The introduction of mounts seems to imply D4 will be speed racer on steroids.
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Nice to see Diablo 3 is getting some help. Maybe now they have enough manpower to get rid of the cheating that is ruining Blizzards good name for quality fair games. Notice already the top leaderboards loaded. One has supposedly been been running 20 hours each and every day so far and has almost perfect gear. Really can we all say bot?
His voice was low to high.
Now he only goes polished high.
His best, and first hit afaik:
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Do you realize how uneducated that makes you look . Decard Cain died in Diablo 3 LOD.
No such thing as D3 LOD.
No idea what youâre smoking but Deckard Cain was very much alive in D2 LOD. His demise came 20 years later.
So true and itâs just like when someone says, âTo be honestâŚâ, they are not telling the truth.
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LoL, why was this thread revivedâŚAnd what ever happened with this CM/Blue. Cant say Iâve ever seen him post anything other than in this thread.
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Excellent question! Even stranger, Pezrader just posted a tweet about his first meet up with Filthy Rich. TheHooley was never mentione!
He has posted on the most recent PTR. So that is presumably part of his job.
Interacting much with players clearly cant be any of the CMs job 
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LawL. Coincidently, I was the one that made the âWe require your Feedback as well, Blizâ post and he was the one that closed the threadâŚGo figure. Thas funny.
Still been over two months since we had a Hooley sighting!
He has visited the forum in the last 3 days even if he has not posted.
That is probably because they really frown on posts that call out Blues or demand Blue replies. Welcome! Please Read
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Honestly - kind of true.
They are tasked with a TON of things and most of it is not general chatting with players. Forums are a tiny part of what they do. Mostly for Forums they post notices, collect feedback from here (along with reddit, fan sites, streams, etc.)
A LOT of what they do is not something the average player sees. It involves player engagement campaigns worked out with PR, streamer and influencer engagement or management, setting up dev or other press/engagements (even just dropping in a stream). Tons of other stuff.
They are handling all the Diablo games - not just D3. With D:I alpha going right now and the D2R Alphas afoot, they are a bit busy.
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Yea I know. But yes, it was locked because everyone in the thread was basically bombarding Hooley with negative comments and adding nothing but negative and unproductive criticism. Kinda a shame, the one you, âonce ina blue moonâ, you get a Blue reply and the public goes ape sht. O well tho.
This, sadly, is one of the reasons they donât post a lot in most threads.
Blizzard as a whole wants the forums to be a place for players to discuss with other players. Blue posts, no matter how benign, tend to derail the natural discussion between players.
I am not sure how much I agree with that⌠If they are around all the time in obvious ways would folks get used to that and still have natural convos without appealing to them? Or would it just mean more anger when the Devs or mgt donât do what the forums posters want. Hard line to walk.
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I hope the smiley made somewhat clear I wasnât criticizing it. I get that CMs are much more about feedback in the opposite direction, and handling PR broadly.
On the other hand I really do think actual devs should interact more. Stuff like Wyatt showing up for a interview for D:I is great.
At minimum, after each blog post they should spend an hour or two looking at the feedback thread, clarifying or answering questions for example. Or show up for an interview or two with streamers (as much as I dont like those, it is all we get these days).
I know, stuff like that will happen more when D4 is in the state D:I is in, getting close to release. Would be nice to see it much earlier however, and I bet it can give the devs useful feedback that they arent getting merely from CMs collecting feedback. The interaction is missing.
I would love to believe that as well.
And lets be honest, some people will attack and be angry no matter what they do. But communication can hardly hurt imo.
I get why devs cant just randomly participate in threads. I mean, they have actual jobs to do, I hope ^^ But for blog threads, or other official threads made by the CMs, such as after a Blizzcon, it would be nice at least.
The Devs do skim the forums, reddit, etc. They donât make decisions based on it though - they wait for the reports with the wider scope from the full forums, reddit, streams, etc. They want to make informed decisions - even if it means saying no.
The Devs doing interviews on podcasts, streams, etc is years old. They have been doing it for a LONG time. What they have not ever done is advertise it that I know of.
CMs also show up in streams from time to time - and podcasts.
I donât think people are aware of it though, esp on the forums where streamers and podcasters can get a lot of negative vibes.
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Yeah, I am not so interested in their decisions (I mean, of course I am), but rather them arguing about their decisions. Why they want to do something, proâs and conâs etc. Wyatt does some of that in the recent D:I interview, as an example.
Much more interesting than just telling what they are doing. As it gives us a view into what their reasoning is. Which might also allow people to offer better feedback.
I cant remember seeing that happen a single time for D4 outside of the interviews done during Blizzcons. Now I wouldnât notice if a streamer had an interview, but I am pretty sure people would talk on the forums every single time it happened 
Even for WoW, dev interviews with streamers is a fairly rare thing. They had one recently though.