Josh Mosqueira has explained that Blizzard and Sony identified the “significant amount of consoles not connected to the internet” as their reasoning for including offline play in Diablo 3.
Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.
Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.
Microsoft needs to be guiding Blizzard to be what it USED to be, not allowing it to continue to be the greedy bastardization of itself that it has become.
Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.
They will never be old blizzard. Most of all the OG's left from developers to those on the top (even some decision making folks left).
Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.
I was about to say this. How can they be blizzard when they're no longer blizzard from yesteryear?
Exactly. Blizzard hasn’t been Blizzard for a long time.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Were you expecting Microsoft to hire everyone that had left Blizzard long before they purchased the company...
Microsoft has let the Blizzard company they purchased continue to be the Blizzard company they purchased.
Wow, PassNextquestion,
You fully understand what that saying means, unlike some people on here who just have to say negative garbage talk.
When someone says, "Just let *blank* be *blank*, "they are just letting them operate how they operate.
It's pretty much how Sony "let Bungie be Bungie."
This comment section is full of outright haters, but you have to "let N4G be N4G"
I don't think people commenting are necessarily blaming MS for anything here, this is just collective longing for what Blizzard/Vivendi was before Activision's meddling.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
Exactly these companies were raising money for good causes and gamers were donation and come to find out they are keeping a good chunk of be pie
Yeah tip your developer, 5% proceeds go to developer, 95% to the publisher or whoever. Isn't tipping for staff not making minimum wage? How about they just pay their developers properly and like you know, give them fair bonuses? Too much to ask from Blizzard these days, Kotick saw to that and is now laughing all the way to the bank.
It's the t**ts at the top looking at ways to cut devs wages and get the players to tip them like waiting staff, and I'll guarantee a percentage is skimmed and kept by Activision Blizzard. This is 100% for shareholder and CEO playouts.
I have to agree with this. On the surface tipping devs sounds like a great idea, but in the end it leads to pay cuts and subsidization of pay. Tips then become an expectation or the devs “can’t make a living.” Lastly, especially in the US, tip culture has gotten out of control, and it serves as an excuse not to properly pay employees. Sounds good but doesn’t end well.
@ Popsicle
I think your right on the nose with how much tipping has become rampant. Instead of it being a relationship directly between the customer and the developer or employee, it now has a middle man ingrained in the system. DoorDash is one example. It ends up becoming a metric where the company can measure 'just how much more money you are willing to part with' before raising the price on the main product.
Uh so they’re trying triple dip or more we buy the game that they’re already withholding/cutting content for dlc we was told that season pass would help the developers thrive we felt for it.
Now on top of all that plus their sales bonus they want tips enough is enough whatever happens to you create/built a good game get a bonus for sales milestones you care about your game and community we reward you with more sales not for doing 3/4 of a game then save the other 1/4 for dlc and passes after
Very well said. If it was possible to send the money to either the developer or some organization for the betterment of gaming, sure. But we all know that will not be the case.
No, it would go to those on the top. They will still fire developers, have a bunch of microtransactions, raise prices of games and so on.
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
That kind of practice is only normal in the states, as far as I know anyway, what a backwards system
Ireland is literally the first stop across the pond and we don't have a tipping culture. The only establishments here that would expect a tip are the tourist haunts that Americans visit. Other than that, you might tip in a restaurant as a sign of gratitude for great service and waiting staff would be paid a full wage anyway.
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
Blizzard and NetEase have announced that Blizzard's games will return to mainland China under a new publishing agreement.
title is completely inaccurate
Why does it take a significant amount of consoles not connected to the internet for developers to know that not everyone wants to be connected 24/7? If the game has a single player option then allow offline play. Not everyone wants to be connected, especially with the amount of idiots online.
"Mosqueria may be talking solely about Diablo in this particular instance, but Microsoft would do well to take heed of such observations. The console platform is on a shaky nail as it is, the unnecessarily isolation of any group may prove a very risky move."
Do you think he's referring to their Kinect/casual/entertainment focus with that shaky nail remark?
What is up with this story? Anti MSFT S.D.F are worse this coming generation than the last, now that MSFT proved to be a force.
-Attacking 720/MSFT because PS4 rumors before the Sony PS4 reveal seemed like an attack Play Station.(rumors turned on MSFT because of Sony's DRM patent etc)
-Making up rumors and calling them facts, giving Sony the benefit of the doubt with the rumors before the PS4 reveal. Yet these same people claim MSFT's are set in stone claiming it's too late for MSFT even though Sony had different specs for PS4 just weeks ago(litterally days before the PS4 reveal)
-Trying to provoke other media in writing articles about fictional topics, baiting the other oulets with traffic caused by nervous Sony fans.
-Now! editing news and changing info/facts/truth out of nervous desperation due to haters no longer believing their own delusions
*Always connected* is a feature that allows the box to use the new auto update features never signing out the user so the xbox can use remote access/control features(smartglass/PC etc)
*Always on* is a full standard now and not like the 360's optional and limited version of this feature(background downloads when the console is almost off in the 360's case)
^^his allows control of the console in any power state. The console can be controlled in STANDBY MODE/POWERED ON with Kinect and other remote devices. You need both these features to use the features the way that is intended.
Kinect always being on(waiting for input/comands) is a function of the device(Kinect 2) having full control of the hardware and OS no matter the power state or location of the user on the console operating system(in any game even non kinect ones, any app, service/feature etc).
Not hard to grasp.
"significant amount of consoles not connected to the internet" then where is the native backward compatibility for the PS4 because Gaikai wouldn't work on a significant amount of consoles not connected to the internet. so they are going to pick and choose who they alienate.
I see double standards, and smell BS.
all in all I'm going to buy Diablo 3, because I owned it for PC and couldn't play it because of an internet connection, so I will buy it for consoles so I can at least enjoy a game I bought.