Sure, as a studio there’s going to be some artistic cross pollination but if they’d seen any kind of backlash or slow sales as a result of turning every one of their properties into a cartoon version of its former self they would have dialed that back real quick. I think there was in the past a certain tendency to give Blizzard a pass as one of the good guys in the marketplace, but really they are at the end of the day a for profit business, and if we’re honest we should ask ourselves why they turned everything into a cartoon, if I had to guess I’d say it’s probably because that sells well. There’s a reason Diablo 3 sold 20 million copies and it’s definitely not due to the grimness of the setting.
Yes, the gaming population has absolutely increased, and yes there clearly is a market for games with grim settings, however I’d be willing to bet, without any hard numbers to back it up, that the market for less grim games is higher. To celebrate here's a video from /u/Magnum256's comment that absolutely molests from the back the "it's just a prank market trend bro" crowd ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Stock Goes into FREE FALL Following EARNINGS CALLĮDIT: MFW reddit silver is actually a thing.Activision Blizzard Stocks Drop & Loses $3.7 Billion.Here's some informative videos on the topic (nothing actually brand-new but a good round-up for those r/OutOfTheLoop regarding Activision's stocks): This is not an out-of-season April Fools' joke! Now it's getting harder and harder to be this optimistic and not to imagine heads are rolling at Blizzard/ATVI HQ. When the stock began falling I agreed with what some people said that it would be a temporary setback and Blizzard would recover in a few weeks time. If you look at the variation from the past month, there has been nothing short of a 28,78% drop in value. I know this isn't solely because of the D:I drama but also everything from Activision's Destiny 2 underperforming to Hearthstone getting some major competition from Valve in a couple weeks with r/Artifact (and actually a lot more too).
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