/v/ - Video Games

like 7 years and counting so far

dibbity dabbity dab dubs

Typical corporate publisher behavior my dude.

>focus on hitting every demographic

>games are made for maximum returns by literal dev sweatshops

>customer feedback not wanted, they got your money goy

Go full pirate or buy your shit used

>lets have another blizzard thread

How about no?

>>15718578

too late fam it's happening

They're deliberately fucking up to devalue their stock for a Tencent buyout. Screencap this.

>>15718531

I have a phone, and you can rest assured I won't be getting this shit. You're not missing anything worthwhile.

>>15718582

Phones are a terrible platform for games that can't be picked up and dropped on a moments notice.

Pretty much forever. They can make pretty much whatever stupid and retarded decision they want and they will get fanboys defending them all over social media/reddit. Even the people who do complain will probably pick it up when it comes out and then start calling everybody who doesn't an entitled troll so they can feel like they fit in.

If it has government funding forever.

As long as they keep eating their own shit, they should be fine.

>>15718644

>it still works because it doesn't have a gigantic glass screen that breaks the moment you tap it on a table.

I've had a "smart" phone for the last 6 or 7 years, and never ended up with so much as a scratch. Never used a screen protector. Never used one of those faggy rubber covers. I have no idea how the fuck people manage to completely and reliably fuck up their phones so badly. Nobody else I know has a phone that isn't mangled and shattered. It boggles my mind. And they paid way more for their phones that have a thousand times more processing power than they'll ever use it for, and I just have a cheap shit pay-as-you-go that could be easily replaced cash out of pocket.

>>15718728

It just goes to show how irresponsible the masses are, anon.

>>15718728

>I've had a "smart" phone for the last 6 or 7 years, and never ended up with so much as a scratch.

You're the same as me. But apparently most people are too absent minded to take care of something as delicate as a smart phone. Even though it doesn't take much effort to avoid breaking or scratching them, they're pretty much incapable of that. Here's one way of thinking about it. Think of how irresponsible you were when you were 12. That is how they are as adults.

>>15718749

>>15718753

Those aren't even people. They're fucking animals.

>>15718531

I have one. Rarely do I bother to charge it.

>tfw no friends

>>15718728

Technology is just so readily available that a lot of people have zero concept of responsible ownership. When they break their shit they can just immediately get a new one, and in the case of Apple products, they are designed to only last a year or two before breaking anyway. Gotta constantly upgrade goy. That and the average person is damn near brain dead.

>diablo 3 will never be modded into a good game

>diablo 3 will probably never be pirateable

I am sure that the flaws that it has, while severe, are not irreparable. everything about it could be fixed if activision just removed that shitty always online

whats more I am sure that if people were allowed to they would have fixed it in multiple ways by now

It's just frustrating

oh well at least D2 is still good

>>15719082

>D3 will never be pirateable

It already is, if you have a modded console.

>>15718753

What amazes me are the faggots who buy expensive ass phones that take a retarded amount of time and effort to repair. Buy a cheap chink phone and you can get access to cheap ass replacement parts for when something goes wrong effectively making your phone last forever.

>>15719123

>a retarded amount of time and effort to repair

the vast majority of smart phones are dead simple to repair. the ones with sharply curved edges on the screen are the only ones i've come across that cause real problems.

>>15718516

75% of the diablo fanbase left when diablo 3 was released, you know the ones that played diablo 1&2. The fanbase with jobs and disposable income. the fanbase that didnt like WoW.

>>15719204

D3 has actually shaped up to be a pretty decent game after years of patching and tweaking. The biggest thing that hurt it in the beginning was the auction house. It wrecked the meta-game beyond repair. It inadvertently caused them to tune the game for rich autists who bought only the perfect items on the auction house, which ruined it for damn near everyone else. It's in pretty good shape now that that cancer is gone.

>>15719387

It's actually pretty fun rolling new characters when new seasons start. But don't believe me if you don't want to.

>>15719466

And how much money have they made from using these tactics now?

>>15718516

Companies like Blizzard always fail and fall at some point. Only competent and talented people prevail constantly. Hacks, leftists and subhumans always fail, no matter how much money they have.

It won't take long for Blizzard to vanish completely. You can already see the desperation of the shills trying to dismiss this guaranteed end of this shitty company.

No company is too big to fall.

>>15718652

Nah, they won't. This does not work anymore. This meme is dead.

>>15719550

No matter how much, they will lose it all fast from now on.

>Are you going to buy Diablo Immortal?

>buy

You mean it's not going to at least be free like every other fucking chinese and korean diablo clone phone game on the market?

How did things devolve to the point where we not only are getting the same p2w cash shop cancer bullshit that Asian mobile games have but are also still expected to pay upfront for the game as well?

>>15719466

I think the real plan is to eventually get gaming labeled as "art" or at least "politically/socially vital" so that they can then get them subsidized entirely by the government so they can make what ever propaganda laced shit they feel like and people will effectively be forced to pay for it by way of having their tax money fund it. Basically how the BBC works except for video games.

>>15718516

Blizzdrones will buy everything the company puts out.

I'd post that drawing of the blizzard fan eating shit and asking for seconds if I had it.

>>15719652

>You mean it's not going to at least be free like every other fucking chinese and korean diablo clone phone game on the market?

Blizzard love double dipping, and they keep getting away with it because they've got fanboys that will eat that shit up. There are actual people out there that think Blizzard are genuinely innovative and not just a company that does what other devs have already done, but do it later with more polish and a much higher marketing budget. Blizzard haven't done anything original in years, and the shit they do put out is both a) full price up front, b) full of micro-transaction and/or loot boxes, and c) has full priced expansions on top of that. And WoW manages to do all those things and still have a subscription fee on top of that.

Blizzardrones are some of the worst people.

>>15719670

Killing leftists prevents that.

>>15719694

Not sure about that. Weren't the blizzdrones the ones who spent money for Blizzcon and booed when they were served Diablo Immortal? Every fandom has a breaking point where sides will form. This seems like that breaking point.

>>15719705

Time will tell. Plus, you have to consider that they are aiming for the Chinese market, so even if it flops in the west, it might be successful in China.

>>15718516

>gamers

>its own fanbase

>>15719919

Do chinks even like Diablo?

>>15718728

Women keep it in their purses so the screens get scratched with all the shit they carry, and men tend to drop them everywhere or even sit on them whenever they get drunk, no wonder they break their phones so easily, but who gives a fuck when they can get the latest fucking iphone whenever they want? Even mcjob niggers can afford them.

I've had the same "smart" phone since 2013, the very first moto G, and it's still in pristine condition, hell i still have the old green-backlit nokia phone my parents gave me, and the blue and white nokia phone with dedicated play/pause and volume buttons on the side of the screen, they don't have a single scratch on them, in fact they still work but need new batteries.

>>15719372

The first cancer is still there - it looks like warcraft 3, not diablo.

>>15719670

Kind of redundant when they already get Hollywood and chink government shekels.

>buy

Wait that shitshow won't be f2p? Fucking lel. Is the price tag known yet?

>>15718728

same. I only ever fucked by screen up once. And that was the phone dropping out of my pocket screen down on the asphalt. I was only on my bicycle, it dropepd right infront of my hind wheel and I drove over it.

Other than that no fucking clue. What's funnier is the amount of people keeping their fucked screens because giving up their goybook-on-the-shitter for a week is unthinkable.

>>15720548

also tying at work while constantly tabbing out to avoid being seen doesn't make for good posts

>>15720549

Lucky you. My job has 8ch blocked for being racist. Not even joking.

>>15720554

Guess why I use tor. Though this is a small place and I use it in case they ever check the router logs, there isn't anything blocked.

>racist

I can only blame that on /pol/ and these days, doesn't really feel like it anymore.

>>15719919

>>15720534

This "China has infinite money and will make companies rich" meme is dead.

Aiming for the chinese market guarantees that a company will go bankrupt.

>>15720567

It is ok to kill niggers. They are not people.

>>15722622

>1/3rd drop

>1/3rd drop

>1/4th drop

>1/2 drop

>1/4th drop

>all in 2018

Is the crash we all have been hoping for soon?

>>15722681

Only time will tell, it's looking good so far if they just keep fucking the mainstream over enough we will see a crash.

>>15720503

>audiobooks

Why don't you just read books, anon?

>>15722622

I hope these bastards will finally get the message. SJWs don't even really play games. Playing free to play games, which they proceed to criticize endlessly does not count as gaming. Pandering to them will only cause a loss in profits.

>>15722392

>Aiming for the chinese market guarantees that a company will go bankrupt.

pretty much, the Chinese are closing the doors on vidya right now with domestic companies making steam equivalents and so on, then shutting out western devs and publishers

>>15722832

China does this in every industry. Fleece foreign companies into ditching their domestic market, get a big hold on them then just close up shop. It happened in steel, it happened in electronics, it happened in food and it'll happen again in vidya.

>>15722681

No. The market is correcting itself. There will be more drops but the crash will never come.

>>15722855

Depends on what legislators decide. If they ban lootboxes for anyone underage EA is in deep shit. Also, there's always the chance China's economy will implode, or their government really cracks down on games (as they are seemingly starting to) or they simply kick out all foreign companies.

>>15722929

>kick out all foreign companies

They wont. Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer foreign moneyflow to be cut off completely and my electronics to last longer than 5 years max, but the chinks are nothing without western money and they know it. And they're cheap so (((western companies))) prefer them simply, because they're cheap slaves. They wish to have the same in western countries so they flood us with retarded 3rd worlders yet little do they know, those "people" are dumber and lazier than the pingpongs.

Also, ignore the third world shill trying to sell stocks. He's been ban evading for weeks.

>>15723022

That's Portuguese, not HueHue

>>15719919

The game's more likely to be banned in China than be successful, desu. The communist party doesn't look kindly on fiction with ghosts, skeletons and the undead. Also, the public in China expects lewd, cute girls in thier mobile games, but nuBlizzard considers this far too problematic. Blizzard and China are just a poor fit.

>>15722622

This is still nothing, I want full-blown pink wojaks of an entire year with nothing but a slow downward grind as close as possible to zero

>>15722821

good to hear, i hope they can buy rescue the IP's away from the jewish after the vidya crash of 2019

>>15722681

It is. Have you noticed how desperate and more anti-consumer the industry has become in less than 1 year? They are losing money fast, and they are not recouping losses. They are lying about making profit, and their investors are starting to notice.

Pretty much the whole industry is sinking, with many top corporate suits having literally stolen money from their investors while making retarded decisions that kept people away from their products and services.

Remember: the more aggressive the companies are, the more it is all confirmation of their complete destruction, with real life-threatening cases for some of the top suits, for deceiving their investors.

>>15722840

>>15722855

The crash is already in course. The industry lost. They lied about pretty much all of their (false) profits.

>>15723176

They won't. They are waking up. This "nothing will change" nonsense does not exist. Everything is changing, and the industry is being harmed by those changes. And it will all grow from now on.

>>15722855

yeah, dems are doing this too. every market correction they're like "HEY LOOK DAE DRUUMF AMIRITE GUYS?!"

I have a phone but it's a nokia 3310 I received as a handsmedown from my father when I was in fifth grade, still works fine.

How can that entitled chinese shitlord assume my phone?

>>15722760

There's something especially cozy to listening to an audiobook while mountain climbing.

>>15724294

There are already phone game clones of Diablo out in China. How successful they are, I don't know, and I assume whatever numbers they gave Blizzard are doctored in one way or another.

>>15724592

While they have been obviously pushing out lies when it comes to every major release outside of sports, I wonder what the real numbers are for their sports/microtransaction focused games are. Normally, companies do their absolute best to avoid outright lying or else they get into the situation that Facebook is in now, where they are being taken to suit by investors for lying about their numbers. The money is likely peanuts compared to what they have, but you have a combo of bad investor PR due to the lies, the poor numbers in general, and a suit at the same time. Even the investors solely looking to push propaganda aren't going to be interested if their propaganda isn't being consumed by anyone.

>>15725419

Wait this is a pay to play game? the Chinese they desperately want to pander to don't care about those.

>>15724991

The thing to notice is that the whales themselves are losing money. Their disposable income has shortened over the years, and the vast reserves that they had are drying up fast, without any refill.

All this aggressive mobilization of the industry is a clear sign of desperation to take away whatever money they can and try to run off with it.

>>15725399

The real numbers will show up only after a dedicated investigation. And that is happening soon. EA and others were already caught inflating their numbers. Others like square simply hide them, and divert attention. Final Fantasy 15 gave $33 million in losses for Square, but the company was celebrating the game as having the fastest shipment (not sales) in the whole franchise.

The investors are waking up to such diversions and lies. And when they finally act, the final stage of the crash will happen.

>>15718556

>my dude

Slit your wrists and fucking drown yourself you faggot redditor.

>>15727281

Pirate everything.

>>15722622

>>15722681

Its not just video games Anon. The entire market is starting to fall. Make sure you have food and water for atleast 6 months.

>>15727763

Checked

>>15724592

>>15727941

INVEST IN SILVER

SILVER

>>15725533

I'm not sure if it is that, or if the whales got bored. Remember, there are various reasons for whales going for a game. One is waifus/husbandos, with games such as Granblue, and FGO. This is relatively stable, but franchise fatigue, lack of content, or lack of quality content kicks in eventually. The other is the whale looking to dominate others. This is more of the Star Citizen fag, MWO fag that wants to wave their e-peen in other people's faces rather than just have a good time. Going for this kind of whale kills the game, because eventually, the plebs leave so you just get a bunch of whales trying to outdo each other. Outside of very, very specific circumstances, that eventually causes the whales to leave too.

>EA caught

When? I know anons call them out for trying to disguise flops the same way as Square, but I don't remember them getting caught inflating the numbers.

>>15725533

The crash only happens when investors finally decide to not only abandon ship, but tear the corporation apart on their way down. If EA and others were actively hiding or lying about their losses, investors will have legitimate reason to hire lawyers and file suit over fraudulent practices and lost earnings; if THAT happens, those individual corporations will crash and burn, sending a warning to every other corporation to clean house or face the same fate.

All of that being said, whether or not an actual crash will happen similar to the Atari-era crash is debatable. As much as I would love for it to happen, people with nearly infinite money can simply inject more cash into the market with the understanding that these companies are to continue business as directed, and these corporations will just continue to pump out propaganda and cash-grabs while smoking out any small-name developers and publishers trying to work their way into the market.

Whether or not that continues to be viable is debatable. It's worked for Netflix so far, despite their failure to bring in new subscribers, so take that as you will. The propaganda machine will not easily be dismantled.

I use my phone to make phone calls, not play shitty faggot mobile games on

EA just announced 4K remasters of the original Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert

They say no microtransactions. Expansions are included free.

They're teaming up with the original creators of the series, too. I guess we'll see.

>>15738191

Of course it's a lazy grab, but I think it's to stabilize their stock rather than for money itself.

Some small part of me holds out hope it'll be good enough that they continue to remaster the older games and they eventually get to Generals, which still has an extremely active modding scene but is handicapped by the SAGE engine.

>>15719123

>supporting chinks

ishiggydiggyfamalamadingdong

>>15724991

Whales need an audience. Guy who spends 63000 on a game wants plenty of poorfags to show off to.

how do you go back to a dumbphone in current year

>>15728987

>EA

Anons might have the links, but it was by the time of nuBattlefront II, when when (((Disney))) stepped in against EA.

And for whales, the money is drying up fast. Luring retards/whales was profitable for a long time, while their money lasted. Not anymore. We are now seeing many markets crash exactly because whales don't have enough money to sustain those, and functional people simply abandoned those because of the inflated prices.

>>15738086

Not easily, but they will be completely dismantled in due time. "Worked for now" is the key point. Now, normalfags and even whales are waking up and starting to abandon entire markets, while information about those marxist companies are pilling up, making everyone sick of them all.

What worked before for the corporations won't work from now on. The results are already visible, with "too big to fall" companies losing a lot of money and "assured to stay afloat" studios closing completely. The overall negative reception from normalfags for any new announcement, or they complete apathy towards new products and services from the industry also indicates that a crash is coming.

>>15738172

EA is involved, so it will be shit.

>>15747004

>EA is involved, so it will be shit.

This. Everything EA touches is garbage.

>>15723072

Brazilians speak Portuguese are you retarded?

Rhetorical question

crows are unironically smarter than some normalfags