I'm having the impression that somebody here is dying to see Blizzard going broke.
Maybe it's just my imagination.
Its a possibility, make sure to bring your phones this time xD
If you dont know how to play mobile games on your pc, you should go ask google... it's very easy to do. If you want to play D:I on pc, you can very easily do it.
Yeah and what if Blizzard announces that the next WoW expansion is a physical board game with a kickstarter campaign?
These hypotheticals are getting dumber by the day.
I'm amazed how people believe D:I is a carbon-copy of D3 just because the regular player characters are the same... despite all the levels and most of the creatures are entirely new. I think the only thing that's being ported over are the classes... and even then, they're being adjusted for whatever that company's jack-leg mobile design is.
Arguably, D:I has more designwork than Reaper of Souls brought with it. However, the horrible handling of its announcement made everything about that lost in a sea of (somewhat justified) mobile-prejudice combined with lack of PC-Diablo specific content. :P
Keep in mind, I"m not DEFENDING D:I, I hate mobile gaming as well and could care less about it - I'm just explaining it from Blizz's perspective and a designer perspective. That's why I'm posting this theory as I can see how a China-focused economic company, who was brainless enough to try to sell a Mobile Diablo game as a legit sequel to a western PC market, might do something stupid again. >_<
OP, you do realize PC and Consoles already have Diablo 3+ expansion... right?
that would be an even bigger PR disaster than last year, i hope they learned something last year
That's the part I'm worried about with current Blizz. They don't really seem to learn their lessons.
I can honestly see them currently thinking "OK, so, the problem with D:I wasn't that the game was bad - it's that it's on mobile only and there was nothing for the PC players. Makes sense... OK, we'll port D:I over - toss in a new class or two, and blam - they'll be happy! Right??" >_<
Kinda like Mechagnomes recently as well.
"What about giving us mechagnomes?"
"OK, here are Mechagnomes."
"...dafuq is that!? We wanted MECHAGNOMES! From Ulduar! The cool clockwork ones we've known for years now! What you're giving us are paraplegic regular gnomes!" >_<
I mean, how smegging brain-dense do you have to be to get Mechagnomes wrong!? >_<
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Simply put, games are first made on PC, designed and adapted to the targetted platform releases. If this game was ever going to release on PC we would already know about it basically because it would have been announced as such before or at the same time as the mobile version. There's not any imaginable scenario where they would design it only for mobile and then change their mind to make it PC as well.
Totally agree. I'm just not sure Blizz's recent mentality would see it that way if they did. Again, this is the company that was baffled by the idea a Mobile-Exclusive Diablo game being the highlight of the Convention was VERY ill-recieved by the PC-gaming Western audience attending it. >_<
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Haaa!! I must admit, this thought came to my mind as well right after I made this thread! ^_^
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/points at my OP
There's one potential scenario right up there that I wrote up. It was called "The Blizzcon 2018 debacle". :P
Well, yes, as a developer, Blizz really is that stupid.
However, the bean counters are clearly in charge, and I don't *think* they are that stupid to make such as asinine announcement. Their stock tanked after last year's Blizzcon, and it really hasn't recovered (it's maybe 10% higher than just after last year's Blizzcon), and the beancounters rely on stock prices (and bonuses) to make mega-bucks.
It is more likely that they will make rather middling announcements (e.g. WoW expansion, D4) and simply pump up the PR to 11. If the audience bites, then the stock should work its way back up with follow up stock investor meetings that make unrealistic expectations of future income.