Some important points. 1) Being anti-vax is a choice. 2) It endangers the lives of the innocent. 3) It’s built on a pack of debunked lies.

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Your “ignore it and move on” attitude is fine if you see a commercial for it on TV or an ad in the banner of a webpage, but when you create this self-congratulating, self-aggrandizing event to announce it, you’re wasting the time of everyone who specifically took the money, time, and effort to come to Blizzcon. It…

Indeed. On the other hand, it’s sort of of crazy Blizzard would announce a product aimed squarely at the Asian phone game market at a convention attended mostly by its die-hard USA fans of its PC games.

The problem is Blizzcon is specifically designed for that “less than half a percent of active Diablo players” they are the exact people who would hate the idea of a mobile game. Your right Diablo Immortal isn’t designed for these people so why announce it in this forum. I don’t understand how they didn’t see this…

I’d offer the point that you’re ignoring the context of this game’s reveal. That it was marketed directly to a crowd of people it’s not being produced to be marketed towards. A crowd of people, both in person and at home who paid for access to take part in the event that marketing was within. And that this was all…

It *was* marketed to them. They announced this shitty reskin of a Chinese mobile game to an exclusively western, PC-focused, English-speaking audience, who I will remind you paid to be there. It was marketed to Blizzard’s core fanbase, and no one in that fanbase wants Diablo Immortal.

I think you’re missing a big point in regards to people raising their concerns: It lets developers know what some the playerbase wants, and it sometimes does have an effect. Like you said, loot boxes generate millions of dollars. However, loot box revenues remain competitive, and the revenues can only be spread out…

Ok.......*sigh*

Look, I get people being disappointed. I can even understand, to a certain extent, people being angry. No one was expecting, nor did anyone ask for, a Diablo mobile game. I think Blizzard is at times a little full of itself...high on their own supply, if you will. I don’t think they’re “out of touch”,…

I think it’s also important to note that Hearthstone wasn’t announced at Blizzcon- it was announced at PAX. They seemed to have the foresight that an entry into digital card games probably wasn’t the best announcement for the sorts of hardcore fans that attend BlizzCon. And that was an in-house project!

Same thing with Bethesda’s E3 presentation. If all they did was show an Elder Scrolls Mobile game, fans would be pretty angry. But then they showed a short clip with the Elder Scrolls VI logo and all was forgiven.

I don’t understand why Blizzard can’t just say the phrase “We’re working on Diablo 4". We know they’re working on it. They know they’re working on it. They’ve said it in so many different ways without literally saying it. Even if what is now Diablo 4 dramatically changes in the future, whatever mainline game that…

We saw a similar response when we announced that we were bringing Diablo to console, and we saw a similar response to the announcement of Hearthstone.

I can’t say I completely agree with everything he said, but I feel like your reading way to much into that guys comment.

Developer’s union when?

That rapid movement you see when he’s in bed ain’t his eyes, though. XD

Good luck with this. Last time I mentioned “death of the author” in relation to J.K. Rowling on Kotaku people thought I actually wanted to kill her.

It’s overspending on headcount. Their burn rate eclipsed their income, and they didn’t have enough in the bank to keep the company afloat long enough to correct the situation. They tried to develop too many games at the same time, and their licenses probably put contractual obligations on delivery dates, meaning they…

If they intend to remake the entire game, it’s going to look just as outdated as Black Mesa (relatively speaking) when it comes out in 10 years.

If it bothers you so much, don’t watch his shit.