Activision Blizzard Sucks

Today I'm going to capitalize on the success of one of my earlier videos, Nintendo Sucks, and kickstart a series of videos where I complain about different video game companies for some stupid decisions they've made. This video is specifically focused on Activision Blizzard.
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today in this video I talk about Activision Blizzard, who have made games like Call of Duty, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, and are currently still developing Call of Duty Warzone (A free to play battle royale experience). I also talk about their current ongoing lawsuit by the state of california. Oh also Activision Blizzard publishes games like Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Diablo.

[@EZOnTheEyes]

Overwatch: "The world could always use more heroes!" Activision-Blizzard Corporate: *Stage 3 Final Villains*

[@C.A._Old]

Valve already better than him ! +1

[@alex.g7317]

@@C.A._Old mkay

[@skirdus367]

The current state of WoW is that no one hates WoW more than WoW fans

[@diavolosteddy7594]

lol the same with overwatch

[@rijokev1963]

Blizzard- You guys want more content? Fans- pls BFA bad Blizzard- haha torghast go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Fans- Well it was fun for a bit but now its repetitive and forced pls change Blizzard- haha anima go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@comradevladimir6664]

@@rijokev1963 What did i just Fucking read

[@C.A._Old]

Valve already better than him ! +1

[@Oak690]

WC3 Reforged was never finished and is a piece of $hit. They should pull the plug on the servers.

[@spongeman3090]

"Activision Sucks" Hmm, yes. The sea is made of water.

[@isotonicshade]

Salt water

[@nittayoshifumi8252]

And salt. Pillars of salt.

[@C.A._Old]

Valve already better than him ! +1

[@YourFrienjamin]

Lol

[@omegaotaku1342]

Ah yes, the floor here is also made of ground

[@caden5936]

Man, like 4 years ago our school had a field trip at Blizzards office, and it was the coolest field trip i’ve ever been on. All the sick statues and crazy offices, we even met Jeff Kaplan himself and got pictures with him!

[@urielc918]

Mine too

[@TheClaymore911]

what yout trip has to do with video :D

[@caden5936]

@@TheClaymore911 Since the video is all about how the exact place is I went on a field trip when i was younger is now a toxic and sexist workplace. I’ll never think of it the same way.

[@caden5936]

@@bowl3864 I’m not sure how I would prove it, but I’m not lying.

[@victordarkreapewr444]

if this is true, your school is awesome bro

[@aithanleeom5152]

They are the most terrible video game company... Nintendo doesn't even come close compared to what they did to their workers.

[@jmurray1110]

I’d say EA is next in line but thankfully hasn’t gotten to this scale of sexual harassment (there’s almost certainly some and it needs rooted out but it’s better than it being ignored at this scale)

[@GNS29]

Cap

[@C.A._Old]

Valve already better than him ! +1

[@Willimann]

well nintendo just sucks at buisness decisions but does output alright gaames (quality did drop tho)

[@vullord666]

Nintendo is still worse in terms of how they treat their consumers and IP. Activision Blizzard is worse in terms of how they treat their employees and the company as a whole. It's like playing a game of whose the worst jeopardy.

[@kinggalactix]

In all seriousness, Microsoft buying this forsaken company is truly the best thing to happen.

[@kinggalactix]

@@Pakistani890 I meant buying

[@yurichtube1162]

@@Pakistani890 do you fight alot with indians?

[@Pakistani890]

@@yurichtube1162 what?

[@good-tn9sr]

@@yurichtube1162 india > pakistan

[@anarchistmaverick9507]

@@good-tn9sr Pakistan is just an Islamic rip-off

[@LuigiXGamer]

I remember hearing the word, *Activision-Blizzard* and immediately said: *The ultimate evil has been unleashed*

[@Memelord1117]

Anime vibes

[@User-d6l6t]

What about EA

[@vAqeii]

Stryxo really making content better than most modern KZbinrs these days

[@Stryxo]

thank you lol

[@vengefly6173]

True

[@monke1919]

True

[@Thatoneguy-ok3so]

Very true

[@Jayzzzen]

TRUE

[@JohnFitzgerald-Kennedy]

"I don't care about the rape room or whatever" -an actual quote from my friend when talking about blizzard

[@jerryjohn3815]

THE WHAT ROOM????

[@lazyraccoon6204]

And this is why I'm scared of working for a company, just looking at companies and seeing what companies do to screw over many people just makes me think i should just be a indie dev or not be a dev at all. The only studio that my friend suggest was 343, knowing this from Activision and Blizzard I know they probably wont recover or continues to be a shitty company.

[@arnoldmunez5057]

And 343 just got done sh*ting all over halo infinite. Tell your buddy that whoever made it to where a shoulder pad is a microtransaction needs to be castrated.

[@YourFrienjamin]

Recognize what makes makes companies fall and do the opposite. Now, go be the indie dev we want to follow 😁

[@naveesomeone1583]

1:27 "Welcome to Team Fortress 2. After nine years in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait" (Realistic Edition!)

[@micaiahrosa9061]

i have just finished every video you have uploaded and i just want to say you have become one of my favorite youtubers! you put so much effort and love into these videos and it shows. keep up the good work man

[@nothingtoreport1918]

This video just makes me feel better that I’ve never played an Activision or Blizzard game. I’ve heard very few good things about them.

[@arishkhan5918]

Blizzard made really good games. Pirate and try them.

[@Thatoneguy-ok3so]

Same, I hear terrible things about warzone very often, and at first I wanted to try the game, but now that I’ve seen this video I’m pretty sure I’m gonna pass

[@spongeman3090]

It's so sad to see that Crash and Spyro, two beloved IPs, are in the dirty hands of this devil of a company.

[@cementchewer]

I dunno, diablo is pretty good.

[@prateekpanwar646]

@@arishkhan5918 lol

[@avoided1885]

3:11 My opinion to his opinion of Bo2 Campaign: "And I took that personally"

[@justarandomdiamond2993]

Microsoft: "Don't care, didn't ask"

[@slimtimyt153]

The dream move is watching stryxo videos with a s/o You’re on fire man

[@FlameLFH]

Blizzard has a bad tendency of ruining their own games through updates. For example, Overwatch was great during its first two years or so, but now has so many changes that it's arguably a worse experience. I heard WoW did a similar thing.

[@ElPicoleto90]

You were right... MW2019 mulitplayer has a 120 GB installation at 5mb... When the game released, multiplayer was like 45gB

[@TheSilentCheetah]

Reading this after Diablo 4's Season 1 patch makes this all the more hilarious. Microsoft would have a better time reforming Activision entirely because the reputation they hold is beyond repair in my eyes.

[@notnormaly]

Found you by the shoutout in anis video, now I am addicted to your content, you make awesome videos, love it :)

[@Joshie117]

1:00 who's gonna tell him...? oh were all screwed.

[@Thatoneguy-ok3so]

Your content reminds me of Poncho’s, but better and more straight to the point. The visuals are very relative to what is being commented on, and not just the same Minecraft parkour like every other youtuber. Really great stuff 👍

[@eye_con]

Hello, brother.

[@TheUltimateYouTuberyay]

They're also being sued by the Federal government for employee abuse and market manipulation.

[@kinggalactix]

"Oh how the mighty have fallen", Microsoft muttered, holding Activision Blizzard in its hand. "Did you really believe you would last long? I am the owner of Xbox and Windows. I HAVE THE POWER AND WEALTH! Unlike you, I make sure all games get time and effort to be the best." Microsoft looks out of the window... of opportunity. "And now... I will bring dignity to the games you lacked to put effort in to keep them safe and fun. To you, Spyro and Crash Bandicoot, you will be more fun."

[@nathanoher4865]

I don’t know if that holds true anymore. Sure, when you look at things like FSX or much of the Xbox 360 landscape, Microsoft is a heavy hitter and responsible for millions of people’s greatest memories, but I can’t say that’s true anymore, especially after Minecraft Bedrock. As the parent company of Mojang, it’s their responsibility to ensure that Mojang is doing the right thing for what is Microsoft’s IP. But all Microsoft cares about is profit, not their community. They literally do not care when Mojang makes an idiotic marketplace or off-parity update because the marketplace is sô ridiculously profitable. Also windows 11 sucks

[@sebastiancintron29]

I know this might be a year late but it has to still be said; WoW and Blizzard were in such a bad state that the same fans of that game that looked at Final Fantasy XIV and called it a "weeb" game and said it was a bad game, were the first to jump to Final Fantasy XIV just so that they didn't have to play WoW.

[@camcrosland3210]

If you’re wondering about Overwatch, it’s basically what you said: Blizzard has ZERO idea about what their player base wants. Balancing is absolutely awful, buffing and nerfing characters depending on a recent tournament and completely ruining average play. They add characters who, although they seem cool, ruin the game and aren’t fun to play against. They single-handedly managed to make the game so bad that it’s basically destitute, and I hardly see people playing it much anymore. Sure, it’ll have some diehard fans who’ll come back for Overwatch 2, but I have a feeling that Overwatch 2 will die much quicker than Overwatch, and the player base will dwindle to nothing.

[@sunshineyrainbows13]

Overwatch wouldn't even be dying if Blizzard wasn't exceptional at the "ignore Overwatch fans" game. I play Tracer but she hasn't had a buff since...ever? Everyone's imbalanced, especially with Bastion able to take down double shields without needing to aim. Brig is OP for a healer, she's never actually healing. Junkrat and Hog need nerfs YESTERDAY. It's just out of control and so unenjoyable right now. Blizzard being a trash company is all the more reason to put it down.

[@pantuternik]

Nice one, really had me laughing, haha

[@blueblend_]

3:10 no way he actually said cod bo2 has an ok campaign

[@hugocouturier738]

The company will merge with next... This video age like fine wine :D

[@זהסודי-ה7מ]

0:24 5 months later, we found the answer

[@cakecakes31]

Why is this content not blowing up? Next vid should be called "Why KZbin Sucks"

[@shadowlord9553]

0:22 Watching this in Febuary of 2022 right after Microsoft bought Activision lol

[@duden7983]

Amazing and high quality video. You pretty much summed up everything I've been saying about Activision|Blizzard for the last years.

[@PFummin]

For future reference I think you should put some kind of outline around text from now on, because at 7:08 the text blends into the white background and is tough to read. Other than that great video, I like what I've seen from you so far.

[@Bkuuzin]

If I check the definition of greed, I’ll see a picture of Bobby Kotick. 😂

[@izaya65]

The quote on quote hell they inficlited on bungie is that much funnier considering recent acquisition Sony made. We've yet to see their worst.

[@זהסודי-ה7מ]

And Bungie's former owner now bought Activision. I hope that leads Activision blizzard to a brighter future, but until the acquisition goes through, I don't see this happening

[@izaya65]

@@זהסודי-ה7מ who knows what the outcome will be, let's just hope the industry isn't monopolized into blue hell.

[@LaelGames7913]

I love these videos PLEASE dont stop Continue with the good work

[@Xeoft]

stryxo- Every company sucks exept... no one- who? stryxo- ubisoft.

[@mevinuss]

In other news: Water is wet

[@b0ss747]

Great video Stryxo. Keep it up!

[@115zombies935]

2:49 Neversoft was actually merged with IW. The neversoft team made the Extinction game mode and zombies in IW. They actually put a ton of reference to their old games and even hid the neversoft logo in the cod games they worked on haha

[@grega991]

Activision Blizzard is like Disney, nothing will stop them. They will continue the same business practice as before.

[@spongeman3090]

Wow! A new "____ is the next Disney" statement!

[@salizzar4118]

btw that character he mentions that got released (ashe) in blizcon 2018, is actually THE worst character in overwatch, and people hate it cause she is genuinely a really fun character, and one of the few DPS in that game i feel confident in.

[@diavolosteddy7594]

she’s definitely not the worst character? lmao

[@salizzar4118]

@@diavolosteddy7594 i meant in terms of the current meta

[@celestialsss]

@@salizzar4118 ..no

[@ManuelGennaroMusic]

damn these videos are like a breath of fresh air from most of the videos on youtube, good job dude!

[@turtelbro1123]

6:15 bro turned into Rodrick after he was caught owning that offensive magazine.

[@Galithrania]

WoW has only gone down hill ever since Activision absorbed them. Mist of Pandaria was the last expansion that I would call "decent" while a lot of people would say Legion was the last "good" expansion. However, what a lot of people seem to complete disregard is just how horribly little effort was put into Legion's development. The only pieces of gear that you got were armor, and you could get shards to either put new stats on your weapon or level up your weapon, because that means so fucking much compared to getting a new weapon that's an actual upgrade. Legion was basically just stuck around your weapons which they called Artifact Weapons, and completely ruined most, if not all lore behind these weapons that were previously unobtainable or weren't in the game. Thanks Activision.

[@yeetme3387]

i love how all their online games fanbases are quietly dying hmm

[@Niels_f2704]

I had issues with starting up COD Warzone/Modern Warfare and they told me to 'scan and repair' the game, but it only made things worse cause it restarts to scan every damn time.. After it hits 90%, it gives an error that something went wrong..

[@sub-zero7061]

The thing with Blizzard and just Blizzard is the lack of comunication. The OW2 is comming this year and if I wouldn't be a big fan of OW1, I wouldn't even notice.

[@scpnoobers]

3:09 they also have a horrible problem called R.A.T (remote access Trojan) which the executor can take full control of your entire pc

[@Sam-iv8iw]

Every 60 seconds in africa, a minute passes

[@Gameplayery]

1:55 CLARA !

[@Elaborance]

The casters in the Blitzchung case clearly knew what was going on.

[@MewDevs]

3:06 I got my Xbox disc for 2 bucks in Walmart

[@MrJomalley123]

I seriously hope Toys for bob will come back to making spyro and crash games since they've done what i think was an amazing job with them giving these two games the absolute love and respect. sure the n.sane trilogy wasn't technically developed by them but still point stands

[@SolidWorm]

Modern warfare (2019) was probably one of my favorite games to play cuz with friends it was a whole lotta fun. then they decided to make vanguard and try to mush all three games together (MW, CW, and vanguard) which broke everything and all of them are now full of countless bugs and nothing works.

[@MinakoAino2112]

I don’t know much about WoW but as a FFXIV player seeing all the new WoW refugees in FF is telling me they screwed something up.

[@SoreTv]

It doesn’t cost anything to sell a digital copy of a game. Honestly if I ever make my own game studio and start producing proper games, my plan would be to drop the price of the game after its cost to make was paid off. If it costs me $10,000 to make the game, and the game was being sold for $20, then after I made the $10,000 back I would set the price to like $5-$10 bucks because after that it’s all just profits. Yes I know, companies still need to pay their workers, that’s why extra content is put out and more games are made. Why would anybody buy a game for $60 when it was released 30-40 years ago Nintendo?

[@LostSoul3390]

Nah, you still habe to pay for Servers or your workes

[@SoreTv]

@@LostSoul3390 did you read my entire comment? I acknowledged that workers still need to get paid at the end and how to combat that, and on top of that, single player games don’t need servers, not to mention if going through steam, they supply the servers so I still wouldn’t have to pay for any.

[@amari1877]

11K CONGRAAAATS!!!

[@sub-zero7061]

You know what is funny? That Overwatch practically didn't change from the date of publishing this video.

[@grimmreaper9005]

haven't seen any comments on it so I'll throw my take in as somebody who has played WoW for about 10 year or so and has recently quit for good Blizzard fucking destroyed WoW... They have changed literally everything people liked about it, and left it a lifeless husk... they ignore every single thing the community tells them and keep releasing stuff even when everybody hated it in the public test realm The devs are so unbelievably out of touch with their community, and you can very clearly tell the devs (or atleast the ones making the decisions) do not play the game, a quick example: a few years ago they removed a feature in the game everybody loved called tier sets, people where understandably upset about it and kept asking and pestering them to put it back in the game... to the point they finally said they would, jump a few YEARS later to the most recent patch, where they took tier sets, took away literally everything people liked about them, and added them back into the game... and they dont understand why people hate it... yeah I wonder why

[@diavolosteddy7594]

blizzard is good at killing off their games almost everyone that plays overwatch hates it lol

[@grimmreaper9005]

@@diavolosteddy7594 overwatch just makes me sad, I loved it so much when it first came out and now it feels so stale and just frustrating to play with the CC meta

[@K-TheLetter]

ive been binge watching this guys vids ever since i discovered him (about 3 hours ago) lol

[@JmMateo933]

Same lol

[@zw3in]

Everything went down the toilet after papa Jeff left. He was a developer and maybe the only developer that actually cared about the game.

[@ElPicoleto90]

3:05 AND crashes on PC in the helicopter mission where Woods get injured and u gotta help him, this is due to the actual OS and activision hasnt fixed it yet in steam. Yet they charge 60 euros... but they dont fix the campaign freezing at the 4th mission

[@DarkoOrSmth]

Stryxo do be saying hi to everyone

[@Stryxo]

it’s true

[@spikerthedragonbear]

1:38 I belive that the problem is not that is insanely popular, but looking at BF2042, no matter the amount of people they bring to finish a game, if there's not enough experience with the engine, Shit's gonna hit the fan. 2:42 Neversoft got kinda merged with infinity ward so yeah, another company working with COD.... BUT, Im really, REALLY SURE, this is a case of Limiting freedom, Great developers, and meh Higher ups. thankfully its not EA level. .... outside of the harassment. My rating would be, "not the worst.... but no way they are nowhere near the best. get the head out of your asses, come on!."

[@theyreapollo]

Overwatch’s state is annoying. The meta is double shields and cc, you shoot at barriers half the game and then get stunned, bashed, rocked, and then you die

[@Stryxo]

i was really bad at overwatch so i only saw like 4 whole teams throughout the year i played it that actually played like they were a real competitive team and i remember I immediately started not enjoying the game as much

[@nitropicxd]

stryxo blowing up goddamn

[@Doctor_Ks]

Stryxo do be growing

[@Funaru]

Glad I found this channel.

[@SGTArcAngel7]

My boi making some bangers out here

[@Jayzzzen]

Even though I have never played a single one of Activision's Games, It was still fun to watch! Also Quick question, is this your new outro? 7:22

[@Stryxo]

nah the outro has been the same for awhile i just choose a song and footage that fits the theme of the video

[@Jayzzzen]

Oh, Alright thank you!

[@dream_killer-cc3vr]

You missed out on so many fucking classics

[@NeoJunkie]

Stryxo is the best youtuber rn

[@TastyIsaac_real]

Overwatch is generally awful due to the fact that when i play there is no skill based matchmaking so i get put up against prestige 5 (level 500) and people who have played nothing but overwatch for its whole lifespan. And my whole team is filled with people who just started

[@mosura2695]

When you mentioned other competitive games with prolific cheating issues, I’m surprised you didn’t mention dead by daylight. To be fair, the massive security issue where it was possible for people to access streamers’ IPs and DDOS them, bricking up their router for weeks (which, it’s been three months since this issue became widely known about, still haven’t done a thing to fix it or said anything about trying to fix it) but yea in DBD, there are most likely more cheaters at top ranks than actual high-ranking players at this point and the things BHVR has been doing almost seem to ENCOURAGE more cheaters (I.E., putting the game on sale at EXTREME discounts in other countries which makes account selling super easy, putting the game on the epic games store with cords progress and even giving the game out FOR FREE on the first week, which essentially allowed cheaters to unban themselves with new, free accounts and yet cross-progression is not available on any other platform as of now) and it’s really frustrating and it’s extra frustrating to see the devs respond like massive children and take cute little twitch shirt cosmetics from streamers bc they call BHVR out for not addressing their issues. Absolute insanity.

[@Nacalal]

"Comment about the state of World of Warcraft expansions." The short version: *NOT GOOD* The still kinda short version: It's been downhill since wrath of the litch king came out and they've slowly optimized the game to go from a cool open world where you explore and develop your character to a game where you have to spam dungeons to hit level cap, then farm gear to get in to raids so you can farm gear for the next tier of raids while the gear you get has seemingly random stats and nothing really interesting or unique to make it stand out in any way, all while every expansion completely changes your classes play style in confusing and assbackwards ways turning every new xpac into a roll of the dice to see if your class is still fun to play. Yes, this is still the short version, I could rant for the length of an entire novel on how much Blizzard fucked up this game.

[@GornoBiggs]

Dude, i'm so glad that you mentioned how overpriced the older Call Of Duty games are on Steam. That's insane.

[@gianmatute7577]

Ah yes, Cold war zombies gameplay

[@fxgspartan]

Well now Microsoft Activision Blizzard sucks

[@waluiginumberone548]

Him talking a about hackers reminds me that tf2 has casual servers with only aimbots

[@Celestiallide]

I feel like I watched this video before, and when I originally watched it I felt like I watched it before! This video is 3 hours old and I feel like I watched it months ago, even deja vu doesn't make sense in this case!

[@howdadogdoin9179]

when he found out that Microsoft bought activision

[@meowxgamingstuff]

Black ops 2 has ok story? It has a great story but the price is high

[@JuhoSprite]

3:08 that's why people use plutonium

[@b00kshelf34]

イヤホンを付けるとわかる、裏の音っていうか普段聞こえない効果音を聞くと、ホントにカッコイイ。凄すぎて、良すぎて言葉にできない。

[@zdaito10]

over 10k nice congratulations

[@s0lid_sno0ks]

The Spyro/Crash remasters were anything but great.

[@icytucan5776]

what?

[@dream_killer-cc3vr]

Genuinely the most dogshit take i have heard

[@ja-nathen]

I hope they get shut down so that all the games and franchises under their name can get a chance at redemption. I’m talking reboots/ remakes/ continuations of stuff like Guitar Hero, Skylanders, Singularity, Diablo. Also, IDK if they own the publishing rights to Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein 2009 but if they do maybe we could see a rerelease of those two classics

[@maxedoutmaximous9737]

Haven’t heard of a game with worse hackers than war zone? I present to you, TF2

[@Nipotazzi]

The best part about all of their sucking it to China is that it was all useless: they cutted tides with Blizzard anyway because even their server providers and investors had enough of their bullshit. Blizzard lost their biggest WoW player base and to add salt to the Injury, they even destroyed a giant statue of a wow character that was builded near the servers. They deserve it, all of it.

[@striife8035]

2:36 didnt vicarious visions make crash n sane?

[@masteriosis9430]

This is more apparent now than ever

[@trafficcone7344]

0 dislikes! Nice vid bro!

[@Robert-tf9tm]

another banger vid courtesy of stryxo

[@p1aydumb280]

well they did release warzone, 90GB of ass. quite a achievement to get me to spend 24hrs to download a game i would play for 30 mins to delete and never play again.

[@Simmoxus]

ye

[@getinthevan9958]

This guy needs so many more subs

[@mniakan754]

So… currently writing this in 2024 and absolutely nothing has changed for Activision Blizzard and if anything it has gotten worse, there were more 1900 layoffs and around 30 percent of SHG was fired (the same studio that was forced to make MW3 2023 in 16 months when they were promised they would be able to make the game they want), they promised infinite ward a second year expansion for MW2 2022 which didn’t happen, the games keep getting worse and no one even talks about it

[@richardsalley9848]

The way you fight back... First, avoid buying games that require online players just for the game to be fun...which is most online games. Second, wait a few years for the prices to come down to about $20.00 or so, as that is what most games nowadays are really worth anyways. I waited 5 years for the price of X-Com 2 to come down to around $20.00 before I bought it. I'm glad I waited too, because X-Com 2 sucked, and so I minimized my losses. Patience is a virtue.

[@madtias_]

Good video, keep up the good work

[@akaritsukimi143]

Great video, just found your channel, but I do have to disagree with the endorsement of invasive anti-cheat during the warzone section. With the state of privacy in the modern internet it is simply unacceptable to have a program that is THAT invasive on a home computer, go with the system CS:GO has, not perfect but at least you aren't giving up security for it.

[@whiskas7078]

Yet another banger video

[@OnurTheXbot]

I hope Microsoft brings greatness to this pile of Dogshit called Activision Blizzard

[@ToastyMann]

2:35 Hate to be *that* guy but the Crash remakes were done by Vicarious Visions