“Just was wondering,” said the gamer as he stepped up to the microphone, “is this an out-of-season April Fool’s joke?” Jeers filled the auditorium at the 2018 convention for Blizzard, then one of gaming’s most revered developers. The outrage from the audience and the gamer at the mic was in response to the announcement that the next instalment in the Diablo franchise would be made for mobile phones rather than PC. Game director Wyatt Cheng looked at the crowd, baffled, and quipped: “Do you guys not have phones?”
“我只是想知道,”一位玩家走到麥克風前說,“這是一個過季的愚人節(jié)玩笑嗎?”在2018年的暴雪大會上,禮堂里充滿了嘲笑,當時暴雪是最受尊敬的游戲開發(fā)者之一。觀眾和站在麥克風前的玩家的憤怒是對《暗黑破壞神》(Diablo)系列的下一部將面向手機而非PC的聲明的回應(yīng)。游戲總監(jiān)Wyatt Cheng看著人群,困惑地說道:“你們沒有手機嗎?”