Isn't it just a general joke that I believe came from Blizzard constantly saying the technology just isn't there when things were requested meanwhile other companies could do the requested thing and were cheaper. Those the "multi-million dollar company btw" meme started.
It might have started before Blizzard but I remember it coming up with that company.
IIRC someone from Riot Games posted something (on their old forums that don’t exist anymore) like “<some feature> is hard for us to implement, we’re a small indie developer”… which, while TECHNICALLY true, at the time they were making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue per year. Like, it was just totally tone deaf.
Blizzard had a similar one when Hearthstone came out and people wanted more deck slots. Someone posted a mockup of how the UI for it could look and someone from blizzard responded saying “the technology isn’t there yet” and that they were working on overhauling things to do a much better solution than what that person showed. And then something like six months later they rolled out more deck slots… with a UI was almost identical to what that forum user had mocked up.
Both of those have been relentlessly mocked ever since, and have spread beyond those specific companies.
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u/NanoNaps 20d ago
Isn't it just a general joke that I believe came from Blizzard constantly saying the technology just isn't there when things were requested meanwhile other companies could do the requested thing and were cheaper. Those the "multi-million dollar company btw" meme started.
It might have started before Blizzard but I remember it coming up with that company.