I don't like the "Don't you guys have phones?" meme

[anon44207803]

I watched that segment.

The silence after his announcement was deafening.

[Kibit-cenarius]

the problem was it was their biggest and only real announcement at BlizzCon. they would have been better off announcing they were doing a new diablo, then in a couple weeks made a post saying they were also developing a mobile diablo game to tide people over until the real game was ready.

[Ollin-uther (Ollin)]

Bringing it up as emblematic of creator-user disconnect just reeks of entitlement. Sure, you were disappointed that it was a mobile game and Blizzard just doesn’t have a real successor to Diablo ready yet. It’s not even like Immortal is claimed as the successor. It’s only one of the Diablo titles in development. And it keeps coming up in WoW which is unfair. It’s a different team and different property.

Except that it does reek of creator-user disconnect. If they had bothered to read the room, they would have known that Blizzcon is attended primarily by PC gamers who have zero interest in phone games and that the Diablo fanbase is particularly hungry.

It wasn’t what their audience wanted to be sold, and it backfired. It was a PR mistake, and “do you not have phones” was a very bad way to address it.

[Benezet-wyrmrest-accord (Benezet)]

It wasn’t what their audience wanted to be sold, and it backfired. It was a PR mistake, and “do you not have phones” was a very bad way to address it .

I agree, though I felt bad for the guy more than anything as he was met with a hostile audience and failed to try to break the tension that way

[Myschyf-ghostlands]

I’ll play it on my iPad, does that count?

[Arron-wyrmrest-accord (Arron)]

God I’ve loved this meme so much ever since I found it on Twitter, but I’ve been so scared to be the one to post it here for obvious reasons.

Thank you for your sacrifice, cap’n.