Blizzard/Activision, how far will they fall?

HereticBD said:
Apparently, the people see far more value in console gaming,
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Console units sold per year show a different pattern. Majority of consumers were purchasing handhelds. Which we can assume moved on to other gaming platforms. As a industry they are selling 50% less units yearly compared to 2008 unit sales.
 
KaNesDeath said:
Console units sold per year show a different pattern. Majority of consumers were purchasing handhelds. Which we can assume moved on to other gaming platforms. As a industry they are selling 50% less units yearly compared to 2008 unit sales.
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PS4 has surpassed PS3 in total unit sales. It's still a pretty healthy market, bud. You can't judge this industry in a bubble.
 
HereticBD said:
It's still a pretty healthy market, bud. You can't judge this industry in a bubble.
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Never said it was a bubble. Its a constricting market, that went on a sliding trend from selling 90 million units yearly to 45 million units yearly.

Consoles had three major selling points; free blu-ray player, ease of use and no game installs. Today only the ease of use exists. Thats why expanding upon it as the centerpiece of your entertainment center is paramount.

Nintendo took a different approach. They merged their console and handheld devices into one with the Switch.
 
Overwatch League looking to buy influencers to boaster live event attendance and inflate Twitch viewership numbers with Bounty Board raids: https://www.dexerto.com/overwatch/b...decline-in-overwatch-league-viewership-864077

Blizzard/Activision 5 Billion dollar Tax avoidance: https://www.taxwatchuk.org/reports/world_of_taxcraft/

WoW releasing a 15 year anniversary mount to the WoW store. Thats part of the 15 year anniversary collectors edition(releases in Q4) to meet Q3 revenue numbers:


In other news the city franchised teams in OWL arent going city based for 2020. Theyre only mandated to host two or five homestead events. Where the city franchise will host all division teams for that weekends scheduled games. Basically mimicking Dreamhack esport lans with traditional national sports travel costs. Travel costs theyre trying to mitigate by creating four regional divisions of their current twenty teams: https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...economic-competitive-imbalance/?noredirect=on
 
Soon as I saw this thread again I knew exactly who bumped it.
 
Blizzard isnt going to fall. They will release ow2 and d4 and people will be playing them in mass. D4 will be huge.
 
JoeyJoeJoeJr said:
Blizzard isnt going to fall. They will release ow2 and d4 and people will be playing them in mass. D4 will be huge.
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None of those games are groundbreaking nor exciting. Will sell decent amounts of copies though.
 
JoeyJoeJoeJr said:
Not exciting to you, I guess. Tons of people are definitely excited for diablo 4.
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i mean... maybe. after diablow, i'd hope that gamers would have learned to not buy the next installment in advance.

of course, never underestimate human stupidity... so it will probably sell 5 billion pre-orders.

d3 is getting/got btfo by a piece of shit f2p game. i can't tell if that means demand for d4 would be high or low.
 
JoeyJoeJoeJr said:
Not exciting to you, I guess. Tons of people are definitely excited for diablo 4.
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Having to rely on aging IP's will not trend well in the years to come. They need a new ground-breaking game to reinvent themselves. Overwatch helped the shit show the last few years though.

-wow is essentially dead. classic numbers are way down since launch and retail is a disaster currently. shadowlands will not fix this, time to maybe develop a new MMO or WOW 2.
-d3 was a disaster and is getting dominated by f2p games. (I loved d1 & d2)
-heroes is lame
-overwatch 2 im definitely interested in, but, the game itself is pretty generic and boring.

they are relying on revamping old games and it's getting very stale, FAST.
 
rob mafia said:
i mean... maybe. after diablow, i'd hope that gamers would have learned to not buy the next installment in advance.

of course, never underestimate human stupidity... so it will probably sell 5 billion pre-orders.

d3 is getting/got btfo by a piece of shit f2p game. i can't tell if that means demand for d4 would be high or low.
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Ive been playing diablo since the original came out. Although diablo 3 did not live up to expectations, it was not exactly a bad game either. It was just not what people were expecting beause of how good diablo 2 was. In reality, its still a pretty solid game. It sold remarkably well, and as much as I liked to complain about it, I did sink a ton of hours into it, which is more than I can say about PoE and other RPGs.

People see that Diablo 4 has potential. The rune system is back, it's darker, and it has some things going for it that give people hope.
 
JoeyJoeJoeJr said:
Ive been playing diablo since the original came out. Although diablo 3 did not live up to expectations, it was not exactly a bad game either.
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strongly disagreed. and the MASSIVE drop-off after ~2 months backed this up.

JoeyJoeJoeJr said:
It was just not what people were expecting beause of how good diablo 2 was.
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...and the fact that they fraudulently advertised it.

gameplay trailer, featuring 0% gameplay.


JoeyJoeJoeJr said:
In reality, its still a pretty solid game. It sold remarkably well, and as much as I liked to complain about it, I did sink a ton of hours into it, which is more than I can say about PoE and other RPGs.

People see that Diablo 4 has potential. The rune system is back, it's darker, and it has some things going for it that give people hope.
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Bought Overwatch for full price couple years ago, biggest waste of $40. At least Overwatch porn is pretty good.
 
What they just did to the OWL players and coaches is a load of BS. This coming season they were forced to run 2-2-2 comp( two tanks, two supports, two healers). On top of that Blizzard themselves just announced they are now implementing hero bans. Informing teams only one week ahead of their matches on whos banned for Blizzard alone picks the bans.
 
My god look at this disparity:
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