A History of Blizzard Entertainment.

[Phreak]

Enjoy Watching the videos about the History of Blizzard and how it all Started !

DiabloFans found on the internet two videos that you may find interesting to watch. Both of them are going over all the history of Blizzard Entertainment and reveal some footage that were never before seen, not even in the official 20-years anniversary video from Blizzard Entertainment.

Last night while I was getting my daily dose of Rebecca Black and Rick Astley, an interesting video caught my eye... It looks as if MachinimaRealm, the company Force works for, has a running series called "All Your History," where they go over the background and lore of different companies and games, including both Blizzard Entertainment, World of Warcraft, Valve, and a few more big names. As the first video started up, I felt like I was going to just see a recap of the 20-year Anniversary video Blizzard had released, however, I was in for quite a surprise. The first video went over some information and showed some footage that Blizzard had not shown in the Anniversary video, which made for a great watch.

[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWU25ov1XSY&feature=player_embedded[/video]

They also just released Part 2 of the Blizzard "episode" and I feel like this is the 20-year anniversary video that never was. No, really, I almost think this belongs on Blizzard's website as it includes an interview with Mike Morhaime and Frank Pearce about their early days with Condor/Blizzard: North in the same style as their own videos do. With Blizzard only giving us DiabloFans a small little blurb in their own video, this second episode from Machinima focuses almost completely on Diablo and Condor/BN (they kick it off with Warcraft 1). Anyone who is a DiabloFan should enjoy really enjoy this particular video.

[video=youtube]ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdBtkZJSmd4&feature=player_embedded[/video]

For any Starcraft fans out there, Part 3 of the episode, dubbed "Zerg Rush", will be something you'll want to check out next week when it goes live. And I would regret not mentioning that they have also done a World of Warcraft series, that you can also check out. Even if you aren't a hardcore WoW player, you'll enjoy the video anyway.

Source: DiabloFans​

 

[Bree]

It seems there is another Blizzard Whore other than myself here then?

 

[Phreak]

It seems there is another Blizzard Whore other than myself here then?

I'm a huge Blizzard whore. :grin:
They are a great company, however, their customer support kind of sucks. :sigh:

 

[Bree]

Ive been playing Blizzard games for like 16 years or something now, lol.

You think customer support sucks? WHAT!?

They always sort my issues instantly when I call them

 

[Balkan#1]

Ive been playing Blizzard games for like 16 years or something now, lol.

You think customer support sucks? WHAT!?

They always sort my issues instantly when I call them

16 years :slow: Which games then?

 

[Phreak]

Ive been playing Blizzard games for like 16 years or something now, lol.

You think customer support sucks? WHAT!?

They always sort my issues instantly when I call them

I've just had a few unpleasant dealings with them.
For instance, my retail account got hacked and my druid which I've played from day 1 of Vanilla until the end of Wotlk was stolen from me. I contacted Blizzard and they simply said, "Sorry, we aren't able to do anything about it because they transferred it off with your name."

So apparently, if you commit identity theft and steal someone's character, you can get away with it. That's the only thing I hate about Blizzard. I lost the character I put years of playing time into.

 

[Bree]

@Crawl - All of them

@Phreak - Ive had my vanilla account stolen before, and they transferred the characters away. I rang them, supplied the CD keys for the account, and sent them a copy of my ID, and I got it back, and they transferred the character back to my original name, all within the space of 2 minutes. Also had a secondary account stolen before, and got that back after giving the CD keys and my ID also.

Did you give them enough information? Proof of ID etc.

 

[Phreak]

@Crawl - All of them

@Phreak - Ive had my vanilla account stolen before, and they transferred the characters away. I rang them, supplied the CD keys for the account, and sent them a copy of my ID, and I got it back, and they transferred the character back to my original name, all within the space of 2 minutes. Also had a secondary account stolen before, and got that back after giving the CD keys and my ID also.

Did you give them enough information? Proof of ID etc.

I gave them all the proof. It was stolen while I was on a vacation out of the country, so when I got back after 2 weeks of being gone, Blizzard said I waited too long. I provided in - depth information including all of the above that you mentioned. It really sucks. : (

 

[Bree]

@Crawl - All of them

@Phreak - Ive had my vanilla account stolen before, and they transferred the characters away. I rang them, supplied the CD keys for the account, and sent them a copy of my ID, and I got it back, and they transferred the character back to my original name, all within the space of 2 minutes. Also had a secondary account stolen before, and got that back after giving the CD keys and my ID also.

Did you give them enough information? Proof of ID etc.

I gave them all the proof. It was stolen while I was on a vacation out of the country, so when I got back after 2 weeks of being gone, Blizzard said I waited too long. I provided in - depth information including all of the above that you mentioned. It really sucks. : (

Thats harsh :s
They've always been so helpful with me