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Brutal.

6 years of "development" with 100+ devs and nothing to show for it.

Yeah, good riddance. But maybe they'll reuse the assets for another game like did for Overwatch after they cancelled Titan.

I was like oh **** what was it, then read survival game like rust. And nothing of value of lost.

they were probably milking the company for money while dragging their feet. look at how much time they spent on d4 and's still a mess.

Up for debate, but I thought that the game was/is fine and I played it on release and then in S1. Definitely much better than D3 was during the first 2 years or so.

And they absolutely made bank with Diablo.

Cancelling any Blizzard game these days is a good thing, ALWAYS a good thing, considering Blizzard is nothing but pure garbage.

It must have sucked, no surprise how Blizzard is being redirected now that they are under Microsoft's control, ActiBliz was totally misdirected.

All these employees are worth ass, meanwhile you got random developer making a game like palworld and selling millions ayy lmao. Corporate gaming is really brain dead

Reminds me of StarCraft Ghost.

They must have looked at their 6 year old product as a giant turd after they saw Palworld come out.

Christ, there isn't even an original thought to their codenames.

The cultural dissonance is also probably hitting critical mass where they couldn't make anything before consulting several different sensitivity departments demanding conflicting changes while also being ping-ponged back and forth to upper management telling them monetize it more.No kidding.

Look at how many IPs they hold that have been collecting dust when they could have made a killing, while they hadat minimum 9 studios workingwith15 studios total dedicated to Call of Duty.

How do you manage to tie up that many studios for a single franchise, regardless of how much money it prints, when said franchise is now known for being nothing but a cringe skin shop with a multiplayer mode attached and a running joke of a campaign being loosely stapled onto that? How did it take7 studios to make Modern Warfare 3, just for Christopher Judge to roast the only reason it even exists as a standalone game in 10 words?

Theoverwhelming majority of ActiBlizz's profits, and ultimately the Call of Duty series' net profit is just low effort macro transactions and battle passes. They probably waste more money developing an entirely new excuse for a game each year when they could spit out more skins, more playablecelebritiescelebritieshuman garbage, and battle passes with the message, "you stupid apes will buy this copy-paste shít, anyways," while cutting the number of studios at least in half.

The Blizzard side isn't any better because they can't even come up with new games period, merely updating the same couple games over and over. They output more controversies than games and only continue to exist because the average Gamer™ simpanzee has the IQ of a wet pancake.