Perhaps people are being fired due to budget cuts or they are leaving because Actizzard is in self-destruct mode.
Saw this today:
Blizzard customer service concern as staff accept cash to exit Irish hub
Blizzard used to = quality
They prioritized quality over $$, narrowing their focus to the finest detail, and they birthed WoW which ended up getting them $$>
Now Activision only cares about $$, can one expect good of fine quality to come out now? Look at other Activision games.
Personally I’ve been losing faith in Blizzard over the last couple years, particularly when it concerns Diablo. Even WoW is less an MMORPG and more just an MMO now as they continually strip out various role playing aspects, strip skill trees, strip out various stats to hunt for on gear to tweak the build how you want… I still enjoy WoW, but I’ve pretty much given up on D3. It doesn’t feel like an ARPG anymore with how they’ve focused everything towards set damage bonuses and Greater Rift.
I know that if Diablo 4 is ever released, I’ll probably wait a year before even considering buying it, just in case they try to pull off sudden changes shortly after release.
It’s a shame. Diablo is what got me hooked on the ARPG genre that led me to gems like Diablo 1 & 2, Sacred, Nox, Titan Quest and Grim Dawn. I just hope they don’t crash and burn WoW like they have Diablo.
People were complaining about this game as if Blizzard was JUST starting to go bad…when ActiBlizz has been producing glittering garbage for years (D3, SC2, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overrated).
hey SC2 is actually the only good game they produced in a long time o.O
I agree with this though I kind of wish they had a darker ending to SC2 rather than the disney-isque one we got with everyone living happily ever after.
You’ve misspelled Overwatch.
Yeah, agree WC3 was the last good game.
Just finally getting in on this conversation. I played D2 so many hours. So many Baal runs. The waiting for D3 and being so excited about it. Hanging out at the dii forums with Elly, Flux and Rush, namesakes of mercs in D2. Then in the short run after release I was disappointed until now I am disillusioned.
That announcement was so underwhelming. The don’t you have phones comment was so disappointing. The old D2 gamer in me wants to try Diablo Immortal. But the brain and logic in me says either skip it or wait to see what others are saying. I’ll skip or wait. But if what I am reading about dungeons being for groups is true, I will skip it. I hardly have time for gaming any more and being in a group on a phone forcing me to do it or quit in the middle when something comes up would not be good.
So sad about the state of Diablo today. Also sad how Blizzard is treating their long time press fans, like those at Incgamers.
You want to play a game just because it is named “diablo”?
A part of me does, yes. But if you read the next couple of sentences after I said that it will put that thought into context.
You expect people on the internet to read ALL of your post and fully comprehend it???
Insanity.
I read it all, but I know people that do not take that next logical step. They would play any game as long as it is called Diablo-something
When does it come out on PC?:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
I know. There are a lot of people like that. But when it comes to the Diablo franchise I think there are fewer and fewer like that. I said I was disillusioned. I am. Disillusioned and disappointed. D3 was ok-ish. The story mode was so badly cliche at launch. There is a post somewhere on the diabloii.net forums about 6 months after launch that just scorches story mode and how bad it is/was. “You can’t beat me now!!!” was all over it. Bosses were so cliche I would have laughed if it was a comedy show rather than a serious, supposed-to-be dark game. It was so bad. Then they added adventure mode and other stuff that almost fixed it.
I want to play D4 too if it comes out. But I’ll be waiting on that, too. Waiting for launch day bugs to be patched, waiting for reviews and just giving it time because I can no longer trust Blizzard.
You seem surprised that people would play a game just because it has Diablo in the title. Why? They’ve loved the previous games and hope to get more when a new one comes out.
Is it any different from me and quite a few other people who backed Medierra long before the Kickstarter for Grim Dawn ever happpened? My “logic” if you want to call it that was that I loved TQIT and hoped that GD would give me that same enjoyment. It was a risk, but one I decided I wanted to take. There was a pre-order option so I pre-ordered the game, knowing it might not ever be finished. It wasn’t a lot of money so I took that risk and have to say it’s paid off handsomely. 
That is why Metallica is still a popular band xD "Hey it is a Metallica album I must have that since Master of Puppets was good. They have not made a good album in almost 30 years but I must have their new album anyway because it is Metallica… "
Isn’t that exactly what all Diablo 3 players did?
Blizzard North closed, everyone who worked on Diablo left or were put on jobs without any decision capability, everything done for the real Diablo 3 was thrown away and a new project was started, with a new team with no experience on Diablo.
Diablo 3 is a Blizzard game inspired by the Diablo licence.
At least, for Diablo: Immortal, there are guys experienced with Diablo 3 that helped on the developpement.
Hence, there is more “Diablo experience” in Diablo: Immortal than in Diablo 3.
It’s more logical to want to play to Diablo: Immortal because there is “Diablo” in the name than to want to play to Diablo 3 because there is “Diablo” in the name.
certainly some, probably not all, I’d argue many of the ones disappointed by D3 did 
At least, for Diablo: Immortal, there are guys experienced with Diablo 3 that helped on the developpement.
Hence, there is more “Diablo experience” in Diablo: Immortal than in Diablo 3.
isn’t DI not even created by Blizzard, so not sure which D3 devs would be involved there… also, D3 does not have the ‘Diablo experience’, as you explained, so not sure how DI then can get that from D3 devs that do not have it (I know they have D3 experience, but the best we could hope for from that is that they learned from their mistakes - but neither the current D3 nor the DI announcement show that)