Diablo dev's disappointment sparks disdain from Diablo III team

It's so easy to be the guy on the outside looking in and say "you suck, I would have done it this way". I just don't understand this practice of taking developers and making faceless villans out of them. These D3 people are all people with friends, spouses, families, etc trying to do a job. None of these people set out to purposely destroy the franchise. If all they cared about was money and had no love for games, then they would be in another line of work because game development is risky, has long hours, and is generally unappreciated. TBH honest if I had just spent years of my life working long hours on a project and then had someone crap all over it, my first knee-jerk reaction would probably be F* You as well.

Diablo 3 is a flop. The only reason it sold so well was because of hype; everyone assumed it would live up to whatever was hoping it would be. Blizzard usually has a good track record so no one thought about it and everyone just bought the game right away. Look how many people now, who bought the game, that are still playing it. Me and everyone I know stopped playing it months ago. I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of other people who agree. Blizzard got drunk off of WoW and they're main focus is reinforcing gear grinding in Diablo 3 and profiting off of it with a real-money auction house (which, insanely enough, people are actually using). Bad game from a bad team, and I'm glad someone who set the standard is telling the truth.

Jay Wilson has apologized for his "unprofessional" Facebook coment (it's in the official D3 forums IIRC). He also said he had higher expectations of himself than posting that kind of thing.

The ego of Diablo 3 crew is just appalling. They really need to admit the only reason Diablo 3 sold as many is because of name recognition only. Madden sells millions of copies every year but doesn't mean Madden is a good game.

Diablo 3 sucked..story blew, and they put too much effort into the auction house and not enough into the game/items.. Thankfully Wilson's crew didn't touch Diablo 2...because I STILL play that.. I haven't played Diablo 3 since the patch..but it doesn't matter..too busy on my old game... I will say, they needed an open trading spot in Diablo 3 thanks to the prescence of third party trade sites/itemsites etc (d2jsp.org , lewt.com etc.) But they did a better job on the auction houses than the actual game...

I gave up on hope for D3 like 6 months prior to it's release..was hyped..then said ya know what? been how many years in development..and it looks more like WoW than diablo..so whatever..BTW Mr.Wilson? I returned my diablo 3 case back to walmart..no cd key included.. ,.|..

Even after the patch that made the Elites more manageable, this is still a shitty game. I'm stuck in inferno, where I have to fight the butcher. After downing his health to 35%, the whole place always lit on fire. How the hell am I suppose to kill him then?

Am I suppose to farm for a very long time until my gear is good enough? What kind of stupid game is that, where you have to wait for gears in order to take down the boss?

David Brevik should come back to Blizzard, and Jay Wilson along with the new crew should be fired.

Brevik is right - and even if he wasn't he expressed his opinion in a polite fashion with respect to the people who made Diablo and the legendary team of devs who were scattered when Blizz North shut down.Wilson's comment does nothing but empasize the truth of Brevik's words.

@buccomatic "let this be a good lesson for consumers not to listen to the advertising hype"But we have to linten to a complete unknow person like you, who doubts the quality of unreleased games, in the coments section of game website.Seems legit...

who cares about this crud? Guild Wars 2 tomorrow! Woo!!!

I was on the side of the D3 developers, its sour grapes to bash something because you dont think you get enough credit. Then two and a half hours ago i tried to log in and got an error. It still isnt fixed and blizzard has no eta. Its not the game balancing issues that I have a problem with, they will patch those and the last patch adding paragon levels was a big change....but the endless bugs, the error messages, the awful launch....this game was put out earlier than it should have been. We all wanted d3, but i would rather have waited a few more months for a more polished release with none of these crippling bugs.

If someone told me I was not talented and the game I spent years of hard work making sucks I would be pissed too.

D3 has gotten A-LOT better with all the fixes and the recent patch. Itemization still needs work but overall it is a good game and a good time.

Jay Wilson shows why he failed with D3 with stupid his no class remark. You can't deny the RMAH was a fail idea, major fail. D3 had years, a decade to surpass D2 and its a joke what they were able to come up with considering the time and money they had.

I'm now wondering if D3 was as bad as it was because of Activision's interference or because it lost some of its most important creative talent from the first two games, leaving a bunch of immature, overgrown kids to develop it.

This soap opera makes me sad. I had good time up to killing end boss on inferno and that was that. Spent more time in this game compared to many others, I got my moneys worth. This "death dance" never stops to amaze me. Move on, let it go, you sold millions of copies, be content, sell us an expansion, something new, this patient is dead.

Alright kids, lets get one thing straight.....

When diablo 2 came out, all the diablo 1 fanboys came crying out the gate saying, "This game is trash compared to d1!! Way to ruin my favorite franchise you dumbasses!!" And here we are yet again, d2 fans coming out of the woodworks singing the same song and dance as before.

Its called evolution people. I acknowledge d3 isnt perfect, but neither was d2 or d1 for that matter. I have over 120 hours into d3, have my lvl.60 and completed acts 1-4 on inferno, havent spent a dime in the RMAH, and I STILL love playing this game. Realize its going to be SEVERAL patches till all the kinks are worked out. (ahem* like the others)

So please, do yourself a favor and grow up. Learn to embrace this truly solid game. Or dont, and hang on to your shitty disposition.

Diablo 3 is not perfect but Hellgate sucked so bad it put Flagship under.

I have no interest in playin anymore i hit level 60 and just stoped, they did not put any thought into this game. They should not have added the auction house at all due to the fact that everyone gets real greedy and sells the good stuff for unreasonable prices. They just screwed up on the game period. I did find one good use for it a coaster for my mug when i drink coffee or any other drink.

I hate to jump on the Blizzard hate wagon here because I've really enjoyed things they've done. Warcraft 2 & 3, WoW Vanilla & TBC, D2, SC/2. To me, I think the company might be passed its prime. Diablo 3 just didn't hold my interest. Am I the only one who felt the act progression and design was ridiculously similar to D2? The cinematic scenes were great but the story was completely forgettable. For a game with so much anticipation it just didn't hold my interest. I beat it three times and couldn't see myself sticking with it to farm. If I were to do that, I should have stuck with WoW and at least had a more dynamic multiplayer experience. People compare it to WoW but I say it's like WoW Lite. There's no incentive here to keep going. Unfortunately, I was a real sucker and signed up for the year long WoW subscription, got D3 free but have only played two months of my subscription. I can't blame Blizzard. I ripped myself off. I wish I could just get the money back and buy something else. After Cataclysm and the perpetual added lack of challenge in WoW, that game is no longer an interest to me. Diablo 3 is boring. I really wanted to love it. I even told myself I loved it while playing it. It just didn't satisfy, sorry. The comment by Wilson just seems like childish misplaced frustration. I know he apologized on the forums but he ought to apologize to Brevik -- I certainly don't give a shit about being apologized to. I mean, apologize for taking my money and putting me through your beta test. Offer me money back. But save your apologies for the people you've insulted.

@buccomatic

I agree with you on the hype of D3 and I am going to wait for those post release reviews or see if there is any in game videos before buying. Most the games that was released within two years did not live up to the hype.

In some aspects I agree with Brevik's statement. The AH(Auction House) in the beginning stages of development should have been done like a voting process among it's customers first to see if there is any opposition to it.. Jay Wilson remarks was uncalled for and childish. I like D3, but it is no game of the year.

Wilson's version of Diablo wouldn't have sold much at all if not for Brevik's work.

Wilson is damn lucky he has nude photos of someone high up at Blizzard nude. He must, how else can they justify this man not having been fired? The game is terrible, this remark is unprofessional, yet he is retained by Blizzard.

Jay Wilson is a loser if I ever seen one. And as Jay Wilson used to say "F*ck that loser"

Jay Wilson really had no idea how to build this game. The game is a complete mess. The loot system is terrible, the monsters are either too easy or ridiculously cheap, the quests are generic and completely forgettable, there's no plot, or story, or quest that is class specific, the class specific gear usually sucks.

The game is just garbage.

The simple fact that it was IMPOSSIBLE to find a random drop to increase your characters stats makes it unplayable. Why do slot machines work? Because from time to time they reward you.