There's a chance, but this isn't battle.net, so adult, well-reasoned posts without personal attacks that actually discuss the series usually stay up. Sorry.
They don't understand that the game sold 10 million copies at $60 not including RMAH, That's $600 million dollars the game made before RMAH.
Uh... no. Agreed with your point in regards to Bliz's general hugeness and the laughable nature of D3 relative to their resources, BUT, a big chunk of those "sales" were giveaways for WoW year subs, while the ones that weren't didn't make a straight 60 bucks in any case. Also, national TV campaigns aren't free - espn isn't known to give away half-minute slots.
The real point is that WoW has actually revenued more than D3 since release, and done it with much, much better margins. D3 is an R&D experiment/loss leader. It's the rat in the lab, not the dog in the yard (WoW) or cat in the living room (SC).
Why do we give a free pass to the D3 devs for ignoring 10 years of Diablo 2 gameplay ideas, mechanics, itemization and feature improvements?
Well, they weren't there during Diablo 2 development. None of them, except one who joined late in a junior capacity. So we couldn't reasonably expect them to know about iterative processes that happened hundreds of miles away with people they've never met.
Maybe we could expect them to know about them as players, but companies with the size of blizz are more about politics than knowledge or competence.
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Gratz!
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There's a chance, but this isn't battle.net, so adult, well-reasoned posts without personal attacks that actually discuss the series usually stay up. Sorry.
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Uh... no. Agreed with your point in regards to Bliz's general hugeness and the laughable nature of D3 relative to their resources, BUT, a big chunk of those "sales" were giveaways for WoW year subs, while the ones that weren't didn't make a straight 60 bucks in any case. Also, national TV campaigns aren't free - espn isn't known to give away half-minute slots.
The real point is that WoW has actually revenued more than D3 since release, and done it with much, much better margins. D3 is an R&D experiment/loss leader. It's the rat in the lab, not the dog in the yard (WoW) or cat in the living room (SC).
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Ho ho ho!
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Well, they weren't there during Diablo 2 development. None of them, except one who joined late in a junior capacity. So we couldn't reasonably expect them to know about iterative processes that happened hundreds of miles away with people they've never met.
Maybe we could expect them to know about them as players, but companies with the size of blizz are more about politics than knowledge or competence.
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Sure, but it was a mess with a fully functional single player game. You do know what that is, right?
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Feed us money, bitchez...
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Not only is it unofficial, but it may well piss them off enough to move it out a few weeks while finding a way to punish the leaker.
Remember the potential blizcon in vegas?