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Blizzcon 2018 - A CLASSIC JOURNEY (Now Live)
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It's sad too because they were on a roll before Diablo stuff. Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, and the Warcraft 3 announcement all had really great stuff to show imo.
YIKES that quip at the end about not having phones way to insult your most hardcore fans... a lot of Blizzard are so out of touch
I feel bad for the developers here but I can't believe Blizzard didn't see this coming?
It's not gonna have quite the same level of vitriol, but that 'don't you have phones' is some Adam Orth/Phil Spencer shit, lmao.
They have been notoriously out of touch with the way they handled a lot of BFA so far. So I don't think it's a huge surprise. On a good note, D3 on Switch is fucking great.
To be fair, they (probably unknowingly) fed them to the wolves.
I'm just laughing at how fucking sad Diablo Immortal was as the final announcement. A spot that previously had Overwatch was this year dedicated to a mobile game not even developed by Blizzard and clearly a re-skin of the developers previous game.
My god.
My god.
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Not going to download that mobile crap. I would play Hearthstone if it wasnt designed to rape your wallet.
If Blizzard had bangers for their final spot in their yearly conference, that'd be something special
I felt sympathy for these guys being the faces for this bad news until "Do you guys not have phones?"
You do NOT react to people not liking your product by blaming the consumers. PR 101.
It's like saying "Fortunately, we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of PC Diablo experience: it's called Diablo 3."
Blizzcon is still a fairly PC centric show, and the people there may not realize this isn't really a blizzard game.
I'm game if you are. It'll look like ass, but hey, it's still D2.
So I think we can all agree that in terms of announcements:
Lucio-Oh's > > > > > > Warcraft 3: Reforged > Ashe == HoTS first original character > > > Diablo: Immortal
Wait, is LAO actually coming to the west? I have an ARC so I could sign up for the Korean version if I wanted to, but my Korean isn't the best (and by that I mean it's horrendous).
Lucio-Oh's > > > > > > Warcraft 3: Reforged > Ashe == HoTS first original character > > > Diablo: Immortal
Wait, is LAO actually coming to the west? I have an ARC so I could sign up for the Korean version if I wanted to, but my Korean isn't the best (and by that I mean it's horrendous).
I actually found her pretty underwhelming also. Looks very much like a cliche anime girl, not the best first impression of their original characters especially when there is still such a long list of wanted inclusions from the fans. Didn't help that it was the only new character they announced for HotS...
Well, someof the items are up.
As for the Diablo news - they saw it coming. The dude was trying to hype up the mobile game so much but knew it wasn't what anyone wanted. How are they going to end a opening ceremony like that?
The boo'ing was deserved.
Nothing bad about it. Just bad as the final announcement of the conference. It shows how out of touch Blizzard has become to their own market
For sure. Everyone on that stage knew this was not going to go down well. It's the higher ups who don't actually play the games that are making these decisisons. "Close the show with the mobile game because EVERYONE has a cell phone and plays mobile games! Everyone will see it and want to play that new hot Diablo mobile game".
I'm not sure as well. I played Diablo when I was a kid on PC and Diablo 3 on launch as well, and seriously, I don't know what's wrong with having games on mobile...
I'm interested in playing Diablo Immortal, even though I would prefer Diablo 4. It will come someday.
Which people think plays like Diablo but really doesn't.
Its a isometric mmo like MU Online.
You don't think that the mobile game is going to make insane ammounts of money?. Of course people there wanted D4 or D2 remastered. And they will eventually exist, an outsourced phone game doesn't impact that. I can understand some dissapointment but not such a huge overeaction.
Nintendo announced and released an Animal Crossing mobile game before even announing a new entry for Switch and people didn't lose their shit.
No one is denying that it will make money but why announce it to their hardcore fanbase as the major announcement at the end of the opening ceremony?
Animal Crossing mobile was announced not as the major announcement at a yearly event for hardcore fans. Again it's not the fact that Diablo mobile exists, it's how they have handled the announcement that has led to these reactions and I can see in years to come this will be an example taught to students studying bad PR.
Like I said, it was just bad as the final announcement of the keynote. It will make money sure.
But you don't end your yearly conference with somthing that gets booed off the stage unless you're out of touch with your fan base.
AC is a good example also with how Nintendo handled it with the direct a few weeks ago. If they would have just announced Isabelle for Smash and not have said anything about an actual AC game, I'm sure it wouldn't have been received as well as it was with the announcement of an actual AC game coming next year (especially with how hungry Animal Crossing fans are for a new game).
If Blizzard showed Diablo: Immortal and then closed with a Diablo IV title card and a simple "Coming when ready", I doubt this would have been getting the response that it is getting. "Be happy with this mobile game, don't you guys have phones?" just seems pretty tone deaf.
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It's horrible PR, I don't think anybody can deny that. But I still think people are overeacting. I barely consider phone games real games and I played a lot of D1 and D2 back in the day. I understand the dissapointment and the lack of appeal of the announcement but this is too much.
It's a convention for the super crazy hardcore fans that have spent a small fortune to be there or the money for a virtual ticket. This convention literally caters to the fans that would have this kind of reaction. If Blizzard didn't expect this after doing Blizzcon for 12 years, well...I don't know what to say.
Yeah, why on earth would a live audience of hardcore PC gamers who have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars to be at that event be frustrated and feel let down by the show's big tease and finale being revealed as a mobile only spin-off?
D3 is still my most played game (playing season 15 as we speak).
From a complete outside view, that question was just unbelieving how Blizzard could be so ignorant and did not see this coming with a hardcore base attending Blizzcon.
Is it fair, no, but what in life is fair?
They aren't even working on it....it's being outsourced. So that doesn't apply either.
