According to Senior World Designer Leonard Boyarsky and Lead Technical Artist Julian Love the Tuesday released Blizzard game Diablo III needs to be reinvented will it ever come to consoles. "It will be a great undertaking", Love said in an interview on camera with Zoomin.TV Games. Even though rumours around a console port of Diablo III are hot, the two designers said it's too early to announce anything.
Activision Blizzard ordered to pay $23.4M for patent infringement involving popular games.
I would read the article but the giant pop-ups from the top and bottom of the screen made me close it.
Without reading $23.4 million isn't a deterrent for a company that size.
Boss: Let's fire a few people to recoup on that loss.
Slave: Cortana has decided to get rid of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks.
Boss: Let's get those Firing Letters "Copilot Approved" and send them through the power of the cloud.
Slave: Long Live Phil !!!
ALL in the room: LONG LIVE PHIL !!!!
Well another troll company with a patent trying to extort money out of companies. Seems like they’re going to try and sue everyone.
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
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.
Custom Characters, please.
I'm so sick of this whole subject. Anyone saying Diablo can't, won't, or needs any reinventing to work on consoles is a complete idiot. No offense, but that's just how it is. And as a huge fan of this genre, and someone that always has been, I think the "Diablo" type games work better and are more fun to play on consoles.
People have short and very biased memories. This type of game.....the dungeon crawling RPG was working well on consoles before it was working well on PCs. Albeit in a very simple version. I'm not the only person who remembers Gauntlet I hope.
It doesn't stop there though. People chose to forget that when Diablo 1 was put on PS1, the PS1 version was "better" than the PC version. Now that's opinion and arguable. But some people DO have that opinion, and it was argued about.
And since then, this genre has THRIVED on consoles with some REALLY great games. Baulder's DA 1 and 2 and Champions of Norrath were among the best but there were many others, they even started using that formula for super-hero games it was so popular and well recieved of a formula on consoles.
This gen started really slow for the "Diablo" genre on consoles. Finally Sacred 2 came out for consoles in 2009 and ONCE AGAIN.....just like Diablo 1 on PS1, it was proven that this genre actually works BETTER on consoles. It was a direct port of the PC version basically and the whole Sacred community, even the PC side because they aren't angry PC elitist like alot of the Diablo community, all agreed the game is better on consoles (aside from not getting the DLC).
Later that year Dragon Age was also FANTASTIC on consoles, and would have been even better on consoles than it already was if it also had the isometric view of the PC version. Only because BioWare have lapses of idiocy was it out.
Diablo 3 would work perfectly.....if not better on consoles depending on the gamer's preference. I MUCH prefer playing these types of games on a controller. I like moving my toon with the left stick, camera on right stick and skills/items on face buttons and d-pad with shoulder button modifiers.
Just using L2 and R2 as modifiers, that's 24 instantly accessible skills/talents/items between face buttons and d-pad. What toon consistantly uses more than 24 skills? "An under-powered at higher levels toon" would be the only answer tp that.
BUT even if 24 isn't enough there are 2 other shoulder buttons for modifiers too. That's 40 possible skills slots at your fingertips, on a controller and you STILL have the analog buttons and start and select open.
Now.....can ANYONE PLEASE give me one or more intelligent example of why Diablo 3.....or even the most deep of MMORPGs which people also always say can't work on consoles, won't work on consoles even though these games have been working perfectly well on consoles for just as long, if not longer than on PC?
I'm waiting.....because as of right now every time I see anyone say "Diablo 3 wouldn't work on console without HUGE changes that would gimp the game.", all I can think is how much of a completely braindead moron must be on the other end of those words.
I can name many examples of these games working as good and BETTER on consoles, but I've never read a single good example of why these games can't, won't or don't work good on consoles. I just see people say it, but not give any reasoning behind their "thought" (if you can call it that).
Realistically they should bring it to next gen systems as the old system might end up getting server shutdown as we know Diablo can on for many years. SO if they bring it to the new systems at least they could be supported for just as long as the system is alive.
From what i saw in past few days, i dont want Diablo. Other substitiutes are doing fine.
I watched a few D3 videos and was shocked at how outdated the gameplay looked. I'd still buy it for my console if they made it available though, and yes of course the game would work just fine on consoles.