Microsoft has ‘let Blizzard be Blizzard’ following its acquisition, studio says

Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.

[Kaii]

Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.

[kythlyn]

Microsoft needs to be guiding Blizzard to be what it USED to be, not allowing it to continue to be the greedy bastardization of itself that it has become.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.

[Rynxie]

They will never be old blizzard. Most of all the OG's left from developers to those on the top (even some decision making folks left).

[Vits]

Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.

[ApocalypseShadow]

I was about to say this. How can they be blizzard when they're no longer blizzard from yesteryear?

[Hofstaderman]

Just like Rare and Bioware...

[blacktiger]

Rare was the thing I lost heart

[victorMaje]

Exactly. Blizzard hasn’t been Blizzard for a long time.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.

[Knightofelemia]

Blizzard is not the same Blizzard like it use to be.

[PassNextquestion]

Were you expecting Microsoft to hire everyone that had left Blizzard long before they purchased the company...

Microsoft has let the Blizzard company they purchased continue to be the Blizzard company they purchased.

[thesoftware730]

Wow, PassNextquestion,

You fully understand what that saying means, unlike some people on here who just have to say negative garbage talk.

When someone says, "Just let *blank* be *blank*, "they are just letting them operate how they operate.

It's pretty much how Sony "let Bungie be Bungie."

This comment section is full of outright haters, but you have to "let N4G be N4G"

[GamerRN]

This site leans so heavily in one direction...

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

I don't think people commenting are necessarily blaming MS for anything here, this is just collective longing for what Blizzard/Vivendi was before Activision's meddling.

[northpaws]

What a shame, I remember at one point of my life, Blizzard was my favourite game developer.

[DarXyde]

My situation with Konami, I'm afraid.

I know the feeling.

[edeprez]

Yeah, Konami has fallen HARD! These big publishers need to make an effort to get back to the fun of gaming, maybe focus on smaller budget titles.
And when I say that, I mean like remake a few classic games, update MGS 4, Make some new IP that isn't 250 million dollars. Then up the budget from there.

[DarXyde]

edeprez,

It's just crazy to me. The same publisher that put out timeless classics like MGS, Contra, Castlevania, and Silent Hill bécane what they are now.

It's wild.

[Killer2020UK]

Did they let Bethesda be Bethesda? Because Starfield didn't exactly live up to the expectations.

[GamingSinceForever]

Imagine MS buying Blizzard only
to make them MS. 😬

[Snookies12]

Still better than Blizzard being Blizzard at this point. Even if not by much.

[notachance]

Ironically given blizzard’s recent track record pre ABK acquisition, MS shouldn’t have let “blizzard be blizzard”..

[Crows90]

My thoughts.. .but then again...MS doesn't actually care about gaming.

A company with poor vision and creativity could not bring blizzard back to the blizzard we love. Heck it seems they're content continuing to let them be actiblizzard...the one we all hate .

[SoloGamer1]

Blizzard "Being Blizzard" isnt necessarily a good thing...

[thesoftware730]

Tell that to the millions upon millions of WoW and Diablo players. Oh, I forgot N4G is the deciding factor of success.

[DaniMacYo]

Uh PR BS.

[thesoftware730]

Oh man, when did facts become PR?

Make it make sense, please.

Amazing how you responded and said nothing simultaneously.

[Barlos]

That's not a particularly good thing

[Psychonaut85]

Well given that Blizzard is a steaming pile of toxic anti-consumer sh!t that’s maybe not the best plan.

[anast]

This is probably the worst thing they could have done. It's astonishing MS Xbox doesn't know when to be hands on or hands off.

[mastershredder]

What Blizzard?, the people who sold it? the employees that used to work there?

All you got left is a bunch of new people posing on the clout of a once reputable/ now tarnished company.

[shaenoide]

Which "Blizzard" are we talking about ? The good one back in the days or the one From Kottick era ?

[Redgrave]

Everyone who proclaimed MS would "clean house and fix things" after the acquisition be looking real clownlike.

[PRIMORDUS]

Poop

[RGB]

Considering the CEO quit and one of the co-founders did, I highly doubt it, toeing the company line it seems with this opinion.

[gerbintosh]

Except for the Blizzard game Microsoft cancelled

[Profchaos]

Isn't that the reason we got redfall

[SimpleSlave]

"Blizzard was already a Shit Show when we bought them so we left it as is. Please be excited."

[gleepot]

As far as WoW is concerned, it is currently in the best state that it has EVER been in. Keep it up.

[RhinoGamer88]

Bobby and cronies gone = rebirth.

[jambola]

as long as it makes money, they won't care

[InUrFoxHole]

That's great to hear. Now let's see what that equates to...

[babadivad]

Except for the dei mandates.