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No, the Blizzard Fans Aren't "Toxic", the Company's Practices Are

Let ' s face it, the first day of Blizzcon has brought some wonderful news. World of Warcraft is bringing back legacy servers pretty much for free and everyone is falling back in love with it. Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm are both receiving new playable characters respectively, which is obviously something welcomed by their communities. And after all these wonderful news, it had come to be the time for the Diablo panel. And we all know how that ended up. To understand why the ceremony has been such an infuriating failure, we need to travel back in time, all the way to the beginning of the year. Here we can see Blizzard posting job offers  for various Diablo related positions listed under the "Unannounced project" category. While this tells us absolutely nothing, the fan-base began to dig its own grave with speculations and theories about the  possible upcoming Diablo game. No one thought that maybe the time span between the first listing and Blizzcon w