That's some real "aliens" level conspiracy thinking there from those people. Seriously, there just seems to be people obsessed with being offended and in fact are the snowflakes they so eagerly criticise.
I would say the game is worth it under $50. Definitely got my money's worth even if I never play it again. My problem with the game right now is the loot gets really boring for long stretches. I don't think I've swapped out an item the past 3 or 4 levels and I'm in my 50s.
You don't need to play games to market. It's quite literally just opening Canva up and making use of a thesaurus to buzzword the shit out of what the devs gave you.Zero gaming experience, but it was her dream job
We are fucked.
Yup. I’ll never laugh at a fedora again… please come back guys. We need actual game designers, not these fucks.
I was sure someone would come out with a reply like that. So a few question:
We all came to the darkness seeking knowledge but all we got was Diablo 4.
Ah the love of my left palm.I thought it was hot when Christy Mack did it 10 years ago
Shortly after she got almost killed, every insane woman started doing it.
I can think of 2 reasons why she got hiredZero gaming experience, but it was her dream job
We are fucked.
I heard there was a problem with lactating women's breast milk was being stolen from office refrigerators, so this tells me the culprit is still at large and on the hiring committee.
Yeah, that was something where I went "wait a minute...that's not true!". Video game engines were purpose-built indeed. Obviously, some industrial techniques might have carried over (and from video games back into industrial software as well!). For example, the whole voxel rendering stuff was first applied in medicine before Novalogic used it to make Delta Force, Commanche etc. I think she really meant 3D modeling stuff, where you could argue that level-editors were inspired by stuff like AutoCAD, maybe?
That's...not true, though?
Video game dev tools evolved from being purpose-built for single video game projects and then in some cases expanded to middleware, e.g., Unreal Engine and Unity. For 3D modeling, if that's what she meant (which is not the same thing as 3d rendering), e.g., Blender, Maya, 3dsmax, Zbrush, etc., mostly they started out for film/tv/animation. 3dsmax was popular for architecture but was a general purpose tool.
Also sorry to say, but your favorite game? It was most certainly made under crunch. And I see many old devs who - despite saying they "shouldn't do it these days" - not even bemoaning that time, but being proud of their work. And you felt that kind of dedication and passion in the games, which for some reason I'm not feeling from the people in this video.
You don’t think a company would be cynical enough to do that?
If u wanna play it casually just to beat story/do sidequests for like 30 to 50h, u will enjoy it, but as a diablo series lover/fanatic here i put 20h into beta and 150h into launch game(lvl 77 summoner nerco) it will bore u to death as soon as u focus on actual hack&slash mechanics/itemisation.
The game is awesome to level 60. Not so much for end game content.
likely professional gaming experience
Hmm...?
Zero gaming experience, but it was her dream job
We are fucked.
Well, her haircut comes with a "package" though.I thought it was hot when Christy Mack did it 10 years ago
Shortly after she got almost killed, every insane woman started doing it.
so true it hurts... the thing i despise the most is the dungeon mechanics... just the same 3 thing rotation and running aroudn searching cubes is everything but fun...
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Here is the thing they don’t get - for 99% of their audience it doesn’t matter whether you play a man, a woman, a transsexual bear. What matters is the quality of the game.
It’s so insane to me that this kind of straight up racism and sexism has been not only tolerated but encouraged for the last decade or so.Reading the comments this video generated the term "diversity hires" stuck out. And then I saw in one of those Youtube comments a quote from a Blizzards game director (working on WoW) explaining how they select new employees these days:
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World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas talks the game’s future and current soul-searching
Last week, I had a chance to talk with World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas. I asked him about what's been happening inside Blizzard.
GamesBeat: You mentioned making the team more diverse. Can you talk more about that effort?
Hazzikostas: This is something that has been a goal of ours for years. We have a number of women leaders, people of color across the team. These are areas where we continue to look for a team that represents the players we want to play our game. Part of why diversity is so important is that I, and we as a team, firmly believe that it makes a better game, makes a better product. We’re trying to make a game that’s not for a niche audience. We’re making a game that’s played by millions of people around the world, of all genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, backgrounds in general. To better understand and have a connection with that range of perspectives, we want a team with that same range of perspectives.
Recognizing that the game industry has had certain skews — male-dominated is one obvious one, especially in design — we need to work harder to build and find the qualified candidates who are out there. We can’t just open up a position, take the first couple dozen resumes, look through them, and pick someone out of that pile, because we may just get a couple dozen white male resumes. And it’s not that we wouldn’t hire someone who’s qualified for the job. We will. But we’ll be limiting the range of perspectives that come to our team. Again, this is not about any preferential decisions in the hiring process itself. It’s about working harder to understand how our job descriptions, the way we’re sourcing candidates, the way referrals work, and all the rest are filtering out qualified candidates of other backgrounds before they even make it to us. And then once we’re interviewing people, we’re going to pick the best person for the job at the time, but doing that extra work up front, we have found and continue and find, leads to a more diverse team that is more reflective of the country that we’re in and the player base that plays our game globally.
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It's clear they completely failed here. They were hiring incompetent people who ticked diversity boxes and they were disregarding better qualified people based on their sex and ethnicity. How else to explain a video showing two female D4 level designers (one of whom is a married lesbian) who have no idea how to play the game. What a fucking company.
