I don’t know if I’d say, ‘Well Blizzard deserves this because they have been facilitating these kinds of cons,’ because Blizzard is not the only organisation that does stuff like this with games and encourages this kind of mentality.

But do you think Blizzard has facilitated this type of rage by creating this atmosphere where the fans think they’re part of the Blizzard family and they should be getting whatever they want because they’re part of the Blizzard family and they’re coming to BlizzCon every year? Do you think that’s part of this conversation? And I don’t say this to justify any of the awful reactions I’ve seen from some people online. Maddy: And they started out with that trailer showing everybody’s smiling faces in the audience saying, ‘Welcome home!’ Here’s a question I want to ask you two, and Maddy I’ll throw it to you first.īlizzard has created this atmosphere where they hold BlizzCons every year, and they say, ‘Hey, Blizzard family, get together.’ And they always ask the same questions at the beginning - How many of you is it your first BlizzCon? Your tenth BlizzCon? And so there are a lot of questions about this rage. Everybody saw that guy who got on line at the Diablo Q&A afterwards and asked, ‘Is this an off-season April Fool’s joke?’ Everybody saw the rage, the YouTube downvotes, the Reddit comments. So yes, there was a lot of fan backlash to Diablo Immortal, for many, many reasons. So to the people who freaked out, and many many people freaked out about Diablo Immortal, thinking it was going to replace Diablo 4, don’t freak out any longer. That’s not to say the game won’t be cancelled, because we have no idea what’s going to happen in the coming years, but the game is in development. I have talked to many people who have worked on it, or seen it, or played it. Jason: I can promise everybody that Diablo 4 is in development. Get the MP3 right here, or read an excerpt:

We talk about why Diablo Immortal frustrated fans and offer some theories as to why marketing is such a large part of video game culture.įinally, off-topic talk and Kirk’s Music Pick Of The Week. Then we get into the news of the week on Nintendo removing a racist animation from the new Smash, BlizzCon announcements, and the big Diablo controversy. First we talk about some of the games we’ve been playing, including Assassin’s Creed Origins, Return of the Obra Dinn, and Red Dead 2.

Kotaku‘s Maddy Myers returns to the show this week, joining me and Kirk to chat about last week’s big Diablo disaster.

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