We ended the video saying Blizzard lost its magic, but to be fair, WoW Forever actually looks pretty promising. It feels like Blizzard is listening more, and if they keep going in this direction, maybe some of that old magic is still there after all. Let’s see how it all turns out... subscribe!

Wild to talk about Blizzards rise without mentioning WC3 and it's map editor. I would argue this more important to building Blizzards reputation than WoW and essential to it's success.

Even though the sexual harassment allegations were dropped, Activision Blizzard still had to pay $45.75 million into a settlement fund specifically to resolve the remaining claims of gender-based pay discrimination and promotion disparities affecting female employees who worked there between 2015 and 2020 (not og blizz)

The elephant is the room is like this.. You realize they have been in "mask off" open war against you for a decade. They take this position economically and socially because they know what the average and extreme levels of addiction are. No matter how many punches to the face you take, you still log in.

I played Blackthorne and the rest was history. Great times running to the one friends house that had the only computor that would run wc3 until I could afford my first one. Had a wow add in Facebook I think during the end of burning crusade pop up and clicked. Played through MOP came back for Legion and dabbled untill classic stared coming back around and been back since. Now my son and I have made characters in Forever and i get ro be dad introducing his kid to blizzard lime mine did to me with Blackthorne.Its been sad to see it all play out then they call me a tourist....hurts man😢

If anyone wants an excellent dark fantasy book that will absolutely remind you of the original warcraft and diablo games go check out - Of the Night: The Black Odyssey by Alexander Johnson.
"I wish we hadn't called it warcraft... It sounds kind of intimidating."

Every time some company does some insane nonsense & is baffled as to why their client/player/fan base is upset, I look at my partner & quote the "Do you guys not have phones" line. It's become the signal that a company has truly shot themselves in the foot & lost any goodwill they had.

27:00 all that bs was debunked. It was hysteria perpeptuated by schreier the liar that got the company to where its at full of ideologues that destroy icon genre for an agenda ... but dont let facts get un the way of the narrative bud. Theres plenty of reasons blizzard sucks, those false claims aint one of them.

22:26 this was the exact moment that I stopped purchasing Blizzard products....

I never supported then again.

The time before the fall and the fall still hurts...

When Alleria Windrunner got that middle aged lesbian make-over I literally burst out laughing

I know this is probably an old school opinion and not the socially approved one, but if any individual does not like the culture at a corporation then change jobs.  I would say the same thing to a man that felt the corporate culture was not to his liking.  Or better yet, start your own indie company like Blizzard did and build your culture how you think it would work best.  Do not latch onto other people's success then complain about how they do things.

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"gaming history" video that proceeds to skip 12 years of game production and just jumps to the Overwatch release, great.. Also, Overwatch wasn't the first game released under the Activision Blizzard merger. That would be Diablo 3 and you completely omitted it for some reason even though it came with its own set of controversies.

I wonder, does every youtuber need to make this exact video?

Much of what was said was reasonable and fair BUT to continue to claim that "Blizzard" had lost it's way after the acquisition by Activision and constantly refer to the corporates as Blizzard instead of Activision is misleading at best and duplicitous at worst ... for many gamers the devs, programmers and artists ARE Blizzard ... management etc and corporate are Activision. Now that Blizzard's independence within Microsoft appears to have been asserted the creativity that characterised "old" Blizzard appears to be coming back ... Starcraft FPS, Diablo V, WoW Forever!

Second point: why is it that almost no commentators on these things mentions the fundamental moral principle that if you steal someone's had work developed over years and years and use it to profit from .. you are the bad actor. People stealing WoW code and assets and tweaking them a little for their own benefit are NOT heroes but thieves. WoW is Blizzard's IP and it is their story to tell. In the end if people like what they are doing they will pay and stay, if they don't they will stop paying and leave.

Finally in this day and age I would be very wary of a bunch of people hiding behind shell companies across the internet, using someone else's IP and assets ... I would not trust them with my identity, credit card or anything else.

I dunno they seem magical still to me. :)

I think when I heard that workers were stealing their co worker breast milk i think I lost respect for them

Blizzard had magic??? I've never heard anyone say anything genuinely positive about Blizzard since the early 2000s......

Blizzard never lost its magic. Mike morheim and Adam worked very hard for what blizzard is today and it keeps growing thank God. And bless those who support the blizzard franchise.