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@surreality said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

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I'm currently binging Riverdale.

I mean Blizzard probably should have anchored the opening ceremony reveal with WC3 remaster rather than Diablo Immortal, that was a bit tone deaf. But change.org petitions to stop the game from happening? Just another reason to avoid fandoms.

Like I said when I was ranting about it on stream the other day; It's a silly thing to be angry about. You want to be angry about something? Be angry about the dog that ended up euthanized because he bit off a guys testicles, because that guy put peanut butter on those testicles to have the dog lick them off, and the dog, being a dog bit instead of licked. That's something worth being angry about, and there is so much more for people to be angry about. Or any number of things rather than a franchise people love having more of it, but not what they wanted.

Right, there are a lot of PC gamers who go to Blizzcon, and they may be the majority that were there, but Blizzard has a lot of things that are not just PC. Diablo for Switch was launched the first day of Blizzcon - if it were all about PC players being upset about a non PC announcement, you would think there would be some complaining about that as well.

People built it up in their minds and expected it, and then they didn't get it. Blizzcon is for all of Blizzard properties, not all of them are on PC, and not everyone who enjoys Blizzard games only enjoys one of the properties. Diablo itself isn't and hasn't been exclusive to PC for a long time. Now granted Blizzcon started after WoW blew up, and that has always been PC only and a lot of people play Blizzard games only on PC. Platform might have a little to do with it, but again, not nearly as much as the hype the players built up in their minds for expecting a D4 reveal.

@jeshin Yes I know, though they are PC / Console now with overwatch, and they have other mobile games. To say Blizzard is just PC is silly, really. Mobile gaming is huge right now. But I still think the majority of the issue is the playerbase getting hyped up for Diablo 4 and not getting it. And that's on the community and not Blizzard. There are at least 4 Diablo things Blizzard is working on - likely a D3 DLC, D4, Immortal, Porting to Switch if I had to guess. D4 has gone through 2 game directors, and Blizzard has a habit of not announcing anything until they feel it's ready.

People are acting like Diablo Immortal means they will never get Diablo 4 which is silly. Because getting some news that fleshes out a franchise you love is better than getting no news, if it's not on a platform gamers like?

There are rumors going around that that were going to have a teaser for D4, but pulled it. I think they should have showed it, even if it was just Diablo eyes and a 4 somewhere, like Skyrim did; the fan base knows it's coming, that's why it built itself up expecting a D4 announcement. Do I think they should have shown it? Probably, a teaser with no information is at least confirmation.

It's just not all the reskin that people are upset about. It's just the most current issue.

Yeah, I don't believe that entirely. Maybe that's what most of the outrage is now, but that wasn't the case at the start. They announced it on mobile live at Blizzcon and it got immediate reactions. The review bombing was happening even before the Q&A panel even before the one guy asked if it was an early April Fool's joke. There were several hours when the outrage started that were because it was a mobile game, the re-skinning snowballed from that. Because heaven forbid a company go to a company who knows what they are doing, and get help with something they don't know how to do.

Also the whole removing negative reviews? While they probably removed comments, they can't remove likes / dislikes and that was probably Youtube itself; they have been working removing things like bots and spam to help properly reflect the like / dislike ratio.

People were expecting Diablo 4 news, even though they were told not to expect anything huge because of the rumors floating around. And when they didn't get it, they threw a tantrum. It's convenient to latch on to as the reason, but was't the root cause. It's because we live in an outrage culture now, and people believe review-bombing something they don't like will get them their way.

This is also not the first time Blizzard has done this, and they are actually being less sneaky about it than they did before; before WoW came out Blizzard went to Sony and asked them questions about EQ, how to do this, how to do that, but didn't tell them "Btw we're planning on making an MMO!" They got all the information and ran with it.

I'm not a Blizzard fangir defending them here. It was a shitshow on both sides, but Blizzard is getting blamed for some things they had no control over. I just think the reaction to it is way out of proportion, and to say it's because of a farming out a reskin is the issue is disingenuous. It might be part of it, but it's not the whole reason, not by a long shot.

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