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Kotaku: Blizzard pulled Diablo 4 announcement from Blizzcon (UPDATE: Blizzard disputes)
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Animal crossing, metroid.
Nintendo has learned this lesson well.
I refuse to believe people on the inside didn't warn them. It was just so obvious.
Nintendo has learned this lesson well.
I refuse to believe people on the inside didn't warn them. It was just so obvious.
Catch-22. Announce game way too early with nothing remotely substantial to show for it and then wait years for it to actually see the light of day again, or announce nothing and let the big announcement be a game few of their hardcore players were asking for.
Reminds me of when Bethesda just announced Elder Scrolls VI... and just blatantly said "we're announcing this just to shut you all up. Geez! It's WAY off..."
Reminds me of when Bethesda just announced Elder Scrolls VI... and just blatantly said "we're announcing this just to shut you all up. Geez! It's WAY off..."
I mean, when fans aren't happy with what you're making, making something your fans want seems like a pretty obvious way to make them happy.
Sounds like damage control
They made it clear D4 wasn't gonna be shown weeks ago. Not too last minute
Also if this is true, it confirms the game is way off, several years at least if it's been changed so drastically they can't show anything from it
They made it clear D4 wasn't gonna be shown weeks ago. Not too last minute
Also if this is true, it confirms the game is way off, several years at least if it's been changed so drastically they can't show anything from it
It would show that Blizzard is committed to finish and release the game, otherwise all that have happened the past couple of days, plus this article shows that Blizzard is not sure what to do with the direction of the game.
Reveal it on April 1st. Fly in the Q&A guy to repeat his question.
sure there'd be eventual backlash, but it's better than being booed and shamed on stage by your fans
It most certainly is a leak. The rumored project could be a host of things. The Immortal dev alluded to new content for D3 in the Q and A and we have d2 remaster also. Two unnamed sources confirming D4 is a leak.
Well they also revealed a mobile Elder Scrolls game. So they were smart to not leave it at that.
Yes. Suddenly opening up a lot of positions at the same time you're seeing turnover in staff and delays in related franchise projects strongly suggests there's something just happened internally that's causing a lot of issues.
jschreier Out of curiousity, are there ever times when you feel like you might be getting fed a story from a publisher rather than getting a legitmate leak. In my head I can imagine there being situations like this one where a company might want to try to calm backlash/negative press without saying anything officially, but I'm not sure how common that is in your line of work.
They did the same thing with Pokemon as well. I think Nintendo got a really hard lesson with Federation Force. You really have to be careful dicking around with the core audience, especially when it's an audience that has gone a while without getting some love.
They did the same thing with Pokemon as well. I think Nintendo got a really hard lesson with Federation Force. You really have to be careful dicking around with the core audience, especially when it's an audience that has gone a while without getting some love.
Yea, this is coming across like that. Bad pr last week and now all of a sudden 2 people say it was in the original plans? Nah, I'm calling bs.
I'm not denying it can work, but hardcore fans start to get pissed off when there's things announced and not shown for a long time. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
On top of that they probably know that when they announce things at Blizzcon they get a lot of questions there. There are panels and shit. Clamming up with "We can't tell you anything whatsoever" would have been met with anger, too.
So Diablo 4 has such big issues behind the scenes, that Blizzard isn't even confident to acknowledge the existence of D4?
For all saying that Diablo 4 is coming 100%, this is the counterpoint. Blizzard pulled an announcement of a game that wasn't even ready to be shown. What goes on behind the scenes, that they now even don't want to talk about its existence.
Or, you know, this is just a PR Stunt and they never intended to show D4.
For all saying that Diablo 4 is coming 100%, this is the counterpoint. Blizzard pulled an announcement of a game that wasn't even ready to be shown. What goes on behind the scenes, that they now even don't want to talk about its existence.
Or, you know, this is just a PR Stunt and they never intended to show D4.
They hyped it up months ago, then went into damage control weeks ago. It's not hard to guess what happened in between.
Eh - if they'd announced Diablo 4 was in the works with a title card or a very short cinematic, a lot of those YouTube channels currently making hay (and money) off outrage over a mobile game would instead be doing the same about a mobile game AND how Diablo 4 is a danger to gaming, not going to be good, was MURDERED, etc...
I'm not sure I even believe Diablo 4 is in development.
At least not before Blizzcon anyway.
This might be a damage control attempt.
At least not before Blizzcon anyway.
This might be a damage control attempt.
Probably hotter than 9 million scoville felt at tmobile earlier this year.
Some people really need that verification that it's being made and you're seeing that a lot right now with the reactions. Plenty of people I spoke to at Blizzcon said they didn't care and they know D4 is coming. For everyone who doesn't need the validation, there's a dozen people who truly believe that Blizzard will never make another PC/Console Diablo and this is the future of the franchise. I'd say that's a pretty outlandish opinion to have, but if Blizzard is being coy and not saying anything, I guess I can see it even if I feel it's a sharp overreaction.
First Project Titan, now Diablo 4? What will the final product be, something like Red Dead Redemption 2 with realism over gameplay (exaggeration).
They're ridiculous, but they can placate certain crowds. Nintendo brought that Metroid Prime 4 title card announcement mostly because Metroid fans were still angry over Federation Force and there was no telling how they'd react to Samus Returns on its own.
Well, I can promise you that Blizzard did not want me running this story. I can promise you that this piece didn't make me a lot of Blizzard friends, either: https://kotaku.com/heres-what-blizzards-titan-actually-was-1638632121
I can't say much more than that, but I stand by my track record.
seriously
like, there has to be something set in stone for the new Diablo 4 right? show that
Starcraft ghost was announced and ended up canceled. Same for that warcraft stories game. Announcing it doesn't mean it would make it. Although I would never doubt D4s release at some point, it still isn't a rock solid indication.
It was honestly a bad move on Blizzard's part. Even a brief logo drop would have been enough to avoid a shit-storm. But in a way, I can kinda understand why Blizzard would want to wait until they can get a proper reveal ready to go.
All they had to do was say "To our Passionate Diablo fans you are not forgotten as work has been going on for the past 4 years to make sure we get a sequel worthy to be a successor to Diablo 3, this is taking time and care and we want to make it right" Fans erupt and forget about mobile announcement and talk about a new Diablo overshadows the mobile game and.......yeah iam starting to see why they didnt announce it and its for all the wrong reasons
Yeah, they learned absolutely nothing from the Metroid announcement. It's crazy.
Bet they regret that one now. Even a Metroid Prime 4 teaser video that shows nothing would have been enough.
This is not good news for D4. That's the big takeaway from this was that it was worked on for 4 years and it's been rebooted.
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