Blizzard boss tells Diablo III community to direct blame at him

Oh look, blizzard finally found a scapegoat for everything they've been doing wrong in the last 9 years.

@aero_kinetic we... I... wanted a game build on to D2. Sadly graphics eats the budget for gameplay.

I remember the 106 pages of flaming i got for saying diablo III took a couple of wrong directions about a year before release. Now they are flaming him. We call them trolls.

diablo 3 is still alive in gamers brain ???? after all of that what blizz did to gamers??? SKIPPER : Richo cover our shame.....

I love Diablo III, and those that hate it are just whining because they wanted D2 with updated graphics.

Fire the "genius" who implemented AH and RMAH in the game, then we ll see how it goes

D3 is just a lazy attempt at an action rpg.

The poor story is a reflection of what a money grab it was.

Blizzard with Diablo 3 ah and rmah has distorted the basic nature of the looting system. and the runic skills system is too much free and fails to render a character more "unique". 

On the other hand, Torchlight 2, even if is a much better game that Diablo 3 for most aspects, totally lacks in the Charisma of the classes and of the enemies. Everything else is perfect.  I personally don't like too much my char, too cartoonish in the animations and in the aesthetics.

I see, they are still working hard to get the game out of Beta.

"We have a talented team in place and have no intention of stopping work on Diablo III until it is the best game in the franchise." yeah lol, the only way that will ever happen is if they find every copy of D1 and D2 and destroy them LMAO!!

This is what happens when you put quality last. Blizzard was much more worried about trying to milk every last cent out of us gamers. 'Torchlight' is far superior.....Activision is ruining Blizzard.

You guys that are sad about the diablo 3 fail then play Path of Exile. It is like what diablo 3 should of been like

Diablo 3 - One of those games I gave up on, after being disconnected numerous times. When actually playing the game, I found it to be a stab in the face from Blizzard. 10 years we waited for this title... what a let down.

an Overrated Game, Story is Too short, Nothing drive player continue to play, Online Is the most pain in the ass! No Offline Game! No Lobby Town where by Player Can Gathering, look at each other gear and pvp!! Concept is Good, But Get Bored Fast!! 

Getting cut off from the internet happens way more frequently than you think it does. Also there are situations where people do not have access to stable good internet, or internet at all. Like sometimes some college campus' have crappy overcrowded networks that are prone to disconnects. My friends disconnect all the time in DOTA. 

A game, which can be played in single player should ALWAYS have an offline mode, as well as allowing the user to seemlessly play even if they disconnect from the servers. At the very least they should have made the system like older titles where you had official play where you HAD to play on the server, and non-official play where you could play offline.

You oversimplify the problem by attributing things to piracy, and TBH I think you are projecting to me that you pirate games yourself judging by your statements.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/saucex4/

Go ahead and check my steam profile. I have 200 games in my library, which is not a gigantic amount, but it's not a small amount either. I work for my money, and I pay for my entertainment.

The claims against always online for single player is legitimate, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in a fantasy land of perfect networks that never fail.

Hi Blizzard great game, Im sure you are working on more game content than what we could ever dream of. BUT !!!

1.  single-player offline is a requirement, not an option

1.  single-player offline is a requirement, not an option

1.  single-player offline is a requirement, not an option

1.  single-player offline is a requirement, not an option

That is the massive problem. That could have been sorted with a locked offline character and a locked online character. 

*World's gaming problem in 2004 was getting a strong enough pc to play the games.

*World's gaming problem in 2012 ( Future) Is having a fast enough internet connection to stop lag from latency ( with no LAN ever) 

This is retarded if you live in South Africa. Any game ever played in SA without a dedicated server here is a instant latency of +200ms, because we have to connect a game in the UK. ( Dota 2, WOW, D3, AC3, any game)

Also real money auction house worked with WOW because it was a new game, D3 isn't and already had some standerds that need to be attended to.

Sorry for the long post. 

Diablo 3 is awesome IMO!!! Looks & plays fantastic!!!

@Gwoolhurme:

Yes, fire the whole team.  And no, it's not harsh.  It happens all the time in the game industry.  If they're skilled enough to create D3, they'll be able to get jobs elsewhere.  As a programmer, I know from experience that it's better to scrap a program and start over from scratch than to make a thousand fixes to an old program and have it not work properly.  Get rid of the D3 team, bring back the D2 team, and fill in any new spots with new people that didn't work on D3.  The D3 team followed the vision of the morons at the top, and they are used to working with that vision.  That vision must disappear completely.  D3 did a 180 turn away from fun, and it will take a 180 turn away from D3 to bring the fun back.  Blizzard needs to bring back the original D2 team, give them full funding, let them bring back the fun game franchise we all remember, and keep their greedy noses out of the development process.  No subscription fees.  No more pay-to play stuff like the RMAH as necessary to reach the highest levels of the game.  No required always-on internet connections.  And single-player offline is a requirement, not an option.

The visual style and mandatory online play kept me away at launch. Then the negative reviews poured in. Massive numbers of Korean players refunded their money. That killed it for me.  

For feks sakes! as Agnes Brown would say! By the time the game was done Diablo himself could have risen from his grave and obliterate humanity. And the online requirement is just the sunday on the cake. But now, you wont be fekin changing that for sure aren't you?  

There is a few nice little games that's called torchlight and torchlight 2, maybe you could talk to them and really see how Diablo 3 should have been done. They are not perfect but the devs did not decide to screw their fanbase...

Blah blah blah blah.

This is the same game that Blizzard said was "completely done and polished" at launch. I remember reading a quote like that.

Is this an advertisement for Diablo 3? Worst User rated game in history; anybody going to bring that important point up?

DiabloZ

Well, now I feel like I'm the only person who actually enjoyed D3...

D3 was / is a good game.  What makes it a piece of crap is the online requirement + lagging in SP.  The person(s) behind that should get their ass fired.

As much as I was disappointed, I have to give kudos to this guy for owning up to the game.

Why are Rob and Jay still employed at all at this point if they share the blame for ruining such a game.

They should give a refund to those millions that bought their game. Top to bottom the way they handled this and treated the fans is horrible. A simple apology is not enough. 

Years past this type of crap would have heads rolling. F that loser, F rob too.

I hate it when people try to use trolls to invalidate the arguments of people with legitimate grievances. Just ignore most of that 106 page thread and listen to the people who actually tell you what's wrong instead of trolling. Trolls are everywhere, ignoring criticism because of trolls would be like not breathing because there's dust particles in the air, loud, angry dust particles. There's probably hundreds of thread with constructive criticism and the only one they have time to respond to is a flame war so they can say "tsk, tsk"

I dont get why people find it suprising that the games wasn't as expected... Blizzard is not the company it used to be when it released starcraft, warcraft 3 and diablo 2 ;complaining to a changed company won't get you nowhere

How dare he take RESPONSIBILITY! For gods sake man use the Escape Goat or The Fall Guy!

yeah,  to me not being able to decide  what stats to increase when charactesr level up, completly killed it. It's a good game ( in a market full of good games), but to me it's not the Diablo I loved.

I've never quite understood the appeal of playing any of the Diablo games through on the higher 'difficulties'. Essentially it's the same thing but all the numbers get bigger. I do, however, enjoy experimenting with unconventional character builds. D3 killed that for me by basically removing the concept.

I'm not a hater- I played the campaign with every class and easily got my money's worth- but compared to D2 which I still play occasionally to this day, it's not even close.

I hope he is also proud that D3 is a game that is not built around some gameplay ideas but around a money scam - the auction house. I would go that far to call D3 basically a con. its a rip off designed for monetary exploitation after you paid 60 bucks