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Twitter, Reddit, Unity, Blizzard... who else? (startrek.website)
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[–] 63 points 3 years ago (16 children)

Enshittification

What'd Blizzard do?

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  • [–] 55 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Warcraft 3 reforged, Diablo Immortal, Diablo 4, ow2, anything else?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    They completely botched the WotLK server situation launch as well.

    I waited for that shit for years, and me and many others couldn't play no matter how much money we were willing to spend to do so. I don't know if they ever fixed the servers, but back in December they were still a hot mess.

    Also, to a lesser degree, SC2.

    They certainly lost a loyal customer in me, at least.

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Well this year was overwatch 2, which was pretty much the same game but wrapped in skeezy monetization, with the excuse that they needed to drop a sequel (and delete the original) for their new PVE content. Then a few months later, they announced they weren't even going to do the PVE content, but they were keeping the new monetization.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Seriously fuck them to death for this. And their “new maps” is just like the same fucking maps but at nighttime or daytime instead! OoO what a sequel! The company deserves to crash and burn.

    Also I PAID for one of the call of duty games and after a year they one day just said I can’t play it anymore because they ended support for older versions of windows, of course they also refused to refund me. I didn’t buy “one year” of gameplay I bought the fucking game. Never making that mistake again.

    Just relentlessly fucking greedy and shitty. It’s a shame people enable this bullshit by spending $30 on character skins and paying out the ass for lootboxes. We need to answer them with the loss of our business. I did my part and uninstalled all their IP and refuse to give them another dollar of my money ever again until/unless I see a 180 in their policies and practices.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I didn’t buy “one year” of gameplay I bought the fucking game.

    That right there is the root of the overall problems we're seeing: licensing, and the increasing willingness of assholes with MBAs to use licensing as a weapon to increase profits.

    When you pay your money, you're not getting anything but the right to use the thing for as long as the company decides to let you keep using it. They take your money AND they retain the right to revoke or change the license whenever and however they want.

    The only way to win this kind of game is to a) not play it, and/or b) take to the high seas.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    This year was also Diablo 4. And they have been driving that one further and further into the ground. The OW2 lore shit is another turd on the pile. Dragonflight is continuing a "more of the same but we told it'd be different" trend, but is honestly their smallest fuck up in a list of fuck ups.

    Was HotS dying last year? OW1 was basically on life support for the past two years in order to support the OW2 fiasco so I feel like that should count as it's own entity... Once we're into last year, there's Diablo Immoral

    The list goes on.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wasn't that last year?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe? It's all blurring together for me. It was at least this year that they cancelled the PVE stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    That'd make sense, I just remember visiting my brother in-law around christmas last year and he was playing it and telling me about the controversy about it being the same game.

    But yeah everything blurs together lately, don't know if it's because everything is so chaotic, or just because I'm getting old lol

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Seriously? They've been one of the most shitty companies for years. They've been on the top of the most talked about and widely shown because of all their bad decisions. How does anyone who has even a remote idea and interest about this not know that?

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