Blizzard creatively inseparable from Activision now?

[theuprising]

After playing Hearthstone, I realized something. This game has Blizzard's level of insane polish, with great UI, animations, sound effects and INSANE accessibility. Its also dumbed down version of another game and the game's depth is razor thin. Just like Call of Duty. :O

Oh how the might have fallen, its so sad seeing Diablo 3 completely overthrown by a small indie studio with a fraction of the budget. And even yet before that was Starcraft 2 and BNET 2.0, which was basically Starcraft 1 and BNET 1 with better graphics, worse story, a QUARTER of the features, and less depth. Sigh.

Lets put a bullet in this one, their name should be changed from Activision-Blizzard, to just Activision.

 

[Smooth Operator]

I prefer Actiblizzn actually, it's catchy.
But no this is very much still Blizzard M.O., those of us who played WoW for the decade that nothing else came from them know things got rubber padded on every corner so not even the dumbest child could be left behind.
No doubt Activision made them take SC2 and sell it as 3 games and that auction house is just all them, but when it comes to game creation it is all still within the Blizzard direction we came to expect, which is mostly why I don't but their games anymore.