aspro said:

edgecrusher said:

Blizzard Gives Up on WoW Says it won't ever see the hieghts of the franchise again.

YES!

go back to making more REAL games like Diablo please. lol

lol indeed.

Go back to what though? Diablo was shitastic. Dota has killed off their RTS offereings.  Bungie is taking over their MMO duties at Activision... at this poitn Blizzard is becoming a bit vestigal.

I'm going to be devil's advocate here and say that the news title is a bit sensationalist. It's not exactly "giving up on it", it's more a thing of realizing the game has run its course, it had a good run but it's in a normal declining tendency right now, and being realistic about what can they achieve with an MMO that's nearing its 10th year online, with massive profits reapt month after month throughout all that time.

RoS fixed almost anything that was wrong with D3 to begin with, it sucks that it took an expansion for them to do that, but it is what it is. As it stands now, D3 is a well rounded, fun action rpg romp that is not without issues, but they're hardly deal-breaking, to me at least.

Dota has nothing to do with Blizzard's RTS stuffs. Even if they migrated the WarCraft universe from RTS to the MMO genre, they still have StarCraft, with another expansion coming to add to WoL and HotS to take care of those needs. As a matter of fact, Blizzard is readying its own take on the MOBA genre, Heroes of the Storm. Which, if it follows Blizzard's tried and true approach to game design (endless iteration and improvement of already successful ideas) it's going to be a blast.

And they also have some other interesting stuff out there like Hearthstone. With yet another WoW expansion coming, I'd say Blizzard is as relevant as ever right now. They've never been an endless parade of franchises, but the ones that they have, they're quite well taken care of right now.

Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition is sooooooo freakin' good. Blizzard truly are masters of their craft. I'd love to see them try their hand at more console games such as trying to put a RTS and/or MMO on consoles. World of Warcrft had an amazing run but after 10 years it only seems natural that it would start winding down, quite a bit has happened during those 10 years. Aren't they working on some project called 'Titan'? Any word on what that may be?

After nearly bricking my Surface Pro2 up while trying to get all my devices to store my mail on my NAS through Outlook, I found a much safer and easier way to achieve the same thing.  I googled for some script to allow me to add my own email adress in bcc to all outgoing mails, told Outlook to store incoming mails from myself in my sent messaged folder et voila!  Outgoing mails aren't stored locally, but now I'm just sending a copy to myself.  I am both extremely happy about this and terrified to discover it not working anymore in a matter of days.  

SupremeAC said:

After nearly bricking my Surface Pro2 up while trying to get all my devices to store my mail on my NAS through Outlook, I found a much safer and easier way to achieve the same thing.  I googled for some script to allow me to add my own email adress in bcc to all outgoing mails, told Outlook to store incoming mails from myself in my sent messaged folder et voila!  Outgoing mails aren't stored locally, but now I'm just sending a copy to myself.  I am both extremely happy about this and terrified to discover it not working anymore in a matter of days.  

Thats'a clever workaround.

^oh and congrats on your steam purchases.

if you want to friend me on steam my user name is: gameunderphil

i want to see the gamespot beggin back e-mail too edge.

aspro said:

Oh the headline was intended to be ludicrously sensational. WoW has dropped only 5 million users from it's peak and continues to have something like 7 million users, which is still insanely successful.

Diable 3 was an unmitigated disaster (by Blizzard standards) and the same type of users who were once Starcraft addicts now spend their time on Dota 2.

Activision killed off Blizzard's space mmo in the face of Destiny, which indicates that the smartest publisher on the planet has lost confidence in them.

You're just a grumpy old man.

SteelAttack said:

How come Gamespot don't want me back?

They're jealous of you.

Dvader said:

aspro said:

vader, gameunder podcast will be reocrding in half an hour if you want to talk about PT.

Damn I was out. I would have loved to come on knowing you were going to trash it with your 5 minute impression.

If you are still around we are going onto that topic next