Diablo III game director steps down

Recently bought torchlight 2 (made by the real diablo team) and it completely crushes D3 in every way except for auction house, but that's a good thing. How or why D3 took that long to make is beyond me, I'm guessing some people were paid by the hour on that one.

I don't plan n any Blizzard purchases after that failure...

Seven years, that is sad.

That is worthy news. Glorious!

And yes, I am now thankful.

Due to Diablo 3 immense failure, this shall be my last title ever purchased from Blizzard.

I'm glad that loser is leaving. Jay Wilson = Diablo franchise destruction

Good riddance, hope you have fun working as a janitor.

The amount of time to make this game is absolutely absurd. And what a disappointment it turned out to be. Blizzard should re-evaluate the way it produces games, if the end result is an outdated, buggy, bloated mess like Diablo 3. I bought this game the day it came out and it still has micro-stuttering that Blizzard never fixed. I've given up on it and have much more fun playing Torchlight 2.

good...that game was sh*t

"will not negatively impact our ongoing support of Diablo III."

Wait? Does that mean they actually tried to make Diablo III good?Wooooooaah. I thought they were just lazy and wanted the moniz. Which is probably true.

I'm just glad I didn't submit to my fanboyism of that game and bought it. The true succesor to Diablo 2 is going in open beta on january 23rd and I'm gonna throw all the money at a game that actually deserves it.

Good riddance to one of the biggest most astonishing failures of leadership and game development in history. It takes a special kind of Jay Wilson to turn a guaranteed GoTY into a complete joke.

F that loser!

Its not the auction house for me, or even other things they changed like skills. The game just is like a different game completely from diablo 1 and 2. You cant remove the gothic horror from it and the story is just awful. The characters have pictures straight out of world of warcraft with stupid bosses and a girl diablo? I mean what were they thinking?

This game is salvageable to me and even the loot they bragged about is worse then the previous games somehow.

i feel so bad for this guy, even though people disliked him for what he did to there favorite game, i still hope he does a great job on the projects he has in the years to come

not much of a victory, the damage is done.

Diablo 3 was hyped for 10 years as the sequel to the classic diablo 2. We all thought it would improve upon that game while keeping what made it so good, and diablo 3 did not do any of that.

Took him 7 years to lay an egg.

Its amazing how making video games can result in soo much drama.. there bad for us I tell ya. haha jk

Love him or hate him lets just admit diablo 3 was a bad game.

"Diablo III launched in May 2012, was a top Google search for the year..."

As in "Why is Diablo III not working??"

Jay, you made diablo into a woman, lady of hell, you released D3 as a unfinished game (dont argue or ill bring hammerpoint into this), you spent far to much time, money, and talent making a unfinished, small, mediocre, linear, rmah, unimaginative, uncreative, one way street game, and i hope your new position is wiping the ass of someone with talent and a creative vision for what d3 can become

Don't let the door hit you on your way out. Actually, I hope it does.

Path of Exile open beta in less than a week.

The pressure created by the thought of a free to play low budget indie developed game walking over Auction House Simulator 3 must have terrified him.

@SteelVelocity

i took that comment, then i DOUBLED it.

there is a surviving community around d3? bravo, a testament to human persistence.

I cant say I am disappointed Jay is stepping down as lead director. I still love the game but the intent that the director went for was to ship it for the masses and not necessarily the people that loved the previous installments. They certainly made steps forward in game play but took a few steps back when considering the colorful and non creepy vibe the game released as. Not to mention hardcore mode is unplayable because at any moment you can get a lag spike and lose your character hero. Not to mention the whole auction house idea really did more harm than good.

Between the online only and real money auction house, this game was a disaster. But I can't blame Wilson as much as I can blame myself for trusting Blizzard enough to make this a day 1 buy for me. Never again.

Calling it now, he is being moved to whatever Project Titan is so they can work on the Real Money Action House that will come with that game.

Ding dong the witch is dead (figuratively)!

Cya Jay don't come back. Maybe we'll see some real improvements to D3 now?

bye and never come back...PLEASE! I miss the good ol diablo Ç_Ç

@Suaron_x @ghys_the_great did you ruin the experience of millions of dedicated players? no, fine by me

F**k that loser.

How does that feel now Jay ?

@holmerpeter Not to defend this game in any way, but Diablo has always been about replaying the same several areas over and over on harder difficulties. If you don't like doing that then you should probably not be playing Diablo. I mean you could beat Diablo 2 in like 2 hours if you knew what you were doing. The point was always getting better loot, not about having a ton of levels and enemies.

Bye we won't miss you guy.

Don't take this in any way as defending Jay WIlson...but let me put this out there. I think the bigger problem is the directive that Activision/Blizzard gave Mr. Wilson when they asked him to make the game. Maybe he had grand ideas for an awesome game, but the higher ups said "Thats great...go ahead...as long as it contains an auction house that we can make money off of in some way." Don't think for one minute that Bobby Kotick didn't see the 3rd party sites making money off Diablo 2 for 10 years and say "Hey, we need to be getting a piece of that pie." Diablo 3 has potential in gameplay, graphics, animation...it runs smooth, but it was doomed from day 1 when they used statistics to make money. They made it so that the likely hood of you finding your own gear are nil to none. So what it became is a gold grind to eventually go buy the stuff you wanted on the AH. It no longer was a loot hunting game, but an auction house bidding game after you put the required hours in. They used statistics to force transactions through their AH that = revenue. That is not fun.

In the end, I don't think Jay Wilson was as much of the problem as the higher ups that had $$ in their eyes. This trend is going to continue as long as game development companies continue to be huge publicly traded entities. In publicly traded company motivation is always the profit bottom line because of the influence of shareholders. Decisions will be made that may not be in the best interest of making a great game, but rather a great revenue generating game.

The only way I have found to combat this is by doing my part. Any games that are produced by big companies such as EA, Activision, Ubisoft...i wait until they are in the dirt cheap bargain bin if i really want to play them that bad. On the flip side, I through my day 1 purchase money at companies like CDProjeckt and FROM Software. Both companies have put out great games while admittedly making a good profit without trying to nickel and dime their customers.

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