Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

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I can't imagine any of the talented devs that Blizzard once employed still work there anymore. They saw what people at Rockstar, Sony Santa Monica, Insomniac, CDPR, From, Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games etc are working on - creating interesting games, some absolute masterpieces and thought... nah, I'll sit here and spend 12 months creating a new skin for overwatch... or I'll work on the tier armor for WOW's shittiest expansion ever... or wait I got it! how about some fucking cereal WITH THE LOOT CODES IN THE BOX! The studio is dead, it's a hollow husk - tell me one thing they've done this past 2 years that couldn't have been done by a team of interns and contract programmers? One thing? Wow Classic? Interns. New skins and heroes for OW? Interns. Diablo mobile? Reskin with slight variation to already done chinese developed mobile games. BFA? Clearly the work on blizzards interns (at best). Unless they have something massive, brilliant, revolutionary hidden under wraps that all of their "talent" is working on, you have to wonder just wtf they do over there all day.

Playing RDR2, GOW etc and then watching this train wreck it's obvious, very quickly, where the talent in this industry works and it doesn't work at Blizzard. They have some of the best, well-known IP in the entire entertainment industry and they can't come up with a single fun, decent idea. Think of the possibilities! /diablomobile

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/r/diablo just deleted all the posts about the april fools question at the q&a
 
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So they are just reskinning an existing game and yet not releasing it immediately? I mean do they not realize that people expect mobile games to be announced and released within a month at most?
 
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The real question is what type of fucking moronic team over there decided that gamers who grew up playing Diablo games are the same market for mobile games? It really does scream cash grab; glad I stopped buying Blizzard after SCII's first release.
 
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I don't think this is a game for Diablo fans, this is a game for mobile game fans, whoever they are.
The real dumb thing about this is announcing it at Blizzcon and making it the major focus.
Had they announced this game outside of blizzcon and quietly announce that they are partnering up with a mobile company to bring the franchise to mobile that would've been fine.

But this whole backing of this game as the next big installment of the franchise is ridiculous and shows, yet again, a major disconnect with their fan base.
 
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There wouldn't be so much outrage if they decided to announce this during the middle of the opening ceremony, but some genius decided to have it as the last game of the opening ceremony. If they put the WCIII remaster as the last game, I believe they would still be getting flack but a ton less flack. They just insulted the entire Blizzcon attendee's by announcing a mobile game as essentially the main event of the entire conference.

I honestly wonder if they know how much they have damaged the Blizzard brand by doing this today and if they even care.
 
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Fedor

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Fedor said:
blizzcon prediction:

45 minute panel on diablo 4: asses of fire (mobile game)
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I quoted this earlier but that was after the opening ceremony and before the actual diablo panel.

It really was a full 45 min panel on the mobile game.
 
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Kyougou said:
I don't think this is a game for Diablo fans, this is a game for mobile game fans, whoever they are.
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This genre of mobile game does the worst out of all the others though. They didn’t even pick a good option.

You know what would work for a blizzard mobile game? Heroes of the Storm as a gacha game.

These “skill” arpg games are always garbage.
 
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Kyougou said:
I don't think this is a game for Diablo fans, this is a game for mobile game fans, whoever they are.
The real dumb thing about this is announcing it at Blizzcon and making it the major focus.
Had they announced this game outside of blizzcon and quietly announce that they are partnering up with a mobile company to bring the franchise to mobile that would've been fine.

But this whole backing of this game as the next big installment of the franchise is ridiculous and shows, yet again, a major disconnect with their fan base.
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That pretty much nails it. I don't begrudge companies making mobile games; they make good money for minimal investment, and hit a market they wouldn't otherwise hit. So sure, fuck it, make the occasional mobile game. But they keep devoting major time to these games at these sorts of events, which are clearly aimed at--and almost exclusively watched by--core gamers that are looking forward to hearing about the next big core game. Even those core gamers that would be willing to pick up the mobile game to play on a bus are going to be annoyed at having their time wasted hearing about it in a big keynote address.

You'd think the whole thing with EA showing off the C&C mobile game at E3 would've served as an object lesson, but I guess not.
 
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So its just a reskin of another Netease game called Crusaders of Light

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Wow, so they outsourced the entire thing. It's not even blizzard devs doing any of it.

That's a very unprofessional move for a game studio, this is going viral now. I think there's a chance this thing will be cancelled.
 
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This is so bad it is sort of draining my want/will to play D3. Just logged in and I am kind of meh.
 
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