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It's Video Game News

Post by kouharti » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:11 pm

Activision released their Q3 2018 earnings call, and man you can really tell they care about making video games and the people who pay for them
  • Fan reaction was muted, but fan's reactions at BlizzCon confirmed Diablo Immortal will be well received by players around the world.
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  • Taking a game to mobile with Blizzard quality standards can open Blizzard franchises to a new audience, especially in China where Blizzard is a strong brand.
But hey the fun doesn't stop there
  • Many top mobile games are based on IP originally created for console and PC, so the company is investing in mobile releases for Activision and Blizzard fanchises
and according to an executive producer,
  • Many of Blizzard's best developers are now working on new mobile titles across all of Blizzard's IPs.
also
  • Diablo: Immortal is being designed with the intent that people of all ages can play it, and will not be a mature rated game.

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Post by kouharti » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:13 pm

Also for some reason people keep buying Overwatch teams. I guess Activision did have seven of the top twenty most streamed things this year in who knows what position. But, like, it's totally going to be Hockey or Basketball or whatever. Overwatch!

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Post by Rylinks » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:14 pm

why does anyone care about an earnings call

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Post by kouharti » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:20 pm

Could you imagine getting a job or worse already having a job at Blizzard -- like this is a company with a pretty unbelievable history, strong IPs, well respected by players. the guy who created Diablo was offered twice as much money to go with a different company, but went with Blizzard because he thought they were the guys who understood the property. but then. when you think about it, i mean, that's just a more appealing looking brand for someone else to purchase. but anyway, having a job there, maybe even being like a guy who's really accomplished things there, and then it's like, hey, we're putting you in charge of a China team to figure out how to slap our IP onto an already made Chinese mobile game. figure it out.

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Post by kouharti » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:21 pm

Rylinks wrote:why does anyone care about an earnings call
you can learn a lot of interesting things from information like this

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Post by Rylinks » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:24 pm

like, of course they say "oh yeah we have the best people working on mobile and it will bring us $+inf over the next three years". They say that about everything!

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Post by kouharti » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:27 pm

kouharti wrote:you can learn a lot of interesting things from information like this
like this

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Post by Faceless » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:29 pm

kouharti wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:13 pm Also for some reason people keep buying Overwatch teams. I guess Activision did have seven of the top twenty most streamed things this year in who knows what position. But, like, it's totally going to be Hockey or Basketball or whatever. Overwatch!
My favourite thing is how you can just make up whatever city you want to be, like a bunch of Koreans can just call themselves "London Spitfire"
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Post by Faceless » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:30 pm

god I wonder what would happen if you started an OWL team and called yourself "Pyongyang Honey" or something
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Post by Rylinks » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:31 pm

Faceless wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:29 pm
kouharti wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:13 pm Also for some reason people keep buying Overwatch teams. I guess Activision did have seven of the top twenty most streamed things this year in who knows what position. But, like, it's totally going to be Hockey or Basketball or whatever. Overwatch!
My favourite thing is how you can just make up whatever city you want to be, like a bunch of Koreans can just call themselves "London Spitfire"
hey, they'll be in London when they get around to building the stadiums in 2043

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Post by kouharti » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:36 pm

Rylinks wrote:like, of course they say "oh yeah we have the best people working on mobile and it will bring us $+inf over the next three years". They say that about everything!
you're not wrong, and obviously nothing they're saying there is given more consideration than how do we make our whatever appear as strong as possible. you'd think they'd do a better job there than slapping the face of an already upset fanbase, but it's all office politics, sure, but i don't know that as a player, a person looking to give them money, a person who was maybe upset about the apparent direction the company is going in, a property they like, should just be, like, oh, yeah, of course they would lie about that and our reaction, it's just business. i guess maybe you could have this like totally cool and detached thing going on where like obviously the company just needs to make as much money as humanly possible and so it makes sense for them to do whatever they can like releasing an E rated diablo game for cell phones even if that's what I don't want so that the company can survive so they can continue to make things that I don't want. it's probably hard to like actually make a good video game and then get money from that

and then, i guess, yeah, you could just, like, well i don't like this company or product anymore, so i'll go and consume some different thing, but, like, they have the brand and property you like, and it sort of seemed like they were on your side. shrug, i guess. people are pouring into PoE.

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Post by Juri » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:47 pm

i like the thread title
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Post by kouharti » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:48 pm

Juri wrote:i like the thread title
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Post by Rylinks » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:48 pm

why worry if a company is like, purehearted? If they make good games buy them if they don't, don't

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Post by Juri » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:49 pm

kouharti wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:36 pmpeople are pouring into PoE.
At like, a higher rate than usual?
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Post by haplo » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:53 pm

kouharti wrote:Could you imagine getting a job or worse already having a job at Blizzard.
I definitely noticed it started shortly after I applied for Heroes because I kept a tab on the job postings. About 90% of all new programming positions listed were for mobile games.

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Post by kouharti » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:54 pm

Juri wrote: At like, a higher rate than usual?
yeah, it's legitimately pretty crazy. and you can see it in the game itself. there's a ton of people in the general chat asking how to do things and how systems work. and you can actually tell that they're new players because everyone's achievement score shows up next to their name so you can actually see that new player 0 and 1 and low numbers like that. if we weren't already later in the league then it would be pretty hard to tell, (just about everybody is 20 plus achievements by now, and you should be, like, 10 plus just for beating the story) but even the, like, reddit has stickied new player topics and stuff to keep help and advice for new players contained

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Post by kouharti » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:55 pm

Rylinks wrote:why worry if a company is like, purehearted? If they make good games buy them if they don't, don't
oh if we're not discussing lofty ideals then hey, here's a fun thing: activision slapping the already unhappy diablo fan base in the face for fun

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Post by Juri » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:01 am

kouharti wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:55 pm
Rylinks wrote:why worry if a company is like, purehearted? If they make good games buy them if they don't, don't
oh if we're not discussing lofty ideals then hey, here's a fun thing: activision slapping the already unhappy diablo fan base in the face for fun
I imagine they're slapping the already unhappy diablo fan base in the face for profit :gft:
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Post by kouharti » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:02 am

Juri wrote:I imagine they're slapping the already unhappy diablo fan base in the face for profit :gft:
for fun and profit

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Post by kouharti » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:02 am

also,
haplo wrote:I definitely noticed it started shortly after I applied for Heroes because I kept a tab on the job postings. About 90% of all new programming positions listed were for mobile games.
yikes

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Post by Rylinks » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:02 am

it's probably because their PR team is awful

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Post by kouharti » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:06 am

Rylinks wrote:it's probably because their PR team is awful
which is weird because their lobbyists are really great, but i guess that isn't like correlated. you'd just think a company that could hire an entire team of effective lobbyists would be able to get a good pr team

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Post by Juri » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:08 am

kouharti wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:02 am
Juri wrote:I imagine they're slapping the already unhappy diablo fan base in the face for profit :gft:
for fun and profit
Making mobile games doesn't sound very fun
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Post by Rylinks » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:08 am

lobbyists and mass PR seem pretty different tbh

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Post by Rylinks » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:08 am

Juri wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:08 am
kouharti wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:02 am
Juri wrote:I imagine they're slapping the already unhappy diablo fan base in the face for profit :gft:
for fun and profit
Making mobile games doesn't sound very fun
this is right, but making non-mobile games isn't very fun either

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Post by haplo » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:11 am

Juri wrote:
kouharti wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:02 am
Juri wrote:I imagine they're slapping the already unhappy diablo fan base in the face for profit :gft:
for fun and profit
Making mobile games doesn't sound very fun
That's why they're having Chinese companies do it for them

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Post by Juri » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:13 am

Rylinks wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:08 am
Juri wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:08 am
kouharti wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:02 am for fun and profit
Making mobile games doesn't sound very fun
this is right, but making non-mobile games isn't very fun either
no objections there
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Post by catonkeyboard » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:28 am

kouharti wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:21 pm
Rylinks wrote:why does anyone care about an earnings call
you can learn a lot of interesting things from information like this
I mean, I read the earnings transcript before I go talk to any company.
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Post by catonkeyboard » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:28 am

Also, is diablo really a property you want to buy?

I hear that and think “to do what?”
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