Aaaand it's gone!

[A Black Falcon]

Yes, Activision-Blizzard is a pretty awful company... that makes many of the best games ever.  Overwatch was a fantastic game and Overwatch 2 is more of the same, so it's great.  Their RTSes are my favorite games ever of course, and the Diablo games are great as well (Diablo 2 particularly).  I loved the old, pre-WoW Blizzard a lot more than the company that it became after that games' massive success, but they are still one of the better developers around when it comes to making great games.  Considering their talent loss and constant scandals I don't know if they will be able to keep it up, but it IS true.

... Again, everything I have seen says that the problems at Blizzard mostly started after the company massively expanded post-WoW.  As someone who never liked WoW much that just gives me one more reason to dislike that game, I think.

I will also say, I'm kind of hoping Microsoft succeeds at buying Acti-Bklizz because while MS has had some of its own sexual harassment scandals, they are nothing like Activision's, the company seems to have at least some ethics.  Getting rid of Bobby Kotick and co. would be an improvement and I hope Microsoft, if or when they take over, can turn the company around corporate culture-wise.

https://kotaku.com/activision-blizzard-l...1849650622
And again.  It never ends.  Also, Silicon Knight's leadership was also abusive and corrupt.  There's no point denying it any more after that failed spiritual successor collapsed due to.. let me read this here.... CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?!  Oh dear dear dear....

That's different, as far as I know that was one person and nobody else knew.  It's certainly bad but it's not like Acti-Blizz.