It seems like the basis of your rebuttal to my silly satire is to alter the narrative to fit your world view. If you believe your edit accurately portrays the tenor of this situation then maybe we're reading different threads.
My god, man. Your entire fable is, at best, misleading.
Your story hinges on several incorrect things:
1) Blizzard heavily implied to folks not to expect Diablo 4 this year, with their press release. So, from the get go, your story is missing a key detail since this would be like Kellogg's putting out an ad saying "hey, we're making the Pop-Tarts smaller."
2) The difference between Grandma and the gaming community is that Grandma expressed her irritation with a formal letter. Grandma wasn't out on the internet, calling designers idiots and assholes and other very creative ways of making people who likely had nothing to do with the decision feel like trash. That isn't even mentioning the level of vitriol and anger towards designers. This isn't just polite well-constructed arguments, it's just sheer hate and antagonism and honestly boggling amounts of anger over this. The way people are reacting to this is completely disproportionate to what was actually announced....
3) People act like this means they aren't getting Diablo 4. News flash, assholes (not you, just these folks), you still are. We know Blizzard are developing D4 and we know that this shit takes time. The Kotaku article mentions how the game has been rebooted twice already and I'm going to spitball the following are the reasons: they want to make sure this game is special. They want to make something that makes Diablo fans happy. They're trying to make the same douchebags hounding and insulting them happy because if they don't, it'll be more of the same for the foreseeable future. Something that brings meaningful innovation to the series while also not being a clone of D2. They want to make something good, and that shit takes time. So what if D4 didn't get announced here? It'll be announced at E3 or Gamescom or even next BlizzCon when its in better shape. When Blizzard has something to show without making gamers wait, they'll show it. They aren't changing the shape of the pop-tart or its flavor, because they haven't even fucking announced what it is. This is more like if Kellogg was running out of Smores filling and so they made more Double Chocolate Pop-Tarts to keep people full till they could more Smores Pop-Tarts.
And frankly, even if they had shown a D4 teaser, it'd have pissed off vocal assholes regardless. "Oh wow, Blizz, what an announcement only marginally better than the E3 Star Wars revel you beta cucks." "DAE when Blizzard made games on time????" And when it wouldn't have been shown for a year or two since Blizz didn't solidify their vision for the game, you'd have gotten douches on this site complaining that the game is vaporware or that Blizzard is trash for announcing games to early. No matter what they did, douchebags would have complained and the same vocal idiots calling the press corporate shills or Blizzard's devs morons would be doing the same. But that's neither here nor there.
So, let's recap:
- Blizzard told you all not to expect a D4 announcement this year since they hadn't firmed up what it would be.
- Blizzard announced a mobile game that was meant to be a stop-gap release till they had more details about D4, which was admittedly a bad move.
- The entire gaming community reacted as if Blizzard announced that Diablo is dead and that D4 was cancelled and that all copies of Diablos 1 through 3 would be burned, when that has been disproved in every way possible.
- Instead of expressing dismay like sane people, the internet did what it does best and threw a fucking tantrum, filled with hate-filled comments, personal attacks and likely doxxing.
- People who are calling out this really hyperbolic reaction are being called corporate shills, apologists, and worse, all because we think you all are acting a little bit crazy over the lack of an announcement for a game that clearly isn't ready to show and will likely be announced in a year or so.
Now, what does reality look like to you?
