This Is How Blizzard Died 

Rip to your sister, thanks for sharing 🙏

I hope your sis rest in peace man and i am glad she enjoyed her moments with the best of blizzard

Really sorry to hear about your sister bro

You have my condolences.

🙏❤️ RIP

Wow this is a heartwarming story, especially when she got married with one of the guildies. I guess happy endings do happen in real life.

​@@jayzenstyle It didn't even happen to me and it's one of the happiest memories I have. A real life fairy-tale. Our guildies were more happy for her than she was hahaha

I didn’t have Parkinson’s and I was still slow and died a lot.

@@ThatGuy-kz3fx Geez dude I don't know what to say. I really hope you don't man it's terrible. She did have an excuse to smoke weed though hahaha. She was the sweetest person I knew. I miss her a lot.

@@Mackadoches Bahahaha she would have loved this. Thanks!

They died a villain.

THAT is the story of blizzard, wow and every character in wow

Blizzard deliberately killed the hero in them and decided to live a life of a villain

@@kuyagab4444 just like Arthas xD

Hire Bobby Kotick and let the villian in.

I am one of the fortunate ones who participated in HGC and I can tell you it ruined peoples life as it was our job. We had nothing left and had to adventure in new opportunities.

@@bkbgrnrjefek The most infurating thing, the thing that made me despise their decision to stop the HGC the very most, not only was it a horrible decision to stop it as the e-sports was clearly growing... But it was also done via a blue post, people lost their lively hoods... through a blue post... I can't imagine how you felt, I can't imagine how anybody felt that got fired despite repeatably being told everything was going to be fine... And the way in which they did it... I still personally feel like that should have been an illegal action, not just in the sense of "this is unjust" but in the sense of "this is criminal ahd should be punishable beyond just a bad reputation" The impact this had on people's lives, not just in terms of a literal job, but also in terms of the mental pressure of going for half a fucking year without real answers to then getting fired by a blue post. ALL in Activision's infinite wisdom as to focus on Overwatch, which they themselves fucking killed only a year later with another horrible set of decision making. I am sorry this happened to you, and I am still even more sorry that Blizzard got away with it...

What did they do ?

Damn, I still remember HotS with such joy, I've been playing Dota 2 for 10 years, but HotS had a special place in my hearth and you made me remember that...

@@ziting5756 long story short? They cancelled all future esports events for the game through a blue post just before the next season was about to start, costing many their livelyhoods On top of that, just as the game was starting to attract a following, they basically reduced the dev team to a skeleton crew They still release patches, but major updates happen like twice a year IF we're lucky

In 2022 all excitement for the Activision blizzard‘s newest games has all but vanished thanks to the lawsuit and some like me want to company just straight up burn to the ground I think it’s time to amend blizzards Plack every voice matters but some matter more than others

grew up playing diablo 2 and starcraft for YEARS. for a while i even dreamed about working there someday. now, i've uninstalled anything that has to do with them.

@@iHasCaek same. I keep thinking I want to go back to LoD or Remastered but every time I just feel. gross. like I'm betraying my own good conscience.

@@iHasCaek i just what to play OW again with feeling any guilt

@@sytherwusky erm... also cuz their games sucks now. Others caught up and they got nothing new. Their new expansions are worse than their 10+y ones and im not talking nostalgia here. Look at wc3 reforged and wow. They literally cant make a better version of their old games!

the acquisition happened way after the allegations. the acquisition felt more like a sell out after everything that could go wrong with blizzard was going wrong and microsoft just came to save their asses

@@deso2 i meant activision's acquisition, which i now realize should have been written as "merger". i was just trying to say that the toxicity at blizzard likely predates even its merger with activision

@@deso2 This was also what's in my mind, they're fucked up beyond all recognition, might as well sell it before all of that crumbles

Truthfully, they most likely got worse when Blizzard got bought by Activision

Trust me i m glad this shitty situation is soon over but I m sure there are still reality like this out there

Damn dog that was deep af you good?

Pretty much on point. I played wow constantly from vanilla to wrath. Then it was on and off till warlords and quit it for good in mid bfa. Since then the company was dead to me (wow got worse, not just the game, also the community, the d3 desaster and "dont you have all phones" incident).

I told everyone in the game around 2010-2011 that Activision would have control of blizzard and the games. That activision would be the reason why WoW would slowly die off in a long death. No one believed then and low and behold 11 years later I was right....

It is amazing to see that you add a little bit of a sexist touch to your comment. Because as we all know, only men can be toxic in a relationship, the other gender (or 734 other genders if you believe in that), can't do no wrong!

@ChouetteWoW remember during that time the OG blizz team left and formed new dev team to create guild wars 1 and guild wars 2. So they all knew that it was a sinking ship. Let's be honest, after 2012 they started to fill up the empty ranks of employees on dev team with new woke SJW people fresh out of college. During that time 2010-2014 was circa of college students being brainwashed by Marxism professors. This around 2016 the entire industry and all other industries were flooded with woke sjw people of all ranks and positions. Now we have the fubar we see today in 2022.

yeah, I honestly believe Mobile gaming is what started the downfall of the gaming industry. Former Blizzard fanboys want to act like its just this company but every company has switch to the same model that are used for mobile gaming.

@@geoffreybentley5619 Missed the point entirely. There are perfectly good games on mobile, the problem is, as it is in most cases, are morally and creative bankrupt businesses and individuals who gleefully market their garbage games to children and boomers who are by nature extremely susceptible to the psychological that is mobile game advertising. That's why you see your 40-50 year old aunt or your 9 year old cousin playing some shit glorified ad made by shit glorified 'devs'.

@@ehitale I didn't miss the point, I said what you said but not going to make excuses that their might be a few good indie companies and act like that's enough.

Just look at EA

Have you completely forgotten E.T. The worst game ever and created purely for profits? Or the numerous games over the years that were garbage and just for the name recognition? It's the same story since gaming reached the living room 30+ years ago.

Kill your company = sell it for 70 billion. Literally no one ever reaped any negative consequences. Corporate America is just like that. Old white guys with way too much money can do whatever they want whenever they want

@@funkgremlin2765 The lawsuit is in court so right now it's early to say there would be no consequences.

@@funkgremlin2765 How about Apple reaching $3 trillion and all companies are trying to achieve the same goal including video games

@@funkgremlin2765 selling a company is white guy bad logic? Right.

starcraft 2 seems to be the least affected by all of blizzards shit, they also have the least engagement from blizzard almost feels like them all but dropping the game is for the best

Activision wasn't forcing the executives at Blizzard to sexually assault people, but yeah lol

@@imKhokie it was not the sexually harrasments lawsuits that made everyone stop playing their games tho, their game had no vision or originality going forwards

Yeah activision definitely played a part on that but I don’t think they were the sole reason.

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Glad dota isn't owned by blizzard

@@ryuukami__ Valve is no good either with Dota and CS, but they still heard their fanbase. They knkw what they're doing. Even with dogsht release like Artifact, Valve still know and acknowledged that they've failed.

@@HafifSyukra Nah, valve definitely good.

Blizzard is so old it's weird how people react to the quality of the games. From my memory and experience, the company already dropped in quality a lot when they released the burning crusade expansion. They took most of the great writing from warcraft 3 and just turned all the interesting characters into silly raid dungeons. Wrath of the lich king was a lot more interesting than the first expansion. But I feel it had more to do with the expectation of a warcraft 4 coming one day. They laid the foundations for a good story to be told. But good stories doesn't satisfy investors.

@@ahmadfadelyusuf4003 well, my judgement kinda clouded.

Which expansion did you quit in? I quit mid-BFA.

Did you quit gaming as a whole or did you find another MMO to play?

@@carmacattack3712 WoD, hated it so thought I'd take a break and I never went back

@@neckbeardo1233 I play Black Desert now, also been fiddling with Lost Ark

Same here! I quit during Cataclysm and was the best decision ever!

hopefully everything will be better onwards :C

@@ellonmusketwannabe2201 unless they pull a rareware

@@tapgames3465 I'm curious what you mean by that? Like do you mean their last Banjo and Kazooie game that was bad or did you mean how they are handling Sea of Thieves cause SoT is currently really good. Still issues with hit reg and such but the game content itself is big.

@@mrcaterpillow9926 I think he means not using the company at its fullest.

I doubt they'll do anything they don't for any of the other studio they bought

Yeah, I’m surprised that he didn’t mention Heroes or HGC.

As a former hots pro aswell, its sad that no one even remember how badly blizzard managed the end of HGC. They literally confirmed to everyone at blizzcon that it would still happen in 2019 despite the uncertain times, they literally lied to everyone... I still remember nessper... such a tragedy for him specially

Heroes of The Storm was literally one of my favorite games for a while, but the way Blizzard treated it just got worse over time. The cancellation of any future esport events for the forseeable future and the dev team being reduced to a skeleton of its former self was just the final nail in the coffin

Cancelling the HGC was when I finally bailed on my twenty year relationship with Blizzard. This video informed me on how they did a lot of crazy stuff after that I only sorta heard of before.

That game was born dead pretty much. I was a LoL hater at the time and I'd bet it would dethrone it as soon as the alpha test began, which I was lucky to be invited in. And man like they didn't even tune heroes at all; 1v1s lasted forever, and there was basically no skill-req in the game at any point other than forcing camps while objectives were up. My hype didn't even live up to the actual launch since I also recall they did a million alpha/beta periods in which almost nothing changed and the game was still a mess down to its foundations. I retook it and got masters or whatever the rank after diamond was named and I remember clear as day I quit as soon as they nerfed the hero I climbed with (the barb chick forgot her name now lol ). She was basically the master yi of the game very useless at team fights but unbeatable at 1v1s, an insane pusher/wave clearer and could solo any objective including bosses. I hated league because every season they completely ignored nearly all the balance flaws the game had and focused on nerfing already bad or even unviable champs further into oblivion, making any lone wolf viable choice to victory either worse or straight up removing your ability to continue to play it that way, and hots just felt like that shit all over again. Literally any hero that could do anything at all on it's own was immediately hammered into the mud by blizz, so bewteeen playing LoL and shitter LoL wannabe no wonder the game never stood even to a fraction of LoL's popularity.

Yeah, I don't understand why people blame it all on Activision. It was poor leadership from the beginning, not letting go of people who didn't behave properly because of their perceived worth. I do think there are issues with mixed workplaces, everything does become more complicated, but none of those complications can justify such actions.

but microsoft bough them.

I highly doubt it was that bad back then. The culture nowadays has shifted into absolute crazy tier bullshit though. People were probably literally JOKING back then and now you're super not allowed to joke. So they decided that even though it was an okay thing back then, looking back now they're mad. I don't give a shit what you say, stop white knighting all these lying females.

There's one thing that you miss. A large portion of the employees who used to work at Blizzard either retired, went to work elsewhere, or even started their own studios. You're basing the past state of the company solely off of the remaining people who chose to stay behind rather than move on. Moreover, that assumes that all of the employees were in on the abuse, and not a smaller subgroup of them.

@@DDadams0 true, culture was a lot less soft back then. Now you have to watch what you say

And all the bad games were made by the people complaining. Really makes me thonk.

Group? The only one named in the lawsuit was Afrisabi. Who else are you referring to?

@@DsiakMondala 1000000% Exactly....since these types of people were hired it all went to crap.....its no wonder what the common denominator in all these examples nowdays is then.

@@DsiakMondala there's a bit of pattern. Somehow there's always harassment wherever woke women and men go. Other men and women seem to get along fine, for the most part.

What are these replies lol. ain't no thing as woke, 's just people being able to speak up now about the degenerate shit these companies have always done

to be fair all players are banned from making political statements so Blitzchung isn't some special case, he broke the rules and was punished for it.

@@r6guy That's just an excuse, everything is political. When it makes money it's human right, rainbow flags, women power and stuff these corporations do all the time, it is not acceptable only when it pisses off China.

@@r6guy But blizzard is allowed and often make political statements is kinda fucked up. Often this political statement is used to cover up their mistake which is also fucked up. Imagine some politician got outed for raping and he tries to drown out the drama by pretending to be queer? That's how I see blizzard. At least this time it didnt work on the sexual abuse drama.... despite how slow some people were to previous drama.

@@Pandaxtor doesn't matter what blizzard does, the players are under contract and have a code of conduct they must follow per the contract. i know they are playing a game to you but they are in fact employees in a way. just like sports leagues will fine players for political statements they make.

Is 42 boomer age now? D:

@@pw1169 I’ve no idea tbh, I just know that I’m too old lol

@@Danath121 You're not a boomer, they are 57 at a min now. They are the generation that came post WW2.

Yeah. It's the same with any harassment or abuse women disproportionately get.

@@jonnovak6856 You're fighting a strawman here, I didn't say anything that would be refuted by your first paragraph. The thing is, with any mention of the harassment and abuse that disproportionately affect/target women, there will always be some legion of men online that will jump at the opportunity to say 'men too'. And I say to that, yes, men too but it's irrelevant here. Sometimes they may even claim the issue affects men more but then you look at how they arrived at that conclusion and find the logic is spurious. I think pointless bickering about 'who has it worse' can be, well, pointless. But that doesn't mean we have to pretend everything is equal. The fact is, the gaming industry is male-dominated and women face a disproportionate amount of sexism and harassment in said industry. This goes for any other male-dominated field, STEM is another example.

Wait so who harassed the men

@@blasianking4827 >"And I say to that, yes, men too but it's irrelevant here." It is relevant and it needs to be mentioned because nowhere in this video or other news articles even mentioned this fact. Male employees were being sexually harassed as well, even within their first day of work by other males in Blizzard, rubbing and groping their genitals out of nowhere. The fact that you don't know this and even labeled it as irrelevant proves my point.

I'm the 69th like omgggg

I never got into WoW myself, was pretty bummed and kinda betrayed they would stop with a Warcraft RTS. Pretty glad I never got into WoW, due to lack of money.

Agree 70 billion %!

Basically, they became a psychotic company, which in turn got bought out by the big brother of all such companies - microsoft. A fitting end... I deleted my account there, after the TOS changes this January. I've never had such a hard time deleting my account, anywhere. They even demand a copy of your ID card (which I think is illegal).

Most people won't break their addiction cause they're too much into it. Cause is the "best game" or the "most played game", while currently is one of the shitties mmo's out there.

@@robertdarie4192 Or their life isn't the game they are working on primarily so they escape into wow.

One small point, Blizzard didn't die. It is now a division of Microsoft. There are content creators who tried as hard as they could to kill it with as much negative publicity as they muster but they failed. WOW is likely to continue as a Microsoft product for a long time so those of us who always loved the game will still be playing. Sorry Asmoldgold. Sorry Preach. Sorry Bellular. Now please go try to kill something else.

You will be back

@@chrisaustin9949 blizzard is dead not a single original blizzard founder is not with company anymore no money from microsoft can save it

@@kristjan3376 That doesn't make a company dead. Bye dinosaurs.

See you next expansion lol

Well the moment they sold out to Activision the rot began to fester

When WoW released, to say it was popular is an understatement. There was NEVER ANYTHING like it. But now.... Gods why, Bliz?....

@@Freedomcustom when china bought 30 percent of there stocks is when it started to go to shit!!!!

@@michaelblake2280 same scenario with the Newegg company. After the chinese acquired them, everything went downhill. Chinese businessmen are totally disgusting.

I'm shocked no and you really don't want to do that you think you do but you don't telling people what to think so sad what Blizzard has become

and now that Microsoft owns them, I imagine that this'll be the death knell for them.

@@dieseljester3466 everything dies that's why we have daughter's

I knew when Activision bought them out that's what would happen. I loved CCTP but they did steal the content from Civ. The whole company is fishy in general.

real

And true

This was the start of the death spiral.

Yep Blizzard died when we killed Lich King.

me too after more than a decade of playing and i cant go back

How would it help you grow as a person? There's no story or anything

@@vapingfury4460 slow 👽👽👽👽💀

is it common for people to have creepy uncles that sneak into their bedrooms? and honestly man just get tf out of this game already, what are you waiting for?

Maybe you can try looking at it from a different perspective? You can’t imagine a life without wow because you have not experienced it. Simply put if you feel like the game is disappointing or the company is not supportable then do yourself a favour and unsubscribe. I promise you if you feel disappointed in the game/company you won’t even notice it’s gone. It’s happened to myself and every single one of my friends/guild mates. We loved wow but it’s just not good anymore and once we stepped back it was surprising how little we missed it. There are so many great games you could play instead, you could try some mmo’s that are not wow or just play with your friends on whatever game they currently play. Don’t support wow just because it’s wow, if you want to stop playing it then uninstall, cancel that subscription and stay away for a few weeks. See how you feel after some time has passed.

Microsoft suffers from the same culture issues as Blizzard..

@@FishyMango I’ve not heard of this? Whats this based on im curious. I know Phil led a talk last year to DICE about toxicity and sexism in game dev culture last year. Possibly off the back of the allegations to MS all up in 2019. They also just doubled down on their sexual harassment and gender discrimination policy review with independent parties since announcing the takeover of activision blizzard. But thats the only recent news I know of

I doubt that Microsoft will be good at managing the company at all. Look at the games they tried to develop, always failed in the middle.

@@chaos3088 I mean they developed Minecraft from commercial success to global success. Of recent they did halo infinite which put battlefield to shame. Forza had a solid release. Even gears tactics although not overly popular was a solidly developed game. Age of empires 4 has done very well. Or did you mean games they contribute to but dont solely own like psychonauts 2 or state of decay series?

@@jayjenks499 there were some abandoned project which they have put very promising trailer before but then went silent then later abandoned, I'm not sure why but with enough financial power they should able hire anyone they need on the team to get it done

StarCraft was what got me into PC games.

Warcraft II was my favorite game as a kid... Damn I'm old 😅

What exactly went wrong with over watch?

@@wolfumz there us a full video on that dude, a lot went wrong. The video is in this same channel, called "how to kill a game" or something like that

@@diaco423 thankz

You think you do, but you dont.

Completely different company then. It's like comparing Disney in the 90's with Disney today. It's a corporate copy of something that used to be good. The worst part is, they rely on the ignorance of mass appeal to survive, and these lemmings of materialism and marketing keep throwing money at them. Almost as bad, are the people who took until 2021/22 to realize this.

The question was based on a false premise. There were and are plenty of characters that do not look like they stepped our of a Victoria’s Secret catalogue. The developers pointed that out with humor by referencing the Tauren, whose characters are not sexualized in the slightest. The question asker was clearly looking to pick a fight, and the developers handled it with considerable grace for people with professions completely unrelated to public speaking. How that giant nothing burger of a clip came to be the poster child of the workplace allegations is beyond me.

League- toxic players Valorant - Cheaters Runeterra - Ok i guess Well I think Riot did pretty good

Yeah but it’s been owned by Tencent blizzard is being owned by Microsoft and bungie being owned by Sony PlayStation

Riot games respawn entertainment are new competitors valorant and apex legends battle for moba shooter tactical battle royale

Yeah but with Microsoft buying Activision blizzard sure it is safe but people are not gonna be happy making all their games exclusive to Xbox Starfield is a prime example of this meaning that PlayStation Nintendo players will miss out on those games. Before that when the sexual harassing was exposed Bobby Collett tried to bury it under the rug and hide it hide it because one reason and one reason only Apple was the first company to reach the $3 trillion barrier all companies are trying to achieve the same goal

@@kevingame3198 They can buy a computer and all good.

Blizz was an amazing thing back then dont be sad

Agreed. That's what happens when you got a corporate suit who has zero interest in gaming calling the shots.

"Our culture just doesn’t tolerate that sort of bullshit behavior anymore." Which is a shame... Its pretty retarded that actual warcriminals are held in higher standard then shit talking nerds. You can commit genocide in Iraq but telling a fat joke is a red line.

You realize riot games got hit by the exact same lawsuit in 2019 or something right? The only difference with riot is that it has been reported that conditions have improved tremendously since then and blizzard has done fuck all

You realize riot games got hit by the exact same lawsuit in 2019 or something right? The only difference with riot is that it has been reported that conditions have improved tremendously since then and blizzard has done fuck all

@@THEJBOY92 riot has reached a settlement deal of 110 mil last year should've been higher tbh but unlike blozzard that to this day has done nothing but keep sucking bobbys dick and still have not made any impactful changes to their games or ecosystem

Oh damn. I guess it really is like the analogy of a distant family member going through tough times. I hope these companies recover fully and keep making the games that we love.