Companies do that all the time, I remember one that deleted all the rational and polite criticisms from a trailer and let the ones made by absolute shitheads intact
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Blizzard is removing comments on the Diablo Immortal Cinematic Trailer video
- Thread starter chobel
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So I only half heard this stuff due to only seeing it because I am on giantbombs extralife stream and they watched it but doesn't blizzard hype up and charge people to attend blizcon for these announcements?
Lol incredible, they knew exactly the reactions they'd be getting. It's going to print money too,shame
Thanks for this sanctimonious nonsense, helps knowing when to block someone.
Some people actually care about their product and want people to enjoy it.
Ahahahahahahahahahaahaha
I don't really know how to feel. I mean poor dudes just there trying to present but poor fans waiting just to eventually see a mobile game.
Just a lose-lose situation. ahahaa.
So not only they announce their major franchise's mobile entry, they follow it up a with a live Q&A ? I never thought someone will be able to out-troll the C&C:Rivals reveal but got damn son.
They learned from it. Blizzard will learn from this. There is an art to mastering conference pacing and it's very easy to screw up, even after having a decent year before.
THIS. I thought maybe Blizzard was going to fix Diablo with D4 but instead they outsource it. They should be giving us a hardcore dark gothic game to appease their old school fans, instead, they go and make a janky looking mobile game.
Nintendo is also smart enough to just say, "Hey, we know you want a 'real,' non-mobile version of this game, so here's a thirty-second teaser for it on this Direct, it comes out whenever we get finished making it, so please shut the fuck up about it."
Or alternately, they do this with offshoots of their IPs. "Hey, we're doing a Let's Go-style Pokemon for Switch, but just so you don't wail incessantly about this, we're also doing a traditional Pokemon RPG, no we don't even have a teaser yet, but trust us, we're on it, don't @ us about this."
Other companies should take note.
This 'obliviousness' will earn them a hundred million dollars, surely.
At least the game being developed by other studio means Blizzard still has an inhouse team focusing on a main game, aka possible Diablo sequel.
This idea that mobile game announcements need to be perfectly timed not to hurt the feelings of "hardcore gamers" is ridiculous. Take a step back and think about it for a moment.
Blizzard could smear the words "Warcraft 4" inside a box with feces and make a hundred million dollars. Doesn't make them beyond criticism.
The game certainly will. Cocking up their PR event? Seems unlikely.
Yes, the perfect timing of "literally any day and hour but the closing attraction of blizzcon opening ceremony". So hard to nail, geez.
I think if youre big enough of a blizz fan to buy tickets, take a plane, book a hotel and go to a convention for blizzard fans who primarily play on PC youd expect something more.
This isnt even like E3 or something. This is a convention focused on pleasing fans 100%. Theres nothing more to this conversation.
This is tremendously disrespectful, and anyone that thinks this is cool, awesome, or inspiring in any way is an asshole.
I can't stand the Blizzard community sometimes.
A comparison pic between another NetEase's mobile game (Crusaders of Light) and Diablo Immortal:
And they have plenty of similar games that are basically reskins of each other.
We can do this with a lot of games. There are mobile games that look like Call of Duty from a simple screenshot. The real difference lies in gameplay polish when you actually have it in your hands.
People don't want mobile versions of bigger platform games that are established. Especially if you tout it as the next chapter, ESPECIALLY if you make it seem like a bigger deal than it is.
Don't know how companies keep making this mistake. Mobile is a fine platform, this game looks fine, but shit, stop being surprised when its not what your established fans want.
Don't know how companies keep making this mistake. Mobile is a fine platform, this game looks fine, but shit, stop being surprised when its not what your established fans want.
That is all true. But it still is a completely botched reveal. The reaction would be a lot less volatile if they had just gone and said "And don't worry guys, there's other stuff for Diablo in the pipeline!". Instead, they made this reveal in front of the PC-playing hardcore fan crowd after hyping up Diablo's presence at their PC player hardcore fan crowd event.
I don't really care much for Diablo, myself, but I can completely relate with the fans who are left disappointed and angry at this.
None of this justifies the straight up toxicity on display but sure, totally Blizzard's fault.
is it really that though? the first new Diablo game in 6 years & it's Mobile only, it's very disappointing. Even some of the MVP's on the D3 forum, who are extremely respectful, are upset about this.
What "straight up toxicity"? The guy asking if it was aprils fool joke? I agree it was uncalled for and said it in another thread. The guy who just asked if it would be mobile forever and got a "don't you have a cellphone????" answer? Other people who - gasp - disliked a youtube video or are not happy about it and posted about it on an internet forum? How deluded you need to be to think every negative feedback equals toxicity?
The company has been known for pulling pranks before, so it's not out of the question that people might think they're trolling.
Not everything is toxic, this isn't harassing people because they said Banjo isn't in Smash, it's just a stupid impolite joke, even Cheng awkwardly laughed at it.
The dude talking isn't trying to entertain the guy in the audience. How is this so hard to understand? People literally pay money for this convention and the company's big reveal is a game that the audience there isn't interested in.
While I think it's important to note that we can all have an opinion on this, looking down in that Twitter thread:
Jason might not want to get on his high horse about people's obnoxious behavior. Fans of a franchise are allowed to be (publicly) disappointed and the fan in that video asking if it was an April Fool's joke wasn't screaming, wasn't cursing, wasn't being disrespectful.
You say this, but the amount of money they make from these mobile games speaks otherwise. Don't find yourself lost in a bubble.
The gap between D2 and D3 was 12 years. We know they're working on D4. This game isn't even being made by Blizzard, so it's not taking anything away from D4. They're clearly committed to the series, they still put out regular season content for D3 and just released it on Switch. Blizzard games always take their sweet time.
This is not just taking pictures from random mobile games and comparing to games from console developers. These are from the exact same mobile developer that is making Diablo Immortal and there are plenty of gameplay videos of their other games.
The gameplay polish the will put in this game will be very similar to the other online action rpgs they developed.
Outsorcing Diablo mobile to the company that was literally making Diablo clones for mobile.
I mean, any actual word on what the comments deleted were? Or even proof that they are being deleted?
If it's just criticism of the idea then yeah, that's dumb, but given it's capital G Gamers + the YouTube comments, it wouldn't surprise me if the comments that got deleted were worthy of it.
The like (or dislike, in this case) bar represents the dissatisfaction perfectly well though.
If it's just criticism of the idea then yeah, that's dumb, but given it's capital G Gamers + the YouTube comments, it wouldn't surprise me if the comments that got deleted were worthy of it.
The like (or dislike, in this case) bar represents the dissatisfaction perfectly well though.
The worst part is not only was this the closer to the opening ceremony, but it's outsourced to another company. It's telling your community you weren't even worth making it in house. People could be excited for a mobile spinoff if it looked like some effort was put into it. This is coming from someone that plays a lot of gacha games.
You only have to look at the threads on ERA and battle.net to see what I'm talking about.
Yea no, I don't get it. Knowing how obnoxious gamers are, how dedicated blizzard fans can be and the extreme hatred exists for mobile gaming in hardcore community, why would you announce this game at this stage and follow it up with a live Q/A? They pretty much brought it upon themselves. I am not saying developers deserved to be treated this way but this is equivalent of giving a youtube comment section the mic at an arena.