New head of Blizzard is previous general manager of Call of Duty... (Indicating less creativity in future.)

[Jim Ryan]

 

[John Elden Ring]

They killed Halo

now they are going after Call of Duty

 

[Bryank75]

Just what I'd expect from Microsoft. Rip the soul out of the studio and make it into a factory for iterations of the same successful IPs.

 

[anonpuffs]

It's dead, jim

 

[solidsnake_1]

After years of battling Activision interference, Blizzard will now be run by a former Activision executive.

 

[flaccidsnake]

yeesh. kinda sad to think there will never be a good starcraft 3.

 

[Systemshock2023]

Wouldn't mind a StarCraft Campaign based FPS. For RTS just build a studio in south Korea and let them handle it.

 

[anonpuffs]

yeesh. kinda sad to think there will never be a good starcraft 3.

Aren't you excited for Starcraft 3: Kingdoms, the mobile base builder idle game?

 

[Evilnemesis8]

yeesh. kinda sad to think there will never be a good starcraft 3.

There is no talent left with RTS experience at Blizzard anymore.
Team 1 (Starcraft 2) kept getting shaved off after the final expansion and was split dev duties between Starcraft (commanders/balance) and Heroes of the Storm.
Then Starcraft 2 was put on life support and so was HotS.
HotS team was merged with the "Classic Games" team but that division was shut down after the Reforged debacle with developing duties of the last Classic Games(Diablo 2 Ressurected) handed to Vicarious Visions which then became Blizzard Albany.

So even the last remnants of Team 1 have been gone for a while now.

 

[Cool hand luke]

Wouldn't mind a StarCraft Campaign based FPS. For RTS just build a studio in south Korea and let them handle it.

Microsoft...building a studio?

 

[anonpuffs]

There is no talent left with RTS experience at Blizzard anymore.
Team 1 (Starcraft 2) kept getting shaved off after the final expansion and was split dev duties between Starcraft (commanders/balance) and Heroes of the Storm.
Then Starcraft 2 was put on life support and so was HotS.
HotS team was merged with the "Classic Games" team but that division was shut down after the Reforged debacle with developing duties of the last Classic Games(Diablo 2 Ressurected) handed to Vicarious Visions which then became Blizzard Albany.

So even the last remnants of Team 1 have been gone for a while now.

All the devs with RTS experience already left years ago.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

All the devs with RTS experience already left years ago.

Yes, that's what I was saying, just adding the whole trajectory of Team 1.

 

[flaccidsnake]

There is no talent left with RTS experience at Blizzard anymore.
Team 1 (Starcraft 2) kept getting shaved off after the final expansion and was split dev duties between Starcraft (commanders/balance) and Heroes of the Storm.
Then Starcraft 2 was put on life support and so was HotS.
HotS team was merged with the "Classic Games" team but that division was shut down after the Reforged debacle with developing duties of the last Classic Games(Diablo 2 Ressurected) handed to Vicarious Visions which then became Blizzard Albany.

So even the last remnants of Team 1 have been gone for a while now.

yeah i just did some digging myself, and it looks like many of the important people left in 2019. i found out the director co-founded a new team Moonshot Games which hasn't announced a game yet. Seems worth keeping an eye on. Also the technical director is making table top games.

 

[anonpuffs]

yeah i just did some digging myself, and it looks like many of the important people left in 2019. i found out the director co-founded a new team Moonshot Games which hasn't announced a game yet. Seems worth keeping an eye on. Also the technical director is making table top games.

Keep an eye on frostgiant, they are coming out with Stormgate which looks to be a mix of starcraft and warcraft 3 and has a lot of former blizzard talent

 

[Evilnemesis8]

yeah i just did some digging myself, and it looks like many of the important people left in 2019. i found out the director co-founded a new team Moonshot Games which hasn't announced a game yet. Seems worth keeping an eye on. Also the technical director is making table top games.

There's also Frost Giant Studios who are working on Stormgate : https://playstormgate.com/

 

[Yurinka]

RIP Blizzard, they've been MSed.

 

[Plextorage]

So, COD will be finished just like Xbone. As a reminder :

 

[Jim Ryan]

 

[Loy310]

Just a general manager, i have zero hope, but good luck to the sista.

 

[Batzy]

Expect Nicki Minaj and Snoop Dogg skins in Diablo 4.