Did you guys short Activision Blizzard?

warcraft 3 remaster. it's pretty much pointless, though. starcraft II LotV is much, much faster, much more complex and more interesting to watch in terms of eSports. at least with the broodwar remaster that came out recently, there is a still an ongoing player-base and a large audience: koreans.

nobody cares about wc3 anymore, though. the things that made it great were esports (completely dead now) and the minigames like DotA (which has been outsourced in the form of LoL and is dead in its original form).
hence the only people who will buy/play this are nostalgic 35-year-old boomers.

Solid DD, buying debit spreads monday ty. Far OTM call options if I'm feelin like playing hearthstone too.

Bought 3 stock worth about $55 each on friday afternoon each with a stop loss at $50.

There was a time when coders in the video game industry were all just mega nerds that actually loved to code and while they made okay money, it was something they were genuinely passionate enough about to devote their lives to. This is what produced some of the best video games that were ever made. Sadly, the video game industry, along with the rest of the tech industry these days, is flooded with these assholes that heard from a friend of a friend about how much money they could make if they learned a few lines of Javascript, and they've taken over and they just half-ass everything just for a nice paycheck. It's all about cutting costs and making fancy graphics, while gameplay quality takes a back seat now.

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video games are for children and NPCs, who gives a fuck how shit the industry is

only care about how much money it can make me

how is this Jow Forums-related?
you can't just add "short" or "long" to any topic and its magically business-related, you faggot

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>starcraft II LotV is much, much faster, much more complex and more interesting to watch in terms of eSports.

>implying the speed of the game matters
>implying wc3 isn't fast
watch grubby you stupid faggot and then comment that again.

WC3 is the best game ever created. It literally created MOBAS.

Because the stock took a massive shit and it could be a good buy opportunity

it has no reason to exist anymore.
if you actually like RTS, starcraft 2 is a much better game in virtually every aspect.
if you like "muh epic hero battles", there is LoL now.

There are lots of good games still user. Dwarf Fortress being one of them.

>it has no reason to exist anymore.
Except they're completely overhauling and upgrading the world editor so we're going to see some amazing creations just like wc3sd had.
SC2 is literally the most boring macro-fest on the planet. Micro is WAY more fun than macro. Faggot.
The heroes in wc3 are more fun to use than in mobas because you have to worry about armies.

Stick to casual games, faggot. I bet you're a fucking bronze SC2 player.

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>some weird pink haired heroin tranny or maybe just a hideous heroin-addicted girl talking obnoxiously within the first 3 seconds of the video

fuck watching that shit nigga

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dude i was level 50+ on northrend, i literally played several thousand games as random - but compared to sc2 it is nothing.
>macrofest
that is just a poor excuse for "i am overwhelmed by how much more work it is".
>micro is fun
micro is *easy*. any fag can pay attention to a single group of units in from of them - multitasking (which wc3 barely had - there almost never was splitting of armies and often one base games the entire game) actually requires skill.
the skill difference is absolutely insane - i went from rank ~100-150 northrend to fucking diamond league (grandmaster > master > diamond > ... ) in sc2 because it was that much more difficult.
anyone who takes RTS seriously will laugh at muh "omg he blocked with a wisp !!!! LE EPIC!!!!11111"

>casual games
i was masters league from ~2012 to 2014 so yeah, try again.
i get that you're hurt - you're probably on "the spectrum" and nostalgic about wc3 - but it is objectively much less demanding than sc2. people like moon tried to succeed in sc2 and spectacularly failed because they couldn't make the transition from "OMG MUH MICRO" to macro.
also: LotV added all those dropship-micro battles that for instance moon was so known for. they are now integral part of the meta, except that players are doing 3 other things simultaneously aswell.
stay mad, newbie :D

Hell I played in vanilla and have no interest in replaying it . Rather have legacy BC or wotlk.

>muh complexity = fun
no. why do you think no one plays SC2 anymore LOOOOOL because it's full of tryhard faggots and it's not fun. WC3 is fun.

Enjoy your game dying when WC3R comes out faggot. The resurgence of WC3 is upon you. MILLIONS of players will come back, MILLIONS of new players will join us, and they will stay because it's simply the best RTS ever made.

it just turned from "oh well, it's just a hurt autist defending his favorite nostalgia game" to pure cringe.
>muh complexity = fun
are you a michael bay fan by any chance?
fucking kek

Wc3 kinda sucked to be honest

you're probably a beta faggot that's why

>it's literally nothing
I mean, I don't expect much from the asspie faggots on biz.

but it did suck
it was so simple that I couldn't even finish the campaign out of boredom

the only reason it was exciting were those "le epic hero battles".

- balancing was absolute SHIT throughout the entire game + TFT
- builtin RNG elements (units randomly dealing +/- 10% damage by default, random items etc.) reducing strategy factor even further
- much slower than sc2. just compare "huntresses" to "roaches" (same units basically) for a visual.
- micro only has a "wow"-factor when you're a 14-year-old 30 APM newbie with a ball mouse who played nothing but the campaign
- positioning especially was basically nonexistent compared to sc2. just run the fuck in, and if you fucked up? haha use a town portal.

you can rewatch grubby and moon microbattles all you want. they both tried to transition to sc2, and they both failed despite their best efforts. not only that: they failed in vanilla, where the game was much more similar to wc3 with less multitasking than today. you really can't make this shit up.
if you like your "OMG LE HERO ESCAPED WITH 3 HP" shit so much, play LoL like all the other reddit normie low IQ losers :-)

Maybe this is reason why stock prize is going down . they are not capable to earn money from their customers

>playing campaign
found your problem
also multiplayer is the best

wrong
RNG can be fun
slower == le bad LEL XD kys retard
micro is much more intense based on how high of a skill level you are. Again, go watch pros like grubby.
Positioning didn't matter? Oh boy now I really know you were never good at wc3

SC2 is a trash game in comparison to SC1 and it's barely hanging on in korea. Good riddance. The custom maps are absolute GARBAGE too.

My friend from highschool got 8th seed to wc3 worlds and took a game off of grubby by raiding grubby's expo party and destroying his escape zeppelin over a cluster of trees with an arrow. There was no valid place for the units to get out of the zeppelin so they all died. Lmao what a shit game

that can happen in sc1-2 too it's a part of the risk of air transports you fucking retard

If you wanna get all butthurt because the announcement was poorly timed and tone deaf fine, but if you start to argue it's the end of the company you are functionally retarded. EZ Buy. Mobile games are cash printing machines. Look at FEH, that shit mobile waifu simulator made more money than any mainline FE game.

Okay, so I've heard that Diablo Immortal is targeted at the Chinese audience

BUT

I've also heard that Diablo Immortal is a literal clone of a game that already exists in China

Don't these seem contradictory? As soon as a Chinese gamer picks up Diablo Immortal and notices its just a clone of a game he already played, he won't spend any money on it, right?

Because there are zero good games on mobile. If a game is getting ported to mobile it will suck. It will become pay or have no fun. It will be about the money while screwing the story and the fanbase over.

> Again, go watch pros like grubby
i was literally at ESL in cologne and met him back when it was a tiny 30-seater room on the first floor. you have no fucking idea how much wc3 (and sc2) i played. the very reason that i think so little of it now is that i used to think so highly of it back then.
armies were always stacked in wc3 due to dying stray units giving XP to enemy heroes that aren't even in the vicinity. this meant you could never lose single units and thus never really multitask. it's a GIGANTIC and very elemental game design flaw that punishes everyone who is capable of paying attention to more than just the displayed units in front of him and the hotkeyed production buildings.
it would still be an epic game if heroes only gained XP for units either hit by them first or directly next to them and i am surprised they never even saw this.
>Positioning didn't matter?
compared to sc2 it didn't matter much, no.
>what is high ground
>what is army splitting (see above)

one ball of units microed against another ball of units is only impressive if you are a fucking noob

>The custom maps are absolute GARBAGE too.
lel, you are bringing up map pools yourself? are you sure?
>muh lost temple
no fucking map rotation whatsoever for basically a decade. very impressive.

> As soon as a Chinese gamer picks up Diablo Immortal and notices its just a clone of a game he already played, he won't spend any money on it, right?
have you played diablo 2 and then path of exile? the different chapters even have very similar themes (jungle, desert etc.) and players are paying like 30$ each for single armor piece skins that do nothing

>it would still be an epic game if heroes only gained XP for units either hit by them first or directly next to them and i am surprised they never even saw this.

This tells me you don't play WC3. It's been like this for a very long time. You can split XP hero creep now you fucking retard. You don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.

Positioning definitely matters. For you to think otherwise tells me that you're a good liar.

>one ball of units microed against another ball of units is only impressive if you are a fucking noob

If this is your representation of wc3 you clearly never played at a high level like you're saying.

>lel, you are bringing up map pools yourself? are you sure?

Big fan of custom maps when I don't feel like laddering. WC3's customs are far more intriguing and addictive. SC2's are mostly weird and not fun at all.

Why change what isn't broken? LT is a great map.

the thread is about shorting. the stock is tanking because they fucked their core audience. why are you so triggered by this?

DF and CDDA ftw

>Positioning definitely matters.
demon hunter in front is not positioning you goddamn moron
>This tells me you don't play WC3
i stopped playing in ~2006 when i switched to online poker like most sensible people back then. if they made changes after that i honestly dgaf. ladder was pretty much dead even before that.
i notice that you didn't adress the abysmal balancing (NE was overpowered throughout almost all patches) at all, with many heroes being basically unusable (pit lord?)
>Big fan of custom maps when I don't feel like laddering
omg you still actually play? wow, that's just sad. do you donate to grubby, too, so he'll do your fun-strat of choice?
>If this is your representation of wc3 you clearly never played at a high level like you're saying.
AGAIN: i am comparing this to fucking sc2 masters league you dense motherfucker

wc3 would be sc2 and LoL's bastard child. it is a mixture that no one needs anymore - the RnG factor and the almost complete lack of multitasking makes it RTS light and other games do "muh hero battles" better.
be nostalgic all you want, i am not judging that, but please don't try to tell me that wc3 is a serious strategy game - that's just fucking pathetic.
i am not impressed by your wisp block, you creeping with 2 footies and a water elemental and POSITIONING 50/80 OF UNITS IS NOT AS DIFFICULT AS 200/200

your opinion is trash and so are you

ahahahaha
just make sure to spend 20$ on-stream to your hero grubby so he'll win with tinker first because HE'S SO DAMN EPIC.
not epic enough to succeed in sc2, but damn epic in a strategy game with 20 units max. that runs in slow-mo on default

All mobile games are basically timesink grindfests.
That describes arpgs too i suppose

Masters tier wasn't even a thing until the 2014 season.

KYS FAGGOT JESUS JUST GET OUT
GO PLAY TRASH STOP ESPOUSING IT FFS WC3 IS A LEVEL OF GAMING U WERE TOO DUMB TO EVER EXPERIENCE APPARENTLY JUST GTFO