Haven't watched the video yet, but heard the reaction was hilarious.

Meanwhile, the first ever non Korean pro StarCraft player just won at Blizzcon. So epic!
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The dude's reaction asking if it was an out of season april fools joke to the developer, hilarious. This Blizzcon was pretty shit.
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I can't ****ing remember how to embed, it's been years. But here's a good one. Someone reteach me how to embed please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoS3KdCnbZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PY5vLxSO8
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There was a ton of buzz around Diablo being featured at the upcoming Blizzcon. Fans were anticipating either a Diablo 4 announcement, remaster of Diablo 1 or 2 announcement, or more info about the upcoming Netflix series. Blizzard released a statement that, while I don't believe outright said there would be no Diablo 4, said that they would show a bit of Diablo 4 when it was ready. Regardless, they also stated that there would be Diablo related content at Blizzcon.

Fast forward to today, and the major Diablo announcement turned out to be Diablo: Immortal. This is a mobile game set in Sanctuary (Diablo's world) and is largely a recycling of Diablo III in terms of class, combat, and more. It got almost no reaction when the trailer was released. The crowd didn't give the presenters anything aside from the occasional very light applause or mild booing. During the Q&A, one man even asked, "Is this an out-of-season April Fool's joke?"

Since this was the only major Diablo announcement, the disappointment was palpable. While some people are saying the fanbase should blame itself for getting too hyped up for something that wasn't confirmed, many also think that it was a dick move by Blizzard to not only make this the focus of their Diablo announcement, but also spend time building that hype for weeks leading up to the event.

Edit: for those who may not know much about Diablo -

Its first two games came out in 1996 and 2000. Both were praised for their art, story, gore, and combat. While how well they've aged is debatable, they still hold a special place in the hearts of Diablo fans, especially the second game.

The third game was released around 6 years ago and was not very well received by fans for numerous reasons (more World of Warcraft style in terms of art, a worse plot, killing off one of the most important characters in the series with little fanfare, servers crashing on day one, etc.). That being said, it's one of the highest selling PC games of all time. While it's more well received nowadays (thanks to, in part, the Reaper of Souls expansion), it is still with its drawbacks and not held in reverence like the previous 2.

Diablo doesn't get much love from Blizzard. World of Warcraft and (more recently) Overwatch are their large projects, so Diablo's fanbase is smaller, though very dedicated. The fact that Blizzard hyped up a new Diablo project only to give this was a slap in the face to many.



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The neg bomb of reviews once this comes out is going to be epic. It'll score even worse than diablo 3 did for a long time.
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It's a shame that Blizzard has been on a nearly 15 year decline. They were pure gold.
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Lotta pissed off people. How big is that community now?
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While people may be concerned over the quality of some of their releases, they're making money hand over fist.
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Which is exactly what this mobile game is all about. Money. And they're going to make a shit ton of it and all these pissy people will still try it.
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Don't you own a phone?
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I'll never play a Diablo phone game. Definitely would have tried a desktop game though..
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I know there were a lot of critics of D3 when it released (all those years ago now, crazy) but the game as it exists now is actually pretty good. A lot of PC players never even experienced it, they were done with the game before Blizzard actually fixed it.

And even though I've never played it (for obvious reasons), World of Warcrack is still one of the most successful games of all time.

I mean, despite a somewhat low media profile (compared to PUBG and Fortnite at least), Overwatch has been a pretty overwhelming success.

I guess I'm just not sure where the "Blizzard sucks" stuff comes from.
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I bought a computer specifically because I was a huge D2 fan and jacked for D3. I became so increasingly frustrated and bored with it that I quit awhile after the RMAH came into effect. There was no community. I didn't enjoy playing with others. Trading was non-existent. The story line was boring as hell. It just wasn't even close. The RMAH was utterly awful.
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