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You guys all have phones right?

You guys all have phones right?

MrNinjaBurger
0 HN recommenders · discussed 2019–2021
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About this video

A short clip from the Diablo Immortal announcement at BlizzCon 2018 in which a Blizzard representative asks the booing audience if they do not have phones.

Why it appears in the archive

Cited as a shorthand example of a tone-deaf corporate response, especially around Blizzard and mobile gaming.

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From the Hacker News discussion

duskwuff · 2019-02 · reference

> The don't you guys have phones meme is direct response to the Blizzcon announcement that the next Diablo was going to be a mobile game not even produced by Blizzard. I mean, it isn't just a meme. A Blizzard representative literally said "Do you guys not have phones?" during a Q&A session, after someone asked whether the new Diablo game would be available on PC. [VIDEO] Fans were going to be disappointed either way, but this dismissive response is what really set off the reaction.

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Fnoord · 2019-05 · reference

Ah, suddenly "You guys all have phones right?" [1] makes sense. Its about "follow the money". [1] [VIDEO]

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jiggawatts · 2021-05 · joke

It feels like that Blizzard developer Wyatt Cheng that got on stage and asked the PC gamer crowd: "Do you guys not have phones?" [VIDEO] The Windows Terminal guys are similar. "Do you have any plans at all to make this work for users of Windows?" "No."

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