My Life As A Gamer: It's BlizzCon 2021 & I Don't Care

BlizzCon 2021, a lame virtual event, begins today. It's freely available, such that you can even restream it on Twitch and (I expect) YouTube.

If you detect a tone of indifference, that's because I am. Everything that was expected to be said that matters to me got confirmed yesterday when the press kits got leaked--"leaked"--again and the fan sites dutifully Hoovered them up and posted the expected clickbait to gin up something resembling authentic enthusiasm.

I won't go over them in detail. Suffice it to say that Classic will go on to do The Burning Crusade, while the live game gets its expected Next Patch Reveal; the latter confirms that the dev team has turned game development into a Mad Lib template and they've just been swapping out word choices for template prompts since Legion. It's lazy, displays contempt for the audience, and forces the art teams to hard-carry the game.

If there's anything announced that actually matters, I'll edit it into this post after today's presentation. In the meantime, here's news Blizzard that matters:

Saudi Arabia Becomes One of the Largest Shareholders in Activision Blizzard, EA, and Take-Two Interactive https://t.co/rIib6vG3lc pic.twitter.com/DMe2yA9ImR

— Niche Gamer (@nichegamer) February 19, 2021

We'll see what comes of this soon enough.