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Blizzard cancels survival game. Mike Ybarra is Leaving Blizzard
MarkMe2525
Member
Why? They are not shutting down the studio.
Edit: I don't know anything about Ybarra, but
HeisenbergFX4
speaks highly of him, I hope he continues to stay in the industry.
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Mortisfacio
Member
A new Blizzard Survival style game I was actually kind of hyped about, too. All the survival games have been a huge success, but to have one made by a company with a larger budget could have been cool.
ThatStupidLion
Member
Hah - just saw job postings for this game yesterday.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Curious what happened behind the scenes. Considering that Shrieker told that despite 6 years in dev, the game was many years away from being released - I guess it was in dev hell?
A taste of his own meds.
lughnasadh123
Member
Clearly there's a huge demand for a survival games. Their one big new IP they've been working on for years with the potential to blow up gone just like that. What the hell happened?
amigastar
Member
Yes, it was probably in development hell, with nothing good to show, otherwise they wouldn't have cancelled it.
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Sad of course for those that are laid off.
RE: Ybarra, wasn't there some sort of speculation that he was some sort of undercover agent working to get the deal over the line? I wonder if choosing to leave comes with a golden handshake? goodbye?
RE: Ybarra, wasn't there some sort of speculation that he was some sort of undercover agent working to get the deal over the line? I wonder if choosing to leave comes with a golden handshake? goodbye?
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
Jesus, MS is a disaster
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Well, it depends. Games like Palworld have made a splash - granted I suspect that Blizzard's team was bigger for the game while Palworld had like 40 devs.
StueyDuck
Member
But i was told by many hardcore, always correct fanboys, like colt man and jezzy poopoo fatty doodoo that MS consolidating the industry was the greatest thing to ever happen and that they'd only make the right decisions for all these poor struggling developers like acti/blizz... i mean they only cost 80billion with a b Dollars to buy at the end of the day.
Fabieter
Member
FeralEcho
Member
It's like the anti-Midas touch
Blizzard, stop whatever nonsense you are cooking up let me give you a billion dollar pitch:
Asymmetric extraction BR thing set in Starcraft world:
The map is a Terran colony about to fall to the Zerg. Each match opens with a hivemind getting nuked, turning all the Zerg feral. 100 players drop in, with a mix of Terran players in squads playing a co-op PvE FPS, a handful of solo Protoss players who are basically playing Crysis, and a handful of Zerg players playing an RTS and occasional third person action game.
Each faction has different goals. The Terrans are mercenaries trying to find some kind of loot and extract. The big win is gathering intel to locate a treasure vault and getting in there and back out alive.
The Protoss need to recover an artifact or something. Each one is really strong, can cloak, but they are alone. Or maybe they have a team objective, but by necessity have to split up to win in time.
The Zerg are playing a territory control RTS. They are a new hivemind or whatever trying to retake control and they be spreading that creep. They can gather random weak Zerg to their cause, and occasionally take over a special unit to control in third person.
There is no circle, the Zerg players getting stronger and taking over the map is a player driven timer.
I know that was a tangent, but I just brainstormed Blizzards best game in years while waiting on a class to start.
Asymmetric extraction BR thing set in Starcraft world:
The map is a Terran colony about to fall to the Zerg. Each match opens with a hivemind getting nuked, turning all the Zerg feral. 100 players drop in, with a mix of Terran players in squads playing a co-op PvE FPS, a handful of solo Protoss players who are basically playing Crysis, and a handful of Zerg players playing an RTS and occasional third person action game.
Each faction has different goals. The Terrans are mercenaries trying to find some kind of loot and extract. The big win is gathering intel to locate a treasure vault and getting in there and back out alive.
The Protoss need to recover an artifact or something. Each one is really strong, can cloak, but they are alone. Or maybe they have a team objective, but by necessity have to split up to win in time.
The Zerg are playing a territory control RTS. They are a new hivemind or whatever trying to retake control and they be spreading that creep. They can gather random weak Zerg to their cause, and occasionally take over a special unit to control in third person.
There is no circle, the Zerg players getting stronger and taking over the map is a player driven timer.
I know that was a tangent, but I just brainstormed Blizzards best game in years while waiting on a class to start.
systemr123
Member
You can’t spell Midas without MSIt's like the anti-Midas touch
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
That was determined a long time ago and a big reason he originally left Xbox, the writing was on the wall
Horseganador
Member
A few weeks ago it seemed like everything was going well and now it's out? queer.
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ozz ex machina
Member
I'm shocked at everyone saying microsoft are at fault here. Have they not just spent a fuck tonne for a burning fire of a company and are rightfully trying to correct things? I bet there was so much bloat and useless shit going on there. Get rid of that mess and refocus.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
FeralEcho
Member
So what you're saying is they have a soft touch?
systemr123
Member
Maybe… or maybe they only have soft wares
March Climber
Member
CoreyFlawless
Member
Eh, idk more likely best to get out of it now. Survival games peaked and then kinda slowly falling down. But now, Palworld got it back up. But u got ark 2 coming and what else that could be too. Hard to find a niche when you got two palworld and ark gonna have most of them. All the other kinds come and goes.
Freelance Yakuza
Member
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
So Blizzard was working on a game that would have been released on Xbox anyway.
Microsoft acquires the studio. Phil cancels the game and fires everyone.
Microsoft acquires the studio. Phil cancels the game and fires everyone.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
I guess they are reviewing projects faster than than they did with Bethesda.
BosmerCulter
Neo Member
Why everyone sucking the dick of Ybarra since his departure ?
This guy was a piece of shit and Kotick's little solider. Under his rule, Blizzard continued their fall and launched Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV that killed the little hopes fans still had in this company
Sad for the 1 899 others employees
This guy was a piece of shit and Kotick's little solider. Under his rule, Blizzard continued their fall and launched Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV that killed the little hopes fans still had in this company
Sad for the 1 899 others employees
Holammer
Member
We haven't seen anything from it and the game might be such poor shape it's better to nuke it.
With current Blizzard they probably spent more time discussing representation than actual coding.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
We talking about the company that released Redfall and Forza Motorsport.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
ChorizoPicozo
Member
ChorizoPicozo
Member
xbox two podcast gonna be fun 
It really does feel like that to me too. The dude is obviously successful in life. But what has he really accomplished since taking over their gaming division that wasn't paid for with their business enterprise profits?
DeathGuise
Member
Blizzard hasn't released a quality game in well over ten years. I know I sound like a debbie downer here but I believe the survival game is better as a legend than it would have been in reality.