LogFAQs > #911803235

I have never played a Diablo game.

I have no stake in this and I don't care about the franchise.

But the fans being disappointed are probably not wrong to complain.

The world of gaming is a strange one. Gamers are the most plowable target audience out there because have have been conditioned for decades to accept horrible businsess practices.

If you read a book or watched a movie or listened to some music or ate some food with some friends and then came out afterwards and said "Man I didn't like that." people might not agree with you, but if they said "Man you're so entilted! Stop whining and like the movie you didn't enjoy! Then give them more money!" you'd consider them to be incredibly weird and possibly never talk to them again.

However this is the norm in the world of gaming. It's not only considered acceptable but it in fact common if not the most common response to any criticism.

You need to pay not only for the content but extra lopped off content. Buy DLCs, pre-order, online only, that feature is no longer supported, our online servers are down so you can't play offline. Your views and statements will be censored, if you're a critic you will be demonitized, sued and blackballed if you speak up. What you want doesn't matter. And you have to accept it.

Gaming is legitimately the most (successful) anti-consumer form of media I am aware of.

As a result when things like this happen, my benefit of the doubt tends to lean with the fans. 10 times out of 11 they are in the right and people are just shouting at them to roll over so they can have the other side of their face stomped on.

There's an old saying "In the Kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king." and rolling with that, the world of gaming is a blind kingdom, so I kinda feel support/creedance on paper to anyone who can see. Even if their vison is poor and they walk into a rake.
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^ Hey now that's completely unfair.
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