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Respect?
The lengths Blizzard has gone to to ensure they produce a Diablo 3 that is fun to play while staying true to the franchise have included many reworks of the game. The fact that Blizzard completely scrapped the game and started from scratch in 2003 because it just "wasn't fun" enough, I think we, as fans, can show a little more gratitude towards our favorite game developers.
As I am sure everyone here is aware, shortly after the announcement of Diablo 3 there was a petition to change the art style. This was the first of many gripes Diablo "fans" have had. Rob Pardo, Executive Vice President of Blizzard and executive producer of Diablo 3, has stated that "We've probably gone through atleast three different pretty major art direction shifts" in order to achieve the "gothic, dark feel" while adding color into the game. This dedication to the game and its fans deserves more respect from us, the fans, than it has received.
Now, every time Blizzard tries to release a tidbit of information about the game to reassure or inform the fanbase it is met by intense scrutiny. Then they decide to avoid a whole gripe about an insubstantial part of the game and theres multiple threads complaining of a lack of info released.
Blizzard still, somehow, has the patience to deal with the fanbase and actually takes some of our opinions into concideration because it could make the game better (ie. the length corpses are displayed for). They decide to release a new patch for D2 (for FREE) and actually ask the fans what we want most in the patch (first time I've heard any company doing that) and all I see now are posts on Battle.net complaining that the patch isn't out yet.
After all that this company has done for its fans, I think we could show Blizzard a little more respect.
Edit by Leord:
Art controversy
The lengths Blizzard has gone to to ensure they produce a Diablo 3 that is fun to play while staying true to the franchise have included many reworks of the game. The fact that Blizzard completely scrapped the game and started from scratch in 2003 because it just "wasn't fun" enough, I think we, as fans, can show a little more gratitude towards our favorite game developers.
As I am sure everyone here is aware, shortly after the announcement of Diablo 3 there was a petition to change the art style. This was the first of many gripes Diablo "fans" have had. Rob Pardo, Executive Vice President of Blizzard and executive producer of Diablo 3, has stated that "We've probably gone through atleast three different pretty major art direction shifts" in order to achieve the "gothic, dark feel" while adding color into the game. This dedication to the game and its fans deserves more respect from us, the fans, than it has received.
Now, every time Blizzard tries to release a tidbit of information about the game to reassure or inform the fanbase it is met by intense scrutiny. Then they decide to avoid a whole gripe about an insubstantial part of the game and theres multiple threads complaining of a lack of info released.
Blizzard still, somehow, has the patience to deal with the fanbase and actually takes some of our opinions into concideration because it could make the game better (ie. the length corpses are displayed for). They decide to release a new patch for D2 (for FREE) and actually ask the fans what we want most in the patch (first time I've heard any company doing that) and all I see now are posts on Battle.net complaining that the patch isn't out yet.
After all that this company has done for its fans, I think we could show Blizzard a little more respect.
Edit by Leord:
Art controversy