Games industry at large has shown us that making quality product is in no way xonnwcted into making profits.
On the contrary, it is in direct opposition of profits, since making quality product would take time and resources, and quality product would lack predatory monetization methods.
It is sadly easier to put least resoures into a product, get it out quickly with big marketing and base its profitability in micro transactions.
Luckily, we have Dreamhaven and Ashes in the future, where they seem to applying the core of quality over time and cost.
Overwatch and Hearthstone ARE considered GREAT games at release/short after.
The real GENRE dominating games from Blizzard with no real competition are WoW and Diablo(3) that have not only huge amount of regular players, but multiple generations of regular players since they have such a long runtime. If we define GREAT by runtime of active and huge amount of players, we would only know in 10-15 years if Blizzard was successfull. Comparing WoW to any new MMO is for this simple reason alone nonsense, since it dwarfs everything as soon as months/years pass.
With WoW the scales of how wide this games goes, are usually not even understood.
People that dont like MMO's, dont like PC gaming, still play WoW - not as a "game" but as a "time spend for a hobby", because they can do what ever they want in this game - lots of content for endless audiences.
How do you even categorize a game like this, when audiences are reached that wont even look at similar genre games?
Last edited by Ange; 2022-01-10 at 01:29 PM.
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This is honestly hilarious I can almost imagine it, Blizzard senior designers having a meeting about the new expansion. They sit around the table and one of them asks: "So, guys, do we make a great expansion or a bad one?" "Lets make a bad one, we can make up for it with the cash shop". "Brillaint, Ted, brilliant! Remember to tell people they shouldn't try too much". I mean... xD
The wise wolf who's pride is her wisdom isn't so sharp as drunk.
They probably do but they don't get to keep a lot of it due to how franchising works where as an independent restaurant owner can keep all profits to themselves.