History Memes / BlizzardEntertainment

* “What Have They Done This Time?” [[labelnote:Explanation]]Whilst the initial LGBT+ representation of the series was met with overwhelming praise, due to the proximity of these reveals to controversies that hurt the company, many people started to believe that these reveals were only done to mitigate backlash, especially since they were only done so in media that wasn’t part of the main game. This habit of revealing that characters were [[WordOfGay gay all along]] lead to not only many LGBT fans assuming Blizzard was pandering to them without actually caring about the LGBT community, but other fans began to believe that any new LGBT character meant that the company had done something horrible in secret.[[/labelnote]]

* The Diversity Space Tool [[labelnote:Explanation]]In May 2022, Activision-Blizzard published an article about a 'Diversity Space Tool' used to monitor character creation and development in their games, using ''Overwatch'' as an example. It was instantly ridiculed both by the public and Blizzard developers for boiling such things as 'culture', 'race' and 'sexual identity' into scores from 0 to 10.[[/labelnote]]
* [[BannedInChina China kicks out Blizzard]] / The Blitzchung Avenger[[labelnote:Explanation]]''Diablo Immortal'', after all its efforts to appease the Chinese fanbase, ended up ironically banned from the very country when a Blizzard official Weibo account manager made a post that indirectly committed the known mistake of 'Do not refer to UsefulNotes/XiJinping as Winnie the Pooh'. This prompted Xi to give out the order to ban the game for an indefinite time, even if the ban is one day lifted, Blizzard would already be owned by Microsoft that they couldn't reap the fortunes, making all those alienating efforts extremely pyrrhic. Most end up hailing that Weibo account manager as a MemeticBadass, savior of gaming that delivered karmic justice to Blizzard on purpose or being imagined someone who got pissed at the Blitzchung incident at 2019 and decided to get hired to Blizzard in China to one day sabotage them from the inside as a revenge for Blitzchung.[[/labelnote]]

* "[[ConstructAdditionalPylons You must]] [[http://i31.tinypic.com/14cy695.jpg CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS!]]" and "[[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas WE REQUIRE MORE VESPENE GAS!]]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]These two are annoying for players, and have been remade into a StupidStatementDanceMix.[[/labelnote]]

** "Do you guys not have phones?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]After the crowd booed the developers' statement that no PC version of ''Immortal'' was planned at the time of announcement, lead designer Wyatt Cheng responded with this question. Many fans viewed it as tone-deaf and dismissive, with comparisons being drawn to [[Creator/ElectronicArts EA]]'s infamous "sense of pride and accomplishment" response on Reddit regarding the hero prices in ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017 Battlefront II]]''.[[/labelnote]]
*** This briefly returned after the launch of ''[[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Overwatch 2]]'' when it was fully understood that players would need to attach a valid phone number for authentication and anti-cheat purposes, and certain types of contracts (such as prepaid) wouldn't be considered valid.

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* "Is this an out-of-season April Fool's joke?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]During the [=BlizzCon=] 2018 reveal of ''VideoGame/DiabloImmortal''--a [[MobilePhoneGame mobile game]] unveiled to an audience of PC gamers (which went about as well as you'd think it would)--a fan put this question to the developers during the Q&A segment, receiving cheering and applause from the crowd that massively outshone the response to the game itself. It quickly became memetic, helped by the fan's red shirt reminding people of the Red Shirt Guy of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' fame.[[/labelnote]]

* Warcraft III: Refunded [[labelnote:Explanation]]The UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' was deemed so laughably underpar due to cut content, unwanted features, questionable graphics, removing the ability to play existing custom campaigns and preemptively claiming ownership of any future custom campaigns that make any sort of noticeable impact, causing the game to fall to the lowest score on Metacritic in a matter of days and causing many players to get their pre-purchase refunded.[[/labelnote]]

* [[BannedInChina China kicks out Blizzard]] / The Blitzchung Avenger[[labelnote:Explanation]]''Diablo Immortal'', after all its efforts to appease the Chinese fanbase, ended up ironically banned from the very country when a Blizzard official Weibo account manager made a post that indirectly committed the known mistake of 'Do not refer UsefulNotes/XiJinping as Winnie the Pooh'. This prompted Xi to give out the order to ban the game for an indefinite time, even if the ban is one day lifted, Blizzard would already be owned by Microsoft that they couldn't reap the fortunes, making all those alienating efforts extremely pyrrhic. Most end up hailing that Weibo account manager as a MemeticBadass, savior of gaming that delivered karmic justice to Blizzard on purpose or being imagined someone who got pissed at the Blitzchung incident at 2019 and decided to get hired to Blizzard in China to one day sabotage them from the inside as a revenge for Blitzchung.[[/labelnote]]

* The Diversity Space Tool [[labelnote:Explanation]]In May 2022, Activision-Blizzard published an article about a 'Diversity Space Tool' used to monitor character creation and development in their games, using ''Overwatch'' as an example. It was instantly ridiculed both by the public and Blizzard developers for boiling such things as 'culture', 'race' and 'sexual identity' into scores from 0 to 10.[[/labelnote]]

* Diablo Immoral [[labelnote:Explanation]]''VideoGame/DiabloImmortal'' quickly became infamous for its incredibly [[AllegedlyFreeGame predatory monetization]], featuring an intentionally enjoyable early- to mid-game to get players emotionally invested, before introducing insufferable amounts of grind in the end-game so as to encourage players to [[BribingYourWayToVictory pay real-life money to progress faster]]; Legendary Crests, which are dolled-up LootBoxes capped at three per month unless the player purchases them with real-life money; and, as Website/YouTube user echohack found out and revealed, decreased drop rates per day after a certain number of times--[[GuideDangIt which the game doesn't tell you about]]--encouraging players to spend real-life money on {{Microtransactions}}. It has been calculated that it would take approximately $110,000, or a decade of grinding, to fully upgrade ''one'' character. As a result, ''Diablo Immortal'' has been severely criticised by hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' fans for having some of the worst monetization practices on the market as of June 2022, and subsequently became the second one of Blizzard's games to plunge to the bottom of the Metacritic review table, this time falling as low as 0.2% in fan reviews at one point. The name of the meme not only resounds with just how devoid of morals the game is, but it's because how easy it came to be: It's as easy as taking out ''one'' letter from the word 'Immortal' ([[DontExplainTheJoke it's the 't', by the way]])[[/labelnote]]