This is spot on. I still have several games on my NES that I've never beaten and a few that I finally beat years later when I got older. Silver surfer for one, one of my top ten games I've ever played. I didn't enjoy them any less as a kid because I couldn't beat them, in fact those were the games I played the most. There are dozens though that are still challenging and that still makes them fun for me. The new zelda wii game was cool but I beat it so fast and I've never had a desire to play again because it was so easy, almost all new games are like that. I can get to 90 in wow in a couple days and raid every raid and dungeon in end game wow in about 15 hours played time at 90, of course in LFR but for some reason I don't have the desire to do it again in heroic like I used to, so I get bored and unsub. I still go back and play games that I got when I was a child and its still fun for me because there's still new things to beat and see even after all these years.
Ever increasing nigh impossible challenge is what makes a game fun for me, but with something new not just an increased difficulty that gets old fairly quick. I enjoy the challenge and it makes the victory, if I ever get there, that much sweeter. And I am perfectly ok with never getting there, its still fun.
This discussion won't go anywhere. It's all opinion here. For example I think WoTLK was garbage and some people here will say it's great. I think MoP is gerat but some will say it's lolpanda. Only fact here is that Blizzard is good at making successful game.
It shows they are succesfull not that they are good at making games that would necesarily would be succesfull if they wouldn't have their loyalist fanbase. It's the same as with apple. Apple could pretty much make an crap computer and still have a lot of people pretty much worshiping it.They are pretty much living of the succes of their previous games atm if you ask me.
Fact is, if some no name game publisher was to release any of Blizzards latest products, they'd be laughed out of the industry and labeled "flops." Their cult-like fanbase is really all they have going for them at this point. It's not even really a debate.
Diablo 3 is the best video game I played, ever. It is a video game, not a replacement of a lost youth, like old D2 players wanted it to be, nor is it an MMORPG like WoW players wanted to have.
D3 has a fabulous engine, extreme smooth combat for an on line game ... and D3 is simply unbeatable in hardcore mode.
Their games are still decent but no longer an automatic purchase for me, especially after D3. HotS was a letdown as well. If Hearthstone is a good indication of the direction they're heading in, WoW will probably be the last Blizz game I devote much time to.
Tides of Darkness through ICC were the glory days IMO. Quite a run of outstanding games though.
"Is Blizzard still quality games maker?"
Yes. Of course.
"Is Blizzard becoming one of the worst greediest companies that i have ever seen?"
Yes. Of course.
"Is Blizzard still delighted with the legion of zombies that moan with every minor change, even if its a tooltip change?".
Yes. Of couse.
"Is Blizzard going to improve World Of Warcraft?".
Yes. Of course. Wait for the anniversary, where everybody will get a giant pink rabbiit. And the legion of zombies will keep moaning.
Disclaimer: this is my personal opinion haha.
I don't think they are, although in all honesty I've never played SC2 and trading card games are a bit too kitschy for me. I did buy Diablo 3 and was disappointed with it, and whilst I still play WoW I don't enjoy it as much as I did a few years ago (although I do hope to be wowed by the next expansion). I also look at what happened with Titan and wonder.
Ultimately though, it's subjective. If you enjoy their products then yes they are, and vice versa.
No it's already happening. SoO could be the best raid since well ever and it wouldn't make up for the rest of the game being utter trash. Now it's not likely to be the best raid ever and in fact your likely to have your face shoved into it at every turn so yea I expect a terrible end to a terrible expansion.