Boy in a red shirt
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When you say “Red Shirt”, millions of players know right away who you’re talking about. While somehow there are two guys in the red shirt in the history of Blizzard, Ian Bates in 2010 who asked a viral question about dwarf leadership, these days there are more people who know the modern era of Blizzard. the red shirt, who took off at Blizzcon 2018 after Diablo Immortal was gone. revealed to ask “Is it an off-season joke of the innocent?”
I have … conflicting feelings about Red Shirt Guy. While I agree that releasing a Diablo mobile game when everyone was expecting Diablo 4 then didn’t look good, I thought it was a pretty rude way to push the issue. Even now, when the guy in the red shirt celebrates himself as the hero who saw it all come, I still think he was rude at the time. But yes, he was right to be skeptical, everyone was.
Now, four years have passed and Red Shirt Guy has finally got his hands on Diablo Immortal, the game that made him famous. What do you think? He went to Twitter to talk, briefly, about his feelings. In fact, things started pretty well:
Like most people, he found that the first levels of the game were flying, and it’s actually a solid adaptation of Diablo’s mobile control scheme. These early hours feel like Diablo 3.5 in many ways. But the further you go, the more XP will start to limit the time to encourage daily gaming and “participation”, and the more you start running dungeons that give you relatively little compared to the $ 25 you would have bought a pop in the store Crest. .
In the end, Red Shirt Guy was not a convert:
This second tweet was 13 days after his initial tweet “things are going well,” meaning he quit smoking in less than two weeks. This essentially reflected my own experience. Although I was initially amused, once I realized how useless the final game would be without paying huge sums of money, I went out and uninstalled it. However, Diablo Immortal has already raised tens of millions of dollars in revenue, which shows that some people have been willing to pay and that Blizzard has had no response to any fan backlash and nothing has changed. To them, it seems to work as intended.
The big question mark for Diablo fans now remains Diablo 4, which promises to be a more traditional Diablo experience with no pay-per-view loot boxes to be able to, but we’ll have to see. For now, we can say yes, Red Shirt Guy was right about Diablo Immortal. But does it matter?
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