Why all the hate on Blizzard?

[Bulletinmybrain]

Because WoW slowly eats away at your soul.

Signed,

A slightly annoyed gamer.


(Those who say they hate wow, still play wow. Why? Because it is the best mmo to date, and practically influenced all mmos thereafter.)


BUT, what I can say about blizzard is that their WoW support is fooking excellent. Hell, even if you're a dumbass and get your account hacked they'll do an account rollback and get you your stuff back.

Inb4 will of forsaken nerf. (If you get this, give yourself a cookie)

 

[Crapster]

I don't hate Wizard, but I am disappointed that the characters that made the lore of the Warcraft series fairly incredible are being turned into end bosses to be unceremonious killed again and again in order to farm gold and exp...

 

[Stalk3rchief]

if you rearrange the letters in 'blizzard' you get 'al qaeda'

This pretty much sums it up.
Of course there's also that nasty business about the swine flu, but they managed to blame that one on Treyarch.
I am not fooled!

 

[asinann]

I don't have a problem with Blizzard, I have a problem with Actiblizzard.

 

[hypothetical fact]

Because I hate the repetitious gameplay of WOW which has earnt them millions and inspired every other mmo dev to follow the same grinding path. Everquest and Ultima did it first but WOW ensured that it isn't going anywhere.

 

[ZombieVictor]

Everything is the best thing ever and the worst thing ever.

 

[Bat Vader]

With any large company especially a game company there will be hate towards that company. People have different opinions on what they think of things.

I only play WoW and therefore have not enough information to like or dislike Blizzard.

 

[Bofore13]

I think that it has something to do with their inability to release Starcraft 2

 

[jboking]

Then they started making Starcraft: Ghost, and I was like "SWEET that looks awesome!". Halfway through they hired Swingin' Ape Studios, developers of Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, to complete Starcraft: Ghost. Now, Metal Arms was the first game by Ape Studios, and also had potential for a sequel. I was looking forward to seeing this studio do more games since Metal Arms was long, had some nifty ideas and introduced new and fun tools the entire game through. At some point Blizzard swallowed Swingin' Ape Studios up as their "console division".

What...I had no clue this had happened. I loved playing Metal Arms. It was a great game. It was the first game I found that gave me the ability to control my enemies if they were too big to defeat. I still have said game in my ps2 collection. I just figured the studio went under. I had no clue that the reason I never got to see a sequel was because of Blizzard...This changes so much. I mean, I already didn't care for Blizzard, but now...damn.

I suppose that is a new reason for why I don't like Blizzard, but I already had a few.

My original reason for not liking Blizzard is because I know I can't play WoW. Not because I can't afford it, not because I wouldn't have fun with it, but because I know what kind of person I am. I get addicted to certain things easily and once addicted it is incredibly difficult for me to stop. I played the 10 day free trial of WoW. I started playing my first character at around 5pm and by the time I finished I had a Night Elf Warrior at level 20, it was also 4am. I had no clue that much time had passed. It ate my life without me knowing it. I just simply couldn't let that continue.

Sure, regular games eat my time, but I at least have a concept of how much time they are eating up and can manage my playtime accordingly.

Of course, just as anyone else, I've lost a few friends WoW. Sadly, I also lost a girlfriend. Before she started playing we really got along and talked about politics and philosophy. After playing for about three months she just kind of lost interest in all of the things that drew us together. Damn shame.

 

[Gawspel]

Blizzard is a fine company, I'm just opposed to having being pay repeatedly to play a game that they already bought at the store.

 

[KaiusCormere]

Stracraft is indisputably one of the best, if not the best, RTS game of all time and is one of the most widely played tournament games in the world.

I personally dispute that Starcraft is one of the best RTS games. It bored me within a week back in the late 90's when I bought it.

 

[Jimmyjames]

Just the latest example of Fanboy rage. People that consume entertainment always need something to complain about these days.

 

[joe the janitor]

They dropped brutal legend then sued them saying they still owned them. That's why I hate blizzard. Although that was after they merged with activision.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I only hate WoW from Blizzard but really I think its because so many friends lose other friends to WoW that they have this indescribable hate towards it for making such a damn addicting game.

Blizzard is a fine company, I'm just opposed to having being pay repeatedly to play a game that they already bought at the store.

hah this is the biggest excuse I use to NOT play WoW

I personally still play Diablo I and II and Starcraft so I can't hate a company that makes such awesome games and is coming out with a Diablo III and Starcraft II

 

[Tanfastic]

I love Blizz, they made some awesome RTSes, though i'm not a fan of any Diablo's and never will be. Also WoW is was I have to do during my day since all my buds live uptown so I play that unless some big happenin' comes along. For all those Blizz haters due to them "destroying Warcraft lore" Guess what?! Stuff changes! IRL to believe it or not, Obama hasn't been president forever, China hasn't had that wall forever, the war in Iraq hasn't been going on forever. L2<3change.

 

[VeX1le]

I don't have a problem with Blizzard, I have a problem with Actiblizzard.

what about microbungie? than again they did split.

 

[Yokai]

I don't hate them, I just think they made some excessively poor choices turning the Warcraft series into an MMO before the storyline was wrapped up. It screwed everything up and obliterated the excellent storytelling shown in Warcraft III.

Also, they're becoming increasingly corporate, pumping out all this WoW merchandise and such. If you look on their website, the news updates are almost never information about the games themselves, but about Blizzcon, or Blizzard on Twitter/Facebook/Youtube etc, or some new bit of faffery like World of Warcraft steins.

I don't hate the company, I just wish they'd focus more on their games, and leave WoW behind for at least a little bit. I'm far more interested in SC2 and D3 than Cataclysm.

For all those Blizz haters due to them "destroying Warcraft lore" Guess what?! Stuff changes! IRL to believe it or not, Obama hasn't been president forever, China hasn't had that wall forever, the war in Iraq hasn't been going on forever. L2<3change.

You're right about this, but that's not the way Blizzard handles it. Using your analogy, it'd be like if we all woke up one day in 2007 and suddenly Obama was president, and had been elected in 2004. It's a convoluted, clumsy alternate-history thing that completely breaks the continuity. It doesn't feel like stuff changed in a realistic manner, it feels like some all-powerful being came in, switched everything around, fucked with the space-time continuum, and then yelled at all us mere mortals to shut up about it. Well, that's just my opinion.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Well, you can dislike the fans of Blizzard but the company doesn't deserve hate. I myself am pretty opposed to them because they made Wow and it makes me miserable but those guys made Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo.

 

[Nouw]

Starcraft? The best RTS ever? Sarcasm? A yes!

Starcraft is not a great game. Neither a good one. Warcraft speaks awesome. Wow speaks average fun. Diablo speaks bad graphics and not-mah-kind-of-thing.

Starcraft copyed some of the best. Yes the best SCIENCE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES EVER!

Aliens.Predator.WH40K(not heavily) and Starship Troopers. This may not be fact. But the lore and design certainly looks like it.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Because some people really hate MMO games, and Blizzard made one of the most successful MMO games. Thus, they hate Blizzard because of this.

for me, I hate them not because WoW got successful, but because I played it for a month or so and realized how bad it is.
I hate them for making something as mind-numbingly repetitive as WoW.
Diablo has always been a far superiour series in gameplay and story, and I'm absolutely stoked for III.
That, and Blizzard are pretty well renowned for their poor customer service and their "i don't give a crap attitude".
That's why "All the hate on Blizzard".
We don't hate blizzard because it got popular, we hate it because we miss the good ole days when their games didn't suck.