Anyone else saddened by the situation Diablo is in right now?

[Latimere-1192]

@Urza-1177

@Wilfire-2760

Given that Blizzard’s official partners are now throwing D4 under the bus and openly mocking it on streams while advertising PoE2, it’s not looking good.

Who is doing this? I would like to know.

Raxx, Wudijo, Rob2628, Rhykker - all of the major ones are say the same things about Blizzard and the end game and the shape Diablo is in and praising the hell outta POE2.

[Urza-1177]

Streamers are official partners now? Do they get a cut of Bliz profits?

[Latimere-1192]

No but they sure do get plenty of compensation and perks.

[Radoshi-1599]

That won’t happen, unfortunately. The company is suits and blue hair. Those are the 2 main types of people at blizzard now. It’s over.

[slayer76-2768]

nope,blizz manage to deliver after full year of d4.pure fugazi

[Soluss-1870]

Thats not what they said. They said 68% of the players played spiritborn. Thats just 68% of the people that made a character in season 6. Its not out of every single person that bought the game.

[Soluss-1870]

I picked up D2R a while back for like 15 bucks. It does go on sale.

[Soluss-1870]

Certain streamers get partnered with Blizzard. That doesnt mean share profits lol. It just means they have a partnership. They advertise game, they get care packages in the mail, they get flown out and red carpeted for events, they get early release copies of the game/expansions, they get access to talk to developers directly, they get to submit feedback that is for sure read by developers, they might get swag or game codes for giveaways or to keep, etc. Some might get paid a contract and get paid actual cash to promote the game. They dont get stock options.

[Latimere-1192]

Yup I got it as well back then. 15$

[Vlad-28576]

For god sake people like you

Yes most DEI or woke content is trash. But that doesn´t mean everything what is trash is also woke or DEI.

There were trash product before woke era and there will be trash products after this dumb era ends.

[Irres-1198]

They did the same to Overwatch.
It won Game of the Year, was truly the best game in the genre. And one of my favorite games ever…and then Blizzard greed happened and more focus went into milking their fanbase instead of improving the game.

Then the flat out lies about OW2 and cancelling the whole point of OW2 and driving one of the best game directors in the company away. Think what you want about Jeff but he was a gamer.

[Taetew-1962]

hopefully elon musk buys bliz next and makes druids skinny and adds paladins/crusaders in the game and tosses in a tesla horse mount that can hover over the invisa rocks and clip thru the invisa corners

[Irres-1198]

Unlikely, unless MS decides to part with one IP. I mean they really don’t care about D4…just bought them for COD and Candy Crush, possibly WOW also.

[Assos-2772]

@RealSteve-2851

This game is in the state that its community deserves.
This game is full white knights and fanboys defending the game and its bugs, not being aware of how broken the game is. They want you to break an already broken game and the result of it is a season with nothing but Kepeleke, Viscous Shield and an entire dupped market. This community have also started to get mad when they fix stuff like Antivenin, that’s how far they have fallen.

Preach brother, preach!

@RealSteve-2851

Who told that man that this game is in a healthy state to be proud of it? Even better, who told him that D4 is a Diablo-like game?

Probably his veteran developers full of toxic positivity. Games like Concord were made and released mainly because of toxic positivity. This guy is probably dumbfounded by what is happening right now and hopefully will start to feel the disconnect between the copium they’re feeding him and reality.

[Assos-2772]

Yeah, forget about MS. They’re just collecting IP’s.

[Latimere-1192]

@Irres-1198

Unlikely, unless MS decides to part with one IP. I mean they really don’t care about D4…just bought them for COD and Candy Crush, possibly WOW also.

I am not 100% sure but I am fairly certain wow is the most valuable IP in that package they bought by a good margin.

[Irres-1198]

Yeah I added WOW after thinking about it’s reach, but in no way is it more valuable than COD, think across platforms also. And Candy Crush just is a mobile superstar, no pc game is touching its revenue.

[Latimere-1192]

It actually is worth more with its level of engagement and monetization.

[Japhasca-1443]

Do you know how bored I am of Diablo being the bad guy over and over again? And the last two games in the series…he wasn’t even the final boss! Thank god.

I don’t care if the series is named after one character, if every game is “woops Diablo’s at it again”, it gets old fast and strains any sort of credulity.

Series can be called Diablo as far as I care and kill him off once and for all and never feature him again.

[righthere-11972]

MS bought ABK solely for King. They couldn’t care less about Blizzard or Activision products. They wanted all of that sweet, sweet mobile marketshare, mobile data, and most importantly mobile market knowledge. It came out during the anti-trust lawsuits and regulatory reviews the merger underwent.

Mobile was one of Microsoft’s big weak points and they want to extend their reach into this market. CoD and Blizzard games were just something they could add to their gamepass. They weren’t important at all.