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Diablo IV Reveals More Details on Beta Weekends, Rewards, and PC Specs | MMORPG.com
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Diablo IV Reveals More Details on Beta Weekends, Rewards, and PC Specs | MMORPG.com
More details on the Diablo IV beta weekends are out, including PC specs, classes, co-op, and rewards, including one particularly adorable cosmetic reward for your demon slaying.
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I hope Diablo 4 doesn't do the same, changing a few pieces of the Lore to fit the campaign. Regardless I hope it turns out to be good. I am going to wonder what happened to the nephalim hero we played in 3.
Hope it won't be BS-filled, but plan for the worst in this case and be pleasantly surprised if it's not the case. That backpack cosmetic isn't worth it, promise.
At least we have an open beta to check out the gameplay in a couple of weeks. Not sure if the battle pass will be in the open beta though since they won't be starting seasons until some time after launch and as I understand it, the battle passes are a seasons thing.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
The irony with Immortal was that it just made a lot of people play wow more to earn gold and transfer it into balance so they could buy stuff that way (same with OW2). I guess in Blizzard's eyes it can be a win-win if that happens with D4. I already used my balance to buy D4 so it doesn't matter to much to me what they do with monetization going forward.
That all being said not gaming isn't a bad choice. Plenty of more productive things to do with the time.
Best of luck to you.
Comparing Immortal which .. everyone and their mother knew it will be P2W since it was Mobile only game and also in colaboration with Netease, with Diablo 4 must be a little bit...delusional.
Immortal was a very big mistake since the beginning, but the 2 must never be comparable. I mean, look at Diablo 3 or all their other games. Blizzard is anything, but not stupid.
Immortal should never happen, especially on PC, because it gave people like you something to ..conspiracy with.
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
With this I agree.
If they fuck it up with Diablo 4, Blizzard will likely go down into "just another gaming studio".
I mean they already in a bad spot, but I really hope D4 will be amazing.
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
Excited to play it.
Some of you folks have some real personal issues to work thru. It's just a video game, it's not that serious.
Found the sucker.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
I am not really big on isometric ARPG player, so it needs to be really something.
Fingers crossed!
Digital games I bought, yes, but those who are offline-only I can back up on a separate storage and I can play them forever. Games I own on CDs, DVDs, cartridges are my own.
I still can't stop grinning from how Hogwarts Legacy's Denuvo got cracked 14 days after the game's release. xD
There are so many old games that I never played and I'm starting to see their merit and value more and more.
I am still playing old games like Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Age of Empires 2, The Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind and many more, so I think I will be playing games for a long time.
If you are OK with paying rent for games you don't own and you can lose in the blink of an eye while having spent hundreds of on them, then I honestly feel very sorry for you. You are truly lost and hopeless. A true consumerist.
Wait till they trick you to pay for the same product multiple times and you will be the first to mock those who believe they should only be paying once.
Admit it, deep down you know you are a blind consumerist and you hate it when people aren't following your deluded world views.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
But personally, already pre-purchased the most expensive edition (which is still cheap for thousands of hours of entertainment I WILL get out of it) and am pumped AF for the betas and the release. CHOO CHOO - I am all aboard the hypetrain.
All hate trains are currently operational and on schedule.
Some skepticism is reasonable.
Diablo Immortal left a recent foul taste in the mouths of many and a fair number weren't all that keen on how Diablo III turned out.
It's not blind consumerism to recognize how game delivery is evolving. It's far more blind to hold up the continuing existence of prior games delivered otherwise as though they somehow counter the changes ongoing.
Someone who has been testing D4 for several months says it is pretty good, so I'm sure there will be some who enjoy it.
It is blind consumerism to bend over for everything they do and just accepting it. That's what being blind stands for - accepting something without questioning it. Actually, if enough people avoid participating in live service games, the developers will stop making them, just like if enough people move to Linux, Linux will get better and Windows will finally have competition and seize being a monopoly. The sad part is we all know none of that is going to happen.
I don't understand how it is normal to buy a game, be only able to play it when it has servers, as soon as they shut down the servers, you can't play anymore. It's not about EULAs or what you're agreeing with, it's about being able to play the game you enjoy so much.
What if people love Diablo 3 to bits, but then Activision shuts down the servers and those people who played for thousands of hours, spent more money and supported the game with further purchases no longer can play the game they love so much? Are they supposed to just say "Oh well, I guess it is what it is." and just give up and move over to the next such game? That's just complete acceptance of your circumstances, like sitting in your chair minding your business, here comes someone with a spear and impales you through the chest, you look at it and go "Oh well, I guess it is what it is."
Think about it, if that is OK and people are OK with games being delivered this way, then things in life are getting really really scary. It's scary how lost and hopeless people have become. If you think it's blind to believe that owning physical copies of the games you bought and to be able to play them 50-80 years from now as long as you have a device from that era, then I think you need to reevaluate your priorities.
This is the example of sheer consumerism - buy something, then they take it away from you, you shrug it off and buy the next thing and the cycle repeats forever.
This is cretinous.