All good demons go to... um... sequel? - Diablo 3 Announced

Telefrog · 2012-05-10T07:13:28.000Z

ibdoomed:

Have you seen their forums? I bet they have. They know how childish the 99% are.

I want to make sure I have this straight. Your theory is that Blizzard gave out a meaningless thank you badge to beta folks and meant for other Diablo fans to get angry on their forums to generate publicity for the game that already has TV commercials and has broken preorder records?

Occam’s Razor can eat it, I guess. I would’ve just chalked this whole thing up to a tiny mistake that had its origins in good intentions.

FieryBalrog · 2012-05-10T07:20:45.000Z

Telefrog:

I don’t think it’s uncommon for people to feel slighted when they are told that some people are getting something (for doing nothing, really) while they cannot. Keep in mind that the people getting this thing already got what many perceive to be a benefit. That of playing the D3 beta for a much longer period than others. I think it’s more interesting that Blizzard didn’t foresee this reaction.

The problem is not that people are getting annoyed, the problem is the sheer magnitude of how upset they are and just how emotional they get.

I’ve been there with WoW. I’ve quit the game over things like “you nerfed this one class ability” because of how emotional I got over it. I just don’t do that anymore.

Ninyu · 2012-05-10T08:04:01.000Z

It’s a silly thing to get upset about. This will all be forgotten when the game goes live. People just don’t have anything else to talk about until Tuesday.

Reemul · 2012-05-10T08:17:01.000Z

Ninyu:

It’s a silly thing to get upset about. This will all be forgotten when the game goes live. People just don’t have anything else to talk about until Tuesday.

NO they just don’t have a life unitl Tuesday and that’s pretty sad.

None · 2012-05-10T08:52:06.000Z

They probably won’t have a life after Tuesday as well.

Derbain · 2012-05-10T08:52:42.000Z

But Diablo is life!

ibdoomed · 2012-05-10T08:54:55.000Z

Telefrog:

I want to make sure I have this straight. Your theory is that Blizzard gave out a meaningless thank you badge to beta folks and meant for other Diablo fans to get angry on their forums to generate publicity for the game that already has TV commercials and has broken preorder records?

Occam’s Razor can eat it, I guess. I would’ve just chalked this whole thing up to a tiny mistake that had its origins in good intentions.

I’ve seen marketing people do worse.

I also didn’t realize they had commercials on tv, that’s a new low.

JM1 · 2012-05-10T09:05:01.000Z

Why is advertising their product on TV a new low?

Vincent19 · 2012-05-10T09:09:58.000Z

ibdoomed:

I also didn’t realize they had commercials on tv, that’s a new low.

Yea… what? Even if you inexplicably think of advertising their games on tv as a low, it’s far from new for Blizzard.

ibdoomed · 2012-05-10T09:31:28.000Z

Admittedly it’s been years since I watched tv but I’ve always thought of it as scraping the bottom of the barrel, on par with radio advertising.

Telefrog · 2012-05-10T09:32:47.000Z

What year are you living in?

forgeforsaken · 2012-05-10T09:34:34.000Z

ibdoomed:

Admittedly it’s been years since I watched tv but I’ve always thought of it as scraping the bottom of the barrel, on par with radio advertising.

It’s hardly recent. Don’t you remember all those Chuck Norris, Mr. T Ozzy, etc. WoW ads?

Badesumofu · 2012-05-10T09:37:58.000Z

In what sense is it low? Is this some kind of ‘lowest common denominator’ meaning of low, because TV reaches so many people? Or are you saying that all marketing is bad, and therefore one of the most effective forms of marketing, TV advertising, is therefore especially low?

In any case, Blizzard have advertised on TV numerous times before, check You Tube.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-05-10T09:38:35.000Z

ibdoomed:

Admittedly it’s been years since I watched tv but I’ve always thought of it as scraping the bottom of the barrel, on par with radio advertising.

Why would there be something wrong with advertising on TV? Explain, please.

RobotPants · 2012-05-10T09:40:11.000Z

This thread got weird.

Khoram · 2012-05-10T09:43:05.000Z

Generally only the largest game publishers shell out for TV ads, and usually only for their biggest, most lucrative franchises: your CoDs, Battlefields, Halos, GoW, WoW, SWTOR, etc. I bet there are a whole lot of game developers that would kill for their game to get a TV ad.

I’m talking PC games obviously. I have this vague inkling that console stuff gets a lot more, lower budget TV ads aimed at teen and pre-teen markets on Nickalodeon and Disney TV and whatnot.

ibdoomed · 2012-05-10T10:12:07.000Z

This is 2012. I would expect the demographic here to be in tune with on demand non interactive entertainment and not a slave to the whimsy of tv marketing during their dawsons creek. I did not realize there were tv ads for wow either.

Maybe we should clarify ‘TV’ meaning broadcast tv and not netflixed tv shows, dvr’d shows, etc… does that help? I assumed we were all on the same page since you wouldn’t be seeing ads then.

Hanacker · 2012-05-10T10:16:10.000Z

Most people still watch regular tv. You’re the weird one.

forgeforsaken · 2012-05-10T10:17:03.000Z

ibdoomed:

This is 2012. I would expect the demographic here to be in tune with on demand non interactive entertainment and not a slave to the whimsy of tv marketing during their dawsons creek. I did not realize there were tv ads for wow either.

Maybe we should clarify ‘TV’ meaning broadcast tv and not netflixed tv shows, dvr’d shows, etc… does that help? I assumed we were all on the same page since you wouldn’t be seeing ads then.

Even then the WoW ads are over 5 years old. Also if Diablo was just to sell to the demographic here I think Blizzard would consider the game to be somewhat of a failure. Maybe you haven’t been paying attention, well no maybe about it actually, but games have gone mainstream, they are no longer just for geeks and nerds.

Ninyu · 2012-05-10T10:36:58.000Z

Ibdoomed always makes things weird. He is doomed as you all know.