What was the exact turning point where they went from beloved creator of classics to creator of garbage?

It never happened, some malcontents were driven so insane by Diablo 3 that they've run an aggressive negative PR campaign ever since.

World of Warcraft easily.

>MoP has always been highly regarded by the people that actually played it
I can tell you as someone that actually played it that no it fucking wasn't. MoP was a shitshow of bad ideas on top of bad ideas, and it had nothing to fucking do with pandas.

After they were bought up by Activision.

The only bad thing you mentioned is a troll raid in fucking asia.

It's this.
Went from private company pleasing a retarded hands-off board w Vivendi, and then to owning thesmelves, to a public traded company answering to shareholders.

The exact moment this became possible was when you retards bought this thing. Told them everything they needed to know about their braindead community.

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I also played MoP, and it was a quality expansion. The zones and raids were all interesting. Timeless Isle was the first time since IQD that blizzard added a quality max level grind zone, CMs were a great addition to make challenging 5 man content. The only real issue with MoP was SoO listing 14 months. MoP was significantly better than Cataclysm, WoD, Legion, and BFA

>Zerg rushing rare spawns is considered quality content
The only interesting zone in the entire expansion was Dread Wastes because it was the only one that wasn't part of the continued red vs blue shit that Blizzard keeps forcing despite ending every fucking expansion with "WE GOTTA WORK TOGETHER GUYS! FULL ON FRIENDSHIP!"

Turning point for me was Diablo 3 being always online and the focus on the auction house.

i played it since release and it was shit
go fap to pandas you dont need a shit expansion for that , you could change every panda to a different race and the expansion would still be shit

its crazy when you look at devs who left the game when the company was taking off. all of them were primadonnas, firefall was probably the biggest example of that. makes you wonder how the fuck they managed to make even a single successful game, let alone multiple successful IPs

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

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WoD was the first sign of decline IMO

Diablo 3 was the first big sign altough they kind of turned it around but it never was a Diablo game in the end. Then came the card game craze etc. Remember the Overwatch was supposed to be a MMO but they trashed it and used the characters to make an arena shooter.

>WoD
Did you sleep through the 3 years before that?

No, it was starcraft 2

The class design in MoP was great. Either you're lying, or were too much of a shitter to realize it.

>The class design in MoP was great

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2010, end of WotLK.

Starcraft 2 just added new units. Very little changed about sc2 other than the new story and the installment plan which did keep the playerbase stable for many years. Blizzard played it right.

blizz was absolutely desperate to sell to activision

When they cancelled Starcraft: Ghost.

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>MoP was literally the peak of WoW
Retards think back to Timeless Isle and Throne of Thunder and consider it to be the quality of the entire expansion. Nobody seems to remember riding across the entire map, just to do two dailies for like 250 rep max a day...out of 21,000. Then when someone did earn rep, mode they had to spend ridiculous amounts of gold for that gear that was barely above blue tier.

Even though I really liked Wrath of the Lich King, The Burning Crusade was the last game/expansion of golden Blizzard.
TBC was the beginning of the end.
Every warning signs were there, we didn't listen. R.I.P Blizzard

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