Blizzard announced their next big thing would be a shitty p2w phone game instead of the greatly anticipated D4 PC game.
Fans were pissed! So much so one asked "Is this an April fools joke."
Blizzards first response "What? You guys dont own phones?" This is how clueless these fools were.
Fans were concerned about predatory monetization that is the phone game standard.
In between this and actual launch Blizzard reps insisted there will be no P2W options for the best equipment.
Reality at launch... true no P2W equipment. Instead P2W "augments" to the equipment. (Lie by structure)
Blizzards initial response to the angry player base...
Pay "influencers" to claim how great the F2P parts of the game were. (ignore that $100K Whale trouncing through 50 players in PVP please)
"Look at how many people down loaded our game!"
"Look at the millions we have made in the first week!" Implying see we were right people love this game.
Blizzards response after their quick 200 million+ cash grab of burning years of hard earned player trust.
Oh were sorry. It wast us. It was those guys. please keep buying our crap. "Wed never do that to you." <<< there is the Lie.
This was planned all along. I will agree they did not figure the player back lash would be so solid. But the quick cash grab and either
Just pretend this is the new normal if you get away with it or quickly apologize, take the quick money up front promise real changes to appease the angry rabble then deliver as few meaningful changes as they can get away with... That chit was baked right into the cake before they even started Alpha testing.
Ill admit Ive payed a lot less attention to the details of this towards current date. They burnt their bridge with me at the..
"What? You guys dont have phones?"
Better to play "Path of exile" It is what Diablo 3 should have been and the company "gets it." Gamers building games they love for other gamers.
Grepolis has no POE. If you find one let me know.
DIs meta critic score. Just LOLZ
