If there was that much feedback asking for D3 S34 to be delayed can we do a forum vote to see if people really wanted S34 to be moved? The amount of people I see upset about this decision (on this forum specifically) seems to outweigh that of those who apparently asked for it to be moved…If it was that easy of a decision for Blizzard to make the data from a public vote should reflect it, correct?
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Blizzard don’t care about your opinion. They need only your money.
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Sadly youre 1000% correct
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I think alot of the community is with you on this one…I too decided to put in some PTO to enjoy a fun weekend with the boys…I also pushed some get-togethers with other friends to next weekend. Just sad they have no regard for there fan base anymore…atleast it feels that way recently
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I was going to run D4 season too this month but after my undercity issue i’ll more likely finish all content and wait for xpac as Blizzard has been 
again. I won’t play PoE 2 until it’s free either like it’s supposed to be. So basically… they can swivel.
They buffed ball lightning by 125% it was that bad… It still doesn’t do as much dmg as meteor or firewall… .
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They already did a vote. Remember, this is not a democracy, it is a $$$ocracy. People who spend money on D4 and play D3 voted to move the seasons apart. People who only play D3 can’t vote since only $$$ counts as votes. Basically, it was a 100% landslide and the season start got moved. Philosophy I seem to get from Blizz about D3 is “Instead of being angry, feel fortunate we still keep the servers up”.
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D3 doesn’t make Blizzard any money any more.
Blizzard doesn’t care what D3 players think or want.
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Obviously, they do care enough and think the playerbase is significant enough that they will delay the season to enable their cash grab.
They just want you to log into d4 and buy some microtranactions.
I don’t think they realize this has backfired and will only make people LESS likely to spend money on their obvious cash grab.
Beware of forum troll killerproc spamming garbage over every thread.
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Since when is Blizzard a democracy? With all those sexual scandals floating around I bet $20 this company runs just like an authoritarian/tyranny state.
You could’ve stopped there.
It’s pure socialist folly to think votes, petitions, or Christmas cards filled with glitter will change a large corporation’s behaviour. Especially when the delay is a mere seven days.
As I said somewhere else, everyone posting on this forum has already given Blizzard their money when they purchased their license(s) so any threat people make on here is totally meaningless.
I saw last year there was a massive class action against some gaming company who canned their servers over an old game. I can’t remember what it was but posted it at the time. Then someone else covered that it clearly states in Blizzard’s ToS that we agreed to that they can turn off the servers any time they like. I’m sure Blizzard has some threshold of active players vs server count before they turn off the servers completely. Equally, they probably have some clever scaling architecture behind the scenes that allocates more servers as more people log on. (That could be another valid technical reason to stagger seasons, but I digress.)
I’m not waiting for that moment. Life’s too short. I’m also not going to spend a week raging against a large corporation who has given me a game that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed for 13 years over one lost weekend. That’s puerile at best.
I don’t play D4. And I am skipping this season in favour of finishing well-overdue refurbishment of my house. I hope the people who are so upset over a weekend find their peace when the season launches next week. Good luck to everyone, but there are a few who definitely need to work out a life balance issue and work out what’s important in life. Diablo 3 is not. It’s done and dusted, and played by botters, addicts and foolish sentimentalists like myself.
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There are more than one Diablo fan outlets aside from this official forums. People who hang on to those outlets and those forums, could have never read here or don’t care.
Think yourself as a player of both titles on multiple platforms; would you read PC discussions of Diablo 3? Do you think people who only play D4 over Steam, votes anything over at Xbox forums for D3? Same deal. It’s not their responsibility to fit your “norms”, nor they’re any obliged to read a twelve year old official forum due a “big event” breaking out.
Just because they’re console players, playing a different title or hanging on the social media doesn’t make their view and opinion “less worthy” than yours either. It’s as about monetization slowing down, as it is about objective outlook.
Simply put, world doesn’t revolve around you. Blizzard must have many metrics to measure the response and they have every right to push and delay any event they seem fit. In short, these forums are not the only Diablo outlet; there are social media such as; reddit, X, facebook, and fan forums, public image boards. They caught a pattern as a feedback and acted on it and it doesn’t really worth dwelling on to the deeper meanings.
For sure it’s obvious that putting Season start of both leading ARPG titles to the same day would slow down the interest, and they would eat away from each others’ player base.
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Exactly. They have said extending the Jan event isn’t possible because of blah, blah, blah. If someone went to Blizz and said “I have a million dollar check here for you guys if you extend the Jan even a week”, I guarantee the next day we would have a post that it was extended.
Like I said, it is a $$$ocracy. Money makes them move. Anyone who thought any different is naive or lying to themselves.
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Because polls on forums is how you get your boat named Boaty McBoatface.
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Well, it’s not quite so simple. With the number of people with multiple accounts, it skews the data. Plus, if you had it down to only 1 vote per real person, your data sample size would be less than 20 max.
That being said, that’s a super small sample size to get accurate and reliable results, topped off with the contrarians who skew it even more.
But as someone else said, they don’t care about your votes. Your votes do not pay shareholders.