Four days ago a video interview was released online in which two developers diablo 4associate game director joseph pipiora and art director John Muelleranswered many Demand presented as “fans”, which turned out to be rather Strange to the public because of their uniqueness. A few minutes of research revealed that queries were reported with usernames of inactive or non-existent users. As of now, the name of the video has been changed and the channel has been blamed for what happened, but first things first.
The “offending” video is the one published below future games show, an annual showcase on behalf of the UK publisher and its site, GamesRadar, created to promote both the game and the event. During the video more than one user felt that the questions asked by the developers were quite awkward and weird filteracular decided to take over the investigation of the matter User name Kindly pointed out by Future Games Show.
“The cutscenes in Diablo 4 are beautiful, how important was it to get the kind of high quality you see in the game?” user asked emmarockswhose only twitter post is by February 2010 And want to express my love for Justin Bieber to the whole world.
“Thank you for bringing local collaboration to the game! I think it makes development more difficult, why was it so important to have it in Diablo 4?” user asked again SeZdc2, made the next day The video was published after someone on Twitch noticed that the account never existed.
“Will skill trees expand with more branches/picks for existing skills in future patches/seasons? I wish a skill set like the Necromancer’s Curse had even more oomph!” asked a Reddit user thiefmisterwith only one point of karma and who never wrote no posts or comments,
In short, the higher you go, the more each question relates to a non-existent, inactive account or an extra comment. only later when the video is published. The reason behind the creation of these fake questions would be that, on May 13, the Future Games Show asked Twitter users to provide questions to ask the game developers, without receiving any. no response (Those present were later published to mock the channel).
We’re sitting down with the Diablo IV developers next week to answer questions from the community!
Answers to your questions for the devs….
#DiabloIV pic.twitter.com/LTRJBRPR5Z
— FutureGamesShow (@FutureGamesShow) May 13, 2023
Today, the Future Games Show commented on the incident Comment below the video interview, communicating that the fault lies solely with the interviewers, as Blizzard was not aware of these questions prior to the meeting. The explanation behind the false comments proved perhaps more counterproductive than the press blackout.
“One of the questions we asked the developers was combination of questions Taken from Diablo 4 fans and members of the FGS editorial team. Some users of the community (and members of our team) who have submitted these questions have requested entry anonymouslyso their usernames and the platforms they posted on have been changed for this video,” wrote Future Games Show. “The new usernames have been generated randomly, but upon further investigation we found that these are linked to real accounts (albeit inactive with some posts or followers) that have nothing to do with this video. This was not made clear in the video and we apologize for any confusion it may have caused.”
All this at a time in which one can point to two things: the first is that in order to maintain anonymity, it was sufficient to indicate that the question was asked by “one”.anonymous user”the second is that it doesn’t explain all presence of comments The video is mentioned right within the platform but after its publication. Was there an attempt by an outsider to pretend some questions were correct? For what reason? It sounds like a way of trying to cover up someone’s mistakes badly.
With Diablo 4 due out in just a few days, it is unlikely that such a “scandal” could affect sales of the game, whose huge marketing campaign included the sale of chocolates, but the question remains. who, as a result of this style, would still rely on Future Games to give interviews.