• Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    6 months ago

    Makes sense to me. Their games isn’t made for their community and player base anymore. It’s made for their shareholders and they don’t care about BlizzCon.

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    6 months ago

    The surprising part of this headline for me is that there was serious intent to have another BlizzCon. I thought they had given up on that already.

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    6 months ago

    Wonder if this is the consequence of the MSFT buyout or just that they know it would be more in a negative spot light from the recent developments from the studio.

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      6 months ago

      They held one last year under the shadow of the Microsoft acquisition - granted, it wasn’t official yet, but friggin Phil Spencer showed up bc everyone knew it was going to go through - so I don’t think it’s explicitly Microsoft interfering. This feels more like the realization that, like last year, they don’t have that much exciting content to hype right now. They already milked their 3-part WoW xpac news dry, all they’ve got left is… Diablo season 4 or the seasonal new Overwatch character? Can’t build a convention around that.