This man needs an autograph Diablo cook book from Rod to brighten up his day.
I’m good. I don’t need whatever nonsense marketing crap they put out. Calling people out for asking someone to be fired is not the same as being a fan of someone. It’s crazy that I need to say that but some of you seem very simple.
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You just said you agree with his business practices ??
And Some just need to lighten up or go for a walk.
I said “it’s ready when it’s ready” is something in my professional life I agree with. It was one statement and not everything he’s ever done. That’s all the article talked about so there was nothing else to comment on and certainly not something to be fired over.
I get that not everyone likes this game. It has its problems for sure. But there’s this toxic mindset some people have that they somehow need revenge against the company because they’re upset that a game isn’t doing it for them. Sometimes that “revenge” manifests itself in wanting someone to be fired or for all the PoE2 posters lately they want the entire company to fail. It’s insane. But given your responses to me I don’t think you have the capacity to understand any of that.
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Meanwhile junior over here trying to pick a fight on the iTeRnEt because he is upset over others opinions about Rod.
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Damn you are slow. I don’t care what your opinion is. I don’t know anything about him myself. What I’m saying is calling for someone to be fired because you’re upset is toxic as hell.
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Ready when ready does NOT mean that there is no internal time window for launch the team is pushing for . It means that Blizzard of the past did not throw out game in broken state and fix it later.
But again… this was Blizzard of the past… Now we have ROD that puts out bugged and broken content week in week out and fixes it in the next 12-15 months.
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HA HA sounds like someone needs a vacation from his “professional” life.
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Do you realize getting this upset over a silly game isnt normal?
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I’ve been on vacation all week. It’s been great! Thanks for your concern very gracious of you.
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I’m sorry I have to laugh at this. There isn’t a game developer out there, or anyone who works in the business who hasn’t played other games while actively working on their own. Come on now. GGG has even fully admitted to playing other games, including all of the Diablo games.
I get the point you’re trying to make, and I won’t dispute the opinions about Rod. Lilith knows I have a few choice words about the man, but realistically speaking, I would hope anyone creating a game would look at other games. If not for entertainment purposes, than inspiration on how to make their own game better.
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Wow just wow.
You definitely do not work a corporate job.
Yeah no problem 
I will say though, I agree its a poor choice of words by OP. You dont want to come off wishing people to lose their jobs. Perhaps removed and assigned to a new microsoft game that fits and needs his talent in marketing would be the best solution.
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Other than “making sure things get delivered on time” this is a straw man. In the relevant part of the interview, he represents himself, in his capacity to influence release schedules, as strongly opposing the idea that something has to be of high quality when released. What does “high quality” mean here? We need only point to Blizzard’s own old standards, and underline that Rod, by his own admission, actively undermines those old standards.
That’s all. No feelings necessary. Only interpreting his own attitude, in the context of Blizzard’s own old standards.
Ad homs in place of argument. Generalization fallacy. Feelings in place of reasoning. What a useless post.
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Relevant quote already quoted earlier. Parallel to your own “professional life” is useless unless you’re willing to spell out what kind of product/service your profession sells, and what relationship it implies toward its customers & their cash (including PR representations of the quality of that product/service). It may or may not prove useful then - otherwise it’s more of that “sharing feelings to oppose other feelings”.
Ad homs + “feelings to oppose other perceived feelings”. Another useless post. In a reasonable world, it’s not inherently illogical or uncalled for, to doubt someone’s fitness for a specific role in a company, as long as the argument can be backed with good evidence. Specifically calling for someone’s firing is unnecessary to make that argument - but that’s not what you’re saying here. You’re just emoting because you don’t have a credible argument.
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More ad homs & more “feelings to oppose other feelings”. No logical argument here. Even roping in PoE2 as a crutch for lack of substance in defense of Rod’s self-described attitude.
Ad homs, admission that you “don’t care what [other’s] opinion is” (that opinion being 100% correct: you jumped into a thread to puke some feelings onto it about how another person’s feelings made you feel). Another version of straw man in the form of vagueness about what the criticism might be, reducing it to people’s “feelings”.
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OP’s entire post is a poor choice of words - it’s mostly a useless post, other than calling attention to the existence of the article.
And we all (I think) have the mental capacity to discuss facts & set aside feelings. It’s a terrible medium (the Internet) for doing so… it requires a lot of wasted energy to untangle ‘personality’ from ‘substance’… but it can be done.
“Firing” vs “moving to a different part of the parent company” are functionally the same thing as re: D4.
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Thank god for that too
Frankly, I’d accept that general philosophy for scam industries, like palm reading or 90% of consultancy. In those types of industries, people already know you’re selling a scam, they’re just using your scam to scam others (or they’re playing out a fantasy, or they have psychological problems)…
In most other industries, there’s a product or service, you advertise a certain level of quality to induce investments, and you either fail or succeed to meet expectations. After which, there’s internal & external analysis to figure out whether:
- it would improve the product/service to replace some people; or
- the customers can be reliably managed to continue investing in adequate numbers to maintain the scam(s).
It’s not controversial or new. That’s how business works.
In what way did Diablo 4 not meet internal targets?
Idk who made that argument, or if you’re even addressing it to me (forum doesn’t make it clear on my end).