They didn't like this much in the Blizzard forum, but I thought I'd try running this joke by a different audience...

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/11987068631?page=1

http://mtaur.blogspot.com/2014/03/blizzard-entertainment-lightbulb-joke.html

How many Blizzard employees does it take to change a lightbulb?

All of them, and it takes them ten years to so so. They charge 60-80 dollars, and you have to re-enter the password evrey day to keep using it. The lightbulb's response to lightswitches is delayed by 1500 milliseconds, and it goes offline for maintenance for a few hours every week, and the wattage and lumens might vary by a factor of ten from one week to the next.

When they're done installing your new lightbulb, they change the locks on your house. Three years later, they come back wanting to sell you a lampshade for 40-60 dollars.

Yeah that is Blizzard for sure.

Yup, that sounds about right. The only reason they're still in business is that at the end of the day, they do make kick-ass lightbulbs.

Debatable. When I dug out D3 to remind myself why I'm not getting the expansion, I was surprised to find myself almost enjoying it.

And then I realized that there was enemy level scaling, and you can't even play a game that is as hard as Normal used to be until you hit 60 now. Then when you do play on Torment, you run around steamrolling trash mobs for hours, and suddenly a Vortex Waller Molten Mortar Frozen Desecrator grabs you from a screen away and puts you in a death box, and there's jack shit you can do as a player other than hope you brough l33t g34rz, an invincibility, and a teleport. :-P

Or you can kite them with hydras from *two* screens away, just barely beyond the range of Vortex.

The only reason I bought D3 in the first place was because I honestly expected a kick-ass lightbulb, in spite of their well-established record of installing DRM in your bumhole. What I got was the shell of a good game with 2 seconds of latency, the least interesting skill system I've seen in years, and monster affix balance that looks like a bad fan patch.

Completely agree with you. I bought D3 and expected that the game would be so good that i wouldn't be able to stop playing it for months to come (like D1 and D2, which are amazing games). It turns out that i haven't even finished it yet due to how uninspired the game is. Not even once. I remember that back there i was playing both D3 and Oblivion at the same time and i was enjoying Oblivion much more than D3. And that's saying something, since Oblivion is far from being a great game (it's just good, it does have some awesome moments like the Dark Brotherhood and the Thieves Guild quests, but the rest is just average).

I haven't played it yet, but it looks like Path of Exile is the game D3 should have been.

Wow. Leetspeak. Now that takes me back.

Amazing how quickly that phenomenon died out last decade.

Brave move posting that on the Blizz forums...

I honestly thought that there would be enough people Googling around that I wouldn't be outnumbered. I know I wasn't a minority a month after D3's first release. I guess this means that there aren't really any people on the fence about pre-ordering?

You'll always be outnumbered on the Blizz forums. The measure of the company's popularity lies not in how many people are against Blizzard in the Blizzard forums, but rather how many people visit the site on a regular basis.

People who don't like or have stopped liking Blizzard will generally stop visiting the Blizzard forums.

I've posted worse ;p But, very entertaining :)

I would love to see it. :-D

I do find the 10 year thing to be somewhat debatable, but I debated with myself and decided it was worth making fun of it after all. The rest of the stuff, I completely agree.

And it's no wonder that blizzard fanboys on blizzard forums won't like the joke, while DRM-free fanboys and GOG forums do. Birds of a block go together, or however that saying goes.

My reaction is the same with a guy's from the blizz topic: "aren't jokes supposed to be funny?".

It's definitely accurate, but not funny.

I guess the joke would be good if it was actually funny. You got way too long winded for a light bulb joke, it ended up just sounding like you're whining.

Also, I had a look at the thread you link. Your joke is about DRM and business practices, the thread goes sideways about how bad (or not) diablo 3 is. Bad focus there.