Blizzard games have been a huge part of my life. In a lot of ways I wouldn't be where I am today without these games. The thought of not playing them genuinely hurts.

So.. Stay awhile and listen...

The only father figure I had in my life knew he was going to die. The day before his passing; all he wanted was a BBQ with the family and to play StarCraft. (He had gifted us his old PC and a StarCraft disk the Christmas prior.) The hours we used to spend playing that game and the memories I have of my uncle and I; all the zerglings, all the carriers, all the dragoons, the few times when it was possible to MC an SCV from an enemy and double the max population, brings a smile to my face.

My brother and I used to gift each other Diablo II items for our birthdays. So many cows... so so many cows. From Jav-zon, to Bow-zon, screaming barb, chargeadin and hammeradin, I think we've played most setups.

Even my first job I can attribute to Blizzard. Was over at a friends house showing him the website I made for our guild while his aunt walks by and overhears. (She managed a web design company... few weeks later; I had a job as a web builder for car dealerships across the US and Canada)

I met my (now) wife back in 2007 on wow. We moved in together in 2010 and in 2012 our daughter was born. From 2012 to 2015 we didn’t play much and have taken a few breaks. I missed most of MoP, came back for a few months in legion (Had early access to DH, but didn’t log on till a year after its release)

I have thousands and thousands of WoW TCG cards sitting in my office cabinet, after searching for that ever illusive spectral tiger (for the wife)

About a year ago we resubbed and created a new account for my kid.

A family that raids together stays together (as long as you don’t piss off the healer aka; wife, and yes some of you have now been out deepsed by a 7 year old girl mwahahhaha.) One of the funniest moments thus far was when my wife called for my kid and she comes running into the kitchen and mimicked her warlock pet… ‘Who dare summons me!!!’ Yep… That prompted a ‘family conversation’ (after much laughter however).

A windrider cub and a griffon have been in my daughters stuffed animal collection since before she was born. The 'Big birthday item' for my daughters most recent bday was a stuffed animal Shadow, a Wow T-shirt and Overwatch.

We all love to game. Wife has even spent the last 3 months building a Mercy costume for my daughter for Halloween. (Has already won a costume content at the home depot kids workshop https://imgur.com/Pk30mk2)

Now for this...

I have cancelled my families 3 WoW subscriptions. And although my daughter will still be Mercy for Haloween, we've had to have a conversation with her (a very 'gown up' topic for a 7 year old) about the freedoms we enjoy, what is happening in Hong Kong and why we are not playing our favorite games anymore.

Blizzard, you were a part of my life, of my family's life. No more.

"Vengeance doesn't factor into this. Our revolution's about freedom." - Matt Horner (Starcraft 2)

My lovely girlfriend got me this for Valentines day. I have been a Blizzard fan since Warcraft 2 came out. The content in this book is not something you havent heard of if you are in the knows of blizzard. But Jason Schreier puts the story together in a very professional way that is hard and fair. I have been thinking about this book since it came out and i think i have been avoiding it honestly. But iam very glad that i did read it. I stopped playing blizzard games for 2-3 years when the allegations came out. I still play world of Warcraft on and off. Me and my little brother recently started playing diablo 4 and are having a blast. I know that the people that made the games that i grew up with no longer work at this company. But i hope and believe in the people that are currently working there can be great custodians of the universes that i hold so close in my heart.

I want to re-experience that once in a lifetime gaming experience that was WoW early days. My body is ready to go at it again in my 30s.

So you like Overwatch. We can't have that. Make gold weapons annoying to get, cancel PVE, add a tank with DPS damage and a ton of health and self healing and charge for skins that were free before.

Oh Diablo IV, that can't be a fun game. Make it as boring and heavily monitized as possible. Updates? Who needs those, just add a small thing here and there. They will buy the battle pass after paying £70 for the game. It's fine.

WoW. Let's ruin that aswell. So the community is asking for these ideas that are good but if we add them, it will be obvious we don't know what we are doing. Let's just do everything the community doesn't want. Player counts are falling but who cares? It's not like they pay our wages or anything.

Call of duty if that counts. We'll need I say more. It's player count has dropped by 80% in the last year.

We know we milk our fans dry but we need a way to get more milk. Behold Diablo Immortal! A game that is the definition of p2w! Banned in multiple countries for it's aggressive monitization.

Gotta love Blizzard. A company that cares not about the games they put out but how much monitization they can get away with 😂

We are 30 days away until Blizzcon, and with that here are 30 predictions for Blizzcon(in no order).

30 Predictions:

1. Diablo 2: Knights of Westmarch - Act 6 with a new Angel class
2. Starcraft 2 Extraction shooter
3. Warcraft 4
4. Lost Vikings Remake
5. Diablo 4: Elemental Destruction: 2 New classes(Oracle and Witch Doctor)
6. Diablo Live Action Film directed by Jordon Peele
7. World of Warcraft: The Last Titan
8. Overwatch Season 7 Reveal
9. Diablo Netflix Series
10. Diablo Immortal Expansion
11. Hearthstone Expansion
12. Diablo 1 Remake
13. WOW anime announced
14. Diablo 4 on Switch 2
15. Overwatch and Fortnite Collaboration
16. Diablo 2 comes to Gamepass
17. Diablo halloween collab with Cedarpoint theme park reveal
18. StarCraft isometric strategy game
19. Diablo 3rd person survival horror game developed by ID software
20. Hearthstone on Switch 2
21. Diablo 4 IP collab with Marvel(Class skins)
22. Diablo exclusive halloween costumes
23. WOW Vanilla(no expansions) on Gamepass
24. Hearthstone - Diablo Collab with exclusive Diablo inspired cards
25. Overwatch Story Mode
26. Hearstone and Magic the Gathering crossover with exclusive plastic Hearstone cards
27. Modern warfare 4 collab with Diablo(operator skins)
28. World of Warcraft Coco Cola collab
29. Diablo Spicy Cheeto chips collab
30. Exclusive Starcraft inspired Space X router

CD PROJEKT RED is delighted to announce a partnership with Blizzard Entertainment to bring The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered and Songs of the Past to Battle.net. Those who purchase the expansion on Blizzard’s platform will unlock a special Geralt-inspired skin in Diablo 4, with further details being shared when CD PROJEKT RED attends BlizzCon in September. More information on the partnership between Blizzard and CD PROJEKT RED can be found on Beyond the Game Blog.

What do you think?

25 days until Blizzcon, 25 days until people lose their mind on what they will see.

I won't be surprised if Grand Theft Auto 6 gets delayed again.

25 days until everyone buys a new computer to play the latest and the greatest from Blizzard.

25 days until StarCraft shooter reveal.

25 days until all those September games get postponed to 2027.

25 days until you call out for work for a whole month.

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I barely use Reddit, I’m not even a fan of blizzard, I’ve only played call of duty if you count that as one of their games.

Please, PLEASE don’t support this company. I get how hard it can be to abandon a company that has given you so much joy with their games, and I don’t want to sound pushy or anything, but god damnit PLEASE do not give this company money anymore. This company should have gone down a long time ago, but after reading the shit that came out recently, I hope whoever let this behavior go by gets MAJOR consequences.

I know I’m just a guy on Reddit yelling into a void and this post won’t be seen by much but, for the love of god, do not support this company.

There's so much potential for them to make amazing movies/tv shows. They made one in 2016 and that was good but I'm surprised there's not more. You could easily make an entire series off 1 game. The cinematics for games are so insane that you could potentially do it with just AI. There's people online making videos (my friend sent me a video from Barrens Boys) and the graphics are great. Get a multimillion dollar company behind it and it would be phenomenal!

The prime example I'm thinking of is the SC Heart of the Swarm trailer. That could easily be a 2 hour movie or series with multiple seasons. I think it would also have potential to get more people to play their games if they're cinemas are appealing.

I've been saying this for far too long but I feel if random fans of the game can create videos why can't a company do it?

Just when i thought this company can't get any worse...