Fired Blizzard Employee leaks hilarious insider information - Probably fake but entertaining

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It seems unlikely to be real, but it's an intersting insight into the publics perception of Blizzard and fears about where they're going. The Blizzard of old earned a lot of good will but it's long since cashed it in, the company that made Diablo 1-2 and actual Warcraft games is long dead.
 
It’s come out that Blizz is redoing art or outright changing some Hearthstone cards to “tone down the sex and violence”. Not exactly the thread topic but it paints a bad picture.

Most people suspect it's their attempt at pandering to the Chinese again. In fact, the only reason the Warcraft movie was considered a success is because of China - everyone else thought it was ass.

According to Blizzard, they said that it was not specifically because of China, but it's pretty hard to buy that reasoning. Not to mention that Ubisoft tried to make similar censorship changes in Rainbow6 Siege, and they flat out admitted that it was to pander to China, causing a massive community outrage that brought Ubisoft to their senses, and then chose not to make those changes. I don't think Blizzard, as how they are now, are the type to go back on these kinds of changes though.
 
There was some hoopla around one of Blizzard's titles, and I think this is the best place to address it.

Around 2 days ago, Hearthstone got an update. It's all fine and good, but what got many people's panties in a twist were the card art updates. 8 cards had their art updated, with 2 of them even having their name changed.

The original art:

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This is not the first time Blizzard changes in-game art. Approximately 4 months ago Jaina Proudmoore's ample bosom got the cleavage cover-up treatment.

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Are they sticking everyone with these changes? Blizzard has censored things in the past for the Chinese market but it only effected the Chinese editions of the games.
 
Are they sticking everyone with these changes? Blizzard has censored things in the past for the Chinese market but it only effected the Chinese editions of the games.
Yes, these changes affect everyone and are permanent. Hearthstone related sites, such as Battle.net forums and Hearthpwn.com were buzzing with activity after the announcement.
 
Yes, these changes affect everyone and are permanent. Hearthstone related sites, such as Battle.net forums and Hearthpwn.com were buzzing with activity after the announcement.

And they're currently looking for community managers to stomp this flame out as we speak.

In part because they have none.



Remember those layoffs from about a couple of months ago, where 800 people were being laid-off from Activision-Blizzard? As it turned out, most (if not all) of them were community managers. And one of those ex-managers is not happy about this listing.

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Said current community manager is also in very hot water after responding disingenuously to his own post asking for team members, blocking the ex-manager after she spoke out, and letting slip that the people currently in those positions (himself included) don't even have college degrees despite what the listing on the site says.

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Fuck old employees, rehiring people's for losers. :biggrin:
 
Man I'm just glad that sever emulation is getting to the point where it can be done entirely offline with the option of LAN and be set up within minutes for WoW.

California is eating Blizzard alive, this is Don't You Guys Have Phones? 2.0

You drove the nerds away and in their place you got incompetents.
 
Man I'm just glad that sever emulation is getting to the point where it can be done entirely offline with the option of LAN and be set up within minutes for WoW.

California is eating Blizzard alive, this is Don't You Guys Have Phones? 2.0

You drove the nerds away and in their place you got incompetents.
Would wow be better as a single player party-based RPG?
 
A small follow-up on the Hearthstone situation - one of the reporters at Kotaku reached out to Blizzard to ask them about the card art changes. This is what they had to say:

The recent changes were applied to make those cards more visually cohesive and consistent with the art style of Hearthstone today. When Hearthstone first launched, we brought in a lot of artwork from the physical World of Warcraft trading card game. In the years since, Hearthstone has developed a look, feel, and personality of its own that distinguishes it from that of Warcraft—though we still love being a part of that universe. We’ll always be looking for ways to deliver on the game’s unique style, charm, and personality.

PC Gamer also had an interview with Blizzard, where they state that China has nothing to do with the changes and it was to tone down the portrayals of sex and violence:

In this case, however, China had nothing to do with it. Lead mission designer Dave Kosak told us that after reviewing the full Hearthstone set, Blizzard decided that the art on some of the cards simply didn't meet its standards, and that Blizzard "wouldn't print those same cards today." "We went back and really just brought everything up to our standards," Kosak said. "It wasn't because we were looking at ratings, or international [regulations], or anything like that. We really just wanted our artists to feel good about everything in the set."
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Kosak confirmed that some of the changes were aimed at toning down the portrayals of sex and violence in the game (although designer Liv Breeden noted that one card, Headcrack, was updated because it was just too dark and hard to read) but emphasized that the decision was driven not by external forces, but "just kind of bringing it up to the standards we felt really good about today."

This won't necessarily be the last batch of Hearthstone card art to be changed: Kosak said that Blizzard doesn't have any immediate plans, that it is "always evaluating the set and looking at it."
 
Blizzard's exceptional, but this is obvious fucking bait. OP is a fag as usual.

We know Diablo Immortal is for Mobile, being developed by NetEase
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We know at Blizzcon the Vice CEO said they were making an aggressive mobile push.
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So give me a reason to believe Blizzard over some random guy. I mean that's the point it's at now.
 
We know Diablo Immortal is for Mobile, being developed by NetEase
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We know at Blizzcon the Vice CEO said they were making an aggressive mobile push.
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So give me a reason to believe Blizzard over some random guy. I mean that's the point it's at now.

> sequel to Overwatch (unconfirmed) not having any white male heroes
> FFXIV Online not allowed to be discussed (why? who knows)
> WoW dipped below 1m subs


Do you think Blizzard is this dumb? (answer, yes because social justice bad. ffs are the right wingers turning into NPCs too?)

Bet you also spread the old copypasta about Blizzard being full of Jews that originated on Stormfront. Sorry, but doing reactionary shit over a company having some sort of social justice values is really played out and retarded most of the time.
 
> sequel to Overwatch (unconfirmed) not having any white male heroes
> FFXIV Online not allowed to be discussed (why? who knows)
> WoW dipped below 1m subs


Do you think Blizzard is this dumb? (answer, yes because social justice bad. ffs are the right wingers turning into NPCs too?)

Bet you also spread the old copypasta about Blizzard being full of Jews that originated on Stormfront. Sorry, but doing reactionary shit over a company having some sort of social justice values is really played out and exceptional most of the time.

I just have to point you to the Democratic debate really. These are government politicians acting like speds, I can believe corporations can be speds too. Well... in this day and age.
 
I just have to point you to the Democratic debate really. These are government politicians acting like speds, I can believe corporations can be speds too. Well... in this day and age.

I just wonder what happened to taking shit on the Internet with a grain of salt instead of taking shit blindly as fact because you don't like PC culture.
 

Nothing wrong with believing things, I just think people should be realistic and think if a post like this actually sounds real or if you're just doing a knee-jerk reaction because of current year culture. I just think this Blizzard post is so incredibly poorly written that there's no way it's not bait.
 
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