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As noted before, Ubisoft recently announced that they have cancelled three unannounced projects as part of their current cost savings measures due to recent financial-related issues affecting the company. The company recently confirmed that one of those cancelled projects was "Project Q" which was an online multiplayer hero-based arena shooter game.
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https://www.destructoid.com/project-...arena-shooter/
* In some more bad news, Google officially shut down all of their servers for their now defunct Stadia gaming streaming service as of last night.
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https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/sta...04298381725696
* Continuing the trend of Bad News Thursday, a class-action lawsuit was recently filed against Activision Blizzard over their free-to-play Diablo Immortals mobile game. This lawsuit revolves around allegations that Activision Blizzard purposely committed false advertisement over the status of a legendary gem in the game. This gem was advertised to be a benefit to players who purchase it but those who did so later found out that the opposite happens when you level it up to Level 3 and this change was kept hidden from players.
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Originally Posted by Destructoid
According to a report by Polygon, Washington D.C. law firm Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is considering filing suit against Activision Blizzard over Diablo Immortal‘s Legendary gem “Blessing of the Worthy”, which the firm claims is actually detrimental to the player, rather than a boon, and therefore constitutes a degree of false advertising on the game’s behalf.
According to the firm, “Blessing of the Worthy” was advertised as offering players a 20% chance of doing damage equal to 12% of the player’s total life. But players have been finding that, once the gem hits Level 3, then the gem changes its status, having a 20% chance of damage equal to 12% of a player’s current life. Therefore, if a player is low on life, then the gem is borderline pointless. As this gem is sold as part of Diablo Immortal‘s DLC bundles, players have argued that they have paid money for something that does not, in fact, perform its advertised role.
“Rather than offer refunds or some form of compensation, Blizzard has instead responded to the Blizzard community by stating that they will change the item’s text description to reflect its actual effect, at level three,” reads a statement from the law firm. “This practice essentially amounts to a bait-and-switch, since a purchasable item was advertised with one effect that players wanted and ended up with something completely different.”
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Link:
https://classlawdc.com/2023/01/12/di...investigation/ ,
https://www.destructoid.com/diablo-i...he-worthy-gem/