I think you’re severely underestimating my willingness to ridicule random kids.
I think you’re severely underestimating your ability to sound rude and foolish. But, you do you.
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No, I just hope that there’s a part of you that wouldn’t be so arrogant that you thought it was your place to ridicule anyone at all.
In fact, Blizzard specifically said it would NOT be Diablo 4, in a blue post shortly before Blizzcon on the Diablo forums.
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Ridicule is an important part of a functioning society.
If no one ever gets told what they’re doing is childish and pointless then they never grow up and society gets run by people who think not getting the game you wanted is worth starting a riot over.
Which in turn makes it harder for things that actually are worth starting a riot over to be taken seriously.
Outrage becomes meaningless if it’s triggered at the drop of a hat, and no one can get anything done if they’re busy tiptoeing around people who would burn their business to the ground because they don’t like the color of the sign.
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Alright, if you say so. There’s a good difference between guidance, ridicule, and correction but I’m sure you don’t care about that. Or anyone. Or how you make others feel. Because at least you did good work pointing out everyone’s flaws and invalidating them for no reason other than to satiate your own need to control others.
This.
We need to just get over things instead of holding grudges.
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Yup, people seriously were like “They said no diablo 4, that means they’re going to announce diablo 4!”
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There is a difference, but all of them are important. If no one feels foolish for acting like entitled brats over nothing, all the kind and constructive correction in the world won’t change their behavior.
Why would I want to control others? Do you have any idea how exhausting it would be to micromanage everyone else all the time?
I want others to grow the hell up and control themselves so no one else has to.
Booing isn’t throwing a fit your acting like they trashed the stage. guess what you don’t have to cheer for things you don’t like or care for and nobody assumed when they said “Diablo News” that they would be announcing a mobile game for a historically PC/Sometimes Console IP.
People get excited about a P2W mobile game? Really? I have yet to see any decent mobile game put out by a major company. The few I have found worth playing are usually obscure games by a small indie developer. Your bigger companies design the whole game about maximizing profits.
Look at Elder Scrolls Blades that game is an absolute joke of a game. Plenty of junk Sim style games from EA as well.
They had every right to be upset.
I doubt your well-meaning ridicule even got to the audience you intended to “help.”
To force them into acting differently than they are? That’s literally how shame works, which is the point of ridicule.
Like how you’re controlling yourself right now by just walking away and not letting it bother you since there’s ultimately nothing you can do about it?
nobody really trusts them. But we also have no choice but play shadowlands (or leave)
I wasn’t aware that the payment model was announced. Probably because it wasn’t.
Hearthstone and mario kart tour are fun to me. Brawl stars too. You don’t have to like them for them to be liked.
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I don’t care if no one was expecting it. They don’t have to expect it and they certainly don’t have to like it.
What they have to do is not act like being mildly disappointed is the equivalent of Blizzard coming into their homes and shooting their families.
But there is something I can do about it. I can point out how absurd and childish the outrage is so the people being outraged feel foolish and think twice about reacting to mild disappointment this violently next time.
Of course it doesn’t work with people like you here reassuring them that they’re totally in the right and not getting the game you wanted absolutely warrants this kind of breakdown. But at least I tried.
I mean, Blizzard said they had mobile games in development for all franchises, in addition to the PC games people typically expect. Blizzard said they had a Diablo game to show, but it categorically was NOT Diablo 4.
It really isn’t hard to put two and two together here.
That said, who cares what platform a game is on, so long as it isn’t exclusive to a platform you don’t own? Mobile games are generally gacha trash filled to the brim with microtransactions, but that doesn’t mean EVERY mobile game has to go that route. It is possible to make and market a game at a $20+ single purchase with no microtransactions, the trick is to get enough people to buy it that it remains profitable, which is difficult.
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Was there a point or is this just some good ol rabble rousing?
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Yes.
Wyatt Cheng has absolutely nothing to do with Shadowlands.
“Cautious optimism” is fine, but let’s try to be a little accurate in who or what we’re criticizing.
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I’m pretty sure that was the Diablo team that made that comment and not the World of Warcraft team. But good job trying to start stuff OP.
I thought it was “Never forget. Never forgive.”?