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Diablo IV Story Launch Trailer Whets Appetites for the Eternal Conflict's Return | MMORPG.com
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Diablo IV Story Launch Trailer Whets Appetites for the Eternal Conflict's Return | MMORPG.com
The Diablo IV story launch trailer is here to remind us all of the costly Eternal Conflict we're stepping into when the game releases in June.
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I was all for the grim atmosphere but after playing every Beta weekend, I think I will miss the color and flash in D3.
They just lied pretty big about Overwatch, Immortal rakes in millions, they will change it to be more like Immortal in no time, wait and see. They are holding off now so people don't refund and avoid purchasing, but once the playerbase has settled in a few months, the changes will come
I don't think so. I think after the blowback they got with their flippant "don't you all have phones" comment, they know there's two distinct markets here: the mobile Immortal market, and the PC/Console D4 market. If they try turn D4 into Immortal's P2W model, players will leave in droves and then there will be no one to sell battlepasses to. The mobile market tolerates Immortal because so many other mobile titles follow the same monetization model. It's slimy but also very very common. To a mobile player, it's just yet another in a long list of P2W F2P titles. PC players don't put up with that, at least not in the west, and since that's where Blizzard's home base is, I don't think they're stupid enough to kill the golden goose. There's just too many other good ARPG's available on PC. The market is too competitive, and after the laundry list of shit shows that have gone down in the last 2 years with Blizzard, they need a win.
Seems pretty definitive to me leaving themselves zero wriggle room.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Point of example made in previous thread being the likes of dungeon keys and sigils, as those aren't themselves "power".
I'd certainly be happy to be surprised and see them being honest, but that's far removed from their track record as of last few years.
Blizzard doesn't exist anymore. All the old dogs are gone. It's all run by Activision leadership now. They can just as well call it ActiVision now, as that's what it is.
Remember, ActiVision was caught with their pants down after leaked papers some years ago, showed they were activily hiring Psychologists for the sole purpose in helping them creating the most addictive MTX mechanics possible, targeting addictive vulnerabilities within people.
Diablo Immortal is the clear result of that.
All big publishers ( EA, 2K, Activision, Ubisoft ) keep pushing the limits with MTX as far as they can these days.
Hence, why I mostly stopped playing any new games from them.
Thrust me. It won't be any different with Diablo 4! If they going to push cosmetic MTX in this game, it will mean only one thing....shitty looking loot galore in the game, forcing you to spend real money on good looking armor and weapon skins, after already dropping 80 bucks on the game itself! Yeah.... thanks, but no thanks.
If the game was F2P I could maybe stomach that a bit better, like Path of Exile has been doing for years with their business model. But paying 80 bucks for Diablo 4 and then heavily pushing (cosmetic) MTX on top of that. Activision can take a hike!
You're entitled to your opinion, but I enjoyed the beta a lot. If that hurts your butt in some way so be it.
Graphics look nothing like D3. I mean seriously I don't think you've so much as looked at D4. You're like one of these guys that say the graphics of some game looks like the 1980's without actually taking the 30 seconds it takes to Google what a game from that era actually looked like. I'd do a side by side of D3 and D4, but you can do that on your own. Do some research before you spout random, made up bullshit.
I really hate PoE. PoE 2 is just going to double down on more of the same. As to D4 being a flash in the pan game, do you mean like D3 which is still live to this day? That kind of flash in the pan?
Finally we get to the core of your actual hang up with D4: you hate Activision. That's fine. If you want to boycott D4 for your laundry list of grievances against Activision that's your prerogative. Just be honest about it and save us all the made up nonsense like D4 looks like D3 when anyone with eyes can see that's simply not the case. Funny how you call out Activision for lying in the same post you try to convince other people not to buy their game by... lying.
I don't blame you or anyone for being suspicious given their recent track record but what I'm hearing from them and the frequency and forcefulness of its expression gives me some comfort in that this would be infinitely harder for them to weasel out of than what Wyatt Cheng did with his gear and gems comment.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Some time later: "[Previous statement +1]"
rinse hands, repeat.
Pessimistic I know. I'm just a product of my conditioning. :P
-mklinic
"Do something right, no one remembers.
Do something wrong, no one forgets"
-from No One Remembers by In Strict Confidence
I read D4 Reddit daily and I have never even seen the "bare mare" term used once there. I'm not doubting that the writer of the article has seen it but he totally misses that it's just some people having some fun joking around and not "gatekeeping" as he calls it.
Humor and reading comprehension are in short supply these days when it's so much easier to fake outrage for sensational headlines and clicks.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
My trust in Blizzard is low based on how they've managed their IPs, their cash shop focused and MAU based design decisions, and their disrespect for the demographic they used to serve.
As a fan of their previous Diablo games, especially 1 and 2, I'm just not that interested in this game based on their design decisions so far. It feels bad being a part of a demographic that got tossed to the trash in favor of a demographic that wants online all the time, with other people running around, and who are okay with cash shops.
It starts with a 20-30 dollar pay to win to get in the game early. I am guessing the mtx is going to get worse as it goes. The leveling system for the experience rewards has come in to question as well. I am not hopeful.
That seems to be the general consensus that i have seen; and it's not even abnormal of a business model when we look at what they did for the diablo 3 launch; which had a mxt marketplace right out of the gate- which was eventually removed; but the game suffered some terrible gold exploits and ....other stuff.
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