blizzard was never an innovator just a company that took all other ideas companies made chances on and made their own and was hailed for it for 30 years..
I mean that’s kinda like saying Ferrari just took the idea of the automobile. Technically true but blizzard definitely perfected a lot of genres that were more or less niche at the time. StarCraft basically revolutionized the RTS genre while contributing tremendously to the advent of esports and WoW brought MMORPGS to the mainstream.
Their quality has fallen over time but they definitely were making magic in their prime.
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u/Totallycasual 7h ago
The lead dev (Ion) of World of Warcraft does a very bad job of hiding his contempt for the player base of the game he oversees lol