I worked with a bunch of the artists for Spellbreak back in the day in retail. Was very proud to see their first game come out, but pretty sad it didn't take off. I hope they can come along with the acquisition.
the concept was awesome but they fucked up with making it a battle royale. there are too many of them. and things got messy once multiple teams met up haven't looked at the game for a while after launch tho.
Same, I played the game for a few days and the concept of spellbreak sounded great. Fast paced elemental gauntlet wielding mages that cast from either or the same time to create different effects. That alone is amazing for some kind of action game or RPG. Sadly we get battle royale :/
Buying a studio that was built around creating a new IP, in order to do content, is a dubious move, people aren't resources. Blizzard didn't buy a 100 people, they bought a team of creatives who are used to work together in a particular way and now they will need to work the ABK way with most likely little creative input.
raids aren't the only thing that has split the playerbase in wow. that's been a thing since vanilla. what made it worse was mythic+, which split those two halves into basically 4 and exacerbated the overall toxicity
I didn't expect the honest trailers to be so on point, honestly. It's usually haha funni joke people already repeated to death, which is entertaining sometimes but yeah. The second vid was hilarious, that's the average newfrog viewer.
@@Ecliptor. yes they did, they also said the only point goal of the game its to take money in unhealthy way from stupid people, but its not hard to understand how bad is diablo immortal, maybe in korea shit game P2W can take place but china have strong polocy vs SCAMS
@@benjaminghazi787 and the law vs anti scam games, more country should ban game like dat, infact most of the riot games it owned by china and their mobile phone dont have p2w, they are just more serious and less goblin then blizzard and other country.
In the original WOW, the 6 hour raids were so tedious for a healer I had to get really drunk to get through it. One day I stood up for bio and fell flat on my face. That's why I quit.
It seems pretty shallow to buy an entire company just to acquire a labor force. That tells me they are unable to hire developers through normal means for whatever reason. Did the employees of this game studio get a say in this, I wonder?
He's not wrong about things like green fire. I got my green fire during the first 2 weeks it was added, and not all those years later I still remember the day I got it, and how exciting it was. That was by far my most favorite moment in my wow career and I'll never forget it.
I am a professional PvPer in Diablo Immortal. I queue up, leave my phone there as I either witness victory or defeat. I have around a 30% win rate. Cannot be whale fodder if they can't reach the main base and I never exit out of it. 😉 Love these videos keep it up.
I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for Christmas in 2021 from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching CZcams. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. I loaded into the game, picked my character and world and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.
Can we all please agree that the term "microtransactions" does not and cannot describe a process where you can throw 20-25 dollars away for 3-5 minutes of gameplay?
It's just like those arcade games that were intended to be so difficult that you have to keep pumping in quarters to keep playing. The greedy mindset has been around since the beginning of video games but has had to adapt to new ways of taking advantage of those who are susceptible to addiction.
Id love to see WoW be more focused on the leveling experience and make the game feel like it starts at level 1 rather than all about max level and raiding. i think majority of players and future players would appriciate this 100x more
A lot of people, especially nowadays, prefer the min/maxing part, and WoW players are especially keen to that since it has been the case for so long. Also, not having great endgame but good leveling make people stop playing soon after hitting max lvl. They "just" have to do both to have a great and engaging game. Though the game is 18 years old, and a lot if not most players already did every leveling in every possible way. It's been a really long time since leveling is not about optimizing the sh*t out of it
@@velukuzusama4224 i agree with you, truly, i want end game players to have their fun aswell, but it makes little to no sense to me as an MMORPG enthusiast to see all these MMos where leveling and the journey is nowhere to be found. id love to see retail wow open servers where the automated tools arent enabled, meaning no LFD, no LFR, nothing of the sort, and decrease the XP and make world travel and dungeons etc a worth while and fun social activity. not saying make it worse for the people enjoying current stuff, just give us something aswell.
@@hardeg4 WoW is now standard, and as it has been said for a while now, if you get out of bounds with an MMO, you won't get investment. That's probably why so much MMOs are like that. I'm part of the min/max community (in every game, my favorite games are idle/clickers where you're constantly min/maxing and have that feeling of getting stronger each rebirth or whatever), but I get your point. You want the RPG part of an MMORPG and that's totally understandable. I hope Blizzard do something, but I honestly wouldn't count on it since they're focused on next expansion and that one is forcibly end game content. I would also say "leveling through the xpac" is for most people a tidieous process, but if it was fun and not just a way to get through to there actual content, I'd be totally fine with it and would enjoy it, because WoW could've done a great storytelling if they actually cared about it. I think you would really enjoy FFXIV in that matter
I like the idea of season 4 for that reason. I think it would be cool if each tier they bought back an old raid as part of that tier. For example, in the first patch of dragon flight if they included naxx, mc, or Kara in that tier.
Having a raid every other patch would be nice if patches were shorter but when raid tiers feel like you are a bug reporter on ptr everytime, they should probably take the extra time between patches to fix them.
I think spellbreak team was brought on to do the dragonflight alpha instead of having the public test it. To preserve the content in the game from alpha and beta testers spilling the beans to the almost whole expansion on launch day
I played a bunch of Spellbreak games, and it was a really good game, I dont know how that translates to Blizzard absorbing the Studio, but I mean, I guess It's good (?)
I used to raid a lot. It's so boring and predictable now, even though I'm in the target population of "raider" even I'm over it. I'd love to see some new ideas around raids that don't involve zoning into a giant map with trash and bosses that award loot. The world is vast and yet a majority of the focus is on such a small part of that world. I'm okay with having a raid focus, but maybe include open world, achievements, pvp, etc to incorporate a larger, more diverse group of players to clear content. I'd love to see a raid guild that has people on the roster that are good at different parts of the game, not just copying macros and importing weakauras. If I was given a list of 25 things to conquer that required different groups that could asynchronously work toward a common goal, I could find people to join - hardcore traditional raiders, pet battle nerds, collectors, bank toon hoarders, sweaty arena teams, etc. Think of a raid like a D&D campaign. You could tell so many stories and cover so much of the world. Whatever it looks like in the future, it just needs to change because it's tired and old. We need something more.
1:54 - "I don't understand how this got through editorial" You think gaming magazines survive by having its readers pay for the content? No - they survive by selling advertising. Doesn't matter if it's in print or online. Gaming magazines have NEVER been able to deliver actually independent reviews of games, because the biggest publishers have ALWAYS been able to threaten to withhold advertising dollars. The only games that ever gets shat upon in gaming magazines are games from small independent developers or from tiny publishers, because those don't have the ability to withhold enough advertising revenue that it could shutter a magazine. They have ALWAYS been PR outlets for the big developers and publishers.
No, they will never be enough. I remember what happened to Rare when Microsoft got their hands on it. You're kidding yourself if you think this will be anything different or better
I've seen some people saying RIP Spellbreak but honestly since it didn't take off now Blizzard could release a sequel and add, say, Warcraft spellcaster types and characters.
I like how every time you buy stuff in Immoral, you get a text a the top saying "You bought a something something pack X1" indicating that a single unit of it was acquired. However the font makes it look like there's a "Xi" there. One needs to honor the chairman at every occasion.
I am actually super excited for the moving of Spellbreak devs to the WoW team with this grab... the fresh faces will do wonders to help WoW in the short term and hopefully they will help build a better system to sustain development in the long term.
Honestly, they should just upgrade raid every patch. For example u get raid finder first month, but the trick is that you only get a part of that raids story. When the next patch comes more bosses added to the raid and more of that raids story is shown. Imagine the final raid of battle for azeroth in that hiangantic city with parts of it opening up as time passed. That would have been so much better
I also think they should kind of steal from their diablo game. Every class has all these specializations mixed in. For example u can choose your filler spells and other spells moving forward. Like you can make your filler spell incinerate and then choose corruption or something as your next spell. The biggest issue of the game is having 2-4 specs for each class. Just make it 1 spec and you choose how you want to build your character.
This game is their farm. Sadly I think D4 will sell well but unless they make you buy the expansions (if there are any), they'll make sure Immoral is the better supported one because they're getting more money from it.
Acquisition won't help anything as long as you have the same team at the top. Devs are still handcuffed by Bobby and co. to prioritize profits at the expense of further bleeding their fanbase. Developers can have all the best intentions and want to do all this cool stuff for the game and the players, but ultimately the financial people step in and ruin it all and that won't change at Blizzard.
I wish blizzard would listen to even just a fraction of your feedback that pours out of your stream on a daily basis, the game would be in so much of a better place imo
I really like how in FF14 you have the relic weps that are bis getting some gear outside of raid is great to keep a variety and just works better. Wow should do something similar like getting bis gear from mage tower or something after grinding alot
Relic weapons don't become BiS until the end of the expansion, so they're not a viable alternative for people looking to do current raid content. And even then, sometimes relic weapons are equal to or worse than the final raid tier's weapon.
@@benjaminghazi787 Not until late in the expansion when everyone is doing +20 or higher. Early on and mid xpac its not viable to run those without mythic raid gear or heroic to start farming mythic+ As you get later and later in you have more mythic+
The best thing about the bald thing is that when he leans in to press the big button you can see he has actually the same hairline underneath that hat. Also the problem with keeping old systems like the mage tower relevant is that people wouldn't play it unless there where substantial rewards and the raid crowd can't have that.
To expand on that idea of rotating patch content, they could add a scaled to max level difficulty for all old content and every non-raid patch, raise the ilvl requirement and drops for those old dungeons and raids to match the tier of the current content. That would be huge for raiders and casuals alike
"All MMOs release content that gets outdated just like WoW does" Said someone in chat, so untrue. ESO Has dungeons and raids that are 6-7 years old and you go in them for nothing but actual gear that's still viable years later.
@4:15 I played this game as F2P (i bought a skin.. so..) and this whole "lvl cap at 30" is a myth... not once... NOT ONCE i had to level for the main quest... i just played and did the side missions... and some battlepass stuff (not all of it)... i did notice, that doing battlepass was fast way to level up, but i never hit the "you must level" thing.. The game was... Mehhhh... i think i stopped playing at paragon 7'sh (that's 60+7 for nongamers)... because the game was mehhhh... i booted up my nintendo switch emulator, loaded my safe file from "Pokemon - Pikachu let's go" and i was way happier
It is kind of hard to create sanctuary so different when the timeline of the game is between D2 and D3. I am just talking about the areas we visit in the campaign.
I really do hope they change things for the better and fix the issues. I really do enjoy having diablo on a mobile platform. My favorite will always be Diablo II though.
Okay that starting video was funny as all hell. Now blizzard acquiring a new studio to work on wow I'm just not hyped for because they already have done this. Look at the certain shooter game that no one wants to talk about that took teams from all different dev companies they bought and it still was crap, like really crap.
This means nothing. Blizzard announced a bunch of new talent right around the same timeframe before Shadowlands and people were making the same kind of comments like "yes! Blizzard is investing in WoW this means good things for the game! poggies!" People have such short-term memory, it's wild.
The thing is, we as consumers (or gamers, whatever) are accepting this shit, eat it and swallow it and then complain about it. Even people who see through the shit end up spending money on it "to prove a point" - money that gets shoved down Blizzard Activision's pockets. We're fucking dumb.
Titan among men in the streaming community. Would be amazing to meet you someday. Do not change anything you do when it comes to uploads n streams as they are the Goldstandard others should watch n learn from
Someone working on D4 should report to us whether or not the game is being cut up into pay walls and time gates as we speak, which I think is exactly what is going on. Diablo 4 is done, they're just chopping it up to maximize the pay shop.
What people are forgetting is that Activision/Blizzard fired a lot of people during Covid even though they were making huge profits during that time. For them to "absorb" 100 people is nothing to be impressed about.
It would be SUper cool to let people do old tier raids at lvl 20 / lvl 30/ lvl 40 / lvl 45 and slow XP down so you get to enjoy these raids as you level up... it would make all or most of all old content Good and Worth playing again!
So, you suggested that Blizzard have to add more of the same stuff? Nothing new, nothing special, nothing we haven't see so far. That would be so "fun" man. This game don't need recycled content. It need something that we haven't done in the last 15 years. Holy shit.
I'm telling you guys 6 months for a software dev to learn a new programming language, Game engine, technology etc. is really not much, even for the best. What takes even longer is after that to get an overview of a company's code base, network infrastructure and so on and so forth. I am a software dev myself and I doubt these new devs will even participate developing code for the new expansion. We can be happy if they will have finished reading the existing code by then, not even kidding.
i'm not sure about making raid tiers last even longer. I might be bias coming from a raiding guild that is ALMOST THERE with the jailer HC kill but people are getting really burned out by this raid and I can see a lot of people unsubbing until dragonflight after the kill.
“It will get worse” should be Blizzard’s motto at this point
Always
So trueee
Things can always get worse. Hit rock bottom? There's an entire hell below it. "Oh! We have _such_ sights to show you!" - Pinhead
We should add "you guys have phones, right" to it. Then it's perfect.
"it can't get worse than this"
Blizzard "I think I can, I think I can, I know I can!"
Him spamming "TRUE" and "Hehehe Good one baldy" had me cracking up. I needed a good laugh today
"Diablo immortal is far too good to be free" - Zack Zweisen, writer for kotaku.
Kotaku is probably owned and ran by Activision.
These journos brown nose hard for those sweet VG perks, sold their souls for an extra buck.
May his soul never know peace.
@@allighast9714 huh?
@@pandapo7542 You're thinking Gawker
the " average asmongold viewer " had my face hurting lol
It feels like breaking the 3rd wall lol. So happy I found his channel recently.
TRUEEEEE
the typical twitch comment buttons killed me
True kekw!
the "true" part made me laugh because every time asmon says something there's always one person that writes TRUE, every single time x)
TRUE
TRUE
TRUE
fellow Truer here
i like it when he reacts to his own reactions and says true on his own take
“Diablo: Shadow Legends” can we get some extra love for this? This is damn hilarious
I worked with a bunch of the artists for Spellbreak back in the day in retail. Was very proud to see their first game come out, but pretty sad it didn't take off. I hope they can come along with the acquisition.
i loved spellbreak!
the concept was awesome but they fucked up with making it a battle royale.
there are too many of them. and things got messy once multiple teams met up
haven't looked at the game for a while after launch tho.
Same, I played the game for a few days and the concept of spellbreak sounded great. Fast paced elemental gauntlet wielding mages that cast from either or the same time to create different effects. That alone is amazing for some kind of action game or RPG.
Sadly we get battle royale :/
They will be milked for every ounce of work that can be gotten out of them, and the second it is profitable every last one of them will be fired.
@@wdf70 I would have loved it more if it was a arena shooter or a deathmatch
Buying a studio that was built around creating a new IP, in order to do content, is a dubious move, people aren't resources. Blizzard didn't buy a 100 people, they bought a team of creatives who are used to work together in a particular way and now they will need to work the ABK way with most likely little creative input.
@rhodes1986 Considering what happened with Halo, I'm not sure Microsoft's influence is all that good.
raids aren't the only thing that has split the playerbase in wow. that's been a thing since vanilla. what made it worse was mythic+, which split those two halves into basically 4 and exacerbated the overall toxicity
I didn't expect the honest trailers to be so on point, honestly. It's usually haha funni joke people already repeated to death, which is entertaining sometimes but yeah.
The second vid was hilarious, that's the average newfrog viewer.
True diablo immortal its a shame, china did good to ban dat shit game
@@funs8605 they didn't ban it because of how the game is, tho
@@Ecliptor. yes they did, they also said the only point goal of the game its to take money in unhealthy way from stupid people, but its not hard to understand how bad is diablo immortal, maybe in korea shit game P2W can take place but china have strong polocy vs SCAMS
@@funs8605 banned cause Winnie the Pooh
@@benjaminghazi787 and the law vs anti scam games, more country should ban game like dat, infact most of the riot games it owned by china and their mobile phone dont have p2w, they are just more serious and less goblin then blizzard and other country.
"There's no reason the Main Story wouldn't level you up to 60"
Of course THERE IS.
They want the moolah, and they want it quick.
In the original WOW, the 6 hour raids were so tedious for a healer I had to get really drunk to get through it. One day I stood up for bio and fell flat on my face. That's why I quit.
I dont think thats the fault of raids, it sounds like you just have a problem.
@@cattysplat aww man, I could've spent WAY longer staring at life bars. Your ideas intrigued me, she I would like to subscribe to your newsletter! :=)
It seems pretty shallow to buy an entire company just to acquire a labor force. That tells me they are unable to hire developers through normal means for whatever reason. Did the employees of this game studio get a say in this, I wonder?
They got the choice of working for Blizzard or finding a new job elsewhere
I'm sure a lot came with it other than employees. Any IP, etc
Blizzard is notorious for not giving out bonuses or raises and sexual harassment and sometimes not even paying developers at all
I love the idea of refocusing resources Into other stuff than a raids never thought of that before but id love to see that.
He's not wrong about things like green fire. I got my green fire during the first 2 weeks it was added, and not all those years later I still remember the day I got it, and how exciting it was. That was by far my most favorite moment in my wow career and I'll never forget it.
I am a professional PvPer in Diablo Immortal. I queue up, leave my phone there as I either witness victory or defeat. I have around a 30% win rate. Cannot be whale fodder if they can't reach the main base and I never exit out of it. 😉 Love these videos keep it up.
Didnt expect to see you here senpai Tryndamere
@@Earnest1G Why hello there I am an asmongold enjoyer. :)
Imaging getting into CC debt for this game and having to pay that bill over the next 15-17 years.
Lol it’s insane that there are dumbasses who have really done that.
spellbreak was fun
happy to see the team getting more work at the very least. was a very technically solid game
I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for Christmas in 2021 from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching CZcams. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. I loaded into the game, picked my character and world and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.
Asmongold please make a video of the dude making these reviews all over steam that shit would be hilarious
I would love for a third faction option. More world events like they did with WRATH and turning people into zombies.
Legit they should make it so that Arthas fought back the people in ICC and start his campaign across all of Azeroth
Speelbreak people might be allocated to the PvP team to boost RBGs since they used to manage a battle royalle with spells
i lauged so hard when the neckbeard was spamming TRUE and the chat also started spamming TRUE lmao
Can we all please agree that the term "microtransactions" does not and cannot describe a process where you can throw 20-25 dollars away for 3-5 minutes of gameplay?
It's just like those arcade games that were intended to be so difficult that you have to keep pumping in quarters to keep playing. The greedy mindset has been around since the beginning of video games but has had to adapt to new ways of taking advantage of those who are susceptible to addiction.
Too many cooks in the kitchen is possible, and acquisitions usually see 30% of people quit.
I hope it works out for us.
the odds of WoW having anything other than raiding and arena pvp isn't zero, but its real close
Id love to see WoW be more focused on the leveling experience and make the game feel like it starts at level 1 rather than all about max level and raiding. i think majority of players and future players would appriciate this 100x more
A lot of people, especially nowadays, prefer the min/maxing part, and WoW players are especially keen to that since it has been the case for so long. Also, not having great endgame but good leveling make people stop playing soon after hitting max lvl.
They "just" have to do both to have a great and engaging game. Though the game is 18 years old, and a lot if not most players already did every leveling in every possible way. It's been a really long time since leveling is not about optimizing the sh*t out of it
@@velukuzusama4224 i agree with you, truly, i want end game players to have their fun aswell, but it makes little to no sense to me as an MMORPG enthusiast to see all these MMos where leveling and the journey is nowhere to be found. id love to see retail wow open servers where the automated tools arent enabled, meaning no LFD, no LFR, nothing of the sort, and decrease the XP and make world travel and dungeons etc a worth while and fun social activity. not saying make it worse for the people enjoying current stuff, just give us something aswell.
@@hardeg4 WoW is now standard, and as it has been said for a while now, if you get out of bounds with an MMO, you won't get investment. That's probably why so much MMOs are like that.
I'm part of the min/max community (in every game, my favorite games are idle/clickers where you're constantly min/maxing and have that feeling of getting stronger each rebirth or whatever), but I get your point. You want the RPG part of an MMORPG and that's totally understandable. I hope Blizzard do something, but I honestly wouldn't count on it since they're focused on next expansion and that one is forcibly end game content.
I would also say "leveling through the xpac" is for most people a tidieous process, but if it was fun and not just a way to get through to there actual content, I'd be totally fine with it and would enjoy it, because WoW could've done a great storytelling if they actually cared about it.
I think you would really enjoy FFXIV in that matter
@@velukuzusama4224 I dont think FFXIV is a game i would tolerate for more than 5 minutes. i do appriciate you giving the advice tho ^^
Spell break was a freaking dope game that never took off like it should have
A great man once said, “ I’m ready.”
That was a sponge, not a man.
im ready im ready for me money
I can't believe they've actually hired more developers
good to see u around here
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I like the idea of season 4 for that reason. I think it would be cool if each tier they bought back an old raid as part of that tier. For example, in the first patch of dragon flight if they included naxx, mc, or Kara in that tier.
rofl diablo shadow legends caught me off guard ngl :')
Having a raid every other patch would be nice if patches were shorter but when raid tiers feel like you are a bug reporter on ptr everytime, they should probably take the extra time between patches to fix them.
I started a new Necromancer in Diablo 3 last night and am having a blast with NO loot boxes lol.
"It's too good to be free." -Bobby Kotick's shoulder devil
The borrowed powered systems are crazy to balance especially how we saw them in BFA
Knowing blizzard they will probably give you the option the pay $85 to transfer your DI toon over to D4
I think spellbreak team was brought on to do the dragonflight alpha instead of having the public test it. To preserve the content in the game from alpha and beta testers spilling the beans to the almost whole expansion on launch day
You missed what this acquisition means, it means blizzard is offloading WoW to this new studio. Their WoW team in blizzard is being desolved.
Think so?
That’s what you get when you mix nerds with HR departments and shareholders; super out of touch utilitarians.
pretty damn true, wow
some of the spellbreak team were former devs of big old school mmorpgs
I played a bunch of Spellbreak games, and it was a really good game, I dont know how that translates to Blizzard absorbing the Studio, but I mean, I guess It's good (?)
I used to raid a lot. It's so boring and predictable now, even though I'm in the target population of "raider" even I'm over it. I'd love to see some new ideas around raids that don't involve zoning into a giant map with trash and bosses that award loot. The world is vast and yet a majority of the focus is on such a small part of that world. I'm okay with having a raid focus, but maybe include open world, achievements, pvp, etc to incorporate a larger, more diverse group of players to clear content. I'd love to see a raid guild that has people on the roster that are good at different parts of the game, not just copying macros and importing weakauras. If I was given a list of 25 things to conquer that required different groups that could asynchronously work toward a common goal, I could find people to join - hardcore traditional raiders, pet battle nerds, collectors, bank toon hoarders, sweaty arena teams, etc. Think of a raid like a D&D campaign. You could tell so many stories and cover so much of the world. Whatever it looks like in the future, it just needs to change because it's tired and old. We need something more.
@@a1pha_star 100% I've been on gaming hiatus for months. Just waiting for the next big push out of this funk all the gaming companies are in
Blizzard gave the spell break dev company people the ol’ Chubs speech. “You gonna give that sh*t up and focus on WOW”
1:54 - "I don't understand how this got through editorial"
You think gaming magazines survive by having its readers pay for the content? No - they survive by selling advertising. Doesn't matter if it's in print or online.
Gaming magazines have NEVER been able to deliver actually independent reviews of games, because the biggest publishers have ALWAYS been able to threaten to withhold advertising dollars.
The only games that ever gets shat upon in gaming magazines are games from small independent developers or from tiny publishers, because those don't have the ability to withhold enough advertising revenue that it could shutter a magazine.
They have ALWAYS been PR outlets for the big developers and publishers.
Spellbreak is a good game. I loved it, but please do not kill it with these new blizzard tactics.
No, they will never be enough. I remember what happened to Rare when Microsoft got their hands on it. You're kidding yourself if you think this will be anything different or better
That was 20 years ago. Microsoft has been doing a much better job with their more recent acquisitions.
I've seen some people saying RIP Spellbreak but honestly since it didn't take off now Blizzard could release a sequel and add, say, Warcraft spellcaster types and characters.
You should change your channel thumbnail to the angry cartoon from that average asmongold viewer video lol.
Blizzard hiring a new studio like they're filling out a roster for a sports team.
I like how every time you buy stuff in Immoral, you get a text a the top saying "You bought a something something pack X1" indicating that a single unit of it was acquired. However the font makes it look like there's a "Xi" there. One needs to honor the chairman at every occasion.
Anytime you have Diablo immortal content. CZcams runs ads for the game before Asmonds video.
I am actually super excited for the moving of Spellbreak devs to the WoW team with this grab... the fresh faces will do wonders to help WoW in the short term and hopefully they will help build a better system to sustain development in the long term.
Honestly, they should just upgrade raid every patch. For example u get raid finder first month, but the trick is that you only get a part of that raids story. When the next patch comes more bosses added to the raid and more of that raids story is shown. Imagine the final raid of battle for azeroth in that hiangantic city with parts of it opening up as time passed. That would have been so much better
I also think they should kind of steal from their diablo game. Every class has all these specializations mixed in. For example u can choose your filler spells and other spells moving forward. Like you can make your filler spell incinerate and then choose corruption or something as your next spell. The biggest issue of the game is having 2-4 specs for each class. Just make it 1 spec and you choose how you want to build your character.
Brooke's Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
Or in Blizzard's case, worse.
I'm casual, don't spend, and have fun in DI. There are others. I love auto navigate tbh. Noone wants to walk around the same map 1000x.
Do people actually not like McConnell? I enjoyed the duo dynamic both times he joined the stream.
This game is their farm. Sadly I think D4 will sell well but unless they make you buy the expansions (if there are any), they'll make sure Immoral is the better supported one because they're getting more money from it.
Acquisition won't help anything as long as you have the same team at the top. Devs are still handcuffed by Bobby and co. to prioritize profits at the expense of further bleeding their fanbase. Developers can have all the best intentions and want to do all this cool stuff for the game and the players, but ultimately the financial people step in and ruin it all and that won't change at Blizzard.
when he said "just pay for someone to step on your balls"... asmond made the i feel pain face.
Average Asmongold viewer.. That's the funniest shit I've seen in a very long time. Tears rolled down my face.
I wish blizzard would listen to even just a fraction of your feedback that pours out of your stream on a daily basis, the game would be in so much of a better place imo
I really like how in FF14 you have the relic weps that are bis getting some gear outside of raid is great to keep a variety and just works better. Wow should do something similar like getting bis gear from mage tower or something after grinding alot
There are bis gear outside of raid. Just from m+ vault
Relic weapons don't become BiS until the end of the expansion, so they're not a viable alternative for people looking to do current raid content. And even then, sometimes relic weapons are equal to or worse than the final raid tier's weapon.
@@benjaminghazi787 Not until late in the expansion when everyone is doing +20 or higher. Early on and mid xpac its not viable to run those without mythic raid gear or heroic to start farming mythic+ As you get later and later in you have more mythic+
Ngl did think it was a joke, especially with the quote "don't you have phones?" But then the future became past after giving an unwanted present.
The best thing about the bald thing is that when he leans in to press the big button you can see he has actually the same hairline underneath that hat.
Also the problem with keeping old systems like the mage tower relevant is that people wouldn't play it unless there where substantial rewards and the raid crowd can't have that.
To expand on that idea of rotating patch content, they could add a scaled to max level difficulty for all old content and every non-raid patch, raise the ilvl requirement and drops for those old dungeons and raids to match the tier of the current content. That would be huge for raiders and casuals alike
Blizzard needs an A.I to crunch the numbers and balance the systems
No one talking about the Micheal Loda body pillow in the background.
surprised he didnt say "young willem dafoe" in necromancer lol
"All MMOs release content that gets outdated just like WoW does" Said someone in chat, so untrue. ESO Has dungeons and raids that are 6-7 years old and you go in them for nothing but actual gear that's still viable years later.
I mean sure, they hired 100 more after firing a lot more.
@4:15
I played this game as F2P (i bought a skin.. so..) and this whole "lvl cap at 30" is a myth... not once... NOT ONCE i had to level for the main quest... i just played and did the side missions... and some battlepass stuff (not all of it)... i did notice, that doing battlepass was fast way to level up, but i never hit the "you must level" thing..
The game was... Mehhhh... i think i stopped playing at paragon 7'sh (that's 60+7 for nongamers)... because the game was mehhhh... i booted up my nintendo switch emulator, loaded my safe file from "Pokemon - Pikachu let's go" and i was way happier
It is kind of hard to create sanctuary so different when the timeline of the game is between D2 and D3. I am just talking about the areas we visit in the campaign.
I really do hope they change things for the better and fix the issues. I really do enjoy having diablo on a mobile platform.
My favorite will always be Diablo II though.
Bobby purchased the Proletariat holy shit!
@Asmongold how long did it take u to work out about the skills been used in wow for lol over & over lol....
Okay that starting video was funny as all hell. Now blizzard acquiring a new studio to work on wow I'm just not hyped for because they already have done this. Look at the certain shooter game that no one wants to talk about that took teams from all different dev companies they bought and it still was crap, like really crap.
This means nothing. Blizzard announced a bunch of new talent right around the same timeframe before Shadowlands and people were making the same kind of comments like "yes! Blizzard is investing in WoW this means good things for the game! poggies!" People have such short-term memory, it's wild.
7:32 thats just me i even have the headset!
How did that article get through?
AI writing sponsored content, it's becoming a huge menace
The thing is, we as consumers (or gamers, whatever) are accepting this shit, eat it and swallow it and then complain about it. Even people who see through the shit end up spending money on it "to prove a point" - money that gets shoved down Blizzard Activision's pockets.
We're fucking dumb.
Lol. I had an ad for Diablo before this
3:23 skill not ready? Wallet not ready, skill not needed.
Titan among men in the streaming community. Would be amazing to meet you someday. Do not change anything you do when it comes to uploads n streams as they are the Goldstandard others should watch n learn from
Someone working on D4 should report to us whether or not the game is being cut up into pay walls and time gates as we speak, which I think is exactly what is going on. Diablo 4 is done, they're just chopping it up to maximize the pay shop.
Wtf is Activision doing buying studios when they're bought themselves? I am confused.
Honestly, Blizzard literally took the playbook from the South Park episode Freemium Isn't Free lol
I got a diablo immoral ad before this video...
What people are forgetting is that Activision/Blizzard fired a lot of people during Covid even though they were making huge profits during that time. For them to "absorb" 100 people is nothing to be impressed about.
I quit wow at the end of lich king back when Pallys became dps tanks. There was zero single player or small group content.
Whenever I need a Diablo fix I play either Diablo 1 or 2 with friends. Then there's Planescape Torment. Okay updating my Journal now see yas!
D2 best in slot arpg
It would be SUper cool to let people do old tier raids at lvl 20 / lvl 30/ lvl 40 / lvl 45 and slow XP down so you get to enjoy these raids as you level up... it would make all or most of all old content Good and Worth playing again!
I just got a Diablo Immoral add watching this vid
So, you suggested that Blizzard have to add more of the same stuff? Nothing new, nothing special, nothing we haven't see so far. That would be so "fun" man.
This game don't need recycled content. It need something that we haven't done in the last 15 years.
Holy shit.
the bald red guy is the reincarnation nostradamus
I would of preferred a Diablo shadow legends clone
I spit out my food watching this...amazing
I'm telling you guys 6 months for a software dev to learn a new programming language, Game engine, technology etc. is really not much, even for the best. What takes even longer is after that to get an overview of a company's code base, network infrastructure and so on and so forth. I am a software dev myself and I doubt these new devs will even participate developing code for the new expansion. We can be happy if they will have finished reading the existing code by then, not even kidding.
They paid for that studio with diablo immortal.
i'm not sure about making raid tiers last even longer. I might be bias coming from a raiding guild that is ALMOST THERE with the jailer HC kill but people are getting really burned out by this raid and I can see a lot of people unsubbing until dragonflight after the kill.
If they delay Dragonflight to make it exeptionnal, I'am ok. But if they release it this year, even 100 dev can't make a difference.