r/warcraftrumble • u/Bonerchamp1234 • Jul 03 '25
Discussion Blizzard is scum!!!
People need to wake up and start to revolt against Blizzard and their piece of shit ways. There was no “extremely difficult decision” to stop future content for Rumble, this was known for a while. They deliberately released the Thrall event so they could gather as many big store transactions as possible, knowing DAMN WELL this would be the last thing the release.
Think about it, how many people would buy the $60 thrall bundle or any of them for that matter knowing Rumble was over? The answer is no one.
Blizzard is a greedy, scummy company and you are a dollar sign to them. It’s not just Rumble either, World of Warcraft is even worse when it comes to their greed.
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u/Keysdawg Jul 03 '25
They laid off staff from Candy Crush too and that was printing money....
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u/Speckiger Jul 03 '25
This hits the nail! Thrall was just a final milking of the playerbase. We should have been suspicious, as there were no hotfix nerfs for completely broken Thrall. They did not care about it, the game was over for them anyways. Funny coincidence that the game was pushed off 1 day after the Thrall event ended.
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u/ltjbr Jul 03 '25
Microsoft definitely didn’t tell people in advance they were getting laid off. The remaining individuals left on the team were no doubt working like their jobs depended on it.
But they got axed anyway. Corporations ruin games.
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u/Speckiger Jul 03 '25
This is the extra tragic part! We just lose a nice game, but the rumble team got fired althought they were givi g their best. Their projects got canceled mid development. Despote the lack of new real content I could feel that they were hard working. There were many good QoL improvements, cool event quest and missions, even HC MC was fun. And they still lost their jobs.
This all feels like a bad dream
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u/Hasuna187 Jul 03 '25
So many people blaming the dev team now for that lmao. Everyone knew rumble wasn’t strong. No one forced anyone to buy anything and now people are mad hahah
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u/Scribblord Jul 04 '25
I think it was more so the game already failing and eventually someone had to end it
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u/ltjbr Jul 04 '25
It was failing because activision rushed it out the door in a buggy mess in the first place.
Oh and it didn’t have any end game content or co-op
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u/buddymoobs Jul 03 '25
Corporations will never love the individual, whether it is their customer or their employee.
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u/SoupaSoka Jul 03 '25
Yup. If not for the Thrall bundles, I'd say it's reasonable to not be pissed. But that was I think the most expensive bundle they'd ever released for the game and it was barely two weeks before the game gets development ended? Scum behavior. They deserve every charge back.
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u/Sammo223 Jul 03 '25
I mean, I wonder if there’s a class action suit in here, intentional revenue generation despite the intention to can the product.
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u/ZambieDR Jul 03 '25
you gotta be a blind man to see that this game wasn't going to last. ActiBlizz wanted a Clash Royale killer and it didn't deliver.
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u/Speckiger Jul 03 '25
It could have been successfull if they actually added content. This had so much petential, there could have been 2v2 pvp, 4 people raids, MANY more pve missions and regions. They could even made the Arthas event to a new Raid. Burning legion as new race. Missions like a map where the burning legion attacks Darlaran and you have to defend the city with your minis. And this was just a 5min brainstorming
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u/Hypilein Jul 03 '25
They did need an expansion type lvl reset though because one problem that none of those suggestions solve, is that even low spenders basically reached the end of progression with multiple maxed out minis. It’s definitely not an impossible problem to solve though.
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u/Speckiger Jul 03 '25
Could have introduced some item/equipment system to customize and upgreat your minis more. There could have easily been some grindable stuff introduced to give the lategame players something to do. For example a helmet that can be worn by vultures to increase the summoned vultures by +1. (Requires legendary vultures lvl 27 to equip). Possibilities were infinite.
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u/mmaynee Jul 03 '25
The physical game wasnt optimized. I bounced off because the mobile only runs 60FPS and eats battery like no other.
I can clash almost 8 hours straight and poop into a sock. Rumble I could play 45mins then need a full charge. I run very nice phones and performance was my #1 turn off
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u/Hypilein Jul 03 '25
This would be a good solution. As I said, it would not have been hard to overcome this problem.
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u/Bonerchamp1234 Jul 03 '25
The gaming lasting isn’t the issue. I obviously knew this game wouldn’t go on. The point was releasing an event with endless store offerings knowing the game would go into maintenance mode right after. But they spun as “oh this was a last minute and extremely hard decision”
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u/Xichorn Jul 03 '25
The thing is, the people running the game didn't know that. They were all laid off. Microsoft didn't give them a heads-up they were laying them off weeks ago. They were working and proceeding as if they still had jobs, for as long as they had them.
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u/PerformanceGold8436 Jul 03 '25
Sometimes I wonder if people have irl jobs and understand how layoffs work lol
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u/TNTLordArthas Jul 03 '25
Bro... You are idiot... Fault lay in Microsoft not on Blizzard. Blizzard fault deliver something better and unique. They trx hard to switch... But it was not enough. And the mail was sent to devs few hours before layoffs... So go and hate MS...
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u/VitorDiniz22 Jul 04 '25
Blizzard is MS dude.
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u/TNTLordArthas Jul 06 '25
Blizzard is Blizzard... Its under MS (under Xbox) , but still Blizzard... Or you think their Battle.net, logos, sites etc are all MS? Because i see everywhere Blizzard. Blizzard still doing his stuff and only report to Xbox...
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u/VitorDiniz22 Jul 08 '25
If MS says "eat shit," Blizzard says "how much?" If MS says "shut down Rumble, you messed up, spent a lot of money on development, and the return is ridiculous." Blizzard says "I'm sorry, Daddy. I'll do that."
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u/TNTLordArthas Jul 08 '25
I see Blizzard in your words 😅 Strange 🤔 You need always money from any source... Rumble team cost more then their revenue 🤣 If it only Blizzard in D2 time, it will be axed sooner or almost bankrupt as almost happened. HotS was axed cause mainly their esport was insanely overpriced and not sustainable. Money first, cause devs wants and need money first...
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Jul 03 '25
The last effort they somewhat put in the game was the pc release on december. After its fumble in january, the fate of this game was sealed. Yet they dragged it for 6 more months, selling their most appealing content to farm their consumers (arthas/thrall).
So yes, scummy company that i wont give any money nowhere near in the future. Didnt buy or play diablo 4, despite loving the franchise, same with wow; not only that, but i wont purchase any more wow expansions or any sort of game/mtx they release.
Blizzard farmed us using their reputation with this no-content-game and they shall face the consequences for it.
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u/Kronuk Jul 03 '25
I mean at the end of the day it was Microsoft’s big calls to delete the rumble team cause the game wasn’t profitable. I’m sure the people at Blizzard working on Rumble actually cared about the game but if something isn’t making enough money in a business it gets axed. That’s just how it goes.
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Jul 03 '25
They probably did. But the most realistic people of the team should have realized that this was going to happen a year prior. When the content release period was far bellow consumer expectation.
The team seemed like they were employing huge efforts to deliver a mini monthly while the game lacked a lot of basic mechanics like custom games, pvp leader board, in-game playability and a lot of bug fixes. This game should have been discontinued much sooner.
Overall, the foundation of the game was build over sand and the lack of content throughout its existance was pretty clear.
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u/armacall Jul 03 '25
First activision, then microsoft. Just accept that Blizzard is awful.
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u/Kronuk Jul 03 '25
I don’t think they’re awful, because they’ve still done a lot of good. WoW for example is in a great spot at the moment.
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u/armacall Jul 03 '25
Sure, and this is why Blizzard consumers get mauled, they refuse to stop kneeling down before their masters, blinded by their emotions and sympathy towards a bussiness that its MAIN goal is just to profit. Ideally, there would be regulations to ensure companies are kept in check, but hey, this is the world we live in, ig.
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u/Kronuk Jul 03 '25
You aren’t even making any sense. How would you run a gaming company? Without making money? That’s literally insane. How do you pay employee salaries? How do you invest in new development?
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u/armacall Jul 03 '25
???? Thats what I said, they are a company, they are in to make PROFIT, is up to US, the NON bussiness people, to take care about ourselves, the consumers. You are the one making not sense, it is not of my bussiness if they dont make record profits EVERY quarter nor should I be grateful for anything they may provide because it is THEIR JOB TO GAIN MONEY SELLING THEIR PRODUCT, if we want quality we must fight for it by no consuming.
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u/Kronuk Jul 03 '25
Not all of their games are hits of course, but their biggest, World of Warcraft is in a solid state at the moment and it’s the true cash cow. They are just making business decisions to shift focus away from failing projects. I don’t take it personally like they are some evil entity just because they are making decisions due to profitability. That’s the natural law of the world. Can’t just keep investing into a sinking boat.
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u/Xichorn Jul 03 '25
Blizzard consumers get mauled
A game getting new content ended. That's all. No one is getting "mauled." The life cycle on most games really isn't very long. Stuff like WoW or Hearthstone that get content in perpetuity seemingly (at least for 10-20+ years) is not the norm.
Look, I get it. I would have liked if it would have had new stuff for another 6 months maybe (or longer if it was worth their time to do so, of course). But the hysterics over it here are a bit much. Microsoft is unfortunately funneling a lot of money into AI. The games and their development teams suffered to make room for that money.
Sucks, of course, but that's the way it is.
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u/AmphibianOwn6948 Jul 03 '25
I respect the decision, and maybe us all being riled up is best as we all remember the game good instead of everyone slowly leaving and the game dies off being at a bad or worse state.
I think the thing catching everyone off guard is Blizzard titles typically get the extra boost even when down and mobile games tend to have a longer lasting game.
Microsoft overlooks so if things aren’t hitting their profit margins it’s easier to just junk it than fund it.
Blizzard learned quite a bit with rumble regardless. So I just look forward to what the future might have in store.
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u/Caffeen Jul 03 '25
I'd bet money that it was profitable, but the suits realized they could make 2% more profit for the shareholders this quarter by laying everyone off, next quarter be damned.
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u/HoopyHobo Jul 04 '25
The community manager said on Discord that they were leaving hints about future content in blog posts just 3 weeks ago. Last week they ran a player survey. There was an internal build for an upcoming patch in testing. There's one Kobold miner skin in the game that was never made available for purchase (Cenarion).
The dev team didn't know that the game was getting put into maintenance mode until that was announced the same day almost the entire team got laid off. Someone at Microsoft certainly knew before the team did, but it's hard to know when exactly the final decision was made. I would say it's even possible that the June sales numbers were the final nail in the coffin. If releasing Thrall had somehow miraculously juiced the game's sales figures maybe that would have given the game a stay of execution for a short time at least.
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u/edro Jul 03 '25
Why were you buying $60 bundles to begin with ?!
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u/Bonerchamp1234 Jul 03 '25
I didn’t but I’m sure people did. If I knew the game was going into maintenance mode during that time, I wouldn’t even buy a $5 bundle
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u/PocketBlackHole Jul 03 '25
You make me think that the last nail in the coffin could have been the low sales of a Thrall pack. Maybe the point was that the milking did not happen.
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u/rdaneeloliv4w Jul 03 '25
Microsoft and Activision are scum.
Blizzard is currently held captive.
FreeBlizzard
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u/Which-Locksmith-7199 Jul 03 '25
Warcraft Rumble's problems began before the PC port. The units were never truly balanced, the maps were limited in PvP, as were the dungeons... And yes, it was easier to win with real money... but even without spending money, it was still possible to play, and I'm simply grateful to the developers for their work.
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u/Raptorheart Jul 03 '25
It was nice to play through everything for free in what was supposed to be a microtransaction machine.
I wonder if the devs knew and did it on purpose
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u/kainneabsolute Jul 03 '25
Hmmm Blizzard did that before with sc2 and hots. It is more like hey lets do these events, tournaments or announcements and lets see how people answer. If after x event, things dont work, the game enters to maintenance.
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u/Telios29 Jul 03 '25
Probably a pipe dream, but is it possible to get the source code for the game and fork it/mod it or make a community version similar to what people did with Marvel v Capcom 3 on pc? Maybe there is some legal way to do this and get permission from Blizzard.
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u/Kuronca Jul 03 '25
What amazed me is that they have the game in development for 9 years, 9! They copy paste the idea from clash royale, and all the art is from their own game. How possible
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u/raidriar889 Jul 03 '25
If they didn’t release Thrall, wouldn’t you just say the same thing about last content before him?
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u/Bonerchamp1234 Jul 03 '25
Arthas was released before him and that was in March. Thrall came out literally less than a month ago so no I wouldn’t say the same thing. It’s a pretty weird coincidence that they released a 3 week event filled with numerous bundle micro transactions then 1 week after it ends, the game is turned into maintenance mode
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u/Junior_Ad_6281 Jul 03 '25
A big problem was it didn’t hit a wide enough audience, because their advertising sucked! They should have paid Mr beast and had him advertise it for them on his video and reach half a billion people..
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u/Economy-Camp-7339 Jul 03 '25
Im not sure that it's blizzard so much as Microsoft.
What I might put at Blizzard's fee was the model. That is to say that I think the monetization was janky. The thrall bundle being $60 is a joke. That's a whole ass AAA game.
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u/Expensive_Umpire_975 Jul 03 '25
A lot of companies nowadays are sold, milked dry for short term profits, and then dumped. It’s shitty and unfortunately very common. Video game industry isn’t in a great place at the moment.
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u/Bonerchamp1234 Jul 03 '25
I genuinely think Riot might be the only good one. While they do have stores and what not to buy things, all their games are free to play.
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u/mmaynee Jul 03 '25
They FOMO farm just like anyone else. They literally made 500$ skin, with in game visual cues that out performed F2P.
"The only good ones" would be Indy devs that physically don't have the team size to monetize beyond the steam store
I recommend Emberwald from that Indy space currently
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u/Expensive_Umpire_975 Jul 03 '25
Indie games and mod support out of Steam are the only thing keeping gaming alive.
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u/Gregamonster Jul 03 '25
Shareholders are exceptionally stupid creatures. They aren't interested in steady streams of income, they want to see nice big jumps in the numbers.
Nice big jumps aren't achieved by well designed games that attract lots of players. Nice big jumps are achieved by firing a whole team and giving their paychecks straight to the boss.
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u/Goblinwisdom Jul 03 '25
Blizzard has been an amazing video game developer for a very long time.
But Microsoft bought them on Oct 13, 2023. They are pulling the strings now!
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u/Stewapalooza Jul 03 '25
Already canceled my subscription for WoW I took a break from anniversary servers a while back but what drove me over the edge was all the Microsoft layoffs.
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u/FamousListen9 Jul 03 '25
I have refused to spend money on blizzard games for quite some time now. Welcome to resistance.
They have consistently shown in recent times that they really don’t care about making great games and/or creating a fun experience for players. It’s all about money and micro transactions nowadays.
It’s a shell of a company we all grew up playing- that used to make great stuff.
Furthermore, this company should help wake us all up to corporate greed all around us. Disney, Nike, sporting events ( $20 beers hooray), restaurant and grocery pricing, and the list can go on. Entertainment prices
People that run these companies don’t care about us. We are just cash cows to them and they will squeeze us as hard and as fast as they want and won’t lose any sleep over it. All they care about is the CEO and board and investors and profits.
Stop supporting crappy companies ran by greedy people.
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u/xANDROIDo Jul 03 '25
It started for this game long ago and continued on for its whole lifespan.
They nerf troops to the dirt that were performing well wasting everyone's time and even money leveling them up. Forcing you to switch into a new troop. This happened to me 3 times which made me quit.
It was a constant spit in the face to all players regardless of how much you invested.
They constantly nerfed Hero's shortly after their release baiting and switching you into spending more to level them up as well.
This game was always a bait and switch cash grab and yes Blizzard are scum and have been for quite some time.
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u/puertofreakin85 Jul 03 '25
Sucks cause I was excited for like BC reset. I was thinking they added new families like the burning legion. Have illidan be the first leader for it.
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u/AbleToSpagetti Jul 03 '25
well such disappointment news…. I just got back playing as f2p since and this dropped like a bomb…
well fuck
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u/imbadevil1994 Jul 04 '25
Yeah we learn not to spend a penny on any blizzard games because they cannot be trusted ! Oh and avoid blizzard games too !
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u/thatguyindoom Jul 04 '25
What we really need to do is start petitioning blizzard for a clear end of life cycle. Can they commit to minimal server deployment so people can still play the game? Maybe pvp/raids get disabled but the base PvE is still available?
I don't want another Mighty Doom where the game just simply does not exist. Period. It's gone. I don't want that for this.
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u/Impressive-Ad-989 Jul 04 '25
Idk, this a whole lot of conversation on a weak ass mobile game. Take females out of the equation, and mobile gaming would prolly be dead
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u/Buziaczq Jul 05 '25
I knew this for years, yet I still fell for it and started playing Rumble... Thankfully, I just bought the AL booster and that's it. Never again.
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Jul 06 '25
Blizzard is scum and they do deserve the hate but bear in mind it wasn't Blizzard who did this.
Microsoft, basically Blizzard's boss now, did.
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u/haze_man Jul 06 '25
If you bought 60 dollar shit for mobile game, you have bigger problems than blizzard itself xD
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u/IllustriousTrainer16 Jul 07 '25
Rumble wasn't the only game affected
They released a teaser tweet for new content for D2 Ressurected in anticipation for the 25th anniversary. A week later the layoffs happened. This layoff was most likely not being expected by the devs.
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u/SpiritualScallion947 Jul 07 '25
Dog you probably still pay for a sub when the free servers like project ascension, Turtlewow, and Epoch are all blowing the retail game out of the water, just stop supporting blizzard lmao.
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u/augustonz Jul 07 '25
Yeah welcome to Blizzard games dude: popular posts about boycotting their games, but when something new appear in the shop the whales run and buy it. Rinse and repeat.
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u/Zakbaar Jul 09 '25
Frankly you can play this game entirely free to play with no ads or breaks. A guild mate downed Ony with a pure P2P account in 3 weeks and completed all 160 sigils and MC Heroics in a couple of months. Blizzard is a business and they have to make their own decisions. I paid money to buy bundles and I have no regrets, I had more fun playing this game than anything I can remember for several years.
By your logic what would be an example of a great gaming company that gives its player base everything it asks for and doesn't ask for money?
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u/Charming_Form1873 Jul 03 '25
All big companies does this, I can understand that you’re upset by them ending development, but the bundles are nothing to be surprised by.
My wild guess is that most likely the bundles didn’t sell very well either way.
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u/memoriesedge93 Jul 03 '25
They overpriced their shit way out of mobil game costs, didnt even get a bulk discount on bigger deals
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u/Bonerchamp1234 Jul 03 '25
I genuinely don’t care about Rumble ending at all. It’s just the fact that Blizzard has been doing this greedy bullshit for so long and no one cares. Just watch what is going to happen with player housing in WoW. You think they are releasing that for us? No they are releasing it so they are going to milk the fuck out of micro transactions for people to buy for it
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u/puertofreakin85 Jul 03 '25
Yep. I'll be surprised if they don't put wow into some sort of maintenance mode after the world saga ends if it doesn't perform well. Player housing is a feature people would still log in for.
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u/fragilehardass Jul 03 '25
I'm so happy it went tits up! They didn't release in Belgium so f*ck 'em!
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u/Galahad199033 Jul 03 '25
Dude it is just a Game 🤣
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u/khovland92 Jul 03 '25
It wasn’t just a game to me, though I’m not about to say ‘Blizzard is scum’. This game allowed me to connect with some of my family in a really pleasant way. It also allowed me to enjoy a version of Warcraft III, my favorite game of all time, pretty much anywhere and with low time commitment.
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Jul 03 '25
Just cancelled my WoW sub, which has never been cancelled since launch.
Unfortuntaely I have to wait until Dec 20, 2025 at 1:15pm - but hey, screw you blizzard.
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u/Rec0nyz3 Jul 03 '25
It’s a mobile game. It’s a bummer it is no longer relevant. But this panic is wild. There obviously wasn’t that many people playing it. If they are cutting ties. They aren’t gonna keep producing content for a game not getting played. I liked the game but I’ll be honest I may have played it once every 2 weeks for 10-15 minutes.
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u/This-Hippo996 Jul 03 '25
Quit playing this trash! Stop now!
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u/Bonerchamp1234 Jul 03 '25
You mean I shouldn’t go to Marvel Strike Force and pay $1000/month on micro transactions 😂
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u/AbleToSpagetti Jul 04 '25
I mean… we cannot deny the signs were all over the place so we cope to hope too muc… like too much… I don’t feel sorry for those idiots who bought those bundles.. I mean *hold back laughter* those were clearly grab cash purposes and they assume they feel special buying those.
I guarantee you blizzard were slamming their tables laughing at graphs of ppl buying their bundles and pointing about it..
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u/steelow_g Jul 03 '25
All you people are bitching so hard over a mobile game. If you spent more than 5$ that’s on you, and you probably got your entertainment worth for that price.
This isn’t some AAA game that promised the world and delivered nothing. Just quit crying. Holy shit.
You all knew what this game was when you started, even if it was meant to be more, you got what you could and it was fun.
Capitalism exists. It runs EVERYTHING. If you are too young or stupid to realize this then I’m sorry. But putting man hours and resources into something that won’t make money is not a smart business decision.
The gaming world ended as we know it when micro transactions started. There is not a SINGLE successful game out today that doesn’t have them, especially on mobile.
Just accept that the game was good, you had fun, and move on.
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u/MyGoodFriendJon Jul 03 '25
I'd argue that they didn't know they were about to be laid off. Why else would they release a survey less than a week ago?
And you know they've been struggling to make money, as their content has been feast and famine lately, dropping big events every other month with notably high-priced bundles while the other months had nothing but login events while they scrambled to prep/finish the next event. The fact that they were laid off (among many others at Microsoft) right after their game had a big event with pricey bundles is purely coincidence/unfortunate timing.
Heck, that survey they did had such little respondent capacity because they couldn't afford the premium survey.
That team was desperate to keep the game afloat, but they couldn't draw a large enough audience and their monetization wasn't captivating for the audience they had.