Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 will come out (yet) later than expected

Activision Blizzard is a computer as well as computer game team based in Santa Monica, California, United States. The business originated from the Fusion of the Author Activision with Vivendi Universal Games. In regards to sales, the firm is the market leader in the computer and video clip games field. The shares of the business are traded under the acronym ATVI at the NASDAQ. Majority owner was Vivendi till July 2013. The firm developed on 10 July 2008 by the merging of the US Team Activision as well as Vivendi Gamings, a 100% subsidiary of the media company Vivendi. The Video Game Sup of Vivendi was integrated right into Activision, which Vivendi got the stock majority of Activision Blizzard with 52 percent of the shares. Vivendi has actually relied upon alternatives the possibility of raising the shares to 68 percent. The component Blizzard in the business name returns to the video game programmer Blizzard Amusement, which Vivendi Games introduced right into the new Group. Due to the basic knownness by the advancement of the computer game Wow, the high sales share in Vivendi Games and also the freedom that the studio delights in both under Vivendi Games and also the brand-new group, the fusion partners made a decision to accommodate Blizzard in behalf of the company.

Beyond the usual big numbers, the Quarterly Blizzard Activision s balance sheet published last night did not have good news, especially for Blizzard fans.

Can we repel a game that does not have an exit date? The answer is yes, of course, because if Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 do not have a public exit date, they are still situated somewhere on the internal roadmap of Blizzard. Only here, the FPS and the action-RPG have been pushed back and will be released later than Blizzard hopefully, the goal being to ensure a successful launch but also to put everything in place to guarantee an effective post-launch accompaniment for years. All that can be predicted at this point is that an exit in 2022 would be very amazing.

An almost inevitable consequence given the major departures whose teams of these two titles have suffered. It is recalled that Overwatch 2 has seen the emblematic director Jeff Kaplan but also his production director Chacko Sonny, while Luis Barriga, the director of Diablo 4, is one of the people ejected From the company as part of the operation meets by Bobby Kotick. Party in August, he was replaced in October by Joe Shely. Note that despite these reports, Blizzard always intends to release a significant dose of content in 2022.

Jennifer Oneal has held less than a year

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To support a little more agitation at Blizzard, who recently renounced the organization of a Blizzcon in the coming months, we learn that the Jen Oneal Joint Chairman announced, leaving his partner Mike Ybarra (veteran Xbox who joined Blizzard in November 2019) take orders from Blizzard. As a reminder, this tandem had been propelled to the head of operations only three months ago to offset the forced departure of J. Allen Brack, held responsible for the toxic culture, discrimination and harassments that were revealed last summer. Blizzard.

Jennifer Oneal, whose employees have learned at the same time as the public, explains that it intends to fully engage in the causes of equality and diversity defended by the association Women in Games International, an organization of which it already does Party and will receive for the occasion a million dollars of Blizzard Activision. A departure that is rather bad in a context where Blizzard Activision intends to focus on diversity while doing its best to hire more women and non-binary persons until you have a third party in its workforce. here five years. This is one of the commitments recently put forward by Bobby Kotick to restore the Blason Blizzard Activision.

Note that if it was part of the furniture for almost 20 years, Jennifer Oneal will not have worked at Blizzard for a very long time since she had joined the subsidiary in January 2021 as part of the absorption of Vicarious Vision, studio of which she was the Since 2008 and the director since 2016. The 200 developers of Vicarious Visions, who had just exit Tony Hawk s Pro Skater 1 + 2, have the reminder been swallowed overnight by Blizzard who needed quick reinforcements for Lock the development of Diablo II: Resurreed. If I do that, it s not because I have no hope for Blizzard, on the contrary. I am inspired by the passion of all those who, here, work with all their hearts to a significant and lasting change. This energy prompted me to explore how I can do more so that games and diversity intersect and, I hope, have a broader impact on the industry that will also benefit Blizzard (and to Other studios), she commented by saying that the beautiful days of Blizzard remain upcoming.

and finance side?

Activision Blizzard has once again carried out a quarter higher than expectations but also up comparative to last year, whether in turnover or profits. Although not taking advantage of the containment and exit of a novelty like Tony Hawk s Pro Skater 1 + 2 last year, Activision has 119 million active users thanks to the regularity of the Call of Duty Ecosystem. In decline for some time, Blizzard bounces again with the launch of Diablo II: Resurreed and has 26 million active users, a 20% increase compared to last year but without progress compared to the April quarter. June. Sales of the game in the first week have also reached a new record for a remaster. As for Diablo Immortal, its output remains in the first half of 2022. Finally, revenue from King rose 22% to a quarterly record, with its 245 million active users.

Activision Blizzard results

Period | Turnover | Operational Profit | Net profit --- July 2020 - September 2020 | 1.68 billion euros | 671.83 million euros | 521,57 million euros July 2021 - September 2021 | 1.78 billion euros | 711.55 million euros | 551.80 million euros