Will Blizzard still exist in five years?

[Jason Liang]

Is this it? No Starcraft 3? Diablo 4?

 

[Egosphere]

unfortunately yes they will exist

 

[Voids]

One can only dream.

 

[Gregz]

Is this it? No Starcraft 3? Diablo 4?

They are certainly in their sunset years.

It's been a good run, but Blizzard is rotten from top to bottom, it will soon collapse under it's own weight.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Blizzard as we knew it hasn't existed for a long time.

The corporate giant ActiBlizz will unfortunately continue to exist reheating the lifeless corpses of their glory days for awhile, though.

 

[Valky]

Hopefully not.

 

[Swigen]

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!! MOBILE GAEM!!!

MOBILE GAEM!!

 

[Gregz]

 

[Tehdagah]

I hope so, they cause a lot of funny butthurt.

 

[HeroMarine]

I bet I will still be playing Starcraft 2 multiplayer in 5 years.

 

[karoliner]

Hopefully not.

 

[what am i doing]

I actually don't give a shit if they do or don't, it's too late to say "I hope they die before they can desecrate Diablo" since they've already done it so whatever.

 

[Agame]

Blizzard as we knew it hasn't existed for a long time.

^ This.

They have been recycling the genuinely good and creative content they used to make for years now.

If they actually did get shutdown* then NOTHING of value will be lost.

*Which I seriously doubt will happen, at least until a LONG time has passed, Activision is gonna drain the blood out of this corpse until its a dry, hollowed out husk...

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

Probably, but like almost everything else in the future they'll most likely be bankrolled and owned by a Chinese holding company and their corporate orders will be to make RTS tactical training games for the PLA.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Blizzard has been dead for a long time now. They exist only in name, and that's not what I'd consider to be any kind of significant existence.

 

[catfood]

Blizzard died in 2008.

 

[Tehdagah]

https://investor.activision.com/new...zzard-announces-second-quarter-2019-financial

• Blizzard had 32 million MAUsC. HearthstoneMAUsC grew quarter-over-quarter following the release of the Rise of Shadows™ expansion and The Dalaran Heist single-player Adventure. Overwatch MAUsC were relatively stable quarter-over-quarter, with engagement increasing following the release of the Workshop. Subscribers in World of Warcraft®increased since mid-May, following the release date announcement and beta for World of WarcraftClassic and the Rise of Azshara™content update.

• Daily time spent per player in Blizzard’s franchises again increased year-over-year.

• Overwatch League™ hours viewed continued to grow robustly year-over-year in the two stages held during the second quarter. Season-to-date, viewership and average minute audience have grown double-digits year-over-year.

 

[Azalin]

What the fuck is MAUsC,is this some kind of newspeak I am not aware of?

 

[Wintermute]

Monthly Acitve Users = MAUs, no clue on the C, count maybe

 

[what am i doing]

In the article it's written as superscript and refers to note C, which explains their definition of Monthly Active User. Why they used letters instead of numbers I have no idea.

 

[taxalot]

WoW will still be around for more than 10 years, so....

 

[Turuko]

what what am i doing said
it's (MAUs)ᶜ

 

[sser]

I think they're calling us a buncha mooks.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Blizzard died in 2008.

Much earlier.

 

[Gromlintroid]

I'm only interested to see how they fuck up the W3 remaster/remake.
If it's not a total cock-up I'd like a D2 remaster, but I'm not holding my breath.

Modern Blizz is trash.