*** The Official Diablo III Thread ***

Smokey Deza said:
Couldn't believe it when he said "We' don't have any plans to do errr.....(what's that thing called again, ah yes) PC". Really, who the **** put that monkey up there? He basically just told the whole PC community to do one because we're so excited about our new mobile venture.
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What i found the worst was how Wyatt Cheng kept repeating, We Love Diablo!, We are excited about Diablo!. We........(Shut up already!) you obviously dont so dont stand there and pretend to care about your fanbase as you just told them you done give a hoot about them. He was so condescending and Blizzard is just as bad for letting him do it. If the fall in shares don't give them the hint then its finished imo.

Not sure if its more Blizzard shenanigans but personally I found the below video hard to believe and they are simply saying this to try and remediate the situation. Why would Wyatt admit we dont do PC and he was panicking at that stage (on stage) if DB4 was on the works.

 
Sadly "2 people familiar with Blizzards plans" is gaming journalisms equivalent to Skys "Sky Sports Understands..." on transfer deadline day, or the Dailymails "A source close to the celebrity says..."

Its about as reliable as "my friends, brothers uncles cousin said that she DID do it!"

Blizzard announced World of Warcraft in 2001, 3 years before it released in 2004. Blizzard announced Diablo 3 in 2008, 4 years before it released in 2012. So there is a distinct pattern of them announcing major titles many years in advance of release, if they are indeed working on a Diablo 4 that pattern would seem to suggest it would also be announced fairly early and before they have anything to show for it. My personal conclusion from it, is that they havent because they arent.

The biggest issue for me though isnt the lack of D4 announcement, its the way they dealt with the paying audience, its really very basic PR and marketing rules, you do not address your customers like that because thats how you lose customers not gain them.
 
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Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard put out the "we were going to announce Diablo 4" rumour themselves as part of their current online shenanigans in order to try and placate their PC fanbase and damp down the current disaster. If they had an announcement ready to go and pulled it in the face of the mobile backlash, then that's another terrible error of judgement. They should have made the announcement in order to throw the PC fanbase the bone they were so desperately after. Instead, the only message they gave was no Diablo 4, contempt for the PC fanbase, Chinese mobile games are all that's important because of microtransactions.
 
this whole mess whos how out of touch blizzard has gotten and how inept and sheltered their community teams are. for example everyone at blizzard didnt expect anywhere near as much push back against the title as they are getting and some how didnt see this being a big problem, you know teasing big diablo news at blizzcon to get people interested so they would travel to the event or pay for virtual tickets, funny how thats not being addressed by anyone from blizzard or their media/blogger super friends, its more fun to just accuse people of being trolls and not knowing what they are talking about.

next up the aftermath, yesteday kotaku claimed to have info that d4 was supposed to be announced at blizzcon but its in such a state (multiple direction changes) they had nothing, now ign are reporting someone at blizzard claims nothing got pulled. honestly its one thing after another and i think this will damage blizzard a lot for the next few years, as for blizzcon next year i can see it being a lot quieter as people just dont go due to this farce this year.
 
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Quite interesting from LF as he retells his experience and visit at Blizzon 2018. The demo stations were practically empty at times which is pretty bad.

 
The game looks fine, i dont care that it's a re-skin. I dont even care that its just another cash grab by a dev thats already rolling in income. I mean, im not going to play it.

That was the wrong crowd to exhibit to, it was the wrong way to hype it up, and it was the wrong way to damage control.
 
Although having typed that it's so confusing that a company that has made SO MUCH money from it's games, that surely it's no longer a consideration; is just reskinning old games and releasing PTW mobile games.
 
DampCat said:
Although having typed that it's so confusing that a company that has made SO MUCH money from it's games, that surely it's no longer a consideration; is just reskinning old games and releasing PTW mobile games.
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Its quite the mystery really, if you consider World of Warcraft alone, thats been going since 2004, so 14 years, 168 months of an average of $10 a month per sub, for an average of 6 million accounts over the 14 years. Thats just over $10 Billion just from WoW subscriptions. At what point does it become pure greed?
 
well the idiotic community manager has posted something on the forums.

We want to start by saying we hear you.
Since the moment we stepped into the office on Monday, we have been discussing everything Diablo non-stop. We’re fully committed to listening and engaging—so please keep the constructive feedback coming. Our primary focus right now is poring over that feedback to inform internal discussions, and we’ll follow up with further thoughts as soon as we can.
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yeah any one who believes them raise you're phone.
 
Tombstone said:
Its quite the mystery really, if you consider World of Warcraft alone, thats been going since 2004, so 14 years, 168 months of an average of $10 a month per sub, for an average of 6 million accounts over the 14 years. Thats just over $10 Billion just from WoW subscriptions. At what point does it become pure greed?
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There's no money left. Wow and Overwatch earnings are decreasing, Diablo III is dead, Starcraft has a stable community but makes no money, Heroes of the Storm is dead. Their only stable product is essentially a mobile game, Hearthstone. If they don't release a big hit in the next 2-3 years, Blizzard will experience dramatic changes.

I've given up on them since the release of the Diablo III. Despite its sales, many of which were heavily discounted through Wow sub deals, it was a long term failure. POE went public just 2 years after D3 and now it's one of the biggest games in the world.
 
the way Allen Adham talks, from several things ive seen he sounds more like a salesman with his use of words like 'product' and 'business', not at all like passionate gamer.
 
tuftyfella said:
the way Allen Adham talks, from several things ive seen he sounds more like a salesman with his use of words like 'product' and 'business', not at all like passionate gamer.
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you mean in the way he says a lot of things but doesnt actually tell you anything.
 
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