Originally Posted by
Plow
I wouldn't say that's a stupid opinion if you consider it with a bit of depth.
Warcraft: has made no meaningful progress in close to a decade. Sure, the raiding in WoW has (mostly) gotten better. Questing direction has gotten optimized a bit. But leveling is still mindless fetching, then being at max level is shitloads of mindless fetching plus a raid. Dungeon design, if anything, has gone backwards. Dire Maul still probably stands as the most in depth, creative, and interesting dungeon in the game... 10 years later. PvP hasn't had an exciting change or addition since TBC.
Diablo: Diablo 3 is crap. Really. That franchise being called stagnant would be a compliment, cuz that would mean it was still as unique and cool as it was during Diablo 2.
Starcraft: I don't really know much about starcraft as I haven't really been able to get into RTS since age of empires 2. However, as I understand it, there's really little "new" about starcraft 2 as compared to starcraft. I certainly haven't heard about it advancing the genre in the way warcraft, original starcraft, and age of empires all did.
And then there's hearthstone and hots. Both small scale games, intended for wide audiences that don't care for any meaningful depth. Hearthstone released with like 200 cards, and HotS has been stated repeatedly to have no intentions of directly competing with dota/lol, as it's specifically designed to be a much simpler game with much less depth. (and I really hope that's true cuz having played HotS but not dota or lol, if they're really as stupid as HotS I feel really bad for people that are so obsessed with them)
When it comes to major titles, yes, Blizzard has gotten stagnant as fuck. I mean shit, this is now 2 of the last 3 expansions in WoW that straight up didn't bother with anything new, just redesigns of old areas.
If you're a gamer that's really loved Blizzard as a studio due to titles like warcraft/WoW, starcraft, and diablo... and there really was no other kind of blizzard fan until recently... then yes, the company has gone utterly and completely stagnant. There have been plenty of flash games for years that are more impressive, original, and deeper than the tripe blizzard is focused on selling now.