Blizzard tells gamers to lower expectations for Diablo III

[C@!]

Reminds me of when SWTOR was coming out, way too much hype over it and look at it now

[fido123]

Originally Posted by dAnceguy117

Kind of a funny joke, but also kind of just disrespectful toward customers. :/

How is honesty disrespectful? 99% of companies don't have the respect for their consumers to do what Blizz is doing IMO.

[dAnceguy117]

Originally Posted by fido123

How is honesty disrespectful? 99% of companies don't have the respect for their consumers to do what Blizz is doing IMO.

idk, I keep reading that bit and I keep coming away with "you should buy our game. we don't care about living up to your expectations because we know what's best."

I still agree with you; I like Blizzard far more than most big-name developers and publishers.

[fido123]

Originally Posted by dAnceguy117

idk, I keep reading that bit and I keep coming away with "you should buy our game. we don't care about living up to your expectations because we know what's best."

Nowhere do they say "Buy our game" during this statement rather than "It's not consistent with out usual standard of quality we apply to our games, so unless you'd be happy with something worse than what we usually make DO NOT buy this game. Also where do they show any signs of not caring about living up to expectations? Would you prefer they release the game that may be crappy and tell everybody it's amazing?

[dAnceguy117]

Originally Posted by fido123

Nowhere do they say "Buy our game" during this statement

Originally Posted by Blizzard guy

but still definitely buy the game please

Originally Posted by fido123

Also where do they show any signs of not caring about living up to expectations?

Originally Posted by Blizzard guy

So just like, lower those expectations [...] and everything will be just fine. K?

Originally Posted by fido123

Would you prefer they release the game that may be crappy and tell everybody it's amazing?

I would hope that if the game is crappy they'd refine it.

[Winrar]

I knew from the start to not have my hopes up. Blizzard makes good games, but they're spending more time working on their new mmo. Diablo 2 was amazing, but d3 can't live up to the hype. It's been 11-12 years of built up hype, I'll still get the game and enjoy it, but I'm not gonna expect to be one of the greatest games of all time.

[Barq]

as someone who has never played d1 or d2, im really looking forward to this game and I already "have it for free" thanks to the wow annual pass.

[DarkManticoreX2]

Honestly, I expect the Diablo III release to go very similar to how the Starcraft II release went.

You'll have a ton of Super-Mega-OMG-DIABLO!!!!111 fans buy the game. They'll realize there's tiny differences from D2.

Half will complain the changes made things worse, that they removed a charachter class they loved etc etc. Ultimately these people will be unable to re-identify with D3, because they've been playing D2 for 13 years and they really don't want blizzard to change anything. New storyline, Better graphics, less lag and they'd be happy.

Essentially, they just want a remastered D2, and in the end they'll probably just stick with playing D2. Occasionally they'll drop by and rant about how much better D2 was and how Activision is killing Blizzard.


The other half will give the game a chance, probably enjoy it and adapt to the changes.
Then you'll get new customers who haven't played D2, and will enjoy it because they're not trying to compare it to anything.


Blizzard just wants the hype to drop a bit because even the best made game might not have as long of a game life in this day and age. SC:BW and D2 were out for 10+ years with only minor patch updates. I don't really expect any game to get that lifespan now.