Diablo Immortal announced - It's a mobile game. People are pissed. VERY pissed.

[Medicated]

I'm reading the stuff coming out of Blizzcon, it sounds like a shitshow all around. The only thing people are cautiously optimistic about is a redo of WC3

 

[Oddjob OTP]

how is mobile gaming "heavily associated with a female audience"?
most of the top selling mobile games are japanese gacha games filled with lewd anime waifus, like fate grand order and granblue fantasy. i'm pretty sure the audience for these games consists of horny spergs, not women.

It might not be true now but a few years ago the average mobile "gamer" was your mom and she was playing Candy Crush. Spergs like Ben Kuchera used this fact to try to convince everyone that AAA Console/PC titles needed more female protagonists to appeal to that red hot 40 year old female "gamer" demographic.

 

[Red Hood]

yea just compare the aesthetics of Diablo 1 and 2 to this cheesy cinematic crap. the thing that made Diablo cool was the creepy vibe with acoustic guitar.

Sound design and claustrophobic atmosphere had a lot to do with why I loved the original game most of all.

 

[Exterminatus]

The gameplay video and cinematic have so many dislikes. I think those two videos may be the most downvoted videos Blizzard has released.

 

[Plunkie]

Sound design and claustrophobic atmosphere had a lot to do with why I loved the original game most of all.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jrK90XJfqRs

A big portion of the original 2 games were that you were a literal nobody. Sure, people may have known you slightly on a personal level, but you were going on a mission where if you died, you wouldn't be any different than the other masses that were slaughtered before you. D3 and, I'm guessing this game, threw that away with "YOU ARE THE PROPHESIZED SAVIOR" trope.

Also, BEHOLD, THE WAITING LINES FOR THE DIABLO IMMORTAL DEMO

 

[Zaryiu]

At least it makes it easier to avoid this new lore raping turd

how is mobile gaming "heavily associated with a female audience"?
most of the top selling mobile games are japanese gacha games filled with lewd anime waifus, like fate grand order and granblue fantasy. i'm pretty sure the audience for these games consists of horny spergs, not women.

They include every women playing casual shit

 

[Overcast]

"Do you guys not have phones?"

 

[c-no]

how is mobile gaming "heavily associated with a female audience"?
most of the top selling mobile games are japanese gacha games filled with lewd anime waifus, like fate grand order and granblue fantasy. i'm pretty sure the audience for these games consists of horny spergs, not women.

Don't forget, mobile games are also filled with games that are either cut and paste crap or slapdash assets meant to push ads. Yet somehow criticizing mobile gaming must somehow be related to muh soggy knees. On another note, this game is likely to end up being like Command & Conquer Rivals. The dislike bar is what makes it likely along with a great IP being given an entry that no one would really want.

 

[King Kobra]

"Do you guys not have phones?"

That reminded me this other PR fiasco

We know how well it ended that time

 

[Red Hood]

This is turning into Diablo: My Immortal.

So hopefully we get a new, never before mentioned retconned in 4th Prime Evil called Stan.

 

[Bagronkleton]

Everyone working at blizzard needs to be called in and be required watch this clip for an entire fucking day. For as much as an insufferable prick steve jobs was he 100% accurate in pointing out this exact situation blizzard is dealing with: the result of what happens when you promote sales and marketing people over the people who work on the actual product itself.

 

[Adolf Von Merkel]

like fate grand order and granblue fantasy. i'm pretty sure the audience for these games consists of horny spergs, not women.

50% of Fate's fanbase are horny fujos.

 

[Megaroad]

BEHOLD! the unpaid PR manager for Diablo Immortal
https://twitter.com/willjpowers?lang=en

Not so much a hot take but a retarded take.

Do soyboy's ever get any lowest common demoninator gamer strange by making such dumbass remarks? Do women ever find this attractive? Just reminds me of friend-zoned losers trying too hard. I really can't see any other reason for a man to say this unless he thinks there's pussy at the end of the tunnel.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

I’ll be looking forward to seeing how the majority of Blizzard’s zombie hoard of a fan base react to this overtime. The overall disappoint in this game may be a vocal minority of people who actually think for themselves and don’t wet their pants over the joy of buying a new hearth expansion.

 

[Clop]

The trailer got such negative backlash that Blizzard reuploaded the trailer.

This is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iajnrdSj1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSmAwpVHsA

Note that the first link has been 'unlisted.'

 

[User names must be unique]

I’ll be looking forward to seeing how the majority of Blizzard’s zombie hoard of a fan base react to this overtime. The overall disappoint in this game may be a vocal minority of people who actually think for themselves and don’t wet their pants over the joy of buying a new hearth expansion.

Oh it'll be fairly successful I have no doubt the reaction were seeing right now is all diablo fans and "actual gamers" who are a tiny audience compared to normies browsing App stores.

The trailer got such negative backlash that Blizzard reuploaded the trailer.

I read somewhere that the different uploads are for embedding in the battlenet launcher in different regions but I don't see any differences in the actual trailers.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

A big portion of the original 2 games were that you were a literal nobody. Sure, people may have known you slightly on a personal level, but you were going on a mission where if you died, you wouldn't be any different than the other masses that were slaughtered before you. D3 and, I'm guessing this game, threw that away with "YOU ARE THE PROPHESIZED SAVIOR" trope.

Also, BEHOLD, THE WAITING LINES FOR THE DIABLO IMMORTAL DEMO

Holy shit. They don't even have enough people to fill up the line up to the first bend and had to remove the zig-zag thingy bands... and the tables with the demo games themselves are entirely devoid of people playing, this is marvelous.

I guess what they expected was people going "My favorite game? And on a phone, so I can mindlessly play it on the go? Sign me up!" when every person who has ever been passionate about a game knows that it's the exact opposite. How out of touch can these idiots be?

 

[trashbat]

yea just compare the aesthetics of Diablo 1 and 2 to this cheesy cinematic crap. the thing that made Diablo cool was the creepy vibe with acoustic guitar.

it started with D2 tbh. they were toying with a bunch of high fantasy world-building nonsense, then the expansion pack went all in on it, complete with epic orchestral soundtrack

 

[Clop]

I read somewhere that the different uploads are for embedding in the battlenet launcher in different regions but I don't see any differences in the actual trailers.

I thought embedding can be done in post? Sounds like a load of hooey.

 

[c-no]

Everyone working at blizzard needs to be called in and be required watch this clip for an entire fucking day. For as much as an insufferable prick steve jobs was he 100% accurate in pointing out this exact situation blizzard is dealing with: the result of what happens when you promote sales and marketing people over the people who work on the actual product itself.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-AxZofbMGpM

The comments in that make the video sound prophetic.