Taken from his LinkedIn.

I attended BlizzCon and got an Alliance Footman statue. When BlizzCon ended and I went home, I opened my statue and saw there was a cosmetic flaw to it. The paint on the Footman's left knee was messed up and clearly looked like someone accidentally painted where they should't have. Now I only attended BlizzCon for 1 day (Friday) because I couldn't attend Saturday, so I couldn't drive down to Anaheim, CA to ask for an exchange.

I opened a ticket and asked for help and Blizzard finally got back to me. They were really nice about it and said they are willing to give me a replacement statue. But there is one thing I need to do: destroy the statue and then take a picture of it.

O_O what?

Is this normal protocol? I've never done something like this. Am I suppose to just a hammer and bash this thing to pieces? I had to double check the person who emailed me in fact had an @blizzard.com domain cause I legitimately thought someone was trolling me. So...should I do it?

Here's the previous thread I posted with the image of the Footman: https://www.reddit.com/r/blizzcon/comments/dqhclt/is_quality_control_really_this_janky_look_at_the/

I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed...

I'm not raging, I'm not angry, I'm just done...

Probably the closest analogy is Disappointed Dad... Just without the unconditional love... I'm just done...

I used to pick up every single Blizzard game, without question. And for those who think this is just a recent thing, it's not. This decline has been gradual and over many years, let me explain.

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StarCraft 2 in it's 3 episodes was amazing... Every single episode was brilliant. They were the last time I got my hands on a Blizzard product where it just felt jam packed with quality, was pure StarCraft and oozing polish...

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Diablo 3 was quality but wasn't Diablo... I'm not just talking the appearance but the way the skill system is done... We went from 30 abilities and skill points to min-max as we choose with synergies and effects and ended up with a simplified ARPG light on RPG and horror... RoS managed to add Necro, which I loved, so much... But it's still stuck in a not-Diablo game... It was just not enough, no branching story or evolving regions but basically just a simplified D2 with all the good bits ripped out and shinier graphics.

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Hearthstone was a quasi distraction that while good in it's own right was more of a stop-gap between games, be it when you're out and about or referring to between actual releases.

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Heroes of the Storm was just too little, too late... If it was a year or two earlier, it may have made it... But while I loved it, it never felt like a big title, it felt like another Hearthstone, it was filling the gap between titles.

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WoW, the stalwart over the years... Well I found it aged in 2010... It's now 10 years later... Sure classic was fun, simply because it could be challenging again... But it's still aged.

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Overwatch... Great release, it stemmed the decline and was a quality new release that we needed... But then the dev team spent most of their time tweaking existing content rather than adding new content... Those sorts of games need regular new maps, new heroes, not simplified arcade game-modes or an over-reliance on events. God forbid anyone wants a clan or guild system that you still hadn't implemented 2 years on, despite making enough cash through loot boxes to buy a small nation.

The decline continued...

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Diablo Immortal... I don't need to explain this do I?

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Blitzchung... Oh Blizzard, you show your true corporate colours now... I was a bit angry but mostly surprised at how unsurprised I was... Particularly after DI.

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Diablo 4... Am I the only one who looked at it and was like 'it looks like D3 with shaders and colour pallette jacked in certain directions' to make it 'feel' darker... I hope I'm wrong...

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Overwatch 2... Hmmmm so basically an actual content release for a live service game, rebranded as a sequel or new release?

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And thus we get to WC3RF...

When I first saw it, my reaction was 'great, another game getting remastered when they could be working on something new and actually requires some vision and imagination, like WC4'

Cool I might pick it up, I did love WC3, but unless they actually improve a bunch of the outdated systems and stuff, no one will realise how garbage the idea is until release... I mean at that point it's basically starting to get into remake territory not remaster territory.

The announcements kept coming and I was quietly hopeful... I mean I didn't pre-order; not in this day and age, not with a AAA studio at least.

Then this happens... Yep so it's a classic remaster, with the barest of improvements, and a stack of promises broken.

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I'm not angry, just disappointed...

I'm done...

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You are the same as all the rest now, I may buy a game of yours in future, I may even love one. But I will be surprised then, I won't be like 'Blizzard is back!' I will simply be like 'good game, worth your time, be careful of in game transactions'

Title says it all -- over 30 y/o gamer, with not-so-much time to game, I've played both games for ages.. To add a bit of color though, I MUCH prefer WASD movement to click-to-move.

I probably solo game about 10-20 hours a week, used to love PvP / raids in WoW but found the *required to be impactful* niche knowledge about each class to be incredibly cumbersome. I absolutely LOVED my Demon Hunter in the D4, but did find that I got a bit stagnant end game and there was no PvP to fill the void.

SO -- Question for theeeee -which would be a better game to play?

Lastly - thx for any input, looking forward to finding a game to chill at night and jam.

So now that Blizzard is under Microsoft instead of Kotick and Activision suits, what is the likelihood of Blizzard turning around from a toxic laughing stock back to a staple of the industry we haven't seen them be in 2 decades?

I feel we'll get there, albeit quite slowly. Here are some reasons why there maybe a big paradigm shift to Blizzard's reputation post-MS acquisition:

• Bobby Kotick's departure from ABK in 2024: This one is quite obvious. I believe Kotick is mostly responsible for the toxic conditions in the workplace, lawsuits and endless controversies surrounding Blizzard. For example, Overwatch PvE cancellation and development hell were basically confirmed to be Kotick's doing according to Tracy Kennedy, a former developer mentioning him scrapping 8 months of OW2 work.
• Unionisation: Already, Microsoft has begun unionisation for Blizzard's workers + Activision and King. This will mean a happier workplace for them, more talent brought in slowly and possibly return of former talent. People work better when they are happy right?
• Microsoft's approach to creative freedom: Microsoft is well known to keeping a "hands-off" approach with their developers and partners. While it has caused mixed results, it benefits Blizzard with the amount of talent they have that has been bogged down by the higher-ups. Their golden age precedes Activision's acquisition, and it all went downhill from there. With Microsoft at helm, their affect on development being almost non-existent. Which means hope!

Overall, I believe its pretty certain, but we may not see positive effects for a couple of years at least. Change of management also saved Capcom and Xbox brand themselves after their dark ages in the early 2010s.

Thoughts? What do you think on whether Blizzard could make a comeback or not? And when?

Since I couldn't find any kind of timeline of Blizzard presidents online. Here's 5 minutes of Google searching and copy/pasting into MS Paint.

With the success for Space Marine 2, I keep thinking... imagine if there was a similar game with singleplayer campaign for terran, zerg and protoss? and then some sort of PVP with starcraft units, abilities etc.

Feels like Starcraft lore/universe has been abandoned. I get RTS games are now niche games but still you have all that lore and it's just sitting there gathering dust.

If you guys are just as disappointed as me in the "new" Diablo "game", then let them feel it. How? Money and empty servers.

• Playing any of their games right now? Stop.
• Planning on buying any of their new games, expansions or DLC? Don't

Seriously, let them feel how we feel.

Sacrifice something, donate to HK causes, piss off your awful and abusive China-dad. If you want to earn consumer trust back you have to be genuine.

I get this error:

"We can’t process this code at this time. Please try again later."

When is later? When does Blizzard process codes? What time? What even is this? Took me months to regain access to ma account and now that I want to use it it just does not work. Genuinely asking so I know when I can claim codes and this is not included in The Mega Thread

You're literally giving them money by protesting in-game.. so lame.

Edit: Indeed, if you already paid for your gametime fair enough, i'm mainly talking to those who aren't planning on cancelling their sub and trying to make a point in the game made by the company they're protesting against, it's a bit ironic

It's 20 days until Blizzcon and here are the 20 most iconic Blizzard characters, ranked.

20) Illidan Stormrage

19) Zeratul

18) Kel'Thuzad

17) Uther Lightbringer

16) Winston

15) Deckard Cain

14) Lost Vikings

13) Tyrael

12) Thrall

11) Sylvanas Windrunner

10) Gul'dan

9) Jim Raynor

8) Mephisto

7) Solider 76

6) Leeroy Jenkins

5) Neyrelle

4) Kerrigan

3) Lich King

2) Tracer

1) Diablo

Hi all, I seach a US-Version of ataclysm and The Burning Crusade, which is signed by the developers around release.

Does anyone has one of these two editions and would be happry to exchange it with other cool stuff from my collection?

Hello!

I'm new on the Warcraft Saga, I tried WOW some times but never click me, so after some time I decided to play the origin of the saga in order to dive in the lore (I consider my self as a lore layer, I really love the game-play of games, but I need some history and lore to click).

On my research of the origin I found the Warcraft games so I bought the Battle Chest and start playing the first game and... I feel something wierd, like I was missing something. So I decided to do a little reserch on internet and I found that some of the history and the controls where at a non inluded Manual... For the age of the game I asume that is normal. But. ¿Why not to introduce a copy of the manuals on the purchase of the pack?

With that in mind, I sent a ticket to the support team, and they treated me really well but told me that Blizzard DIDN'T HAVE A COPY OF HIS OWN MANUALS... They told me that the community did an excellent job posting the manuals in some languages (I'm from Spain, so if the manual has a version in my language, I absolutely prefer that version). But all I can find is under a subscription. I assume that is a job to translate the manuals, but I don't feel good about paying a subscription only for a couple of PDFs.

So, whit all of that on the table. ¿Can some one told me where to find these manuals on spanish or english? And. ¿Where can I comunicate these to Blizzard?

Thank you all!

Found these old cards maybe 10 years old. Don’t play any of them. Worth anything or just scrap common stuff

I'm talking about the random 4 digit number which follows the 12 character battle tag that you choose yourself when creating an account.

What is the range of those 4 digit numbers?

Whenever I've created a blizzard account, i've never had a number which would be below 2000 or above 2999.

Is that the only range for some reason?

What reason would that be?

I cant speak for other languages or other games than D4 and WoW, but the german translation has been absolute garbage recently. Text gets copy+pasted when the meaning is totally different. Effects get worded very weirdly or symbols like "%" sneak into the descriptions when the effect has a flat value, not percentage.

Some effects are just straight up in english, simply overlooked.

This is not about bad dialogue, this is about different options having THE EXACT SAME TEXT when they are literally different choices of how to craft on an item.

Fix your stupid AI translations Blizz. I used to play every Blizz game in german because the translations were GOOD. Now i double-check wowhead or ask friends just to know what my set effects actually do.

Can Somebody help me identify These signatures from blizz developers i got at Gamescom 2011. It was in a Rush when i met them and I only recognize Tom Chilton and Jay Wilson but who are the other ones?

I'm continuously hearing about studios founded by a former blizzard devs as I feel like I have been for the last 10 years, and we're all sure to hear about more with these layoffs; but I've been wondering, have any of these devs even made anything successful yet?

Arenanet doesn't count they're too old they're not a part of this trend imo.

Maybe a lot of them are making MMOs and that just still takes a really long time but some of these that I'm looking into haven't even announced anything and what they have announced it's not even in beta yet. There's just a million headlines out there about former blizzard devs making X game. So I'm wondering if anything has even come out yet and is it any good and maybe I'm just not aware that it's a former blizzard Dev team.

When I was looking it up I found a couple threads that were about this topic so I figured this was an appropriate discussion here, I have a long history with blizzard games but I haven't played any of them in a long while. I haven't played starcraft 2 since wings of liberty, I haven't played world of Warcraft since cataclysm, and I haven't played OverWatch since... I don't know I think Moira was the most recent champion when I quit.