The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoI've never seen a company squander as much goodwill as Blizzard.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down11
arrow-up116arrow-down1imageI've never seen a company squander as much goodwill as Blizzard.lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squaredinckel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoIt’s a cultural issue. People at Larian had one objective the entire time - making a genuinely good D&D based game. If the money comes, that’s incredible. And it did come. People at blizzard make games with the goal of making money. The era of making something fun has been long over in this studio
minus-squareCornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoIt’s an ownership issue. Larian is privately owned by Swen Vincke. They can concentrate on making good games because they don’t answer to anyone but Swen. Blizzard is publicly owned. It has to answer to greedy and short-sighted shareholders.
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoIt seems that publicly traded game companies simply can’t help themselves from becoming this (e.g. Activision/Blizzard, Ubisoft, EA). It’s very sad, but at least there are still a few private AAA companies and indies who seem to make fun games for the sake of fun games.
minus-squaredinckel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoOnce you go public, you’ve practically forced yourself into aiming for infinite growth. “Just enough” revenue is not in the vocabulary of these people
It’s a cultural issue.
People at Larian had one objective the entire time - making a genuinely good D&D based game. If the money comes, that’s incredible. And it did come.
People at blizzard make games with the goal of making money. The era of making something fun has been long over in this studio
It’s an ownership issue.
Larian is privately owned by Swen Vincke. They can concentrate on making good games because they don’t answer to anyone but Swen.
Blizzard is publicly owned. It has to answer to greedy and short-sighted shareholders.
It seems that publicly traded game companies simply can’t help themselves from becoming this (e.g. Activision/Blizzard, Ubisoft, EA).
It’s very sad, but at least there are still a few private AAA companies and indies who seem to make fun games for the sake of fun games.
Once you go public, you’ve practically forced yourself into aiming for infinite growth. “Just enough” revenue is not in the vocabulary of these people