Well they clearly need to work on their communication, judging by the backlash.
You can’t communicate with irrational people who get upset when they don’t get what they want. The above post clearly shows that as well. CM said it will have a sub cost, people flammed, CM closed the thread.
It works both ways. In this case though Classic has been relieved, which is way more than what the Diablo community got. What’s in stored though they most likely will make us wait. They themselves probably don’t really know and are trying to figure out what they can and can’t do.
I don’t see how releasing this going to help when 1 choice is a crowd favorite, the other is a crowd hatred, but ultimately the crowd hatred is chosen because it’s the only one they could do.
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It keeps coming up, and AV is possibly the single most important piece of content to know the status of for Classic. In fact, they could release the original version of it standalone with premades and it would tide us over for a long time before Classic’s release. If it is dumbed down any, we need to know.
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Agreed. The WORST they could do is release with 1.12 AV and claim that we never gave them sufficient feedback.
The problem I feel was the timeline.
First: Blizzard says “Hey, big Diablo news at Blizzcon!”
Second: Blizzcon tickets go on sale.
Third: Two weeks before Blizzcon (after everyone has already bought their ticket, made their travel plans, booked hotels, taken vacation, etc), Blizzard says “hey maybe don’t expect D4”.
The announcement that it wasn’t D4 was made too late to do any good for the people who were actually there.
Anyway, on-topic: We’ve already had better communication since Blizzcon than we did in the year before it. Ythisens has been here and has contributed in a positive way, both with sharing information and with letting us know that information was passed on to the developers. I don’t feel like we need specific status reports from the developers, particularly not monthly; we’re potential customers, not their bosses.
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Ohh I agree about the DI thing. It could have gone a lot better. But people still thought going in D4 was being relieved. But still the DI announcement was one of Blizzards lowest points.
I think Quins reaction to DI is how most people felt:
It would be cool if some of the devs behind the project would start doing a live dev Q&A once per month leading up to launch, like they do with retail. Wouldn’t even need to to be an hour–a half hour or less would be fine. Just something to touch base with us.
Remember the good ol days when we didn’t have any news at all for months?
Holy crap that’s a lot of bugs.
What news have we gotten beyond the sparingly vacuous info from the annual blizzcon? Besides retail subs getting classic for free and potential summer release, what actual questions of substance were answered?
Yeah we didn’t even get that we had the announcement that Classic was going to be a thing and then dead silence for months I want to say for about 5 months minimum it could be more I can’t even remember.
Was more of a shoutout to those who’ve been here since the beginning. Starting to not recognize many of you anymore.
When does beta start is likely what most of want to know.
Oh, trust me I’ve been here. Just had my gnome mask on.
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Oh hey there nice to see those still fighting the good fight. Who else is still around from the old days?
updates, preferably those related to the development