DM is right, something needs to change with the negativity

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Dave is usually right, so probably correct.

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The issue is exactly what someone pointed out, the board members are the number one enemy here. They push agendas, budgets, forecasts and the real problem is the market and analyst expectations.

These board members hire key persons to influence the direction of the product, which is always in the interest of profitability. All decisions are based on this. They hire people to design everything around that. They “monetize video games.” They don’t make video games.

This is compounded by the fact that blizzard has no respect for their customers because they don’t respect their time. You can see this is evident in the many time costing systems they implemented in many of their games. They do this, and they try to hide it or spin it. And THAT, is the source of the negativity. The fact that blizzard treats their customers like mushrooms. And we’ve had enough of it.

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complaining makes the devs respond so complain as much as possible

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The forumbot is stuck on repeat

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I don’t watch people who play video games for a living.

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which one is that?

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His points are simply not good. Good games get good reviews and good interactions.

Humans judge by relativity, and naturally categorize, sort and compare. There has never been nuance to game comparison and it has always been all or nothing. Nothing has changed, nothing is new, there isn’t anything shocking here.

Pretending like the negativity isn’t there or glossing over it simply doesn’t work, and that is an increasingly learned behavior. Because the only way to get results is to be loudly negative, that is what people do.

The responsibility lies solely with Blizzard and their incredibly slow reaction to negative feedback.

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You going to start crying?

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Hello again.

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I kind of get what people like him are saying in the sense that the naysayers can potentially impact someone’s experience who is enjoying the game. However, this sort of talk didn’t exist in D2, and D2 also had its own forum, although it was on battlenet at that point, before Blizz sold their soul to the devil.

But honestly, modern gaming mostly sucks. You get a few outliers here and there, like TW3, ER, and BG3, but most modern games are simply a consumer product made for nothing beyond profit.

Also, if you can’t expose yourself to the opinions of others without it ruining your day, being online isn’t your thing, nevermind being a streamer.

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if blizzard was to “address” everyones issue, they will never sleep EVER you inconsiderate lowlife

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I hope you aren’t equating views to comment as a ratio of a pro and con metric.

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what if they just address most peoples problems?

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I’m bkoodywell crying. I’m Bleeding Heart, Blues Boy, Roy Orbison “Crying” over the absolute mess of this game.

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let’s be realistic, if you were to manage a business, you’d run it your way, its your vision, feedbacks and criticism will be endless, the more you give in, the less valuable your vision becomes

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with Jack Handey. Yeah I’m old

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except they do give into criticism and feedback. the more there is the more likely the make changes. its been this way since beta.

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When the next Blizzard game comes out remember this one and speak with your wallet. Money is the only language that big companies know. When they see nobody buying their crap on release they will be forced to either shut down or release more than half finished minimally viable products.

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