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Blizzard cancels survival game. Mike Ybarra is Leaving Blizzard
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
I have a feeling that you'll hate this news,
Men_in_Boxes
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Men_in_Boxes
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ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Very peculiar decision if you look at Palworld.
Geez, the timing is just awful for almost every news form MS today.
Geez, the timing is just awful for almost every news form MS today.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Gif of the day
Complistic
Member
Yeah who'd want to play a survival game? /s (Though coming from Blizzard I'm sure it was uninspired and corporate)
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Chuck Berry
Gold Member
MiguelItUp
Member
You'd be surprised. I'd seen quiet a few people being excited about a AAA survival title.
Mike Ybarra Leaving is Blizzard
BroDraugoth take a deep breath before posting lol it isnt a fucking race jesus
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
They don't need blizzards survival game...they have palworld now.
Jokes aside. Rough times. Not a good look at all.
Where's Mike going now?
I feel either he and microsoft hate each other...or he is an industry plant spy that takes over everywhere from the inside.
I think it's the first thing.
Jokes aside. Rough times. Not a good look at all.
Where's Mike going now?
I feel either he and microsoft hate each other...or he is an industry plant spy that takes over everywhere from the inside.
I think it's the first thing.
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Complistic
Member
Sorry first bit was /s. There obviously demand for it, looking at Palworld.You'd be surprised. I'd seen quiet a few people being excited about a AAA survival title.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Ybarra getting fired is insane.
HeisenbergFX4
i wonder if riky reported him to Phil.
HeisenbergFX4
i wonder if riky reported him to Phil.
MiguelItUp
Member
You're good, I didn't catch it. Yeah, but I think that was more of the look and theme than it being a survival title IMO. It's just odd, never looked at that genre as something super huge and successful, but Enshrouded looked to have a pretty good first day too. Guess the demand is bigger than I thought.
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Herbspiceguy
Member
Not a fan of the genre, but was very interested to see how this game would turn out, mainly because it's a new Blizz IP. It did feel Blizz was late to the party developing a survival game (just as they were too late releasing a MOBA), as I thought the survival trend already blew over, yet here we are with Palworld breaking records and Enshrouded which I think could blow up as well.
I'm hoping some game art/design leaks will pop up.
I'm hoping some game art/design leaks will pop up.
crackajack
Member
Layoffs due to many positions having the same function is one thing, but if games get canceled too, MS seems to not step up their game but rather dial down their efforts. Insane in their situtation. As if the past success of CoD and WoW will somehow automatically save them, without simultaneously also investing in new stuff. Might just be a shite game so far, and deserve to die, but the timing is wild then.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I have a feeling that you'll hate this news,
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
This was far and away XBoxs most exciting future game. My tattoo is going to look ridiculous now. I'm such an idiot.
Pelta88
Member
What does Palworld have to do with any of this?
Cyberpunkd
Gold Member
Heroes of the Storm was absolutely my jam a few years back - it was fun for casuals and the games lasterd 15-20 minutes at a time when LoL was regularly going 1hr+
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Because the genre is clearly trending af?
Herbspiceguy
Member
I've played LoL and DotA 2 extensively, yet I loved the streamlined experience in HotS, as well as the MOBA-ized versions of classic Blizz characters The reason I stopped playing it was a perma-ban.
I always felt the game had a lot more potential if it was released years before it did.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Just thinking. Sony needs an executive like Ybarra. Spencer vs. Ybarra. I want this fight.
Papa_Wisdom
Member
Keep an eye out for wherever he end up working next, if it’s Sega then wednesdays might become quite spicy!
Freelance Yakuza
Member
Consolidation shills getting fucked
James Sawyer Ford
Member
HeisenbergFX4
’s boy doesn’t end up with Phil’s job after all
demigod
Member
Pics of said tattoo? We promise not to laugh.
So like enshrouded, that's a voxel engine and kind of like blizzards aesthetic.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Trust me, i'm bad with names. I've been calling Jim Ryan name wrong for a year before someone corrected me.
I called him Jym Rian
Dude, this has nothing to do with name misspelling. You spelled Ybarra's name correctly
This is about you having a fucking coronary if you aren't able to get news out before someone else and consequently making careless (yet funny) grammatical errors because of it lol
Hari Seldon
Member
I can’t believe they cancelled that survival game. I was actually excited for that. I bet the issue is monetization. How do you battle pass or sell skins for a survival game, especially at a level to sustain a AAA studio and not a studio with like 10 people like Valheim?
Do they have anything in their pipeline now besides expansions to games that are in maintenance mode?
Do they have anything in their pipeline now besides expansions to games that are in maintenance mode?
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
wow...everything MS touches turns to shit...
Upper_Management
Member
My guess is the project has been in development for 6 years, swapping engines, people leaving and having nothing to show to the public. They probably still had a long ways to go and management decided to pull the plug.