Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

PoE lives and breathes by putting out new content to keep people buying new microtransactions. Problem with D3 is it's set up like a game from 10 years ago. Most players don't want 40 dollar expansions and character DLCs, that shit has gone the way of the dinosaurs and is probably completely ignored by the vast majority of the playerbase and just helps segment the community. People expect 'free' content paid for by optional microtransactions which something D3 is not set up for, they could add it in but would probably receive a backlash that would make this mobile diablo shit look tame as fuck. At some point you just have to consider a game finished and move onto the next project. Why have people working on new classes for D3 when they could be working on new classes for D4.

that's the social media version of hiding your face in shame. when you push the PR campaign out of view.

Someone on reddit posted a short timeline of Diablo leading up to blizzcon

| - August 8th: "Future of Diablo" video is released

| - October 3rd: Mike Morhaime steps down as President of Blizzard

| - October 6th: Blizzplanet.com reports that Titan Comics Diablo has been cancelled. Originally scheduled to be released on November 7th, 4 days after BlizzCon

| - October 15th: Blizzplanet.com reports that the Book of Adria has been delayed. 3 days after, Robert Brooks (Writer for Blizzard), confirms that the release date has been pushed back

| - October 17th: Blizzard releases their article "Diablo at BlizzCon 2018", telling us not to expect what we're expecting.

| - October 19th: Reddit user u/mrpinsky has been monitoring the Job posts for the "Unannounced Diablo Project" and notices a big spike in job postings, many of which are senior/lead positions. Job postings went from 14 to 26 plus 9 intern positions in the two days after the Blizzard post.

| - November 2nd: Diablo Immortal is announced

Stock down over 6.5%

Obviously it'll come out in 2022 to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Diablo 3!

It'll be the best selling Dating Simulator of all time.

This just raise the question to me, wtf are they doing with all the money. They got nothing to present. The warcraft 3 annoucement was cute but it should have been: bam blizzcon, wabam war3 remaster released this weekened. At least we get something from this multi million dollars company. War 3, a game already released in early 2k is still set for december 2019. A fkin year away. What have they been doing FFS???? Diablo immortal is outsourced to the East. They got literally zilch to show for their main in house event. At this point, cancel futur blizzcon, go back to a stand at E3 blizz. Thats where diablo mobile should be. Small 1 person stand besude the line for the toilets.

How the mighty have fallen.

They're all busy taking classes to learn how to make mobile games.

Rombo said:

This just raise the question to me, wtf are they doing with all the money. They got nothing to present.

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Dude, you know how time and money consuming it is to make those pretty cinematics that they rolled out for the WoW patch, the new Overwatch character, the Warcraft 3 remaster and the Diablo Immortal announcement? Got to get the people hyped with pretty trailers even though they have absolutely nothing to do with actual gameplay.

Those Overwatch characters and skins don't draw themselves. Got to use all that brainpower to determine the best odds in order for consumers not to get pissed off but also keep spending their money to get a specific piece of loot inside their lootboxes.

Also they have to pay those thousands of devs to keep pumping out those cards for Hearthstone so people keep buying those card packs even though the game is stale and hasn't had any new game modes and features added to it since forever.

So yeah, they are actually quite busy over there at Blizzard HQ.

This just raise the question to me, wtf are they doing with all the money.

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Mr Creed said:

They keep repeating that they are working on multiple Diablo projects, alright. Diablo mobile, Hearthstone rip-off, first person pvp moba game, dungeon keeper lite for mobile. Boom, four Diablo projects but nothing anyone wants. If they had any intention to make a D4 in the next 5 years they would mention it for damage control. But they don't, it is always multiple projects but no mention of D4. Read between the lines.

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Most people can't. Just reading this thread you can see how many people are lined up ready to believe D4 wasn't shelved last year.