AZ's latest epic rant: Blizzard are making games for shareholders, not players

[lockybalboa]

what do you think?

[Echocho]

Well it's pretty obvious that they've learnt a lot from Activision when it comes to focusing on shareholders instead of players, we don't need youtubers to explain that to us.

[Big Thanks]

Dont believe so.

Making the game good for players so it attracts more players...so the shareholders are happy is the way to go.

How in the world can you make the game good for shareholders and attract players at the same time.
Makes no sense.

Blizzard is doing its best for the players.
You can argue that "Blizzards best" is bad atm.

[Raven]

No Blizzard is not making the games for the shareholders, becouse making the game as good as possible for the players is the best thing for the shareholders.

[f4ncybear]

Doesn't look like you learned anything from the previous threads you made about youtubers. But I am sure the rant is hella epic.

[Daedius]

No Blizzard is not making the games for the shareholders, becouse making the game as good as possible for the players is the best thing for the shareholders

Last Blizzcon would make you wonder...

"Do you not all have Phones?!", their major announcement... to a mostly PC gaming crowd.

[jstnw89]

I don't know.. what do you "think" OP?

[Big Thanks]

No Blizzard is not making the games for the shareholders, becouse making the game as good as possible for the players is the best thing for the shareholders.

LOL indeed exactly what im saying

How in the world can someone make the game good for shareholders? Without making the game good for players?

What kind of logic is that?

[Naiattavain]

thanks for posting i'm quiting blizzard game entirely.

[Lahis]

How in the world can you make the game good for shareholders and attract players at the same time.
Makes no sense.

That's the kicker. You can't make game that is greedy enough for shareholders while simultaneously making good game players would enjoy. And when corporations focus on shareholders instead of customers, we get shit.

[MasterMirror]

I think that Youtubers don't have opinions, they track the most populist thoughts and make a video in order to grab some views.

[Spichora]

That guy is just salty and makes money on his rants. He can squeeze complain from every news about game. Dont believe a word he says. He is the pinnacle of negativity.

[Big Thanks]

Last Blizzcon would make you wonder...

"Do you not all have Phones?!", their major announcement... to a mostly PC gaming crowd.

Oh nice point.
I agree the "target audience" might have changed.

But that is a discussion about "what is a true MMORPG gamer" and stuff like that.
Who is a true gamer...?

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That's the kicker. You can't make game that is greedy enough for shareholders while simultaneously making good game players would enjoy. And when corporations focus on shareholders instead of customers, we get shit.

But HE is trying to say its possible to make a shit game for players...and make shareholders happy at the same time.

How is that possible?

[jstnw89]

I think that Youtubers don't have opinions, they track the most populist thoughts and make a video in order to grab some views.

Pretty much.. they just scour online forums, reddit, etc.. Gather thoughts on topics, wait for some drama about said topic, wait for someone to post a news article about it, and then just record a 10 minute+ video reading someone else's journalistic work, and just repeat the thoughts / catch phrases they gathered from forums / reddit.

These types of videos are mind numbing and I don't understand how people eat these vids up from any content creator. Extremely low effort

[Donald Hellscream]

I think those whiteboard thumbnails are fucking stupid.

[Lahis]

But HE is trying to say its possible to make a shit game for players...and make shareholders happy at the same time.

How is that possible?

Exploit whales. That way they'll get tons of money even if the game is generally poor.

[Big Thanks]

Exploit whales. That way they'll get tons of money even if the game is generally poor.

Whales bring the millions?

I need a article about that i refuse to believe. Maybe ill search later (>_<)

[FelPlague]

what do you think?

1. come up with your own thing, dont post a video then just say "discuss"
2. az is literally the worst person ever to get anything from, he quit wow cause he hated it, stopped getting views so he rejoined so he could get all the youtube muns
3. he literally made a video complaining that the old infernal looked better then the new infernal...
4. he has the "here is something that is totally false but im going to say its true" that asmongold has, but he does it purposly.

for a good example, when asmongold searched up and found "runescape is more searched then wow holy moly" when in reality its not, but he just does not know how to use google trends... wow is still more searched by a fair amount.
but az does that intentionally to get clickbait views.

[babyback]

Job cuts happen in all businesses. Deal with it.

[FelPlague]

Last Blizzcon would make you wonder...

"Do you not all have Phones?!", their major announcement... to a mostly PC gaming crowd.

I mean... do people who use pc's aparently not have phones? he is right, i am 99% sure atleast 99.9% of the people in that buildings had phones...
yes its a mobile game, but many mobile games have been great, angry birds, runescape, hearhtstone, clash of clans, clash royal, and many more.
and if it is not like they suddenly went "hey instead of making it on PC lets make it on mobile" they are still goign to make a PC one, this is just a mobile version.
its like thinking since hearthstone came out on phone, it is suddenly going to no longer be playable on PC.

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Job cuts happen in all businesses. Deal with it.

that and these job cuts pay AN ENTIRE YEAR OF PAY.