I would be interested to know why anyone would pay to go watch a PR Marketing seminar?To spend a few minutes playing at a booth?
Their last was a sales pitch to market Pandaria,they should be paying customers to go and listen to their marketing pitch.I bet many people have to spend a lot on gas,maybe a sitter ,parking,trinkets some might even skip out on work.All for what ?
Yes i get the "We are just showing support for our favorite" game,but seriously,is this money well spent,is there really any entertainment VALUE here?
I get why media outlets need to go ,that makes sense but funny thing is they probably get in for free,whiel the paying customers have to pay to listen to marketing pitches.You definitely don't need to go to get any inside scoops,that is what the media outlets are for.You can read anything you might want to know here on MMORPG.com.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I'm personally surprised more people aren't as furious as I was at the D3 problems they created because they thought it was going to be their new cashcow. and then went back on those designs for console users. yeah, shows just how horrible the management is over there.
SCII wasn't much better from what i saw.
And then they decided to finally give the items that engineers have been asking for for three expansions finally in this last one, can we say, tools! Seriously it took you that long for something like that?
Originally posted by ShakyMo It failed in comparison to diablo 2. Of course it shifted a lot of boxes on the opening week, that's because the 2 previous games in the series were so good, its got nothing to do with the quality of diablo 3.
Blizzard would be expecting many more players to still be playing it today, it hasn't retained players anything like d2 did.
If diablo 4 launched tomorrow "from the team that brought you diablo 3!, with new improved rmah", how many copies would it sell? A lot frikin less.
D3 has exceeded D2 by every metric including retention. It still does. D2 just wasn't that big a game for blizzard. The RMAH may have been less than stellar but the game itself is a solid success and becoming more successful all the time. It may hit fifteen million of the PC version sold well before the end of this year. Add in the console version and two expansions and it may rival Starcraft 2 some day.
Exactly. D3 is a HUGE success for Blizzard. It's sold more units, and retains more players than D2. There are millions of people playing worldwide. Look at TwitchTV lately? There are sometimes over a hundred people streaming the game, with thousands of viewers. It's far from any sort of failure, and I can guarantee any expansion pack(s) will sell millions as well.
The only people who think the game is a failure are those bitter vets who wanted Diablo 2 with better graphics. To them, I say go play Path of Exile, and quit harping on how bad you think D3 is. There's no reason for you to continue, the game's been out for a bloody year, you've said your piece, MOVE THE FUCK ON ALREADY. You're not going to convince the multitudes of D3 fans that the game they've sunk hundreds of hours into sucks, especially not by bitching up a storm.
I seriously don't get it. Blizzard is not the same. New people... new games... new hate.
This is what YOU think, not millions of players that more or less regularly play wow. Which, btw, is all but outdated. I have not played D3 nor Starcraft as they do not appeal to my tastes.
Originally posted by KingofHartz I just didn't want to rule out the possibility of the next xbox, the partnership between sony and blizz has clearly already been established.
I don't think Sony could afford an exclusive partnership with Blizzard, at this point.
What would be the point of having an exclusive partnership w/ Blizzard? Blizzard doesn't make enough games. It would be an expensive proposition to lock down around ~2 titles that'll be mostly played on the PC anyway.
The point would be that, although Blizzard doesn't make a ton of games, the ones they do make are pretty much guaranteed to be blockbusters with long shelf lives.
I would be interested to know why anyone would pay to go watch a PR Marketing seminar?To spend a few minutes playing at a booth?
Their last was a sales pitch to market Pandaria,they should be paying customers to go and listen to their marketing pitch.I bet many people have to spend a lot on gas,maybe a sitter ,parking,trinkets some might even skip out on work.All for what ?
Yes i get the "We are just showing support for our favorite" game,but seriously,is this money well spent,is there really any entertainment VALUE here?
I get why media outlets need to go ,that makes sense but funny thing is they probably get in for free,whiel the paying customers have to pay to listen to marketing pitches.You definitely don't need to go to get any inside scoops,that is what the media outlets are for.You can read anything you might want to know here on MMORPG.com.
For the same reasons people go to any kind of convention. Go to GenCon or ComicCon, for example, and it's just one big exciting sales pitch where you get to play with new stuff, see what's on the horizon, and interact with the people behind the products. You could certainly just wait to read about it afterwards, but you could also just read about taking a bike tour through Europe.
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I would be interested to know why anyone would pay to go watch a PR Marketing seminar?To spend a few minutes playing at a booth?
Their last was a sales pitch to market Pandaria,they should be paying customers to go and listen to their marketing pitch.I bet many people have to spend a lot on gas,maybe a sitter ,parking,trinkets some might even skip out on work.All for what ?
Yes i get the "We are just showing support for our favorite" game,but seriously,is this money well spent,is there really any entertainment VALUE here?
I get why media outlets need to go ,that makes sense but funny thing is they probably get in for free,whiel the paying customers have to pay to listen to marketing pitches.You definitely don't need to go to get any inside scoops,that is what the media outlets are for.You can read anything you might want to know here on MMORPG.com.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I'm personally surprised more people aren't as furious as I was at the D3 problems they created because they thought it was going to be their new cashcow. and then went back on those designs for console users. yeah, shows just how horrible the management is over there.
SCII wasn't much better from what i saw.
And then they decided to finally give the items that engineers have been asking for for three expansions finally in this last one, can we say, tools! Seriously it took you that long for something like that?
Amazed people still buy from them.
good point
This is what YOU think, not millions of players that more or less regularly play wow. Which, btw, is all but outdated. I have not played D3 nor Starcraft as they do not appeal to my tastes.
The point would be that, although Blizzard doesn't make a ton of games, the ones they do make are pretty much guaranteed to be blockbusters with long shelf lives.
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For the same reasons people go to any kind of convention. Go to GenCon or ComicCon, for example, and it's just one big exciting sales pitch where you get to play with new stuff, see what's on the horizon, and interact with the people behind the products. You could certainly just wait to read about it afterwards, but you could also just read about taking a bike tour through Europe.
You make me like charity