/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.15418315]

## YOU THINK YOU DO BUT YOU DONT EDITION ##

>Be Blizzard
>Be in heavy decline for years
>Most beloved and preached first MMORPG released by them - finally after years of community outrage - gets re-released
>have (((diverse))) team full of women and trannies in marketing and dev
>4-5 servers should be enough, it's just some nostalgic nerds coming back right?
>oldfag dev crew all left the sinking ship

>PEOPLE ARE NOW EXPERIENCING 6-10 HOUR QUEUE TIMES TO LOGIN
>PEOPLE TOOK WEEK(S) OFF WORK FOR THIS
>"WE DID NOT EXPECT THIS"

How can a company like Blizzard be such an extreme failure full of incompetence?

[Anonymous No.15418324]

>>15418315
because their company mainly consists of women

[Anonymous No.15418345]

>>15418315
diablo 3 was their best game

[Anonymous No.15418354]

>>15418315
AHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.15418370]

>>15418315
Why would a company care about a service they can't market? Just subscribe goy, no one needs to login.

[Anonymous No.15418373]

>>15418315

Diversity hires. Notice how 100% white companies don't have all these fucking problems all the time.

[Anonymous No.15418375]

>>15418315

[Anonymous No.15418386]

I work for blizzard. Classic is much bigger than we expected and also the launch spike dies off quickly so the queues are a short term problem

[Anonymous No.15418388]

>>15418324
Anon, please, the question was clearly rhetorical.

[Anonymous No.15418389]

>>15418345
.... joke? Diablo 3 was a shit show. I beat the whole game on the hardest mode in 5 days, then started farming like a madman only to find the game absolutely riddled with bugs which constantly crashed you and deleted your progress in a dungeon. The press tore Blizzard to shreds over D3 which ultimately led to (1) them offering no questions asked refunds to EVERY PLAYER and (2) firing the entire team.

I don’t know what happened after that because I quit but what a truly awful disappointment that game turned out to be.

[Anonymous No.15418392]

Yeah and now you have people committed to the original servers and refuse to switch. So we're gonna end up with 5 servers that have queues for the next year and then a bunch of dead ones.

[Anonymous No.15418394]

>>15418373
Is there even still a company like that out there?

Chinks actually used to make good games back in the SNES period

>>15418370
It definitely feels like it. Just sub, goyim.

[Anonymous No.15418408]

>>15418394
I live in IL and publicly traded companies need to have nogs and women on their executive boards by law

[Anonymous No.15418411]

>>15418386

You don't work for Blizzard but this is how they think.

At this rate I can imagine people say fuck this and refuse to login. Most people coming back have a life/job and can't bother spending 100% of their free time staring at a login screen.

[Anonymous No.15418414]

As much as I wanted to play I’m glad I avoided this shit show, I vowed years ago I would never give blizzard any more money...fuck em, I got my vanilla fix on private servers

[Anonymous No.15418434]

>>15418394
yeah, look at the team of VIDT

[Anonymous No.15418458]

>>15418411
Yeah but it affects everyone. Even employees have to wait in the queues, I just went to a less populated realm

[Anonymous No.15418479]

Just made this one. I've already been in queue for 3 hours now. About 6 more to go.

Actual topkek

[Anonymous No.15418486]

>>15418315
>>>/v/
Who the fuck is still talking about some 2008 game for autistic teenagers?

[Anonymous No.15418490]

>not using chrome remote desktop to get yourself connected before going back home
NGMI

[Anonymous No.15418541]

>>15418490

Lel, I still do this for Rust on wipe days. Good to see there's other 200iq posters on here

[Anonymous No.15418571]

>>15418490

No one, literally no one expected things to be this bad. 10+ hour server queues never happened in gaming history.

Ever.

[Anonymous No.15418572]

>>15418315

They had 15 years.

[Anonymous No.15418573]

>>15418315
This is basically a microcosm of what the world looks like under socialism.

[Anonymous No.15418590]

>>15418315
If you took weeks off work for this, literally kys

[Anonymous No.15418618]

>>15418572
KEK

[Anonymous No.15418623]

>>15418590
topkek.


people waited 10+ years for this man, its a once in a lifetime event (it was supposed to be anyway) but feel free to sit between some spics in tent for 3 weeks like other normies.

[Anonymous No.15418650]

>>15418408
Holy shit

[Anonymous No.15418672]

i want to be sexy bloody elf holy pal

[Anonymous No.15418680]

>>15418650
Look it up. This state is fucked.

[Anonymous No.15418689]

>>15418386
>launch spike dies off quickly
but this definitely doesnt have to do with server queues

[Anonymous No.15418700]

>>15418315
Because they know most of you won't be playing in 2 months after the nostalgia fades away.
While scale up the infrastructure when this shit will lose 90% of its playerbase in 6 months?

[Anonymous No.15418711]

>>15418689
This.

Normalfags that never played an MMORPH are retarded beyond measure.

[Anonymous No.15418721]

>>15418700
It's not like Fortnite, Norman.

WoW has actually grown literally every year from Classic all the way to Wrath of the Lich King, at which point they changed the game so drastically it wasn't having any of the original core values like social interaction and working for your status/loot.

[Anonymous No.15418734]

Should one sell ATVI or wait after Blizzcon?

[Anonymous No.15418738]

>>15418394
>Chinks actually used to make good games back in the SNES period
All of the great games from that era were made by japanese companys (Nintendo, Sony, SEGA, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Konami) and japs are the asian whites like argentinians are the latino whites.

[Anonymous No.15418813]

>>15418734
After, it’s a big Blizzcon

[Anonymous No.15418824]

>>15418738
Good point


Gooks are superior to chinks

[Anonymous No.15418900]

>>15418315
Like they give a fuck, they make shitloads off not providing a product.

Not like they're going to get a class action against them or something actually serious.

[Anonymous No.15418913]

>>15418394
>Chinks actually used to make good games
Did you mean gooks? Gooks are still making good games

[Anonymous No.15418922]

>people took weeks off of work for this

[Anonymous No.15418942]

>>15418315
>have (((diverse))) team full of women and trannies in marketing and dev
gg

[Anonymous No.15418958]

>>15418738
>argies are the latino whites
dont let an argie hear that their ego would inflate so much he'd fly away

[Anonymous No.15418970]

>>15418389
Diablo 3 was a big disappointment
What a piece of shit at release

[Anonymous No.15419012]

>>15418734
The real question

[Anonymous No.15419029]

>>15418734
Up 10% in recent weeks. HODL. They can't possibly fuck up BlizzCon as much as last year.
>Is this an out of season April Fool's joke?
>50% drop in share price

[Anonymous No.15419037]

>>15418389
>>15418970
D3 is actually pretty good now if you play the seasons. The cheevo hunting makes the grind tolerable and challenges for crazy gear sets is fun.

[Anonymous No.15419040]

>>15419029
>They can't possibly fuck up BlizzCon as much as last year

[Anonymous No.15419059]

>>15418721
I literally played the launch in 2004 faggot, all you retards reactivating your accounts for this cashgrab are pathetically trying to revive the past not realizing it will never live up to your expectations because you're not 14 anymore.

Vanilla was very slow and grind oriented, this was counterbalanced by the feeling of novelty with the scale and atmosphere, two things to which everyone is accustomed to these days.
But have fun farming the easter, plaguelands 2 hours a day for 1 month straight like a chink just to get 100% mount and enchants, there are no chance you will get bored from that right?

The principle behind the feeling of novelty is that it happens only once for something.

[Anonymous No.15419065]

>>15418315
>questioning anything while being a wow loser
This is why you’ll never make it faggot

[Anonymous No.15419069]

>>15419029
>They can't possibly fuck up BlizzCon as much as last year
In the age of modern companies being shells of the businesses you knew a decade ago, you'd be surprised.

[Anonymous No.15419072]

>>15418824
Gooks are koreans you retard

[Anonymous No.15419105]

>>15419069
>you'd be surprised.
their funny money ways are coming to an end
they can't cook their books for much longer

[Anonymous No.15419128]

>>15418479

6600 won't take 6 hours, lol. 2hours max.

[Anonymous No.15419156]

>>15419105
Expect a lazy WC3 remaster too with 100% reused WoW assets

[Anonymous No.15419190]

>>15419128
i made it exactly 80 mins ago. im at 5200 now

[Anonymous No.15419191]

>>15419128
might as well be infinity
>you come back from work
>tend to the garden
>have dinner
>bang your waifu
>have a smoke and a drink
>*lets fire up that WoW and go back in time to simpler days where I leveled my undead mage to become boss status after clearing BWL and AQ40
>Queue is >10,000 and wait time is 400 mins
the absolute state of gaming in (current year + 4)
they have to fire these affirmative action hires yesterday and do a purge of the filth and rabble (((accountants))) who penny pinch and can't even deliver a product to the same quality that they were able to before 15 years ago.

but hey, that's just my opinion...

[Anonymous No.15419219]

I leveled to level 10 and bored out.

[Anonymous No.15419242]

>>15419219
Stay logged on even if you aren't playing to ruin the experience for everyone else

[Anonymous No.15419246]

>>15419191
Spot on

[Anonymous No.15419259]

>>15419242
Good idea

[Anonymous No.15419262]

>>15419191

Thats why you're supposed to get in the queue when you arrive home, lol.

The release was shit either way, though. These queues are ridiculous and Blizz should get class action lawsuit for this shit.

[Anonymous No.15419319]

>>15419262
Private Servers have existed for years and many with a lot of content available. Why anyone would be continuing to support this financially past their current subscription is beyond me

[Anonymous No.15419323]

>>15419262
>Thats why you're supposed to get in the queue when you arrive home
yeah that's not the solution at all
I have a career already
videogames aren't my career
they're something I do when I have leisure time (which is at a higher premium now compared to 15 years ago)
>>15419262
>The release was shit either way, though
15 years later and the release is worse now
talk about stagnation and delirium in technology
their employees are killing their companies
1 based white man 15 years ago has now been replaced by affirmative action hires is it any wonder that they can't launch the same product as well as they did almost two decades ago

[Anonymous No.15419394]

>>15419319

Playing in private servers is meaningless because they are not the real thing. It's like buying a colorful glass instead of a gemstone. As far as I know you don't have to pay more to play classic.

>yeah that's not the solution at all

Yes, that is a solution if you're looking for one in this situation. If you want to play with these queues being around you opt in the queue when you arrive home.

[Anonymous No.15419451]

>>15419394
>As far as I know you don't have to pay more to play classic
you don't
retail WoW will be moving to mobile over the years
classic WoW will be for the pc master race

[Anonymous No.15419490]

>>15419394
Given that the old original devs left there is nothing special about official classic

[Anonymous No.15419554]

>>15419490

Yet it's still the official one.

[Anonymous No.15419594]

>>15419451
I can't think of any PC game more incompatible for mobile than WOW

[Anonymous No.15419678]

>>15419394
>>15419490
nost and kronos were fine
some bugs but pvp and drop rates were blizzlike and lets not pretend classic doesnt have bugs
fungal spores dont spawn and my wc run yesterday had runner mobs running indefinitely in one direction until hitting a wall which agrod other packs and wiped us twice
so how is classic the gemstone? because the kikes at activision blizzard branded it "official blizzard classic"?

[Anonymous No.15419841]

>>15419678

It's just the difference between official and unofficial. You'd think that people understand that there is a difference between them. I don't like private servers because they are unofficial.

[Anonymous No.15419867]

>>15418394

>Is there even still a company like that out there?

Why do you think the economy is burning down all around us?

[Anonymous No.15420028]

>>15419594
they did it to Diablo
they will do it to retail WoW

[Anonymous No.15420257]

>>15419867
no one wants to admit it
but it's true
diversity hires and women have destroyed the economy (but actually)
merit counts for much less than it did

[Anonymous No.15420288]

>>15418315
they had the computing power and servers, they could make it without any overloads, they even stated it, but they didnt do it cuz its waste of cash, people will just meme about it and drop, theyd deploy them for no reason so they didnt OP

[Anonymous No.15420389]

>>15419841
you've been deeply kiked

[Anonymous No.15420521]

>>15418315
Blizzard Activision merger. Game mergers are always about greed and not about making good video games. It was so obvious their change of direction soon as it happened. And the usual statements, DONT WORRY GUYS, THIS ISNT ABOUT GREED WE JUST WANT TO MAKE BETTER VIDEO GAMES! NOTHINGS GOING TO CHANGE! And now you have your proof that could not be presenting more obviously. They suck so bad they have to rerelease their games from a time before they fucked it up, like Square Soft.

Diablo 3 was the canary in the coal mine. Just a topdown reskinned version of WoW. It was clear right there they ran out of ideas and just wanted to make a quick buck. Then more quick bucks followed. Starcraft 2 were you buy 1/3 of the game at a time. HotS, just reskin LoL. Hearthstone, seamed more like a petproject than anything they actually cared about. Overwatch appears to be the only thing they have done were they game a modicum of shits about but it was in development from before the merger. Net up is their biggest embarrassment, Diablo Mobile, with Desperationmancer.

[Anonymous No.15420636]

>>15419594
They will just homogenize the game a little more. Its not like that piece of shit even resembles the good game that people used to like. Just combine/remove most of the skills and cram it on a phone.

[Anonymous No.15420653]

>>15418345
Lolno

[Anonymous No.15420657]

>>15419394
A lot of people are setting up remote access to their PC so they can queue an hour or so before they leave work

[Anonymous No.15420700]

>>15418813
Now to think about it this is actually a good idea to sell in november. It'll be about the primetime when people will be burned out and the nostalgia googles fall off and probably the upcoming tiananmen 2.0 will make the chinks disappear, so will 50% of WoW's population.

[Anonymous No.15420746]

>>15418315
Incompetent? They're fucking geniuses. They know you little faggots have NO stamina, and will quit before Xmas, and they don't want to waste perfectly good rack space on your little nostalgia trip.

Reminder: every person waiting 6 hours in line PAID up front.

They win.

[Anonymous No.15420756]

>>15419059
>I literally played the launch in 2004
Supposedly everyone you talk to about the game has, which is pretty odd considering the age demographic of this website

[Anonymous No.15420770]

>>15418411
>>15418411

my actual autist bro quit on day 2
back to final fantasy

[Anonymous No.15420778]

>>15418408
lmao, and people wonder why everything in the west is stagnant or declining

[Anonymous No.15420787]

>>15418734
ATVI isn't a pump or dump stock, it's value in the investment arena is it's an attractive dividend stock. All the 401k dudes are loaded up on it.

[Anonymous No.15421138]

>>15418375
Kike

[Anonymous No.15421261]

>>15419323
>15 years later and the release is worse now
>talk about stagnation and delirium in technology

kek, this. gaming indudstry, as well as hardware (graphic cards and processors) have truly stagnated badly.
it's so bad almost going backwards in advancements of technology

[Anonymous No.15421334]

>>15420756
How is it odd?
Most of us here are between 25 and 35, zoomers are on shits like discord or reddit and the ones here tend to go on /b/ or /pol/ because it's the edgy places, they are too young to have a job.

[Anonymous No.15421456]

>>15421334
>Most of us here are between 25 and 35
I haven't seen a single poll backing that up

[Anonymous No.15422011]

>>15418386
>the launch spike dies off quickly so the queues are a short term problem
Now if that's a bait, it's a good one.
Otherwise this is pure female logic at works.
> we are failing as expected, so it's not a fail. It's the evil incels overloading our servers. And when everyone leaves it is the launch spike as we have correctly predicted. Save the oceans from plastic straws and have sex, incel.

[Anonymous No.15422385]

>>15418386
>Classic is much bigger than we expected

so how many months of hype do you retards need exactly to get the memo?

[Anonymous No.15422400]

>>15418345
You mean Diablo 2

[Anonymous No.15422441]

>>15422385
They could have easily figured out the expectation by having an actual open beta instead of top goys only

[Anonymous No.15422508]

>>15418458
your boss fucked this up bro
big time

[Anonymous No.15422514]

>>15422011
You’re misinterpreting what I wrote. Most content beats in a video game has an initial spike which then decays sharply. The increase before launch was a lot faster than normal expansions, so total subs have been underestimated. That’s literally all I meant.

[Anonymous No.15422646]

>>15422441
Cmon man. That's like delivering a working product before ICO

[Anonymous No.15423087]

>>15418324
/THREAD

[Anonymous No.15423125]

>>15418571
they happened this year on PBE server to test TFT (league), then they released the mode by servers , and they took like 4 DAYS to release this to other servers.

PBE que to login was 20+ hours, and TFT stayed on Twitch at #1 spot, same like WoW does now.

who the fuck cares about WoW 4 months before 2020. people already ruined their lifes on this game, kids won't get hooked on this, and there's no money in it.

Dead in one year, cap this

[Anonymous No.15423150]

>>15418408

[Anonymous No.15423233]

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I took a week off work for this

[Anonymous No.15423346]

>>15418315
Because ActiBlizz is POZ'd as fuck

[Anonymous No.15423364]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/cwj42l/aita_for_confronting_my_wife_about_who_she/

OH VEY SHUT IT DOWN!!!

[Anonymous No.15423382]

>>15419037
None of the gear means anything. You can't even trade, there is no economy, no pvp. Just an infinite rift to do endlessly for no reason.

[Anonymous No.15423402]

>>15419191
>>15418479
>tfw I haven't even SEEN a single queue yet
Got a level 16 hunter. Feels great man.

[Anonymous No.15424254]

>>15419841
Private servers are better in a lot of ways.

[Anonymous No.15424284]

>>15422400
the original /biz/ scam was swindling people to do the horadric cube pop.

[Anonymous No.15424297]

>>15424284
https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Corpse_Popping_Scams

[Anonymous No.15424308]

I played for a bit. It's too boring to go on. Unless you are popping off addies like there's nothing to live for this game is intolerable.

[Anonymous No.15424344]

There's enough servers for there not to be queues, anyone who's complaining about queues pick a different server...

[Anonymous No.15424354]

Blizz is not Blizz anymore... Activision fucked things up

[Anonymous No.15424566]

>>15424308
It's pretty damn slow. Leveling is like running simulator, and gameplay is literally autoattack +1 button while leveling.

[Anonymous No.15424724]

>>15423125
People have been saying that since fucking 2006
This game is going down only if the company actually crashes

[Anonymous No.15424812]

>>15419069
what did they mean by this?

[Anonymous No.15425144]

>>15424308
>>popping off addies
damn, I bet that would be really fun actually. back in my wow addiction days I only had access to liquor. it was enough to make the game tolerable for me, can't imagine playing sober though.

Apart from that, the problem for me is that the mystery is all gone now. There's nothing new in azeroth, we already know mathematically what builds have the best dps.

Who'd have guessed in fall 2019 the hottest games would be vanilla wow and minecraft?

[Anonymous No.15425224]

>>15418315
Haven't played in ~3 years, didn't mind the dumbing down of the game SO much, but flex raid gave people ideas and killed the group chemistry by ballooning from 10 to 30 randos. Wasn't invested enough to find a new group. Miss bgs but video games aren't holding my interest anymore :/

But as far as the general decline in software quality, definitely seeing that across the entire industry. Lazy self-important coworkers drove me out of my last megacorp software job, I'd only go back as a last resort. Insufferable people