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Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by magashna on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:46AM (#21409383)
I'm not sure people want OW2, especially with a PvE focus.

Their last Blizzcon was pretty bad ("Diablo for mobile: Don't you all have phones!?") and they somehow managed to make things worse right before this Blizzcon.

Things are looking grim for a company that used to be an industry game changer.

Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by elsonrodriguez on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:29PM (#21413387)
I've played OW with people who are absolutely terrible at shooters but loved the characters and skins.

Eventually they rage quit because they never actually wanted to get better at the game.

This same thing happened with Dust 514, where there was nothing at all for the person who couldn't aim, (unlike EvE which has some barely passable PvE).

I'm guessing that Blizzard is looking at these stats, and noticing that people log back in for the limited pve content in OW.

Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by eternalny1 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:32PM (#21414466)
> I've played OW with people who are absolutely terrible at shooters but loved the characters and skins.

I absolutely love the artwork and characters also, but only from what I've watched on Twitch or seen in images.

I won't play it, because it's a twitch shooter and that is simply not my genre anymore ... too old for that sort of thing.

If they could pivot off that idea into something that isn't a shooter, perhaps I'd jump in.

Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by andrewjrhill on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:59AM (#21409532)
They could have just made a Diablo or StarCraft universe MMO (or both) and people would lose their minds and sell their kidneys to pay for a monthly subscription...
Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by kick on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:15AM (#21409680)
They could have just made a Diablo or StarCraft universe MMO

It's really not that simple. An analogue in software would be "Ford could have just made a fully self-driving car."

MMOs are both technically hard and artistically hard, and even Blizzard has failed at making them in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_...

Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by greenshackle2 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:58AM (#21410156)
Maybe on release, but it's very difficult to make an MMO that people will keep paying for month after month.
Re:Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon by RaiseProfits on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:42AM (#21409981)
Maybe nostalgic folks over 30.