Last Thursday, the Future Games Show hosted a Q&A with Diablo 4 game director Joseph Piepiora and art director John Mueller. The questions themselves were banal and the answers indifferent, but what was more interesting were the accounts where the questions supposedly came from.
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Digital artist Philtacular was the first to notice that the questions being asked seemed a little “out of place.” Because Blizzard included the names of every account that asked questions, Philtacular looked into who exactly was asking all these boring questions. It turned out that some of them didn’t even exist.
For example, @SeZdc2 asked his question about Diablo 4 couch co-op before the Twitter account even existed. And then there's @RobfromtheBlock, an account that does exist, but didn't post his question until after the Q&A was over. Go to that Twitter and you'll see that even his bio notes that it's a fake account created for FutureGamesshow.
The story continues with @EmmaRockz, an account that has only one tweet from 13 years ago, and Reddit user HeistMeister, an account that had never posted or commented until the day of the Q&A. Another Reddit named Immolant1997 also didn't become active until the same day as the video and used his early comments to fight accusations that it was a fake account.
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Finally, the first question asked on the stream came from @GRYITH, aka Josh Lloyd, lead video producer for the Future Games Show and the same man who created the Q&A stream in the first place.
This led to accusations online that Blizzard created these fake accounts. However, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier noted that the Future Games Show put out a call for questions on social media, but received no responses. Or at least, it didn’t get any answers that it felt comfortable asking Blizzard live on camera.
You can't blame Blizzard for being a little shy after the disastrous debut of Diablo Immortal in 2018, but this certainly doesn't bode well for the upcoming Diablo sequel. Diablo 4 is set to release on PC and consoles on June 6th.
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source of information:thegamer.com
