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Topic	can someone explain the diablo outrage to me
ParanoidObsessive 11/04/18 5:22:25 AM #30:	shadowsword87 posted... I get the outrage over the product, not that quote specifically. It's basically being dismissive of the reasons why people are upset, then responding with something that is pretty obviously meant as a smart-ass putdown. It's the same reason people went ballistic when the Xbox One was going to require always on connectivity, and lots of people upset about it pointed out that there are plenty of places in the world where Internet connectivity was poor, and the official response was "Why would anyone want to live there?". It generally implies the person being dismissive is either ignorant at best or an asshole at worst. It's actually something that happens a lot when engineers have total control over design philosophy and marketing, because people who live their lives immersed in digital culture and on the bleeding edge of technology rarely understand or relate to what the average person actually wants, needs, or is capable of running (it's also a common problem with politicians, who spend their entire lives involved in the public sector and generally come from affluent families, and thus have no realistic understanding of what actual human beings living in the private sector have to deal with in their normal lives - which results in laws like shutting down multiple streets in NYC to make bike trails passed by a mayor who literally never drives and owns a private helicopter). Basically, if you're going to be a dismissive smart ass, you probably shouldn't be the designated face put front and center to try and sell your product to an audience that doesn't want it in the first place. Your job is to convince them why they SHOULD want it, not to be too cool for the room and shit on them because they don't. FourthDimension posted... Blizzard tells the fan base not to expect diablo 4 at blizzcon People expect diablo 4 at blizzcon Blizzard doesnt give it to them Blizzard tells the fan base to expect something exciting and Diablo-related at Blizzcon. Blizzard announces a crap mobile game that literally no one at Blizzcon is going to be excited about. Blizzard wonders why people are annoyed. Honestly, I think they would have been fine (or at least much, MUCH better off) if they didn't build up hype in advance, then announce it at a gathering of all the most hard-core fans of the franchise. The target audience for mobile games aren't people going to Blizzcon. Blizzcon is pretty much the last place on Earth they should have announced it, and hyping it in advance of the announcement is pretty much the absolute last thing they should have done. They gained nothing, and lost pretty much everything. Developers need to figure this stuff out. You'd think they'd learn from reactions to things like Metal Gear Survive and the Command and Conquer mobile game. Bypass marketing to "gamers" entirely and instead narrow-cast your product to the sort of people who actually play mobile games (and drop the tons of microtransaction money you're looking for) and they wouldn't even remotely have the problems they do with this sort of thing. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:911779322] in can someon... [t:77168086]...</cite> <quote><cite>shadowsword87 posted...</cite> <quote>I get the outrage over the product, not that quote specifically.</quote> It's basically being dismissive of the reasons why people are upset, then responding with something that is pretty obviously meant as a smart-ass putdown. It's the same reason people went ballistic when the Xbox One was going to require always on connectivity, and lots of people upset about it pointed out that there are plenty of places in the world where Internet connectivity was poor, and the official response was "Why would anyone want to live there?". It generally implies the person being dismissive is either ignorant at best or an asshole at worst. It's actually something that happens a lot when engineers have total control over design philosophy and marketing, because people who live their lives immersed in digital culture and on the bleeding edge of technology rarely understand or relate to what the average person actually wants, needs, or is capable of running (it's also a common problem with politicians, who spend their entire lives involved in the public sector and generally come from affluent families, and thus have no realistic understanding of what actual human beings living in the private sector have to deal with in their normal lives - which results in laws like shutting down multiple streets in NYC to make bike trails passed by a mayor who literally never drives and owns a private helicopter). Basically, if you're going to be a dismissive smart ass, you probably shouldn't be the designated face put front and center to try and sell your product to an audience that doesn't want it in the first place. Your job is to convince them why they SHOULD want it, not to be too cool for the room and shit on them because they don't. <cite>FourthDimension posted...</cite> <quote>Blizzard tells the fan base not to expect diablo 4 at blizzcon People expect diablo 4 at blizzcon Blizzard doesnt give it to them</quote> Blizzard tells the fan base to expect something exciting and Diablo-related at Blizzcon. Blizzard announces a crap mobile game that literally no one at Blizzcon is going to be excited about. Blizzard wonders why people are annoyed. Honestly, I think they would have been fine (or at least much, MUCH better off) if they didn't build up hype in advance, then announce it at a gathering of all the most hard-core fans of the franchise. The target audience for mobile games aren't people going to Blizzcon. Blizzcon is pretty much the last place on Earth they should have announced it, and hyping it in advance of the announcement is pretty much the absolute last thing they should have done. They gained nothing, and lost pretty much everything. Developers need to figure this stuff out. You'd think they'd learn from reactions to things like Metal Gear Survive and the Command and Conquer mobile game. Bypass marketing to "gamers" entirely and instead narrow-cast your product to the sort of people who actually play mobile games (and drop the tons of microtransaction money you're looking for) and they wouldn't even remotely have the problems they do with this sort of thing. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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