10/5/2023 0 Comments Diablo immortal booedMaybe that’s why I feel totally comfortable posting videos of their devs getting booed on stage. Now personally, I have never received any kind of product or special treatment from Blizzard. The answer likely lies somewhere in the middle. The second option is that all that sweet sweet Blizzard cash and special treatment is swaying these journalists to the dark side. And nothing shouts louder than a fan enraged. It’s no mystery that on the internet, the voices heard the most are generally the loudest. The first is that the journalists are a voice of reason amidst a sea of unwarranted hate. There are really two answers to this question. And yet various blogs, twitters, and more legit news sites are plastered with journalists defending the poor, mistreated, billion dollar gaming giant. Just open a window, stick your head outside, and somewhere in the distance you can hear the anguished cries of some distant gamer lamenting the passing of their fallen king. So my own opinion out of the way, what really got me out of my lawn chair and into my desk chair was the weird dissonance between “professionals” and the general public. Still, I entirely understand why long time fans of one of PC gaming’s most prized titles are upset that Diablo is getting the Command and Conquer/Dungeon Keeper/Lineage/Everything You’ve Ever Known and Loved Eventually treatment. I’m also guilty of dumping an embarrassing amount of time and money into Hearthstone, so it’s not like Blizzard hasn’t made a decent mobile game before. Make the game more accessible through mobile, and it’s not like clicking demons and tapping on them is a fundamentally different concept. So when I heard that the game was going mobile, that’s the level of expectation I was coming in with. I played through, got through to Nightmare mode, and called it a day. I thought Diablo 3 was just fine, but I’m past the point in my life where I can spend even a gerbil’s lifespan clicking on endless waves of increasingly large healthbars. Like most kids my age, I played several dogs lives worth of time playing Diablo 2 with my buddies. Personally, I don’t much give a Baal sized shit if Blizzard decides to take their newest iteration of a decades old stale franchise and put it on my pocket computer.
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