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Blizzard's Q4 Financials Show That The Blitzchung Controversy Probably Had No Effect

When I wrote about the top free-to-play gaming news stories of 2019, I put the Hearthstone Blitzchung controversy at #1. In doing so, however, I suspected that “I don’t think this will really have an effect, not on Blizzard or the rest of the gaming industry.”…

Lionsguard1532d ago

The truth is that no one really cares. They'll puff up a storm on comment sections but right aftewards, they probably bought a few Hearthstone packs and renewed the WoW sub for another year while buying that new $25 flying mount.

Smokehouse1532d ago

Of course not lol. I personally won’t buy a blizzard game until they support Hong Kong verbally. It’s one person but hey I do my part. They were scum to take that man’s fair winnings at China’s bidding. This is long forgotten in the average person’s attention span but I won’t forget.

neutralgamer19921532d ago

It's the vocal minority who are hypocrites. On one hand they will act mad and want their voices to be heard and on the other they will still buy the games from that company

Why you think games like COD, a, madden and fifa sell the most. Gamers refuse to speak with their wallets and that's why we have micro transactions in single player games. First it was online passes, season passes than just cosmetics. We as gamers buy games day one so if we decide to actually boycott a game it would make a huge difference. Most games or entertainment in general make their money in initial launch window

Palitera1532d ago (Edited 1532d ago )

You saying that gamers could get together and really boycott something is as realistic as proposing that all gamers unite to make a game better than these and give it for free.

annoyedgamer1532d ago

Im sure alof of former gamers went into game design then found out their favorite game deveoper, EA, Ubisoft, etc wasn't hiring.

If they knew how to pool money all those unemployed young men could make the game on their own but they were brainwashed by academia to think getting hired by the big corporations = success.

Palitera1532d ago (Edited 1532d ago )

That's not a rule at all. To be honest, the worst part of game design courses is not focusing enough on market.
Also it really depends on the person. Some people don't want to be employees, some others don't want a big company.
Finally... Not even CoD developers can make a top tier CoD anymore. How would amateurs do that?

yomfweeee1532d ago

Let me preface by saying I'm not saying this did or did not have an effect, but this article literally makes no sense in their analysis. The financials dropped. Their argument is "well it dropped in previous quarters as well". Which is true, but that isn't proof of anything. You can't rule out what affect this controversy had.

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Batman: Arkham Shadow - Official Teaser Trailer

Watch the Batman: Arkham Shadow teaser trailer for the next game in the Batman: Arkham franchise, releasing exclusively on the Meta Quest 3 in late 2024.Evil stalks the streets. Gotham City is in danger. And you’re the only one who can save it. Check out the teaser for the upcoming Batman VR game.Tune into Summer Game Fest 2024 on June 7 at 2pm PT/ 5pm ET/ 10pm BST/ June 8 at 7am AEST for the official Batman: Arkham Shadow world premiere reveal from Camouflaj and Oculus Studios, in partnership with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC.

Petebloodyonion3h ago

Nice to see some VR games following Batman Arkham!
Was a huge fan of Batman Vr on PSVR :)

shinoff218338m ago

Shame that something like this won't be on psvr2. Sony really has to step up on this front. There's a bunch of neat and nifty games out there for it. I'll end up getting one once I get caught up buying all the rpgs I've missed these last few years. Anyway I can't justify spending money on this with only a couple major vr titles. Re4 doesn't cut it for me since I was never a huge fan of the game. To see this batman as an exclusive, unless I'm wrong. Sony gotta pump something up

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Keoken Interactive lays off majority of team after failing to find funding at GDC

Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …

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mastershredder2h ago

The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.

Markdn2h ago

And when you only make a fraction of your games worth on gamepass you suffer

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New Game of Thrones Video Game In Development

Gravemaster writes: "Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire is a successful franchise, but it hasn’t had much luck when it comes to video games. Many were released, but only the one from Telltale games received more or less recognition and it was cancelled after one season anyway. Now, we have news of another Game of Thrones game in development."

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anast14h ago

The first 3 or 4 seasons were brilliantly written, then the writers ran out of steam.

SDuck5h ago

Netmarble is one of the biggest mobile developers, if that's not enough indication

DOMination-9h ago

Wow those graphics are incredible

RiseNShine5h ago

Maybe that's what Larian is working on? Or even better, an isometric Witcher CRPG like BG3, a man can dream.