Blizzard’s player base has fallen 29% over the last 3 years

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The number of players accessing Blizzard games has declined by approximately 29% over the past three years, the company’s latest data has shown.

Activision Blizzard confirmed on Tuesday that Blizzard had 27 million monthly active users in the first quarter of 2021.

As shown by Massively Overpowered, the figure is down from 38 million during the first quarter of 2018.

Blizzard hasn’t released a full game in five years, although the company has doubled down on development over the past few years, with more titles said to be in the works than at any point in its 30-year history.

  • 38M in Q1 2018
  • 37M in Q2 2018
  • 37M in Q3 2018
  • 35M in Q4 2018
  • 32M in Q1 2019
  • 32M in Q2 2019
  • 33M in Q3 2019
  • 32M in Q4 2019
  • 32M in Q1 2020
  • 32M in Q2 2020
  • 30M in Q3 2020
  • 29M in Q4 2020
  • 27M in Q1 2021
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The current World of Warcraft team is beyond useless. If it weren't for the art team consistently knocking it out of the park WoW would be dying way more than it currently is. My wife and I bailed on Shadowlands before we even finished leveling through the new content. It's the same boring ass cycle every expansion of added systems that are dropped and forgotten completely.

Diablo is the only thing keeping my interest with Blizzard. If Diablo 4 is good I'll be there day one, if not I'll play Diablo 2 and just ignore their new games entirely.
 
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Tesseract said:
i don't like their catalog, all their newer games drain my soul after 5 hours. need more single player games, more experimental stuff, wow 2, d2r, Zzz, ...

wake me when world of warcraft is an actual war
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They've gotten too obsessed with hamster wheels. Just because you can skinner box a game without the subject feeling pain doesn't mean you should skinner box...

Booting up any of their games nowadays.... I can feel the giant hamster wheel attached to a prize-dispenser creaking to life.

Addictiveness means the game must certainly be "fun".
 
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Calcium said:
The current World of Warcraft team is beyond useless. If it weren't for the art team consistently knocking it out of the park WoW would be dying way more than it currently is. My wife and I bailed on Shadowlands before we even finished leveling through the new content. It's the same boring ass cycle every expansion of added systems that are dropped and forgotten completely.

Diablo is the only thing keeping my interest with Blizzard. If Diablo 4 is good I'll be there day one, if not I'll play Diablo 2 and just ignore their new games entirely.
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I bailed on Shadowlands earlier than expected. I levelled and spent many hours on many different characters

Pushed successfully many high keys. Raid dropped finished it and never came back. It got boring fast for me. With all the maw and shit they added. Too much of a grind and I’m not enjoying it anymore
 
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Calcium said:
Diablo is the only thing keeping my interest with Blizzard. If Diablo 4 is good I'll be there day one, if not I'll play Diablo 2 and just ignore their new games entirely.
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Diablo kept my interest until I discovered Path of Exile. Since then I haven't been able to go back and play D3.

That said, I'm sure I'll give the D2 remake and D4 a try when they release.
 
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They haven't released any products I like in a long time. WoW is old and stale. I'm not big on hero shooters. Hearthstone was fun for a few months then felt really shallow. Diablo 3 was a mess at release, then fun for awhile but is old now.
 
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Thats not that surprising as I feel like they dont release content enough to keep their numbers high. Diablo 3 has been without a major content update since 2014. I guess you could count the nerco but that didn't add new acts or anything.

Star Craft 2 got finished and then did nothing with it.

Warcraft 3 remake was a shit show.

Diablo Immortal still hasnt shipped.

Diablo 4 is still anywhere from a year to 3 years out.

Overwatch 2 is years out.

Unless you are playing WoW or Hearthstone I dont see much happening in their realm.
 
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We will know with Overwatch 2
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From what it looks like so far, it's a PVE affair that's trying to bring back and Left4Dead type vibe. I LOVED L4D 1 and 2, but I think that time is over.

If they're going to charge full price for Overwatch 2, I think they're going to be severely letdown by sales. I'd buy OW2 for about $50 CND.
 
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I remember when Origin was on top. Epic catalogue of RPGs and spinoffs. Backed by big-publisher money. Hit after hit. Running a fully online Ultima game?! They could not fail. And then they did.

Blizzard is headed in the same direction, though perhaps more slowly. They obviously have tons of talent. I think their art direction, their ability to make a game pop on not-cutting-edge hardware, their understanding of hamster wheels, and their understanding of "fun" arcade mechanics means their games are still worth checking out. But they are just doing repeated encores on their same old hits (or based on the hits of others).
 
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From what it looks like so far, it's a PVE affair that's trying to bring back and Left4Dead type vibe. I LOVED L4D 1 and 2, but I think that time is over.

If they're going to charge full price for Overwatch 2, I think they're going to be severely letdown by sales. I'd buy OW2 for about $50 CND.
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We’re talking about if Blizzard is going woke. Not OW2 approach
 
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