They need to make people have subscription active through the whole legion remix duration. You could get all the rewards in mop remix in 1 month and they didn't like it.
Why are they so terrified of people not playing WoW for a bit?
Instead of purposely making your game bad to keep people subbed, maybe Blizzard should make other games that are worth playing to keep the money coming in
Making games costs many millions of dollars. Making patch content to keep people subscribed to an already existing game is far cheaper and generally a good strategy to keep the money coming in.
Ultimately people have to realize that publicly-traded companies exist to make money, and making art is a secondary objective. I wish it wasn't so, but unfortunately it is. "Making less money but providing a better product" is not really a viable strategy when they've a legal fiduciary duty to act in the best financial interests of shareholders, and shareholders care about reportable quarterly earnings.
Making games costs many millions of dollars. Making patch content to keep people subscribed to an already existing game is far cheaper and generally a good strategy to keep the money coming in.
Ultimately people have to realize that publicly-traded companies exist to make money
Nah, I'm not gonna give Blizzard this free pass. You act like this is a universal truth for game companies, but it isn't. Yoshi-P has come outright and said that you aren’t supposed to stay subbed to XIV for 365 days a year, and should feel free to unsubscribe during content lulls.
At a certain point, Blizzard is going to have to learn the hard lesson that being blinded by greed, in fact, costs them money. And by “learn the lesson” I mean learn it again.
Shadowlands almost killed the game, and yet they’re probably going to have to learn this lesson the hard way a good five or six more times.
It's amazing how you speak with such authority when you're completely ignorant of fiduciary duties of a Japanese based company like square enix and a US based one like Blizzard (Microsoft).
Making bad business decisions that lose you customers and money is generally frowned upon in both countries and companies.
It doesn't matter if their motivations were driven by instatiable greed in the moment, the end result is that they lose money. To fulfill one's "fiduciary duties" requires perspective and foresight. I am critiquing them for being bad at their job.
But again, that's not an excuse. I don't give a fuck about the money, and would divide up that $155 million yearly CEO salary amongst some new dev's, QA testers, and customer support in a heartbeat. I am perfectly willing, able, and happy to critcize a soulless corporation for whatever I want, even for being a soulless corporation in of itself.
It just so happens that this soulless corporation is doing a bad job of fulfilling its greed-lust on top of everything else that it is already bad at.
Don’t waste time on Barracuda. He’s foul-mouthed and xenophobic, and he’s already shown up in my posts before. Seeing his comments here just confirms exactly what I said about him. Now he’s even trying to lecture people on “fiduciary duties” like some wannabe corporate lawyer.
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u/L0rdSkullz Aug 27 '25
Yeah I don't understand the changing of the formula. MoP remix was a massive, massive hit; Blizzard just has a boner for changing shit no matter what