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

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Would you play a Diablo mobile game?

  • Hell no

    Votes: 176 88.4%

  • Sure, but then again, I earn money by sucking dicks.

    Votes: 23 11.6%
  • Total voters
    199
Clop said:
I thought embedding can be done in post? Sounds like a load of hooey.
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If you look at the video embedded in the UK battlenet site it's one of the unlisted videos but on the USA site it's the main listed one, so they maybe using it for analytical purposes of some kind
https://blizzcon.com/en-gb/news/22653697
https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/22653697

Also I thought the Asains were meant to love mobile games Those dislike ratios seem the same or worse than any of the English language promo trailers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tPtVP6AuAE Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCqKhbVM2U Korean
 
I wonder if anyone at Blizzard is thinking "Maybe we could have handled this differently..."

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We all know that's optimistic though. A legion of kids will purchase the game, and Blizzard will post a profit, making it a viable business decision due to people having the memory and attention spans of a gnat.
 
User names must be unique said:
If you look at the video embedded in the UK battlenet site it's one of the unlisted videos but on the USA site it's the main listed one, so they maybe using it for analytical purposes of some kind
https://blizzcon.com/en-gb/news/22653697
https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/22653697

Also I thought the Asains were meant to love mobile games Those dislike ratios seem the same or worse than any of the English language promo trailers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tPtVP6AuAE Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCqKhbVM2U Korean
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The moment that asian looking chick waltzed into the frame to save that big burly barbarian, it was clear they are pandering hard to the chinese/asian market. The very way how she obliterated more guys in one move than the (strangely old and tired looking) barbarian without even breaking a sweat . . . yeah. This thing was put together by a committee with the sole purpose of appealing to asians.
 
User names must be unique said:
If you look at the video embedded in the UK battlenet site it's one of the unlisted videos but on the USA site it's the main listed one, so they maybe using it for analytical purposes of some kind
https://blizzcon.com/en-gb/news/22653697
https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/22653697

Also I thought the Asains were meant to love mobile games Those dislike ratios seem the same or worse than any of the English language promo trailers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tPtVP6AuAE Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCqKhbVM2U Korean
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Thanks.

The Asian market loves microtransactions in games, maybe the crowd that likes Diablo in general doesn't overlap with them much. Doesn't necessarily go well with the Chinese/Korean market of Diablo-players that their beloved series starts inching towards their local mainstream ways. Not that this game necessarily will have micro (lol of course it will, it's Blizzard.)
 
It's apparently even lazier than we thought. It's just a reskin of a Chinese p2w mobile game from early 2017.


 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
This thing was put together by a committee with the sole purpose of appealing to asians.
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According to the comments on the Korean video the trailer is pretty typical of a Netease production, seeing how close the two companies are I wouldn't be surprised if the trailer was a result of outsourcing too. Some of the koreans also want Trump to increase the trade war with China to put an end to the game before it even starts.
 
I don't get the appeal of gaming on your phone anyways.

It's a cramped FoV, small interface, fiddly, hard to control and uncomfortable to do for any length of time if you're grown beyond the age of like... 7.
 
not only is this going to flop among the actual diablo playerbase, it's just eventually going to flop as an actual mobile game too, just like every other. the vast majority of mobile "gamers" are either:

- casual people who play stuff on public transport waiting to get to their 9-to-5.
- middle-aged technophobe parents on facebook who would find anything just one layer of complexity higher than Candy Crush too daunting to approach.

would anyone want to nolife this when they can only play it in short bursts? wouldn't be manageable, you'd barely learn any actual strategies, you'll get bored, and you might as well uninstall.
and you think your mum or dad are gonna play this? LOL.
 
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spvcxghxztpvrrp said:
not only is this going to flop among the actual diablo playerbase, it's just going to flop as an actual mobile game too. the vast majority of mobile "gamers" are either:

- casual people who play stuff on public transport waiting to get to their 9-to-5.
- middle-aged technophobe parents on facebook who would find anything just one layer of complexity higher than Candy Crush too daunting to approach.
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Don't forget also:

-Weebs who whale and roll hundreds of dollars for their waifu in jap gacha games
 
This was a 100% corporate decision. Mobile games of popular series never go well, because those intricate and complex series are boiled down to basically dopamine reward systems where you pay for everything. In fact, that's what all mobile games are: money extractors designed to find the weakest willed whales and siphon money out of them. They're not based on any good design philosophies. A lot of mobile game companies even hire behavioral psychologists to determine how to make a game as addictive as possible.

Mobile gaming isn't gaming. Its a time waster when you don't want to have to think too much or just want to fuck around a bit when you're waiting for something. I've never found them engaging or compelling or even all that fun. They're for people who can't really or don't want to game seriously and already have a platform to access it and just do it because its there. And in other countries because a phone is cheaper than a console. The only people who consider mobile gaming 'gaming' are corporate cocksuckers or game journos.

This is bound to fail like all the other clones.
 
DrPrincessMeatball said:
Stolen from some fat canadian's twitter.

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A bunch of games journalist and the like whiteknighting a mobile game while bitching about some guy asking if the game was a joke. The jokes write themselves as these people go further in trying to defend a mobile game.


Ruin said:
It's apparently even lazier than we thought. It's just a reskin of a Chinese p2w mobile game.


https://youtube.com/watch?v=SmKYrP_7L78
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And this being the hill people defending the game on Twitter are willing to die on, a rehash of an existing p2w game. Truly gamers are evil while the journalist and fanboys defending it aren't shills.
 
spvcxghxztpvrrp said:
not only is this going to flop among the actual diablo playerbase, it's just going to flop as an actual mobile game too. the vast majority of mobile "gamers" are either:

- casual people who play stuff on public transport waiting to get to their 9-to-5.
- middle-aged technophobe parents on facebook who would find anything just one layer of complexity higher than Candy Crush too daunting to approach.

would anyone want to nolife this when they can only play it in short bursts? wouldn't be manageable, you'd barely learn any actual strategies, you'll get bored, and you might as well uninstall.
and you think your mum or dad are gonna play this? LOL.
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I have no idea what whoever was in charge was thinking, firstly,

1. Slapping the devoted Blizzard Diablo fans in the face with a mobile game.
2. Finding out that mobile game is a reskin of an older chinese mobile game.
3. Thinking Diablo on mobile is relevant when you are going up against mobile games that look like this in 2018.


From what I've been reading the Chinese players even know about it being a reskin and which chinese dev team worked on it, and they say it was crap.

It's like someones actively trying to take down the company from the inside.
 
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