This is your chance bros.. Sign up for Blizzcon.
Pay 1000's of dollars to be locked in a room with fat sweaty whales in dresses to have marketing jargon crammed down your throat.
Sign me up. Hype!!!!
(This is literally a horror movie.. I'd be scared as **** IRL..)
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I went there from 2014 through 2018. I used to like the panels, such as the panels on how they made the cinematics, or the panel with the environment artists on how they made the zones. It's a shame that I can't find most of these panels on Youtube. Some of them were really informational. The voice actor panels also used to be fun. Key emphasis on "used to be". The last two years I went, the voice director for Overwatch wasted half of the panel time talking about diversity, rather than giving the audience what they came here for: to hear the voice actors.
What happened to Blizzard is happening to every major studio, and in fact the entire hobby. So, essentially every thread is about Blizzard. The microcosm is the macrocosm.
I went there from 2014 through 2018. I used to like the panels, such as the panels on how they made the cinematics, or the panel with the environment artists on how they made the zones. It's a shame that I can't find most of these panels on Youtube. Some of them were really informational. The voice actor panels also used to be fun. Key emphasis on "used to be". The last two years I went, the voice director for Overwatch wasted half of the panel time talking about diversity, rather than giving the audience what they came here for: to hear the voice actors.
It used to be a peek behind the curtain and a chance to hear anecdotes about how things are made. Now it is a marketing commercial delivered by diversity hires that desperately want to be working for Netflix instead.
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The only reason Blizzard is a thing is that they made Mac versions of their games in the 90s when hardly nobody else was.
This gave them a hardcore group of sycophants (the Mac cultists) who elevated the fledgling company releasing competent Warhammer/RTS clones to a top tier status. Now the Macintosh is as dead as Steve Jobs, so they've lost that core group of true believers. Oh well. Anyway.
The only reason Blizzard is a thing is that they made Mac versions of their games in the 90s when hardly nobody else was.
Everyone made mac versions back in the 90s. But then they stopped doing that during the early 2000's, which is where the "magg no game :DDDDDDDD" meme comes from. These days, most devs port to mac on a comparable scale to the glory days.
