I would be even more disappointed.
it is not simply that, they are manipulating the culture warriors. Now Blizzard can utilize the progressive media machine to change the perception by simply showing support to two of their marginalized employees and gain false sympathy and support. Places like Kotaku and Polygon won’t dig deeper into this, and will have articles decrying how terrible gamers are, instead of seeing it for what it actually is, Blizzard feeding them to the wolves for profit. And just like that, the mass perception changes. It now becomes everyone criticising the game is doing so not because the game sucks, but because we have a problem with LGBT employees.
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Do gamers really care what kotaku say’s??
I guess I’m pretty out of touch with the average gamer.
Core gamers do not, but casual gamers do. Kotaku still gets 100 to 200k views a day, especially by social media personalities who utilize twitter/x or whatever elon calls it now, to blast to their follower base, who then repeat it ad infinum to who ever follows them.
Was honestly so funny watching those morons trying to play their game in World tier 1 and failing miserably
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People who work 60hours+ a week for the last two years. I don’t expect an architect to be the fastest person to run up a set of stairs they drew. Why would I expect someone who designs a hallway to be in charge of the systems that go in it or how to best interact with them? D4 is a top down problem and not a bottom up. From compartmentalized design to absurd release schedules based around quartly profit reports it is entirely managements fault. Not the lower workers. Simply calling someone the lead dev of one department does not mean they have authority to change the vision of the final project. That entirely lays in the hands of people like Rob.
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I don’t know what you’re on about. I run my own business from home and I easily put in over 85 hours a week.
That would have elliminated the entire purpose of it. What do you would want to have? Competent players rushing through the dungeon in 2 minutes and booom video done?
Ever wonder why the just walk around sometimes without specific aim?
Yes these 2 look like the typical “diversity manager hirelings” who are festering every company. But that’s not the point here.
Yes, and if they don’t, they should be replaced with those that do. Music created without passion is garbage.
I don’t think this is necessarily a fair assessment. Remember that everyone who has stayed at blizzard through warcraft 3 reforged to kerri moynihan to the cosby suite to Diablo Immortal to Diablo* 4: Diablo Not Included, has stayed there because no one else in the industry will hire them.
These are the remnants. The person who worked for a person who worked for a legend. The legends are gone. The first tier of merited managers is gone. These are the bottom of the barrel, $45k per year starting salary devs, and among them, blizzard decided that this pair was the most qualified and camera ready.
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how about quoting the entire argument, instead of cherry picking one sentence. It wouldn’t have eliminated the entire purpose of it, and it wouldn’t have made these devs a target.
I replied to what you said. That’s not cherry picking. If you have an issue with that, then formulate more clearly.
out of context you dishonest trash
Aha and the true self emerged quiet quickly. Thank you for showing everyone here why it is not worth to even start an argument with you. 
Now i can go on with my day in peace.
I see they already disabled comments under this disaster video.
Impossible to keep people interested while offering a fun experience for all involved, i just dont understand why now days its about racing through content and feeding on dribbletube builds. What has happened to gaming for fun and enjoying the struggle with your friends, having a cross platform play/voice and arguably the best 2 player couch coop experience in this genre. Ive enjoyed taking my time vs rushing through content that has taken years to develop, just seems silly to me but then again my barb is a stuggler but I find it so much fun either way. Ive enjoyed trying all sorts of skills and builds out, admittedly Ive watched a vid or two myself but purely to try and understand the mechanics and synergies from skills / items etc. Who remembers Diablo 1 & 2 before all of these ‘leet build’ sites destroyed creativity, the conversations had between friends and the sense adventure when you had no idea what old peg leg (Wirt) drop was for. I just think we need to be realistic here, yes the game isnt perfect but it will never be if we constantly play for the wrong reasons. I admire the devs playing and getting owned with a colleague, it looked fun and challenging as opposed to clearing uber Lilith with 1 crit… Then again its probably just me that feels this way lol 
That video was super cringe. It explains why d4 is the way it is.
That’s because the devs don’t do their own gameplay. That’s what ptr is for…lol. They rely on US to make the game better? They don’t even listen to us when we make valid points or suggestions. If you aren’t familiar with your own airplane then why the hell should we care if the damn things fly or not?
Diablo 4 doesn’t have a PTR.
it should have had one. I thought that was what the 30+ days were for before season 1 started, but alas, that was Naive of me.