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Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal

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Re: Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal

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Post by Goronmon »

prolikewh0a wrote: post #2

It's not like those same complaining fans aren't going to all play it and throw endless money at microtransactions. Remember COD:MW2 protests? https://kotaku.com/5403286/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-...

Less than 20 people playing out of 800 seems to be a pretty effective boycott to me.

Re: Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal

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Post by wand3r »

prolikewh0a wrote: post #2

It's not like those same complaining fans aren't going to all play it and throw endless money at microtransactions. Remember COD:MW2 protests? https://kotaku.com/5403286/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-...

I am not a gamer so I could be wrong but it’s REALLY hard to believe hardcore PC gamers are going to play a reskinned Chinese game on a cell phone and pay microtransactions. It might make money, but not from the people up in arms about this.

Re: Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal

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Post by wyldfire »

prolikewh0a wrote: post #2

It's not like those same complaining fans aren't going to all play it and throw endless money at microtransactions. Remember COD:MW2 protests? https://kotaku.com/5403286/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-...

I'm not that familiar -- but isn't it possible that the die hard fans who show up to a convention are more likely to be PCMR/console types who don't like the idea of a watered-down mobile experience?

And maybe successful COD example is due to the more casual gamers who wouldn't attend a conference (given that there are many more of them, it doesn't take as much engagement for financial success. )

Re: Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal

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Post by mcphage »

Goronmon wrote: post #3
prolikewh0a wrote: post #2

It's not like those same complaining fans aren't going to all play it and throw endless money at microtransactions. Remember COD:MW2 protests? https://kotaku.com/5403286/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-...

Less than 20 people playing out of 800 seems to be a pretty effective boycott to me.

There are two kinds of people in this world:

1) those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

Re: Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal

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Post by threatofrain »

wand3r wrote: post #4
prolikewh0a wrote: post #2

It's not like those same complaining fans aren't going to all play it and throw endless money at microtransactions. Remember COD:MW2 protests? https://kotaku.com/5403286/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-...

I am not a gamer so I could be wrong but it’s REALLY hard to believe hardcore PC gamers are going to play a reskinned Chinese game on a cell phone and pay microtransactions. It might make money, but not from the people up in arms about this.

The blizzard developer quoted in the article stated emphatically that wasn't true, and that similarities owed to adopting successful GUI idioms in other markets; does the gaming community have information to update the story?

Re: Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal

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Post by philipov »

threatofrain wrote: post #7
wand3r wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not a gamer so I could be wrong but it’s REALLY hard to believe hardcore PC gamers are going to play a reskinned Chinese game on a cell phone and pay microtransactions. It might make money, but not from the people up in arms about this.

The blizzard developer quoted in the article stated emphatically that wasn't true, and that similarities owed to adopting successful GUI idioms in other markets; does the gaming community have information to update the story?

"Successful GUI idioms," is that a euphemism for dark patterns to make people spend more money? Anyway, even if they built it from scratch it isn't enough to refute the spirit of it being just a reskin of some other crappy cellphone game.

Many, though certainly not all PC gamers are serious about not having their platform choices manipulated by exclusivity deals. It is interpreted as bullying, and we have had plenty of practice sticking to that belief against attempts to coerce people to buy every console. Red Dead Redemption 2 was just released, but even though it looks like an actually good game, it simply doesn't exist for me until it comes to PC.

Re: Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal

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Post by [deleted] »

threatofrain wrote: post #7
wand3r wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not a gamer so I could be wrong but it’s REALLY hard to believe hardcore PC gamers are going to play a reskinned Chinese game on a cell phone and pay microtransactions. It might make money, but not from the people up in arms about this.

The blizzard developer quoted in the article stated emphatically that wasn't true, and that similarities owed to adopting successful GUI idioms in other markets; does the gaming community have information to update the story?

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