come.
Blizzards last chance was in 2016. Their response was to "misstreat" their empolyees and 1 of them even killing themselves on a work trip because their nudes got send around the office.
Making Blizzard "more prolific" is not their last chance. It's the final nail in their coffin. It's not like they didn't have skunkworks projects in the universes of their games - vast majority of them didn't go anywhere and got axed. MS just wants to cheapen their brand by releasing fodder games. They tried to do the same exact thing with Bungie, making them slave out on Halo until they drop dead.
The fact that Microsoft is even the owner says enough. It means the company is either already dead and they simply want their IP's, or that they will be dead soon after by the malpractices of Microsoft.
Force is really missing the big picture. WoW has had 10 expansions and maintains a dozen live service games. SC, Diablo, Warcraft RTS never had the content drops current Blizzard games have.
@@Muppet-kz2nc Don't even joke yourself. Creating WoW expansions isn't as hard and time consuming as creating whole new games like they did back in the days. New expansions are just something built on the top of existing game. Also, Blizzard is well known for their content drought in games. So it's not like they were super hard working and consistent when it comes to that anyway...
@@N4chtigall As someone who was there buying those games back in the day, Blizzard output today is signifcantly higher than it was back then. War2, D2, War3 had 1 expansion and zero seasonal content. Today we have SC2,SC2:LOTV, D3,D3RoS, D4, HotS, HS, OW, half a dozen WoW expansions plus content patches. This video is clickbait for anyone thats actually paying attention.
The fact that there are no single player games to explore the warcraft lore, there is no Arcane style series yet and the destruction of Overwatch speaks volumes for what Blizzard is nowadays
Yea blizzard only cares about games they can incorporate microtransactions in. I would love to see a souls-like diablo game, or a witcher-esqe warcraft game. But how can they fill those with micro transactions... Until i see blizzard put out a game without microtransactions i will never touch their games again, and no "cometic only" shop. Literally a game WITH NONE OF THAT. I mean they should be looking at Elden Ring, as insperation and thinking, maybe just maybe you can still profit off of a great singleplayer game with no micro bull shit.
I wouldn't mind a Warcraft mini show that explores different parts of the lore (like how the first war started and ended and the consequences). They could even do a StarCraft version as well.
Last chance….yeah diablo 4 was theyre last chance at they failed. The blizzard we loved is dead, let them stay dead. Id say give up on them personally.
I never understood the Diablo 4 hate but maybe it's because I'm not a seasonal player. The campaign and coop were great for me so I have positive memories of the game.
@@mohammedghanem9228 Yeah it's mostly ppl who had certain expectations that they didn't get. Sure the game had a few problems (some still persist), mainly performance and mechanic wise. But the game seems to get better with each season. Besides i am having fun with the game.
Maybe it's due to becoming an "adult" but I am finding smaller, good quality AA games engage me more nowadays. "I've been waiting 30 years to chop trees as an Orc." Don't forget you need a "Werk werk" emote!
Blizzard really does have potential to make fantastic game using their current IP's but they wont take risks and wont make anything that doesn't have micro transactions anymore. Hopefully the Microsoft acquisition can help them push the boundaries again beyond "playing it safe" Doing smaller project's like he was talking is the perfect way to test the waters and find a new hit. Personally I've always wanted a single player warcraft/diablo game like darksouls/witcher but its just not really something blizzard does since they can fill it with microtransactions. Hopefully we do get something new and interesting. in the mean time i will continue to boycott blizzard until they can show they actually want us players playing their game and not just our wallets.
It's not because you're an adult. It's that AAA is risk averse and woke whereas AA cannot afford a DEI department and cultural initiatives which replace their competent workforce with blue haired communication degree holders with a minor in game design.
all modern games are trash. i rather play 2 decade old games tbh. modern games also run like a potato. optimized like shit. you need a beast pc just to run something that looks 2 decades old.
@@mogalixir Lmao you just had to add the "woke" part as if that's synonymous with risk averse, when plenty of indie games are specifically designed to spread awareness of social justice topics e.g. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Undertale, Fear & Hunger 2: Termina has one of the playable characters being a wheelchair-bound woman and she is also one of the best solo characters in that game, Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One has several stories about racial discrimination and women's liberty related to its time period, Signalis heavily implies a gay relationship between two of the main characters, and the list goes on. In fact, a lot of the time, having a strong creative vision and inclusion of politics is going to make a project much more risky, because you risk alienating a portion of the potential player base. You could choose to be open-minded to new experiences and perspectives as provided by the games you play because that's one of the biggest strengths of video games, but you rather have everything to be exactly the same and then get angry that the games aren't changing enough. Hypocrisy much?
That’s because the majority of them are not. The genre is polluted with pay to win and made with the intent to hook you into a loop of fomo and addiction.
@@pythax1567 This isn’t really a valid criticism when Blizzard have the track record they do with mobile…They aren’t going to suddenly make good fairly monetized mobile games.
Earlier release means less content... you mean the content that didn't exist even when D4 launched later? Rofl. I ain't holding my breath. Almost everyone we known from old Blizzard are gone.
I don't support or play blizzard games anymore but hopefully Microsoft can get them out of this rut and get them focused on making great games and not how to get money from players. You are right everyone from old blizz is gone but it doesn't mean the IP's they created don't have potential still. They just need the right person, with the right ideas to lead.
@@dylananhorn1 Oh no. Please don't get me wrong. I ADORE D2. It was the first game that got me hooked into PC gaming. It's also that adoration that made me so bitter when they failed D3 and most of D4. Their IPs have potential, but it is wasted due to corporate greed and management. Being bought by Microsoft isn't exactly confident boosting when they decided to let Tango go despite Hi-Fi Rush getting so much praise, and immediately they (one of the head guys from MIcrosoft) said they need more games like it. Like WTF?
It’s still a fun game. I don’t think it needs additional content added. I’d just like to see some of the old maps make their way back into the rotation every now and then.
@@acidseaforce4836Not really though. There was a big decline when the esports stopped, but it’s stayed steady since then. There are rises and falls that fluctuate, but it’s stayed pretty steady.
I really wanted a game like the cancelled Starcraft: Ghost. Blizz should do a single-player, story driven game for once. Imagine a game where you play as Zeratul in 3rd person, there is rpg elements and you play a part of the story of Starcraft.
Blizzard is only interested in games that will continuously give them money. I don't think there will every be a single player game from Blizzard again. Too greedy.
Same, Starcraft is such a big universe they can work with as well. They expand the korpulu sector and explore new regions of space. While also checking on earth and her current empire. Maybe even introduce another faction further a field, as im sure they built more of those ships just in case the first three failed.
I don’t think Blizzard is capable of this, but if they could make a StarCraft Ghost game with similar mechanics as MGSV, it could be one of the best games ever.
Idk if im onboard with the lots of small project releases idea. Instead of plunderstorm quality I feel like they might go for a more warcraft rumble quality aka quick cash grabs, pushing their resources off bigger projects (which are usually great games tbf).
Hey man, here's a story I haven't see anyone talk about : I wanted to give Blizzard a last chance and I started playing HC Classic after watching one of your videos! It was my first time playing in about 15 years. I paid for a month's subscription and excitedly started playing, and quickly realized I wasn't able to trade, mail or use the Auction House on any of my HC characters, which was odd because none of them were "Self Found". I tried a few hotfixes but nothing worked. Turns out, it is not a bug but very much made on purpose to "avoid bots". Every new WoW or returning players after 2017 will pay the full price, expecting to be able to play the full game, only to find out after the fact that they cannot interact with the whole economic side of the game for a whole "30 day period". So much for giving blizz a last chance!
I would also absolutely love this but blizzard isn't know to make any single player games for many years. If they cant fill it with micro transactions its not on the table.
Do we really need more Souls like games and what could a Diablo Souls deliver that other's haven't already done and rehashed 5 times? I mean Souls-like are notoriously story lite so all you need is a game where you put Demons in a Souls game and ......wait.....don't we already have that?
yeah i never bothered to buy it. D3 reaper of souls was my last Diablo game. i kinda wanted to try necromancer but i had already quit D3 so no point buying an expansion for 1 class.
Activision/Blizzard has to be the clues Devs of this generation. Imagine having a big franchise like Warcraft and still do nothing with it. No tv shows no spin off games just recycling the old game year after year !!!!
I mean... 20 years and WoW is still more relevant than ever lol. Its basically free marketing, they don't need spin offs, movies, tv shows lmao.. The internet does the marketing for them lol
Blizzard free since 2020 (when my old laptop broke) and yeah feel the same way. I even "left" the /r/diablo subreddit one of the subs I was most active on. And that has felt good.
@@olfan92 WoW was the biggest reason I dropped Blizz. Telling me how to enjoy the game, I get flying when they deem it appropriate, no housing, F that. I hate what WoW turned into. It was great and then it wasn't. The #1 reason I dropped Blizzard games.
To be fair, Blizzard games used to have 1 expansion (Beyond the Dark Portal, Lord of Destruction, Brood War, The Frozen Throne, I'm not going to count third party expansions like Retribution or Hellfire), while WoW has is into its 10th expansion. That doesn't mean I don't agree with Blizzard not being anymore the flawless developer it used to be.
Blizzard's had a lot of "last chances", according to a lot of influencer pricks that use this site. I doubt they'll be going anywhere. They won't lose anything without you.
doomer? slow day? D4 is on the TOP 20 bestsellers on steam WITHOUT A DISCOUNT and averaging 20k. lmao. i can only imagine the bnet and console count. they are not going anywhere.
i wrote them off when they essentially took an axe to Heroes of the Storm. I'll only redownload the client once they've proven they stopped abusing their employees and are respecting them 100%
what I want: -true remake of Warcraft 1, 2 and 3, with new and long high-blizzard-quality cinematics -Starcraft terran Marine shooters much like Gears of War and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 -Starcraft protoss games like Star Wars Fallen Order -Starcraft Terran city builder like Frostpunk -Starcraft Terran game much copy of Helldivers. -Diablo games like Skyrim and the Witcher -Warcraft game set during the times of the early Empire of Arathor that plays like Ryze: Son of Rome, and we get to interact with the blood elves and go to war against the Troll Empire. -Warcraft game like Dishonored, where we play as a Rogue undead that regains his will when Illidan weakens the Lich King, joins Sylvanas and fights the Dreadlords and rule of Kel-thuzad or something along those lines. -the revival of Heroes of the Storm by creation of new heroes, maps, vids, comics and other forms of lore.
The reason they don't release new games as much is because they literally don't have to. All the games before WoW were essentially offline compatible whereas everything after WoW was all online (aside from remakes/remasters). If you can just add stuff to a game, the only point of making a new game is to either free devs from technical restraints or change setting. Just look at how old GTA5 is and GTA6 probably won't be out until 2026 if we're lucky. I'm not defending it but that's just how most big companies work.
They should not be making warcraft 4. They should focus on making. A game where we can play the warcraft 1 2 3 4 within that game. Just like the hitman world of assassination. (Remastered is the way to go) 💀 Please release it on steam.
The only thing in common with Blizzard then and Blizzard now is the name on the building. All of the talent they had back when they were pumping out amazing games are gone.
I'm honestly just baffled why there hasn't been an optional, hi-def graphics upgrade of WoW, similar to what EQ2 did..It didn't change any mechanics AFAIK, but made it look far better.
They can honestly remake anything and it'll work. By remake, I mean show the same story that we know, through different eyes, in a different gameplay. Like imagine if we got a Warcraft 3, the RPG, that plays like an old school FF game, focusing on seeing the story through the eyes of everyone in little well-crafted but simple chapters. You're finishing a plot point, then it switches to the first section with Thrall at the founding of Durotar, but not without an intro in his time as a slave to Blackmoore. Here's the problem: These smaller games need soul. Blizzard has been struggling with that part of game development.
If they can apply this pressure to Blizzard, why can't they do this to Mojang... Mojang releases like half a new block to Minecraft every year and calls it a major update...
Yea I think blizzard is being religated to mobile games and original plan with the acquisition is COD COD COD cause it makes more money than Mc Donalds.
Blizzard has more than enough employees to release games often. The issue is that they no longer have a focused vision and it has been revealed (by Blizzard) that a lot of development is done in a "design by committee" style of work. So they waste time with too many cooks in the kitchen and not enough focus and passion. It's a bureaucratic nightmare that fills algorithmic checkboxes.
Small devs without a shite load of people to answer to develop KILLER games much faster. Instead of having "focus" meetings eight times a week, and sections working without interacting with each other, small devs don't have these bureaucratic log jams.
Their last chance was like 5+ years ago already. I put 10k hours into WOW, most of that before 2010. For the past decade whenever I've had the thought of "going back" it only takes seconds for me to then go "It's not WOW anymore, it's a P2W cesspit" and I move on with my day. When they came out with the level boost for TBC classic I even stopped reading news from Blizzard because it was just making me angry.
Nah, bruh, last chance ( at least for me) was almost a decade ago. I emailed them to delete my account, take away anything I bought, and never to contact me again. Never touching anything with the Blizzard logo ever again.
A warcraft survival game does seem like a good fit, but what I've been waiting 20 years for is a warcraft single player RPG. How have they not done it yet with all the money that games like Skyrim and the Witcher 3 printed?
not trying to give blizzard a pass here but i dont know if the whole "6 games over 20 years" argument really holds water, every world of warcraft expansion is basically a whole games worth of development, and there have been 10 expansions for the world of warcraft over that time, as well as a diablo 3 expansion, and 2 starcraft 2 expansions
In theory: Could be really cool.
In reality: 10 new shitty mobile games.
To be fair, warcraft rumble isn't a half bad tower defense game.
My first thought, EXACTLY!
@@MasterSwisher I would actually play it, if it wasn't only mobile. Art style works for me, espeicially fro Warcraft setting art.
maybe one newer PC game like force said that is smaller scale; but yeah a dozen new mobile pay to win games.
@@MasterSwisher It looked so fun but I played for 20 min while taking a shit and just couldn't do it, it was so boring. I guess I'm just not into those games.
People giving Blizzard a "last chance" was the same when people say, this is gona be my last cigarette. . . . .
or my last drink , Microsoft paid bilion and what the money back now not in 10 years. With microsoft the shareholders want their money back fast as possible that was the deal + they get a huge fortune by releeseing wow every like NBA 2020..2021.2022 etc - Good money shitty games
I said that too, last cigg, tomorrow I'll quit, and the day after that but eventually I did it.
Now I've been free from ciggarettes for 10 years.
Sooner or later it'll happen as long as you strive for it.
If it was their real last chance, this video wouldn't exist since he most certainly did another in the same vein. Blizzard addicts are one of a kind.
man you are ON POINT
@@Shinyolo new to blizzard idk why they get flak their games are mostly fine if you play them casually
It's been Blizzard's ''last chance'' for years now. When will the fans learn ?
unfortunately, some never
Amen! f'em all!
As long as they have money, i would say never
what do you expect, humans are turd
I learned and haven't spent a dime in Blizzard in the last 8 years...
I remember when I would unquestioningly buy the new Blizzard title. They were the synonym of quality for me. Now I can't imagine even playing their stuff.
yup uninstalled the launcher after the d4 debakel (not that i played any blizz games in the last years except accasonally d3 anyways)
@@theanti-hypemonitor9079 D4 was a bit to late to realise how shit they are but welcome to the real world. We been seeing how shitty blizzard been for a decade. I was also a late quitter.
@@elvfrem well, i realized it way earlier. but d4 was like.... ii was very sceptical but the pre release footage looked pretty good. but oh well
@@theanti-hypemonitor9079 the way you spelled "debacle" was hilarious.
@@vewyscawymonsta whoups, yea its the german version xD sorry
It was their last chance with Warcraft3: Refunded;
It was their last chance with Overwatch 2;
It was their last chance with Diablo 4;
It was their last chance with WoW expansion;
Yeah, sure. It will stay being their last chance as long as you keep giving them last chances.
It's tiring listening to all the clickbaits. Blizzard is dead and every year "their last chance". They are like a disease, they remain even if dead.
I think people have to much expectations from games. The industry is this way in general. Games try to hard to be good for people who conplain to much about everything! We should just stop, and enjoy whatever we have
force dont care bro here for a click
Dragonflight was a good expansion, they succeeded at that last chance.
@@sorincosma5185That is an unhinged amount of copium. Especially if you're old enough to remember what Blizzard used to be. "Enjoy whatever we have" and these greedy corporations will only give you casinos disguised as games
“The quality isn’t there, but HEY we can ramp up the quantity”
'The quality isn't there, but HEY, we can ramp up the microtransactions and shady business practices."
You're still giving Blizzard chances? Last chance until the next one.
Calm down bro it’s just a clickbait title for a more broad discussion.
@@Ziggyvu Did I seem upset to you? Weird
@@Ziggyvu easy there buddy, blizzard will take your money too, just be patient .
@@ZiggyvuWhy we treating a normal TH-cam comment like he’s raging and screaming
Bet they have multiple Blizz games on the desktop as we speak.
"Last chance" = 'just one more smoke' 'this is my last drink' 'ill just place one more bet' ' ill get high, but its the last time'
Addiction in a nutshell. Quite sad and frightening how companies devolve more and more into exploiting gaming addiction.
last chance was 3 chances ago
This.
And then you all bought the games anyway
Last chance was more like 10 years ago in reality when the truely horrible things happened but no one did anything.
so true.. the history is written. old times will never come back. but with a little hope, maybe windows burns it all down and come back like a phoenix with new people in power.
Microsoft bought trash
Only one thing is worse than Blizzard...it is their hardcore fans that still think Blizzard today is a honest top notch studio. Get a grip on reality.
Truth!
Couldn't have said it better myself. I get that people don't want to let go of their favourite fantasyworld that Warcraft/Diablo etc. is, but you gotta realise that Blizzard is not the same people anymore, who brought us those worlds. There are so many other great studios you can put your faith into, it doesn't have to be and shouldn't be 'Blizzard' anymore. The company's name alone is nothing than a mask of nostalgia anymore.
wow... hater fr. you need to go for a bikeride.. maybe kiss someone..
Oh look at me I think I’m cool because I jumped on the I hate blizzard trend.
What a dumb comment. You're literally the same person as the fanboys. Lol kids these days...
i'd like to see Heroes of the Storm brought back.
All they would need to do is start updating again put it on console - game pass with crossplay and it would be a hit
No
@@DerpDerpsongamepass?
Its already free lol
I guess you mean like how LoL does it.
@@dess3597yes.
Yes though, game was fun. Stupid as hell of them to drop it the way they did
I was gutted when they cancelled that Blizzard survival game. I'm absolutely with you, give me survival base building with Warcraft lore/storytelling, and oh momma. . .money = printed
To be fair, that game turned into Overwatch, and that has gone great… Oh wait.
@@timparks9833 to be fair overwatch was huge the first few years
@@Boppy00For sure. It could still be huge if Blizzard didn’t Blizzard all over it with the “sequel”.
Considering the quality of their recent actual releases I don't even want to know what a game would have looked like they didn't deem good enough to finish developing/releasing.
@@timparks9833 that sequel fiasco was a stone cold atrocity
Gave them a last chance years ago, crazy how long people can just keep going along with it all.
Truee, same with games workshop
Force is a giant blizz cuck sadly. Some people don't learn.
I still play WoW and so does millions. As long as they keep trying with wow, I’ll stick around
@@Aztiren The fuck are you talking about? They haven't tried worth shit. Xal'atath isn't even working behind the scenes and rather in the open which is completely against her character, everyone in the world already knows her and keep on building her up like she's the next jailer, Anduin already gets kidnapped, and basically your hero is once again a champion. It ain't the world of Warcraft that you play anymore. There's no love in it. It has died. Let it die. There is no world to explore. There is only money. Money me, money now. World of Moneycraft. World of Nostalgiacraft. World o Puppetcraft. Good luck, son, we wish you good fortune in the days to come.
@@TalesOfSaphiraWC3 as long as im still having fun with raid and mythic plus then theyre trying on the shit i care about
Blizzards last chance was in 2016. Their response was to "misstreat" their empolyees and 1 of them even killing themselves on a work trip because their nudes got send around the office.
Making Blizzard "more prolific" is not their last chance. It's the final nail in their coffin.
It's not like they didn't have skunkworks projects in the universes of their games - vast majority of them didn't go anywhere and got axed. MS just wants to cheapen their brand by releasing fodder games. They tried to do the same exact thing with Bungie, making them slave out on Halo until they drop dead.
The fact that Microsoft is even the owner says enough. It means the company is either already dead and they simply want their IP's, or that they will be dead soon after by the malpractices of Microsoft.
Blizzard's peak years were from 94 - 04 and that's a feeling I just can't shake.
They don't need more games. They need the games that they do make to actually be good.
Force is really missing the big picture. WoW has had 10 expansions and maintains a dozen live service games. SC, Diablo, Warcraft RTS never had the content drops current Blizzard games have.
@@Muppet-kz2nc Don't even joke yourself. Creating WoW expansions isn't as hard and time consuming as creating whole new games like they did back in the days. New expansions are just something built on the top of existing game. Also, Blizzard is well known for their content drought in games. So it's not like they were super hard working and consistent when it comes to that anyway...
@@N4chtigall As someone who was there buying those games back in the day, Blizzard output today is signifcantly higher than it was back then.
War2, D2, War3 had 1 expansion and zero seasonal content.
Today we have SC2,SC2:LOTV, D3,D3RoS, D4, HotS, HS, OW, half a dozen WoW expansions plus content patches.
This video is clickbait for anyone thats actually paying attention.
Hard not to roll my eyes at this title. It's been their "last chance" for 15 years
The fact that there are no single player games to explore the warcraft lore, there is no Arcane style series yet and the destruction of Overwatch speaks volumes for what Blizzard is nowadays
Yea blizzard only cares about games they can incorporate microtransactions in. I would love to see a souls-like diablo game, or a witcher-esqe warcraft game. But how can they fill those with micro transactions... Until i see blizzard put out a game without microtransactions i will never touch their games again, and no "cometic only" shop. Literally a game WITH NONE OF THAT. I mean they should be looking at Elden Ring, as insperation and thinking, maybe just maybe you can still profit off of a great singleplayer game with no micro bull shit.
who would want to explore lore in 2024 anyway? its lgbt soy bullshit.
@@olfan92 even before all that there was nothing after WC3, just the books
I wouldn't mind a Warcraft mini show that explores different parts of the lore (like how the first war started and ended and the consequences). They could even do a StarCraft version as well.
Definitely appreciated the anime style they just did for Alleria
I feel Blizzard could successfully remake their old titles, like BlackThorne as a Horror Action RPG / Rogue Like Survival game
Last chance….yeah diablo 4 was theyre last chance at they failed. The blizzard we loved is dead, let them stay dead. Id say give up on them personally.
I never understood the Diablo 4 hate but maybe it's because I'm not a seasonal player.
The campaign and coop were great for me so I have positive memories of the game.
Nope. Me and millions play WoW.
Diablo 4 was fine honestly and now it’s even better
@@mohammedghanem9228 Yeah it's mostly ppl who had certain expectations that they didn't get. Sure the game had a few problems (some still persist), mainly performance and mechanic wise. But the game seems to get better with each season. Besides i am having fun with the game.
season 5 is good tbh vessel of hatred is the do or die for me tbh
Dragonflight have been fun, as a returning player. Nice to have a game to glow off steam from work
They should make a MOBA and include characters from each universe!
This made me giggle. ty.
And call it Bystanders of the Calm
Haha
When you realize they already made a MOBA and it was so dogshot that nobody remembers it.
@@chuggynation8275 when you realize that everybody remembered it and that was the point of the joke
You know what changed? Shareholders got involved..
Maybe it's due to becoming an "adult" but I am finding smaller, good quality AA games engage me more nowadays.
"I've been waiting 30 years to chop trees as an Orc." Don't forget you need a "Werk werk" emote!
Blizzard really does have potential to make fantastic game using their current IP's but they wont take risks and wont make anything that doesn't have micro transactions anymore. Hopefully the Microsoft acquisition can help them push the boundaries again beyond "playing it safe" Doing smaller project's like he was talking is the perfect way to test the waters and find a new hit. Personally I've always wanted a single player warcraft/diablo game like darksouls/witcher but its just not really something blizzard does since they can fill it with microtransactions. Hopefully we do get something new and interesting. in the mean time i will continue to boycott blizzard until they can show they actually want us players playing their game and not just our wallets.
It's not because you're an adult. It's that AAA is risk averse and woke whereas AA cannot afford a DEI department and cultural initiatives which replace their competent workforce with blue haired communication degree holders with a minor in game design.
all modern games are trash.
i rather play 2 decade old games tbh.
modern games also run like a potato. optimized like shit. you need a beast pc just to run something that looks 2 decades old.
@@mogalixir You sound like a bigot who's too scared to speak their mind, so tries to talk around racism and sexism.
@@mogalixir Lmao you just had to add the "woke" part as if that's synonymous with risk averse, when plenty of indie games are specifically designed to spread awareness of social justice topics e.g. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Undertale, Fear & Hunger 2: Termina has one of the playable characters being a wheelchair-bound woman and she is also one of the best solo characters in that game, Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One has several stories about racial discrimination and women's liberty related to its time period, Signalis heavily implies a gay relationship between two of the main characters, and the list goes on. In fact, a lot of the time, having a strong creative vision and inclusion of politics is going to make a project much more risky, because you risk alienating a portion of the potential player base.
You could choose to be open-minded to new experiences and perspectives as provided by the games you play because that's one of the biggest strengths of video games, but you rather have everything to be exactly the same and then get angry that the games aren't changing enough. Hypocrisy much?
I like how you don't count Mobile games as real games.
That’s because the majority of them are not. The genre is polluted with pay to win and made with the intent to hook you into a loop of fomo and addiction.
Fortunately, Diablo Immortal and Warcraft Rumble didn't count
me too
They aren't.
@@pythax1567 This isn’t really a valid criticism when Blizzard have the track record they do with mobile…They aren’t going to suddenly make good fairly monetized mobile games.
Earlier release means less content... you mean the content that didn't exist even when D4 launched later? Rofl. I ain't holding my breath. Almost everyone we known from old Blizzard are gone.
I don't support or play blizzard games anymore but hopefully Microsoft can get them out of this rut and get them focused on making great games and not how to get money from players. You are right everyone from old blizz is gone but it doesn't mean the IP's they created don't have potential still. They just need the right person, with the right ideas to lead.
@@dylananhorn1 Oh no. Please don't get me wrong. I ADORE D2. It was the first game that got me hooked into PC gaming. It's also that adoration that made me so bitter when they failed D3 and most of D4. Their IPs have potential, but it is wasted due to corporate greed and management. Being bought by Microsoft isn't exactly confident boosting when they decided to let Tango go despite Hi-Fi Rush getting so much praise, and immediately they (one of the head guys from MIcrosoft) said they need more games like it. Like WTF?
Blizzard tries to pull the "It wasnt up to the Blizzard standard" which we know now is wacky nonsense
Rest in peace Heroes of the storm ;(
It’s still a fun game. I don’t think it needs additional content added. I’d just like to see some of the old maps make their way back into the rotation every now and then.
My favorite moba
They just did a balance patch yesterday
@@timparks9833 Yeah but the player base is declining
@@acidseaforce4836Not really though. There was a big decline when the esports stopped, but it’s stayed steady since then. There are rises and falls that fluctuate, but it’s stayed pretty steady.
Manor Lords + Warcraft 3 = i'd never leave my house.
I really wanted a game like the cancelled Starcraft: Ghost. Blizz should do a single-player, story driven game for once. Imagine a game where you play as Zeratul in 3rd person, there is rpg elements and you play a part of the story of Starcraft.
Blizzard is only interested in games that will continuously give them money. I don't think there will every be a single player game from Blizzard again. Too greedy.
Same, Starcraft is such a big universe they can work with as well. They expand the korpulu sector and explore new regions of space. While also checking on earth and her current empire. Maybe even introduce another faction further a field, as im sure they built more of those ships just in case the first three failed.
Yes, but then there is a 40 bucks D4 horse skin that takes 1 person 1 day to make... a hard choice right here
@@NoSleep420 They haven't done any SP game in more than 25 years. Dunno what you mean by "again".
I don’t think Blizzard is capable of this, but if they could make a StarCraft Ghost game with similar mechanics as MGSV, it could be one of the best games ever.
Last Chance Inc. ,formerly known as Blizzard Entertainment, is a Nostalgia driven Sales firm.
thats the game industry in general LMAO Its not unique to Blizzard
@@deadjosh13Blizzard absolutely are the leaders in this pathetic field
That survival game must have been horribly bad then...
Idk if im onboard with the lots of small project releases idea. Instead of plunderstorm quality I feel like they might go for a more warcraft rumble quality aka quick cash grabs, pushing their resources off bigger projects (which are usually great games tbf).
I still want Starcraft: Ghost
Yes
4:07 Sadly Riot Forge was shut down at the start of this year, 2024.
People been saying this is blizzard last chance for over a decade and yet here we are
they been saying it since Cata LOL
Hey man, here's a story I haven't see anyone talk about :
I wanted to give Blizzard a last chance and I started playing HC Classic after watching one of your videos!
It was my first time playing in about 15 years. I paid for a month's subscription and excitedly started playing, and quickly realized I wasn't able to trade, mail or use the Auction House on any of my HC characters, which was odd because none of them were "Self Found". I tried a few hotfixes but nothing worked.
Turns out, it is not a bug but very much made on purpose to "avoid bots". Every new WoW or returning players after 2017 will pay the full price, expecting to be able to play the full game, only to find out after the fact that they cannot interact with the whole economic side of the game for a whole "30 day period".
So much for giving blizz a last chance!
It went from Soon (tm) to You Will Be Disappointed Soon (tm)
Blizzard could easily make a Hell Diver’s type of game with the StarCraft IP and it will sell millions
I would love a souls-like in the Diablo universe
I would also absolutely love this but blizzard isn't know to make any single player games for many years. If they cant fill it with micro transactions its not on the table.
I would hate that.
Do we really need more Souls like games and what could a Diablo Souls deliver that other's haven't already done and rehashed 5 times? I mean Souls-like are notoriously story lite so all you need is a game where you put Demons in a Souls game and ......wait.....don't we already have that?
@@olfan92 Yeah, lol. Getting really sick of souls-likes now. It's becoming the "open world survival crating game" of this generation.
so how many last chances are we up to now?
D4 was the last chance for me
Yeah? And the game is great 🤷♂️
@@Chrismatica Said no one with a brain.
@@ChrismaticaI love ARPGs and I was literally bored into playing anything else after 5-10 hours on every single season so far.
Not the girl they drove to suicide? or the breastmilk theft? or the underpaying of staff? or the moneygrabbing? Alright.
yeah i never bothered to buy it.
D3 reaper of souls was my last Diablo game. i kinda wanted to try necromancer but i had already quit D3 so no point buying an expansion for 1 class.
Activision/Blizzard has to be the clues Devs of this generation. Imagine having a big franchise like Warcraft and still do nothing with it. No tv shows no spin off games just recycling the old game year after year !!!!
I mean... 20 years and WoW is still more relevant than ever lol. Its basically free marketing, they don't need spin offs, movies, tv shows lmao.. The internet does the marketing for them lol
I've been Blizzard free since 2019 and don't miss them at all. To quote Deniro from "Copland"..."You had your chance and you blew it!!"
Blizzard free since 2020 (when my old laptop broke) and yeah feel the same way. I even "left" the /r/diablo subreddit one of the subs I was most active on. And that has felt good.
I still like wow tho. so still playing private servers for free.
@@olfan92 WoW was the biggest reason I dropped Blizz. Telling me how to enjoy the game, I get flying when they deem it appropriate, no housing, F that. I hate what WoW turned into. It was great and then it wasn't. The #1 reason I dropped Blizzard games.
To be fair, Blizzard games used to have 1 expansion (Beyond the Dark Portal, Lord of Destruction, Brood War, The Frozen Throne, I'm not going to count third party expansions like Retribution or Hellfire), while WoW has is into its 10th expansion.
That doesn't mean I don't agree with Blizzard not being anymore the flawless developer it used to be.
Kinda ridiculous how their best title was an MMO and they never dared to develop the new generation of MMO...
why make competition between their games?
@@savuflorin6242 To create a new generation
Difficult proposition when the first MMO you launch becomes, and maintains as one of the most popular in the genre over 20 years.
@@savuflorin6242no one in Gen Z is playing boomer ass wow
@@PainxSorrow this literally isn't true. player numbers are higher than ever
Blizzard's had a lot of "last chances", according to a lot of influencer pricks that use this site. I doubt they'll be going anywhere. They won't lose anything without you.
Title of this video is Asmongold react bait lol
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doomer? slow day? D4 is on the TOP 20 bestsellers on steam WITHOUT A DISCOUNT and averaging 20k. lmao. i can only imagine the bnet and console count. they are not going anywhere.
playing for free starcraft 2 and HOTS but never again buying any blizzard game , last chance was long long ago.
Riot forge was closed for a reason. The market don’t want small indie style game from big developers…
are we really expecting anything else other than more grind, more secondary power, more endless dailies, and more cosmetics in the cash shop from WoW?
You clearly haven't played dragonflight ;)
i wrote them off when they essentially took an axe to Heroes of the Storm. I'll only redownload the client once they've proven they stopped abusing their employees and are respecting them 100%
The picture of Phil Spencer in the description is just cruel.
what I want:
-true remake of Warcraft 1, 2 and 3, with new and long high-blizzard-quality cinematics
-Starcraft terran Marine shooters much like Gears of War and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
-Starcraft protoss games like Star Wars Fallen Order
-Starcraft Terran city builder like Frostpunk
-Starcraft Terran game much copy of Helldivers.
-Diablo games like Skyrim and the Witcher
-Warcraft game set during the times of the early Empire of Arathor that plays like Ryze: Son of Rome, and we get to interact with the blood elves and go to war against the Troll Empire.
-Warcraft game like Dishonored, where we play as a Rogue undead that regains his will when Illidan weakens the Lich King, joins Sylvanas and fights the Dreadlords and rule of Kel-thuzad or something along those lines.
-the revival of Heroes of the Storm by creation of new heroes, maps, vids, comics and other forms of lore.
How many chances is this now?? lol
Growing up while Blizzard peaked was a blessing
But also, experiencing their fall has been a curse
Keep in mind this "last chance" is just people who are bitter about Blizzard, those who actually play the game don't care
most based comment this year loool
I want heroes of the storm back and more RTS games from blizzard. But both of those things will more than likely never happen, which is a shame.
blizzard makes me truly sad.
The reason they don't release new games as much is because they literally don't have to. All the games before WoW were essentially offline compatible whereas everything after WoW was all online (aside from remakes/remasters). If you can just add stuff to a game, the only point of making a new game is to either free devs from technical restraints or change setting. Just look at how old GTA5 is and GTA6 probably won't be out until 2026 if we're lucky. I'm not defending it but that's just how most big companies work.
I've lost track of how many last chances they've got
I've thought for decades that if Blizzard had coupled a Starcraft mmo along side their Warcraft mmo they would've been an almost unstoppable company.
WARCRAFT 4
WARCRAFT 4
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Warcraft: Outlands, survival game set in the titular Outlands with high fidelity. Chef's kiss
Diablo 4 made me stop playing all games with a season pass I'm done
They should not be making warcraft 4.
They should focus on making. A game where we can play the warcraft 1 2 3 4 within that game. Just like the hitman world of assassination. (Remastered is the way to go)
💀 Please release it on steam.
I will say that Dragon flight was the best WoW has been in a long time
Dragonflight is trash
@@VDViktor why? cuz u can't make it a second job? LMAO
@@VDViktor incorrect. Nice try though.
@@byrdfeathers3552That's not how opinion's work.
Playing Star Craft 2 is heartbreaking. You know Blizzard could never make something like it again.
The only thing in common with Blizzard then and Blizzard now is the name on the building.
All of the talent they had back when they were pumping out amazing games are gone.
Frequency was never the issue... quality was.
If Microsoft is able to convince/persuade Blizzard to bring back Starcraft: Ghost, I think it will go down well with the community
I'm honestly just baffled why there hasn't been an optional, hi-def graphics upgrade of WoW, similar to what EQ2 did..It didn't change any mechanics AFAIK, but made it look far better.
They can honestly remake anything and it'll work. By remake, I mean show the same story that we know, through different eyes, in a different gameplay. Like imagine if we got a Warcraft 3, the RPG, that plays like an old school FF game, focusing on seeing the story through the eyes of everyone in little well-crafted but simple chapters. You're finishing a plot point, then it switches to the first section with Thrall at the founding of Durotar, but not without an intro in his time as a slave to Blackmoore.
Here's the problem: These smaller games need soul. Blizzard has been struggling with that part of game development.
I miss the single-player games Blizzard used to make, online was an option but not mandatory. I was there for their campaigns.
Bring back heroes of the storm with individual XP twist
Personally I liked remix more than plunderstorm, but i'm happy for the pvp enjoyers.
Both will return later ofc, & their also working on other modes 👍
i can't believe people still think this is the good ollllll blizzard .
The ten year dominance of blizzard was something else man.
If they can apply this pressure to Blizzard, why can't they do this to Mojang... Mojang releases like half a new block to Minecraft every year and calls it a major update...
Yea I think blizzard is being religated to mobile games and original plan with the acquisition is COD COD COD cause it makes more money than Mc Donalds.
Blizzard doesn't need more quantity, they need more quality. They already rush out updates that have tons of reused assets and nothing new.
I see how you skipped Overwatch 2 in your list of new Blizzard games in the last 20 years
releasing games that are actually finished would be a good start
Blizzard has more than enough employees to release games often. The issue is that they no longer have a focused vision and it has been revealed (by Blizzard) that a lot of development is done in a "design by committee" style of work. So they waste time with too many cooks in the kitchen and not enough focus and passion. It's a bureaucratic nightmare that fills algorithmic checkboxes.
Rumble is actually pretty solid
every expansion is technically another game's worth of content, they should be included.
Small devs without a shite load of people to answer to develop KILLER games much faster. Instead of having "focus" meetings eight times a week, and sections working without interacting with each other, small devs don't have these bureaucratic log jams.
theyre going to make shovelware now.
Thats not the first time ive seen this title since the past decade 🥱
Their last chance was like 5+ years ago already. I put 10k hours into WOW, most of that before 2010. For the past decade whenever I've had the thought of "going back" it only takes seconds for me to then go "It's not WOW anymore, it's a P2W cesspit" and I move on with my day. When they came out with the level boost for TBC classic I even stopped reading news from Blizzard because it was just making me angry.
What do you mean it’s been twenty two years since we got a Warcraft RTS? Warcraft Rumble came out in 2023!
Nah, bruh, last chance ( at least for me) was almost a decade ago. I emailed them to delete my account, take away anything I bought, and never to contact me again. Never touching anything with the Blizzard logo ever again.
A warcraft survival game does seem like a good fit, but what I've been waiting 20 years for is a warcraft single player RPG. How have they not done it yet with all the money that games like Skyrim and the Witcher 3 printed?
not trying to give blizzard a pass here but i dont know if the whole "6 games over 20 years" argument really holds water, every world of warcraft expansion is basically a whole games worth of development, and there have been 10 expansions for the world of warcraft over that time, as well as a diablo 3 expansion, and 2 starcraft 2 expansions
How does this not mean "Blizzard will overwork their employees"?
I started watching you when it was ForceSC2, or something like that. Proud of you for coming so far.
There is no Blizzard, that studio was done years ago.
Blackthorne could easily be Blizzard’s Doomguy, and the game would rake in cash hand over fist.