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What "until"?
What?
It's another valid reason to boycott blizz... But you're adding that factoid as if it counters mine? It's also not relevant for why their IPs are souring. It's another reason why they don't deserve customers, even if the games were still good, but its not the reason their games are suffering in terms of quality.
You think it’s all Activision’s fault until you learn that Blizzard was toxic from the get go. Blizzard products had issues before Activision bought them, they cut content for time, overworked & underpaid people, killed what could have been great games, all on their own.
Activism is just a corporate scapegoat for the mess Blizzard has always been. Separating Blizzard into its own company won’t fix any of its problems.
I didn't say it was all Activisions fault. Blizzard had to be the kind of company that would join forces with Activision for the merger to happen. I'm well aware of the smaller details.
I'm saying the Blizzard that created the IPs people love, has long been dead (in that the people who made those things are no longer in positions to do so again).
What's left, is "a corpse being puppeted by Activision" in that actiblizz is lead by the type of people and decision-making that Activision is a lot more known for.
It's a really short way to express to people who still have nostalgia goggles for Blizzard, that the things that allowed them to make good things, are gone. Replaced by profit motivated suits that have no respect for art.
Blizzard doesn't need saving. It's a rotting corpse of a brand. Remove activision, and you still have just a rotting corpse.