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Kotaku: Blizzard pulled Diablo 4 announcement from Blizzcon (UPDATE: Blizzard disputes)
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D3 was shown very early on and Blizzard got shit for years about showing it early. This reeks of PR spin and makes no sense. Then why not just fucking say it. Or at the very least mention it at the Q&A the next day when the backlash was obvious.
Now they need Diablo 4 to save Diablo mobile.
I hope they didnt spend too much time and money on Diablo mobile...
I hope they didnt spend too much time and money on Diablo mobile...
as a Diablo non-player, I find the backlash largely dumb and over the top, but it was also predictable and easily mitigable.
this kind of reminds me of the Metroid Prime Federation Force announcement in 2015. not quite as tone-deaf, since everyone knows that Diablo IV is coming (whereas as of 2015, there was legitimate cause to doubt whether there would ever be another proper Metroid), and Immortal is just a streamlined version of the mainline series rather than a drastic departure from it in every respect, but that's the closest comparison that comes to mind.
this kind of reminds me of the Metroid Prime Federation Force announcement in 2015. not quite as tone-deaf, since everyone knows that Diablo IV is coming (whereas as of 2015, there was legitimate cause to doubt whether there would ever be another proper Metroid), and Immortal is just a streamlined version of the mainline series rather than a drastic departure from it in every respect, but that's the closest comparison that comes to mind.
That's all they really had to do. They knew that while some people would like Fallout 76, there would be a good amount of people turned off by it and concerned by what the company is doing, and this put that to rest a bit.
They didn't even need a video. Just state foremost that you are hard at work on the next generation of Diablo, but in the meantime here's a fun project they've been able to create with NetEase.
However open the show with Diablo (Immortal), and end with the Warcraft and Overwatch segments that delivered more fulfilling products/announcements.
Simple stuff, it's nuts.
However open the show with Diablo (Immortal), and end with the Warcraft and Overwatch segments that delivered more fulfilling products/announcements.
Simple stuff, it's nuts.
Diablo Mobile is going to be massively popular and make a shitload of money. Negative fan reaction doesn't mean shit here towards overall success, same as D3 and Hearthstone.
This sounds more like damage control to me. Even Nintendo had the foresight to double down make sure to drill into people the LG WAS NOT THE NEXT GEN POKEMON PROMISED.
So if this is true, whoever decided to pull it out needs to evaluate their priorities
So if this is true, whoever decided to pull it out needs to evaluate their priorities
I'm amazed at the amount of sheer ignorance it took for them to screw up Diablo Immortals announcement. I mean putting aside it's the worst venue for this thing, live for fans to boo, at the end of your big PC focused presentation, but you could've softened the blow with Diablo 4. You don't even to show anything, look at Metroid Prime 4. We don't even know who's making that game and it's been 1 1/2 years, but at least it's real and we can stop asking for it to exist.
I get needing to tone down the announcement because it's going through another retool behind the scenes. Saying nothing was insanity.
Whoever made the final call to put that on last instead of ending with the WC3 remaster (which no one saw coming!) probably shouldn't be doing the stage schedule anymore.
someone came up with the decision to withhold Diablo 4's announcement at the marketing research team and got paid for it
this pains me
this pains me
Everybody knows it is in Development. What would a tease change on the reaction side for Immortal?
Once again the "community" showed that gamers are just hard to please and act really embarrasing tbh
Once again the "community" showed that gamers are just hard to please and act really embarrasing tbh
Wow imagine if that happened...the xo part...blizz would piss off so many that attended blizzcon or bought a virtual ticket for diablo news
This isn't really a "leak." The idea that Blizzard has been working on a Diablo 3 followup isn't really a secret, just going by publicly available job postings.
All they needed to do was show a fiery background and have a IV over it.
How dumb are these billion dollar companies.
How dumb are these billion dollar companies.
Especially since many knew this would be in the cards, but what a stupendously lame way to have Diablo 4 "confirmed." Considering the on-stage reaction to someone asking if Immortal would eventually be released for PC was to sarcastically ask if people had phones, this was a missed opportunity. People are excited for this, and it could have been a great follow-up surprise to finish out the show, and allay concerns that the phone title signaled a change to the core series.
If true, then Activision Blizzard should upload the teaser; otherwise, this is not news I believe.
I know there were some people in the Blizzcon thread saying that we know the game is coming and Blizz doesn't need to come out and say it... kinda like 'meh who cares?'
Honestly, for me, I just wanted it officially stated in some capacity. That's all they needed to do imo. I didn't need a trailer, game footage or anything. Just like with D3, just show me a logo.
Honestly, for me, I just wanted it officially stated in some capacity. That's all they needed to do imo. I didn't need a trailer, game footage or anything. Just like with D3, just show me a logo.
Welp, this puts Blizzard on an even more awkward position.
Whoever decided to pull the tease made an incredibly dumb mistake, none of the controversy around Immortal would've happened if they would've teased it.
Just show a logo.
A logo, would've saved all of this mess.
Whoever decided to pull the tease made an incredibly dumb mistake, none of the controversy around Immortal would've happened if they would've teased it.
Just show a logo.
A logo, would've saved all of this mess.
Eh, I think they're right not to do that. Let the D4 announcement be a full-on Blizzard CG trailer.
Bethesda with Elder Scrolls, Microsoft with Gears and Nintendo with Animal Crossing. Blizzard really just had to take note.
Not really. ESVI isn't coming for years. And not like 2-3 years, like 5 or 6 years. There's going to be backlash eventually sort of like what the FFVII remake is going through right now.
Plus reading the article it seems like Blizzard isn't entirely confident in Diablo IV yet and who knows how long we'll see that too.
This whole situation is so weird.
Everyone knows they are making D4 but they won't say anything. What is the harm in showing a "D4 is currently in development screen".
Also, on the flip side. Since everyone knows they are making it, why are people getting made over them not showing it?
Everyone knows they are making D4 but they won't say anything. What is the harm in showing a "D4 is currently in development screen".
Also, on the flip side. Since everyone knows they are making it, why are people getting made over them not showing it?
So they were teasing it in the months running up to the event and then pulled it and fans were like wtf and it's all the fans fault according to games media? Some people disliked youtube videos. Someone asked a sarky question. The sky literally fell in with the blizzard fan reaction.
Well, actually...
https://kotaku.com/heres-what-blizzards-titan-actually-was-1638632121
If you're thinking this all sounds way too cool to be buried forever, here's a bit of good news: One person connected to Blizzard told me that "a good handful" of the Titan team is actually still intact, despite yesterday's news that the game has been cancelled.
"They changed the code-name after that reboot," said that person. "So the project that was 'Titan' did die last year."
So maybe Blizzard's still got a small team plugging away at Titan's world and concepts in hopes of bringing something fun—and substantially smaller—out of the wreckage. But it doesn't seem like we'll ever see the Team Fortress 2-meets-Destiny-meets-The Sims-meets-World of Warcraft chimera that Blizzard was working on for so many years. Like Starcraft Ghost and Warcraft Adventures before it, the project once called Titan is no more.
"They changed the code-name after that reboot," said that person. "So the project that was 'Titan' did die last year."
So maybe Blizzard's still got a small team plugging away at Titan's world and concepts in hopes of bringing something fun—and substantially smaller—out of the wreckage. But it doesn't seem like we'll ever see the Team Fortress 2-meets-Destiny-meets-The Sims-meets-World of Warcraft chimera that Blizzard was working on for so many years. Like Starcraft Ghost and Warcraft Adventures before it, the project once called Titan is no more.
The sad part is, the gamer community would likely have thrown the exact same tantrum had they announced Diablo 4. How do I know?
Well. Diablo3 showed us that.
Blizzard knows this, too. They tried another approach. They should have realized the Diablo audience especially is too far gone from reason to react well to anything that doesn't give them what they want this second, and just pulled Diablo entirely.
Well. Diablo3 showed us that.
Blizzard knows this, too. They tried another approach. They should have realized the Diablo audience especially is too far gone from reason to react well to anything that doesn't give them what they want this second, and just pulled Diablo entirely.
