Blizzard Cleans Up GAME's Mess
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The Blizz hate is rather out of control, when it comes down to it, Blizzard have always made quality games, most of the ire on here comes from when they merged with Activision, and I think most of the blame can be laid at Mr Kotick's door, preferably in a paper bag, with some poop in it, on fire.
You lot realise that if Blizzard had done fuck all, there'd not be two pages of complaints about them? I actually was cynical myself, when I read the post about GAME cancelling preorders, no refunds, I thought 'Blizzard could step in here and get some PR, but I bet they won't.'
In the end, I imagine many of the people who want D3, really want it, and they feel screwed by GAME, not Blizzard, and probably would have purchased it again eventually.
To me, they've done a good thing, of course it's good business sense too, but that doesn't detract from them not leaving a bunch of potential customers screwed over by someone else.
Even if you only put down ten or twenty bucks, it's probably made it cheaper to buy from them than anyone else. If you paid up front in full, however, then I imagine Blizzard just made your day and you can't believe a massive corporation is bothering to care.
Oh and I played D3 for a while last night, one disconnect, but immediately got back in and carried on. Got a Barbarian to 9 and Witch Doctor to 8, firstly with a REAL ID friend from WOW, and then by just opening my game to the public.
Everything is much smoother and simpler than D2 in terms of connecting to a game and to people. Also, they seem to have really sorted out any loot issues, in that when enemies are killed, it generates loot for each player in your group, so you can loot everything, knowing you're not ninjaing, yet at the same time, if you're feeling nice, and a bow drops, you can trade with the Demon Hunter and offer it to them
You lot realise that if Blizzard had done fuck all, there'd not be two pages of complaints about them? I actually was cynical myself, when I read the post about GAME cancelling preorders, no refunds, I thought 'Blizzard could step in here and get some PR, but I bet they won't.'
In the end, I imagine many of the people who want D3, really want it, and they feel screwed by GAME, not Blizzard, and probably would have purchased it again eventually.
To me, they've done a good thing, of course it's good business sense too, but that doesn't detract from them not leaving a bunch of potential customers screwed over by someone else.
Even if you only put down ten or twenty bucks, it's probably made it cheaper to buy from them than anyone else. If you paid up front in full, however, then I imagine Blizzard just made your day and you can't believe a massive corporation is bothering to care.
Oh and I played D3 for a while last night, one disconnect, but immediately got back in and carried on. Got a Barbarian to 9 and Witch Doctor to 8, firstly with a REAL ID friend from WOW, and then by just opening my game to the public.
Everything is much smoother and simpler than D2 in terms of connecting to a game and to people. Also, they seem to have really sorted out any loot issues, in that when enemies are killed, it generates loot for each player in your group, so you can loot everything, knowing you're not ninjaing, yet at the same time, if you're feeling nice, and a bow drops, you can trade with the Demon Hunter and offer it to them
So if you paid for the game with a bank card, they put £40 directly back into your account? Or do you get a sort of store credit thing?
If it's the former then wow, just wow, that is pretty decent of them.
If if's the latter then well, I am not surprised much at all, 'here you can now give us more money, enjoy'.
If it's the former then wow, just wow, that is pretty decent of them.
If if's the latter then well, I am not surprised much at all, 'here you can now give us more money, enjoy'.
Its a small part of people overall. And lets not forget they are sitting in offices build from money. So yes its a great way to make a good PR stunt and make even more good with fans.
But lets be honnest Blizzard already stand at Exalted with pretty much all gamers around the world.
But lets be honnest Blizzard already stand at Exalted with pretty much all gamers around the world.
Ahaha, I love the "hottest night of the year"-line they put in there. Modest much?
Well, good on the costumers and on Blizzard, I guess. Positive press like that will likely more than make up for giving away a few copies' money worth.
Personally, I don't care too much. I'm not a "hater" of Blizzard by any stretch, but I dislike their online-heavy methods these days. I haven't bought a Blizzard game since Frozen Throne and I don't feel poorer for the lack of playing them.
WoW as well as "Battlenet 2.0"-DRMs really turned me off their products. You know what I like? gog.com, Humble Bundle and the "used games"-section on amazon and similar sites.
EDIT: And gog just released Silver, tweaked to work with W7. Well damn, I guess they were right after all, this is going to be the hottest night of the year.
Well, good on the costumers and on Blizzard, I guess. Positive press like that will likely more than make up for giving away a few copies' money worth.
Personally, I don't care too much. I'm not a "hater" of Blizzard by any stretch, but I dislike their online-heavy methods these days. I haven't bought a Blizzard game since Frozen Throne and I don't feel poorer for the lack of playing them.
WoW as well as "Battlenet 2.0"-DRMs really turned me off their products. You know what I like? gog.com, Humble Bundle and the "used games"-section on amazon and similar sites.
EDIT: And gog just released Silver, tweaked to work with W7. Well damn, I guess they were right after all, this is going to be the hottest night of the year.
Because having to be online to play a game by myself that I paid $100 essentially makes my investment worthless. They're not providing me with a product anymore, they're giving me permission to use their product. It shows a blatant disregard for their fanbase without internet connections, it's cocky assuming that their system will definitely work for everybody, and it means when those servers get switched off, my disc I paid for becomes as worthless as a coaster. I don't want to support a company that think that's good design.tony2077 said:
I think I've found YOUR problem. You're confusing a single player game with a very robust and well implemented multi-player mode (Diablo) with a semi-MMO (Guild Wars). Diablo has never been a multi-player game primarily, the focus was always the single player game. And there are some of us who don't feel like our single player game should be dependent on an internet connection to a remote server.Funkamander said:
That said, this is still a pretty cool move on Blizzard/Activision's part. This wasn't their mess to clean up, but stepping up to it was a good move for them.
Lol at the people saying "blizzard single handedly killed lan parties!", which is ironic seeing as lan parties usually doesn't have any internet connection..(*sarcasm*) Sitting in the same room with the guys you're playing with is always better, and it really doesn't matter if you're connected to the internet or not in the process. And now that blizz is adding "resume from replay" feature in hots, we really don't have any reason to whine about it anymore, even if the internet should cut for a second in a large tournament.
Blizzard is the only one of two companies who get their costumers (the other being valve). Yes, they are owned by activision who..doesn't.. But that hasn't stopped them from churning out the best games and costumer service in the industry. And stories like in this article only adds to strengthen that image.
Blizzard is the only one of two companies who get their costumers (the other being valve). Yes, they are owned by activision who..doesn't.. But that hasn't stopped them from churning out the best games and costumer service in the industry. And stories like in this article only adds to strengthen that image.
It's not pay to win though...buying from an in-game NPC is more pay to win then this. They just changed the currency. For it to be pay to win, the items have to be spawned into the game with money: These items are still crafted/found/w'e by players, but rather then sell them for virtual promissory notes, they are selling them for paper promissory notes.eventhorizon525 said:
Thank you for a more competent post that makes a good point rather than uses any D3 news to bash Blizz for the way they protect their IP.John Funk said: