I agree -- I hope they enjoy their new sausage fest.
It's also one of the things that led me to the epiphany of the OP. Acti-Blizz made a cold calculation, and people like you and me and most of the people I love and care about and enjoy playing the game with were deemed expendable. I don't know how else to interpret this. Either they knew it would silence us and they don't care, or they didn't even bother to worry about it, the cluelessness of which would be inexcusably bad for an environment this size. And that awareness it makes it less than likely that I will return to WoW -- and SC, and Diablo -- even if they reverse this, because who knows how *else* this attitude will seep out into the WoW environment.
I'm sure that the mainstream commercial gaming industry will look to Blizzard
*sighs* Probably. Well... fine. If they don't want our money, they obviously don't need it badly enough. Time I don't spend playing a game can go towards figuring out how to manifest this new vision anyway.
Re: WIGI and some studios...
It's also one of the things that led me to the epiphany of the OP. Acti-Blizz made a cold calculation, and people like you and me and most of the people I love and care about and enjoy playing the game with were deemed expendable. I don't know how else to interpret this. Either they knew it would silence us and they don't care, or they didn't even bother to worry about it, the cluelessness of which would be inexcusably bad for an environment this size. And that awareness it makes it less than likely that I will return to WoW -- and SC, and Diablo -- even if they reverse this, because who knows how *else* this attitude will seep out into the WoW environment.
I'm sure that the mainstream commercial gaming industry will look to Blizzard
*sighs* Probably. Well... fine. If they don't want our money, they obviously don't need it badly enough. Time I don't spend playing a game can go towards figuring out how to manifest this new vision anyway.