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by jayd16 1875 days ago
Blaming Activision is too convenient. Activision is pretty hands off of its studios creatively.

The truth is a lot of the good developers left, their new mmo Titan was a massive flop that was rolled into Overwatch, HotS wasn't very compelling, and Diablo 3 never had a compelling endgame to be a "forever game" with constant revenue, Hearthstone was a creative grass roots effort that has since been hit with heavy competition and WOW is an aging workhorse but its not the phenomenon it once was.

Activision is the cause of all that?

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I don't see any new IP development at all. All I see is dev of existing IP.
Activision Blizzard merged in 2008 while Overwatch was 2016. They were supposedly working on that game for a long time I would say with 8 years it has to count.