Diablo Mobile Backlash [Nov 03, 2018, 1:00 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Most BlizzCon announcements are met with enthusiasm from the gathering of
Blizzard fans, but the company really stepped in it with yesterday's
announcement of Diablo: Immortal, a new installment in the action/RPG series
being created for mobile devices. The response
on the Diablo Reddit raking
Blizzard over the coals suggests there may have been a better way to handle
this, as they made the mistake of
hyping this announcement which raised hopes for a proper PC game. As an
example of the discontent this is causing, one can look at the
Diablo Immortal Cinematic
Trailer on YouTube. Blizzard's cinematics usually generate incredibly
positive responses, but as of this writing, the clip has 7.7k upvotes and 232k
downvotes.
Jivaro wrote on Nov 3, 2018, 20:07:
By the way...Blizzard was always in the business of making money. Don't try this revisionist history shit and somehow say that is new or the "old Blizzard is dead". Your rose colored memory goggles are showing.
It's not that they needed to make money, it's the focus:
"Let's make the best game we can, and the money will take care of itself"
vs.
"Let's design the game to exploit gambling weakness in peoples' psyches."
Big difference there.
RIP RedEye9. We miss you.
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