honest question. our voices have fallen on deaf ears, year after year. i dont see anything changed for the fanbase. D4 is the next title in this illustrious franchise and the bleakness ensues. The customer is always right. Blizz needs a culture shift.
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Us (collectively) or just you?
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Well the customer isn’t always right. Often the customer is an idiot and sometimes you have to fire them.
Blizzard doesn’t care what people say in the forums they’re watching the money. As long as people are buying their games and merchandise that’s all the feedback they need.
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Customers advice isn’t why D3 failed though, that was all blizz.
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D3 didn’t fail. It made a massive amount of money and despite a disastrous launch had a record setting expansion.
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Blizz can make that money now off of more casual fans, but that’s because they’re selling off their goodwill. Blizzard used to be known as the studio you could definitely rely on. The more Activision leans into them and the more they move away from their core fanbase into a more generalist audience, the less special they are. Take-Two does not have it’s own convention.
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Given the level of some topics on those forums I think that yes, they do think we’re a bit thick lol
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Over 5 million copies sold. One of the top selling PC games ever. Total failure.
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We all bought Diablo III didn’t we? I’d say it’s a logical assessment for them to think we’re all sheep.
I’ve already talked to a few simpletons about Diablo IV and they’re already waiting to pre-order it just based on what they saw at Blizzcon… Diablo is dead because of dim wits.
This angry and pointless post is “stupi.”
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More accurately Diablo lives because of dimwits.
Yeah and your threads just scream “intelligence”, huh?
Pots & kettles, stones and glass houses…
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It did that almost purely off of its namebrand power and player faith. Unfortunately, they also flushed that down the tubes, getting short term profit but sacrificing long term profits: Diablo no longer has the guaranteed seller/preorder faith of its fanbase, and has lost ground to other ARPG’s word of mouth/popularity.
This means they’ll be fighting an uphill battle now for selling their NEXT game, and its not going to be a guaranteed success like D3 was. Its like saying “Well the emoji movie made a profit!” without aknowledging the negative publicity cost for future sony movie titles that it caused
Moreover, even ignoring this damage to their brand name, which DOES have a large financial cost, it also nixes any possible long term profits: Look at POE, they are able to, yearly, make insane amounts of money off just cosmetics and other player monetization, because they put effort into LONG TERM profit by focusing purely on making it the best game they could without looking to “How do we maximize profit?”. Likewise, Grim dawn was able to sell 2 expansions at a premium price by maximizing player good will.
You know the story of the golden goose? Right here, D3 is a prime example.
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If Blizzard sees your post with its myriad errors in punctuation, syntax, and capitalization, then yes. I’m pretty sure they think you are stupi.
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You comment on every single post I make… don’t you have somewhere to be? LOL
Get off my **** son.
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Nothing I’ve seen here suggests they’ll be fighting an uphill battle. People can’t wait to throw money at Blizzard.
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Well put.
You’re right… it lives on in a pathetic incarnation of it’s former self.
D3 a dead game and the diablo forums filled with people unhappy about the direction of D4
Nothing to see here!
Yeah they said that when ROS came out too.
Grim Dawn is by far my fav aRPG of all the ones made in the past 10 years…it just hits all the right spots for me and I love the deep char customization it provides while still having an end point and endless replayability and the zones are gorgeous to just stare at while moving through the world…extremely well done.
This is the kind of game I’m hoping is the final product that D4 will become…lets hope the dev’s stop catering to the shareholders and start realizing what the small fanbase they still have left, wants in the next diablo. They really need to step it up a notch or games like Last Epoch will blow them out of the water and their game will be DoA.
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