Why everyone already hates Blizzard's brand new perfectly fine mobile Diablo game

It was more the fact that a phone game was used as a key reveal for a bunch of old school of playing fanboys. The anger and disappointment comes from the fact that blizzard is not that company anymore.
That part I get for people who bought tickets. But the rest of it just looks like a hate bandwagon.
Settle down. I don't really care but people being fans is why these companies became huge successes. Also there are many hardcore fans what love Diablo and Blizzard has never been a mobile game company. So yeah I get people being pissed. The fact is for the vocal 5% there is probably another 50% that aren't happy about this either. Blizzard should just be grateful their fans care enough to say so.
And so what if they have a mobile spinoff/side game? Are they not allowed to try something different just because their fans feel entitled to a certain type of experience?

Again, the hate is ridiculous at this point.
 
All of these people crying are still going to give blizzard their money anyways lol so who cares if they're crying. let them soak their pillows in tears just because they can't get over a franchise that's been around for 20 years. grow up and find something else to play if you're so mad about a phone game lol.

personally I think the genre needs to take a break entirely. im seeing too many of these games being made, whether they're free or not and they're all the same copy and paste bs with tweaks here and there. wanna know why torchlight 3 is taking so long? so they don't release a boring reiteration of what they made previously. nobody needs diablo 4 right now. people need to be patient so game developers have time to make a well designed and polished gaming experience that is enjoyable instead of putting a rushed sequel out every 1-2 years
 
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That part I get for people who bought tickets. But the rest of it just looks like a hate bandwagon.

And so what if they have a mobile spinoff/side game? Are they not allowed to try something different just because their fans feel entitled to a certain type of experience?

Again, the hate is ridiculous at this point.

I am a Blizzard fanboy (although not as rabid as some). We mostly became that way because of the older PC franchises like Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo. The issue is not that blizzard are making a phone game, it's that the company has become so close in culture to Activision that we will never get another "Blizzard" game.

Mike Morhaime, the former president who recently resigned or was forced out, is an example of the traditional culture. One of his last tweets was congratulating the SC2 Blizzcon winner, a game he was passionate about and would sometimes stop by and watch when in Korea.

Entitled is a strong word. Yes, Blizzard is allowed to make whatever type of products they wish. However, the price Blizzard pays for that is losing the traditional core audience that leads thousands of adults to pay hundreds of dollars to attend. The amount of emotion, which can seem ridiculous to many, is the result of people having a major emotional and/or financial stake in all this.
 
Even though the public overreacted they have a point. They made it look like it's another big release and then it turns out it's a piece of **** mobile game. I'm laughing at people who are so naive to think this won't be a cash grab despite long history of mobile games being just that. There's a mobile game dev that makes Diablo copycat games and they are the ones making this one too. Put Activision into the mix and you know what time it is.
 
I am a Blizzard fanboy (although not as rabid as some). We mostly became that way because of the older PC franchises like Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo. The issue is not that blizzard are making a phone game, it's that the company has become so close in culture to Activision that we will never get another "Blizzard" game.
If that were true, then SC2 would've come out earlier, and they would've announced D4 (as it is much too early to announce it for a Blizzard game).
But still, this mobile game isn't taking away from D4, if anything it will add to the universe (like other forms of media).
 
It was more the fact that a phone game was used as a key reveal for a bunch of old school of playing fanboys. The anger and disappointment comes from the fact that blizzard is not that company anymore.
That part I get for people who bought tickets. But the rest of it just looks like a hate bandwagon.
Settle down. I don't really care but people being fans is why these companies became huge successes. Also there are many hardcore fans what love Diablo and Blizzard has never been a mobile game company. So yeah I get people being pissed. The fact is for the vocal 5% there is probably another 50% that aren't happy about this either. Blizzard should just be grateful their fans care enough to say so.
And so what if they have a mobile spinoff/side game? Are they not allowed to try something different just because their fans feel entitled to a certain type of experience?

Again, the hate is ridiculous at this point.

What is rediculous is you repeating the word "hate/hating" over and over again. Everyone else had already explained it, but you still insist on repeating your so-called pointless posts over and over again.

It's your vague uninformed posts that are becoming more and more rediculous. I'm sure you're gonna post another BS pertaining to my post below. Go ahead, I'm waiting. But won't reply to another nonsense.
 
What is rediculous is you repeating the word "hate/hating" over and over again. Everyone else had already explained it, but you still insist on repeating your so-called pointless posts over and over again.

It's your vague uninformed posts that are becoming more and more rediculous. I'm sure you're gonna post another BS pertaining to my post below. Go ahead, I'm waiting. But won't reply to another nonsense.
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Let's forget about game for a moment and focus on the Blizzard's approach.
Blizzwrd has heavy handedly deleted comments over and over again even the ones which were simply saying 'I didn't like the preview'. This censorship has been been on thousands of comments now and they keep on showing a middle finger to the consumers.
Not only this the have been deleting Dislikes too! Don't we as consumers have a right to press dislike button on a video about your product anymore? How on earth can anyone justify this shitty attitude is beyond me.
They have proved that they are beneath even EA.

I dont care about Diablo much (its just an ARPG. Market is choke full of them) but I do care about voice of consumers and unreasonable censorship. What an attrocious attitude Blizzard has towards consumers!
Arrogance is prelude to fall.
 
Wow, how f*cking stupid.
Really? "Gamers" are throwing a tantrum because a game series has a side game being made for mobile? They need to grow up. It's not meant to be the next Diablo, and it certainly doesn't postpone the next full installment. So if you don't like it, don't like it because it plays poorly (or IAPs are done wrong), not because you can't accept that it's a side entry they wanted to make for mobile.

It's "gamers" like these that give the rest of us a bad name...
LOL like Blizzard, you have no clue why they are complaining.
 
LOL like @amghwk, you added nothing to this.
You want me to break it down for you? It's not our fault you don't get it. There are literally HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people who think the same as us on YouTube alone. Probably millions as Blizzard keeps wiping the downvotes. There are a staggering number of people who are flaying them for this. If an entire auditorium is basically silent at your main event when you announce a huge new product, you've f$%ked up. Sorry but this isn't nerd rage. This is Blizzard completely missing the boat.

Blizzcon is primarily hardcode PC gamers. Blizzard literally left this as the last announcement I.e. usually where you put your biggest news. To a room full of PC gamers.

It's not my fault they completely screwed the pooch with their marketing. They didn't have to announce a new Diablo PC title. But the time and place to announce a new PC Diablo title is the last announcement at Blizzcon. That's the place.

So here we are. Last announcement. PC gamers expecting something big. Wyatt then says categorically it is mobile only. LOL

If they wanted to announce a mobile Diablo title, simply Blizzcon was just not the place for it. Not unless they do the same as Bethesda and give something to the PC as well. These people don't throw hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to attend a PC gaming conference so they can be shoved with a mobile revenue raiser.

Sh#&%y markup. The "I" is supposed to be lowercase but Techspot keeps uppercasing it. Just like in my quotes too. WTF Techspot :poop:
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You want me to break it down for you? It's not our fault you don't get it. There are literally HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people who think the same as us on YouTube alone. Probably millions as Blizzard keeps wiping the downvotes. There are a staggering number of people who are flaying them for this. If an entire auditorium is basically silent at your main event when you announce a huge new product, you've f$%ked up. Sorry but this isn't nerd rage. This is Blizzard completely missing the boat.
Blizzcon is primarily hardcode PC gamers. Blizzard literally left this as the last announcement I.e. usually where you put your biggest news. To a room full of PC gamers.
It's not my fault they completely screwed the pooch with their marketing. They didn't have to announce a new Diablo PC title. But the time and place to announce a new PC Diablo title is the last announcement at Blizzcon. That's the place.
So here we are. Last announcement. PC gamers expecting something big. Wyatt then says categorically it is mobile only. LOL
If they wanted to announce a mobile Diablo title, simply Blizzcon was just not the place for it. Not unless they do the same as Bethesda and give something to the PC as well. These people don't throw hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to attend a PC gaming conference so they can be shoved with a mobile revenue raiser.
Yup, I can get why the people who paid for tickets are hating on this, but otherwise it's just disappointing. Not a good enough reason to have a bandwagon of hate towards it.

As I said before,
It took, what? 12 years to get Diablo 3? And then there was the Necro DLC recently. I just don't see how it was that disappointing to not get a D4 announcement at the 6 year mark...
Why would anyone realistically hope for a D4 announcement. And then if they were hoping for a remaster,
...I do find it funny that these people are willing to buy the HD textures pack (aka. Remaster) of a game they can already play. But a mobile game? God forbid...
 
As a long time Diablo fan who currently spends a lot
Of time in hotels and aeroplanes with an iPad I’m quite happy with the announcement. Will be interesting to see if it’s any good.
 
So, I take it that Blizzard isn't allowed to release a product other than what gamers are willing to permit?

That business sucks. They should get into writing business software, or maybe a line of image editing products.Perhaps they could market some security wares.

It's a strange world we live in, when you need to get approval from a pack of psychopathic trolls to run your business.
 
So, I take it that Blizzard isn't allowed to release a product other than what gamers are willing to permit?

That business sucks. They should get into writing business software, or maybe a line of image editing products.Perhaps they could market some security wares.

It's a strange world we live in, when you need to get approval from a pack of psychopathic trolls to run your business.
I don't recall anyone saying Blizzard isn't allowed to make whatever they want. Unfortunately for Blizzard they need to appease these people to make a profit and they released, or are about to, what seems to be a **** product.
 
I don't recall anyone saying Blizzard isn't allowed to make whatever they want. Unfortunately for Blizzard they need to appease these people to make a profit and they released, or are about to, what seems to be a **** product.
It's also seems to be a product which was never intended for hardcore PC gamers in the first place. It sounds to me like Blizzard is going for a share of the "Candy Crush" market. By that yardstick, the game they're about to release is tentatively a big step upward from there.

The clowns doing the loudest whining, are also probably junior high schoolers who have most likely already been written up in their yearbooks as, "most likely to be arrested for swatting another player" in the PC version.

(Which assumes of course. they'll be going on to high school, and not shooting up their junior high graduation ceremonies).
 
Yup, I can get why the people who paid for tickets are hating on this, but otherwise it's just disappointing. Not a good enough reason to have a bandwagon of hate towards it.
The bandwagon was because of how little they knew their market. How they were actually surprised about the reception it got at Blizzcon.

Let's make no mistake - PC gamers made the Diablo franchise and Wyatt demonstrated on stage at the biggest stage at the biggest Blizzard event that he was completely clueless about his target audience. That's a big problem.
 
It's also seems to be a product which was never intended for hardcore PC gamers in the first place. It sounds to me like Blizzard is going for a share of the "Candy Crush" market. By that yardstick, the game they're about to release is tentatively a big step upward from there.
Then why announce it at Blizzcon, the hardcore traditional PC gamer conference? Why not a mobile conference? That's just complete stupidity to expect a different result.

The clowns doing the loudest whining, are also probably junior high schoolers who have most likely already been written up in their yearbooks as, "most likely to be arrested for swatting another player" in the PC version.
You do realise how long the Diablo franchise has been around right? Half the fanbase played Diablo 1 around 1996-1998. A huge chunk of this crowd is 30 years or more. Marketing 101. Know your audience. Everyone at Blizzcon paid at least $200 to attend and they are PC gamers. And the biggest announcement Blizzard gave them was for another platform. And you wonder why they were shocked and pissed?

Sounds like you're qualified to be on Blizzard's marketing team at least ;)

And yes I played the Diablo franchise for I guess that means ~20 years.
 
Blizzard is just a company trying to make money, stop pretending they're making decisions for artistic integrity anymore -- that hasn't been the case for years.
 
Sure, those of us who played the original Diablo only had to wait 4 years for Diablo II...but then we waited 12 years for Diablo III to come out (which, BTW, is also how long those of us that are StarCraft fans waited between I & II). 6 years & counting for Diablo IV is a comparatively short time...& considering that Blizzard has a reputation of working very hard to make sure their games are as high of a quality as possible when released (I'm not talking about satisfying everyone, I'm talking about avoiding the whole "extended beta" trend in the market nowadays, let alone the "let's just release a new clone of last year's Call of Battlefield game, just renaming the weapons & slightly changing the skins & maps" trend), I'd be willing to wait another couple of years for them to get it right.
 
...[ ]...And yes I played the Diablo franchise for I guess that means ~20 years.
My original post addressed the idea that they were clueless about their fan base's fickle, demanding nature, and their own unfortunate dependence on one specific type of customer Still, trolls do have a great deal of "power", disproportionate to their numbers.

So, strictly from a business perspective, will the business gained by expanding into the phone gaming market, regardless of who says what in their PC users clientèle?

And how would you answer my rather predictable follow up question, "if a new a better PC version of the game were to be released, would that be enough to shut up the malcontents?

Because part of the issue really does seem to reside in the rather childish outlook, "we deserve a new game more than they do". Perhaps they do, but is it really necessary to start a rebellion to gain traction toward that end.

Maybe the same question, posed by the same group, in a more civil manner, would be enough to convince the company to more forward in a hasty, accommodating, expeditious pace..

A commonly held belief here is that our membership knows more about making CPUs than Intel, more about writing games than the publishers, and more about management and business than those having and doing those jobs.

I will grant you that there have likely been numerous businesses sunk on one cataclysmic bad decision, but it's more often caused by outside forces. The public is fickle and easily led by trolls and "influencers".I likewise agree that it isn't very productive to piss them off. But yet, sometimes it can't realistically be avoided/. Some people live to be offended almost completely without provocation. I think they're called "SJWs".
 
Sure, those of us who played the original Diablo only had to wait 4 years for Diablo II...but then we waited 12 years for Diablo III to come out (which, BTW, is also how long those of us that are StarCraft fans waited between I & II). 6 years & counting for Diablo IV is a comparatively short time...& considering that Blizzard has a reputation of working very hard to make sure their games are as high of a quality as possible when released (I'm not talking about satisfying everyone, I'm talking about avoiding the whole "extended beta" trend in the market nowadays, let alone the "let's just release a new clone of last year's Call of Battlefield game, just renaming the weapons & slightly changing the skins & maps" trend), I'd be willing to wait another couple of years for them to get it right.
You had to wait 12 years for a video game:scream:, must've been though.
 
Blizzard is just a company trying to make money, stop pretending they're making decisions for artistic integrity anymore -- that hasn't been the case for years.
So then does this mean you and your family will be having "artistic integrity" for dinner again tonight? :rolleyes:
 
So then does this mean you and your family will be having "artistic integrity" for dinner again tonight? :rolleyes:
At one point Blizzard could both please it's fans and make money. It had no need to put out fortnight quality content and shift it's target audience to 12 year olds.
 
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