[bragh]

Actually, yes. Blizzard had an unbelievable amount of goodwill and reputation built up over the years and in any case, these kinds of changes do not happen overnight.

For me, the first understanding that things are rolling downhill was how they killed the social aspect with the removal of battle.net without any replacement and completely messed up the concept of playing custom maps when StarCraft 2 launched. Longer thread from 2010 about custom maps: https://tl.net/forum/sc2-maps/139745-the-real-problem-with-s...

[zouhair]

For me the company lost a lot of my respect when they released Starcraft 2 without LAN support. The game was destined to slowly die.

[grp000]

Not to mention the whole Starcraft BW esports fiasco with KeSPA.