Also, to add to all of what happened at the con itself, let's not forget that Blizzard deleted the trailer for this game on YouTube and reupload it in order to reset the dislike counter, as well as deleting comments.
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Blizzard Wasn't Expecting Fans To Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal
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I'm sorry but how the fuck did Diablo fans not know a new Diablo (core) game wasn't going to get announced? Blizzard basically spelled it out for everyone before Blizzcon. I haven't played a Diablo game and I knew that.
This is pretty much me now, I'm more annoyed at people on this forum and elsewhere trying to handwave and disregard anyone who is upset or critical about how this all happened than I am at Blizzard.
Which is ironic because WoW's official forums is one of the most toxic boards of the internet.
Yeah, because booking a flight and hotel and buying a Blizzcon ticket can be done within 2 weeks, especially considering that Blizzcon was sold out by the time they told fans to temper their expectations (and also being very non-committal about it either) after months of hyping up there being a big Diablo announcement at Blizzcon.
I mean, let's be real, if you got Boogie to pick a side, you know you fucked up.
Political actions that may cost minorities access to human rights? He sleeps
Someone made a video game he didn't like? Real shit
So...like, people meet up with friends at these things right? There has to be something on the show floor to do. You would be a fool to go to any convention for a single panel or conference.
If you knew the structure of how the opening ceremony happens then you would have thought that there was going to be a big Diablo announcement. Diablo was the last game talked about and a "what's next" panel was happening right after. Blizzard were sending mixed messages and even if it wasn't D4 I doubt PC hardcore Blizzard fans expected a mobile game made by NetEase to be the major announcement at the convention that they have paid a lot to go to.
They spelled it out a couple weeks ago. People buy tickets months in advance.
I can't feel all that sorry for somebody that spent $2000+ just to attend a possible product announcement. Sounds like he has his head up his ass -- "haven't taken a vacation in 10 years"...."Blizzard products will forever feel like 'just a game' to me now".
Oh but the opportunity cost of my vacation time! If you sit around playing Diablo enough to be this deeply emotionally involved, your time ain't that valuable.
I mean, personally Pachter likely doesn't give two shits - in his mind, the market's gonna decide
(And the market is likely gonna make this game end up doing just fine, barring Blizz truly pulling an EA focus group on the level of changing Overstrike into Fuse)
Yes I realize that was done in advance. I'm more confused on the shock some people seem to be having as it happened though. Only rumors I saw related to Diablo leading up to the event were Diablo 2 remaster and Diablo mobile.
Activision has nothing to do with it, they're complete different publishers and just sister companies, much like Activision Blizzard is their owner and the holding company of both. This is a Blizzard decision, you can't just put everything on Activision every time Blizzard does something you don't like.
Between the announcement, this thread and the thread where they say the mobile game is intended for hardcore PC diablo fans I'm convinced everyone in charge at Blizzard has gone insane. No one can be this tone deaf and be successful.
Last I knew Kotick oversees the entire company of Activision/Blizzard.
Last I knew Kotick oversees the entire company of Activision/Blizzard.
Why are you giving that animal a platform here?!
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Really isn't rocket science to note after all this time without another Diablo, and the speculation a MMO-based thing was coming...that just releasing a mobile game and no PC game would be a big disappointment to people. EA floundering with their Command & Conquer mobile game should've made that obvious enough.
They would've been better off doing a Diablo 4 alongside this mobile option, or showing the mobile game after announcing a new PC/Console entry.
They would've been better off doing a Diablo 4 alongside this mobile option, or showing the mobile game after announcing a new PC/Console entry.
It wouldn't help at all unfortunately especially if it's a year or two out we would see the same negativity as always. It happened after diablo 3 with the colors and just the internet in general. I wish they had something else to announce but it even seems like d2 remastered will be next year if not later. It's a losing situation for them because people are pretty unreasonable.
Smdh, if they'd just closed with the announcement that the 32X version of Blackthorne was finally coming to Switch like I suggested this surely wouldn't have happened
Because even though they told fans to temper their expectations, they didn't communicate it very clearly. For one, it wasn't front and center on, say, the BNet launcher like the Diablo community manager talking about how it's a good year for Diablo fans and hyping up Blizzcon had been prior. And second, they were vague about it, too. They didn't outright say "Hey guys, there won't be Diablo 4", but it was more a "there may or may not be Diablo 4, just sayin' y'all."
If that were true, it would make Blizzard even more out of touch with their fanbase to make an outsourced mobile game deliberately.
He super doesn't though.
If I spend 3000 dollars to go to the superbowl to support my team and they lose because someone got injured or the coach got sick, I can be disappointed, but it's not my team's fault I decided to go.
No one "did this" to him.
Are you telling a person they don't have the right to feel upset?
Personally I don't want it because it's a clone of a clone with reused assets made by a company whose primary market refers to as pig farmers due to the treatment of it's customers. The concept of the game is something I can get behind as I enjoyed battleheart legacy, but unlike that it's evident that scant effort has been put into immortal.
I mean, will they? I get the feeling the "alienated" fans will be right back for Diablo 4.
He can feel disappointed, but that post reads as if Blizzard slighted him purposefully and personally.
They didn't. They showed off a product he wasn't interested in and he took it personally...for some reason.
And that's cool.
Let's collectively step over this game and look towards the future.
Last I knew both are different companies much like Rockstar and 2K with different executives, employees and separate companies with no relation between each other except for being sister companies. I'll repeat, Activision have nothing to do with it. Now if you want to say Activision Blizzard have, that's another thing but even then, you can't just throw everything of Blizzard to them, otherwise everything that they do that you like are by them as well.
They deliberately upped theDiablo hypeduring the middle of the year and the tickets sale period, and then backtracked a couple of weeks before the event itself. It's transparent as hell.
That guy is a gamer gater ''Anti SJW'' alt right scumbag and made a video trashing this site. Lets not give that nutcase any exposure
And they have every right to feel upset, disappointed and depressed by what he saw and heard.
People take things to heart, they do so on a lot of issues. Human nature. Not everyone is like that or will react the same to everything but it's not that hard to figure out.
No, God, this is just so stupid. A right to be pissed? Are you serious?
Were there even any D4 rumors when Blizzcon tickets went on sale in May?
Well if he SUPER doesn't
LOL whiteknighting Blizzard is almost as sad to watch as that product launch.
They shit the bed, they have to deal with it.
Honestly, they should have waited after they had announced Diablo IV and then they could have announced this without receiving this kind of reaction. When he said that although they were expecting a backlash, they did not think it would have been this intense I chuckled, as most fans reaction to things that they are a fan of are extreme, so is either 0 or a 10 without a middle ground. Of course, a said this acknowledging that not everyone will react in that way, but the audience that will most likely share their opinion is the one that is not pleased about it, just like one is more likely to review a product when the product comes with a defect.
There have been many rumors going on for months about Diablo 4, a show or other possibilities. I think there was even something about a table top board game.
It's not a question of were, it is true. Activision and Blizzard are subsidiaries of Activision Blizzard which is a real holding company, not just names thrown together. Saying that Activision has something to do with it is stupid because they have no relation with them outside being behind the same company, which is why only in the last years they even began to use Battlenet for Activision games as a partnership.
Yes. Suggested by Blizzard themselves, even! Only to get vaguely retracted 2 weeks before the event, after the show was sold out.
