Microsoft has already made some pretty high-profile changes since acquiring Blizzard in 2023.
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Can they please not? I’d rather not have Blizzard stay Blizzard, seeing what they did to WoW, SC2, D3, D4, DI, Overwatch and worst of all, Heroes of the Storm.

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And to their employees

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The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good. Blizzard has been transparent with their changes and have been listening to the community. Recently the alpha for the next expansion has released and seems very promising with positive response from the community.

So I disagree, I’m glad microsoft is letting blizzard developers do their own thing. After the tumultuous expansion Shadowlands, a lot of the old guard for blizzard were removed and the current executive producer Holly Longdale has been doing a great job.

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Oh I had not yet heard that they’re turning the ship around. That’s really really cool. After all this time I just stopped following stuff around it since it got so depressing over the years.

She’s the one from WoWC, right?

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She was working on classic before being promoted to her current position. Regardless, the entire wow dev team has been incredible these past few months. There has been such an influx of news of upcoming content these coming weeks its almost hard to keep up. Hoping that they can keep on the gas as The War Within comes out.

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The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good.

Vanilla good, Wrath good, or Legion good?

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Not Wrath or Legion good, if the numbers are any indication. While the community has generally been positive, Dragonflight simply hasn’t sold very well.

The expansion’s over, anyway. They have officially moved the expansion cadence to only two major patches from three.

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Thats a disingenuous question…

I can’t speak to your preferences as there are multiple different ways to play an mmo. I can, however, speak to the community’s perspective and I have not seen the wow community be more positive about the current expansion since modern wow.

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Not really, since those have been the most popular expansions. It’s easiest to measure up to, no?

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Its hard to judge community response for wrath or vanilla for a game made 16+ years ago (lots of people tend to looks things back with rose-tinted glasses).

I’ve been playing since MoP and started doing high end content in WoD. So from this perspective, I can say that I haven’t seen a more community response for the game since then, including legion. No endless grind for power, blizz being transparent about changes, and they are also listening to feedback.

Additionally, Shadowlands did a number of Dragonflight’s sales but recent reports indicate that more subscribers are coming back to retail wow and the expansion does not have the post-expansion drought of subscribers.

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The age of empire remasters was pretty so probably nah

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Overwatch

Don’t worry, the person behind Overwatch 2 left in 2021 and is still held in high regard by a lot of people :)

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Are you talking about Jeff Kaplan…? He was against making a sequel, and was against locking heroes behind a battle pass.

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He is the one that still wanted to make Project Titan work. Overwatch was the crawl, PvE was suppose to be the walk and then they’d have the run with the MMORPG.

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1771227101112205572

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person behind Overwatch 2

is still held in high regard

Ouff. I guess marketing earned their bonuses, sure.

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Have they done something to SC2? I quit playing that game years ago, but it seemed like they were done touching it, and it was still in its original glory.

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Yeah they just stopped updating it and let all their RTS talent go to other companies to make their own games.

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