Gears of War Head, Rod Fergusson, Leaves for Blizzard and Diablo - MMORPG.com News

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Gears of War Head, Rod Fergusson, Leaves for Blizzard and Diablo - MMORPG.com News

In case you missed it, The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson announced earlier that he'd be leaving the studio to head up the Diablo franchise.

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alkarionlog

since I don't like gear of wars and find teh game too bland and easy, I don't belive it would benefit the d4, I already consider D4 as skipable game now just let me even forget more about this game

Aeander

alkarionlog said:

since I don't like gear of wars and find teh game too bland and easy, I don't belive it would benefit the d4, I already consider D4 as skipable game now just let me even forget more about this game

Rod Ferguson moves around the industry quite a bit. He has a reputation for being a "fixer." You bring him in to steer the ship if your franchise needs a strong arm.

This is either a good sign or a bad one.

namcost

Nothing is going to fix diablo from failing. I said it once and ill say it again, blizzard is OWNED by Tencent and chinese companies know NOTHING about quality, only about raping customers for as much money as possible (I mean, who you think forced diablo immortal, an cell phone game with pay features to earn money in the chinese market).

Now I've heard the excuses.... "but tencent only owns liek 5% of blizzard" okay, 5% as of how many years ago? you don't think they would purchase MORE? not to mention, blizzard is OWNED by Activision, and guess what, Tencent owns over 50% of Activision, when you put Activision and Blizzard ownership together as a total, its 55%, so guess who is controlling blizzard and what they can and can't do? TENCENT.

This dude jumping ship to blizzard, isn't going to do anything. He would be better off joining some other companies and putting his supposed talents to use elsewhere.... but seeing as I don't give 2 shits about gears of war because personally, I think its a terrible series, I don't see a place for him anywhere.

Aeander

namcost said:

Now I've heard the excuses.... "but tencent only owns liek 5% of blizzard" okay, 5% as of how many years ago? you don't think they would purchase MORE? not to mention, blizzard is OWNED by Activision, and guess what, Tencent owns over 50% of Activision, when you put Activision and Blizzard ownership together as a total, its 55%, so guess who is controlling blizzard and what they can and can't do? TENCENT.

That's..... not how math works. 

Veexer_Nui

I hope he's played path of exile.

bcbully

Aeander said:

namcost said:

Now I've heard the excuses.... "but tencent only owns liek 5% of blizzard" okay, 5% as of how many years ago? you don't think they would purchase MORE? not to mention, blizzard is OWNED by Activision, and guess what, Tencent owns over 50% of Activision, when you put Activision and Blizzard ownership together as a total, its 55%, so guess who is controlling blizzard and what they can and can't do? TENCENT.

That's..... not how math works. 

That’s how influence works.

GatsuZerk

Veexer_Nui said:

I hope he's played path of exile.

I hope he's played Diablo and Diablo 2... you know, the games that strongly influenced PoE?

Slapshot1188

Hope he has a phone

Samhael

DMKano said:

Veexer_Nui said:

I hope he's played path of exile.

I hope he's played Grim Dawn

I hope he played Diablo and Diablo 2. (and passed on D3) I doubt he can do much to affect D4. Maybe he can make a hella awesome Diablo Mobile? (not that I'd even download it)

Wizbuiz

I hope he played with dolls as a kid.

ChildoftheShadows

Samhael said:

DMKano said:

Veexer_Nui said:

I hope he's played path of exile.

I hope he's played Grim Dawn

I hope he played Diablo and Diablo 2. (and passed on D3) I doubt he can do much to affect D4. Maybe he can make a hella awesome Diablo Mobile? (not that I'd even download it)

If he played both but skipped the third he could easily end up remaking the third. 

TEKK3N

namcost said:

Nothing is going to fix diablo from failing. I said it once and ill say it again, blizzard is OWNED by Tencent and chinese companies know NOTHING about quality, only about raping customers for as much money as possible (I mean, who you think forced diablo immortal, an cell phone game with pay features to earn money in the chinese market).

Now I've heard the excuses.... "but tencent only owns liek 5% of blizzard" okay, 5% as of how many years ago? you don't think they would purchase MORE? not to mention, blizzard is OWNED by Activision, and guess what, Tencent owns over 50% of Activision, when you put Activision and Blizzard ownership together as a total, its 55%, so guess who is controlling blizzard and what they can and can't do? TENCENT.

This dude jumping ship to blizzard, isn't going to do anything. He would be better off joining some other companies and putting his supposed talents to use elsewhere.... but seeing as I don't give 2 shits about gears of war because personally, I think its a terrible series, I don't see a place for him anywhere.

What a mess...
You don’t understand how the corporate structure of Activision and Blizzard works.

Both Blizzard Entertainment and Activision Publishing (and King) are FULLY owned by Activision Blizzard Inc. 

Activision Blizzard Inc. main shareholders are mostly hedge funds with the biggest share owned by Fidelity Management with 8% and Vanguard Group with 7%.

Tencent used to own 5% of ATVI (Activision Blizzard Inc.), but currently it doesn’t even appear in the top 10 list of investors.

alkarionlog

TEKK3N said:

namcost said:

Nothing is going to fix diablo from failing. I said it once and ill say it again, blizzard is OWNED by Tencent and chinese companies know NOTHING about quality, only about raping customers for as much money as possible (I mean, who you think forced diablo immortal, an cell phone game with pay features to earn money in the chinese market).

Now I've heard the excuses.... "but tencent only owns liek 5% of blizzard" okay, 5% as of how many years ago? you don't think they would purchase MORE? not to mention, blizzard is OWNED by Activision, and guess what, Tencent owns over 50% of Activision, when you put Activision and Blizzard ownership together as a total, its 55%, so guess who is controlling blizzard and what they can and can't do? TENCENT.

This dude jumping ship to blizzard, isn't going to do anything. He would be better off joining some other companies and putting his supposed talents to use elsewhere.... but seeing as I don't give 2 shits about gears of war because personally, I think its a terrible series, I don't see a place for him anywhere.

What a mess...
You don’t understand how the corporate structure of Activision and Blizzard works.

Both Blizzard Entertainment and Activision Publishing (and King) are FULLY owned by Activision Blizzard Inc. 

Activision Blizzard Inc. main shareholders are mostly hedge funds with the biggest share owned by Fidelity Management with 8% and Vanguard Group with 7%.

Tencent used to own 5% of ATVI (Activision Blizzard Inc.), but currently it doesn’t even appear in the top 10 list of investors.

but they will still bend to sell on china, so your point?

TEKK3N

alkarionlog said:

TEKK3N said:

namcost said:

Nothing is going to fix diablo from failing. I said it once and ill say it again, blizzard is OWNED by Tencent and chinese companies know NOTHING about quality, only about raping customers for as much money as possible (I mean, who you think forced diablo immortal, an cell phone game with pay features to earn money in the chinese market).

Now I've heard the excuses.... "but tencent only owns liek 5% of blizzard" okay, 5% as of how many years ago? you don't think they would purchase MORE? not to mention, blizzard is OWNED by Activision, and guess what, Tencent owns over 50% of Activision, when you put Activision and Blizzard ownership together as a total, its 55%, so guess who is controlling blizzard and what they can and can't do? TENCENT.

This dude jumping ship to blizzard, isn't going to do anything. He would be better off joining some other companies and putting his supposed talents to use elsewhere.... but seeing as I don't give 2 shits about gears of war because personally, I think its a terrible series, I don't see a place for him anywhere.

What a mess...
You don’t understand how the corporate structure of Activision and Blizzard works.

Both Blizzard Entertainment and Activision Publishing (and King) are FULLY owned by Activision Blizzard Inc. 

Activision Blizzard Inc. main shareholders are mostly hedge funds with the biggest share owned by Fidelity Management with 8% and Vanguard Group with 7%.

Tencent used to own 5% of ATVI (Activision Blizzard Inc.), but currently it doesn’t even appear in the top 10 list of investors.

but they will still bend to sell on china, so your point?

My point is to correct fake news.
Unless you think it is fine just throwing data into a discussion, that came straight out of someone butt hole.

The reason Blizzard sided with China has nothing to do with Tencent.
China has 1 Billion people, Hong Kong few Millions.

Blizzard was trying to (clumsily) protect their interest in the biggest market in the world.
Obviously Blizzard overreacted big time, but it was all Blizzard Management decision, it wasn’t a Shareholders initiative.

alkarionlog

DMKano said:

Samhael said:

DMKano said:

Veexer_Nui said:

I hope he's played path of exile.

I hope he's played Grim Dawn

I hope he played Diablo and Diablo 2. (and passed on D3) I doubt he can do much to affect D4. Maybe he can make a hella awesome Diablo Mobile? (not that I'd even download it)

Ex Blizzard North devs who worked on D1 and D2 worked on Grim Dawn

Also anyone who is into ARPGs has played D1 and D2 - pretty much goes without saying 

didn't they also worked on hellsgate:london?

TEKK3N said:

alkarionlog said:

TEKK3N said:

namcost said:

Nothing is going to fix diablo from failing. I said it once and ill say it again, blizzard is OWNED by Tencent and chinese companies know NOTHING about quality, only about raping customers for as much money as possible (I mean, who you think forced diablo immortal, an cell phone game with pay features to earn money in the chinese market).

Now I've heard the excuses.... "but tencent only owns liek 5% of blizzard" okay, 5% as of how many years ago? you don't think they would purchase MORE? not to mention, blizzard is OWNED by Activision, and guess what, Tencent owns over 50% of Activision, when you put Activision and Blizzard ownership together as a total, its 55%, so guess who is controlling blizzard and what they can and can't do? TENCENT.

This dude jumping ship to blizzard, isn't going to do anything. He would be better off joining some other companies and putting his supposed talents to use elsewhere.... but seeing as I don't give 2 shits about gears of war because personally, I think its a terrible series, I don't see a place for him anywhere.

What a mess...
You don’t understand how the corporate structure of Activision and Blizzard works.

Both Blizzard Entertainment and Activision Publishing (and King) are FULLY owned by Activision Blizzard Inc. 

Activision Blizzard Inc. main shareholders are mostly hedge funds with the biggest share owned by Fidelity Management with 8% and Vanguard Group with 7%.

Tencent used to own 5% of ATVI (Activision Blizzard Inc.), but currently it doesn’t even appear in the top 10 list of investors.

but they will still bend to sell on china, so your point?

My point is to correct fake news.
Unless you think it is fine just throwing data into a discussion, that came straight out of someone butt hole.

The reason Blizzard sided with China has nothing to do with Tencent.
China has 1 Billion people, Hong Kong few Millions.

Blizzard was trying to (clumsily) protect their interest in the biggest market in the world.
Obviously Blizzard overreacted big time, but it was all Blizzard Management decision, it wasn’t a Shareholders initiative.

don't matter the reason, they are still the blame, be in by being slaves from china or tecent, in both cases we guess it they reason, but again don't absolve from the guilt

a slave is a slave don't matter who is the master

Gutlard

OG_Zorvan said:

Who wants to join me in buying all the internet domains possible for "Gears of Warcraft"?

You get those, and I'll take care of the World of Gears ones.

Gut Out!

rojoArcueid

DMKano said:

Veexer_Nui said:

I hope he's played path of exile.

I hope he's played Grim Dawn

I hope he played Diablo 3 and took notes on what not to do.