The "I Hear You" Award - Blizzard Entertainment
Category: Features, Posted: 07/02/2008 at 12:31AM CDT by Eddie Inzauto, Senior Editor
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The inaugural You Win! award goes to our old friends at Blizzard Entertainment for finally announcing the long-awaited and intensely pined-for Diablo III. The announcement was made this past Saturday at the 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris, France. This was only after playing a weeklong game of detective with the collective PC gaming community, based solely on the company website's splash page.
The important part, though, is that the folks at Blizzard have clearly changed the batteries in those volume-enhancing earpieces, and somewhere along the way figured out that eight years has been a long enough wait for Diablo fans to see a sequel to their online dungeon creep of choice.
For this, Blizzard Entertainment is the proud recipient of the GN "I Hear You" Award.
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It's about time too!
It's too late now. I effectively lost all interest for Diablo 3 approximately four years ago.
That is until the game releases and you see it on some other monitor and suddenly take an interest in it again. Oh, and only for journalistic endeavors of course ;p
Now if only they'd listen to the community about why the art style change is inadvisable...
Eh, i feel like the whole art complaint is ridiculous. The game looks good, and they haven't even shown off many different areas. Plus, color isn't a bad thing when it comes to videogame graphics.
I'm happy about this change. I'm sick of browns and grays all over the damn place.