Devs play the game

Alternative-Deer5333 · 2023-08-12T14:42:40+00:00

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jesteraq · 2023-08-12T15:02:25+00:00

Lmao they seriously recorded then edited this and still thought it was a good idea to post this.

Battle_Fish · 2023-08-12T15:38:06+00:00

Honestly not everyone plays video games. No everyone should be good at it. Even developers shouldn't be required to be good at games.

But for the love of God if you are doing a live stream you definitely should put someone on who at least played solitaire.

This is just atrocious. This implicates the PR department who organized all this shit on top of the development team.

Is everyone in the company a diversity hire or something? What's a good analogy? "The patients running the insane asylum"?

JobuuRumdrinker · 2023-08-12T14:55:26+00:00

This is painful to watch. Level 50 doing WT1 and almost running out of potions, not healing, dying? Why is she button mashing? Basic attack is a held button and most everything else is a one-time skill followed by a long cool-down.

Madjla · 2023-08-12T14:53:25+00:00

Wtf is this shit

T3hDon · 2023-08-12T16:19:59+00:00

I love that at 3 minutes in the video they claim that they play-test the game a lot. Tho this same person is playing a barb without shouts and only using fury generators. Then at 5 minutes in, this same person dies without ever even trying to use a healing potion or using any fury. She literally had full fury the entire video.

Wtf did I just watch. They're almost worse than the paid actors they had playing in the previous videos.

nagynorbie · 2023-08-12T15:37:39+00:00

Holy shit, my expectations were low, but I wasn't ready for this, how are they so bad in WT1 ??? Most people at level 50 are already in WT3. Hell, I even saw some druids, rogues and necros in WT4. Not that I would expect the devs to be such tryhards, but come on... this video is embarrassing.

Tramonto83 · 2023-08-12T16:01:19+00:00

This video should be pinned and linked every time a question about the game's flaws is asked.
It's a failure on so many levels I don't know where to begin... The PR team thinks it's a good idea to let two devs that clearly don't know how the game's mechanics work be the gameplay video's players, then watched the footage and thought: yes, let's post this on YouTube! Surely the public will be ecstatic about it and won't have any criticism at all! This is how the game is played!
If I worked at Blizzard I would be VERY worried about my company's future...

lntoTheSky · 2023-08-12T16:08:50+00:00

You guys see devs being awful at their game, I see weeks of content for youtube react creators

Mr_Rafi · 2023-08-12T16:38:16+00:00

We all knew this already. It has been said forever. You don't get a game like this with competent designers/devs on the team. When you play at a lower level, you naturally don't have an eye for what's wrong and issues that better players pick up on won't seem problematic to you. There's a reason why there are so many people on this sub who are unaffected by certain issues and are happy to gloss over issues because "they're just having a fun casual time bro, put the game down if you have issues with it".

I'll be the one to say it: In an ARPG as big as this one, the standout features and most positively praised features should not be the graphics, voice acting, and sound design. In every positive thread, it's always these same three with the most upvotes. Sorry, but this shouldn't be the case and these aren't the features that keep people playing. Other than maybe the general combat feel, this game doesn't have any systems in place that are better than its counterparts in other ARPG on the market. It lacks more important features than its competitors. When people aren't praising the itemisation, the loot grind, inventory management, crafting, skill trees, or the standard existence of a basic loot filter in a fucking ARPG, it's problematic.

Zenacy · 2023-08-12T16:09:46+00:00

Yes cause I play diablo to enjoy the details of each dungeon as I slowly walk through them using and choose skills that do minimal damage so that I have more time to fully immerse myself in the dungeon.

Legalizeranchasap · 2023-08-12T15:25:25+00:00

Makes sense since the devs thought the game was going to be much tougher to the general audience. If these are the people internally playing, no wonder their data was so skewed.

GunGooser · 2023-08-12T15:53:06+00:00

Wonder how they got that job

TheSoulsCrusher · 2023-08-12T16:05:12+00:00

At least POE 2 devs where good at playing their game

Deceptiveideas · 2023-08-12T16:19:08+00:00

This reminds me of the time the Dead by Daylight devs played a few matches. They got bullied so hard by other players that they nerfed what the players were using right after lmao

Breakdown228 · 2023-08-12T14:30:08+00:00

I just felt asleep watching the fist 2 minutes. What are they doing?!

estrangedpulse · 2023-08-12T16:12:04+00:00

Now it make sense why we need to wait 6 seconds for malignant elite to re-appear or event to start and finish.

SnooGrapes2325 · 2023-08-12T14:47:35+00:00

They did not play the game the way regular players play it. It made them look out of touch.

WuluChief13 · 2023-08-12T16:03:51+00:00

It looks like they're at work completing a mandatory project, waiting to clock out. No wonder this game feels like a chore.

winning_is_4_fonies · 2023-08-12T16:52:44+00:00

The video felt like a satire

Shut_It_Donny · 2023-08-12T16:25:27+00:00

Why is she talking like that?

JavascriptDeveloper · 2023-08-12T17:04:45+00:00

"Even though we play this game on a daily basis"

(x) doubt

SPEEDFREAKJJ · 2023-08-12T16:36:19+00:00

This can't be real?

I never would have guessed that to make video games you don't have to know how to play the game you made.

You can't even call them casuals. Casuals know basic game stuff. This looked like it was the first time they ever held a controller.

Remember when Conan would do those skits where he "played" a game. This reminded me of that but without the humor part.

randomnub69 · 2023-08-12T17:17:08+00:00

My first thought: diversity hire.

crayonflop3 · 2023-08-12T16:51:34+00:00

I don’t really want to comment on how people look… but I mean… no wonder the game has such serious issues. I swear this is almost like satire with how stereotypical it is.

I miss when sweaty nerds who lived and breathes games made video games.

VonDinky · 2023-08-12T16:16:51+00:00

GGG is made by hardcore gamers. Current Blizzard is just corporate shills.

Elora_egg · 2023-08-12T17:17:09+00:00

I feel bad for those two, having this release to the public at this time of sentiment could make them a laughing stock to the community for weeks now.

These devs are also dungeon designers, and with how they were narrating I assume they worked on the environmental design, not the combat at all.

Putting them in a gameplay scenario with underbuilt characters seems like the PR team simply don't have a clue what they're doing or deliberately wanted to make things worse.

-Dalzik- · 2023-08-12T16:26:55+00:00

So can we say the Devs suck on this reddit without getting downvoted by Blizzard can't do wrong whiteknights yet?

tianvay · 2023-08-12T16:38:50+00:00

Barb and Rogue just happen to be exactly the same level down to the percentage.
They just created the chars for this specific video. Also playing on WT1 and still dying (because they obviously have never played those chars before).

Those are the people that design the game.

Allaroundlost · 2023-08-12T16:12:18+00:00

So, we add this as proof for why Diablo 4 is bad. The evidence speaks for itself.

Josh_Flare · 2023-08-12T16:24:27+00:00

gortwogg · 2023-08-12T16:03:32+00:00

I couldn’t sit through that. Wow.

Strife_3e · 2023-08-12T16:34:15+00:00

I get the feeling there won't be anymore videos like that again.

paulo_cristiano · 2023-08-12T17:52:45+00:00

Confirmed: too many cooks in the kitchen.

Confirmed: Devs are just a buncha casuals so manage your expectations.

yoaklar · 2023-08-12T16:16:14+00:00

Guys be nice. They are both actually allergic to cool downs

Zahn91 · 2023-08-12T16:19:08+00:00

HOW TF ARE THEY THIS BAD

realtalkyo91 · 2023-08-12T18:03:27+00:00

This is such a great example of horrendous resource allocation by the dev team. The dungeons don’t feel like “an adventure” to the average player. The amount of workload spent on art, thematic design, etc is completely wasted if the gameplay loop isn’t fun. And it’s not. They could have been using the time and resources to instead create a meaningful endgame experiences. Or test if a major defensive system like resistances, even works.

This has nothing to do with the devs in the video. It’s not their fault resources are being terribly managed.

What a management dumpster fire.

2023-08-12T16:01:55+00:00

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OhGeebers · 2023-08-12T17:18:23+00:00

My wife who has never played a video game in her life is better than they are... How the fuck does that happen and who the fuck hired them...

Nuktos1517 · 2023-08-12T16:10:21+00:00

This will not go well for them lol

Nihilistcarrot · 2023-08-12T17:15:15+00:00

Diversity hires..

Oledogwater · 2023-08-12T17:52:05+00:00

I hope I don't get banned for this, but companies that hire based on diversity and not merit, negatively affect women the most. These two just don't seem to realize it.

Luke_zuke · 2023-08-12T16:39:11+00:00

I couldn’t watch it for more than a couple of minutes because those people were horrible presenters. I’m sorry to them but you need some charisma to do videos like this and at least not have a monotonous voice.

Dr-Wenis-MD · 2023-08-12T20:27:09+00:00

Just 2 dad gamers having fun.

AtTheGates · 2023-08-12T16:03:16+00:00

Unoriginal- · 2023-08-12T17:39:33+00:00

Anyone want to bet their next video will have comments turned off lmaoo

beecostume · 2023-08-12T19:16:27+00:00

I couldn't handle the vocal fry.

Shitemuffin · 2023-08-12T16:41:42+00:00

No further questions, your honor.

ConwayTheCat · 2023-08-12T18:21:29+00:00

uiam_ · 2023-08-12T16:55:38+00:00

This is what I imagine the players who say "There's nothing wrong with the game!" here look like while playing.

chocolatemilk2017 · 2023-08-12T17:07:03+00:00

THIS IS HORRIBLE. What the HELL

Spamming basic skill with the resource bar full.

I think Blizzard is more concerned with a high ESG score rather than actually catering to their playerbase.

dream_walker09 · 2023-08-12T17:33:34+00:00

Yep as a gay guy this is fucking horrid. Enough with the diversity hires -- get people with talent. I watched this video at first with no sound and thought the first person was a dude.

Shaft86 · 2023-08-12T20:22:04+00:00

Everyone is criticizing the gameplay from these two without explaining what's wrong, so I'd figure I'd fill in people who also don't really see anything wrong (Not trying to judge anyone in the subreddit, but these people are developers). These gameplay issues are all obvious from just observing the gameplay, without even checking the equipment or talents

Going to assume these are character load-outs created for the promotion of this video and not the devs' own characters, but nonetheless whoever created the loadout didn't seem to bother to give the Barbarian any movement speed at all, which at level 50 is kind of criminal. Maybe there's a little bit somewhere, but it's really quite close to just base movement speed.
The Barbarian also has Walking Arsenal key passive, but every spell appears to be bound to the 2h Mace, so the passive's final bonus isn't being utilized at all.
I also realized at around 4 minutes in when she uses Iron Maelstrom (and therefore finally reaches the Walking Arsenal's final bonus, if only for 8 seconds) that the barbarian also has 100,000 Steps equipped, a Unique item that centers around actually earning the final bonus of Walking Arsenal. Which, you know, isn't being utilized
Constantly spamming Lunging Strike without using Hammer of the Ancients, while in front of multiple enemies, while at full fury is the strangest part of her gameplay. Does she use Hammer of the Ancients at all the entire video? I don't see any! Press the X button!
Difficult to tell what legendary aspects are being utilized here, but strong, consistent, and reliable legendaries like Aspect of Might, Aspect of the Expectant, or Aspect of Limitless Rage are not equipped. I do believe I see Earthstriker's Aspect equipped, which apart from being really bad, requires the barbarian to switch weapons back and forth which the player isn't really doing. There's also one more aspect that centers around weapon swapping that is equipped, which again, isn't being utilized at all (I believe it's Aspect of Tempering Blows).
The Barbarian does seem to have two legendaries that synergizes together quite well, Giant Strider (cooldown reduction on leap) and Aspect of Bul-kathos (damage reduction on Leap) which is nice. Weapon Master's Aspect is also equipped, which is mandatory with a Death Blow build. So, there's that.

IM DYING HERE BRO. WHY WOULDNT THEY JUST USE CLASSES THEYRE COMFORTABLE WITH.

RamonRaker · 2023-08-12T17:09:12+00:00

Looks like diversity hiring strikes again...when will companies learn that sometimes the best candidate is not the most diverse.

skanoirhc · 2023-08-12T17:11:02+00:00

Wow how fucking oblivious they are... Level 50 and dying at wt1, that's actually so impressive to be that bad. Explains why the gameplay and endgame overall is so shit.

deckardcain1 · 2023-08-12T18:42:12+00:00

I've been saying. MS needs to clean house and fire all the incompetent fuckers in blizzard and start fresh. No wonder all the old timers quit already. Blizzard is beyond saving. Only exception is to cinematic team. They need a raise.

TotallyFakeEngineer · 2023-08-12T18:29:56+00:00

OMG What the heck???? Who approved this... I was already convinced that the devs don't play the game but yall just spew more evidence this easily?

u/PezRadar

WHO APPROVED THIS?

ClownWorldDweller · 2023-08-12T15:56:49+00:00

Diversity hires ruining good things like always.

puntmasterofthefells · 2023-08-12T16:59:44+00:00

Bro, one of the best "get rolled reddit" posts from POE was when they announced the winner of HCSSF witch race would be not be eligible for prizes due to being an employee. LOL

2023-08-12T17:14:52+00:00

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StevenSmoking · 2023-08-12T18:03:08+00:00

I want my $90 back

Broseph984 · 2023-08-12T18:28:36+00:00

So THIS is why potion drop rate was increased

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