heroes Imperius Spotlight

[Kurosu 58]

23 hours ago, Sholto said:

You did, when you implied that the release of this hero was somehow related to the announcement of discontinuing the support of e-sports for this game (though the game is not abandoned, despite all the Chicken Little BS).  

You think its a coincidence? LOL

[Arcling 898]

20 minutes ago, Kurosu said:

You think its a coincidence? LOL

Heroes are made and planned to release at least few months in advance, so he was likely scheduled long before cancellation of HGC had been made known. The question is, how long we will have to wait for new heroes, maps or balance changes, once they ran out of what was made before slowing down the pace of releases.

Edited January 3, 2019 by Arcling

[Sholto 32]

5 hours ago, Arcling said:

Not my fault if your attention span is that of a goldfish.

My attention span is fine.  But when you start out that incorrectly talking out your *filtered* there's no need to read further.

I picked up the phone and got direct, internal information on the HotS announcement as to what was going on and what it meant.  The banter about the announcement has been almost universally wrong, but that's not out of the norm here or the WoW forums.  I got hinted to at BlizzCon that something like this was coming because it was confirmed to me then that the game was financially in trouble (hence being unable to afford to bill to Blizzard's own cinematics team, which is like, a first).  Hell, last year at BlizzCon it was not really pulling its weight.

Edited January 4, 2019 by Sholto

[Arcling 898]

12 hours ago, Sholto said:

My attention span is fine.  But when you start out that incorrectly talking out your *filtered* there's no need to read further.

If you start with generic internet response: <insert quoted text here> Stopped reading after that. Don't bother replying if you don't have anything constructive to say. If you didn't read rest of the post, missed whole meaning.

[Teufel 331]

So, are we getting Angelic Cassia skin with Imperius serving as a Valkyrie?

[Sholto 32]

5 hours ago, Arcling said:

If you didn't read rest of the post, missed whole meaning.

That you're just guessing?

Your opening statement was false.  Period.  End of story.  You were responding with BS.  How's that for constructive.  Interesting that your response is to my response and you can't defend what you were actually saying.  If there was some nugget of guessed at knowledge elsewhere, well, a broken clock is right twice a day so here's your cookie.

Heroes
lost
money

You don't have to believe that, but that's the simple truth why supporting it in e-sports isn't viable, or reasonable, and why scaling back is the right thing.  A vocal minority doesn't matter.  You want the game to thrive you have to support it.  What don't you get about that?  Actually, scratch that, I'm not interested.

Edited January 4, 2019 by Sholto

[Arcling 898]

1 hour ago, Sholto said:

You don't have to believe that, but that's the simple truth why supporting it in e-sports isn't viable, or reasonable, and why scaling back is the right thing.  A vocal minority doesn't matter. 

No one here was denying here that their push for e-sports failed, including my post. You would know that if you have read it. Game itself (as opposed to e-sports) was making some money, we don't know how much, yet apparently below expectations, hence the downsizing of it's team, as opposed to shutdown or keeping skeleton crew. Also, your overall tone doesn't make a good impression, with generic "tl;dr" responses (I would advise to change the way you address people), but maybe you are very young, so I can somehow forgive that. Anyway that's all, not going to bother responding anymore about this topic as all have been said.

Edited January 4, 2019 by Arcling

[Sholto 32]

No.  How many times do I have to say it.  The game was not making money.  That is why pushing it for e-sports was not viable.

The game was and is a financial loss, the e-sport issue aside.  The e-sport decision is collateral damage to the fact that Blizzard has lost money on this game.

Perhaps that's why you're so wrong on this topic, you have the facts backwards.  If Blizz has said externally that it was lower than expectations that's PR.  Inside the company it's known that it's not been a winner.  They can't all be.  But it was losing money, that's why the cutbacks started long before this e-sports announcement and long before this hero was made, because if you think it takes months to create a hero and you think a cinematic is done in the same amount of time or less you're sadly, sadly uninitiated.

The decision the game couldn't afford to pay for the Blizzard cinematic team to make the cinematic shown at this year's BlizzCon was very likely made around the time of *LAST YEAR's* BlizzCon.  Because that's how far out these things are planned, because before this year's BlizzCon they're already working on stuff you're going to see next year.  They're already working on story for the next WoW expansion.  This last cinematic for Overwatch was done and sat on a *long* time ago.   And by the time you find out about any of this it's the result of decisions made a very, very long time ago.

Maybe you're young and you don't produce content and you don't know anyone who produces this content or content like it and so you simply have no proper frame of reference and I can somehow forgive that.