BlizzCon, the convention dedicated to Blizzard Entertainment's games, will be returning this year. Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime announced on Tuesday that the company will hold a BlizzCon in 2013.
Speaking at SXSW Sydney, Mike Morhaime shared some insight into his departure from Blizzard Entertainment, the company he co-founded.
“There’s this great Steve Jobs quote I love: If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you keep your eye on the product, the profit will follow, and I really believe that,” Morhaime explained.
I think that basically explains the problem with Blizzard now and clearly goes against high level execs who couldn't give a toss about the games.
Samwise Didier, the legendary art director who helped define Blizzard's art style and is even credited with coining the name "Warcraft" is retiring after 32 years.
Must be something bad happening at MS (going by someone's obscure observation) right guys ? Surely ?
He is fairly young still, so I wonder why he would retire from Blizzard. Maybe a new job, or something behind the scenes.
During BlizzCon 2023, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer delivered a promising message to Blizzard Entertainment fans.
I don't know if that is possible. Most of the folks that made the Blizzard that we loved aren't in the company anymore.
You mean like you did with Bungie/343i, Rare, Arkane and Bethesda? Plus like a lot of these legacy studios, almost if not all the vets who made it special are gone
I don't think you can manufacture talent.
Old Blizzard died a long time ago.
Blizzard has been garbage for a long time now. Same with Activision. Good luck with that.
project titan or go away
If they have an open panel for Diablo 3 I'm sure they will have to 'filter' questions before asking the panel, otherwise there will be lots of "what happened with Diablo 3?" and "will you make Diablo 4 much better because 3 kind of sucked".
next wow expansion: Emerald Dream or Return of Burning Legion?
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Yeah you're right MoP was better than Cata as expansions go but only a little, the continent of Pandaria itself was generic and dull honestly and the same old quests and dungeons etc are so boring now, for someone like me that has played since launch day of vanilla wow.
Unless they add features that are as game changing as flying mounts or a world that's as well realised as Outland or Northrend or a villain as iconic as the Lich King then count me out.
Basically it's clear to me that Blizz' best talent is working on Project Titan, it's common knowledge that Blizz recruited alot of new staff over a period of time to take over the reigns of wow, whilst the true genius at Blizz moved on to Project Titan years ago.
If Pandaria is a sign of things to come then that means that Blizz will just keep spewing out cookie cutter expansions for as long as people are willing to pay for it, or Blizz or someone else releases a superior mmo.
Blizzcon 2013 was announced in November of last year.