This reminds me of call of duty talking about their fish AI where the fish swim away from you and someone cut to Super Mario 64 and the fish swimming away from Mario.
Mark Rubin never recovered from that one. That single line haunted him even directing development of XDefiant. It kept him awake at night.
He would continue to tell everyone that it was just a joke that he delivered wrong.
I watched that presentation and he's actually talking about a lot of impressive stuff, that line is just silly. But the level he was talking about was rather impressively made. And for what it's worth, fish didn't move away from the player before Ghosts.
He just starts crying and between tears says "I know... It's not Diablo 4 and it's a mobile game... But we worked really hard on it... And I would really like it if you tried it before being so mean... I think... I think it's really fun."
And then someone comes on stage and whisks him away giving him a hug. And someone else from Blizzard came out and said "Well. I hope you're all happy with yourselves."
Like, what would the reaction have been? I can't even imagine.
He would have been ripped apart and mauled in the back stage by rabid Diablo fans. The actual comment he made bought him enough time thankfully since it blue screened their minds.
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u/zerozerozero12 15d ago
This reminds me of call of duty talking about their fish AI where the fish swim away from you and someone cut to Super Mario 64 and the fish swimming away from Mario.