{"id":44803,"date":"2018-11-14T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=44803"},"modified":"2018-11-14T03:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:05:05","slug":"experienced-points-the-last-bastion-of-pc-gaming-goes-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=44803","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The Last Bastion of PC Gaming Goes Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/v2\/2018\/11\/13\/the-last-bastion-of-pc-gaming-goes-mobile\/\">breakdown of why the response to the <em>Diablo: Immortal<\/em> announcement was so negative<\/a>. I tried to keep the outrage distant and abstract and just look at this from the point of view of a PC-centric audience. <\/p>\n<p>Having said that, how bad <strong>was<\/strong> the outrage? The big meme-worthy moment was when one guy asked the presenters if the announcement was an out-of-season April Fool&#8217;s joke. Sure, that&#8217;s a little rude. But if I just spent hundreds of dollars to attend a convention focused on classic PC games made by Blizzard and the main event was a shallow phone game that wasn&#8217;t made by Blizzard, I&#8217;d probably be pretty miffed too. Where is this supposed outrage? The toxicity? To me it feels less like outrage and more like annoyance and disappointment. I&#8217;m sure we can go on Twitter and find some loony spewing personal attacks at the developers, but if that&#8217;s your standard for public outrage then literally everything is an outrage because there&#8217;s always <em>That Guy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s still a controversy worth talking about, simply because it shows a sudden shift of behavior in a major company. It&#8217;s also a pretty good example of a major miscalculation that seems obvious in retrospect. <\/p>\n<p>So what happens next?  Right now it feels like anything is possible and nothing is likely. Blizzard PR seems to be AWOL, but I&#8217;m guessing this caught them flat-footed and they&#8217;re scrambling to form a strategy. Will Blizzard double down? Will they backpedal? I&#8217;m curious what everyone thinks, so let&#8217;s do a poll:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfgTGPLpltN2czobWeeipmg5KKZX2zZUjDBNvPZ1pimTBk5vQ\/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"800\" height=\"920\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\">Loading&#8230;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know what I&#8217;d love to see? A new MMO from Blizzard. I know that&#8217;s a pipe dream. If they put out a new MMO it would probably just cannibalize the <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> userbase and that&#8217;s the last thing they want. Still, I&#8217;d love to see a modern action-based MMO with the legendary Blizzard polish. Something like <a href=\"?p=42433\">Black Desert Online<\/a> except not <a href=\"?p=42507\">terrible<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got questions or suggestions for future columns, please do let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is a breakdown of why the response to the Diablo: Immortal announcement was so negative. I tried to keep the outrage distant and abstract and just look at this from the point of view of a PC-centric audience. Having said that, how bad was the outrage? 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