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At Blizzcon 2018, the Diablo Team announced a new game "Diablo: Immortal", a Diablo game exclusive to mobile phones.
Excluding all the crap and connotations that come with that alone, they sourced it out to a Chinese developer named NetEase, responsible for similar titles like Crusaders of Light and Endless of God, which are already considered Diablo Ripoffs.
That latter one is especially relevant, considering how if you put gameplay from Endless of God side by side from gameplay of Diablo Immortal, it really does look like they just took EoG and gave it a Diablo texture pack.
Naturally, the fans complained about this, and Blizzard's response has been...subpar at best.
They started off by dismissing the complaints about it being exclusive to mobile phones with a dismissive attitude of "Do none of you own phones?", as though everyone who was complaining where just dirty peasants that couldn't afford a_*real_* phone on which to play their new video game.
If you look at the trailers on YouTube, the like to dislike ratio is really bad, worse then even the backlash to Battlefield V. But that depends on when you look at it, as people have noticed the like/dislike ratio is fluctuating wildly. The reason for this is that Blizzard keeps unlisting the videos and re-uploading them in an attempt to hide the backlash. But even if Youtube forgets, SocialBlade does not, and there one can easily piece it together.
This is on top of the deleting of comments, which is always despised.
As if all of this wasn't enough, the usual suspects in the game "journalism" sphere have been writing articles insiting that anyone who doesn't like the game is sexist, on the grounds that most mobile gamers are women (correct, the one area of gaming in which women are a clear and overwhelming majority), and claiming that as a result the fans are playing 'gatekeeper' trying to keep their games away from the wamyns (false, see the Command and Conquer: Rivals case study for the real reason people hate it.)
No-one likes to be told they have ill-intentions, especially where none exist. It should be obvious to everyone by now that when someone hears a compliant and responds to it by saying "that person is sexist/racist/homophobic/trans-phobic/islamphobic/anti-science/a Nazi" or whatever your favourite buzzword/insult is, that person is basically saying "I think they are a bad person, therefore I don't have to listen to them, and neither should you". It is a cowardly way to avoid discussing issues, hence why the tactic is rightfully called out on social media. Combined with the fact that such statements are untrue for the overwhelming majority of people (at least in Western countries) this amounts to the 'critics' calling Blizzard fans horrible people because they didn't like a shallow husk of their favourite game which probably isn't even *their* game at all but the reskin of a knock off of their game stuffed to the brim with all the shit mobile games tend to be filled with and the fact that mobile phone games tend to eat through battery life like it's going out of style...and to the surprise of *absolutely no-one* with even half a working brain, this made Diablo fans *very* angry.
All in all, the shitstorm created from it has blown up to epic proportions in the last few days. Honestly I'm not surprised it's come to this, as Blizzard has been increasingly contemptuous of their fanbase. This is just the most obvious and public example of it.
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At Blizzcon 2018, the Diablo Team announced a new game "Diablo: Immortal", a Diablo game exclusive to mobile phones.
Excluding all the crap and connotations that come with that alone, they sourced it out to a Chinese developer named NetEase, responsible for similar titles like Crusaders of Light and Endless of God, which are already considered Diablo Ripoffs.
That latter one is especially relevant, considering how if you put gameplay from Endless of God side by side from gameplay of Diablo Immortal, it really does look like they just took EoG and gave it a Diablo texture pack.
Naturally, the fans complained about this, and Blizzard's response has been...subpar at best.
They started off by dismissing the complaints about it being exclusive to mobile phones with a dismissive attitude of "Do none of you own phones?", as though everyone who was complaining where just dirty peasants that couldn't afford a
If you look at the trailers on YouTube, the like to dislike ratio is really bad, worse then even the backlash to Battlefield V. But that depends on when you look at it, as people have noticed the like/dislike ratio is fluctuating wildly. The reason for this is that Blizzard keeps unlisting the videos and re-uploading them in an attempt to hide the backlash. But even if Youtube forgets, SocialBlade does not, and there one can easily piece it together.
This is on top of the deleting of comments, which is always despised.
As if all of this wasn't enough, the usual suspects in the game "journalism" sphere have been writing articles insiting that anyone who doesn't like the game is sexist, on the grounds that most mobile gamers are women (correct, the one area of gaming in which women are a clear and overwhelming majority), and claiming that as a result the fans are playing 'gatekeeper' trying to keep their games away from the wamyns (false, see the Command and Conquer: Rivals case study for the real reason people hate it.)
No-one likes to be told they have ill-intentions, especially where none exist. It should be obvious to everyone by now that when someone hears a compliant and responds to it by saying "that person is sexist/racist/homophobic/trans-phobic/islamphobic/anti-science/a Nazi" or whatever your favourite buzzword/insult is, that person is basically saying "I think they are a bad person, therefore I don't have to listen to them, and neither should you". It is a cowardly way to avoid discussing issues, hence why the tactic is rightfully called out on social media. Combined with the fact that such statements are untrue for the overwhelming majority of people (at least in Western countries) this amounts to the 'critics' calling Blizzard fans horrible people because they didn't like a shallow husk of their favourite game which probably isn't even *their* game at all but the reskin of a knock off of their game stuffed to the brim with all the shit mobile games tend to be filled with and the fact that mobile phone games tend to eat through battery life like it's going out of style...and to the surprise of *absolutely no-one* with even half a working brain, this made Diablo fans *very* angry.
All in all, the shitstorm created from it has blown up to epic proportions in the last few days. Honestly I'm not surprised it's come to this, as Blizzard has been increasingly contemptuous of their fanbase. This is just the most obvious and public example of it.