Jeff Kaplan and the en-shittification of Blizzard

[Hafiz]

Jason Shrierer wrote a book about blizzards corruption:

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Play_Nice.html?id=MGPyEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

it’s so good it should honestly go into your booklist Leo.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

9 minutes ago, Alexop said:

@Natasha Tori Maru i only played PvP. I mean I don't care about how shit Blizzard management is or was, idk how they pulled it out but wotlk pvp was just artwork. The classes had such different abilities, strengths and weaknesses but still it was balanced. Not just that but you needed serious skill and Intelligence to be good at it. It was not like PvE, in PvP you are against other humans who can outsmart you all the time. 

Now of course I am not a game developer, I just picked the game that was in front of me like a pig eating what he finds in the trough. A game developer sees things that normies don't.

I did some PvP - totally different ballgame! I only ever got to dualist rank though. Classes are way too homogeneous now with 6 different solutions for every combo. Needless complexity and trying to cater to every player. Only did twos in arena and battlegrounds 

[Vynce]

21 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Morrowind, Rayman, Patapon 2, Dark Souls 2/3, Warlords Battlecry 3, Dark Could.

Not necessarily in that order.

I am probably forgetting some other great ones. That's just off the top of my head.

There are many other very good ones.

Divinity Original Sin 1/2 are really good.

UN Squadron for SNES is a perfect game.

Sidearms for the TurboGrafx is awesome.

Geometry Wars is a perfect game.

Donkey Kong Country games are near perfection.

Stardew Valley is a perfect game.

Subnautica.

Millenial gamer type beat. Stardew is the goat though. Already excited for Haunted Chocolatier (ConcernedApe's next game). 

[LordFall]

@Leo Gura Donkey Kong Country is dope. MMORPGs are cool though if you get into the right one. I never got into World of Warcraft but I played a huge amount of Dofus, Fly for Fun and Tera online. 

[Leo Gura]

I played a lot of the early MMOs.

I will never play an MMO that isn't sandbox.

Edited 3 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@Leo Gura EverQuest? We going back 🫠

You were probably into Vidya around the same time I was - my Dad and I used to build PCs and I recall MS-DOS os nshit. 8-bit PC games were my first introduction 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

3 hours ago, Hafiz said:

Jason Shrierer wrote a book about blizzards corruption:

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Play_Nice.html?id=MGPyEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

it’s so good it should honestly go into your booklist Leo.

I'll check this out - really appreciate the link 

[Leo Gura]

35 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

@Leo Gura EverQuest? We going back 🫠

You were probably into Vidya around the same time I was - my Dad and I used to build PCs and I recall MS-DOS os nshit. 8-bit PC games were my first introduction 

Not quite that old. EverQuest 2. Which was meh.

Edited 3 hours ago by Leo Gura