Blizzcon Diablo Thoughts From The "boo guy"

Blizzcon 2018 what an emotional rollercoaster that was now since I asked the question a lot of people have been asking me to kind of put together my thoughts on Blizzcon 2018 and that's kind of exactly what I aim to do in this video so without further ado let's get into it hi lord fluffy face of Diablo 3 is ice curious I see a lot of mechanics that we kind of been begging for in Diablo 3 in this is there any plans to make this playable on PC or is this strictly mobile forever are there any yeah this the current plan is to be on mobile both Android and iOS we don't have any plans at the moment to do PC did you guys not have phones yeah you guys so first and foremost I kind of want to get some context to the question itself so for you guys that don't know me I'm Lord fluffy I'm a diablo 3 streamer i've been streaming diablo almost exclusively since season 3 season 4 I've been playing Diablo 3 since vanilla without really ever taking a break I have countless hours sunk into Diablo I don't even want to look at the number and ever since the release of the necromancer pack I have more or less been one of the top Diablo streamers for quite some time now I actually had pretty low expectations going into Blizzcon for the Diablo franchise pretty much since season 12 we haven't been seeing really any diablo content the most notable of those changes however has been the addition of themed seasons which for you guys don't know they basically just add a seasonal theme it's been double goblins double bounty mattes nothing super innovative or game-changing pretty low-level changes that pretty much already existed in the game it didn't require any changes and I did more or less hype us up you know kind of right before the round three of Blizzcon tickets went on sale brainy said this we'd also like to let you know that the forge is here at wizard a burning hot and we have multiple Diablo projects in the works some of them are going to take longer than others but we may have some things to show you later this year so of course everyone everyone thought that that was going to be a table 4 announcement there's no one I met at Blizzcon back when that announcement was made that expected anything less than Diablo 4 but of course as a lot of you guys know a couple weeks ago a Blizzcon did kind of lower expectations and came out and said we know many of you are hoping for and good things come to those who wait but evil things take often longer so they're basically in a nutshell telling us like there's no chance you're getting the elbow 4 so if you guys you know watch the podcast at all going into it I didn't really have the highest of expectations for the Diablo franchise obviously a lot of people were hoping for Diablo 2 remastered and I thought that that was in the realm of possibility but of course the one thing that didn't change after they lowered our expectations was the fact that Diablo which we didn't know is the Apple immortal yet Diablo was following the opening ceremony and historically that has always meant that that game is getting the biggest announcement of the year period historically that's been 100 percent accurate every time so of course everyone still had really really high hopes they're hoping for you know DT remastered hoping for Diablo 3 content maybe an expansion or a character pack and honestly the community would joke about you know Diablo PR or diablo mobile but I'm not sure that anyone actually expected that to be the case so you know fast forward its Blizzcon day one we finally get inside drop a deuce key another diablo streamer actually saved the seats towards the front so we had you know really good spot but you know going into the day I was a little bit sour already you know people were tweeting at me like hey fluff what time are you gonna stream at Blizzcon and I'm just kind of like what are you talking about and I guess that they had invited todd's and tons of streamers to stream either you know Diablo on switch or Diablo mortal and of course I hadn't received any invites whatsoever so I was a little sour already because you know I've been streaming this game for a really long time I'm making guides for a really long time I have a pretty decent amount of reach for Diablo and to not really get an invite it's kind of like a really feels bad moment especially considering they invited a lot of streamers that really have nothing to do with Diablo at all to streaming the game so I was already feeling kind of salty walking in but I still had like really really high hopes so now it's really excited about you know the future of Diablo and what we could expect because again most of us are expecting a really big announcement cuz it is the first game after the opening ceremony so we're kind of hyped up we're sitting there the classic game team comes out and so this would be the team that you're expecting the Diablo 2 remastered announcement to come from and he was so vague leading up to the trailer I am honored to present the return of another Titan be able to write we never paid any heat so immediately when I see this I'm not a huge Blizzard fanboy I really don't play any game besides Diablo and I see this and I'm like I don't really know what's going on here like what is that like I'm thinking the banners that they have in Diablo like I that's the first thing that came to my head and then the voice kicks on right the voice actor from Diablo 2 the dude in the prison cell so I'm like oh [ __ ] here we go boys d2 remastered and then it keeps going right and you see like the orc and the dude fighting and then I'm like wait a minute I'm like is that a paladin what's going on why would orcs be in Diablo remastered and then this dude pops up obviously that's for crafts and I'm like man damn it so immediately I'm thinking okay they're not going to master two games in one year so - yellow - remastered it's absolutely out of the window but at the same time I'm like holy [ __ ] like they're still gonna be a huge announcement coming for Diablo and really the only thing that's left is Diablo 3 and honestly as of Diablo 3 player that was the one thing I wanted more than anything like yeah before is a certainty it's gonna happen it doesn't really matter when for me it's just it's so far down the road that I can't even like think about it Diablo 2 remastered it'd have been really cool but honestly the game I play almost every day is Diablo 3 so the content I want the most is Diablo 3 and so I'm like wow we might actually get a full-fledged Diablo 3 expansion I can't believe it I'm actually even more hyped after seeing the Warcraft 3 reforged than I was before so then it's Diablos moment right Wyatt Chang comes up on stage and honestly before Blizzcon I mean I had really no idea that Wyatt Chang even still worked for Diablo or Blizzard cuz honestly I haven't seen Wyatt Chang since like Quinn did an interview with him like two three years ago out of blues con I haven't seen him since so I'm like okay he's been working on something juicy so he comes on and this is kind of all of us reacting to what happens next love so I'm psyched right he's like we love Diablo I'm like cuz i lo Diablo right but I'm like you know I'm all smiles right because I'm like because I'm honestly thinking Diablo 3 expansion this has to be big right there I mean do ski already knows Duke he's like a [ __ ] mobile dudes and like it felt so unreal right cuz this is not what anyone wanted at all this I was totally and completely blindsided by this we would joke about a Diablo Br we would joke about Diablo Mobile no one expected it like no one wanted it so I was just like I mean you can see like the definition we would use the places a platform for a news Tiamo nothing just defeated that's a defeated man that is a defeated man right there the game I've been playing since vanilla the game I've been playing for like the last year without any changes besides like tiny little seasonal themes is getting nothing we're getting a mobile game that no one really wanted absolutely no one asked for and so like the things that are going through my head is just like as a diablo streamer like what do i do like are we still gonna play rat runs for another year or more because this mobile game was obviously in very early stages of development so that's not gonna be ready for at least a year or more unless this you know Chinese company is like amazing at pushing out code and so am i what do we do now like what's there to look forward to now so I'm super livid like I am just like I'm almost trembling and people are always like oh man you look like you're about ready to cry in the video honestly I'm like trembling from rage like I am just so pissed off I didn't want to just immediately jump on this all trying to be like you know [ __ ] you guys [ __ ] your stupid game and I wanted to be open-minded because I'm not I'm not a journalist by any means I'm a diablo streamer i'm a diablo content creator but i wanted to keep an open mind for the people that might still be interested in this game so then they get to the diablo Q&A right and i really didn't even have an idea of what i wanted to ask I just knew I wanted to be up there and I wanted to ask him something and I wanted to ask him something that would kind of portray how the PC people felt basically everyone at Blizzcon felt about this game but even in my own head I'm thinking like should I say something just just like completely rude should I be a dick you know I'm sure the exact same thing that the red shirt guy was thinking in his head should I stick to the question that I told Brandi I was gonna ask or should I completely go off the road and really tell him how I feel but again you know the interest of being open minded and you know not burning my bridges kind of really took over and you know I ended up sticking to the question I originally wanted to ask and all my question was you know obviously I of Diablo on PC Diablo is meant for PC and that's just plain and simple it's always been on PC to me it's not really meant for other platforms I don't like Diablo on console I'm not excited about Diablo on switch at all I played it while I was there and I was like grossed but if that's your thing I'm not [ __ ] on it I just I really wanted to be able to play a new Diablo game on the platform that I wanted to play it on of course I was curious I see a lot of mechanics that we kind of been begging for and so I yeah first I asked I see I didn't ask first I said okay I see a lot of elements that we've been begging for in Diablo 3 and that's totally true you know something like ground effects like so very much so in the demo like when a mob was casting something that you shouldn't be in you would get kind of a notification on the ground of hey like don't stand in this and that's something that you know people have been really wanting in Diablo 3 there's a lot of mechanics in Diablo 3 that there's really no way to avoid them or no real way to know that they're coming and that it feels bad it plays bad it's bad design and so that's that's one of the things I was talking about the other thing I was talking about is like more involved skill mechanics so like in a demo you know you would cast meteor and it would bring up first it would bring up your AoE radius how far away you could cast meteor and then within that you would have like a smaller circle to kind of pick exactly where you wanted that meteor to fall and I think something like that in Diablo would be amazing so imagine if you will not only you have to put like your set together your build together min max your stats get augmented and stuff like that be actually the aim your skills or you have to aim some skills but not all of them this is just a bit more skill based I felt it felt a lot more like like a MOBA game or you really have to like time your skills to get like maximum effectiveness out of them and stuff like that and that was something that I thought would be really cool and you see a lot of that from like Lost Ark lineage eternal you see like there's this new like swipe mechanic we're like you swipe your mouse and like like a firewall will pop up where you swiped and just like really cool skill features like that and that's what I meant when I first said what I said then I go on and again my voice is kind of trembling and it's not cuz I'm nervous because I don't have a problem talking in front of people but like I was so upset I was so upset I'm so mad that was really like just doing it good cuz in my head I'm like like I want to say a lot worse but I'm not gonna is there any plans and I didn't really have to add the forever that was kind of like my attempt I guess at a jab it's like strictly mobile forever I don't want to be a total dick but I wanted to absolutely portray how disappointed I was and how disappointed I think I felt everyone was and you guys have to keep in mind when I went out there to ask my question I didn't think it would get the reaction that it did I didn't think that people would actually boo I didn't expect that whatsoever so I didn't go up there with the intention or the negative intention of causing controversy or any kind of uproar I just wanted to ask a question now generally curious about because I still and I know like emulators exist but it's not like a true official experience so I was really generally curious if this would ever be brought to PC and I got a very official kind of way because you know it's just a platform I want to play it on it's a platform to everyone at Blizzcon wanted to play on so I mean the question came from a good place and I tried to be as non negative as I could possibly be we don't have any plans at the moment to do PC so you know the boo happened which I didn't really expect and I'm kind of glad they didn't clip the camera back to me because like I was you know you look at my face strictly mobile forever I'm not a happy dude it's kind of find zookas Zanjeer a former diablo streamer he was kind of like in the control center and like so there had a camera pointing at me they had a camera point at why it changed so he could see both feeds and he he was like you just looked pissed off um and in his head he's like fluff don't ask the question don't do it so I'm you know I'm glad they didn't point it back to me because I didn't look super super happy are there any yeah the current plan is to be on mobile both Android and iOS we don't have any plans at moment to do PC did you guys not have phones yeah so you guys see I'm walking away like I didn't even like stick around I just walked away I was like whatever man cool but I in no way triggered then to say what they said like that it's tough to watch probably not the best reaction I don't know he like so a lot of people that saw this video were like oh my god he's talking to me right a lot of people made the reference to like imagine if like Osman Gold a WoW player went up and asked a WoW question and like they told him like can't you run this game or something on your machine and peopled be like people go crazy but why I wasn't talking to me like he was addressing the people that were booing like very very generalized statement the problem is that this didn't come off very well it wasn't well-received and of course it has become a meme on the internet now of course as you guys saw after the announcement was made it was very quiet like it was dead quiet there's no like whoo you know like people excited there's really not a lot there's a lot of stirring but not like in a positive I'm so excited kind of way more of like a everyone's kind of like uneasy right and of course the infamous red shirt guy goes up there and he kind of just says exactly what's on his mind hey wondering is this an out of season April Fool's joke that's so hard to watch it makes me so uncomfortable but it's not necessarily an unfair question that's certainly something I struggled with you know when I was in line so they would what happened was that someone would ask you what your question is they would do their best to answer it or if they didn't like it they'd make you step out of line so he obviously didn't tell them that was the question that he was going to ask and I did tell Brandi who's on my side of the stadium I told her like I was gonna ask if it's gonna be multi-platform and brandi was like I'm pretty sure it's gonna be mobile only but if you want to ask your question anyways or if you want to let my answer shape what you're gonna ask go right ahead unless you didn't say get out of line get take out of here fluff and I'm actually kind of surprised because a lot of you guys might not know my channel or follow my stream but I'm not necessarily known for withholding my opinion and I'm not necessarily known for candy coding things so I was actually somewhat genuinely surprised that they didn't pull me out of line but at the same time is you know very happy they didn't red shirt guy asked his question and at this point like I'm already kind of leaving but I heard him say it and I heard the crowd's reaction and it's like oh man like what a disaster what a total disaster and so of course immediately after this you know people were going crazy on Twitter people were going crazy on reddit people are going crazy on YouTube now of course I don't have to tell you guys you know those of you who are home during this whole thing you know a lot of streamers were you know in uproar and obviously YouTube was an uproar the amount of dislikes this thing has is absolutely insane I think I saw a post that said something where around 600,000 dislikes were in total they're also deleting negative comments those of you that stream or have been on twitch.tv knows that deleting or banning people it really only kind of empowers them or infuriates them even more so of course people are going to come back and continue to down vote maybe even make alternate accounts continued it down but post negative comments keep coming back to find new ways of posting negative comments VPN to post negative comments so it's a really really poor business yeah people are gonna download it like there's nothing you can do about it man like just let it go now one of the things that we talked about a lot the day that it happened was had they released something else alongside Diablo immortal do you think it would've been better received and the results seemed to be kind of overwhelmingly yes most people tend to think that if they said okay DT remastered plus we've got this new thing on the side you know to do alongside DT remastered or imagine they had Diablo 3 content like a character pack or an exfoliation and then they're like hey on the side we've got Diablo immortal a new mobile game people would have been infinitely more receptive but the fact of the matter is this is all we got this is all we got and this is what no one wanted obviously the community's gonna be super super upset and they were man and I had never been to a Blues calm before so I didn't really know that like booing like just doesn't ever happen I had a Blizzcon which is kind of crazy to me and the thing that this confuses the crap out of me is like diablo mortal is nowhere close to being done so why even announce it why not rearrange the schedule right like you don't have to keep Diablo in the top spot actually if you made your announcement said hey you know pump the brakes on your expectations for Diablo this year why wouldn't you just rearrange schedule to like reflect that why would you keep Diablo in that top spot only to release a mobile game that's not even gonna be ready for a long time to count now on another like this was particularly hard to watch because like Wyatt Chang is a particularly nice guy he actually personally reached out to me before Blizzcon made sure I was invited to like the community event that happens the night before for content creators when I was way to tell me he was a big fan of the podcast that we do big fan of the stream and throughout Blizzcon I was given numerous opportunities to sit down and talk with Wyatt Chang so I just I mean I can't help feel bad for him because like one he's a super super nice guy and two I don't really know that you know all this decision-making and making the Diablo immortal announcement at Blizzcon we don't even know that that was really up to him you know what I mean so it's like if it was like I guess he kind of deserves the backlash that he got ish but if it's not it like it kind of sucks right now all that being said I don't I don't really want to cover my thoughts on double mortal in this video I actually played Diablo immortal I would guess more than anyone probably did at Blizzcon I went to Deline like a bazillion times I played through every character class four or five times full clears you know taking as much time as I possibly could on each character and then even going further to try to like grind gear and find bugs and you know I was just often found myself just you know standing there for like thirty minutes and no one else came to the line because I really wanted to you know give it a fair chance and really cover it for you guys so I plan on doing that in a future video and really going in-depth into like my thoughts on the game how it played and even some insider information that I might have been able to have access to from either playing it for a really long time and of course having conversations with people that work at Blizzard so we're gonna do that in a future date I also actually had the opportunity to sit down with redshirt guy himself on stream yesterday and of course we'll be uploading that video as well currently it's muted for some reason I'm in talks with twitch to try to get unmuted so that I can pull it down and put it up on YouTube for you guys but will upload that as soon as we can I just wanted to kind of Express and share with you guys you know what was going through my head what was the feel at the Blizzcon itself how are people reacting and of course I'm gonna give a full review on diablo immortal in a upcoming video that will be posted to my channel as soon as possible of course if you guys want to see more head on over to my twitch channel it's twitch TV lord underscore fluffy you know subscribe on youtube we do a podcast every Tuesday at Diablo a podcast every Tuesday 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time so if you guys want to see more diablo content stick around it's coming there's always guys like subscribe come over to twitch ask your questions I love you guys pizza [Music]

Channel: Lord Fluffy

Views: 863,040

Keywords: Diablo, Immortal, Lord, Fluffy, blizzard, mobile, blizzcon, 2018, q&a, opening, ceremony, gaming, controversy, boo, guy, diablo 4, wyatt, cheng, phones, PC, uproar, android, ios, red, shirt, day 1

Id: te-P2S4TvEY

Length: 24min 45sec (1485 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 05 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/ArchangelofTruth]

Definitely gonna sub on twitch and YouTube. You are a passionate fan and you were fair to Wyatt Cheng and the other Devs but you also represent a large portion of the Diablo fanbase. I think you represented us well and I hope you had a good blizzcon overall

[u/Odin_69]

First of all thank you for your question. Regardless of the reaction. You are indeed worth the devs time, and it's a shame everything turned the way it has.

[u/[deleted]]

is this going to be another year of rat runs?

O O F

I felt your pain, man.

[u/hvrry3k]

Great video - Really felt your pain in that video :(

[u/sh00ter999]

8:00 our mobile devices do not bring us closer together at all. On the contrary, they make up a wall that separates us increasingly

[u/iagora]

I'm amazed that from everything I saw until now, including this video, nobody is blaming Wyatt Cheng. His answer is going to become a meme, and he'll get some trouble for that from blizzard probably. But from the community, people mostly understand that it's not his fault, and he seems like a nice guy.

[u/valraven38]

One of the things that most frustrates me is that Blizzard teases us with hints to specifically hype us (Diablo fans) up for Blizzcon. Then Blizzcon rolls around and they actually have absolutely nothing for us Diablo fans, Blizzard is not making Diablo: Immortals, Netease is. So it really is just another year where we got nothing from Blizzard. No announcements, no real teasers, not a damn thing, just super vague statements that can kind of be taken as them working on something.

[u/TalonWren]

Thank you for having the balls Fluffy. More people need them these days.

[u/Cyclonicks]

thanks for your insight. I'm glad you asked your question in the way you did. You and u/Dontinquire did the fans a great service.