Blizzard Hosted a Diablo 4 Live Event, but NO ONE Showed Up

Asmongold Clips / Asmongold Reacts To: Blizzard Hosted a Diablo 4 Live Event, but NO ONE Showed Up
On this Asmongold Clips KZbin Channel you'll never quit finding all the funny Asmongold Moments with Mcconnell and the best Asmongold Highlights from the most popular games, like: Baldur's Gate 3, Helldivers 2, Starfield, Blizzard Diablo 4, The War Within & Hardcore Classic WoW, the record breaking MMORPG FFXIV, Path of Exile 2, sneak peeks from Gameplay of the upcoming Riot MMO and playthroughs of many other popular games like Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy 16, Elden Ring and more. Also Asmongold Reacts to a lot of content, such as World Record Speed Run of games, Drama and videos of some of the most interesting creators like penguinz0, Internet Historian, Emiru, Dunkey and more. Asmon is also known for his "The True Story of Asmongold", "Asmongold $2 Pizza" and "Asmongold $2 Steak", "Asmongold Room and House Tour" videos, the legendary Transmog Competitions and Mount Off competitions, Ban Appeals, Media Share streams, Reddit Recap Reactions and much more.
► Asmongold TV: / @asmontv
► Twitch: / zackrawrr
Editor: Daily Dose of Asmongold
Contacts:
/ dasmongold
[e-mail]

[@parasoldat66]

On the one hand i feel kinda sad for the people involved in setting this up. On the other hand blizzard deserves this.

[@naomikirisaki]

It is sad but they should expect that already 👀

[@Pillshere31]

who cares, they still got paid

[@misterbeach8826]

imagine how many checks went wrong at blizzard to get here. a lot of blizzard employees must be either scared to speak up, or just dumb and blind.

[@pauliussipavicius4658]

No sadness from me, they get paid.

[@sebastianleister355]

​@@misterbeach8826 they either get fired or get shitty work if they complain. Imo

[@ageorgiev89]

I am starting to think that this company is truly believing they made a good product

[@TheUltimateBastich]

I think the same about people who bought it

[@benja9029]

it really depends on the perspective though cause blizzard makes products for the investors nowadays. As long as they can milk the white knights then they can earn money to make the investors happy

[@kenshinhimura9387]

As long as they have even 1,000 whales playing the game they can make a profit. So they don't care if they lose every single player as long as the whales stick around.

[@thenaberius6081]

Biggest mistake of my life...@@TheUltimateBastich

[@bokkendabokken7689]

They will be like that forever if you keep buying their shit games

[@joonjoon819]

Some minor info: the man in the middle hosting the event is one of the most seasoned and renowned e-sport casters in Korea. God knows how he must have felt hosting a live event with literally no live audience.

[@bestieswithtesties]

He probably thought it was hilarious and that a paycheck is a paycheck

[@janoycresva919]

Caster Park is a legend

[@uasakura]

At least there was that one streamer lol

[@joonjoon819]

@bestieswithtesties Lol yep he is a professional and he had a job to do. His voice, as you can imagine, can make watching paint dry exciting, but I doubt even he could save this one.

[@MC-nt7jz]

@@atsuiken4949 dont project your feelings on others

[@kalenwheeler123]

The glorious days of playing through the campaign of diablo 2 with 7 of your friends are long gone.

[@ccxfrank109]

reset is in 15 hours

[@michaelt779]

No it's not you can do that right now and it's a blast.

[@silvertaken]

Like people said, it's bad when your playerbase complains about the state of the game, but the worst that can happen is when the playerbase stops caring entirely and the devs stop hearing those complains. That's actual rock bottom situation.

[@flashgrenade0554]

Real shit. Hopefully Blizzard takes this as a sign, but I think I speak for a lot of folks when I say they probly ain't gonna hold their breath on that.

[@madaxe606]

Yep. When people stop complaining is when developers need to get real worried, real fast.

[@Justaguywithglassesok]

they most likely won't, we need a few more events like this for them to go shit, they'll just sweep this under the rug@@flashgrenade0554

[@ahmataevo]

The problem is the company then says that the lack of complaints (due to lack of users) is equivalent to approval for the company's direction with its products.

[@Johnlehoule]

When you disappoint them few times, they'll complain, but for 10 years? This is what happens. Yet the worst part is that they didn't even realize this.

[@egysrac17]

Remember kids, Blizzard is now but a corporation who bought the Blizzard logo. The people who made Blizzard are long gone. Now you have CEOs and the shareholders. Get this through your heads.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

Oh trust me, we learned that way back when diablo 3 launched and was hot garbage

[@BLVN7S]

No 1 cares

[@Basuko_Smoker]

​@@BLVN7Swe can see, how else would their pump this shit to the public if It weren't for people as ignorant as you?

[@mrbubbles6468]

And the people that made Blizzard have done little if anything since. And all their good things really do seem like accidents that everyone is just happy they managed to get working somehow

[@josephr4761]

There is no Blizzard. It's just Activision using the Blizzard name to sell products based on nostalgia

[@Benisnaisu]

This is what needs to happen, we were disappointed before but now we just don't care, if nobody cares about their games anymore they will have no choice but to make radical changes

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

This is Activision we’re talking about. They’ll never care. Once it’s obvious the brand name is dead, they’ll simply relegate it to taking turns remaking COD with all the others they’ve cannibalized over the years.

[@ugotdestroyed4227]

Theyll just recycle it do some mobile game for the mobile tads and be done with it. Release some skins and

[@bikerboy3k]

They'll scrap the game.

[@alexfrank5331]

It's absolutely brain-melting to see an official Diablo game get this level of apathy in South Korea. Blizzard has fell so far off the cliff that they can't even see the cliff.

[@Xport9]

Thanks, Blizzard. You did it, you won, Diablo has been defeated, not by us, but YOU.

[@0predelenie]

his dark soul was sold and separated among whales

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

They probably pulled in a billion dollars already from D4. I'm sure Blizzard is happy, and their fans will forgive and forget (again) and line up eagerly for D5.

[@myst2212]

@@ordinaryhuman5645 thats the thing peeps cant understand, millions of copies sold already, they got profit, now is just time totry and keep the game alive with the few thousand people still playing and underpaid developpers

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

@@myst2212 Yeah, once the copies are sold, if you're not going to be buying micro transactions they don't really want you playing the online service anymore anyway. It's actually better for them to go away until it's time to buy the next thing.

[@Sunless1337]

​@warsonggulch6998Instead, they severely reduced the prizes for SC2 tournaments, making players hardly want to compete in them. Glad to see they allocated those resources somewhere that made a difference.

[@fwef7445]

To be fair, the attendance is on par with the actual playerbase

[@maxschmidt666]

Lol, comment of the day!

[@subzero308]

I mean I wasn't there but I play the game 😂... Then again this was in korea if it was in the states it woulda atleast been double that ctfu. Blizzard deserves this.

[@trumptheworstpresidentever4881]

2 x 0 = 0

[@Basuko_Smoker]

​@@trumptheworstpresidentever4881was about to reply the same thing in my mind thinking like, if there is nothing on the first place, don't Matter how much more magnitudes there are 😂

[@flyingpaladin617]

If that was true then this event would be packed

[@absolutetuber]

Blizzard: we’re not seeing. We’re not seeing what the problem is. We’ve only heard good things and that everyone loves what’s going on with the game. Diablo Event:

[@adippful]

Damn I feel sorry for the actual people in charge of organizing this event

[@vlad7269]

They were paid for this anyways

[@adippful]

@@vlad7269 That's true, but it's still gonna painful for them.

[@user-yv9gt7ym9s]

​@@vlad7269Not everything is about money.

[@martuuk8964]

This is a major sign that a game company is now being run by career businessmen/sales and marketing types, rather than passionate gamers. Once a company gets to a certain size, people start getting promoted based on metrics that have nothing to do with product quality or innovation.

[@howdoichangemyprofilepictu9839]

I'm certain it has to do with inter company publicity. People who don't know much if anything about game design start to lead companies because they are seen much more by leadership, and are therefore much more likely to be picked for promotions.

[@mrbubbles6468]

Or more likely they are trying to appeal to two different audiances and appealing to no one. Either they do what their middle age bitching fanbase wants and just take the bitching that will come regardless, accepting their playerbase is a cesspool. Or they actually market and build for casuals. You can’t do both.

[@mmehdi3437]

Similar to what has happened to Apple

[@rewpertcone8243]

This is how public companies work. A private company like valve or larian only have to be sustainable to work, public companies need growth, growth leads to greed

[@Basuko_Smoker]

"Is now being run". Seems like we forgot how they got to this level of pathetic company rep was well over 10 years ago...We just like to play dumb

[@THEF4LLOFM4N]

It's a shame there was nobody willing to support such a small inexperienced indie team like blizzard.

[@ryanwalters8131]

Uh uh even the 9000 people that made the game wouldn’t even show up

[@EazyMac]

Underrated comment 🔥🔥🔥💀

[@Mewseeker]

Now now, not everyone can stand up to juggernauts like Poncle or Kay Yu. :P

[@Not_Ciel]

Everyone knows the Overwatch team is only 4 people. That’s why it took over 3 years to ship out a couple of glorified Archive missions for $5 a pop

[@HeyhoBrando]

@@ryanwalters8131or they weren’t even invited

[@ShenlongNA]

Imagine finally becoming a professional player at a game just for this to happen damn....

[@rKhael53]

At this point, incompetence is not enough to explain why Blizzard chronically do the worst things possible. Even the greediest of CEO should realize you need sometimes to please your customers in order to maximize your benefits. To be such chronically bad, you need to actually have evil intent and willingly want to harm your playerbase.

[@NATIK001]

Nah, it's because marketing and business tends to assume that anything can be brute forced through if only the right "buttons" are pushed in the right order. They are trying to find the right ones while not changing their core strategy or goals. They think they have all the power because they own the games and the services they run on. They think Diablo 4 is a sure fire thing that people will play no matter what because it's Diablo and there is no other Diablo on the market, IE they think like someone with a monopoly. However they fail to appreciate that Diablo 4 is not a monopoly, it has many other games it is competing against, both in its genre and in general. The key to understanding modern AAA is to understand that the publishers and studios have convinced themselves that AAA games and AAA IPs sell no matter what, so they think they can do anything and retain the core market regardless. Again they are thinking like monopolies rather than savvy businesses trying to compete in a larger market.

[@waffleMccoy]

*Microsoft "All holders of ATVI will receive $95.00 in exchange for each ATVI share held at the close of trading on October 12, 2023. This will affect all ATVI shareholders. As a result of this transaction, ATVI will cease trading on the Nasdaq Exchange on October 13, 2023.Oct 12, 2023"

[@sumomaster5585]

@@NATIK001 I would argue it's the opposite...video game industry is so risky and expensive, no 1 wants to try anything crazy cuz well, the consequences are dire

[@realtalkz3930]

I hope this keeps happening because clearly they don't understand what a reality check looks like.

[@mranderson2048]

yea, like that's gonna happen even when the company goes bankrupt, everyone will be busy lining their pocket with "exit" funds rather than saving the company

[@krazyd0nut404]

@@Cloudstorm235yep they ran outta breast milk.

[@vijayendranvijay457]

But On June 6, 2023, Blizzard Entertainment announced that Diablo IV became the fastest-selling game in Blizzard Entertainment's history.[85] Diablo IV generated $666 million in revenue within the first five days after launch.[86] Diablo IV reached 12 million players by August 2023.[87] The PlayStation 5 version of Diablo IV was the second bestselling retail game during its first week of release in Japan, with 24,375 physical units being sold. The PlayStation 4 version sold 8,524 units in Japan throughout the week and was ranked at number five on the weekly all-format video game sales chart. In total, Diablo IV sold 41,839 retail units across all platforms during its first week of release in Japan.@@mranderson2048

[@asterfield02]

they made 12 million sales on the game alone. Remember when mobile diablo launched, they made $25m on the first day? No matter how bad people want Blizz to fail, they're still making a lot of money. Even if no one cares post-launch, they already made bank on the launch.

[@scorpdelord883]

@@asterfield02 i mena in the long run its just money loss, they cant just close servers before atleast 3 years but yeh sadly ;/

[@krokettenpanzer8030]

Well done Blizzard!

[@NicholasFoong69]

They managed to get john cena to attend! Blizzard truly cares about their fanbase after all.

[@bruhm0ment6000]

​@@NicholasFoong69 Fr the shit they just keep pumping out is truly the games of all time!!

[@TestSubjectCoco]

They're breaking records, fr

[@DanielgunKim]

@warsonggulch6998They know about it. I got friends in Korea who says that D2R was massively popular and how people would call in “sick” during ladder resets. Sadly (or maybe happily?), they all know that D4 isn’t good. It’s a universal truth that isn’t an opinion only westerners hold onto.

[@rKhael53]

At this point, incompetence is not enough to explain why Blizzard chronically do the worst things possible. Even the greediest of CEO should realize you need sometimes to please your customers in order to maximize your benefits. To be such chronically bad, you need to actually have evil intent and willingly want to harm your playerbase.

[@azza5332]

Goku: "Hey Vegeta, let's fight somewhere empty!"

[@rnglover420]

Harvest dawn in the background makes this much funnier 😂

[@user-sk6nm1wr2j]

Amazing to see the entire D4 Korean playerbase in one spot like this. Thanks Bobby!

[@osama9501]

Lmao

[@gazz3867]

Bringing people together! =)

[@josephlink4173]

Blizzard sponsored a LAN party? Neat. Nice to see local events going up like this on such a small scale.

[@tbone9474]

The rubber banding would still be an issue somehow

[@dingding12321]

Small indie company doing what it can! You love to see it

[@alargefarva4274]

If only we could LAN party the game at home… too bad it’s always online 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@a1pha_star]

Is your comment unironic? I can’t tell. 😂

[@GRBenowitz]

I remember being a little kid playing BC (having the time of my life) and I couldn’t have imagined the way things turned out.

[@Simca0503]

The old Blizzard we loved is gone now... My childhood...

[@supersplashgibson9155]

Yesssss this is what we need more of, these companies need to start putting effort into their games, and us as players need to take a stand

[@jeebus2118]

Nah. Remember every boycott is one cinematic away from ending. They’ll release diablo 5 and it’ll be the best selling blizzard game ever.

[@mikehunt4797]

@@jeebus2118 Glad it didnt work on me this time around.

[@jeebus2118]

@@mikehunt4797 Unfortunately I was high on copium especially after waiting so long for D4 but I've since deleted my battlenet account entirely lmao

[@mikehunt4797]

Good on ya! i kept mine but just for D2R and the odd time i play Starcraft.@@jeebus2118

[@wielderXII]

According to a new press release by Blizzard, Diablo 4 was the “best-selling opening in Blizzard's history”, making major bank by achieving a revenue of a whopping $666 million in “global sell-through”.Jun 13, 2023

[@BuckScrotumn]

Imagine doing everything possible to get people to like your game EXCEPT making a good game.

[@flyingpaladin617]

Which Blizzard did

[@TheBloodworks3]

Blizzard has shifted its focus to "managng our expectations" and selling yearly expansions in lieu of improving the actual game.

[@jeltevl8868]

@@TheBloodworks3 I mean they are lowering our expectations so much that at some point they cant dissapoint anymore. So ye in case off managing our expectations they do a good job I say. Since its easy to manage that if there are no expectations left.

[@Dadbod1999]

Don't need to imagine, Blizzard is doing it.

[@azmalguthek4502]

@@flyingpaladin617 I love watching you get ratio'd every time you white knight this god awful game on every single video under every single comment lmfao.

[@joemarievega685]

Goku to his opponent be like "let's fight somewhere empty"

[@helix6206]

I wish people did the same with companies like bethesda and EA in this part of the world...

[@darkmatter-mc5iv]

For ANY Fanbase, this is a death notice.

[@Burningwoodz]

just you wait till s69 and exp number 10

[@_Ekaros]

You can't kill what never was alive.

[@dragonhunter6102]

For a blizzard, this should be a fucking alert situation. Even at Gamescom, there were not so many people. This can mean that Diablo as a franchise is dead and potentially the company itself because people lost their patience, and it's not like they have no space for mistakes; they already made them, and now it's in a state where the playerbase will not recover.

[@mrbubbles6468]

It really isn’t. It’s Diablo. No one cares about multiplayer

[@hunterwolf5482]

Well it was alive back in diablo 2 days. then came diablo 3 which started to become the knell of the series. @@_Ekaros​

[@SwagJesus69420]

This is just sad to me. Back in the day people would have torn their hair out trying to make it to something like this. But because of the current state of the gaming industry and Blizzard as a company, here we are.

[@TheMaxCloud]

Its mostly just Blizzard that sucks this much.

[@Selloca]

​@@TheMaxCloudea ubi and bethesda do too

[@TheMaxCloud]

Shhh we talking about Blizzard now, even if youre right..... Yeah Blizzard is full of SHIT!!!@@Selloca

[@MRKetter81]

I had a friend who wanted to drive on out all the way to the west coast from the east coast just to go to Blizzcon and I turned him down cause I thought he was crazy. He wanted everyone to take turns driving and pile on all up together in one car. I turned him down.. =/ kinda feel sad letting him down too, but to me Blizzard was just any old other game company. Damn... this shit hits hard when I see how badly they 'sold out' to cooperate shills. Diablo 1 and 2... Warcraft 2 and 3.... now look at what they've become. I didn't think Diablo 4 was all that bad and really enjoyed my Druid, but they have just buried their audience. China destroys everything it touches.

[@Dante999000]

​​@@MRKetter81agree, which is I myself am ashamed to have Chinese blood in me since like you said everything China touches disintegrates or gets vaporized all for money.

[@BlackGulchSaloon]

Blizzard has a history of being huge in Korea. So for Koreans to all refuse to show up to an event of theirs is a powerful show of solidarity against them.

[@TastyScotch]

The state of d4 arm kind of reminds me of a rave i went to once. They spent thousands of dollars on advertising but it was the worst lineup anyone had ever seen. Additionally, The rave was split into 2 parts, a daytime concert in a small town ampitheater and then a nighttime rave in a large city after. Tickets were 3x the price of other similar events, and although they had spared no expense on the flyer (which was enormous) and the amount of flyers (they made like… 150k flyers) they cut costs almost everywhere else. The concert opted to rent a local $700/night soundsystem…. Suffice to say, they expected 10,000 people to come to this event, they needed 5,000 to break even on expenses. About 1,500 actually came, which included the staff and people who had gotten free tickets (like myself). Was a disaster. I think the producers skipped town the next day 😂

[@doesntMetter1]

And I quote "most successful game launch we've had"

[@NamYagami]

love seeing it. blizzard getting exactly what they deserve. nothing.

[@sirg6465]

They already got our money 😂

[@wielderXII]

According to a new press release by Blizzard, Diablo 4 was the “best-selling opening in Blizzard's history”, making major bank by achieving a revenue of a whopping $666 million in “global sell-through”.Jun 13, 2023

[@thundark3736]

​@@sirg6465and they're not getting anymore 😂😂😂

[@rope435]

​@@sirg6465Not mine, speak for yourself 😂

[@SunlightGwyn]

@@sirg6465 No they didn’t. I played Diablo 3 to death and didn’t buy Diablo 4 at all. I knew it was going to be crap.

[@markusbrendon]

Bro, thats beyond sad, even small communities usually have some die hard fans who attend everything, like skullgirls, but to have nearly no one show up on this, thats just sad, blizzard has to change their ways in order to gain trust among their peers

[@JordanRA]

I think most of that trust disappeared with this game and won't be coming back sadly

[@cybertramon0012]

You know, this would be the point where the people running Blizzard should be pausing everything else and taking the time to seriously discuss how things got to this point, and how they could possibly regain their audience. Look at all the complaints fans have and identify the worst ones. But then again, I’m thinking like a person and not a committee obsessed with money and just crunching faceless data, so what do I know?

[@AvelierPlays]

How embarrassing, this would never ever happen to the Blizzard of the late 90s and early 00s

[@ErraticFaith]

Haha 360k. We have a lady here who does a weekly show on knitting that has about 6 times that. If the comments around here are correct and it sold 10m globally - then you factor in that the southern joke of Korea has expediated access to all things Yank; thats a disaster right there. Fex gets more views on his Original Sin plays than that lol! Typically US games roll quite well with the Koreans which is why they bother in the first place.

[@razinghavoc7419]

@@deenman23 Lol, bro they have mukbang streamers who do more? And if they had so many, then why did no one show up? Let go of your cope, and move on. Korea has always had a huge blizzard fanbase, so saying due it's korea relax makes no sense.

[@matguimond92]

@@razinghavoc7419 don't really care about D4 but those are players - you're talking about brain dead people that sit there on their phones watching people gouge themselves with greasy junk food. If thats considered content I guess you could consider Diablo 4 a video game. Seems fair since they both fit in the same category as "garbage."

[@sws212]

@@deenman23 Korea is particularly popular with Warcraft and Starcraft. There should''ve been some residual users there from that alone. The fact that hardly anyone had any interest is surprising. If Korea doesn't like your PC game, you're pretty much screwed.

[@Globalgenocide]

Feels bad for the players, I'm guessing their managers/friends will be suggesting they move onto more popular games after that one lol

[@saimyintmyat9373]

Time for them to migrate to Valorant 😂😂😂.

[@TrashSniper]

Give them some jobs at Valve

[@0FFICERPROBLEM]

Move to Rocket League boys

[@LordOfChaos.x]

621 go live a normal life.. Have surgery and remove the augmentation So u can be finally free

[@GamesNStuff365]

dudes need to take up knitting, can never have enough sweaters, right

[@AgresteEscorial]

"Do you guys dont have phones?"...i mean ticketssss? you can roll for a ticket for 49.99 "micro" transaction. "we need money to keep dyeing our hair"

[@rezthemediaruler3768]

„You cry out for help. But nobody came.“

[@gr0men]

Hope the Blizzard story is remembered by other passionate studios (what Blizzard used to be). Founders left one after another since Activision take-over. Now they have so many employees out of touch that they simply can not make good games anymore. It's so convoluted that any drastic change or improvement goes though months of approvals from higher-ups, by which time it's too late.

[@CJ-wh7ik]

jews in the manegment and women in development - bane of any gaming company TT

[@thatswhatshesaid1575]

*Thanos voice* I hope they remember you.

[@meaty8887]

The merger with Activision is just like Boeing with McDonnell Douglas. It ruined the company.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

​@@CJ-wh7ikit's not the race/gender of the workers, but that they were hired because of their race/gender instead of their skills/passion

[@gr0men]

@@meaty8887Blizzard is already at rock-bottom. D4 Bad. WoW is only surviving due to classic and hardcore classic. Incredibly dumb decisions made in Overwatch is killing that game. Not to mention Heroes of the storm failed, Warcraft 3 remake fail etc etc. Activision pushed away the founders that made Blizzard good and now it's their games studios that make CoD and mobile games that's still funding and Keeping the Blizzard side of things alive (barely). Blizzard is so deep in crap, you'd think it can only go up if new decision makers replace the old ones. Microsofts first move is removing Bob Kotic from his leadership role and that already is a massive improvement.

[@Oldschool_Gamer_]

This is what happens when you take player loyalty for granted. They have been trading player loyalty for cash for years now, and it seems that well has run dry. Good luck with the next 20 years earning that loyalty back.

[@mrbubbles6468]

I mean, all of their games a raking in boat loads of sales and players. They’ll be fine. No one wants to play much less watch competative multiplayer Diablo.

[@Basuko_Smoker]

Diablo, Starcraft, OW, WoW...They have taken everything to the drain 😂

[@melanp4698]

It's like spending 15 hours to meticulously paint a house for $2,500 or spend 3 hours spraypainting it for $750. If you can do 5 passable jobs in the same time, you're up $1,250 Games are the same, it's pure greed. They made 5 times the cost of the game already. Sure, their dream was 20 times the cost, but 5 is waaay enough to just keep lumbering along doing the bare minimum.

[@FabschOblivion669]

@@mrbubbles6468Overwatch 2 is the prime example that everyone hates their game but now players can be very vocal about it.

[@VernulaUtUmbra]

@@mrbubbles6468 Yes, but that's because people were banking on those franchises still being good. Diablo 4 made a lot of money because Diablo 3 was Passable/Good. Diablo 5 won't make as much because Diablo 4 was bad. It's the main reason why they're so quick to make sequel after sequel; being known as a quality game is "free marketing", and being known as a shitty product won't get people to look into your game (look at Two Worlds: First game was terrible, second game was actually pretty good, no one bought the second because of how laughably bad the first was)

[@neoroxx]

no one will ever thought that we went from paying to visit Blizzcon to this 😂

[@jmbstat]

this meeting could have been an email

[@SamuraiMotoko]

Now Imagine if Blizzcon could look like this

[@mho...]

just a matter of time

[@Jadiac5]

Every event organisers worst nightmare.

[@vassalofthenight9945]

Damn, this reminds me of that one time when i organized an event for my student association in college and a grand total of like 3 people showed up. Shit was embarassing

[@frogdeity]

The Oblivion music made me think I forgot to close out of Oblivion.

[@chettonex]

I feel happy for the organizers of this event that charged blizzard and had a chill day at work that day.

[@wisico640]

Nope, its no fun to set a venue for a full audience & having no audience. Lost time + money is still lost time :(

[@pretzelbomb6105]

@@wisico640Lost time for Blizzard. The venue gets paid no matter how many people show up. Everyone who organized the space and prepared the stage get paid, no matter how many people show up. The players and announcer will be expecting the paycheck they were promised, no matter how many people show up. The only losing party here is the Blizzard corporation.

[@wisico640]

@@pretzelbomb6105 I'm a stage light tech, with the pandemic we had a bunch of contracts with no public. Everyone gets paid, but you've got 100s of tech working for no results. Lights hagned up temporarly for no reason & no show. You get paid but don't learn anything from it and all the energy feels wasted. I'd like to make a free event and loose money instead of this situation.

[@lachlantrescott5533]

@@pretzelbomb6105 Well I'm sure the players expected some kind of turnout to watch them play, so it's a bit sad for them.

[@LordVader1094]

@@lachlantrescott5533 they still get paid though, so there's that

[@ongogablogian4396]

You know, I am so happy Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction back in 2001 was the last game. It ran it's course and had only highs and remains a timeless classic. No prolonged death of the franchise.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

Yup. Most of us played that game off and on for over a decade.

[@thatcanadian]

@@kenshinhimura9387 I still play! There's a mod called project diablo 2 and it's awesome, lots of players at the beginning of every season too. If you're ever curious you should check it out!

[@iszlaigabor5822]

It still happily lives as Project Diablo 2. Very nice mod, at season start 10-20K people plays it. It's like the development of D2 never stopped.

[@matguimond92]

I was only 9 when that game came out and I got terrorized by Duriel that was a great time

[@Zeru.]

I remember a moment when I though about playing Median, while playing Diablo 4. I might hop back on Median some time soon.

[@tubemastergoodman7398]

Blizzard: we think we’re doing alright

[@22maric]

It's going to be so interesting to see what happens at Blizzcon... they must be terrified lol

[@zelashizzz1278]

Eh, the fanboys are still willing to shell out $300 for a ticket (I think it was 300... could be wrong, either way it's way over priced)

[@daodung7874]

​@@zelashizzz1278yeah , 300$ for a ticket is expensive as hell

[@highimpact5563]

I know they were really surprised with the Dragonflight pre sales to prior expansions…..I bet they are really scared with the next expansion pre sales. That’s what happens when you continue to double down over and over and over again.

[@tomasz9429]

Nothing says "dead game" better than this.

[@Midnightgamer00]

So glad I have overcome my urges of preordering or buying fresh new games, and have adopted the wait and see after 3 months approached. Almost bought D4 when everyone was saying how great it was shortly after launch

[@Isorosui]

Whole heartedly wish I could go back in time and save that extra 30 dollars into literally anything else. This was definitely a huge pre order regret

[@DigitalProphet]

Blizzard: "I guess gamers don't like live events anymore. There can't be any other reason nobody would show up to our event."

[@AnimeFan-dl4qd]

that shows that a company depends on their costumers. This is a big hit for Blizzard and hopefully not the only one.

[@muhdyte9930]

You misspelled activision.

[@highermedia]

Not true. Activision is owned by vanguard which means they don't need to make money at all since they already own everything.

[@isoprops3861]

Big hit? They had a massive PR scandal a while ago and nothing happened. You really think this will do anything?

[@RipOffline]

Props to the players who sacreficed themself

[@bluemyst42]

Imagine those players that decided D4 was going to be their big break so they trained and grinded to be competitive and the game flops.

[@LordOfChaos.x]

​@@bluemyst42the game died already

[@Yokai_Yuri]

​@@deenman23Found the blizzard supporter

[@bluemyst42]

@@deenman23 Did you not watch the video? Do you really just reply to comments without context?

[@MrHinatainn]

The Agony. 💀

[@thedenseone6443]

The janitors were probably relieved they wouldn’t have much to clean up lol

[@CptSupermrkt]

This has such "please clap" energy, lol.

[@elymX]

This what happens when you treat your players as garbage, they treat you with the same courtesy

[@PepsFTW]

finally people are learning that not talking at all about the game hurts more than bad mouthing it.

[@Darbobski]

This reminds me of one of those Sound of Freedom "sold out" shows.

[@gaborkeresztes1739]

At least i hoped the ones that pre-order games would show up.

[@gowanlock]

More people watched asmon laugh at the fail, than watched the fail

[@ersetzbar.]

Imagine having a smaller audiance than every school kids presentation

[@Cybertech134]

I, too, was surprised by the lack of 'tendies.

[@gullyweaver1714]

"Do you guy's not have phones?"

[@robertdarie4192]

They get what they deserve, none of the attention.

[@lukee9360]

Blizzard is slowly but surely crumbling and it's well deserved!

[@SeasoningTheObese]

Hope Bethesda goes with them. Starfield is the most aggressively regressive game I've ever seen. At least Diablo 4 looked like Blizzard pretended to make a game. Plus, Microsoft buying 2 companies for a trillion dollars just as they both make company ending games would be hilarious.

[@mrcaterpillow9926]

@@SeasoningTheObese Unfortunately for you Blizzard is still making billions. They are gonna be just fine.

[@SeasoningTheObese]

@@mrcaterpillow9926Oh for sure, but it's not unfortunate for me at all. I haven't bought a Blizzard game since Overwatch 1, which was the last good game they made.

[@mrcaterpillow9926]

@@SeasoningTheObese I mean it sorta is cause you want their downfall, so do I. Granted I haven't bought anything outside of WoW for the past 5 years. Dragonflights been fun, and I enjoy it which is nice. Though, their other ips have been so damn lackluster. D4 was fun in the beta, just not to interested after they fully released it and started to make it grindier and grindier.

[@sageashton31]

...and I hope they never recover and that all their IPs implode out of existence.

[@NimbleBard48]

At least there wasn't much cleaning afterwards.

[@voxfoxclips8684]

Wow... the attendence... I was expecting LESS people to show up than that! XD

[@jont2576]

Imagine the o.g. country that was one of your greatest fanbase since the beginning of time and no one showed up at a blizzard event.

[@osh150]

"Let's fight somewhere empty" The somewhere:

[@Morunic777]

The last thing to make it more awkward than it already is is to say "Hi"

[@LadaHusakLH]

Sudenly D3 sounds like a loads of fun

[@jordanlok365]

death notice, imagine there is people who say I LOVE DIABLO 4 GAME OF THE YEAR

[@Burningwoodz]

d4 is goty

[@electricluna2774]

What do you mean? It is obviously goty

[@LARPing-Wolf]

Oh boy, I still remember those chatters

[@didakis]

Still better than Starfield :D

[@kenshinhimura9387]

​@didakis that's not true. Starfield is a decent game. Not good, not great, just decent. Diablo 4 on the other hand is straight up garbage. So at least starfield has it beat slightly

[@zaetayo]

I'm really looking forward to see how Blizzcon will go for Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4, oh boy we in for some good memes this fall.

[@lgbfjb1183]

The problem is with the seasons, I’d bet less then 1/10 players like have to start their characters from scratch every 3 months

[@VietPho]

This is like hosting a house party and nobody shows up

[@RiverRockXIII]

When you are already at bedrock but wanna keep digging.

[@aimaimaimmiamiamia6890]

you end up in the void.

[@hunterwolf5482]

more like you'll just end up digging, and digging, and digging, and digging, and lastly, DIGGING, expecting shite. XD@@aimaimaimmiamiamia6890

[@cattysplat]

@@aimaimaimmiamiamia6890 Also called Australia 💀

[@mattmbx5472]

They didnt print enough pamphlet 😂

[@Madhatterni]

Having flashbacks of birthday parties with no shows including family

[@dovakeen1179]

Meanwhile starcraft 1 tournaments are still held in Korea and some parts of US

[@Sherudons]

You could probably get a larger crowd doing a 2v2 dungeon keeper match... that's impressively bad.

[@dirtiestharry6551]

Let me be clear, Diablo 2 was huge in Korea. Diablo dominated RPG genre in Korea during Diablo 2. Diablo franchise actually had a fan base here. But no one wanted to show up for D4, because it's just waste of time.

[@gp-1542]

It’s literally just like those liminal spaces

[@fohhee]

WoW, I guess Blizzard need to make more transmog and horse armour to cover the lost.

[@miguelmata6883]

I'm surprised that there were no actual attendees, the community must be incredibly coordinated or they must hate Blizz that much... Warms my heart tbh :)

[@foxdog9332]

its because they made trading useless in D4 hence no community.

[@ZarathosDaimaoh]

Or worse , they ain"t even angry anymore , but just moved on and don't care . Blizz don't mind if people are angry , means they are still there and invested (and buying or playing) , whatever gamers claim ... but straight up indifference ? Ooof

[@Maddinhpws]

Or my guess is. Nobody actually cared enough to bother attending.

[@justjuniorjaw]

"Applause!" - Blizzard to the audience, probably

[@dublinduster]

and the crowd goes mild

[@OTAKUSENSEI-01]

That will teach them what happens when you wait 3 months before adding a gem tab .

[@toufiq309]

im gonna say this Asmongold clips channel is more entertaining then the main channel.

[@Lightgrenadez7777]

Sometimes. I find the clips to be funny clips and that's about it. I prefer the discourse that he talk about in long form tbh. I don't always agree with him. But I find him to have an interesting opinion.

[@soadsam]

they had all the momentum and attention back on the diablo ip pre-release and they fucked up literally every step of the way... amazing

[@camerons6028]

That one person (or people) in that one meeting who might have had that one little bit of courage to say "Hay, maybe we should do it this way to make it better", that got fired later that day, are now laughing.

[@K4sk4d3]

I wouldn’t even have played. I’d have turned around and walked out laughing.

[@JediMindTrix420]

The most important question that’s being overlooked here is this. Did the only team that showed up,win by default?

[@axhed]

yes, of course. however, they were stripped of their victory when they voiced support of hong kong.

[@JediMindTrix420]

@@axhed the old catch 22.

[@Sonlirain]

The main prize was a 25% off coupon for the next battle pass anyway.

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

@@axheddon’t ya just hate it when people try to exercise free speech?

[@theprofessional438]

Love to see it. I hope they do the Starfield next.

[@benbpch5826]

Why? Starfield is way better and it's single player game, unlike Diablo IV.

[@theprofessional438]

@@benbpch5826 that is like, your opinion man

[@LiquidSpartan117]

​@@theprofessional438and you're an absolute clown. Updates and moders will keep Starfield alive for many long years

[@richardgnyc]

One of those ghost cities events. 😂

[@chocobanana5262]

Truly a great result on "when devs say they play their game and ignore the complains" moment.

[@loweffort9426]

Please dont stop covering D4, peak content right here