Diablo III General Discussion - Page 1102

On November 07 2018 13:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

i have to wonder how much life experience you have. Fundamental law of marketing #1. Your current customer base is your best source of revenue. Blizzard is failing at retaining customers. They've lost 9 million users in 1 year.


Blizzard is down 9 million MAU's in 1 year. 46 Million a year ago. 37 million now. Blizzard revealed those losses in users are from Overwatch. OW isn't bleeding its hemorrhaging.

ATVI closed today at $64.25 .... ATVI began 2018 at $64.25

in the history of ATVI do you know how many times the stock remained at the same price it started the year? 0.
things are not good at Blizzard and they are not good at ATVI... why do you think Morhaime is gone?

wake up man. the blood has only begun to be spilled.

On November 09 2018 22:04 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
So this pic has apparently "leaked" on to the web.
No idea if legit or not. But this was supposedly a press release in China and Netease has pulled it back due to the negative backlash.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/9vitlr/leaked_photo_showing_netease_teaches_blizzard_how/

On November 09 2018 23:53 lestye wrote:
I think he means the photograph/caption? was pulled back, not the game.

On November 09 2018 23:37 JimmyJRaynor wrote:


ya so ATVI opened today at $55. So its gone from $82 the day Morhaime announced he was leaving... to $55.
Its a fucking blood bath...

Blizzard remained steady with 37 million MAUs despite its #1 franchise WoW selling millions of copies of a major expansion. So the rest of the company lost millions of MAUs.

Meanwhile , Brack says he is "examining all aspects of our operations .." blah blah blah

Big layoffs are coming. I said Blizzard was hemorraghing.. and it is.. but we're not talking about a few stitches and a bandaid here. This is going to be a fucking amputation. Look for big layoffs at Blizzard and employee pay cuts. I've heard rumours of bonus pay opportunities being cut from employee salaries. If true, no surprise at all.

TL;DR : Big Layoffs are on the way at Blizzard.

its a hoax. Blizzard is going forward with Diablo:Immortal

Blizzard desperately needs to stop the bleeding and maintain its player base. You do that by making games not by announcing some restaurant owner just "bought" an OWL team for Toronto.

I'm 31. I can probably speak for many SC2 enthusiasts on TL.Net from age 25 to 35 when i say this :
" The Blizzard we grew up loving.... no longer exists. It is over."

On November 10 2018 01:11 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
you're right this stuff if veering too off-topic; i need to make a thread about Blizzard shifting its focus to mobile gaming.

On November 10 2018 01:19 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
if you disagree with me we can discuss it in that thread. this is off topic. i've already backed my points with sources.

On November 10 2018 02:17 koilbvx wrote:

You cant win against a conspirator and nostalgic

On November 10 2018 01:00 koilbvx wrote:
Mods are just cool with him shitting all over this Diablo 3 thread?

On November 10 2018 07:24 lestye wrote:
I'd be happy with D3 with less obvious builds, and a back to D2 itemization. item level is just silly in Diablo. I don't think they'd ever come close to PoE's depth.

On November 10 2018 10:11 Excalibur_Z wrote:


The loot was a big step up in D3 in a way (speaking of Loot 2.0 in particular). It was nice to have some minimum expectation of item stats, even if it usually devolved into automatically ignoring every Rare in favor of Sets/Legendaries.

The Treasure Class system was kind of silly in D2. They made some tweaks so that players would run different bosses (besides just the Act Bosses) to get different item types (and therefore chances at Sets/Uniques for those item types), but in the end, you're still just boss rushing.

I believe one of the worst elements of D2 was the discovery of Magic Find. It created this interesting decision friction between survivability, killing speed, and loot quality, but more often than not you would just have a "MF character" (often a Sorc) teleport to the end of a dungeon, kill the target boss in 10 seconds, then exit and repeat. It just made everything feel really samey and boring, with the only thrill being the loot you got.

D3's Rifts were kind of cool simply because they gave players what they wanted: dynamic random level generation, infinite enemy variety, the inability to just skip past enemies (because progression required killing), and a wider variety of end bosses. Greater Rifts were doubly interesting because they offer infinitely scaling difficulty for people who are interested in testing their limits. However, in order to progress along that difficulty treadmill, you had to have the stats, builds, and set/gear bonuses necessary to survive (usually procs for damage spikes or high damage mitigation uptime) which ironically also made things feel samey.

So I don't know what the solution is, exactly. I don't like the item tweaks across seasons causing "flavor of the month" items and builds to pop up (this season the Earthquake build is the best, next season it's the Seismic build because that associated set got buffed a bunch, etc.). Part of the reason they do that is probably because it's one of the only ways to avoid stagnation, sort of like MOBA update patterns. It doesn't feel great though.