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Old 11-06-2018, 10:28 PM   #1
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Diablo Immortal

I think the funniest part of this whole controversy is that the announcement dropped at Blizzcon, a event where fans pay to hear Blizzard maybe announce products.

What?

Is this really a thing now?

Hence, I'm posting this in Entertainment and not Video Games. Because it's Entertainment, and Diablo Immortal isn't a Video Game, it's Bill Pay.
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Old 11-07-2018, 10:19 AM   #2
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Right. Gamefreak PR is light-years ahead of Blizzard in that regard; they spoil their entire games for free.
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Old 08-16-2020, 04:01 PM   #3
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waiting on d4 tbh
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Old 10-07-2021, 03:21 AM   #4
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Oh boy oh boy. What has happened to Blizzard these last few years... Not only they keep making worse games, but they are also accused by the goverment, players hate them even more. I'm afraid Diablo 4 won't come out as good as we want to believe and Immortal is going to be another meme by the cashgrab they intend to usually do with mobile titles.
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Old 10-07-2021, 07:32 PM   #5
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What exactly happened with Blizzard?

Last I heard, the Diablo II remake was well-received.
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Old 10-08-2021, 04:50 AM   #6
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Eh, idk on "well-received". It's what it says on the pack and little more, so it's only going so far. I think the main thing is with all the legal shit going on, Blizzard might fold before Diablo 4 releases.
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Old 10-08-2021, 07:33 AM   #7
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Assets to be bought by Bethesda!
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Old 10-08-2021, 10:30 PM   #8
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No. Activision will just rebrand Blizzard. The supposed new name will be "Insight." Activision would never sell any IPs as that was the whole reason they bought Blizzard to begin with. Not that Bethesda would even be able to buy anything since they've sold themselves to Microsoft already.

And to be honest, Blizzard isn't even Blizzard anymore and hasn't been for a while now. After Mike Morihaime left, nothing really held back the Activision culture.

Many left with Mike Morihaime iirc. All the RTS guys left to form their own company Frost Giant Games. And most of the WoW developers are now sex pest and have been ejected from the company. I don't even consider Blizzard as the maker of Diablo 2 or it's remake. Blizzard North made D1 and 2, while Vicarious Visions worked on the remake. So it's not like anyone who works at Blizzard is even someone who made their classic games.

Diablo 2 has some censorship that some fans dislike and also Chinese pandering by changing the Assassin to Asian, which is pretty much par for the course with modern Blizzard.
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Old 10-08-2021, 11:51 PM   #9
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I hope Chris Kaleiki wasn't implicated as a sex pest. Wouldn't be the first time Pokemon forums had that kind of scandal!
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Old 10-11-2021, 08:35 PM   #10
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So Loki's post had me investigate what happened to Blizzard North. It looks like they got fed up with Blizzard and a bunch left the team after Diablo II, the original D3 would have leaned more heavily into the action-RPG angle like the sequel, but as an MMO.

"Blizzard isn't Blizzard anymore" first rang true in 2003 with those Blizzard North resignations, although I'd argue it really began with WC3 and WOW. Brood War is the last "true" Blizzard game.
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