The Diablo 3 Rainbow T-Shirt Survey

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])

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Trapsin
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Posted Nov 12, 2008
I'd buy two.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
This shirt is fantastic. Hopefully it'll come with a d3 collector's edition or something so we can get it in New Zealand.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
Hell Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw one of the devs at blizzcon wearing one and was hoping they would go one sale.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
If it came in black, absolutely.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
Id pay a lot for that LOL pretty sad when you think about it

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
No, but it is awesome and hilarious!

I would buy a Diablo hoodie with the original Firey logo from the title-screen of Diablo1 though!

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
The color just doesn't cut it for me.

I do want to see a plain black shirt with the three stripes on it and Diablo's skull face sort of showing through the stripes.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
ha ha, being a structural engineer myself, I think i would like the shirt that Jay is wearing as well.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
I have mixed feelings about that Rainbow shirt Jay Wilson wore at Blizzcon. Yeah, it was mildly funny. And I understood his feelings about many of the unfair criticisms of Diablo 3 so far, but I also think there were many fair criticisms that he grouped with the unfair ones and dismissed them all outright.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
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.

I agree with you, it is very funny when your favorite hellish game franchise is taken over and turned into a cute cuddly world lacking in darkness, contrast, grit, which are replaced with colorful effects and rainbows. It is even more funny when fans complain, and the designers give them a big middle finger by creating a T shirt to show just how little they are about fan opinions, which they wear to all public events. The only thing funnier is that the designers dont think releasing the T shirt to the masses would make it any more public than wearing it to every press conference.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
I think it's hilarious, and I was one of the petition signers!

If you are going to be vocal enough to sound your opinion, you should be able to take a little shot back, especially one so funny.

You should always be able to laugh at yourself.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
I would literally eat my own heart for one of those.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
Give!!! i mock those unbeliveing D3 haters!!!!

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
Aren't you people wanting a black shirt sort of missing the point of the shirt?

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
This is SO epic for anyone who has been steadily following Diablo 3 news. Blizzard, you NEED to sell this shirt.

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
lol I think its amazing ahah. I personaly thought that art direction was just perfect but ya, this one is a very good joke for any Diablo 3 Fans. If this doesn't get on market, I will just remake it and make one myself lol

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
Quote from "Siaynoq" »
Aren't you people wanting a black shirt sort of missing the point of the shirt?

Not at all, it would still have the cutesy logo on it. It is simply a matter of background colour preference.

What, is AVERAGE JOE GRAY supposed to be cute?

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
The ponies should also be wearing WoW / SCII / DIII style shoulder pads.

On the reverse side of the tee I'd like to see a print of Boyarsky, Wilson and Bashiok bent over and mooning us with each allocated attribute points for buttock size, depth of bum crack and so on. But all the attribute points should be the same value. The caption would read: "D3 - now with dumbed down algorithms". Their bum cheeks should be tattooed with the words "casual gamer".

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Quote from "Lucion" »
The ponies should also be wearing WoW / SCII / DIII style shoulder pads.

On the reverse side of the tee I'd like to see a print of Boyarsky, Wilson and Bashiok bent over and mooning us with each allocated attribute points for buttock size, depth of bum crack and so on. But all the attribute points should be the same value. The caption would read: "D3 - now with dumbed down algorithms". Their bum cheeks should be tattooed with the words "casual gamer".

ROLMFAO!!! :thumbsup: OMFG THAT MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD I COULDENT BREATH!!!! NICE MA NICE!!!!i!!!!!! :thumbsup:

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Posted Nov 12, 2008
That would definitely be pure win.

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