WT** happened to Blizzard?

Let me start this disccusion by telling you guys, my fellow gamspotters, how saddened I am becuase of what happened to the Diablo franchise. I feel like most us, as seen on various topics and forums, have received a huge blow to one of our main PC gaming pillars. The diablo series has always been a topic of discussion among pc gamers everywhere. I cant recall one conversation with a fellow Pc gamer where the game Diablo wasnt mentioned. I can go on and on about the flaws of Diablo 3, the the one and only thing that saddens me is how they turned the Diablo franchise into a pre WoW appetizer. I truly believe that blizzard made this game not thinking about Diablo but thinking on how to increase their WoW subscriptions. They took a brand that meant truly something to a community and destroyed it for their own gain. I am currenltly replaying Diablo 2, usually when my internet is giving me **** or tuesday mornings when D3 servers are under maintnance. It impresses me how Diablo 2 destroys D3 in every aspect. What happened to our once great Diablo atmosphere?? As a fellow gamespotter wrote,

'' It feels like they hired a bunch of sophomore liberal arts students to do the writing. It's forced, cliche, uninteresting, and does a mostly awful job of conveying any kind of hellish tone. You feel like you're playing through an action cartoon for 12 year olds rather than battling some kind of cunning, ancient darkness''

Now I know some of you are going to tell me to shut up, or to go write this on my blog or whatever. But for the old diablo fanbase I am sure that they are saddened with what happened to the Diablo series.

Did you seriously put stars instead of F in the title?

Also nothing happened to Blizzard. You just got older and more cynical.

Easy, they fired pretty much the entire original Diablo 1/2 team.

Easy, they fired pretty much the entire original Diablo 1/2 team.

James00715

Easy, they fired pretty much the entire original Diablo 1/2 team.

James00715

They didnt get fired; They left and went on to make poor and mediocre games.

[QUOTE="James00715"]

Easy, they fired pretty much the entire original Diablo 1/2 team.

XaosII

They didnt get fired; They left and went on to make poor and mediocre games.

Some of them went on to make torchlight which apparently is good, I thought it was complete dog sh!t though.

[QUOTE="Temesra"]Can you say more about the game what makes it look cartoon like and for 12 year old? What is it about the game you hate so much?robertoenrique

It is a diablo game. It's the direction blizzard wanted to go in, meaning it's 100% a diablo game.

[QUOTE="robertoenrique"][QUOTE="Temesra"]Can you say more about the game what makes it look cartoon like and for 12 year old? What is it about the game you hate so much?HyperWarlock

It is a diablo game. It's the direction blizzard wanted to go in, meaning it's 100% a diablo game.

Blizzard has only made one game I did not like and that was WOW.

D3 is alot of fun and while not perfect it still very much feels like a Daiblo game to me. It will be interesting to see what they do with an expansion pack for D3, as D2 had a great expansion pack and didnt become a great game for me until that expansion pack came out.

Loved Warcraft1 and 2, enjoyed Warcraft3, enjoyed starcraft1/2, Loved D1/2 and have over 140 hours on D3, enjoying that to.

WOW was just not my thing, I ended up buyign all the expansions and giving it a real go a few times, but it was just not enjoyable to me.

They screwed up. They screwed up big time. Ive never felt such a big WTF moment in my life. Here I thought they would come through for us in some way and instead they screw up the game, get too greedy and tarnish their names. Is it redeemable? Of course, but they need to do something fast before it get harder. I guess the difference here is the teams within Blizzard working on each title. I was very happy with Starcraft 2 and look forward to Heart of the Swarm but they better get themselves together and makes things right cuz Im having a hard time trusting them right now. They've just been pulling too much crap lately and it makes no sense when they were so respectable before. Gamesterpheonix

With exception of the poor performance during launch, they havent done anything notably wrong with Diablo 3.

They screwed up. They screwed up big time. Ive never felt such a big WTF moment in my life. Here I thought they would come through for us in some way and instead they screw up the game, get too greedy and tarnish their names. Is it redeemable? Of course, but they need to do something fast before it get harder. I guess the difference here is the teams within Blizzard working on each title. I was very happy with Starcraft 2 and look forward to Heart of the Swarm but they better get themselves together and makes things right cuz Im having a hard time trusting them right now. They've just been pulling too much crap lately and it makes no sense when they were so respectable before. Gamesterpheonix

[QUOTE="Gamesterpheonix"]They screwed up. They screwed up big time. Ive never felt such a big WTF moment in my life. Here I thought they would come through for us in some way and instead they screw up the game, get too greedy and tarnish their names. Is it redeemable? Of course, but they need to do something fast before it get harder. I guess the difference here is the teams within Blizzard working on each title. I was very happy with Starcraft 2 and look forward to Heart of the Swarm but they better get themselves together and makes things right cuz Im having a hard time trusting them right now. They've just been pulling too much crap lately and it makes no sense when they were so respectable before. XaosII

With exception of the poor performance during launch, they havent done anything notably wrong with Diablo 3.

Loot and end game. And legendaries.

Belial- "I will not be undone!" JKnaperek

"Aren't you thankful"

That quote alone has become infamous in Diablo 3 and shows the sad state it is in, They nerf every f-ing thing in the game because it is popular and say we should be thankful ONLY ATTACK SPEED GOT NERFED!(##(#!&&*$

It is a sad state, if this was not Diablo people would not put up with the insane crap blizzard puts on its players

You feel like you're playing through an action cartoon for 12 year olds rather than battling some kind of cunning, ancient darkness''

robertoenrique

If you think that way, you dont want to see Torchlight 2

The game doesnt feel as dark or gothic as the first two and the writing for some of the characters is terrible but I did have a good time with the game until I got to level 60. I thought that the RMAH was going to be an option for people who like to pay for gear instead of farming but I was mistaken. My biggest mistake in playing D3 was that I thought I was going to have more fun when I hit level 60. I enjoy farming for loot but at a certain point you get sick of never seeing any helpful gear.

After farming inferno for a few weeks it is much more fun for me to play Diablo 2 or Torchlight. I wouldnt hesitate to start playing D3 again though if they managed to fix the loot.

I'd much rather take Diablo 3's artstyle over Diablo 1 and 2's. I don't get what you guys see in those games. They look visually boring.

Let me start this disccusion by telling you guys, my fellow gamspotters, how saddened I am becuase of what happened to the Diablo franchise. I feel like most us, as seen on various topics and forums, have received a huge blow to one of our main PC gaming pillars. The diablo series has always been a topic of discussion among pc gamers everywhere. I cant recall one conversation with a fellow Pc gamer where the game Diablo wasnt mentioned. I can go on and on about the flaws of Diablo 3, the the one and only thing that saddens me is how they turned the Diablo franchise into a pre WoW appetizer. I truly believe that blizzard made this game not thinking about Diablo but thinking on how to increase their WoW subscriptions. They took a brand that meant truly something to a community and destroyed it for their own gain. I am currenltly replaying Diablo 2, usually when my internet is giving me **** or tuesday mornings when D3 servers are under maintnance. It impresses me how Diablo 2 destroys D3 in every aspect. What happened to our once great Diablo atmosphere?? As a fellow gamespotter wrote,

'' It feels like they hired a bunch of sophomore liberal arts students to do the writing. It's forced, cliche, uninteresting, and does a mostly awful job of conveying any kind of hellish tone. You feel like you're playing through an action cartoon for 12 year olds rather than battling some kind of cunning, ancient darkness''

Now I know some of you are going to tell me to shut up, or to go write this on my blog or whatever. But for the old diablo fanbase I am sure that they are saddened with what happened to the Diablo series.

robertoenrique

Shut up or go write this on your blog or whatever.

They got bought out by Actipission. That's what happened.

They changed the game..Im enjoying it still..The online crap is garbage..The amha is a good idea but what they did is this..Make players buy weapons instead of farming them.Changes the face of the game entirely..Instead of finding good weapons an making them great like in d1 and d2..They have dumbed them down an forced you to buy on the market..The market is a good idea how ever dont like this idea..Ive been playing every day since launch..My brother finds two legends ive yet to find one..Even play more than him..So i launched d2 the other day 20 hours in guess what found a legendary..There is some thing off about diablo 3 that is different and i cant put my thumb on it as of right now..

Im looking forward to torchlight 2..Also borderlands 2.They will be much better purchases for myself im sure..

The tried to combine D2 and WoW. Just didn't work out that well. I don't think the devs completely understand why people play ARPG.

Blizzard got ruined by Activision, in a similar way to how Bioware got ruined by EA.

Blizzard got ruined by Activision, in a similar way to how Bioware got ruined by EA.

Falconoffury

They got bought out by Actipission. That's what happened.

QQabitmoar

Blizzard got ruined by Activision, in a similar way to how Bioware got ruined by EA.

Falconoffury

Blizzard's parent company bought Activision, but don't let facts get in the way of hate.

You can't even find any mention of Activision anywhere on Blizzard products.

[QUOTE="QQabitmoar"]

They got bought out by Actipission. That's what happened.

Baranga

Blizzard got ruined by Activision, in a similar way to how Bioware got ruined by EA.

Falconoffury

Blizzard's parent company bought Activision, but don't let facts get in the way of hate.

You can't even find any mention of Activision anywhere on Blizzard products.

[QUOTE="Falconoffury"]

Blizzard got ruined by Activision, in a similar way to how Bioware got ruined by EA.

Temesra

Dragon age origins great game..Ea buys them dragon age 2 ruined bye ea after the buy out..

Diablo 3 is bought bye activision, d1 and d2 awesome games every one loves them..D3 is made to be a money grab for activision..The auction house i believe ruined the game..The money auction house which ill never ever ever use also ruined the game..Once you bring real money into a game it changes it entirley..My friend is trreating diablo like a job..This i dont like at all..Hell find weapons an sell them for cash this is a huge turn off for myself an many other people...

[QUOTE="Temesra"][QUOTE="Falconoffury"]

Blizzard got ruined by Activision, in a similar way to how Bioware got ruined by EA.

Gladestone1

Dragon age origins great game..Ea buys them dragon age 2 ruined bye ea after the buy out..

Diablo 3 is bought bye activision, d1 and d2 awesome games every one loves them..D3 is made to be a money grab for activision..The auction house i believe ruined the game..The money auction house which ill never ever ever use also ruined the game..Once you bring real money into a game it changes it entirley..My friend is trreating diablo like a job..This i dont like at all..Hell find weapons an sell them for cash this is a huge turn off for myself an many other people...

[QUOTE="QQabitmoar"]

They got bought out by Actipission. That's what happened.

Baranga

Blizzard got ruined by Activision, in a similar way to how Bioware got ruined by EA.

Falconoffury

Blizzard's parent company bought Activision, but don't let facts get in the way of hate.

You can't even find any mention of Activision anywhere on Blizzard products.

Did anyone even question if blizzard is a good dev? WoW wasnt even made to be fun it was made to waste your time.

I think they started making games that appeal to the lowest common denominator to ensure sales rather than worrying about if they're actually making a fun game. And I don't think it was much of a mistake, either. People love blizzard so much that even gamers who aren't casual babies will convince themselves that games like Diablo 3 are great because to even question the quality of a blizzard game to those people is like zeb yokel from texas questioning baby jesus.

blizzard dont really care if a small minority of hardcore gamers hate them. They just sold 6.5 million copies of D3. Thats a huge achievement for a PC game. They dont care if you think their artistic integrity is in the crapper. bonafidetk

Furthermore cartoony? The game is more graphic and the characters are no more overdone than the characters of Diablo 2.. Oh no you guys were right Diablo 2 spews dark realism with barbarians leaping across the screen, whirlwinding.. And furthermore Diablo 2's storytelling was quite awful as well outside of the cutscenes, these games were never story deep.. The only thing story wise I did feel was poorly done was the ending, D2's vanilla ending was far cooler with Baal revealing himself.. The main problem with Diablo 3 is the fact they built it like a MMO in progression it feels like.. Legendaries and set items are pretty much worthless, and worse of all they are rare to the point you will never see them in numerous playthroughs.. They should have went exactly with 1.10 D2 standard of being attainable but hard to get really good ones.. In the end of the day with the flaws such as that I really can't complain about the game overall, I was still able to spend over 100 hours on it before I needed a break.. Which is well worth it. The game really feels like it has the exact same problems of Diablo 2 at launch, bad uniques and set items that rarely ever dropped.. Not a really fleshed out talent system with broken or useless skills.. The only thing abou that though is Blizzard will fix this so I am looking foward to the changes down the road for it when its on the back burner for now..

I think they started making games that appeal to the lowest common denominator to ensure sales rather than worrying about if they're actually making a fun game. And I don't think it was much of a mistake, either. People love blizzard so much that even gamers who aren't casual babies will convince themselves that games like Diablo 3 are great because to even question the quality of a blizzard game to those people is like zeb yokel from texas questioning baby jesus.

xLittlekillx

[QUOTE="xLittlekillx"]

I think they started making games that appeal to the lowest common denominator to ensure sales rather than worrying about if they're actually making a fun game. And I don't think it was much of a mistake, either. People love blizzard so much that even gamers who aren't casual babies will convince themselves that games like Diablo 3 are great because to even question the quality of a blizzard game to those people is like zeb yokel from texas questioning baby jesus.

sSubZerOo

I didn't say anything about diablo 2.

Did anyone even question if blizzard is a good dev? WoW wasnt even made to be fun it was made to waste your time.

edinsftw

the fact that you expected an MMO to be anything other than a timesink makes me wonder about your ability to think