ITT: The moment an IP's brand well was poisoned beyond repair and ruined forever

The problem is they only considered top level play when designing the multiplayer. Anyone who wasn't gook clicking gave up and went to MOBA's.

But the writer for all this shit was Metzen, who has been writing since WC2 and Diablo. They didn't hire new shitty writers, their main writer just became a miserable old man and lost his ability to write anything interesting.

Shit. No fucking joke?

I just made an assumption based on how astronomically different old lore's effort is to the new. I still hold on to the lowest common denominator claim though. You don't go from "interesting and good" to "bland and shitty" just for laziness and greed alone.

Wait…

I assume in his old age and in becoming a parent Metzen just lost the will or ability to write interesting characters so everything became corruption this or redeemed into the starchild that.

Metzen got
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If there was ever definitive proof that there is no god, it's that Gunpei died an a car wreck, and Sakamoto lived to make this failed abortion of a game.

Diablo 1&2 and Starcraft - Brood War had a great minimal story that was helped with its atmosphere by Blizzard North(RIP) because Blizzard earned widespread acclaim and fucking mainstream popularity, they did what all companies that go mainstream do, make their shit as mainstream as ever, look at PG13 Diablo 3 and weep.

This not they only problem.
They not only considered only top level plays, they also failed at doing it properly. It was far too often based on small mistakes or randomly being decided on two army blobs a moving into each other.
It made mistakes and weakened itself with a switch from BW to SC2. It pretty much did exactly what you shouldn't do when MOBAs started competing very strongly against it.

okay but it was a fun game

This probably came close.