diablo and an overwhelmingly good overwatch but yikes you can see kitaku blizzard games are doing so great lately yesterday's earnings called spurred the single biggest hit to activision stock in six months blizzard is in the eye of a storm in the wake of departing studio had and two major delays of anticipated games the diablo and overwatch developers bleeding players across the board as it's revealed during an activision blizzard earnings call last night across this portfolio the studio's mouse monthly active users plummeted by NUMBER_TOKEN year-over-year to NUMBER_TOKEN million now i previously have misrepresented maos it's monthly active users but one person could be playing multiple games in an active state so that doesn't necessarily mean that there's NUMBER_TOKEN million customers it's no stretch to say that blizzard is somewhat in a liminal phase for obvious reasons obviously the lawsuit that's going on blizzard's dwindling player base can be chalked up to a confluence of factors for one its release slate has been relatively thin as of late with the future not looking so flush either in september blizzard released diablo NUMBER_TOKEN resurrected a remake of the NUMBER_TOKEN air NUMBER_TOKEN dungeon crawler it looks prettier than the original but fundamentally plays the same yesterday the forthcoming blockbusters diablo NUMBER_TOKEN and overwatch NUMBER_TOKEN were delayed for unspecified release dates two unspecified but definitely later release dates the developers debatably the largest and most reliable hit world of warcraft has fixed competition in recent months thanks to a game called new world the amazon published mmo which started out to eye-popping numbers interest has somewhat cooled daily but it's still unhealthy consistently sporting six-figure concurrent player counts according to steam database amid everything activation blizzard stock dropped more than NUMBER_TOKEN points overnight the most significant drop it's seen in six months this quietly reveals the market's priorities of course the stock market is all made up and a single day drafts happen all the time it's a trend that counts in the long term but right now the trend is not looking good for blizzard well it's not even on one day i mean it's been going down all year some hear somebody saying i think blizzard has finally hit the same milestone that bioware has all the original talent that made this video great has long since left and the current team just doesn't have the same spark that made their earlier projects so incredible i mean that's possibly true i still have a lot of faith in people that work at blizzard it's the people at the top and the creative vision and direction and whether or not that's getting done or you know or provided in the same level that's the real question here do you think that blizzard's best days are behind them or do you think that they're due a comeback i'm curious to hear all of your comments in the comment section down below and we'll talk to you real soon
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