Asmongold shames \u201cout of touch\u201d Blizzard as Diablo 4 devs ridiculed for gameplay showcase Blizzard Entertainment\/Twitch\/AsmongoldAsmongold weighed in on the Diablo 4 developer gameplay showcase that\u2019s causing an uproar from the Diablo 4 community. He was left wondering why the video was ever released, claiming that the developers were set up to fail. Diablo 4 has sold extremely well, though it hasn\u2019t been spared from post-release controversy. Players have had their fair share of gripes with the game, and, while many have been addressed, there are those who aren\u2019t thrilled with the current state of the title. To try and build a bigger connection with the community and introduce the team, Blizzard released a video that had two dungeon designers sit down and chat about working on the game and their background as developers. While their discussion in the video was fairly non-controversial, the gameplay that went up in the background has sparked massive backlash against the devs. Asmongold chimed in, and, while he wasn\u2019t happy with the video, he also felt bad for the two developers who were put in that position. Asmongold claims Diablo devs are \u201cout of touch\u201d Asmongold hasn\u2019t played Diablo 4 in a while. He claimed he was quitting and he committed to that claim, with him airing his grievances about the game and moving on. Even when his chat was telling him to watch a video that showed the developers playing Diablo 4, he was hesitant to watch it. However, he ultimately took the plunge. Asmongold then spent 40 minutes breaking down the video, drawing conclusions about Diablo 4\u2019s current state and some of its issues, and called out Blizzard for releasing a video that put their developers on the spot. As one commenter put it on the original dev gameplay video, \u201cBlizzard just sacrificed these two right in front of our eyes.\u201d Asmongold was in disbelief as he watched the video, and ultimately wound up feeling bad for the developers whose gameplay was put out there for the world to see. \u201cClearly, they don\u2019t have a lot of experience playing this game. They have no idea what they\u2019re doing. Anybody who plays the game knows that. And all it does is open these two people up for criticism and hate from an entire community. The people who made the decision to release this video should be ashamed of themselves.\u201d Asmongold continued. \u201cYou just put two people on your team \u2013 regardless of if they deserved the criticism \u2013 you put them in the crosshairs of everybody.\u201d Regardless of the quality of the gameplay and the content of the video, Asmongold was shocked that Blizzard sent this video out the door in the first place. And, though it\u2019s partially a matter of disappointment that the developers who design the game\u2019s dungeons aren\u2019t as proficient at the game as some of the more hardcore players, this video was ultimately approved by someone else on the team. \u201cAll this does is it confirms a lot of people\u2019s concerns about the game. The developers \u2013 they don\u2019t have a proper build. Yeah, you could say they\u2019re talking and whatever, but that\u2019s not really gonna come across.\u201d Asmongold continued: \u201cI stream video games, I understand being on autopilot, talking and playing the game. But I also understand, whenever you\u2019re putting something out for an audience, what that audience is gonna respond with. It\u2019s out of touch \u2013 not only is it out of touch, it\u2019s irresponsible.\u201d He also gave what he claimed to be a \u201chot take\u201d by saying, \u201cI think that if you\u2019re in a senior position for a video game, you should know how to play it proficiently.\u201d At the time of writing, the video is only getting more and more dislikes as the community discovers it. Blizzard has yet to give a public statement about the ongoing backlash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold shames \u201cout of touch\u201d Blizzard as Diablo 4 devs ridiculed for gameplay showcase Blizzard Entertainment\/Twitch\/AsmongoldAsmongold weighed in on the Diablo 4 developer gameplay showcase that\u2019s causing an uproar from the Diablo 4 community. He was left wondering why the video was ever released, claiming that the developers were set up to fail. Diablo 4 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}