Blizzard Responded: Diablo Immоrtаl Might Be Pay 2 Win 

Glad we are in the clear 😂

Perfect comment!

LoL perfect!

Good news, time to reinstall the game.🥳

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I feel bad for him. He spent so much time playing the Alpha, giving them all this detailed feedback... when the whole time, the goal of D:I was to milk as much cash out of fools as they could. Best thing for him right now would be to just dump the game and never give it a second thought.

That’s exactly what I was about to comment. It’s eerily similar if not exactly the same. Unfortunately I speak from experience.

"I know it'll work out. Just support me." - is what were the man's last words to his friends, before he was found dead with several knife wounds in his back

@@bopeswiththemost4415 they want to milk cash and steal time! You know why this company name is Blizzard, because it makes you slow in life!

That sound like amber heard to me for some reason

It's like A concubine Of a sex cult Who escaped it once after reaching the age of 18 Coming back and helping design the cult scripture to improve the systems in which abuse occurs Out of sheer will

For free? They make a killing on their website for playing the game.. You talking about Raxx?

@@RedX1II They don't have to QA the game for Blizzard though, all that work for free is not payed.

@@fluffypinkpandas you okay dude, that sounds a little too real, are you currently restructuring a cult so you can resurrect some ancient evil, while also committing child abuse.

I did the same thing for LinkedIn. I got to 120k+ post impressions and people like 'pro baseball player' 'radio show host' and 'foreign minister' in my demographics. I actually asked AWS and GCP with hashtags in LI posts to bring down LinkedIn. They blew them the fuck up (and Facebook, whoops). I went live on twitch and Amazon watched with me as we saw them slowly put LinkedIn back together. Then Microsoft got smart. They fixed LinkedIn (no not the intentionally bad features like the shitty activity history and time wasting viral content features). Did they give me a job as a QA? Fuck no I already did a great job for free. Sadly triggered a manic episode for me and I was too busy going crazy to record any of the evidence. That twitch Vod would have been legendary to save.

@@darianstarfrog yup

I needed to hear this, thank you, now time to get over the fact I've been breadcrumbed alot.

it's not entirely for free, most/all the people he plays with do twitch/youtube

@@barial1 well its free for Blizz, i think thats what OP meant

screw working in gaming. its nothing more than a place to fleece the stupid and sucker the gullible. they release half incomplete games and make you pay for them and praise them.

The real sad Thing is that he still thinks what they do is just not by Design. He thinks it will get better. Its insane.

Imagine if he dedicated his time to something that was real and actually mattered. Instead he's in service for FREE to a company that's making billions.

It's for Bobby :D

Bobby collects little and not so little diamonds to ornate his golden parachute with his time left at Antivision.

DO IT FOR BOBBY!!! BOBBY IS LIFE!!!! WWBD!!! WHAT WOULD BOBBY DO

Bobby might be the true devil

@@darkmistico BLASPHEMER

Greek myth. Not Roman.

There is a slither of hope once the Microsoft takeover is finalized. Hopefully they restructure the company and focus less on predatory profit making tactics and more on just making good products.

@@adamcarlton3312 I mean, sorta yes. Microsoft wants to acquire Activision for Metaverse reasons, but as a company, they are far more look at the long term rather than the short because similar to Valve they have fuck you money that isn't attached to game making. But, as shown with Halo Infinite, they generally leave devs be to their own shit, for good or ill. Microsoft did originally set up that employment scheme that resulted in 343 basically only being made of 18-month contract developers, but it wasn't for that purpose and I don't even know if they cared too much. Now I can definitely see the top end of Microsoft taking a good, hard look at Blizzard in particular because of this whole shit, especially if they can fix it and make a good example out of them for bonus points. After all, they do want people on their Xbox service more than ever, circling back to the Metaverse thing. Getting both CoD and WoW Sub on it would be a resounding victory.

@@Orrissan yeah that's exactly what i mean :)

@@adamcarlton3312 you're talking about the company that kept releasing os that consumers need to purchase (for no noticeable upgrades for 90% of the users)

It's like a bully punching you, and you scream: "stop punching me!", and he keeps doing it. Then you ask him : "did you hear me? I begged you to stop", and the bully would respond: "Yes! I hear you! loud and clear.", and he would still punch you. Hearing the community does not guarantee doing something about it. Ofc they hear us. Ofc they know people are complaining, that they scored the game at 0.2, they hear everything. They just don't care. And the reason is, they know how to make money. They picked the best strategy. Why the hell would someone think Blizzard would oblige them? You can scream, they can hear, but they won't do anything. They do things that are profitable.

actions are better than "we hear you" i dont mind the response if they show it through actions which they fail.

Why do you believe that the devs are the ones making the decisions (unless it's an indie studio or something like that)?

​@@javabytes3204 I'm using 'dev' here to refer to the entire game development company as a whole, the tendency of corporate bureaucrats to force actual development staff to ruin their own game is a whole other can of worms.

@@javabytes3204 to be more specific the company.

It means "we hear you and we're gonna find a way to shut you up"

Tbh as a company, why you even consider changing it when there are people who just pay so much money and after years of gaming still preorder stuff. I think we have to accept it. Or just don’t play the games and if you play you are just one part of the system. If you really want to change Blizzard force you to never play one game for 2 years from blizzard

I remember ion made a comment (multiple times actually) in wow about how the community feels they don’t listen, but they see the feedback and don’t agree basically lol. That’s what I think of whenever a company like blizzard says they’re listening to players after they provide shit like this

"we hear you... but the money is also talking over you"

How many times has Blizzard had to say "we hear you," since Legion? At some point you simply come to the same conclusion they reached in Wargames: "The only winning move is not to play." Blizzard is just done.

Yeah don't you just love the people who complain about how the gaming industry is fucked now while simultaneously supporting the problematic aspects of it. Lol

@@SquaulDuNeant Actually, playing f2p games but never paying anything helps f2p games grow. It's padding the player base and makes the game more easily marketable to others who might pay.

So true, unfortunately though

It's a gatcha game. It has a "10 pull" like other gatcha games. That's why 10 crests. And that's why buying 10 crests of shop is the most optimal way to spend the money. Everything is designed for doing 10 pulls. Opening 10 lootboxes. And each gem you slot in = 1 guaranteed legendary gem - so it does not matter, if you run 4 rifts and put 3 + 1 crests in, or if you put all 10 crests in 1 run. In each case you get 10 gems. Running with 10 slotted is the most time efficient. And with everything assumed equal - the chance of getting 5/5 gem is the same - end of the day, you have a roll for each time a gem drops. You wouldn't save any money by spreading those crests in more rift runs. In each case it's ging to cost you a few thousand. So I don't think that's the bad thing about the game at all - for me the bad thing is that it costs a few thousand! You know what price I would find acceptable? 0$. That's right. Running 10 crest rifts should be free. The only thing you gamble is ingame stuff you make by playing the game. Just like normal games work. You should be able to get these crests in game, slot them and run rifts, and there should be no way to buy them. Otherwise the game sucks, and I'm not interested.

This guy is a fool. Wyatt is responsible for ALL of this.

I immediately thought of Halo Infinite. A lot of people hope it'll get better. It's supposed to be live service and updated for ten years, allegedly, so there's a lot of fear of missing out on armor and customizable items, at a time where the game has barely any content.

Yep, there are so many games, especially indie titles, that are so much more deserving of your time and money. We gamers are spoiled with how much we have at our fingertips to play that I just laugh at this game and continue on plucking away at my backlog. I mean we gamers are the ones in charge. We are the ones with all the leverage, not the companies. Come out with a predatory, P2W game? Lol fuck your game, I'm going to go play all this other stuff and give those devs my hard earned money and my precious time.

@@dewrito2325 Oh man, so many things to love about Infinite, that disappointing skeleton of a game. Strong bones with no guts!

@@dewrito2325 halo infinite was fun, the issues were armour customisation is restricted, lack of modes and no forge. The gameplay was great, and it didn’t force you to buy shit, its just not enough. Unfortunately this dude has a loyalty problem where he should just play other games and get over immortal, but he doesn’t. The games not made for him. Its made for mobile casuals. And whales.

@@bryanmcloud4121 Even popular games like Elden Ring. Not perfect but it's a regular priced game with a lifetimes worth of content... it's this whole "mobile gamer culture" that's falling for this. That sector needs a hero.

well its almost as if these people that keep crying about blizzard FOR YEARS now are delusional of their own role within that situation and blindly support this shit... imagine if they understood how capitalism and todays society work.

@@DrOinkman In reality there are multiple people with different opinions and not all of them are hypocrites, but sadly, too many are.

unpaid interns

it is free for blizzard, but is it not compensated via youtube/twitch? still bad, but not janny free

same thing i say about Bethesda too. they make an empty shell of a game and then let the moders do all the work. if Skyrim had no mods it wouldn't be as successful as it is

Good on you. PoE is so much fun hey!

Same

Same. I hopped back into D3, played a crusader up to paragon 40, got bored and moved on with my life.

Best thing about Diablo Immortal is you can play it on the toilet - because that's where it belongs!

I've heard about POE for many years bit haven't really play it. But Diablo Immortal makes me go and download POE. I'm enjoying POE now, thanks Blizzard!

Developers have some of the blame, director has the rest. If you sign on to be a dev for a triple A company, I think you should have hardened yourself for harassment, because you are gonna get a shit ton more money being the guy who designs the loot pool mechanics than any other team or asset you ever work on. Being the guy who designs and directs the monetization mechanics is to be the literal devil, but it makes you rich. I don't think the poor art student who designs the item skin needs that flak in their Twitter DMS But if you walked in, got told to code a loot table that you knew would be monetized, and still did it instead of walking out... All I'm saying is you had the nuts to do that to people, and ur gonna have to harden ur skin y'know. What happens in ur DMs at that point is an expectation, not a surprise.

It's kinda like if you go into car sales as a career. And now your whole job is to lead people into a contract where you hemorrhage them for money, you kinda have to accept that your position is frowned upon when going into it.

@@fluffypinkpandas unlike a car salesman, working for a AAA studio for 4-8 years looks really good on a resume when you inevitably have to go job hunting

@@RealWaffles truuuuue

The problem with that is there indie until there not. Look at riot games. If not for blizzard being so shit they eclipse al other negative gaming news riot would be just as popular, for being shit.

@@TheNewblade1 Oh no I agree The issue with Riot however is on another level. Riot overall produces quality and therefor, people who just wanna consume their product, dont care because they are having fun. And on the other hand Riot has been in far less big controversies than Blizzard has. Here are some that I know of. Artists not being paid and the Stonehearth Devs being forced to "finish" their game to work on a other project which later failed. What are some of the controversies we know of with blizzard? Dont get me wrong, I think Riot has some shit to worry about just as much. But I feel that Blizzards crap outweighs it in comparison, especially when Riots crap seems to be more focused on specific events rather than being a constant issue.

They act as if the mere existence of their product is something to behold and we are privileged to be able to buy them. Those who do not appreciate that are insolent children who need to be disciplined...

The problem explodes the moment any company becomes public trade. This is because the stock market becomes their fiducial responsibility _by law_ while customers are deluded by pretty words and empty promises into thinking they're still top priority.

Companies try to impress their investors... they are ot persuing customers anymore

You're do right. Been playing things like Steamworld Dig 2 and Rogue Legacy recently and having an absolute blast. I don't want to go anywhere near these massive, so-called AAA games or game devs. They're all as bad as eachother, churning out massive piles of MTX-ridden toxic waste.

True, indie games have been consistently better than AAA games since the early 2010s

I play indie games on my phone and they're so good. So Idk why some ppl justified DI being a P2W game just because it's a mobile game, when there's shit ton good games that aren't P2W in mobile too. Especially indie games.

@@Nostromo2144 yes! rhykker and raxx are both amazing! both put out very solid content info

not sure if you can call someone who is still breaindead supporting a corrupt and ignorant company one of the great gamers of our time... sry no, the fact that you like him and he is streaming doesnt make him great.

@@DrOinkman he is one of the most dedicated arpg content creators out there and there's not many competitors

That's how all pimps work. Not A pimp

Wait, this wasn't literally what Blizzard is doing but like meant in a symbolic way? Wooooow...

Stockholm syndrome

People believe earth is flat so seeing Blizzard have their own mindless cult isn't surprising

way too many if you ask me, i am really done with diablo and lots of other stuff, not just blizzard

@@FXFXFXFX love it, great response

@@FXFXFXFX Exactly. And I still see people wearing an itchy surgeon's mask, believing they're warding off evil spirits. Human nature.

that can make crsts drop from mobs the same way monster essence drops.

The only way to kill a game is to stop playing, the whales can just kill each other PvP will become real shit when advantage over lesser people realise eventually and leave

I mean they could go to Rocket League route and just give him a cool pack for paying money previously there's nothing wrong with doing that but if the wails get any more mad that's just them projecting the fact that they wasted too much money and they really didn't want to look like idiots so they will hop on a hate bandwagon that more or less is just them crashing into a wall

Besides if I'm being honest this is literally just a John Swan incident where they blame people who didn't pay money for something only to backtrack when the people who did the monetization schemes end up apologizing and try to say they didn't understand the gravity of the situation and more or less will stay mad at the people they wasted their money on and attempts to not look like idiots like I said

At first I thought he was getting payed which explained why he talked like that and basically being so respectful to blizzard', but then I just realized hes just meggggaaaa delusionalll

​@@910suck i'm talking about the guy spending time and energy on the game, who isn't "reacting"--not Asmongold, who is reacting also profit doesn't mean something's good maybe watch the video and think before u post next time denthead

@lord barking I mean one offhand comment and your entire career is done for. Plus, you can ask for raises at a business. Streamers have to contend with eachother by playing popular games a lot of people want to watch, not the niche games they want to play. Like Monster Rancher(Which you should play). Dedicated base, but viewer numbers hover around 30-150 based on lucky raids or establishment in the community. Streaming is not something to take easy. It's more of a side gig until you really get those consistent numbers.

"Do you not have the GDP of a small island nation?"

@lord barking I hear you man, I've been playing Age Of Empires 2 and nothing else for almost 25 years, besides that Dota 2 and that's it because I can't afford to buy games, but with my education I can only get trash jobs and I can't afford a better education either.

In your analogy the devs would be the workers in the tobacco factory...

Why were console players farmed? Played on console my whole life, and it was just a matter of going to a game store, buying a disc, going home, yeeting it on my ps3 and I had a full game Simple and fair

@@ElShogoso not that part, buying a game is fine, we laughed at buying weapons or passes etc, that's where some pc gaming IS though.

@@ElShogoso now console players need to pay sony or Microsoft to play multiplayer, unless it's a f2p game and even then Xbox made you pay for f2p until like last year I think, it used to not be like that. I remember PS3 you didn't need ps plus.

@@elitereptilian200 you still need gold to play multiplayer, just not for f2p games

Lol

"Plate"... "Burger King"... I feel so F2P now... best I get is a box and a napkin.

Lol literally. They just straight up beat him up and are now love bombing him with "I didn't mean it", "I made I mistake", "I swear I'll chanfe", "here's a bouqet of flowers".... and then go right back to beating the shit out of him. Absolutely nothing is gonna change. Blizzard is gonna throw f2p players a bone or two so that whales have someone to whale on, but if you think they're going to remove any of the p2w shit you're dreaming.

Was it Texas-styled, spicy BBQ sauce? Mmmm, yummy!

Did the exact same thing as you. I was just sad at first but now I have realised there so much bretter things out there. They destroy good games and They Will never see me again.

I dropped everything Blizzard a couple of years ago and I'm enjoying using the ex-wow time to play indies. There are such gems with so much soul.

Legion last good expansion it ain't Gonna get better than that sadly

I know he was the story guy (as apposed to gameplay dev) but I feel like Blizzard as we knew it died when Metzen left. Maybe others can think of a time before then.

@@AcousticOlli Clearly, you do not keep with with recent D4 announcements from Blizzard.

Yea , called a rush..I used to do it all time in d2 lod ..from lvl 1-70 in 15 baal runs lol

Damn. You shouldnt be eating random pills like that.

He’s high on copium that blizzard is a good company that’s not intentionally trying to fuck every player they can. It’s that abuse ex that says the things you wanna hear and does nothing

It amazes me how someone can spend so much time online and not become a leftist or at least anti-capitalist.

@@TheNewblade1 I'm not either I have no clue what those terms mean.

@@boratwilson9916 lol I'm amazed. I can understand not knowing vaush or Dylan burbs but you're telling me you don't even watch destiny or Hasan.

Fr i ask myself the whole time how he does this

@@Gigachad-rx9uy he pauses every 5 seconds

@@mr.voidroy6869 fair enough

I mean, it’s not really rocket science, he’s reacting to a video lol any streamer that does react videos has videos 2-3 times longer than the original video itself.

I feel asleep during his hour long FF14 video and didn't even mean to. It's like background noise of two people talking in front of you in a bus or something lol

Sounds like that south park episode

That should have cost them at least 1000 dollars if not more. Instead they did it for free, out of love for a company that couldnt give a shit about them.

yes he provides always the best and most informative diablo content about seasons and everything

Anyone who does the weekly challnge rift A+!

Its AssManGold... Just say it right Mang

Dark viper would disagree lol

yeah, that's not how it works lol.

Asmond mentioned this before, but the best way to scam people is by making them feel good.

@@miniclip1162 I doubt it. If it were that easy, many people would've gotten scammed already.

Recognition or respect, even a the merest whiff of it, can be intoxicating to someone starved of it.

I hate to break it to you, but it's most likely going to be bad. And even if it's good it will definitely be P2W, it's the hope that kills you

That is hella hopium, yes

"my last hope" is just a regular saying when it comes to blizzard at this point

Its the same thing right wing people do all over the world. Because if you make it 85% worse, then change it to 65% it doesnt seem so bad anymore. And 65% was exactly how bad they wanted it. But if they went in raw 65% people would have been mad and expected at least 45% bad. Its really sad to see this guy become entranced by abusive blizzard. Its probably been a life long dream to work with blizzard. They are taking advantage of him and hes loving it. So sad.

Hey guys, it's only _mostly bad_ now instead of complete garbage - the game is saved!!

Those who work for Blizzard today are the ones who accept (or like) the current Blizzard culture, and the ones who can’t get a job somewhere else… Blizzard is over…

Why do people think Microsoft would do such a thing? Microsoft knows what kind of company Blizzard is. They know of their business model. That is the reason they bought them. They want money. And Blizzard is good at making that. If I was Microsoft CEO, I wouldn't kick Bobby out - on the contrary, I would hire him to do some education of my other managers, in how stuff is done!

@@Member_zero You are not aware that when new management comes in, they keep the old guard until they understand the inner workings of the organization they just took over. This is standard business practice for any takeover. They say "minimal changes in how you operate will be made" but what they don't say is, "until we make the changes we're planning to make." This is to make sure employees don't start quitting. The changes are in procedure and upper and middle management. Then they replace everyone. This is standard practice. They are only interested in the products and the developers on staff and how they make their games. That is what they bought. They did not buy the old board of directors. They will be history and replaced by Xbox management.

@@PhatPazzo Exactly.

There will always be AAA games that don't pull such things. And there will always be indie games. There's only going to be less and less of them. But the market will still exist. But the mainstreem will be mobile games with mtx and p2w systems. There's going to be some laws and regulations, and new ways will be found to circumvent those. But if all else fails, there are other hobbies.

Yeah like anyone spending that amount on this lifeless trash game is seriously lost.. plz let me have da free money ill make us both rich!!

I sooo agree I feel like the odd one when I find out people pay and not little pay.. fucking anything over 50.00 is too much let alone thousands?! You players paying for this are stupid. You have been fooled. Sleep in your bed lol

Thats why i got premium… hate the fking ads

Needs to be by gamers for gamers again

@@martinhellstrom9299 Unless you got enough money to put a 10% or higher stake in Blizzard/Activision, you're not going to change anything. I can't even really blame the shareholders either as someone who invests (not in Blizzard) because just like you or I as gamers want them to make good games, the shareholders want them to make good money. Luckily there are tons of indie developers out there that aren't being published by major companies that don't have these constraints.