The lengthy list of issues the company has been facing eventually led to the announcement that Microsoft would be purchasing Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion. Union busting? Yep! Sexual harassment allegations? Oh yes! Protecting its out-of-touch leadership? You bet! Employees of the company staged walkouts in November and December 2021 to protest these issues and ask that company leaders like CEO Bobby Kotick be held accountable for their role in the company’s “frat-boy culture.” Roll a dice covered in terrible things a company might do, and Blizzard has most likely done it. Is Immortal enough to help Blizzard? - The most notable thing Activision Blizzard has been up to in this prolonged release hiatus has to be the company’s general lack of ability to treat employees well. Not to mention the upcoming Dragonflight expansion.Įmployees staged a walkout in November of last year. In the time since Overwatch was first released, WoW has released three expansions: Legion, Battle for Azeroth, and Shadowlands. Of note is that this drought also doesn't consider the massive amount of work that the team at Blizzard has put into World of Warcraft during those 6 years. The most notable release during the long draught was Diablo II: Resurrected, a remastered version of the 2000 title. As previously mentioned, Overwatch 2is actively in development with an ongoing beta. In those years, Blizzard has been developing multiple projects. The Blizzard side of things, however, hasn’t been sitting on its laurels. It’s uncommon for a large publisher like Blizzard to go half a decade without a new game release, even if the larger Activision Blizzard keeps pumping out Call of Duty games at a breakneck pace. Before this 6-year drought, the longest Blizzard had ever gone without releasing a new game was the period between the company’s MMO World of Warcraft and StarCraft II - which were released 2072 days apart. That’s a 6-year-old game with a sequel in beta testing right now. What has Blizzard been up to? - We need to go back to the release of Overwatch to find the most recent new game from Blizzard.
It feels like a lifetime since Overwatch was released.
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