Blizzard is now apparently removing dislikes on the Diablo Immortal videos

[CenturionNami]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/com...from_the_main_diablo/?st=jo24heqb&sh=cbbdfa0a
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/com...count_on_both_videos/?st=jo24hcg3&sh=10cc3caf

PR diaster....

 

[Cort]

You think you disliked it but you don't

 

[poklane]

How do you even remove dislikes? That's a thing?

 

[out_of_touch]

LOL holy shit that ratio

 

[The Omega Man]

Is such a thing even possible?

 

[Deleted member 3534]

Holy shit. I saw this happen in real time.

 

[GMM]

Seems like people really like that thing.

 

[DrScruffleton]

I thought they had deleted the video and reuploaded it

Wtf how is this even possible

 

[Hydeus]

How ?

 

[IDontBeatGames]

You guys sure this isn't on Youtube's end?

 

[Sargerus]

Can you even do that? Because i'm sure Activision and EA would had done that by now.

 

[Deleted member 7051]

The damage is already done. This is pointless.

 

[Janna OP]

man theyre really trying hard to not pass the IW dislikes number huh

 

[Dennis8K]

"If you remove enough Dislikes it is like people liked your video all along"

- George Orwell

Spoiler

I assume this is some kind of bug as I don't think they have that ability

 

[Knight in Shining Armani]

Didn't even know this was possible. Thought you could only remove the option completely.

 

[DoublePayje]

Activision didn't do it with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Might be real, but i would wait a bit for this to be a real thing, not just a server hiccup.

"If you remove enough Dislikes it is like people liked your video all along"

- George Orwell

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I am sure "Diablo on Mobile" is what George Orwell envisioned in 1984 and Animal Farm. Holy.

 

[Mass Effect]

I don't think that's possible?

 

[Kouriozan]

They should just accept it instead of creating more backlash.
And is this even possible to do?

 

[slabrock]

good ole Streisand effect gonna happen

 

[Deleted member 23212]

Is that even possible?

 

[Whompa]

Maybe someone botted some of the dislikes and YouTube auto deleted them? They could just reupload the video or disable the votes. Highly doubt it's anything other than a bot that got busted by some algorithm.

I dunno, I just want to believe that it's not totally nefarious. I mean they already have 211 thousand+ dislikes lol...

 

[LewieP]

Possibly jumping the gun saying that it's Blizzard doing this. There are other potential explanations.

 

[Sexy Fish]

If this is legit Jesus just take the L. You closed your big PC focused convention with the trailer for a mobile game with nothing to show for big fans of the franchise to look forward to. Like, the thing on Blizzard's events had the first thing after the opening ceremony as "Diablo: What's Next". The mobile game would have been fine if they tied it with a big entry in the main franchise or even a remaster of D2.

I've never heard of likes being removed before, but the points still stand.

 

[DanteMenethil]

Probably an automatic youtube action removing bot mass voting. I really doubt Blizzard have the power to do this.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

that's......... something

 

[Imran]

I am not aware of removing dislikes being a thing YouTube accounts can do.

Are you sure it's not just YouTube's algorithm auto-detecting mass-votes in either direction and compensating a la Reddit's voting system?

 

[Deleted member 29660]

While I'm really not fond of Blizzards whole action on this could it be that some of the deletions are actually multi account ones being removed? I'm not sure it's possible to get rid of dislikes otherwise.

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

Assuming it's true- Why even bother? Just disable the bar all together

 

[Spacejaws]

I thought they had deleted the video and reuploaded it

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Yea I saw they reuploaded it 2 more times actually and changed which video the Battlenet launcher linked to i.e. a fresh identical video with the likes/dislikes reset. It didn't take long for that one to get bombarded too though.

 

[Ricelord]

my god, its like watch a trainwreck.

 

[poklane]

You guys sure this isn't on Youtube's end?

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I was thinking the same, must be YouTube removing dislikes from people who are using multiple accounts to dislike the video.

 

[RailWays]

It's probably filtering out mass votes

 

[angelgrievous]

like/dislike buttons are the worst anyway. should just do away with them.

 

[Winston1]

Can they actually do this?

 

[Randomly Generated]

How do you jump to Blizzard doing this? It's probably YouTube trying to fight brigading.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

yeah I'm sure blizzard hacked youtube to remove dislikes while not increasing likes

 

[sredgrin]

Could also be youtube's end if they sense botting / brigading, which, it probably is at this point and should likely be removed.

 

[Dennis8K]

Can they actually do this?

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I highly doubt it. Blizzard I mean. YouTube can probably do it.

 

[Hentailover]

Maybe just culling dislikes made from dupe/bot accounts? Creators do not have the ability to remove dislikes, unless blizz went directly to youtube behind the scenes.

 

[Zen Hero]

I doubt they can do that. I'm going to go ahead and guess YouTube has some system that automatically detects botting and removes dislikes.

In this case, it may not actually be botting (idk), but YouTube's automatic systems probably thought it was anomalous enough to be suspicious.

 

[Pog]

What is the point of a dislike bar if you can just remove them if they make you feel bad?

 

[senbon]

I strongly suspect this is simply YouTube updating their like / dislike estimate.

 

[Imran]

I am guessing the Reddit post got what it wanted by stating this as factual despite there not actually being a basis for it.

 

[Syf]

They can't just delete dislikes lol. Get a grip

 

[ZhugeEX]

As far as I'm aware this isn't something that Blizzard would have power over.

It can be discussed in the main thread. If there is evidence that Blizzard did something a new thread is fine.