Or Karen!
Edit: doh! Beaten to it by Telefrog.
Wouldnât it be cool for some company to open preorders for a game that then comes out the next day or weekâŚnot 6 months later. Kind of like Apple with their new product announcements. Iâm sick of waiting, dammit!
several games have done surprise releases, itâs always a welcome surprise. Apex Legends was one of those, albeit a f2p one.
The example that always sticks out to me is Fallout 4. I feel like it was revealed just a few months before launch? Looking into it, it was revealed on June and came out in November, so five months. Maybe in this case it felt so sudden because I donât remember having an inkling it was coming other than âI assume they are working on a Fallout 4â in the back of my head, maybe.
I feel duped.
This isnât an âannoucementâ you fucks. Hopefully something is happening at the VGA after all?
Digging into the rules, sounds like the prizes are ⌠food based?
TO BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE AND WIN A DIABLO 4 PRIZE (AS THAT TERM
IS DEFINED BELOW) YOU MUST LIVE IN AN AREA SERVICED BY DOORDASH
âFULFILLMENT PARTNERâ) IN MANHATTAN, NY; LOS ANGELES, CA; CHICAGO,
IL; SAN FRANCISCO, CA; OR PHILADELPHIA, PA (EACH A âPARTICIPATING
CITY,â COLLECTIVELY THE âPARTICIPATING CITIESâ), WHICH SPECIFIC
PARTICIPATING CITY ELIGIBLE LOCATIONS CAN BE FOUND AT
https://diablo4.prod.fooji.com/#delivery-zones
EDIT: Hey, I won - I think. I got a notification that @diablo tweeted me a link, I filled out my address and of course given this result (this makes sense, Doordash isnât available for me).
Hahahahahahaha!
This is how I prefer it. I canât stand hearing about a game years before it comes out. Donât bother me with that stuff unless thereâs something I can actually buy and play in the near future.
Wow, only 250 people got a $25 gift code, that was lucky. Looking at the prizes, I think Iâm happiest with what I ended up.
Nice, congrats! Iâd agree you got the better prize.
Hey, I think you should buy a lottery ticket this week. Youâve already won 2 prizes so far :)
Thatâs not true. While I was going through my email just now I see I won an Amazon gift card for $15 from a survey/contest I entered a few weeks ago! So itâs actually three!
Alright listen here, enough is enough you leave some for the rest of us
If you need a shiny new pc with an rtx 4090, Iâve been seeing give aways for those on twitter lately :)
Put me down for 2 bucks for the QT3 lottery pool YOU are going to buy tickets for this week. Thanks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/12/08/diablo-iv-release-date-crunch/
â> gift link: https://wapo.st/3FDqGBR
he company is incentivizing employees to âcrunch,â an industry term referring to working late evenings and weekends outside of regular work hours, by promising them perks some workers say are paltry.
The best-selling Diablo series has not seen a new mainline installment since 2012, and fans have been eagerly anticipating the latest. Developers, in turn, have been afraid of disappointing gamers, and in interviews, they described a beleaguered process of trying to meet a release date that feels unlikely without many hours of overtime or cut features. The release date has already shifted multiple times, they said.
Fifteen current and former Blizzard employees spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about company operations. They described a mounting sense of dissatisfaction and malaise among employees as they endured leadership changes at Activision Blizzard and on the âDiablo IVâ team. The Diablo team has been losing talent for over a year, as employees look for more competitive wages and better work conditions elsewhere, according to employees. One group of about 20 developers working on one portion of the game saw about half of its members leave within a year, according to two former employees. Blizzard did not comment on attrition on the âDiablo IVâ team.
Seems to date back to Mesopotamian mythology, according to wikipedia!
Re: crunch on Diablo IV.
Jeez, just let them delay it to Holiday 2023. Itâs not like weâre not used to waiting a long time for Diablo games already, and youâll burn through less employees and still make your money.
Crunching seems okay if itâs for a week or two to reach a major milestone. âCrunchingâ for months isnât really crunching anymore, itâs just oppressive work hours.
But this isnât Blizzard of old. âWhen itâs doneâ doesnât exist anymore. If it did, Diablo 3 wouldnât have launched in the state it did.
I really donât want to derail this thread, or cause an argument, but I wanted to ask:
As someone who decided to end my WoW Classic subscription and ignore all other Blizzard content when they punished Blitzchung for speaking for human rights, has anything tangibly changed in the company since then or any other recent factors that should change my attitude towards them? (I genuinely donât know as have been ignoring all Blizzard related headlines)
If Microsoft wins their case and acquires them it might mean a different work environment / management.