Originally Posted by
Daveon
It's so funny to see people talking about Activision-Blizzard as an investment when they clearly know nothing about it. Blizzard doesn't give HoTS player counts to investors. Last I checked, they don't even announce the active player time of HoTS either. They don't announce how much money HoTS makes, whether it has gone up or down, or really anything HoTS-related in their quarterly reports (except a bullet point here or there like "we had our annual Heroes of the Dorm tournament last month"). You are grasping by trying to claim they made any change related to the game because of investors.
Now, clearly they changed the loot system to try to increase revenues from the game. I will give you that. The added sprays, voice lines, announcers, etc. will cause collectors (or "whales") to spend more money to get them all. Now whether that is to increase the profits they are already making on the game, or to recover losses from declining players, no one but people at Blizzard can say right now. HoTS has a very dedicated base, and it's in Blizzard's best interest to try to increase that base, even if they know they will never achieve the same player base as LoL.