Blizzard and Musk have been exchanging verbal notes regarding Diablo 4 via X (formerly Twitter) on a regular basis in the recent past – sometimes friendly and sometimes not so friendly.
Elon Musk is usually extremely forthcoming. And he usually gets reactions to everything he writes – wealth and the influence that comes with it has its advantages.Both have an effect at Blizzard, too, when the multi-billionaire praises Diablo 4
Thanks @elonmusk – great work by the team. @Blizzard_Ent https://t.co/VWWukyTMbx
– Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) August 7, 2023
Diablo 4 is a great game. Nice job by the whole Blizzard team.
Mike Ybarra, president of Blizzard Entertainment, promptly responds by thanking Musk, citing the great work of the people in his company.
Early critical tones
In the recent past, Elon Musk has also struck somewhat more critical tones. In an impromptu talk (which you can listen to here in the aftermath), he chatted about a supposedly simple Diablo 4
that requires less than, for example, hardcore skill games like League of Legends.
To which Mike Ybarra responded directly with a tongue-in-cheek threat:
Maybe I should let the team find out how many times he actually died.
(Elon’s character, by the way, is ironically called Iwillneverdie
,) so translated: I will never die. For those who now remember that the multi-billionaire does indeed carry around visions of uploaded entities into cloud computers and frozen bodies, the character name makes plenty of sense on yet another level.
