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Diablo is getting a 'full-fledged' mobile RPG
Blizzard is bringing Diablo to mobile devices, the company announced today during BlizzCon 2018. The game's creators promised a "full-fledged action RPG" called Diablo Immortal. Diablo Immortal picks up after Diablo II: Lord of Destruction and will launch for iOS and Android.
The mobile RPG is a massively multiplayer online action game; players will be able to drop in and out of groups and play through "dynamic events" as they travel through Sanctuary. Classes include monk, wizard, crusader, demon hunter, necromancer, and barbarian. Blizzard is currently allowing players to pre-register for a chance to join the game's upcoming beta.
Fingers do massive damage to phones.
Also at Ars Technica.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by TechieRefugee on Saturday November 03 2018, @04:35PM (3 children)
There's a pretty insightful video in which Steve Jobs talked about how big businesses either fall out of favor or fail entirely, and it's exactly because of that reason: the people who make the most money (marketing and sales) are the ones who get promoted, while the actual creatives get left behind, leading to, well... this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxZofbMGpM [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Informative) by RamiK on Saturday November 03 2018, @07:22PM
I'm probably going to get a lot of flak over this rant but... Holy shit! What a load of crap. The Xerox Star failed commercially for the exact opposite reason: The PARC researchers were all Berkeley hippies that refused to build the word processing computers the corporations and governments wanted as specified by the market research done by those very same marketing people Jobs villainized. They came up with an overspeced and overpriced box filled to the brim with proprietary parts no one could afford that was too slow even for the Xerox personal to use internally. When Apple tried doing the same thing with Lisa two years later it also failed. Similarly the Macintosh, despite removing shit ton of features and outsourcing many parts to on-shelf parts, ended up barely breaking even 2 years following.
It was Bill Gates who truly got it. He listened to those "evil" marketeers' advice and begged, bribed and cutthroat his way into the corporate and government offices by giving them exactly what they wanted: Cheap paper pushing workstations. It was ugly. It was clunky. And it made him a fortune.
If you're seriously interested in the genuine history of Xerox PARC and what really happened, I strongly suggest you start with Paul A. Strassmann's The Computers Nobody Wanted. Sure those suites and ties aren't as sexy as Jobs' black T shirt and long hair. But there's a limit to the Apple cool-aid anyone should consume. Fact of the matter is, Jobs and Gates were/are thieves and Gates was better at it. However, the researchers were all hippy fools that repeated their Berkeley style proto permissive-licensing ideological nonsense right up until they drove Xerox out of computing and LISP machines and the UNIX workstation into an early grave. It was Richard Stallman who finally realized that his fellow hippies smoked one ganja too many and there's an urgent need to enforce the sharing of research and code contractually thus ending 30 years of corporate exploration of too-trusting-for-their-own-good researchers.
And before people pick up the flamethrowers, understand me calling those hippies fools is actually doing them a kindness. Strassmann's version of events (mildly?) suggests the researchers deliberately tricked upper management into letting Jobs and Gates visit the facilities so the research won't be a trade secret and they'll be able to write papers about it...
Either way, stop quoting Jobs. His version of events and his analysis is inconsistent with everything that happened following. Apple was never an innovative company to begin with and never came up with an original product throughout its existence. Jobs is just the less successful consumer-friendly version of Gates. And neither were saints or some genius innovators.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 03 2018, @07:52PM (1 child)
And yet he left a logistics man in charge of Apple before he died...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 03 2018, @08:00PM
He had made plenty of unwise decisions.
Selecting alternative treatments like acupuncture, dietary supplements, and juices [forbes.com] over surgery for pancreatic cancer is another such example.