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Blizzard's Perfect Storm Comments by Rob Fahey

6 July, 2008

The industry's top developer knows the merits of the confessional.

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Krelle
06/07/08 @ 10:29
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you suck!

muahaha (:
(its immature-day in japan, forgive me)
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bdc
06/07/08 @ 10:30
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If Carling did video games, they'd be Blizzard.
Gastrian
06/07/08 @ 10:43
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That's Carlsberg. If Carling did video games they'd be Data Design Interactive
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hiddenranbir
06/07/08 @ 11:27
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And if I did Diablo 3 it would be vaporware.
Ryuken
06/07/08 @ 12:00
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Good article, especially regarding to how the announcement was made you seem to want to say the same thing as VG247 did.

Blizzard sits in a luxury position (even before WoW was announced) but that can't be an excuse for other devs/publishers to not do an announcement in a proper, clear fashion.
saysomething
06/07/08 @ 12:45
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Excellent article, I must say. And I'm not even interested in their games.

Good job.
hahayou
06/07/08 @ 12:54
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They aren't always particularly open:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/0...
berelain
06/07/08 @ 14:29
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I love Blizzards work; they've pulled out some absolutely sterling games over the last decade or so. I still adore Diablo 2 and Warcraft 2 / 3, even though, for me, WoW has grown a little stale.

But that article, interesting as it was, really came across as rather gushing fanboyism at times... ;-p
craziii
06/07/08 @ 14:35
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I am surprise to be reading something so well articulated on a gaming info site :P
FeZZ
06/07/08 @ 14:43
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Excellent article, I must say. And I'm not even interested in their games.

Good job.


+1

Must be liberating for a gaming journalist to talk to blizzard.
Half of the time if you ask any other developer something they can't discuss that right now or they simply dance around the question.
But yeah, well written article.
Just the beginning of page two ... yeah we get it, they are really open and fortcoming ;)
Adam_T
06/07/08 @ 17:42
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Whats all the fuss about this Diablo?

Looks like Dungeon Siege to me...

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Krelle
06/07/08 @ 18:30
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Bad attempt to troll.

Dont use the smiley next time.
Cheap trick to reach that "hey I was only joking"-fire exit when the shitstorm hits you.

mikeck
06/07/08 @ 20:20
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"Bad attempt to troll.

Dont use the smiley next time.
Cheap trick to reach that "hey I was only joking"-fire exit when the shitstorm hits you"

Krelle I direct you to your previous post -

"you suck!

muahaha (:
(its immature-day in japan, forgive me)"

How is this not different?

CrispyXUK
06/07/08 @ 22:40
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I think it also helps that the games don't require PC's (or Macs) of a silly spec, more developers could learn from this.
thefinn
06/07/08 @ 23:04
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"World of Warcraft's ongoing success is one clear example, but it's worth noting that Warcraft 3, StarCraft and even the truly venerable Diablo 2 are still widely played and highly rated by fans."

Huh? Starcraft is more venerable than Diablo 2, to the tune of a bit over two years. Know your gaming history, if you're pretending to be journalists.
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Lin
06/07/08 @ 23:12
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Seriously, why has one company suddenly taken over Eurogamer? I really don't care about any of their games.
Krelle
07/07/08 @ 05:36
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@mikeck
lolz, you fail, brother.
If you look closer, both my previous posts were just for cheap laughs.
Calling out a troll to disguise your own "trollyness"; oldest trick in the book.
Education, mikeck, have you heard of it?
Krelle
07/07/08 @ 05:39
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@Lin: I think thats your problem, not EGs.
Should put some more points in "attention whore", honey. Or Int.
mikeck
07/07/08 @ 09:58
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"@mikeck
lolz, you fail, brother.
If you look closer, both my previous posts were just for cheap laughs.
Calling out a troll to disguise your own "trollyness"; oldest trick in the book.
Education, mikeck, have you heard of it? "

Oh and how cheap they were, very appropriate.

I don't know how I'll get through the day now after my fail...sigh.

Your post post certainly was for a cheap laugh, but your second post lacked any sarcasm or humour, I think in fact you're trying to 'disguise your own trollyness'...either way thanks for making me smile today you plebian.
qoobah
07/07/08 @ 16:02
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+1 for the article EG. Interesting read. We could use some more insightful subjective articles like this one.
Krelle
07/07/08 @ 18:13
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"either way thanks for making me smile today"
then we're two! why do you argue, then? Probably becouse you like it, as I do. Im no worse of a troll than you, mate (mayhaps a little!). Take it easy (y)
mikeck
08/07/08 @ 08:37
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"then we're two! why do you argue, then? Probably becouse you like it, as I do. Im no worse of a troll than you, mate (mayhaps a little!). Take it easy (y)"

Hehe ;)
Sildur
08/07/08 @ 13:37
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Brilliant article. Good to see your writers are still up to scratch!

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