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    Well you may as well just make Diablo 4 at that point.
    Kind of the crux of the classic fad, really. Spend resources regurgitating a 15+ year old game for minimal profit, or shoot for something entirely new that becomes the next hit? If anything, my skepticism for D4 is heightened by those trying to make it more like D2 than a cumulative evolution of things learned across the genre and gaming at large.

    As for PoD, I just couldn't get into it. Some of the game's issues are literally hard-baked into the engine and no amount of modding could fix prior to 1.09 when I worked on 7L or now. It's just sort of a similar ennui I've experienced when trying to play Lufia or Suikoden 1 after playing their sequels.

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    So much for those "record profits" I suppose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Corrderio View Post
    So much for those "record profits" I suppose.
    https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/st...12367100231680

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    Wasn't that 30 mil just a hire bonus or am I thinking of another person?

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    Kotick's been with them for years. You're thinking of someone else.

    Bobby made so much money that even shareholders were uneasy about it. Not that they did anything about it because "hey record profits baby!"

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    Yeah I think it was a new CFO that got a 15 million hire bonus now that I think about it

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    Yeah, Jim Sterling always goes hard on Kotic as he's considered one of the biggest overpaid ceo's across pretty much any business, as well as just being a piece of shit

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    I know a lot of people have and honestly can't blame them with some of their stunts.

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    It's cool all. Just go buy WoW Shadowlands. Keep that ball rollin' for the fat cats.

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    https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...uction-demands
    Activision-Blizzard has plans to hire over 2,000 people to meet upcoming production demands, according to CEO Bobby Kotick.

    This was shared in an interview with GamesBeat following the release of the company's third quarter financial results today.

    This need to staff up comes just a year and a half after the company laid off over 800 people at the same time that it announced a year of record revenue.

    More recently, it also shut down its office in Versailles, France earlier this month. It is unknown how many were impacted, but the number is estimated to be somewhere in the hundreds.

    It has also shut down its offices in The Hague, Netherlands this year.

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    I'm sure there's gonna be a few "you took the bagels from the break room but donated HOW much to the gop?!"

    Theyre losing talent left and right, products gave started becoming ass, and im sure that won't help on the margins lol.

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    He gave to Moscow Mitch.

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    I know it got mentioned in a couple other threads already, but a bit more info about Vicarious Visions being absorbed into Blizzard, and what they're working on:
    https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/st...67792756510721
    https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/st...77638507663362

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    No wonder hots turned to shit 3ish years ago

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    Blizzard fans hoping to hear about Overwatch 2 or Diablo 4 release dates at Blizzard’s upcoming BlizzConline 2021 will want to temper their expectations. Publisher Activision Blizzard said in an earnings call on Thursday that neither game is expected to be released in 2021. No release window was given.
    https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/4/222...ease-date-2022

    What's the opposite of hype?

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    Disappointment? Either way I'm not surprised given the pandemic.

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