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by thiago_fm 56 days ago
It isn't surprising at all, Microsoft is doing a PE firm playbook with what they buy. You don't need to look much far, let's think about its biggest acquisition to date, Blizzard.

Blizzcon canceled. All of its IP barely got any love.

See what players think about the latest World of Warcraft patch. It's absolutely shit and broken. People say they fired the entire QA department since a few years back and since then the quality has just gone down.

They buy those businesses because they have nothing to do with that free cash flow, and for accounting reasons it makes sense to have them.

They didn't buy those businesses to develop it further and make it worth more.

Github will just become ever more irrelevant.

The key issue is that the US governments let those huge monopolies exist, and then use their money to buy other businesses and enshiftify them.

Unless that changes in the US, this will continue happening.
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sethops1 56 days ago
Just FYI Blizzcon is returning in September.

https://blizzcon.com/en-us/event/

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zackangelo 56 days ago
I don’t think this is true across Blizzard. Overwatch is the best it’s ever been.
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JCTheDenthog 56 days ago
The Steam userbase would appear to disagree, with the recent reviews being mostly negative reviews (and the user reviews for Overwatch have hovered between mixed and negative for years now). And this doesn't appear to be from review bombing by some specific subset of players, the language breakdown shows reviews ranging from mixed to negative in all major language groups (English, Russian, Chinese, etc.).
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surgical_fire 56 days ago
The thing is that they didn't buy Blizzard, they bought Activision. They were interested in CoD numbers.

I think Diablo Immortal was likely the biggest success Blizz provided there

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miningape 56 days ago
> See what players think about the latest World of Warcraft patch. It's absolutely shit and broken

Crazy to me that the loot tables are still broken for some players/characters, they've tried to fix it several times now, and it's still not working - Since (some) endgame gear can only be obtained this way they've effectively soft locked those players/character out of the endgame.

Context: Some players are always receiving the same drops i.e. a belt. Rather than a varied loot table that gives them a chance to get items they need.

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mrguyorama 56 days ago
Oh good, they managed to break MMO functionality that has worked for 30 years.
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dv_dt 56 days ago
Exactly why does it keep happening, why is the default strategy find golden goose, kill goose, look for new geese
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