A Bashiok… Achievement?
Posted 2 February 2012 by Nizaris
It certainly seems that way… at least. As we all know, 
Bashiok has always been portrayed as a Fallen Shaman. Recently, he posted a somewhat enigmatic tweet saying the following:
I think some people will take great pleasure in making Bashiok a loot pinata. It makes me wonder what special skills his in-game manifestation will take. I have a feeling we might see such skills as “ban hammer” and “stunning sarcasm.”
It also makes me interested in seeing the Cryptozoology piece we’re bound to have later once we see his cuddly avatar in-game.
In related twitter news, let Bashiok know what Diablo site you enjoy going to the most by tweeting back to him! #diiinet (our twitter) or diablo.incgamers.com.
Oh, and if you haven’t already, you can follow incgamer’s diablo twitter to get updates on articles instantly!
Correction: It appears that people including me were wrong about the tweets! Check the feed swarmed with inc posters: Link
All I can say is… twitter is hard. Thanks for pointing out the real-time feed, Puppetstrings.
You know you’ve made it when
there’s a game achievement urging people to kill you with specific weaponseverybody hates you. – BashiokWhy on earth would you ‘hate’ Bashiok? Dude’s just doing his job, trying to earn a living like everyone else. He tries to do it with a sense of humor, which rubs people raw when he’s got news they don’t like, but good god – hate? Do you think Bash has anything at all to do with the design decisions Jay & crew make on the game?
Um, it’s a joke. We’re all well aware what his job is, and we know damn well that he has nothing to do with the design of the game itself… he’s the proverbial punching bag. Again, A JOKE. White knight much?
Bashiok is the person people love to hate because it’s the punching bag people are presented. All that tells me and the rest of us is that communities at large care little about anything but themselves.
If you knew Bashiok on a more personal level, like I do, you’d probably find him to be a really awesome guy. Because he is.
He doesn’t do himself any favours with the way he chooses in to interact with the fans, though.
Oh yes he does. It’s quite the entertainment.
The greatest trick Bashiok ever pulled was convincing the world Diablo III didn’t exist. – “Bashiok” Achievement Unlocked.
Basically hes the one that must distort all the crap announcements to make it sound less problematic. Like in the last one about the stash size reduction where he had to take in account every single item slot from all stash plus all 10 characters to make it sound like we still have plenty of space.
Hes not the devil, but he works for it and we never saw its true face, so there’s only Bashiok for us to hate.
My 2 cents that diii.net won’t be mentioned in that forum. LOL!
Five bucks says we have a Koihsab Star Cow/Heaven Bovine
bets that the achievement is to kill him with this http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/schaeferss-hammer ?
I figured it would probably be killing him with a http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/rakanishus-blade just because “Bashiok” will probably be a unique fallen that guards an important quest objective along the lines of Rakanishu in Diablo 2.
Tweeted him.
stunning sarcasm my ass, he got nothing
Less egocentric celebrity achievements and more deaths animations please!
Oh…and a freaking RELEASE DATE, DUDEEEEE!!!
“What are your favorite Diablo III fawnsites? I’d really like to know! – Bashiok”
Corrected quote
you know they come on incgamers and keep a eye on here. i wounder what other sites they do that with