tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post4131622387729373916..comments2024-03-18T19:38:53.390-04:00Comments on Parallel Context: A Lack of SomethingRedbeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-37672329754439064782015-11-09T16:40:51.773-05:002015-11-09T16:40:51.773-05:00I don't think it's that they're fed up...I don't think it's that they're fed up with WoW per se, but the subscriber numbers became a noose around their collective necks. When the numbers are going up, everything is fine, but when they're not....<br /><br />At the same time, it seems pretty plain to me that Bobby Kotkick has been planning on milking that WoW cash cow as much as he can to fund other projects. "Take the money out of WoW and pump it into other games" is what it seems to be, and now that WoW's subscriber numbers are declining into BC territory, the corporate response is to hide the numbers and rush into place another method of determining the health of the product.<br /><br />This whole debacle makes me wonder whether Blizzard would be better off without Activision.Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287859335174901821.post-59583528808484173292015-11-07T04:16:22.849-05:002015-11-07T04:16:22.849-05:00It definitely feels like the end of an era. No lon...It definitely feels like the end of an era. No longer will people be able to hold up WoW as the gold standard that other MMOs can't measure up against... because there's nothing to measure.<br /><br />It really feels scarily like someone at the top of ActiBlizzard is seriously fed up with WoW. Not that I expect them to stop working on it or anything... but their heart doesn't seem to have been in it for quite a while. I'd really like to know what's going on behind the scenes, and how a studio that is so big and makes so much money can have so little output these days.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.com