i collect random funny t-shirts for wearing at home, so i'll definitely be interested if this is included in a special edition set or something of D3. but for lone purchase, it has to come in more colors.
i will gift one for my girl friend.. I cant be seen wearing something like that..seems too kiddish.. however maybe will get if it came in black with Diablo spewing fire.....
If memory serves me, somebody owns the rights to that picture they pasted on the t-shirt. I hope they got the artists permission, because that would be gold right there.
Some douche bag associated with My Little Pony would surely complain.
Can't see the problem really. A level 80 My Little Pony would pwn the Big D. Especially if she used her rainbow aura and had equipped her +2 sparkle radius WoW shoulder pads.
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So we've got over the problem of colour in D3. Great. Now let's argue about everything else not yet set in stone and help make this game simply great! Game on.
And this is the very thread where all the people whom ruin Diablo come to chat and talk with glee about their rainbows and how really anti-Diablo they are and belong with WoW.
Sad you people see this as a gesture towards sarcasm with the first lash out at Blizzard, I see this as actually Diablo 3 cause it is actually Diablo 3.
History has proven with the Diablo franchise you kids cry, blizzard makes the game more rainbowish every patch, sooner or later this will be Diablo and it is on a golden road right now to being just that.
When we met with Blizzard at their headquarters the day before BlizzCon, I couldn't stop staring at Lead World Designer Leonard Boyarsky's amazing Diablo 3 rainbow t-shirt:
It's obviously a tongue-in-cheek response to all the fans who believed the new game was going to be too bright and colorful, but these shirts were only made in short supply for the Diablo 3 development team. I was crushed to learn this because the moment I saw it, a little voice in the back of my head said, "If there's one thing I need to leave BlizzCon 2008 with, it's that t-shirt!" Leonard and Jay Wilson claimed that they weren't planning on releasing the t-shirt because they worried some fans wouldn't appreciate the lighthearted treatment of a game like Diablo. Personally, I think the shirt is hilarious and want to see it made available to the public. I like to think that all of you share the same sense of humor.
Well, during our meeting I promised them that I would conduct a poll for all the Diablo fans to vote on because I had a feeling most of you would agree that this shirt needs to go up for sale or, at the very least, be included with some Diablo 3 Collector's Edition set when the game is finally released.
So the time has come to voice your opinions about it. If you want the Diablo 3 rainbow t-shirt to be made available for purchase, please show your support for it by replying to this thread and voting in our poll! If enough of us show our support for it, we just might have a Diablo 3 rainbow t-shirt (ponies and happy clouds 'n all) as a part of our future wardrobes.
(pictured above from left to right: Leonard Boyarsky, Jay Wilson and Micah [Bashiok])
NO WAY!
GAY!!!
And, shows their CRAPPY attitude that they really DON'T give a **** at all what we fans think!
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Blizzard, please put back the single player offline mode!
honestly I have no idea what you are talking about
it's those maps or whatever. I have no idea what those are, at least in this context...
And that is totally fine, because you're a player. You're not expected to know. But you don't know what you're missing
as for the T... I don't think so. YES, it can be seen in that way but I think it's more of a just a joke, and you should be able to laugh at yourself first and then everybody else and admit it is a good joke
I'm all for jokes, but there is no humor in this. It's like...the US attacks some country, and they say, hey please stop attacking us, and the US laughs and the president starts wearing a T-shirt that says, "Nuke the bastards!" A little more serious because it involves peoples lives but thats the same basic thing: people ask for a change, and the company laughs it off and makes a T-shirt saying they don't care. Where is the joke in that? That's just being an ass.
How about a new Tshirt, "Diablo 3: Made For Blizzard Employees, By Blizzard Employees."
And that is totally fine, because you're a player. You're not expected to know. But you don't know what you're missing
I'm all for jokes, but there is no humor in this. It's like...the US attacks some country, and they say, hey please stop attacking us, and the US laughs and the president starts wearing a T-shirt that says, "Nuke the bastards!" A little more serious because it involves peoples lives but thats the same basic thing: people ask for a change, and the company laughs it off and makes a T-shirt saying they don't care. Where is the joke in that? That's just being an ass.
How about a new Tshirt, "Diablo 3: Made For Blizzard Employees, By Blizzard Employees."
They are making fun of the people that overreacted and exaggerated like you just did. Obviously there is humor in this since the vote seems to be overwhelmingly one sided. Unless you think your sense of humor is superior to ours.
To those wanting black shirts:
I'm thinking that if the shirts were black, it would kinda drift away from the whole idea of the shirt... The reason the shirt is made is because people think that D3 won't be dark enough... So this shirt is full of color and not dark at all... Making the shirt on a dark color would kind of defeat the whole purpose of the joke, no?
To those wanting black shirts:
I'm thinking that if the shirts were black, it would kinda drift away from the whole idea of the shirt... The reason the shirt is made is because people think that D3 won't be dark enough... So this shirt is full of color and not dark at all... Making the shirt on a dark color would kind of defeat the whole purpose of the joke, no?
Agreed.
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Yeah Definitly get it if there were black ones available
This one just obviously doesn't get it.
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Watching 240 guys talk trash about cavaliers is like two retards having a slapfight over a sippy cup.
Now hear me: I don't think the graphics in D3 are bad. When I first saw them, I was impressed. It was not until later, after the shock of D3 settled down, that I began to notice ways in which they are lacking. As a 3D artist and hobby game developer, I tend to notice things like this. I am a perpetual critic. There is no game on this planet that I don't have criticisms for. That is not because I think everything sucks, but rather, because I know everything can be improved to become even better than it already is.
I don't really care that Diablo 3 has rainbows in it. I like the overall art style of D3, but I know that using normal bump maps, a standard practice, would make it look a lot better without a lot of additional effort. Flat shading just looks bad in comparison. I doubt anyone who currently likes the art style would disagree that normal bump maps would improve it dramatically, if they were to implement it and show you a comparison.
I'm not saying that my opinion is more important than other peoples, but there are a lot of fans who wanted to see a little bit darker, scarier, grittier Diablo. A lot of fans. Blizzard doesn't have to listen to those fans, but they can at least be respectful of them. This T-shirt is highly disrespectful to all the fans who showed concern with the art style. It is Blizzards way of saying, "we don't give a shit about those fans. we are gaming gods, and we don't make mistakes, so shut up and sit down and wait until the game is released."
It's this attitude that bothers me.
Are you honestly so egotistically delusional to believe that the hundreds of top-of-the-industry artists that Blizzard hires did not think of using "bump mapping?" Please.
And I don't believe that blizzard is saying they "don't give a shit about those fans." I saw it as a hilarious, albeit sarcastic, gesture saying "Hey, we hear you, we have the same desires as you; we don't want a happy Diablo 3 either."
To those of you still complaining about the art direction, did any of you actually play the game at Blizzcon?
In that short little demo at Blizzcon, I could FEEL the dark, gritty essence of the Diablo games. I could care less what screenshots look like; Blizzard has emulated and enhanced the Diablo FEEL.
Can't see the problem really. A level 80 My Little Pony would pwn the Big D. Especially if she used her rainbow aura and had equipped her +2 sparkle radius WoW shoulder pads.
Sad you people see this as a gesture towards sarcasm with the first lash out at Blizzard, I see this as actually Diablo 3 cause it is actually Diablo 3.
History has proven with the Diablo franchise you kids cry, blizzard makes the game more rainbowish every patch, sooner or later this will be Diablo and it is on a golden road right now to being just that.
i want that shirt
NO WAY!
GAY!!!
And, shows their CRAPPY attitude that they really DON'T give a **** at all what we fans think!
And that is totally fine, because you're a player. You're not expected to know. But you don't know what you're missing
I'm all for jokes, but there is no humor in this. It's like...the US attacks some country, and they say, hey please stop attacking us, and the US laughs and the president starts wearing a T-shirt that says, "Nuke the bastards!" A little more serious because it involves peoples lives but thats the same basic thing: people ask for a change, and the company laughs it off and makes a T-shirt saying they don't care. Where is the joke in that? That's just being an ass.
How about a new Tshirt, "Diablo 3: Made For Blizzard Employees, By Blizzard Employees."
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
At the very least, D3 Collector's Edition.
To those wanting black shirts:
I'm thinking that if the shirts were black, it would kinda drift away from the whole idea of the shirt... The reason the shirt is made is because people think that D3 won't be dark enough... So this shirt is full of color and not dark at all... Making the shirt on a dark color would kind of defeat the whole purpose of the joke, no?
0.o I want one.
Agreed.
This one just obviously doesn't get it.
Are you honestly so egotistically delusional to believe that the hundreds of top-of-the-industry artists that Blizzard hires did not think of using "bump mapping?" Please.
And I don't believe that blizzard is saying they "don't give a shit about those fans." I saw it as a hilarious, albeit sarcastic, gesture saying "Hey, we hear you, we have the same desires as you; we don't want a happy Diablo 3 either."
To those of you still complaining about the art direction, did any of you actually play the game at Blizzcon?
In that short little demo at Blizzcon, I could FEEL the dark, gritty essence of the Diablo games. I could care less what screenshots look like; Blizzard has emulated and enhanced the Diablo FEEL.
Oh, and I still want this shirt!
They've said, repeatedly, that the atmosphere gets darker as you get further into the game.
-- Hank Venture
Hehe werd to the fellow .nz player =D