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Ecchan - Fuelled by ramen and caffeine! (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ecchaniz0r) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
The thing is, they HAVE lost subscribers, hand over fucking fist. Their playerbase has haemorrhaged. A lot of them ditched during this expansion.
Blizzard, though, has stupid tunnel vision, and instead of wondering whether the bullshit juvenilia and fucking-up of beloved characters is driving people off (see: that stupid fucking Duke Nukem game for an example of this in action...sure, people BOUGHT it, but they sure as sugar did not fucking KEEP it; the game shop nearest me has a bin full of used copies, for dirt cheap), they assume it's gameplay mechanics.
No, dumbasses, it's your repeated attempts to market to the type of guys who labelled Coors Light 'gaybeer' because the commercials full o' cheerleaders 'were trying too hard, you know those guys are hiding something hurrhurr'. It's your alienation of the WCIII fans who got WoW off the fucking ground. It's your abandonment of everything that made that game good in favour of trying to draw in the 'oldschool' RTS fans who will NEVER give you the time of day because a MMORPG is not an RTS and never will be. The 'old herd' nerds you are angling to court will never pay attention to you because they see you as SELLOUTS. And they see your player base as full of idiotic raving kids.
And so it fucking goes. They're shooting themselves in the foot so very much.
Blizzard, though, has stupid tunnel vision, and instead of wondering whether the bullshit juvenilia and fucking-up of beloved characters is driving people off (see: that stupid fucking Duke Nukem game for an example of this in action...sure, people BOUGHT it, but they sure as sugar did not fucking KEEP it; the game shop nearest me has a bin full of used copies, for dirt cheap), they assume it's gameplay mechanics.
No, dumbasses, it's your repeated attempts to market to the type of guys who labelled Coors Light 'gaybeer' because the commercials full o' cheerleaders 'were trying too hard, you know those guys are hiding something hurrhurr'. It's your alienation of the WCIII fans who got WoW off the fucking ground. It's your abandonment of everything that made that game good in favour of trying to draw in the 'oldschool' RTS fans who will NEVER give you the time of day because a MMORPG is not an RTS and never will be. The 'old herd' nerds you are angling to court will never pay attention to you because they see you as SELLOUTS. And they see your player base as full of idiotic raving kids.
And so it fucking goes. They're shooting themselves in the foot so very much.
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