To OP: NEVER, EVER THREATEN /r/DRAMA AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
It was especially bad because the announcements up until that point were pretty hype (WC3 remaster, classic WoW release date, overwatch crap) and went over big with the live crowd, then they close the show with.. a reskinned chinese mobile app with "Diablo" slapped on it.
Blizzard has a popular franchice called "Diablo." The last one was mishandled pretty badly, fixed later on and people were excited for the announcement of a new one this year.
Mobile games, especially "free to play" (games with no entry fee) ones have a reputation of being thinly veiled Skinner Boxes to slowly convince players to normalize spending exorbitant amounts of money on the game.
When you combine the hype for a new high quality PC game, the general reputation of mobile games, and the relatively scummy reputation of the mobile dev Blizzard is working with you get a recipe for disaster.
If you have any weeb knowledge, imagine if Jojo's Bizarre Adventures part 5 was announced to be a Disney channel live action adaptation instead of what it was.
We were talking about Hearthstone, which is a CCG. And I said Eternal was better in almost every way. You don't compare apples to oranges, do you? Cause the other guy got it.
If you could take time from sucking your mother's dick and licking your father's cunt and see what is happening around the world, you wouldn't be in this predicament and sperg out like this.
How is eternal better than hearthstone? I played hearthstone when it first came out and got down to the single digit ranks for a few seasons but lost interest soon after.
More cards in your deck (min 75), more abilities like War cry and Double strike, you get 20 cards per pack, you get gold or a card every time you win, the single player events are more interesting and difficult, it has drafts that let you keep the cards, so you get your money's worth even if you lose, there's more tactics possible, and unlike MTG Arena, it's also on mobile, though like Hearthstone, the desktop interface is easier to use.
i think the current strategy of Blizzard is to piss of their shareholders and go bankrupt, because I have no fucking idea why all of their ideas are so retarded
No, black ops reached its market maximum which is why the stock dropped. It still sells well (making $500 million in three days) but its selling a little less year by year
Absolutely. They've got a bunch of reliable long term revenue streams but don't seem to have anything in the horizon which is going to be the next cash cow. Investors expect unrealistic growth continually so punish stocks Rhys don't deliver that.
In 2019 forts aren't gonna be worth xp and mercs are gonna be worth 100% xp if you're defending against them in lane. So basically team deathmatch and lanes don't matter
The issue is there is a whole class of heroes based around pushing in lanes that get sorta deleted from the game. I agree that it would be cool to have it but we sort of have that already in the weekly brawl mode.
I mean sorta but split pushing is a viable option depending on the map. It'll get you a few levels ahead if they don't pay attention to it and you can steamroll after that
Also the new hero's controversial because she's Nexus original (and her lore isn't even well written or interesting imo) and she's the only one to be revealed at Blizzcon.
I don't think anyone is gonna argue dota has a lower skill cap than league.
Creep denial alone makes the skill cap higher in DOTA. I just think dota is less fun than league on average and that's the best way to judge a video game.
I think league has tons of problems that are almost all entirely riots fault, like the team/season system, the absolute dominance of East Asia in the sport, still having a completely archaic client without in game spectating or replay, poor performance and sluggish feel, RMT for heroes, and no icefrog.
No idea tbh, You're probably right, but it took 5 years of making money hand over fist to include a basic feature like that? I bet they probably still released a shit client after that time anyway.
There's nothing more compelling in esports than the dota2 International, where even unknown randos can open qual and beat the best established teams and become millionaires just by having the best strategy and skills.
Who doesn't? You can't deny Dota is just LoL for elitists, and if you still play any of that shit competitively to this day you should seriously reconsider your priorities. But casually played LoL is much better imo.
You underestimate the pockets and overestimate the standards of the mobile crowd. The game will be schlock with non-existent gameplay depth, the average Joe will actually flock to it for that reason since what he wants is a time-waster with a cool IP attached that he can play with one finger during his commute or on the toilet, it will earn more revenue than any other Diablo game before it, and the tears of anguish will flow.
Question is, do they care at all about the Diablo IP? It's a very different demographic. For most of them, it might just be yet another generic mobile game.
They don't have to and it doesn't matter. Do you think the majority of people who play Nintendo's mobile games are going to buy a Switch and play BOTW? Of course not, it's a different market.
Diablo Mobile will have swords and magic and shit on its front cover and because it's a well-known company mobile gamers will eat it up. If they actually play other Diablo games it's a nice bonus but not really necessary.
it will earn more revenue than any other Diablo game before it, and the tears of anguish will flow.
Mobile gaming is seldom profitable, and even when it is most of your income comes from less than 1% of your users.
The mentally disabled individuals willing to drop hundreds of dollars on virtual money are in limited supply too, so you're competing with all other succesful games in the market instead of mostly existing next to them.
Mobile gaming earns around as much as PC and console gaming combined, and Fire Emblem Heroes, another F2P adaptation of a premium game franchise, is already at $400 million and counting. Just because the masses aren't willing to spend 99 cents on poorly marketed pixel art shovelware anymore doesn't mean there aren't truckloads of money waiting to be bilked out of bored rich people and idiots with poor impulse control.
NetEase is one of the largest mobile gaming companies in China and have already proven that their ARPG gaming formula is profitable without relying on an existing IP, just as Niantic did with Ingress, so Diablo: Immortal is basically guaranteed to print money for Blizzard.
I don't really know what they're doing tbh. It's like they just stopped caring, BFA was so riddled with bugs on launch it was like a fucking indie game.
For people that don't know, there's something called "m+" in wow that basically scales small group content up, the higher you go, the harder it is, the better loot you get at the end of the week.
Well, the last week of legion people had done m+. For some reason, it rolled over into BFA and every retard in the game got max item level loot they shouldn't have had.
They've also had to readjust every azerite trait in the game like 4x. It's very clear they didn't test their own game.
From what I gather, beta bfa players pointed out many of these issues but blizzard was like 'lol I whatever, nerds' and never made any effort to address them prior to release.
BlizzCon in general has been a real treat this year tbh.
Watching the Diablo devs crush the hopes and dreams of the fans was great, but the Hearthstone stream failing so badly they had to cut over to the Overwatch panel was also wonderful.
And tumblr is triggered that Overwatch added another white straight girl to the game, while at the same time essentially confirming the ever-so-dreamy McCree is in fact straight and does not want to bang Hanzo. It's a sad day for the PoC ace crack shippers over on that side of the internet.
And there's the usual autism that comes from getting a bunch of obsessed no-life nerds together in a room to orgasm over video game announcements and ogle gamergrrrlz wearing "cosplays" while ignoring the actual gamer girls wearing legit cosplays.
Plus there was transgender drama, because when and where isn't there transgender drama in 2018, I ask you?
The females are so lucky. If a guy starts shipping female characters with female characters because they just want to see hot lesbian action, they get called perverts. If a girl does the same with male characters, she gets to pretend to be woke.
4chan video game nerds whining about other nerds and SJWs as usual. The catalogue is full of fallout from blizzcon right now. Also check the archive, they usually do a good play-by-play thread of funny and dramatic stuff with a relatively good bootleg stream.
Just one of the massive fuck-ups leading to the event.
This is a super basic list btw. I didn't think to save links to good drama threads unfortunately, so I'll have to find them again as I go. Will try to keep you posted! 😁
I think it was when people started caring about the sexual orientation of Overwatch characters that I became fully committed to the extinction of the human race.
For non-gaymers (pbut) - imagine if Disney fans were asking for a new The Little Mermaid for 15 years, finally thought it was happening and then had Disney announce that they were making a Sebastian the lobster claymation spin-off instead.
and gamers did rise up and made an elderly asian man cry backstage because his new game has more credit card slots than something with an unreasonable amount of slots.
What the fuck is it about gaming and gamers that turns people into such perma-triggered rage fountains? I've played video games more than anyone ever fucking should. I wonder what I'm missing since I never completely lose my shit over shattered exceptions when games I myself imagined are going to happen turn out..not happening.
What is it about gaming and gamers that turns people into such perma-triggered rage fountains?
Because when you spend 50 hours playing a video game what do you have to show for it? You invest so much time into playing just to see some numbers go up? Other media doesn't take nearly as long to consume and other hobbies actually make something or at least give you an experience to talk about.
Gamers rage because they know they are wasting their time. Sisyphus was happy because that's all he could do. Gamers look at the outside world and to their "peers" and see them making their life worthwhile, all while they accelerate towards death due to self-inflicted obesity and diabetes
I think you're on to something there. When I got to the end of Mass Effect 3 and realized that I had put 200 hours of my life into something with no payoff in the end I... oh God... I can't even talk about it. Need to go back into therapy over this.
What is it about gaming and gamers that turns people into such perma-triggered rage fountains?
It's a hobby that requires you to spend hundreds of hours alone in your bedroom, so it attracts children and socially handicapped adults. They're also the only ones you ever hear from. Normal people aren't going to look up the trailer for something that doesn't interest them so they can write about how they don't like it.
I remember there was this iphone game called infinity blade made by a dev owned by Epic Games and it was actually really good. They planned to make a spinoff dungeon crawler but it got cancelled when the studio shut down, it looked pretty good. I think people assume phone games are shitty cash grabs and honestly while I can't blame them, there is a 1% chance it'll be at least decent.
I think the stigma against mobile games is creating like a feedback loop of shit. All of these big developers could make a great mobile game, but if they dare put their resources into that rather than a console or PC game, they get dragged through the fuckin' mud. Even Blizzard, who never puts their name on anything that isn't at least polished and pretty solid. Bethesda at E3 as well. You could feel the tension of the crowd through the screen when Todd tried to sell Elder Scrolls mobile, and that game even looked kinda neat, and the crowd wasn't even all hardcore nerds. It seems like a lot of big publishers see the platform as too risky to do anything other than port old games to, or license a franchise to some cheap small developer. I hope the trend changes but I'm not counting on it.
I think that problem is mostly just exclusive to the English speaking world though. Over in Japan they put out a dozen anime tiddy mobile games every month, some of which are alright. Even Nintendo is on the tiddy game train.
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-11-02
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1 Nazgren 2018-11-02
Poor Wyatt :(
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-11-02
he looked absolutely crushed. It was so quiet and there were obviously built in applause breaks. Such a shitshow.
1 no___justno 2018-11-02
It's going over well on youtube.
1 sodomcel 2018-11-02
OHNONONONO
1 coronaas 2018-11-02
https://i.imgur.com/dKk81vG.png
1 wewladin 2018-11-02
A well loved game gets ratioed harder than bad mysic videos ala its everyday bro
1 sodomcel 2018-11-02
INHALES
1 MarkerSniffer 2018-11-02
https://i.imgur.com/Bf3N5u4.jpg
1 shallowm 2018-11-02
Teh internetz hath no fury like a gamer scorned.
1 redblaze17 2018-11-02
LOL at the people for saying Blizzard goes FULL EA but been playing Hearthstone for years.
1 Alicesnakebae 2018-11-02
More like ea going full blizzard
1 ImproperlyRepudiated 2018-11-02
RMAH was great for boofing middle schoolers out of valuable items and selling them for real cash.
1 LogicalSignal9 2018-11-02
That auction thing was great, too bad whiny nerds got it removed. You could run a bot, and make $50-100 a day.
1 MrWalrusKing 2018-11-02
Apparently he was crying backstage afterwards, makes me sad :(. He definitely took one for the team.
1 Plague-Lord 2018-11-02
It was especially bad because the announcements up until that point were pretty hype (WC3 remaster, classic WoW release date, overwatch crap) and went over big with the live crowd, then they close the show with.. a reskinned chinese mobile app with "Diablo" slapped on it.
1 trappysaruh 2018-11-02
hehe F le epix lol XD
1 trappysaruh 2018-11-02
i'll only play a diablo game that lets me reskin all the enemy mobs as black plantation workers anyway
1 Redactor0 2018-11-02
Oh cool, I can play this when I get bored with that Elder Scrolls mobile game.
1 dratamard2 2018-11-02
i don speak gaymer some1 expln? 😷😷
1 wwyzzerdd 2018-11-02
This is one of those how you know you're getting old situations like when 'new music' stops being cool.
I have no idea why this vidya post is good/bad/whatever.
1 Madaruto 2018-11-02
Here's some context and some definitions to help.
Blizzard has a popular franchice called "Diablo." The last one was mishandled pretty badly, fixed later on and people were excited for the announcement of a new one this year.
Mobile games, especially "free to play" (games with no entry fee) ones have a reputation of being thinly veiled Skinner Boxes to slowly convince players to normalize spending exorbitant amounts of money on the game.
When you combine the hype for a new high quality PC game, the general reputation of mobile games, and the relatively scummy reputation of the mobile dev Blizzard is working with you get a recipe for disaster.
If you have any weeb knowledge, imagine if Jojo's Bizarre Adventures part 5 was announced to be a Disney channel live action adaptation instead of what it was.
1 FmW-41 2018-11-02
"Wtf these young kids and their new games"
1 no___justno 2018-11-02
PC games good.
Mobile games garbage.
Blizzard told us diablo 2018 good.
Diablo 2018 garbage :'(
1 Cuckmeister 2018-11-02
Nerds really hate mobile games, so by making a mobile game they think Blizzard is betraying them to cater to normies.
1 MrWalrusKing 2018-11-02
I mean mobile games are shit in general.
1 Cuckmeister 2018-11-02
Clearly you haven't played Desert Golfing
1 shitpersonality 2018-11-02
Or Grindr.
1 wewladin 2018-11-02
Or Headsup at a drunk halloween party
1 LightUmbra 2018-11-02
I like heads up seven up, but that's just me.
1 demotecontrol 2018-11-02
Weird flex, but ok.
1 POST_BUSSY 2018-11-02
How dare you assume I've never played that
1 better_bot 2018-11-02
True. Now do you:
Choose to not play them.
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1 crefakis 2018-11-02
It’s more catering to the Asian market to reap that sweet sweet Chinese micro transaction moolah, but pretty much
1 JustLions 2018-11-02
Even better, this is the opening announcement for a yearly convention dedicated entirely to Blizzard.
1 aX10mAt1CaL1Y 2018-11-02
They targeted gaymers. Gaymers.
1 ReddneckwithaD 2018-11-02
Hearthstone is flatlining and not nearly the cash cow it once was, makes sense that theyd be desparate for another grab at the smartphone crowd
1 aX10mAt1CaL1Y 2018-11-02
Eternal is better in every aspect except for graphics anyways.
1 TrailerParkBride 2018-11-02
Eternal is so fucking good.
1 MrWalrusKing 2018-11-02
Doom Eternal isn't out, did you get to play it at a convention or something?
1 aX10mAt1CaL1Y 2018-11-02
No.... Eternal CCG
1 MrWalrusKing 2018-11-02
Why would you expect anyone to know what that is, retarded gaymers GET OUT!!! OUT!!!
1 aX10mAt1CaL1Y 2018-11-02
We were talking about Hearthstone, which is a CCG. And I said Eternal was better in almost every way. You don't compare apples to oranges, do you? Cause the other guy got it.
1 Kazundo_Goda 2018-11-02
If you could take time from sucking your mother's dick and licking your father's cunt and see what is happening around the world, you wouldn't be in this predicament and sperg out like this.
1 MrWalrusKing 2018-11-02
This but applied to you and unironically, you serious posting faggot.
1 kier00 2018-11-02
How is eternal better than hearthstone? I played hearthstone when it first came out and got down to the single digit ranks for a few seasons but lost interest soon after.
1 aX10mAt1CaL1Y 2018-11-02
More cards in your deck (min 75), more abilities like War cry and Double strike, you get 20 cards per pack, you get gold or a card every time you win, the single player events are more interesting and difficult, it has drafts that let you keep the cards, so you get your money's worth even if you lose, there's more tactics possible, and unlike MTG Arena, it's also on mobile, though like Hearthstone, the desktop interface is easier to use.
1 kier00 2018-11-02
Thanks.
1 PM_ME_YA_TATTAS 2018-11-02
i think the current strategy of Blizzard is to piss of their shareholders and go bankrupt, because I have no fucking idea why all of their ideas are so retarded
1 Hemingwavy 2018-11-02
They're a subsidiary of Activision. In the past month the share has crashed from $83.02 to $68.99.
1 LogicalSignal9 2018-11-02
Didnt new Blackops shatter records? Too bad Destiny sucks, and Hearthstone/wow/overwatch/diablo also suck.
1 SightBlinder3 2018-11-02
Is that why blizzard randomly gave me Destiny 2 today?
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-11-02
Destiny2 is unironically good now
1 Shitposting_Skeleton 2018-11-02
*With a $60 DLC
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-11-02
$40* but ye
1 hyledog 2018-11-02
No, black ops reached its market maximum which is why the stock dropped. It still sells well (making $500 million in three days) but its selling a little less year by year
1 POST_BUSSY 2018-11-02
But that's just following the general stock market dip though. I have no doubt this POS game would make a shit ton of money.
1 dronepore 2018-11-02
This time last year the stock was $63. The company is doing fine.
1 Hemingwavy 2018-11-02
Absolutely. They've got a bunch of reliable long term revenue streams but don't seem to have anything in the horizon which is going to be the next cash cow. Investors expect unrealistic growth continually so punish stocks Rhys don't deliver that.
1 Kgalindo7 2018-11-02
Heroes of the Storm also shit the bed with their new changes (not that anyone cares)
1 doyourworkyoufailure 2018-11-02
What changes? Haven’t played In awhile
1 Kgalindo7 2018-11-02
In 2019 forts aren't gonna be worth xp and mercs are gonna be worth 100% xp if you're defending against them in lane. So basically team deathmatch and lanes don't matter
1 doyourworkyoufailure 2018-11-02
Yikes
1 The_Reason_Trump_Won 2018-11-02
I would unironically kill for a a deathmatch mode in a moba that was balancedish and fun
1 Kgalindo7 2018-11-02
The issue is there is a whole class of heroes based around pushing in lanes that get sorta deleted from the game. I agree that it would be cool to have it but we sort of have that already in the weekly brawl mode.
1 JilaX 2018-11-02
Dota has that.
1 Alimentas 2018-11-02
Try Battlerite (haven't played in a while, it might be dead already).
1 SaltyMeth 2018-11-02
That still sounds like normal heroes of the storm to me
1 Kgalindo7 2018-11-02
I mean sorta but split pushing is a viable option depending on the map. It'll get you a few levels ahead if they don't pay attention to it and you can steamroll after that
1 old_grumpy_grandpa 2018-11-02
What the fuck are they thinking LMAO
1 sea_lecture 2018-11-02
Yeah, structures give no XP now.
Also the new hero's controversial because she's Nexus original (and her lore isn't even well written or interesting imo) and she's the only one to be revealed at Blizzcon.
gay shet
1 KBSuks 2018-11-02
Abilities look cooler than average at least.
1 HINDBRAIN 2018-11-02
League is dota for retards, and Hots is league for retards, so I'm not sure they'll be able to tell the difference.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-11-02
League is just a much better game than dota tbh. I don't know if I'd call it a game for "retards" considering the absurdly high skill cap as well.
It's nothing like HOTs. They made HOTs for the stay at home home/casual base.
1 duckraul2 2018-11-02
Oh no pizza by why
1 IDFSHILL 2018-11-02
I mean, I didn't say it has a higher skill cap, I said it has a high skill cap and in general is just a better game.
1 duckraul2 2018-11-02
U right I was gonna delete but i thought let's see where this goes. I just viscerally dislike league basically
1 IDFSHILL 2018-11-02
I don't think anyone is gonna argue dota has a lower skill cap than league.
Creep denial alone makes the skill cap higher in DOTA. I just think dota is less fun than league on average and that's the best way to judge a video game.
1 loli_esports 2018-11-02
have u considered getting gud
1 duckraul2 2018-11-02
I think league has tons of problems that are almost all entirely riots fault, like the team/season system, the absolute dominance of East Asia in the sport, still having a completely archaic client without in game spectating or replay, poor performance and sluggish feel, RMT for heroes, and no icefrog.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-11-02
Didn't they overhaul the client not even 2 years ago. I'm also pretty sure there are replays/spectating..
1 duckraul2 2018-11-02
No idea tbh, You're probably right, but it took 5 years of making money hand over fist to include a basic feature like that? I bet they probably still released a shit client after that time anyway.
There's nothing more compelling in esports than the dota2 International, where even unknown randos can open qual and beat the best established teams and become millionaires just by having the best strategy and skills.
1 Alimentas 2018-11-02
Who doesn't? You can't deny Dota is just LoL for elitists, and if you still play any of that shit competitively to this day you should seriously reconsider your priorities. But casually played LoL is much better imo.
1 ObnoxiousFactczecher 2018-11-02
It's all a part of their diablolical plans.
1 dongas420 2018-11-02
You underestimate the pockets and overestimate the standards of the mobile crowd. The game will be schlock with non-existent gameplay depth, the average Joe will actually flock to it for that reason since what he wants is a time-waster with a cool IP attached that he can play with one finger during his commute or on the toilet, it will earn more revenue than any other Diablo game before it, and the tears of anguish will flow.
1 d-amazo 2018-11-02
this is exactly what will happen. nerds will get mad.
it will be hilarious.
1 MrWalrusKing 2018-11-02
Yea but those aren't the type of people that stick around for the long term.
1 ImproperlyRepudiated 2018-11-02
It doesn't matter; there's an endless number of them.
1 accountforshit 2018-11-02
Question is, do they care at all about the Diablo IP? It's a very different demographic. For most of them, it might just be yet another generic mobile game.
1 wew_lad123 2018-11-02
They don't have to and it doesn't matter. Do you think the majority of people who play Nintendo's mobile games are going to buy a Switch and play BOTW? Of course not, it's a different market.
Diablo Mobile will have swords and magic and shit on its front cover and because it's a well-known company mobile gamers will eat it up. If they actually play other Diablo games it's a nice bonus but not really necessary.
1 seenten 2018-11-02
Neither were most people playing Pokemon Go but for a few months that was printing money for Nintendo and Niantic
1 old_grumpy_grandpa 2018-11-02
Mobile gaming is seldom profitable, and even when it is most of your income comes from less than 1% of your users. The mentally disabled individuals willing to drop hundreds of dollars on virtual money are in limited supply too, so you're competing with all other succesful games in the market instead of mostly existing next to them.
1 dongas420 2018-11-02
Mobile gaming earns around as much as PC and console gaming combined, and Fire Emblem Heroes, another F2P adaptation of a premium game franchise, is already at $400 million and counting. Just because the masses aren't willing to spend 99 cents on poorly marketed pixel art shovelware anymore doesn't mean there aren't truckloads of money waiting to be bilked out of bored rich people and idiots with poor impulse control.
NetEase is one of the largest mobile gaming companies in China and have already proven that their ARPG gaming formula is profitable without relying on an existing IP, just as Niantic did with Ingress, so Diablo: Immortal is basically guaranteed to print money for Blizzard.
1 Jimbo_B_Beterson 2018-11-02
My mom will just sit and waste time on a slots game, it's no wonder she thinks videogames have absolutely no value.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-11-02
I don't really know what they're doing tbh. It's like they just stopped caring, BFA was so riddled with bugs on launch it was like a fucking indie game.
For people that don't know, there's something called "m+" in wow that basically scales small group content up, the higher you go, the harder it is, the better loot you get at the end of the week.
Well, the last week of legion people had done m+. For some reason, it rolled over into BFA and every retard in the game got max item level loot they shouldn't have had.
They've also had to readjust every azerite trait in the game like 4x. It's very clear they didn't test their own game.
1 duckraul2 2018-11-02
From what I gather, beta bfa players pointed out many of these issues but blizzard was like 'lol I whatever, nerds' and never made any effort to address them prior to release.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-11-02
Every issue that went live was talked about during the beta. They literally refuse to listen to people.
A friend of mine was casting arena for blizzard and let me use his forum account to see the "secret feedback" sub they have.
I looked at the entire thing and every issue people complained about for years was on that sub, meaning blizzard knew about all of it.
The only people they let on there were pro players.
1 duckraul2 2018-11-02
Glorious classic servers when, it will make azeroth great again
1 FNLN_taken 2018-11-02
Summer 2019 officially, and lawls if you think that throwback will have any staying power.
1 duckraul2 2018-11-02
Imagine imagining that any pre-cata version of wow could somehow be worse than BFA
1 duckraul2 2018-11-02
Imagine imagining that any pre-cata version of wow could somehow be worse than BFA
1 Metatron58 2018-11-02
All of that is true, I quit playing BFA little ways into launch because well yeah, anyhow I've heard all of this from a friend who still raids.
Thing is at least wow players have something to play getting regular updates. Diablo fans? uhhh yeah. I think they are right to be upset.
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-11-02
blizzard unironically has not made a good game since WC3, you could argue vanilla wow, but i didnt play it so i cant speak to it
1 aqouta 2018-11-02
I can't even find the reveal on the blizzcon app
1 e-guy 2018-11-02
BlizzCon in general has been a real treat this year tbh.
Watching the Diablo devs crush the hopes and dreams of the fans was great, but the Hearthstone stream failing so badly they had to cut over to the Overwatch panel was also wonderful.
And tumblr is triggered that Overwatch added another white straight girl to the game, while at the same time essentially confirming the ever-so-dreamy McCree is in fact straight and does not want to bang Hanzo. It's a sad day for the PoC ace crack shippers over on that side of the internet.
And there's the usual autism that comes from getting a bunch of obsessed no-life nerds together in a room to orgasm over video game announcements and ogle gamergrrrlz wearing "cosplays" while ignoring the actual gamer girls wearing legit cosplays.
Plus there was transgender drama, because when and where isn't there transgender drama in 2018, I ask you?
1 no___justno 2018-11-02
Oh man I was too busy having my soul crushed by Diablo. Now that I'm deep in denial and feeling better I'll have to check out that other drama.
1 Metatron58 2018-11-02
holy fuck are the tumblr fanatics ever going to stop forcing LGBT on every fictional character ever?
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-11-02
No
1 Magehunter_Skassi 2018-11-02
The females are so lucky. If a guy starts shipping female characters with female characters because they just want to see hot lesbian action, they get called perverts. If a girl does the same with male characters, she gets to pretend to be woke.
1 shanewater 2018-11-02
They're like 5% of the population so if one person in 20 is in the LGBT bracket it's fair representation.
If they REALLY wanted to start a salty drama war their only LGBT representitives would be trans.
1 Madaruto 2018-11-02
You mind giving me some links or general locations to keep an eye on? I'm lazy, out of touch with vidya and don't feel like looking very hard.
1 e-guy 2018-11-02
Just as very general directions towards good drama...
https://www.tumblr.com/search/Overwatch
Has a number of people raging about yet another conventionally attractive white foid and REEEEE MY GAY SHIPPP!!! 😭😭😭
http://boards.4chan.org/v/
4chan video game nerds whining about other nerds and SJWs as usual. The catalogue is full of fallout from blizzcon right now. Also check the archive, they usually do a good play-by-play thread of funny and dramatic stuff with a relatively good bootleg stream.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/9tkefz/did_pc_gamer_just_accidentally_leak_the/
Just one of the massive fuck-ups leading to the event.
This is a super basic list btw. I didn't think to save links to good drama threads unfortunately, so I'll have to find them again as I go. Will try to keep you posted! 😁
1 lyridsreign 2018-11-02
Got a run down for the trans drama?
1 e-guy 2018-11-02
A trans person had the nerve to speak on the Hearthstone dev team.
Nerds are not happy. /vg/ and /v/ are sperging out, and r/Hearthstone has a few people who also are not OK with that.
It does not help that the person in question did not pass well at all and was super cringey on the panel.
1 tHeSiD 2018-11-02
What did it ask?
1 Kgalindo7 2018-11-02
Forgot to mention the new loli character in heroes lul
1 kingofthehill5 2018-11-02
Imao and the nerds payed 200$ for that.
1 Redactor0 2018-11-02
I think it was when people started caring about the sexual orientation of Overwatch characters that I became fully committed to the extinction of the human race.
1 Kuonji 2018-11-02
But they are supposed to be happy that a white male has not been added to the game since launch.
1 KingNothing305 2018-11-02
http://www.playdiablo4.com/
1 stalejokesunlimited 2018-11-02
For non-gaymers (pbut) - imagine if Disney fans were asking for a new The Little Mermaid for 15 years, finally thought it was happening and then had Disney announce that they were making a Sebastian the lobster claymation spin-off instead.
1 BumwineBaudelaire 2018-11-02
diablo hasnt really been their flagship IP for 20 years but lol it was still pretty funny
1 Tetragrade 2018-11-02
The gamers need to rise up and storm the Blizzard offices to punish them for this indiscretion.
1 POST_BUSSY 2018-11-02
#GamerGate
1 cmakk1012 2018-11-02
GAMERS
RISE
UUUUUUUPPPPPPPP
1 princess_y_fronts 2018-11-02
and gamers did rise up and made an elderly asian man cry backstage because his new game has more credit card slots than something with an unreasonable amount of slots.
1 HodorTheDoorHolder 2018-11-02
Oh no how will Blizzard fans be able to find a phone to play the new game?
1 nosocks111 2018-11-02
What the fuck is it about gaming and gamers that turns people into such perma-triggered rage fountains? I've played video games more than anyone ever fucking should. I wonder what I'm missing since I never completely lose my shit over shattered exceptions when games I myself imagined are going to happen turn out..not happening.
1 YungCamus 2018-11-02
Because when you spend 50 hours playing a video game what do you have to show for it? You invest so much time into playing just to see some numbers go up? Other media doesn't take nearly as long to consume and other hobbies actually make something or at least give you an experience to talk about.
Gamers rage because they know they are wasting their time. Sisyphus was happy because that's all he could do. Gamers look at the outside world and to their "peers" and see them making their life worthwhile, all while they accelerate towards death due to self-inflicted obesity and diabetes
1 Redactor0 2018-11-02
I think you're on to something there. When I got to the end of Mass Effect 3 and realized that I had put 200 hours of my life into something with no payoff in the end I... oh God... I can't even talk about it. Need to go back into therapy over this.
1 Gnarled_Root 2018-11-02
"Look at me everybody I read camus!" --everybody who reads camus
1 Cuckmeister 2018-11-02
It's a hobby that requires you to spend hundreds of hours alone in your bedroom, so it attracts children and socially handicapped adults. They're also the only ones you ever hear from. Normal people aren't going to look up the trailer for something that doesn't interest them so they can write about how they don't like it.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-11-02
Imagine playing diablo over POE.
1 Redactor0 2018-11-02
Because bland generic fantasy is so great as long as you call them illk'v'nth'vranthi instead of just dwarves.
1 JackRipener 2018-11-02
What if by some miracle it's really good and it works tho?
1 Cuckmeister 2018-11-02
It's developed by some Chinese company so it won't be. They'd still be mad if it were good though.
1 JackRipener 2018-11-02
I remember there was this iphone game called infinity blade made by a dev owned by Epic Games and it was actually really good. They planned to make a spinoff dungeon crawler but it got cancelled when the studio shut down, it looked pretty good. I think people assume phone games are shitty cash grabs and honestly while I can't blame them, there is a 1% chance it'll be at least decent.
1 Cuckmeister 2018-11-02
I think the stigma against mobile games is creating like a feedback loop of shit. All of these big developers could make a great mobile game, but if they dare put their resources into that rather than a console or PC game, they get dragged through the fuckin' mud. Even Blizzard, who never puts their name on anything that isn't at least polished and pretty solid. Bethesda at E3 as well. You could feel the tension of the crowd through the screen when Todd tried to sell Elder Scrolls mobile, and that game even looked kinda neat, and the crowd wasn't even all hardcore nerds. It seems like a lot of big publishers see the platform as too risky to do anything other than port old games to, or license a franchise to some cheap small developer. I hope the trend changes but I'm not counting on it.
I think that problem is mostly just exclusive to the English speaking world though. Over in Japan they put out a dozen anime tiddy mobile games every month, some of which are alright. Even Nintendo is on the tiddy game train.
1 kapparappatrappa 2018-11-02
Gamercide when? Every breath a gamer take is an insult to Allah.
1 itsfunnyeventootherm 2018-11-02
Should'a known from blizzard being fat ugly 80 iq burgers.
1 Jimbo_B_Beterson 2018-11-02
I gave up on blizzard when Diablo 3 turned into a shitty no skill tree game with wow graphics (or Torchlight 2).
1 Stenwalden 2018-11-02
> Flagship IP
> Diablo
Are you retarded?