Iconic figures like Jeff Kaplan and Mike Morhaime have departed the company, along with many, many others. Blizzard used to be my favorite dev by a country mile, emphasis on used to be, because, after repeated controversies around esports, mass layoffs, the terrible remaster of Warcraft III, and the gradual decline of World of Warcraft's quality, the death of Starcraft, I'm not sure I have a lot of love left. I've written previously about my fears that Activision's corporate "Kotick needs a new yacht" culture has been eroding Blizzard's quality, and it's easy to blame the evil parent company for everything that has gone wrong at the publisher in recent years. Source: Square Enix (Image credit: Source: Square Enix) Regardless, he gives Sylvanas back her soul as "thanks" for helping him, apparently making her mortal again, while allowing the leaders of the Horde and the Alliance to escape. Then, despite being supremely evil and often shown to be needlessly vengeful. She seems to realize that The Jailer is just using her as a tool, which was blindingly obvious from the outset in and of itself. what may represent "good business." Sylvanas' story has been drawn out for years, and increasingly it feels like they keep her around for the merchandising and branding opportunities above everything else.ĭespite killing thousands of innocents to contribute to The Jailer's mysterious (and, as of yet unknown) intentions, at the end of the raid in the latest update, Sylvanas seems to get a change of heart, attacking The Jailer. It stands apparent from the latest update, Chains of Dominion, that Blizzard is caught between what it should do to maintain a coherent story vs.
After years of gradually slipping quality in the house of World of Warcraft, the characters I'd grown to love for the past two decades, all the way back to the Warcraft III days, were one of the few things keeping me interested in the game.
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