Blizzard General News

[Corrderio]

Apparently they gave a piss poir apology too the HK drama too. They didn't directly address it but kept it vague enough

[Karbuncle]

i know no one wants Diablo Immortal and their tone-deaf fucking announcement of it really poisoned that well... but honestly, I'd like to see how it plays, and how bad the monetization is. I'm not optimistic but I'm keeping my eye on it.

[6souls]

[Fiye]

That's not an apology.

[Corrderio]

I keep thinking of the BP oil spill apology from South Park when I see that

[Silenka]

Yeah, neither this nor the letter they posted a week after the incident was anything like an apology. They are not sorry for what they did, only how their playerbase reacted to it. Blizz scrambling to appease the remaining players with D4 and OW2 is honestly kind of funny since that's actually what a lot of threads and tweets from players and streamers said would need to happen to keep them around.

I may stop being mad at Blizzard by the time D4 comes out, in the far future. But I'm not holding my breath. Companies on the path to ruin don't tend to turn around and go back the way they came very often.

[Fiye]

[Silenka]

Depressingly accurate.

[Corrderio]

It's kinda glad why I never got into Blizzard games. Overwatch to me just felt like a sign things were going downhill

[Kachiko]

*wrong thread*

[6souls]

https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...1007005211/en/

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) intends to release its third quarter 2019 results after the close of the market on Thursday, November 7, 2019. In conjunction with this release, Activision Blizzard will host a conference call that will be broadcast over the internet.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time)

To listen to the call, please log onto:

http://investor.activision.com

Or dial:

U.S. and Canada: 866-548-4713

International: +1 323-794-2093

Passcode: 8907639

A presentation corresponding with the conference call will be available in Adobe Acrobat format at http://investor.activision.com . A replay of the call will also be available after the call's conclusion and archived for one year at https://investor.activision.com/events.cfm .

[BerenTebogo]

So were there really no big embarrassing protests or anything at blizzcon? I was really hoping for some juicy drama

[6souls]

There was a protest outside, but Blizz controlled the conversation inside. Two biggest moments that gamers consider embarrassing is Blizzard's non-apology to the Hong Kong incident and the Overwatch 2 announcement.

[Malithar]

From what little I saw, there were protests and people were popping in with "Free Hong Kong" quips all throughout, but they just let it all go and didn't stop anything. I don't think they responded or addressed any of it, beyond the opening remark by the CEO.

[BerenTebogo]

Lame

[Corrderio]

So were there really no big embarrassing protests or anything at blizzcon? I was really hoping for some juicy drama

Nothing major but there were peaceful protests, people handing out Free HK badges, and apparently a truck or something with Mei on it supporting HK.

[Silenka]

Honestly I didn't expect or want anything to go down at Blizzcon, it's really not the right action to take. What Blizzard does has 0 impact on Hong Kong's situation and it's better for everyone to be chill and safe if possible.

The right action to take is to just stop giving Blizzard money. Stop buying their games, stop paying the subs.

But not many people are going to do that because they'd rather have fun than make a stand, and "my contribution doesn't matter anyway".

[Ragns]

Activision Blizzard Stock Is Falling Despite Strong Results for Blockbuster Videogames

Strong results from World of Warcraft and Call of Duty titles weren’t enough to push Activision Blizzard stock higher as the videogame company disclosed its earnings.

It was as if Wall Street knew the games were doing well.

Activision stock (ticker: ATVI) was down 2.5% to $53.20 after the market closed Thursday, adding to a loss of 3.2% in regular trading hours.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/act...ts-51573167200

[6souls]

https://www.barrons.com/articles/act...ts-51573167200

https://www.wowhead.com/news=296142/...ancial-results

Acti-Bliz cares about player account numbers for the first time since 2015.

Blizzard Entertainment

• Had 33 million monthly active users (MAUs) in Q3 2019.
• The release of World of Warcraft: Classic drove the biggest quarterly subscription increase in WoW history worldwide.
• The Overwatch League™ concluded with a sell-out crowd of over 11,000 fans watching the San Francisco Shock defeat the Vancouver Titans in the Grand Finals at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia in September.
• Overwatch Season Two average minute audience grew 18% year-over-year.

Activision

• Had 36 million monthly active users (MAUs) in Q3 2019.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 reach and revenue from in-game purchases grew considerably compared to Call of Duty: WWII in Q3 2018.
• Call of Duty: Mobile reached over 100 million downloads in the first month, topping the mobile app download charts in over 150 countries and regions, with a 4.9-star rating in the U.S. iOS store.
• Year to year sales on PC grew by over 50% (Activision has noted elsewhere that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is the highest selling game in the CoD franchise in this console generation, with over $600 million in sales within the first three days).

King

• Had 247 million monthly active users (MAUs) in Q3 2019.
• Candy Crush was once again the top-grossing franchise in U.S. app stores. Year to year mobile reach has grown, driven by Candy Crush Friends Saga.
• Continued to grow profitably, with near doubling year to year net bookings.
• Is on track to exceed $100M in net bookings in 2019.

[Ragns]

Guy reacting to the Blizzard-Activision earning call where they fired 800 employees



This is pretty much why I hated every second I worked in the video game industry.