>What happend Lilith bros?
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Is Diablo Over?
>What happend Lilith bros?
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It was already over when blizzard felt the need to put it on steam.
it's just some extra money. literally everyone already bought the game already on battlenet who was going to buy it without it being 80% sale
>it's just some extra money.
precisely. the fact they are crawling to steam means they aren't making enough money on battlenet. game is in dire state.
They aren't crawling to steam, Microsoft dragged them there kicking and screaming.
bingo, fifty fricking dollars WITH a 25% off discount is laughable
wake me up when it's ten bucks
wake me when it's f2p
not playing that slop for any amount of money. my time is payment enough for that substandard crap
Probably, lol. Ten bucks might entice me to watch a stream or check out a review; at the moment I just do not care about it at all. If it's stuffed with microtransaction or battlepass shit when I do get around to checking it out, forget it, I'll join you for f2p
With a sheer amount of cosmetics in their in-game shop you would be right to think it's some f2p shlock. Yet here we are with a $70 price tag.
This is mostly MS's call.
They want "their" games to be everywhere.
I'll play it for an hour or so when it hits gamepasss
good goy
is this .gif a fake? I thought this was just a meme.
No.
Microsoft has no power over these decisions until 2024
Where were you when PoE literally died.
KEK
Why do Blizztards always bring up Twitch numbers as if that is somehow an accurate measure of how many people are playing it? I've quite literally only seen Bilzztards and Riotshills do this. I mean if it were true then Poe would have about 30 Million daily users since it has half of Roblox's twitch viewers.
Blizzard inflates the views on twitch by constantly running drop campaigns.
Currently D4 with drops has just 500 more viewers than WoW that has no drops. It's not modern WoW mind you, 90-95% of streams are WoW Classic HC or WoW Classic WotLK.
It was already over when they removed Mana and added Warcraft class-exclusive stats-tied-to-armor HEUG shoulderpads Cartoony Bloom art in Diablo 3.
Just remember. It's your fault. Because you bought Diablo 3. You funded Diablo 4. You did this. This is your fault.
why did blizzard have to die
I wonder what his early life was like
>At Activision, Kotick set out to build "an institutional quality, well-managed company with a focus on the independent developer."[7] In a June 14, 2010, interview with gaming blog Kotaku, Kotick stated, "…[P]art of the whole philosophy of Activision was whether you're owned outright or not, if you're a studio you have control of your destiny, you could make decisions about who to hire, flexibility on what products to make, how to make them, schedules appropriate to make them, budgets."[12]
KEK and he said this with a straight face. What a champion.
I swear, he's like the Toby of vidya
Blizzard is not his fault.
I'm no fan of certain types as much as the next guy but if you offload everything on to this israelite you're missing the forest for the one greedy big nosed tree with the ends of its branches pruned.
MONEY!
Because you had to keep being racist toxic misogynists instead of paying your monthly bills.
Didn't make Warcraft 4 after WotLK
>b-but overlap with Sta-
should have released Starcraft in mid 2000s, then
When you get to the top it's hard to stay on top.
An unironic case of Go Woke Go Broke
Because it became troony company, making games for trannies.
It comes from a giant company from the gay empire called america. All it is.
same thing
public traded companies have the obligation to make as much money as they possibly can to appease investors.
Investor for whatever reason think woke garbage and microtransactions should be in every game ever made ever.
They ahve no idea why they shit flop somehow.
"investors". it's like Blackrock and Vanguard, and they just manage other people who say nothing.
>They ahve no idea why they shit flop somehow.
They know.
They just don't give a frick if the company die a few years later, they just want their profit *now*.
If they have the choice between 1 millions this year and 5 millions spread over the next 2 decades, they will happily set the company on the fast crash track.
Because they can always buy more companies.
mike morhaime selling their soul to the devil, bobby kotick as the devil
Life and death cycle of an entertainment medium:
>creativity creates entertainment/art
>entertainment/art creates a large following
>golden age begins
>investors take note of the amount of people
>[This is the point of no return]
>people who own the entertainment/art get enticed with money
>bring in investors
>investors want family friendly and socially acceptable messages
>creativity gets murdered in its crib
>original audience leaves, braindead drones start becoming the new audience
This cycle happened in television, movies, youtube, radio and vidya.
what do we do man
there are no more mediums
well, there is one, but shitbook butchered it
basically, polished, non-janky virtual reality hangouts and experiences
live concerts on top of 10000 story VR skyscrapers, vr streams where an eceleb basically hangs out with fans in the room, where you can sit around, drink and eat (all with real-time feedback, smells, taste, sound)
teledildonics, or VR prostitution
but this is decades into the future, and I can't think of anything else
actually, I can think of something
basically, this is FAR into the future, but if we're talking vices, consumerism and hedonism, I assure you, something like this is THE future, it's basically:
>working out and training
>VERY QUICKLY 3d-printed/cloned disposable androids with synthetic/real flesh, or just clones, basically meat marionettes without brains, so no human rights, they're 3d printed while you're at work, you can queue them up
>very, very human-like, they're real humans with no brains, souls, rights
>fully customizable, organs optional, but meat and blood, blood vessels are mandatory
>you have this private AR-enhanced arena, you can choose the background and setting of the room down to the minute details
>you walk in, and commence the bloodbath
>vast, real arsenal to kill them with, melee weapons, guns, you name it
>they can't harm you, they're weaker than you, you can give them holographic/AR weapons, some that like it "real" give them weapons from lighter materials that can't kill you
>you basically walk in, and be an animal for several hours, kill them, frick them, whatever you want
>caters to the darkest, suppressed, most primal and most human desires to kill and dominate
>a lot of people play "the game", it's not really openly talked about, but everyone knows it
I'm telling you, this will be HUGE, your own murderoom, this is the endgame of depravity
You can play out scenarios, like friday 13th, a store, clone someone you hate, celebs, etc
damn, now that I think about it, this sounds like a cool idea for a novel or movie
like, in the first part, you see people at work, doing normal day-to-day shit, and then they come home
Jews.
>massive influx of the tribe during 2007 in the vidya business
>everything becomes a greedy exploitative mess
Diablo was never made by Blizzard so I guess it died with Diablo 1
Stop being antisemetic
das juden
the whole fricking company got unironically taken over by rabid troons
the company basically trooned out
That's a problematic opinion, bucko.
i want to shoot every single person in that image
Blizzard had WoW and got complacent, then they had Overwatch for 6 months and got absolutely delusional. Everything since has been the natural result of assuming they could never fail.
So Bobby Kotick could thrive
Activision merger. The old guard saw the shiny fat sack and grabbed it.
Activision and EA are a kiss of death. You'll make 1 good game under them, then they beat you to death with deadlines - causing the ship to hemorrhage good people and the company to sink
Hi.
Go woke, go broke.
hero units in rts
they DESERVED to die for what they did to rts
To be the catalyst to show companies that going woke kills your company
>heteredditchromia
Glad I avoided this slop.
Hate this fricking trend. Why's every female character got to have different color eyes these days? It made sense in FFX, it was a whole subplot. It doesn't make any sense in all these modern games that just do it to be quirky.
because homophobia of the eyes is le cool
How is that a flop? The game is not coming to PC to you compare to Playstation games, and it's 7k+ now https://steamdb.info/app/2344520/charts/
Can you try again but without being ESL?
No
im glad im a woman enjoyer
I feel like every latina owns at least 1 pair of those jeans
EVERY single girl wears those high waist jeans all day.
They don't look very comfy but they seem to be gud at hidding your fat
post more
I give those ladies 5-6 years before they turn into mestizo blobs.
You must be 18 to post here, cuck.
Thanks. Wishlisted.
Can you actually run it from Steam?
Or do I have to have the Battle.net installer running with my account logged in too?
When you run it from Steam it opens the Battle.net launcher just like any other game with a bullshit launcher that goes on Steam.
Then I don't understand the point of releasing it on Steam. I'm always confused about games that do this. Isn't the point of putting it on Steam dancing around their moronic launchers?
He’s lying.
It requires battle.net on the backend, so likely not.
Why do people here keep lying about this?
You have to link your Steam account to Battle.net once and then it never bothers you about it again. You don't have to open the Battle.net launcher to play the game. It runs through Steam.
So you have to create a Battle.net account to play it at all?
lame. that would stop me.
It requires a Battle.net account so nothing else matters. Frick every game requiring its own unique login.
Yes. Even works on Steam Deck.
This person is an idiot.
You have to link your account, but that's it. You never have to open battle net. Same with overwatch.
Season 2 and they resort to vampires. A game about battling demons and they've already ran out of ideas.
Vampires have always been in diablo zoomie
I only learned that the Ghoul Lords and the like were supposed to be vampires when I read the Trang Oul set turned you into a vampire and it changed the player sprite into a Ghoul Lord.
The fact that they all drain health should have been a clue.
OH NONONONONONO HAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAH
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve9KUIl17d0
moronic anons claimed Diablo 2 was a skinnerbox. Blizzard done and went making a real skinnerbox in Diablo 4. Everyone and their momma saw through that shite.
>Literally anyone who had any interest in the game would have just bought it on Blizzard's launcher already.
>The game has had months of bad press, including the very vocal departure and displeasure of the content creators who dedicated themselves to the game.
>Other games have eclipsed it easily both in quality and public reception.
>Blizzard has really only succeeded in convincing people that their games are just about selling Battle Passes and microtransactions rather than gameplay and entertainment.
I don't know why they thought releasing on Steam in this paradigm would be worthwhile, especially at full price. MAYBE if they gave a heavy discount, but otherwise there's no market for it.
it is 25% off you greasy manchild
>Other games have eclipsed it easily both in quality and public reception.
But why, what do they do differently?
>people are STILL paying for blizz content
I understand why lifelong wow players will never ever move on but for fricks sake have some dignity diablo 4... LMAO
only deranged cattle still slurp up the diarrhea produced by blizzard, you have to be severely mentally ill to consume blizzshit in the current year
You'd have to rebuy it on Steam. Who the hell would do that? This is very dishonest.
Yeah, the delay from launch to Steam means everyone who wanted to play already bought the game on Battle.net, I don't know what they expected.
>omg fricking launchers other than steam are killing gaming
>you didn't launch on steam? haha enjoy your flop!
>release on steam
>ummm EVERYONE who would've bought this game on steam already bought it on battlenet, what were they expecting?
schizo
How many people do you think are willing to wait nearly 5 months to play a new hotly-anticipated installation in a wildly popular series? According to the sales figures, the answer is 2,500. I'm more than willing to bet that if Diablo 4 was released simultaneously on Battle.net and Steam then the Steam sales would have been far stronger and possibly even surpassed Battle.net. The problem is that no one wants to wait 5 months to play a new game because then all the hype has died off.
so what if youre saying is it literally doesnt matter if you release on steam or not as long as the game is available somewhere else
I don't understand what you're getting at. I don't have some emotional investment in which platform sells the most copies, I'm only pointing out that it's completely unsurprising for the Steam sales to be incredibly low when the game has already been out for 5 months and everyone who wanted to play it already bought it within the first month when it wasn't available on Steam.
your reasoning is fricking moronic when we have countless games that released somewhere else first then released on steam and did great there
>satisfactory
>hades
>Monster Hunter World
>NIOH
>Dark Souls 1
etc etc
But those games are actually good and didn't rely solely on release day hype to sell before everyone started realizing it's shit.
The '2500' isn't 'sales' figures, it's concurrent logins you moronic zoomer moron.
>You'd have to rebuy it on Steam.
As part of the EU deal to allow the merger, there's apparently some kind of bring-your-own-license deal. I.e. if you already have a valid license, you should be allowed to use it on other platforms as well.
(YFW the EU actually pulls this off...)
That was for cloud streaming only
It would be fascinating if they turned game licenses into NFTs you keep in an ETH wallet so you can verify your ownership independent of any accounts and download the games from any source that makes them available.
Top down hack and slash is the worst genre in existence is what happened
>MUH MICROTRANSACTION ARE THE CORE OF THE GAME
>wait why did it flop?
lmao
>microtransactions
these aren't 'micro' anymore
Are they? I beat the campaign back when it came out and I can’t even remember what they were selling in the shop, it was actually kind of surprising how out of the way it was and not emphasized in the UI at all
>no satanic D1 atmosphere, no buy
>no viable melee builds without rainbow magic, no buy
>no good single player campaign, no buy
No buy. Do a D1Ressurected and we'll talk.
>no viable melee builds without rainbow magic
This bothers me, too. I hate that weapons are just stat sticks you hold while your character just does gay magic skills all the time. I want to rend demons from top to bottom with my sword or smash their faces in with a hammer. No magic, no flash, just bloodied steel through soft flesh.
>tfw
This is one thing d4 genuinely delivers though? Barbarian animations are borderline boring.
The devilution mod is better than whatever crap nublizzard homosexuals could ever make
I like Belzebub.
doesn't transzebub remove permanent elixirs. might as well take out spell tomes too and give us the authentic generic skilltreeslop experience
Not sure. I like it because it feels like a QoL vanilla D1.
The Hell 2 is better.
>no viable melee builds
that's just D1 lol
just beat diablo 1 for the first time as a warrior and used zero magic, that game is perfectly beatable with just melee
me, too
There's nothing left.
Blizzard has literally ruined every IP they've created. I hate this SJW/Chink infested company. Go fricking bankrupt an die already.
blizzard? move on and only old gays are their games.
I will never forgive these subhumans for raping and killing Warcraft 3. When I'm dying alone in my room from a stroke my last thought will be the anger this company has caused me.
no necro bone army for endgame
no buy
literally the point of a necromancer is the army of skellies
why make it all about homosexual poison and blood magic shit
literally proving blizzard cant balance for shit
People still talk about Blizzard games a lot cause they used to be big. But nobody wants to play those new dogshit games.
9 out of 10 people who talk about WoW aren't even playing it anymore. Same with Diablo.
They literally just had to look at PoE and streamline it a bit.
Nu-Blizzard is incompetent as frick.
People aren't gonna buy the game they just bought again for no reason at all
>Satan's personal transvestite straight out of the bible
I rarely ever come to Ganker but every time i do you homosexuals are always shitting this place up with transvestites.
Should've went with swole lizard instead of stick lizard.
God those D3 designs are so ungodly fricking terrible.
Blizzard has the worst artist of any AAA dev.
>we instead got transdiablo
God damn it blizzard
>literal embodiment of perfect evil is a troon
umm based blizzard..?
wait is lilith really a troony or are you guys just joking?
Talking about how diablo ended up looking in 3
Deebs looks like that in 3 because he possessed the body of a woman. His form is always influenced by his host. The Dark Wanderer in 2 was the warrior from 1, so he ended up being a giant beefcake.
Reminder that Knaak is Blizzard's Emil and they had him wrote for Diablo 3. He wrote the worst characters, questlines, and novels during the pre Cataclysm days.
>Knaak is Blizzard's Emil
What does this mean? Who is Emil?
I believe he might be referring to Emil Pagliarulo, quest designer at Bethesda. Dude infamously knows how to do one story line, and it's thieves guild shit every single time. Maybe because he designed Thief as well, but the point is he's seen by some as a poison in the well at Bethesda.
>Dude infamously knows how to do one story line, and it's thieves guild shit every single time.
No, not even. He is a hack. He was the lead for FO3, FO4, and Starfield. That's all you need to know.
>Maybe because he designed Thief as well,
No. He did a couple levels for thief 2 and they were awful.
Seems like we need laws against battle passes ASAP. Frick blizzard
This shit would've been godawful even if there wasn't a battle pass. Modern Blizzard simply isn't capable of making good games anymore. They haven't in a long, long while.
Genuinely wondering what went wrong. How did the best developer become the worst?
A part of it has to be hubris; they were known as an amazing developer, but a little self-awareness and humility are never amiss, otherwise you're going to huff your own farts. Being bought by Activision probably did not help matters either.
>they were known as an amazing developer,
OverWatch? StarCraft 2? They are all shit.
Of course they're shit, the last good game made by Blizzard was TFT in 2003. Warcraft 1 through 3, Starcraft and Brood War, Diablo 1 and 2, those were all excellent games and anyone who had a PC in the 90s knew of these games.
Starcraft 2 was great and kick started streaming essentially, gameplay has only gotten better with the expansion releases. Legacy of the Void is the best state the game has ever been in single player, coop, and ladder. It's not blizzard's fault that most players want to play moba's so they can blame teammates for losses.
dota 2s tools are easier to use so Blizzard can suck shit.
Unpleasant to look at compared to sc1 so it's shit.
>bought by activision
It was kind of the other way around, it was pretty close to a true merger, but Vivendi held 52% of the merged company, with Kotick staying on as CEO
I don't know what I despise more. blizzard or the morons who buy their overpriced trash
The morons, definitely. They're the ones enabling all this shit.
they just make a shitty lost ark clone and that game is already fricking trash.
I really liked the combat in Lost Ark but the asiaticgrind is unbearable. What a shame.
i be honest with you once again
top down is only acceptable for small indie studios and crpgs (barely)
if i see a giant like blizzard still pull this shit 30 years later i have no reason to buy it
wake me up when they release a first person diablo with actual graphics
I would quite like to play it, but I'm done buying full priced games that have fricking shitty microtransaction/season pass/other bullshit. I'm just sick and tired of it. I could not give less of a shit about what people say about BG3, but at least that's a complete product that isn't trying to siphon more money from me.
the game world / dungeons looks like a series of (tubes) corridors.
>2.5k player
honestly impressive considering the game was already out and people were shitting on it for months
>honestly impressive
it reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally isn't
not for a game of this size
Yeah, sugoi numbers oni-chan
these numbers are just fake news and always were, aren't they?
>blizzard claims 12 million players
>game releases on steam
>sub 2k players
really makes on think, innit?
>game out for months
>fricktons of players
>game finally shows up on steam
>anon thinks the steam player count grandfathers in the old players
>anon b***hes about $70 pricetag
>anon is a pajeet
>game out for only some months and its already dead
lmao
kys projecting poojet
go defend starfield in a witcher thread so we can laugh at you, clown.
That would be an argument if it wasn't for the fact that games like AC Valhalla and fricking Anno 1800 were able to get to 8k players once they were brought to steam.
>Muh investor reports are lies
Cope harder you moron
Maybe blizzard should try making a good game. Foreign concept, I know, but making shitty games with horrid monetization clearly isn't working out for them.
I think most people who were interested in d4 already bought the game before.
There is no need to buy it again as it's crossplay between all platforms anyway.
Blizzard is basically fighting the playerbase with how they want the game. Blizzard wants to "MMO-fy" the game, keep people playing as long as possible. Diablo 3 already turned seasons from a simple reset into time-limited content like a gacha game, and now Blizzard is trying to shove in padding to keep people playing each season as long as possible. And each patch removes some of the tedium Blizzard wanted to have. Renown statues and open-world crap and traveling to dungeons and now horses and blockades.
They ruined the d2 remaster with far left censorship. This entire company should have been destroyed the moment this happened. Piss on blizzards grave.
>They ruined the d2 remaster with far left censorship
elaborate. i havent played it much i only recently pirated it and have played it for a little bit and it seems amazing to me. what am i missing here?
I'm not a blizzdrone. I don't play other blizz games at all (haven't for some time). Came back just cause eh been a while since a diablo style game. Holy shit, d4 is fricking shit on steroids. I have a new appreciation for PoE now, being that they made a game worse than d3.
I heard nothing but positive buzz around this game when it released, what caused such a massive change in opinion? I haven't followed it.
The game was lacking in content, and when people no life and smash through the limited amount of content and find temselves bored the only thing to do is gripe about other annoyances in the game. Season 2 just released with a massive amount of QoL improvements and a big expansion to endgame, basically in the state it should have launched in. Everyone besides the deranged blizzard haters are positive about the current state of the game maybe except that soon there’ll e complaints about it being too easy
>I heard nothing but positive buzz around this game when it released
The game actually starts out fun until the annoying Asian Black girl hijacks the story and the gameplay balance falls apart, not to mention people reaching the awful postgame experience.
Initial positive buzz was because it was polished and looked really good in the current age where most large games release still needing 2 years of development to not be buggy trash.
The cracks started showing really quick:
>Campaign dawdles about for 4 acts then rushes through 4 more acts worth of story in 1 act
>Shitty bosses, one of the main story bosses is just a reused world boss and you fight Elias like 3 times
>Renown progression was seasonal, Altars of Lilith were going to be a seasonal collect which is LITERALLY just busywork to pad runtime
>Neyrelle among the worst Blizzard characters which is a really high mark
Then conflict happened. The sweaties began playing endgame while casuals who don't even like video games accused the sweaties of hating everything. These moronic casuals didn't realize that the sweaties' issues would be their issues too, just in more time. If you hear people talking about "I'm a father of 8 with 3 jobs and only four minutes a week to play and I love D4", it's these homosexuals they're making fun of
>Character progression functionally stops at level 25-30 and never changes after that point, Uniques barely shake things up
>Dungeon layouts are shitty with annoying backtracking
>Terrible damage calculation system demanded your build basically fill out a checklist of damage types and status effects which torpedoed build variety
>Blizzard trashed the good builds while not realizing those were the ONLY good+fun builds available, ruining the game for a lot of people (Whirlwind Barb and CDR Sorc were the big ones here)
>Endgame had MMO style predatory "LOGIN NOW" time-sensitive content required for endgame (log in for world boss kills, log in at certain times to farm Helltides for 45 minutes for required crafting mats)
>Stats like resistances don't work at all
>Developers hilariously go from haughty we-know-better wannabe auteurs to browbeaten penitents because the game is dying hard and their jobs are now at risk
>Uniques barely shake things up
It's worse than that. Uniques either don't shake things up, or shake things up so much they are basically critical. So you are either stuck with
>gear so important your character can't function without it
>gear so shit that equipping it doesn't make a difference
This is really what stopped me playing. What's the point in collecting gear if it's inconsequential? And even when it's mandatory collec gear is still inconsequential because you will forego any alternatives because it will brick your build. I couldn't even finish the campa once I realised this.
Biggest tragedy was I actually had genuine fun im open beta. First 20 levels with a kick barbarian felt engaging and gritty. But when you realise the game never evolves beyond those first 20 levels is when the boredom starts to hit ya. Enemy variety is abysmal too.
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>homosexual developers respond to lots of feedback regarding issues with "uhh yeah that will be fixed going forward into S1 (months away)" or even S fricking 2 which JUST released
>At the same time, shop issues or progression exploits fixed in hours
>Also, a $70 dollar game has a cosmetic cash shop with THIRTY DOLLAR PRICE TAGS. Path of Exile's prices are that obscene because the game is free
>Also, the $70 dollar AAA game with a hilariously overpriced cosmetic shop has a paid battle pass system
>Barebones and boring endgame seriously unimpressive when Path of Exile has arguably never been better in terms of a complete endgame experience so people have no reason to play D4
>Legendary system (destroy legendary to get a copy of its effect, apply that effect to a yellow to make it a legendary) sounds cool but in practice means you have to inspect every single legendary and yellow that drop because you have to combine them all the time
>homosexual developers, while the game is burning down, claim they will have frequent paid expansions (telling the entire playerbase they'll have to pay again if they want their game fixed a la D3)
>Rod Ferguson
basically the developers are homosexuals, the story is terrible, the endgame is boring, your character feels the same at 100 as they do at 25, builds are both very narrow and very uninteresting, the game lacks bosses, nightmare dungeons are not fun to do, and D4 unlike D3 released in an era with plentiful and very good competition.
Thus it's dead
hilariously go from haughty we-know-better wannabe auteurs to browbeaten penitents because the game is dying hard and their jobs are now at risk
Any then vs now comparison compilations? I love that shit, it fuels me.
I'll just leave this here and be on my way
yeah, totk is second on the list despite being on a single platform and without digital sales
it's really grim
Debunked troony narrative
This just shows that basing conclusions off of video game forums full of people that don't actually play games doesn't jive with reality.
so when is starcraft 2 coming to steam?
Why did they not just release a full price game like D2, do a bit of seasonal content and patching and call it a day? Live Service shit never works unless you are a coomer gacha
Diablo isn't even in the game.
What if they made a horror game featuring Diablo, the Lord of Terror?
If I bought it on battlenet or whatever the frick blizzard launcher is, can I play it through steam w/o purchasing it?
no
Player numbers already slowly increasing and that'll only continue. As for the reviews: it's blizzkids being their usual sperg-selves.
>diablo 4 is le bad!
>but why?
>it just IS okay???
>lose 99% of your player base
>'but why is it bad'
>Pull numbers out of your ass
Congratulations, keep coping
Your several thousand paypigs that buy all the shit in the store are the only ones playing this shit pile, blizzdrone.
Where's your proof? You do realise Steam accounts don't get transfered Diablo 4 licenses, right? The millions of copies sold on BNet are not reflected by their current player counts through steam player numbers.
>zoomie pulls numbers out of her ass
Pottery
>blizzdrone defending his dead game
pottery
>le viewer number meme
So I guess PoE is dead then, it dropped lower than 2k viewers yesterday.
>Gay ass builds
>Subpar Story
>Season pass cancer
>Micro transactions everywhere
>Instanced loot
>Cancer itemization
Should I go on ?
I actually liked a lot of D4 but
>some extremely bad writing in the story campaign, mostly with Neyrelle
>Codex is way worse than Kanai's cube and it affects how fun late-game is if you don't grind a shit ton for spare aspects
>the game launched with really shitty time-consuming additions that were cut in the S1 and S2 patches
>horrible balance with Blizzard being too scared to buff weak things
copypasting d3 code without knowing how it works causing compounding optimization issues, also revealing how utterly lazy and rushed the development of the game design was, though it was already apparent from the lackluster features such as awkwardly truncated character progression and pointless online multiplayer
Because they forced to necromancer to be a dueling necro from D2.
>literally pretending to be blind
kek, typical blizzdrone
It's so funny watching Ganker cope when this game made literal billions.
It has like 8k players right now and everyone who already had an interest about the game bought it before as it has been out for months.
There's also no reason to buy it on Steam at all, so it was only moronic Steam drones that bought it.
Getting so far tens of thousands of sales for zero effort doesn't sound bad to me?
Everybody who wanted to play Diablo4 already played it through the b.net launcher. A Steam launch wasn't gonna save either of them considering not even blizzard fans liked the games, either. Blizzard's moderators are just always on the defensive purging negative feedback and criticism.
>frick Diablo
>embrace Halls of Torment.
>A INSTALLED LOCALLY ADVENTURE
What did Steam mean by this?
It's my autismo game categories.
>Scientific Disasters
What the frick
Like, in the game world, things went really bad with science.
Ah, that makes sense but is a little less spectacular than I had thought. I assumed it was a category for games that were so mechanically broken that they were an utter disaster to play.
Thank you for sharing. I love seeing organization autism. Here's mine.
Pretty neat. Mine has too much inside 'jokes' like the science stuff.
You know, if you click this little play button on the right it will only show you installed games. You don't need a category for that.
I think I did it because I like where it puts them on the left, or maybe it was because I wanted the folder to open first when I clicked Library.
I remember for some reason I had to click again like you say in order to see the locals.. Or something.. Maybe you are right and I don't need it.
Forgot pic.
What are you hidden gems, anon?
Here's the ones I need to show you.
kek
>NOT-COOMER
>(4)
beyond grim. do you really only have 4 games that are not coomer games?
Is every game outside the not-coomer section something you coom to?
sell it to me, particularly for co-op.
it's boring as shit, reliant on meta-progression and is filled with grammatical and spelling mistakes
unironically Holocure is a million times better and a million times more free
You are not a very good salesman, anon.
the recent patch made it super unfun
>halls of no players
actually theres like a million players playing right now 😉
Played about 20 hours of it. Its pretty shit
I dont hate it but Vampire Survivors and Soulstone survivors outclass it in every single way that isnt "I guess it kind of looks like Diablo 2"
friend gifted me a key and I'm so glad I didn't pay for this dogshit
I'm level 26 and finding it hard to continue. It's so fricking boring. I've played a sorcerer and rogue to around the same level and just can't find the will to go on. I don't have a lot of the aspects unlocked and I can see they will help with the EXTREME mana/energy issues but don't know if I care enough. Why do blizzard hate fun? I don't want le ebin 5D chess gameplay in my ARPG, I want to spam the same couple skills and feel like an unstoppable god mindlessly grinding loot. I don't give a frick about your story or your forced fricking cinematics before I can continue with a quest. I want to skip past a dialogue box and click things to death. It feels like Blizzard completely misunderstood why people play ARPGS.
So, does it get better if I continue or should I spit in my friend's face and hang myself?
Bruh, it literally only gets worse. You're level 26? The real slog starts at 60-70. Spit in his face and tell him to go frick himself.
Badly reviewed isn't the same thing as having flopped
Reminder that the true threat isn't ignorant consumers or greedy executives, but the ones in government enabling them. It's not about profit.
diversity mutts and trannies
>Everyone who was going to play it already bought it on b-net
>The only people who bought it on steam were Le ebin leddit gaymer sticking the middle finger to le ebil bobby
Wow, sure showed him by... *checks notes*... buying his game just to leave a bad review which will probably get removed anyway...
Honestly pretty smart of blizzard, basically ragebaited a bunch of idiots into buying their game.
Not enough people bought D4 to make a profit.
cope
don't care she's hot
>posts literal fanart altering the character to prove "she's hot"
It's so easy to spot the coomer blizzzdrone holy shit lmao
There's millions of players RIGHT NOW on battle.net playing Diablo IV.
Only Gabe wienersuckers use Steam so of course no one will play a Blizzard game on there.
It's pretty pathetic Steam Black folk really think anything is a bomb if no one is playing a game on their DRM platform.
>millions of players
according to who? the company that never publically releases its numbers? Im sure Wow still has 11 million players right now!!!
Not that guy, but Diablo 4 sold 10 million copies according to their earnings report. It probably has 1 million players at the very minimum right now that S2 has just launched.
>As of the end of the second quarter, Diablo IV had sold-through more units than any other Blizzard title at an equivalent stage of release. Over 10 million players experienced Diablo IV in June, playing for over 700 million hours, and retention trends for the title are particularly strong.
https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-announces-second-quarter-2023-financial
Activision is lying.
You are coping
What would stop Activision from lying?
Yeah every company should just say they sold 1 billion copies nothing can go wrong! There are laws against lying about sales figures you twat, why are you coping so hard? Why is it hard to accept it sold well?
Has those numbers been verified independently? Hasn't Blizzard already gotten into criminal trouble? Even if they sold that much, was it enough to make up their losses?
Anon, the numbers aren't a fricking lie. People will buy games based on hype alone. Lots of people bought Diablo IV only to quit playing it a month later.
Don't be so fricking dense.
Is Activision growing into a AAAA company? Or are they just on a slow decline, trying to keep their head above water by cannibalizing their previous successes and goodwill? Are there less and less buyers with each release? Are they making up for their losses? People do not buy games on "hype" alone.
>People do not buy games on "hype" alone
>People do not buy games on "hype" alone.
Yes, they do. Please do not be so naïve as to believe this does not happen.
Hype and marketing ALONE will sell a game.
Lol, not at all, especially if they're white (or east asian). Brownoids do, but the only reason they keep getting the disposable income for luxuries is also at the expense of white (and east asian) taxpayers.
>especially if they're white (or east asian).
Lmao you are genuinely fricking delusional my friend. I should have guessed there was no reasoning with you.
Have a good day.
This board will jump though 100 mental gymnastics before admitting something they don't like is successful
If companies were operating under profit, they'd just make products that catered to whites (and east asians).
But pol said whites are a minority and there is a white genocide and replacement going on, so why cater to a shrinking demographic
Because the best wealth generators are naturally whites (and east asians). Brownoids in their natural habitat naturally destroy themselves and everything around them absent the intervention of whites (or east asians).
Lol.
okay but neither of these metrics prove how many people are playing right now.....starfield I guarantee sold like gangbusters but it does not have 1 million people playing right this fricking second
Microshit's touch, out of the industry by 2027 kek.
is D4 actually fun? i got bored of D2 and 3
Yes
It's just D3 again. If you didn't like D3 you won't like this.
i dont know anything about diablo 4, but I will say that after diablo 3 I swore I wasnt going to touch this fricking series ever again.
It was over when they announced Diablo Immortal and Overwatch 2. Everything else is a distraction
It's a dead genre. It was only ever successful because of it's novelty at the time, and the boomers that obsess over it to this day.
The gameplay is extremely simple, and it's based on RNG.
This is a RPG for the smoothest of brains.
arpgs should be $20 and intended to play one time
It coming to Steam SHOULD have been a good thing. Unfortunately they did it in the stupidest way possible - "just buy another copy" - rather than giving players the option of a Destiny 2 style transition from BattleNet back in the day to Steam. Or even simpler, create a free to play demo mode to download the game etc.and if you sync it with an existing BattleNet account you can use the full game's content associated with an existing owner account. But no, they did the stupid, shortsighted method that fricks over existing players and somehow thinks its going to work. Even frickingOverwatch 2, that abortion, did better in this one regard because its a F2P shitstain and(I think) signing in with an existing Overwatch/Bnet account you can use all your old content.
Atop this, none of it fixes the real problems with the game's assfricking monetization and FOMO grindy battle pass season garbage. At very fricking least they should have made it possible to unlock old season content IF you bought the Premium version of the Season pass, but no they want FOMO and $30 outfits atop the premium super battle passs which you need to buy the super one to get a new emote or whatever the frick not in the regular premium pass etc. I knew that this would be shit when they had the Beta era Ashava or whatever the frick event one weekend where they made a "If you don't kill this one boss, during the one beta weekend you don't get the super fancy exclusive horse that shows you're a big dick chad" even before the game even went fricking live. They should have brought that shit back for the live game but NOOOOOO its all FOMO and exclusive and timegate and season lock and frick you sideways
>but what about the seasons of D2/D3
Back when they were free and there was no "pass" , there were chances to get later shit you missed most of the time at least aesthetically when they were reused in later season etc. That's all aside from the premium, fomo, battle pass and other garbage
so not counting whales, it really is just WoW and OW keeping blizzard up huh?
2500 * $50 * .7(valve tax) = 87,500
Still free money for blizzard.
diablo went to shit the moment they decided to make if female since 3
Most people are still on blizzard launcher.
It's simple, the culture has decided to Blizzard are shit so everything they release will be declared shit. Even if it is good
Then again I don't think people want good games anymore
I'd be willing to check it out if it weren't online only. That shit right there is preventing me from throwing money away on them.
Maybe Blizzard devs are secretly based and want me to spend my money wisely.
On second thought, thank you Blizzard for helping me to live a better life.
Make a white crusader character that says frick you and murders the village instead of participating in the blood ritual after getting knocked out. Also take it offline.
I promise you have a sale.
I honestly dont understand why they dont just do the diablo 2 formula? everyone fricking loves D2 and its played way more than d4 is by far. how stupid are these devs?
it's a live service game. no one just makes a game and then fricks off anymore. They have to have a continuous relationship with you.
>Give us Diablo 4!!!!!!
>Here you go
>No one plays it
And here kids why they're making mobile games. Immortal probably earned more money than 4.
but d4 is fun now
These morons will eat up anything aaaaaaanything with the blizzard logo on it.
Lilith dead
no Lilith romance/correction
dead game
Part of the reason is Blizzard cultivating terrible fanbase. For example, big part of the recent positive announcement for Diablo 4 was the slight increase in EXP gaining. Blizzard fans do not want to play games for anything else than "end game". Single player content has to be balanced, because the players only wants the most optimal builts for maximum efficiency. Multiplayer games like Owie needs to assign players into the most suitable roles and report them if they deviate or else the team can't operate in it's ideal capacity.
>game releases with thousands of bugs
>many skills do effectively nothing
>some passive abilities can't be activated because it's impossible to meet the requirements to do so
>they changed the resistance formula from other games so resistance is worth 1/1,00,00th of other defensive stats
>"we can't fix anything in season 1 because it would be a pain season 2 we will work on it"
>shows this gem off in a season 2 promo video
I don't like diablo games but d4 is very entertaining.
What do you expect from a company employing "developers" who use a graphical tablet as their main pointing device.
Didn't you see the D4 level designers playing their own game on yt?
I love the idea that people have enough faith and trust in twitter to recommend anything good. I slightly trust you guys because youre all buttholes with very specific autistic taste, but to source 'what mouse should I get' to the people of twitter is fricking wild
That's because those people live exclusively on twitter. They do not know anything else. Thinking outside their curated, moderated thought bubble is anathema.
Asking on twitter instead of doing actual research is generating interactions, and those people are addicted to attention.
Look at who replied to him, a furry. You know he is one as well for sure, as are many of their employees. Some of their artists are openly posting furry smut, not even at a pseudonym as is often done by professional artists wanting to retain credibility.
I actually don't see why this is getting so much hate. I'm playing it and it's just D3 with a D2R-type artstyle. There's nothing specifically wrong with it. The bosses are actually kind of neat even and I found a legendary that significantly changes my character's playstyle. I thought those were considered good things.
I get that everyone hates Blizzard now and I'm not saying you shouldn't but the game seems fine. Was it significantly worse on release or something?
What fricking moron still gives blizzard money
I would like to buy the rights to Starcraft i can send Bobby like $25 for them
I don't play Diablo or any Blizzard game. Isn't there a Battlenet service they use that people play on that they've been using fairly well for years now? How many players are on Battlenet?
the genre is over
did they let you play it offline yet?
if no, not interested
Are people actually buying microtransactions for this? I recall seeing a 20 skin that was nearly identical to an armor that was available in game and realizing blizzard truly didn't know what they were doing
Holy shit Diablo 4 is on sale on steam right now, grab it now!
>mixed reviews
How did I shit yesterday is more relevant than user reviews. Gamers, once again showing that they are one of the dumbest groups of people in the world, have shown that reviews mean nothing when they started mindlessly hopping onto any hate train and blindly review bombing everything. I trust game journalists more than I do people on the internet.
its the same shit with overwatch 2. Its a terribly boring shitty game and I will never play it, but is it really worse than Bad Rats, Bad Rats 2, and a host of games that are so broken they cant launch?
>BUT THE PVE MODE, THEY PROMISED IT
get a grip
I saw a lot of people gloating about buying it just to leave a bad review and refunding, essentially abusing the refund system to le STICK IT TO THE MAN by hitting the thumbs down button.
>WE'RE GONNA SEND A MESSAGE TO BLIZZARD THEY'RE NOT WELCOME ON STEAM
Frick off. Bunch of bandwagoning homosexuals.
>casually defending their corporate overlords and begging others to not be mean to them
Literal NPC redditors lmao, develop some standards golems
Diablo 4 is the best Diablo game.
It's a bad game but even if it was good, it's not like it was released on a new platform with a different customer base. Anyone who actually wanted to play it would have already bought it on blizzard's own storefront months ago.
>always online live service game
>nu blizz
there's no spectacle. there's no bosses.
there's like 3 in the story then its over. every "endgame" dungeon feels like a basic MMO fetch quest with a open world elite at the end instead of a boss
there's no builds, itemization, there's no content to aspire to. there's no game design. these diversity hires can't even do basic math so how would they do any of that. do the same shitty chore-like instance spam so you get a higher percentage of vuln+crit so you can do the same shit at a higher "tier".
pivoted IMMEDIATELY into seasons; same game with 1 little dumb borrowed power system on top for a few months. as if, as fricking if, they had such a solid foundation and a wealth of content riches that all it would take to make it interesting each time you start a new ladder would be some different coloured mobs and a new gem. you don't, you have a badly made, poorly thought out made of shit that feels like you are constantly trying to appease criticisms with little buffs here and there, just to expose the fact that adjusting some crit and vuln numbers isn't going to make this a good game - but its all you fricking have.
S to spit.
The last Blizzard game I bought was Wings of Liberty. Blizzard was already bad then and I find it unsettling that even after so many more years of shit tier games, Diablo 4 still sold a frickload on launch.
so is diablo straight up for real dead and not in D4? or is it Expansion bait? that sounds moronic, surely you would make diablo the big bad of diablo and make lillith the big bad of the expansion
If they ported one of their good games like starcraft or d2 they'd get a positive rating guaranteed. the target demographic was what, the people who somehow want to play this turd game really bad months after launch, but refuse to use blizz launcher under any circumstance? I don't think there's that many people who fit into that category
They never planned on bringing their games to Steam at all, them being acquired by Microsoft is the only reasoning it's happening. Microsoft wants their games on Steam.
Their whole catalogue will eventually get ported to Steam.
>women developers making games for men
>hire woman developers
>try to appeal to a minority schizo audience
>"why is no one buying our game?"
Happens every fricking time. Women are an absolute cancer in the work place.
Blizzdrones even your corporate overlords don't like "playing" D3+1
Imagine still falling for this shit KEK
the vast majority of people who had any interest in diablo 4 already bought it months ago
>decide to update and give it a try
>do the first quest
>open coffin
>do the fight, equip stuff
>open season journey
>get smacked in the face with battle pass shit
>close game