Guessing as like a response from backlash, where they would update the app so that the play now button doesn't work, as well as blocking the EXEs from doing anything. So you would have multiple player bases not able to play a single game on their app. How would that turn out?
Where have they gone?
What have they created / are working on?
Where has the old Blizzard sentiment gone?
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I also tried closing down the Battle.net launcher after starting up the game.
What finally did the trick, was using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller), to remove all GPU drivers, restarting the computer, and I then went on to download the latest GPU driver again. Problem solved!
Well until yesterday. I start up the game as I did the day before (and for the past many months) and BOOM. There it was. Lags/stuttering. Again. Every 20 seconds, on the mark.
So, I went to 'solve it' with DDU, only to find out that this time, DDU didn't fix it. So, I've done all the above-mentioned attempts at fixing it, with no help.
Ping is fine, connection is fine, nothing new was installed, updated or deleted. I'm almost giving up, having spent too many hours trying to fix this.
I need some fresh eyes on this. What am I missing? How do I fix this?
Solution - I ended up deleting all rules for HotS in my firewall. Updated a bunch of drivers in device manager, disabling SuperFetch and disabling the Blizzard Streaming.
One of these things fixed it completely. Unfortunately I was not patient enough to do them one by one, so I'm not sure what exactly was the solution! Hopefully this can help some of you guys who had same problem
I just w ant to take a moment to say how grateful I am for HOTS! This game has been my favorite MOBA, and I started getting into MOBA's when you had to download the latest patch of DOTA in order to get into a game on WC3-FT. This game is so much more user friendly than LOL or DOTA2. I seriously love the lack of last hitting/gold/items/non-universal exp soaking. I can actually enjoy the game and become more aware of macro mechanics with the stress of having perfect micro mechanics.
Honestly this subreddit is so full of posts nitpicking smaller aspects of the game (Ok but for real fuck genji) I just think its important that was as a community focus on how lucky and how grateful we are for having this game. Some of the most enjoyable times of my life have been playing this game with good friends and being fully into a challenging ranked game. The fact that this game is free and is readily available to the public just makes it so much better and makes me appreciate Blizzard so much. I've been a loyal gamer to Blizzard since as long as I can remember playing video games. And HOTS just make it all so much better having a high quality, unique MOBA available to a Blizzard Platform
Thank you so much Blizzard from the bottom of my heart. And thank you HOTS community for gaming with me :)
Hi, first things first, to start off this list I want to say that I watch Rick & Morty, and last season I got to 2000 just by playing Mercy. So, I'm very well qualified. Let's start off with the most important changes we need to make Overwatch heroic again:
When healing a teammate, Mercy should restore the same amount to herself. This change should be made because both invulnerability and mass-revive was stripped from her and replaced with virtually nothing.
Also, when not healing any teammate, Mercy should passively heal herself. This only makes sense, I mean why wouldn't she aim her healing beam at herself? Are her hands crippled?
Anyway, enough of Mercy, here's a fix to Genji: Replace him with another slot for mercy
Replace each map with Junkertown, it's just so good.
When joining a server, the game should announce, based on the player's playtime with heroes, that either a superior intellectual support player joined, or a useless stupid completely inept DPS player.
If a DPS takes a medkit while a healer is within a 50 meter radius, they get a strike.(200 meter for mercy) 3 Strikes means a kick and reduction of competitive points.
If a tank yells I need healing! i should suck them off like a good little healer.
9 PM to 3 AM should from now on become "DPS hour" if anyone plays Genji outside of this 6 hour period i will shit on their doorstep.
Bastion mains should get more support, they should do this by increasing their health, their damage and their spread because aiming directly at an enemy is too annoying. Damage will be boosted 500% to make up for the accuracy.
playing widowmake the view should be 3rd person and zoom on her ass
i need heling XD
hanzo gets neutered (for real, pretty gory)
the frontpage needs more photobombs and shitty videos (seriously, it has been like 8 months since friends and i have criticized the shit on the frontpage heavily, and the mods of r/overwatch have done 0 since. god damn)
whining is mandatory if you don't whine you get banned
DAE toxicity?
They were all previously Unlisted in official World of Warcraft channel, meaning you could only watch them if you have link of their. But since for a while, they all set to Private and cannot be watched from official channel.
No idea why, but why Blizzard?
Here are the official post: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/news/15968415/spoiler-alert-warlords-of-draenor-in-game-cinematics
A few years ago Jen Pashley put together a list of all 2016 Women's games she could find with available videos (amazing list here). As we settle in for an extended time alone, I was wondering if there are any similar lists? If not, we should create one!
Before I overpromise, what do people think? Has it already been done? Would a short google form (like this one) be the right way to start collecting information? Anyone else interested in working on this?
My apologies for this novel!
Working for Blizzard was one of my dreams since 2005 when the WoW hype train started gaining major steam. For years, I applied only to get cut before an interview was ever granted. Still, I never gave up, always applying for positions I was qualified for whenever they were added to the Blizzard recruitment page.
Then it happened
The day before Halloween in 2013, after having finally been granted an interview, I received a call from the team I had interviewed with to congratulate me and offer me the job of Game Master, a position I instantly accepted (for those that may not be aware, Blizzard Game Master is another name for their Customer Support associates) Training began two weeks later which was awesome. Getting to be onsite, experiencing Blizzard Entertainment HQ in Irvine for the first time, and as an employee to boot. It was the start of something incredibly magical for me; a journey I had been longing to embark on for almost a decade. Slowly but surely, however, that dream plummeted to the depths of nightmares.
Once training had ended, it became very clear just how unimportant and expendable Game Masters truly are within the company. Up until just before my addition to the company, I had found out that Game Masters were not regarded like all the other Blizzard Entertainment employees, for instance when company events and outings would occur, Game Masters simply were not invited. Though that was not the case when I started, Game Masters were still looked upon by the rest of the company as the "Red Headed step-child" of Blizzard, even having a completely different colored badge than anyone else in the company which created an unspoken hierarchy class system around HQ among the employees (think Blizzard Entertainment being Snowpiercer with Game Masters in the very back and their own special colored badges so you know they're the little guy).
Still, this was not my first corporate job so being the low man on the company totem pole was nothing new to me and I assumed with time and my hard work, I'd be looked at as a valuable member of the Blizzard machine.
This was something that never came to fruition.
What made this most difficult was the fact that the management team within Blizzard Entertainment HQ customer support did not seem like they actually lead their respective teams, instead simply being a boss behind a desk who only gave orders and just shrugged when their associates had concerns about the job, morale, and
... keep reading on reddit ➡When I think of Blizzard Entertainment, I don't actually think of innovative. In their history they take what is niche/upcoming/currently popular and then they try to cash in on it.
Whether it's RTS' before Starcraft/Warcraft 1, Everquest before WoW, League of Legends before Heroes of the Storm, Team Fortress 2/other FPS before Overwatch, Dungeon crawler games before Diablo..
Blizzard has to be seeing how Battle Royale's are taking off, and Blizzard has strong IP's they can use if they actually wanted to make a Blizzard universe Battle Royale or just a completely new IP for a Battle Royale.
While maybe the latter make more sense, The Darwin Project is in Open Beta and it's not as loot heavy as PUBG/Fortnite and you have abilities, something Blizzard could easily tie into a Battle Royale.
Do you think Blizzard Entertainment is at the least talking about creating a team to create this game while the stove is still volcano hot for Battle Royale's? Or will they let other companies ride this train? It isn't very like Blizzard to just pass on an opportunity of a mega rising genre. Even if you consider Heroes of the Storm their worst attempt to cash in on the market, they seem to still attempt to create "The Blizzard version" of what's hot.
