The Current State of Blizzard Properties as of 7-24-2023
Diablo: Lore/Story getting progressively worse/bad from one game to the next including Diablo Immortal and Diablo 4
Diablo 2 Resurrected: A game for the most hardcore Diablo 2 fans with updated graphics or you can turn them off to experience the hirez pixels
StarCraft 2: Lore/Story progressively worse/bad, put on maintenance mode, competitive cancelled although its a free game now/has been awhile which started with the custom game arcade then the whole thing did. Heck, Legacy of the Void didn’t have a cinematic when you first opened it originally when it came out.
StarCraft Remastered: Experience StarCraft with updated graphics
World of Warcraft: Lore/Story progressively getting worse/bad by each expansion and retcon
Classic World of Warcraft: Just like Old School RuneScape, with the queues for items and everything
Warcraft 3 Reforged: A game to delete all the copyright infringement that people we committing in custom games, ruins the reasons why people were playing it.
Overwatch 1: Deleted, why did I pay $60 for that?
Overwatch 2: Lore/Story cancelled, competitive now cancelled as of today with all the esports staff being laid off
Edit: Overwatch 2: The lore/story is still on through how Overwatch 1 was. Comics, cinematics, anything available outside the game. Additional modes to be added for $15
Heroes of the Storm: Cancelled/put on maintenance mode
Hearthstone: Essentially bloated pay to win aspects, esports tournaments and staff have been significantly reduced
And thats it. That’s what’s going on with all these properties from this small indie company. Which is the narrative anyone wants to say whenever there is any kind of criticism leveled against them. I have been a long time Blizzard fan so you can say I am part of the problem in supporting them. To me Blizzard is nostalgic but I never had a real chance to get into WoW because we lived on a farm with dial up until 2010. So if I wanted to do anything online I had to go to college or a cafe to play games. I don’t know how to feel about it in 2023.