When i finally get to Greece i’ll be in my element… i love flame grilled outdoor food. Who knows i might just get a bit jizzy there too!
I would assume it’s the hope that their voice would be heard and they would exact a change that would be better. I myself was guilty in believing Blizz actually gives a crap back in WoW Beta. Some even speak to receive validation from like-minded people. This can put people at ease to at least think they aren’t crazy to think such reasonable things.
I for one wouldn’t even register an emotion if Blizz and Activision disappeared. But this is just more hopeful wishful thinking. I’d probably say, “Good.” and continue playing good games.
I would almost certainly stare at the screen for a few mins for sure.
May I ask why you post on a diablo forum if you hate blizzard / activision this much?
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Pharahnuff I guess. Imo it seems like you’d be happier playing other games though.
It would be nice if a blue was addicted to this forum instead. Then again they’re free to be candid over at Tumblr w/o causing a (supposed) PR stink as someone pointed out, so that makes sense. However it’s only a matter of normalizing that sort of casual banter here, and it’ll be deemed acceptable
Oh, I most definitely do. The last time I had a Blizz game installed was when WoW: WOD released… for about 2 months.
I even urge players who can’t seem to let go of Blizz games to play something else, because it is clear they are unhappy.
For a while now, I spent time in the HOTS forums. I played HOTS only for the events and freebies. I even made guides on how to best farm lootboxes during events so others don’t have to drop money on them or make the grind easier. Other than that, I haven’t played HOTS for possibly 95% of the time I was on the forums.
Speaking my mind on Blizz/Activision will perhaps educate people on what is going on and hopefully have them contemplate a little harder about investing in Blizz games. Whether it be time, money, psychological, and emotional. Perhaps this will guide people to make better choices when it comes to gaming so we can get back to good gaming that respect their consumers.
Have you considered like, spending time doing something else?
Why? Do you take issue with me talking crap about Blizz or helping people?
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Pffft. Lame.
Takes a bite out of Arby’s palm sized sandviches made with thin paper deli meat and reaches for curly fries
On to the topic. Well… I demanded a few changes on Diablo 3 and realized they actually read the forums, after seeing the exact changes a month or two later. That tells me still the interaction is going. If people didn’t see any changes they wanted, most likely it’s because it was a bad idea at the first place or you used a very rude language to begin with.
eh, you do you I guess. Just seems like this particular thing is somewhat spiteful and a waste of time.
vs Passive aggressive comments?
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Not really an answer since this is what you implied from your other questions.
Someone is bound to shout something and luckily that something happens to be the thing they changed. I doubt it was because of you. I’m not trying to put your idea down for it was probably a reasonable idea. I just don’t agree with Blizz listening to their playerbase.
There are plenty of players who complained about certain changes, where it was the consensus that that change was bad. No one asked for this, but we got it anyway.
Blizz also loves to blame the players when it is convenient. If a bad change happens, they would just say, “Due to player feedback…‘we decided to screw up something, again. Remember, you asked for this bad change!’”
Not spite. A reckoning.
Hedonism and conceit are a disastrous, deadly combination. Whatever trace remains of the perpetrators, Blizzard’s bois chose both and as a result have more than cartoon blood on their hands this time.
Vengeance for the fallen. 
I hope our resident apologists can understand that this matter is not settled, or at least capable if not willing to endure the vicious attacks on D:I (horror of horrors)?
The CMs using every other platform instead of these forums is nothing new. I was only able to contact Nevalistis on reddit. Like a miracle, she responded there and now In-geom is in the drop pool for DH.
I’m sorry, it’s been a long post.
Blizzard have Community Managers on duty to give weekly and monthly reports on media platforms to the developers; if they ain’t listening their own official forums and social media, then why they ever pay them? They ignore platform of origin the player from, when taking the feedback as it’s not hard to evaluate it. Maybe the only few quite famous players in the community may have the privilege of lending their ear and talk to developers directly.
There’s the fact that social media is much more crowded than here at forums though. So any idea taken from here, could be echoed through social media already, one way or another. If someone gave a suggestion and another platform (forums or social media) liked the concept; after the mutual users shared it, one have no idea how fast it could be circulated.
Most likely, developers need to hear opinions from many different players to make changes. This could be from top players or their own polls after they found out that there are many players want the change. Upon hearing a different thing they may consider, they can easily reflect on the collected feedback. The change they made could not even be the thing you wanted after the process.
For example, I wanted a grand scale change, making pets strong enough to replace the requirement of area damage bursts over the entirety of Sets. Because we all know how area damage negatively affect the server performance and a detrimental cause of many builds to not climb high enough despite their effort requirements. Instead, they chose to renew Inna’s to be the ultimate pet oriented Set a few months later, but I was happy with that regardless because I play Monk mainly.
I mean, I can not take all the credit but looking at time lapses between changes and feedback, I think Blizzard at least try to. There are only a few things I demanded to be made into the game, but there are like several that haven’t. I’m quite aware of the reasons though; too many time resources required, server performance may affect negatively and it could require them to tweak other systems accordingly as design is tied to many different elements. When you are aware of those, you can give reasonable feedback and when it circulates they finally pay attention.
“You think you do, but you don’t” blurb was completely made due to that. They changed World of Warcraft over the years so much, they haven’t imagined that someone would want Classic WoW back.
After doing a poll and sending a cease and desist to a few private WoW servers, things seemed “brighter”. Seriously, did anyone ask them to send that cease and desist to the most popular private vanilla WoW server? 
Yes I know, copyrights but nobody foresee that… In short, faceless conglomerates never take the blame. It’s always someone else’s fault.
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It’s fine. I tend to make long posts without even knowing…
I have been told this before and I still doubt this even happens. If there is a report from CM’s to devs or whoever they report to, it is still unfortunate that there is no back and forth so they can at least open communications with their playerbase. When they are forced to have open communications with their playerbase, they consistently look like fools, who actually don’t care what the playerbase thinks.
They say they do, but they don’t.
This phrase was a callous, out of touch retort to a question made by a fan. It is not up to Blizz to tell use what we want. It is up to Blizz to decide if it’s worth/possible doing. Of course they shut down Fan Servers, they need to monetize it. The Fan Server existed because this was a feature Blizz allowed players to do. The Fan Server existed because this was something the players wanted.
Since they shut it down, naturally someone will ask if they will make Vanilla. They responded this way because retail is more accessible to players. Thus more money. They would have to dump resources to something they wouldn’t make as much money on. Once Vanilla dropped, they were praised like heroes.
The people chosen to communicate with the playerbase aren’t really there to respectfully turn down bad ideas or explain why something may not be a good idea. They are there to sell you something.
Even the whole D:I thing. They had no choice but to listen to the booing of the crowd. They kept on with their plans regardless. They did not falter or question if making D:I was a good idea based on player feedback. “You think you don’t want this game, but you do.” They could’ve canceled D:I. The announcement was made with a small portion of the game available. Without the scummy predatory tactics, of course. The whole, “No plans to make it on PC.” was a kneejerk reaction where players thought they were getting a meaningful game, at least on mobile. Releasing a mobile game on PC doesn’t make them heroes either.
I have nothing against you. I do enjoy this conversation, even though we may not agree.
I thought it was after the retort that they shut it down? I need to check I think… Yes, in Blizzcon 2013, J.Allen Brack made that retort while Nostalrius shut down on 2016 April 10th. According to google there’s a 3 year between them. Perhaps I skimmed over some details but that’s what I remember too. A simple question made them retaliate to private servers, this is what they do all the time.
They gained money from D3 MTX shop in China, by law they can not get that money abroad so they chose to cater to Chinese market by investing right there. They had no other choice but commit to it.
This is why they took their time to put a buggy PC release out there; so the rest of the world, which means outside of China, wouldn’t feel left out. I think they did that because someone asked if there’ll be a PC version of D:I which Wyatt replied with “no plans right now”.
You’re doing it wrong. We supposed to ridicule each other, gaslight, build up straw arguments, stretches to polar opposites, shift blame and ignore the opposing argument to the point of self righteousness. Do /sarcasm tag needed?
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I was thinking of something like this request with my OP. "d3 devs can you up my rng plz."
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