That was one of the biggest PR facepalm i have ever seen in the last decade.
I mean as usual gamers do not fail to fucking disappoint me in their inarticulate pathetic overreaction but thinking that people at blizzard actually green lighted this stunt for something that obliviously would enact a shit storm of this proportion it baffle me.
They announced a mobile game to an audience full of pc-gamers, don't know what they expected honestly. But the deleting of comments, dislikes (the likes never got touched) and waffling badly after the fact.. it's not going well for them thanks to actions taken after the announcement, half the complaints now is not about a mobile game but their pr nightmare deleting everything.
They should have left everything alone and let it blown over, would have been a lot faster to move on that way.
There is far, far more to the reaction to Diablo Immortal than "omg crying because it's on mobile." . far more. To figur eout why people got outraged you need to go back through the past 4-5 years for Diablo fans, maybe even right back to Diablo 3's release which also generated a lot of criticism.
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I wouldn't gop that far. Also I'm reminded today that Blizzard's real April Fool's Joke a while back was the next game after Diablo 3 was a mobile game. turns out it wasn't a joke after all, but that gives the context to the so-called jerk-ish "is this an out of season April Fools Joke" comment
that's what he was referring to, when it actually WAS an april fool's joke by Blizzard..
I'm not really here. "Arthur is either a really bad thief. Or a really good one." *drinks* *zaps things*
"The fact is we're getting a lot of PR damage control, both by Blizzard itself and by various publications in "games journalism". We're getting a lot of tweets and facebook posts by people that have an extreme conflict of interest as they seem to be in the business of promoting mobile games". (from above)
Surely by now it come's as no surprise to anyone that people with a vested interest (so called journalists) in the continued profit's of their corporate paymasters should mount such a coordinated and pathetically obsequious defense. These outlets are little more than an outsourced PR department to these corporations.
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I wouldn't gop that far. Also I'm reminded today that Blizzard's real April Fool's Joke a while back was the next game after Diablo 3 was a mobile game. turns out it wasn't a joke after all, but that gives the context to the so-called jerk-ish "is this an out of season April Fools Joke" comment
that's what he was referring to, when it actually WAS an april fool's joke by Blizzard..
Remember how pandas in WoW were an April Fool's Joke once until they weren't anymore? Wonder if some of their jokes actually test the waters for some of their future plans instead of being actual jokes.
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I wouldn't gop that far. Also I'm reminded today that Blizzard's real April Fool's Joke a while back was the next game after Diablo 3 was a mobile game. turns out it wasn't a joke after all, but that gives the context to the so-called jerk-ish "is this an out of season April Fools Joke" comment
that's what he was referring to, when it actually WAS an april fool's joke by Blizzard..
Remember how pandas in WoW were an April Fool's Joke once until they weren't anymore? Wonder if some of their jokes actually test the waters for some of their future plans instead of being actual jokes.
Gaijin does that in War Thunder...
A few years back we had helicopters and T-90/Leo 2A6. Next thing you know, modern armor is announced (M1, later M1IP, T-64, later T80, Leo 2A...). Same April Fool's, helicopters. AH-64, Mi-24. Next thing you know... Helicopters are coming, yay! (Nay)
Then there were modern submarines. I'm waiting for them to botch submarine gameplay completely, because I've since played Cold Waters the semi-sim.
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Stocks drop every time the internet outrages over a game, they always come back up when things settle down. It' the nature of the stock market, it's a worthless thing to really report on these days, fluctuates daily.
I'm not really here. "Arthur is either a really bad thief. Or a really good one." *drinks* *zaps things*
Stocks drop every time the internet outrages over a game, they always come back up when things settle down. It' the nature of the stock market, it's a worthless thing to really report on these days, fluctuates daily.
Considering the sniveling little shit that made that video the fact shouldn't surprise anyone
Stocks drop every time the internet outrages over a game, they always come back up when things settle down. It' the nature of the stock market, it's a worthless thing to really report on these days, fluctuates daily.
Considering the sniveling little shit that made that video the fact shouldn't surprise anyone
You call him a sniveling little shit and use Kotaku as a source? .... Okay then.
Stocks drop every time the internet outrages over a game, they always come back up when things settle down. It' the nature of the stock market, it's a worthless thing to really report on these days, fluctuates daily.
Yep, also, I think it'll do much more than just come back. Purely financially, making a Diablo mobile game (and aggressively going for the Asian market) makes perfect sense. If you look at the kinds of numbers even mediocre running Asian P2W mobile games make in a year, that drowns everything Diablo ever made for Blizzard.
I really can't fault them much to expand in this direction from a business perspective. It makes perfect sense and Diablo is the perfect franchise to do it with. It was just the way they handled that announcement that deserves all the disastrous reaction they got.
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Right now, EA seems like a pretty decent company by comparison.
They both have been "naughty" for a long time but ActivisionBlizzard used to get a lot of free passes. even now for all we know Diablo Immortal could be a huge success and if they announce Diablo 4 people might forget.
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