Corpse Run 845: Blizzconned
Ok, before we talk about Blizzard and the Diablo fiasco… IF YOU LIVE IN THE USA, PLEASE VOTE TOMORROW! Mid-term elections are Tuesday, November 6th and if you don’t vote you are a part of the problem.
As much as I love George Carlin, this is one of the things he got wrong. The only thing that happens by sitting at home on election day is your loss of ability to take part in shaping your country’s future.
Don’t be lame, go vote on Tuesday. If you aren’t old enough to vote yet, make sure to register when you’re old enough.
It’s important; don’t let anyone tell you that it isn’t, or that your vote doesn’t matter.
Annnnnyywaayyyyyyyyyy, Blizzard is silly. If they want to make a cash grab Diablo skinned mobile game, sure, go for it…
…but don’t let it be one of your “big” announcements at your expo event and then say that there is no new PC Diablo in the works to a crowd of PC players. There is no way in hell they though this was going to go well, how could it possibly?
They should have just focused on the Overwatch World Cup, mention the the Diablo Mobile game as a footnote, and go about their business.
Absolute silliness.
Agreed that it was mismanaged. A total lack of understanding of their audience. However If they want to shill out their IP to skinabox mobile games it does not bother me. It just worries me.
Yep. If they announced a big “mobile” news beforehand instead of a big Diablo news, there wouldn’t be any outrage, people could even have gotten onto that boat.
But announcing a big Diablo game, and then saying it’s mobile, hard fail.
That’s the difference betweem “Oh boy, a mobile game that’s about Diablo, NEAT”, and “Fuuuck, a Diablo game that’s a mobile game, fuck ActiBlizzard”.
For all your inspiring words, the closer to election night it gets, the more hopeless I feel. Every issue on my state’s ballot is either incomprehensible or i can’t make a decision on it. All of the candidates either have let me down in the past, or seem to be lame ducks who will just be more of the same. Never in an election cycle have I felt more useless or less enthusiastic as a voter. I’m tired of it all, and the sad thing is, I get the feeling this is exactly as was intended.
I still voted tho.
Just a quick clarification, they didn’t say they don’t have a PC Diablo in the works, they said that the mobile game wont be going to PC. This is where they fucked up, because on their own forums a week or so beforehand, they had said they ARE working on Diablo 4, but don’t have any news about it for Blizzcon. They literally could have pulled a Bethesda and just showed a scene with the words “Diablo 4” and nothing else and people would have been cheering their heads off, shit show averted.
Oh and maybe don’t react to booing by saying “DO YOU GUYS NOT HAVE PHONES?” >_>