Is it just me or is there zero hype around Diablo IV, is it really looking that bad?
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Is it just me or is there zero hype around Diablo IV, is it really looking that bad?
Is it just me or is there zero hype around Diablo IV, is it really looking that bad?
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There's lots of hype, but the game does look kinda shit. I feel bad for the art & sound teams who did a fantastic job, only to be kneecapped by the gameplay designers / corporate who mandates the game has to be full of all the usual modern video game cancer.
Pretty much this. I don't think the core game will be bad but it's clearly just a vehicle for 50 different wallet-rape mechanics, so self respect prevents me from ever wanting to play it. Lucky for Blizzard, there will be plenty of moronic whales to gobble it up anyways
>There's lots of hype
where? paid journous and streamers don't count
why wouldn't that count?
Is "hype" a positive term that only applies to organic interest?
Yes
obviously
I agree with
There's plenty of hype around, but some shit looks worrying.
I'm one of the gays who never really minded D3's artstyle. I always thought D2 looks kinda ass, even at the time. D3 can manage to have dark / demonic vibe, without literally just turning the fricking brightness to 2% I don't really need the semi realism either.
What I care about is: Is it good for grinding loot and upgrading you character without end to get more and more powerful. And D3 was great at that.
We'll see how D4 looks in that department. I couldn't give a shit about how much it looks like D2, or which original creator worked on it. I just need it to be fun to grind forever while listening to audio media.
Honestly, I played the closed beta and the OST was kinda meh. The only memorable track was the chanting monks in the mongolian looking zone. It sounded like a remix of this track from Sekiro.
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yes there is none
Cautiously optimistic about it. But not going to pre-order the game before I haven't tried it out later this month. My friends are probably going to get it, so it might be the only time for arpg fans to play with close ones.
>dumbed down blizcuck mobile games for pc in 2023
lol
lmao
Yeah it's 6 years too late. D3 was an abomination raped in every way imaginable, from launch to present. Still getting stupid emails from Blizzard
>Don't miss out on season 28!
Lmao no thanks
There's another Diablo? Wow, no one cares.
are they using the same RNG for this new one as they did for the mobile game?
Fortunately no, but anyone not going in cautiously is probably going to get burned. Considering Blizzard's financial resources and examples of what went right/wrong in previous installments, whether or not they make a good game is entirely a choice.
The cosmetic battle pass is bad enough but taking their word that they won't add micro transactions for things affecting game play is likely only true for the moment.
I only remember that drops(D3) were tied into that real money auction house. I remember people saying they weren't but, yeah...
i'm not falling for shit casino RNG. I can play PoE for free for that.
I actually liked the real money auction house. I don't care what anyone says, it made finding rare loot SO MUCH more exciting as you could sell pieces for hundred of dollars.
But I think it would be impossible to implement today, considering the extreme amount of bots and such that would exist.
not sure about you but i have to pay taxes now on digital shit
God I hate these righteous gambling addicts like Quinn and Asmon. It's like they get to eat the cake and have it too. Imagine a crack addict on twitch using his donations lying in a sofa and shooting up crack and with a smile going "aahhh... don't do this kids... look how bad it is... i do this so you don't have to and to expose the crack industry... aahh let me get another hit... ah xtimmy12x thanks for the donation..."
They're just addicts who found a way to be righteous about it.
So true
>troon game made by troons for troons
why should i care?
>D3 was mediocre
>Diablo Immortal happend
>D4 is forced multiplayer open-world garbage like Lost Ark
>full price + ingame shop + season pass that heavily favors paypigs
>horses
>le heckin' pupperino that totally fits the game aesthetics
Yeah frick off.
I'm more of a cat person. And while zoomed out so far, you might never see that damn thing. What's the point?
>What's the point?
fomo (fear of missing out)
I don't have that fear though
>season pass that heavily favors paypigs
come one now, I won't defend current blizzard, but (for now) that's not true
>>le heckin' pupperino that totally fits the game aesthetics
Unlike cow level or whimsyshire
Cow level was based, whimsyshire was as bad as any other part of D3 and puppy is for drooling soi morons addicted to tik tok with zero self control.
>It's okay when my shitty boomer game does it
Coping Black person
>easteregg put in by developers with no prompt
vs
>attempt of the devs to shit on their audience after they asked why there wasn't an easteregg level
>whimsyshire was as bad as any other part of D3
The moronic thing about that was that Whimseyshire was based off of a meme that was meant to dig at Blizzard for making a Diablo game so bright and colorful. This is how modern AAA developers are. Their audience says they don't like something and they just go all-in making the thing they hate.
Whimsyshire was Blizzard's reaction to people saying D3 was too bright and colourful. If anything it's based as all frick and the last time Blizzard had the balls to make fun of themselves.
>fomo
its like 2-3 hours to reach L20 and get it. or ignore it. easy
old, outdated and not the case anymore
>its like 2-3 hours to reach L20 and get it. or ignore it. easy
do i have to install that battlenet garbage?
I'm not sure what would make you think that you wouldn't.
ty, skipping the game. last time i used that junk it was spitting all kinds of advertisements and streaming junk at me like i was browsing facebook
ofc
>dragging your wolf pup to literal hell
that's not wholesome at all
>D4 is forced multiplayer open-world garbage like Lost Ark
Excuse me what? I can't play just by myself like d1-3? Do I have to see other people in my game?
Yes, as you're going about the world you're going to see other homosexuals running around questing and doing dumb bullshit in your singleplayer game.
Nope, frick that shit. I could ignore everything else if it meant a decent arpg I could sink 300 hours into but this is a deal breaker.
I want to either play by myself or with RL friends. I don't want to see random people in my game.
huh?
You can play the campaign, strongholds, fortresses, dungeons, etc. solo but you will see other players in cities and sometimes out in the open world.
>you will see other players in cities and sometimes out in the open world
oh frick me, the last time i played a game like that (i think it was elder scrolls online) people were making all sorts of shit racket dualing or whatever they called it when all i wanted to do was comfy crafting
so diablo 4 is kinda like guild wars or w/e where towns are instances full of ppl but the world is just for you? im a moronic boomer so i cant wrap my head around this at all.
no.
there is many in towns and max 12 at worldbosses (never need to party anyone). and sometimes you will see 1 or 2 ppl in other world areas.
campaign and dungeons are solo/party-only
Okay so this game is not for you. And they will never change it to make it for you. Bye?
what if they kill all the creatures
respawns are fast and there is enough monsters
only guy wont steal all
and personal loot too
that really was no problem in last years beta
please tell me i'm not going to be in competition with bots camping/farming in D4
This is you
Bots? Best open world sources will be 24/7 camped by players, don't even worry about bots.
Each phasing(instance) will only have 12 players, so you'll only ever see 11 other players at once, and that's only if they are in the exact same area(EXTREMELY unlikely).
>was elder scrolls online) people were making all sorts of shit racket dualing or whatever they called it when all i wanted to do was comfy crafting
you mean duel pvp shit?
pvp is only in like 2 of the many areas
yeah people used to spam that shit in towns, this was years ago really fricking annoying. I haven't played since a year or two after the beta.
saw that in another game, sucks yeah.
there is no duels in d4 and as said, only pvp in 2 areas
>only pvp in 2 areas
any idea if there is loot for pvp?
there will be pvp cosmetics, they were not available in betas yet, so we dont know how they look
and gamble for gear, but same or less than the non-pvp gamble.
very unlikely.
they said they want to most of the open world feel desolated, empty, kinda post apocalyptic
Of course you have to see people in cosmetics bought in cash shop all the time and you need to keep doing stuff daily cause battle pass forces you to do so. This is how fun looks like these days
Meanwhile Genshin rakes in the billions. RIP
>Of course you have to see people in cosmetics bought in cash shop all the time
You dont.
>cause battle pass forces
just dont do if you dont want
How? Are you going to turn off always online mode? Frick off pajeet
>You can play the campaign, strongholds, fortresses, dungeons, etc. solo
read, african american
I don't give a frick about that you fricking Black person. I don't want to see other people in my single player game PERIOD. Frick off. I could play D1/2/3 without ever being forced to see another person. Frick this Black person shit and frick you for defending it.
Okay, but you will not see them "all the time"
> I could play D1/2/3 without ever being forced to see another person. Frick this Black person shit and frick you for defending it.
Then go and frick off to them?
>MTX EYESORE
>CAN'T DISABLE
>FPS LAGS YOUR GAME
oh man, this is going to be baaaaad
>FPS LAGS YOUR GAME
Blizzard always makes sure that their games can be played on 10 year old computers.
nobody cares about your autism sperglord, its not like you could pvp solo
I don't want to fricking pvp. I want to play a single player arpg by my fricking self or with RL friends ONLY.
>Okay, but you will not see them "all the time"
That doesn't mean shit. It's like saying if you don't take wieners up your ass all the time you're not a homosexual. Frick you homosexual.
then play solo you fricking moron
THERE IS NO SOLO IF THE GAME FORCES RANDOM Black folk IN YOUR TOWN AND WORLD
meds
>THERE IS NO SOLO I
just in towns, outside of them there will be events that you can participate
>you can play 10h of game alone or repeat some shit over and over again for 70$!
Don't you have some beach to shit on? I'll write a complaint to blizzard about their low effort shills, they should have hired Malaysians they can do better than that.
Sorry my them/they friend I've inner urge to shit on activision and their devastating impact on gaming industry.
Oh another one, can you stop shilling for a second and answer the phone I've a problem with my washing machine and no, tuning on and off did not work.
>or repeat some shit over and over again
that is about all arpgs ever. take meds pls
>D4 is forced multiplayer open-world garbage like Lost Ark
But lost ark is a completely different game - a generic asiaticshit mmo with locked camera
Which this is also going to be. They already confirmed MMO garbage like fricking player boosts.
what does "player boosts" mean?
like you can buy character levels or what?
either like wow where you just skip levels to like 50 or something
or there will be "xp potions"
>NOOOOOOOOOO, THEY CAN'T GET OUT 1 FREE XP BOOST THAT GIVES YOU +20% INCREASED XP GAINS ON ONE CHARACTER IN THE MIDDLE OF A SEASON SO YOU CAN EASILY LEVEL AN ALT
I haven't played D1/2 but I thought 3 was fun when I gave it a go sometime after RoS released and the player marketplace was removed. In fact I thought D3 was quite good, especially since I had very low expectations for it
same but some autists make franchises their whole identity so it's easy to see why they seethe if the next game isn't an exact clone of what they played originally.
Not that I expect them not to lie to the playerbase but as far as I saw in the closed beta there is no pay-2-win from the Season Pass. It's literally all cosmetic garbage. My big fear is they will undoubtedly add a system similar to the gems from Immortal and this will absolutely crater the playerbase. The game seems to be built around a couple of components that can be made p2w. Especially with how grindy the paragon system and gold costs are going to be. I hope people looking forward to playing the game love following meta guides/builds because the game in its current state punishes you for experimenting. The gold costs when you hit Paragon, which iirc is at level 50, increase exponentially. I managed to hit mid 80s before beta ended and it was costing me around 3 million gold to respec a character and that was only manageable because of an exploit in the game that let you sell imbues off legendaries for more than it costs to strip them from the items.
>>D4 is forced multiplayer open-world garbage like Lost Ark
The only thing differentiating old diablo with open-world diablo is loading screens. It's still corridor based.
Also it's not forced multiplayer. And Lost Ark was shit because it was asiaticed out the gills, not because of the multiplayer element.
Activision focused their paid shills on youtube and twitch. Not much here or reddit(probably 🙂) Look up D4 on youtube and you'll get a landslide of 5-15k subs channels saying it's a second comming of jesus. It's bit too obvious imo.
i'm tired of tortanic posters. with every fricking game the same thing. months of doom posting and then the game is fun and does well
Its fricking Nu-blizzard and this will be GAAS trash. You want us to be EXCITED for this shit?
I am. It will be a nice passtime.
How about you pass time not playing shitty games
I will tell you if the game will be shit after I try the beta
>buy the game to play the demo
Blizzard has had closer to a decade of nothing but shit.
It has been precisely 2 decades since their last good release. 21 if you don't count expansion packs.
the last decade of your life has been nothing but shit
t. haven't bought a blizzard game in 14 years
The only thing I can think positive about is that the core gameplay will probably be good, as well as art and sound. But everything else will probably suck.Classes and variation, itemization, any actual skill/talent/whatever customization. My guess is it will be a decent game that's deep as a puddle.
PoE suffers from the opposite thing, it has lots of customization, build variation and such. But the actual gameplay sucks ass and is not satisfying at all.
Because Current day blizzard.
The morons cant even copt paste a game from 18 years prior that they owned, while making the old one worse. Or we can see how much of a shitshow OW2, a glorified patch that made the game worse by literally killing it, turned out.
Pretty much everyone that made Blizzard good back in the day either left or were forced out by a bunch of worthless shitheads who'd rather spew political shit than actually make a good game. Very few competent people left there and they're probably stuck on maintenance duty for Hots and D3.
Blizzard has been dead to me for years, why should I care about their latest abortion?
>barebones build diversity with only basic b***h +attack and +defense stats
>convoluted paragon system that will inevitably be mathematically solved on icyveins and any deviation will result in a massive drop of effectiveness
>multiple editions that give in-game advantages so poor people can get fricked in the game as well as irl
>people paying to beta test the game and salivating at the chance to do so
>overemphasis on how dark and gritty it is, obviously overcorrecting for D3's complete lack of atmosphere.
>le heckin cute doggo cosmetic for paying to be a QA tester that totally clashes with said dark aesthetic
>battle pass for cosmetics, thereby creating a financial incentive to make in-game items look worse
>story will be cliche and unimportant, filled with slowly-spoken lines and empty platitudes
>clearly trying to avoid marketing it as an mmo when it is very obviously one and more in the vein of lost ark rather than D2 or PoE
>cross promotions with fast food
>no doubt the release will have stream drops on twitch
I have no doubt blizzard piggies will come slobbering back. The streamers will play since they have shares in Blizzard and the game will make millions. But since that announcement trailer it has little by little revealed itself to be an amalgamation of everything wrong with the video game industry. People will buy it in droves, but I will not be one of them. And I can be content with that.
I see Blizzard has cleared up that the Premium Seasonal Battle Pass actually comes with the Digital Deluxe edition, and that there aren't two tiers of Battle Pass.
Storywise. It's not really an interesting game because Lilith is basically a lesser demon compared to the Prime Evils.
Will they show what the battle pass contains during the beta weekends?
Is there even going to be one? I would assume we get a wipe every session of this next beta period.
Not sure whether they have it in the game files yet, or anything. I just hoped anyone would have read some news on it.
The beta will be wiped past this month.
> killing battlenet support for og d2 and shoving ads for new slop into it that break the game
it's like they actively hate their players
Everything we've seen makes it look like a simplified Diablo 3
for the beta?
isnt it like to only level 20?
you will literally swing your sword 10 times and get level 20, there will be 0 to do, no main story content, no adventure mode, no greater rifts, its just $30 deluxe bundle upgrade bait
wtf is this real? how did they train the cat to do that?
After Diablo Immoral, who would dare to get their hopes up? You'll be disappointed even if you expect it to be shit so being optimistic would just make it hurt more.
Diablo Immortal was made by Netease specifically to cater to Chinese tastes (they love P2W microtransactions because to them it’s a flex on poor people), there’s probably no overlap whatsoever between the people that worked on it and the team that was making D4 (since they were essentially concurrent)
No hype because:
>ARPG is a dead genre
>Blizzard has lost a lot of trust, good-will and loyal fans
>and loyal fans
If you think D4 isn't going to sell extremely well to soi faced 30+ year old blizzdrones that are allowed to play 1 hour every week if they beg their wife i have bad news for you
This year is literally the year when the most arpgs have their release or updates.
Doesn't change the fact that ARPG is a niche genre for autistic minmaxxing neckbeards.
I don't think ARPGs are a dead genre but I do think the people who play them only want a certain type. Simialr to people who play "MMOs" who only complain how its not like WoW.
>ARPG is a dead genre
I'm still absolutely into ARPG games.
Why the humans are so succumbed to political agenda of the day
>Wage slaving hours have increased
>People want to participate in society and do something good
>Armchair activism through virtue signaling is easy, gives good boy points in my communtiy and takes no effort
Everywhere, even here.
>That one old guy
>His face pure despair
>no game in collector's game edition
>70$ for game pay more for *p2w* advantage over players on release
>10$ battle pass
>every piece of content like dlc or character will be full priced
>premium currency with transmog(now) in cash shop then mounts, wings, level ups (like in Wow) and possibly auras too because why not, after a year expect full blown p2w diablo Immoral monetization system
>game made and simplified for console users
>trade limited to white trash
>smart loot for smart people who bought this garbage
>*revolutionary* systems stolen from other titles
>mmo part exists only for whales to show off with their ability to buy things in cash shop
>its like Lost Ark just without F2P part and censorship (your grim dark diablo setting is in fact game for teenagers 16+)
>ol' good number porn as in D3 with little to no depth and 1 meta build for each class (go go go you've to clear that nightmare dungeon 1 second faster than before!)
>made by pajeets, edited by Californian raging homosexuals
>story as deep & diverse as puddle of piss in New York city
>no diablo in diablo game (don't worry you will get xer/them in some dlc)
I just see no reason why people are not hyped for this piece of product, their product managers said clearly that its the best gaym ever and I do trust them.
>trade limited to white trash
That's the only good thing tho, trade is the single worst thing about ARPG's and ruined games like PoE
Diablo 2 is more alive than 3 and I'm sure D3 will never get *remaster*... Oh well nevermind it actually did, its called Diablo 4 for whatever reason (the money) also I don't care about PoE never did and never will.
Diablo 3 was one of the best selling games of all time
So just like cyberpunk... Yeah I get it, multi-billion corporations know how to make marketing for their products but in the end their products are garbage and at this point D2 is more popular than D3. Frick sake you even get free D4 beta code for burger...
>and at this point D2 is more popular than D3
No it's not, why are you making up baseless claims?
Yes it's, diablo 3 is dead.. There is no reason to play it in first place, season leaderboards? Oh please. Story? I did it 8 years ago. I mean its still okay to come back to do some rifts and leave again but seriously who would play this unsuppprted game for all of these years without pause.
>diablo 3 is dead
Season 28(last season before D4) literally had so many players that the servers couldn't handle it and there were 5-10 minute queues for every game creation.
this thread is full of Black folk that (rightly) just want to shit over blizzard
>limit your servers capacity to few thousands concurrent players
>send a word about huge update in dead game
>people go check it anyway because why not
>suddenly queues happen
>ZOMFG LOOK AT THEM PIPO PLAYIN NOW I BUY D4
K.
>no game in collector's game edition
Not an issue, you mentally ill freak who copies this drivel in all threads and fricking off again.
>Not an issue
the frick are you on about?
you want me to pay 100 for a CE
then another 70 for the fricking game?
frick morons like you
Why would you pay for video game merch crap that much anyway? The sole purpose to cut the game from it is due to four different platforms.
I won't. not even paying 70.
i'll wait till it shits the bed like D3 and buy a few copies to multi-box it for fun. think i paid like $12USD for D3.
Look at this broken blizz drone, look at it, point at it and laugh as loud as you can
Why do people make up stuff to get angry at?
>make up
Its literally what activision has shown us so far but yeah cash shop, paid battle passes, game mechanics copy pasted from other titles and presented by official Diablo 4 shills are indeed made up stories. Frick sake even through monitor I can smell curry on your fingers pajeet
If Nu Blizzard can release D2:R + salvage Diablo 3. I have a small amount of faith.
>+ salvage Diablo 3
?????
Yeah they made it into a good game like 6 years ago bro
>Yeah they made it into a good game like 6 years ago bro
>Enter rift
>2 min clear
>+5 mainstat
>Enter rift
>2 min clear
>+5 mainstat
>Enter rift
>2 min clear
>+5 mainstat
>7 hours later
>Enter rift
>2 min clear
>+5 mainstat
It's better than Path of Exile
who said anything about poe though
why are you projecting
its not
it's extreme copium
d3 was never redeemed
Think what you want, you probably like Elden Shit so frick off
i hate elden dung
ds2 is peak dsbourne
I launched d3 a qhile back. All the. Stuff that should have been in thr base game costs money
Cope paypig
Anyone else want Azmodan and Belial to come back?
does this look like "totally not wow, guys" as well?
Why would there be hype for anything coming out of Blizzard's butthole at this point?
Shittzard marketers are really desperate to shill the game here lately. While i dont really see anyone that hyped for it, im sure it will do great unfortunately. The amount of normies and blizzcucks who just dont give a frick is still large
i dont know how it looks like and i dont want to know
i am not even giving them the benefit of the doubt in this case, blizzard is shit and the old blizzard is gone
Thanks for bumping the thread and generating traffic.
nice selfie bro
what they announced so far isnt anything but derivative.
>nightmare dungeons = mythic plus
>overworld = diablo immortal
>world bosses and world quests = WoW
>renown = WoW
>fortresses = wow phasing
>avoiding all difficult questions in Q and As
>Desperate marketing tactics tweeting at celebs and partnering with chicken restaurants
It literally looks like modded D3 conbined with immortal assets.
>Virile Handwraps of Fornication
>+233 MAIN STAT POWER
>+99 LIFE
>Doeskin Pussy Mitts
>+233 DEFENSE
>+99 DAMAGE
>1% chance to beguile enemies
Hmmm, what to pick I wonder... Diablo 4 has so many tough gearing decisions...
>Legendary Drops
>The Fist of Soi
>+30% damage to enemies that are moronic
Wow amazing
You just know this shitter is also a
>+1 to light radius
poster.
Legitimately can't win.
It makes me remember the days when fanboys and Blizzard themselves vehemently claimed that the aquisition from Activision wasn't gonna affect anything, and then I get sad.
There is hype but it's on the down low. Everyone wants to express hype and actually live the hype because it's a new Diablo but... it's also new Blizzard.
It's a collective "don't want to get my hopes up" or "I don't want to jinx it".
>new Blizzard
alone is enough to make any sane person abandon all hope
I havent played any diablo properly but got early access from network provider
Neat. Try it out. See if you like it.
DO NOT REDEEM! Activate key by sending it to Techman99@indaonline
nice selfie bro
anyone know if you can spec druid without transformations in D4? I didn't play much D2 but I liked that you could spec him into fire and elemental stuff and ignore the furry shit
You can for sure. Now whether or not it's good, that's an entirely different thing.
The game looks pretty mid tbh, but so did all promotional footage of every arpg ever
Still playing the beta tomorrow.
i liked d3 so im pretty hype
don know why people hated it so much it was way better than 2
>i liked d3 so im pretty hype
This is why AAA games suck
I'm preordering this game because of this post so you know that I get what I want and you do not and it's going to stay that way.
Amateur, I Pre-ordered 10 copies for uncle bobby, he needs badly a new yacht and teenage female assistant to groom.
They do not but California hates white people so pandering to Black folks seems like the only option left for them (after Chinxit asians are no longer part of diveristy)
>I get what I want and you do not
As long as you can control one part of your life anon
Frick sake I just realised I'm not even target audience for this garbage
>promotion in KFC
>smart, brave and powerful Black folks in every possible trailer
>Black folks in every possible gameplay
>ma'amed or effeminate male whites
>females are literally self inserted *blizzard artists* so modern blue haired activists may feel better about themselves
This shit is just another attempt to breed Black folks with white hags, I hate america so much its unreal.
There is 100% going to be gay/troony propaganda in the game too. Apart of modern Blizz mandate.
>promotion in KFC
Still can't get over that. Do Black folk even care about Diablo?
Should I consoom the goyslop? Considering it, just to try, even if it's shit, nothing else to play
As long as p2w is only cosmetics idgaf
You can just try out the open beta next weekend.
Yeah but if I consoom now I can play this weekend
Arpg with some open world elements
You are missing the hype unironically
D3 engine was really good from what I remember on release, art style shit but it was good to play idk, early
Who sez u can't have both
>D3 engine was really good from what I remember on release, art style shit but it was good to play idk, early
Engine might be ok, but the way the game feels has nothing to do with previous diablo games.
>Literally the best feeling ARPG of all time
LMAO KYS
Oh yeah I forget it's like 3 more months since it releases I though this beta was close to release
Kinda sucks
Mighty just play the open free beta then
Idk I can't make up my mind aahhhhh
If you hate yourself then yes, consume it but in my place for 70$ I'd have a *college student* with model's body riding on my wiener for at least 2 hours
yeeees?
no. pirate. always pirate
>Diablo IV
isn't it just D3 with washed out colors and pozzed character designs?
AAA games only suck for you because you are a joyless contrarian homosexual with no soul.
>no soul
>pays for shitty corporate products designed only to make money
Kys
>>pays for shitty corporate products designed only to make money
Welcome to modern gaming where every game is a glorified money laundry.
>Standard
>Not deluxe
You dont wanna consoom the 4 day early access? Literally unironically worth goyslopping for
I'm not an idiot, anon.
This blizzdrone got really triggered KEK
Jokes on you, I'm not even going to install it.
I don't get this game, is it suppose to be some kind of MMORPG hybrid?
Sort of, but not really. You'll only ever see 12 people on your screen at once in the open world, and new people are constantly phasing in/out depending on the areas you are in. Cities might be more, sort of like PoE, but they haven't fully clarified.
Blizzdrones will eat up any shit
It has the core gameplay of D3 with even more microtransactions.
D3 feels like arse
>D3 feels like arse
Literally the best feeling ARPG of all time. There's tons of problems with D3, but the gameplay feel is one thing they completely nailed.
All modern aRPGs feel the exact same. You press button and all monsters around you explode. Wow, riverting gameplay experience. Diablo 2 will always and forever be known as the peak of this genre and D3 will always be known as the moment where the genre went to shit. The whole reason why PoE became so successful in the first place is because D3 was such a huge disappointment for so many players.
Go ahead and name any ARPG that has better animations, sound effects, VFX, etc. than D3. Like I said, there's 100 things to complain about with D3, but the feeling of the combat is straight up 10/10.
D3 loses to fricking Lost Ark precisely because it went the path of overblown animations
>Lost Ark
You have got to be kidding. LA has tons of animations locks and some classes just feel completely sluggish.
So you're just too stupid to understand what I am even trying to talk about. You're talking about the overall gameplay loop, while I am trying to talk about just the combat itself.
Yes, but in terms of *shiny bling bling* they are vastly superior.
The weightless combat is there for both, but LA will win over the brainlets seeking shiny.
blizzcope
Combat itself is one big flashy rainbow crossing your monitor from left to right with hundreds of different sounds blending into one buzzing sound that is unbearable after few minutes of playing. I literally had to play this garbage mutted. Oh and everything explodes at the end. As I told you its 10/10 mobile game experience
>clear that rift within 15 minutes or else no loot
>no need to press any button, everything explodes as you pass by
You are right, I kneel, this is truly 10/10 Xbox combat experience I always wanted and needed, no other game could ever match this pure perfection.
I genuinely prefer how D2 feels. Yes, the game is a bit of a slow burn and especially during normal difficulty, your character feels very week and awkward when compared to modern aRPGs. But once you get into nightmare and your build falls into place, the gameplay just feels better to me. Maybe it's exactly because you start out so shitty and weak in D2, whereis in D3, enemies viscerally explode with each step you take from level 1.
Alright, your explanation is actually one that I can agree with. I still personally prefer D3, but I think you're making some good points and can see why someone would prefer D2 overall.
>Only 5 classes, 4 of them magic ranged
>Only 3 face presets
>Combat is button mashing to appeal to the mobile audience
>Content updates will be locked behind paid DLC
not interested
Have you missed the keybegging and keysites selling a fricking 3-day beta for a premium due to demand?
>Have you missed the keybegging and keysites selling a fricking 3-day beta for a premium due to demand?
I'm not a third worlder, so how should I know about this?
I already played Diablo 3 - why would I play the same game but with a 4 instead?
Because there is gameplay attached to cash shop you silly
I already played Diablo 2, why would I waste my time on Diablo 3?
Exactly!
Because this time there will actually be a handful of different endgame things to do, rather than just running GRs 24/7. Not to mention that every new season, every 3 months, will introduce 1-2 big gameplay changes ala PoE.
The problem with D4 is it has to compete with POE, which is the ADD/ADHD epitome game of flashing colours, fast paced gameplay and no reading required
I genuinely think ARPG's have aged out of style and fashion just like turn based shit
>and no reading required
PoE requires tons of reading. D4 will be the "no reading required" option.
>PoE requires tons of reading
Might just be you being autistic, ive never seen a single person read in that game, every piece of text is immediately skipped
Every build in PoE requires you to either read for 60 minutes or watch a 30 minute video. Every season also requires you to read up on how things function. You also need to understand what to pick up and what to save in PoE.
I just look at what items and skills I need for my build and just go lmao. it aint that deep of a game anon
i just turned the game off when i opened the talent tree
>The problem with D4 is it has to compete with POE
nah
D4 is pandering to the most illiterate part of American society so I'm not expecting much reading here but what do I expect is npcs yelling proudly *Black Lives Matter* and fast paced full of flashy explosions grinding simulator
>just like turn based shit
Pokemon has been one of the most popular franchises ever and it's been turn based since the start. What a fricking stupid thing to say.
I understand being moronic is difficult but sometimes you need to just not post on my image board
Then why'd you make a post so idiotic I felt the need to reply?
poe is going to get it's arsehole blown out for at least 1-2years or however long it takes the D4 honeymoon to wear off. there will be a massive twitch campaign and streamer exodus.
no need to screencap this.
sir this is a D4 thread
D4 is going to make Chris Wilson regret ever firing that kid from his streaming job for calling him an overweight hairless dumb guy
Who is that?
You sound more obsessed about him than D4.
he is a cute canadian
path of maath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJXG64TAIec
I meant the other guy and what does he have to do with D4
You're talking to a gay. From a distance you're both just gay and trying to frick and see his poop.
ohhh my bad
the other guy(Chris Wilson-POE dev) is Jay Wilson's(D3 dev) brother
They're not actually brothers.
Can't imagine anyone enjoying path of exile after having played diablo 4. The depth might be great in PoE, but the actual gameplay is horrible and not worth putting up with it, and then the clunky side in addition.
If most people chose PoE over D3, why wouldn't they choose it over D4 as well? I don't play PoE, so I have no horse in this race, but it seems logical to me that everyone who plays PoE over D3 will continue to do so, as D4 just seems to be a higher fidelity, pseudo open world version of D3.
>If most people chose PoE over D3
D3 sold +30 million copies. It's one of the most sold video games of all time.
yeah, but more people are playing PoE than D3 right now. I don't doubt that D4 will be successful short term, I just don't see it beating PoE in the long run once the hype died down after a month or 2 and I just don't see a big chunk of the PoE playerbase abandoning the game for D4 long term.
They have said that they are gonna run D4 like PoE though. Every 3 months there will be a new season with 1 big gameplay change, a new area/zone, new legendaries, new story, new sidequests, new cosmetics, new achievements, etc.
People will keep coming back for new seasons, like they do with PoE.
So I have to constantly make new characters?
Most likely, yes. Clean economy meme and yadda yadda.
If you want to play the actual seasons, yeah.
Because d3 doesn't get new content which d4 will
Isn't the expansion's attach rate really low?
Pretty sure D3 soured a lot of the fanbase,so although it will likely do pretty well sales-wise, its playerbase won't hold up.
Times have changed. Back then D3 didn't deliver what people wanted, a direct successor to Diablo 2 that balances depth and combat. That position was held by PoE for quite some time now, but they never really added up on the actual gameplay. You might want to go back to PoE for the depth in the future over D4, but the combat, is ass for many build archetypes. Melee is non-existent, then add deleted play styles to the list, clunky and unnecessary busy work. It's an overall aggravating experience compared to other entries in the genre.
melee doesn't seem to be very satisfying in D4 either though. Both PoE and D3 (and subsequently D4) are designed around magic builds that clear out entire screens with their skill. So naturally, if any melee build wants to keep up with that and not be a complete waste of space, they also need screen-clearing AoE, which basically just makes them magic builds with weapons. One of my favorite D2 melee archetypes was always the fanazealot, but that sort of playstyle is unfortunately no longer possible in modern aRPGs. Hell, it's not even really viable in D2 anymore.
>attack
>defense
Garbage
That would be a good thing. That would mean that those who do play it have a cozy secrit club of sorts while Blizzard will have to work hard to make the game good enough to have its popularity spread by word of mouth.
I don't expect Diablo will ever be as good as 1&2 today though. Blizzard is pure tendies these days. Still, smashing through hoards or monsters like a braindead moron for glowing loot drops is always fun.
Don't care, D2 is still the best one.
Are people supposed to be excited for Diablo 3.5?
it looks like a good game at its core but all the microtransaction and season pass bullshit is ruining it for me
>all the microtransaction and season pass bullshit is ruining it for me
all cosmetics
>wander around in mmo part of game
>suddenly white wings of tyrael appear
>then Golden aura
>then character with gear you have never seen before on mount you have never seen before
>its right there taking most of space on your monitor
>just cosmetics bro
>suddenly. blizzard added damage/xp boosters, loot boxes and mounts with extra bullshit because community asked for it.
read their blogpost about cosmetics and then come back
they will mantain their promise? who knows, probably no
>activision
>promises
Lol, lmao, give them a while they'll figure out how to tie cosmetics to what is commonly known as p2w without calling it p2w, Jesus christ these people made diablo Immortal
>It's bad because...well they'll make it bad one day trust me
lol
cash shop cosmetics ARE bad for this type of game. I hate the fact that in the starting zone there will be lvl 2 characters running around that look like destroyer of worlds with giant shoulderpads, glowy demon eyes and angel wings coming out their ass. In D2, it was really nice how grounded the items looked and although many items shared the same model, you could actually start making out what a high lvl character was most likely wearing just by looking at them.
Alright, so lets summarize it. I should believe a product manager (not even developer) who works in company which destroyed every IP belonging to former blizzard, a company which added monetization system from Korean *f2p* games to D4 and added a price of 70$ to it, a company which made diablo Immortal. Should I believe in their honest intentions, what do you think street shitter, should I?
>a company which made diablo Immortal
You mean a company that employed no talent chinks to clone immortal from a ku kung panda mobile game because said company has zero regard for quality.
A company which profited on mobile game they advertised on their own BlizzConn as something completely ground breaking... Yeah its this company
>Jesus christ these people made diablo Immortal
it was made by netease
>suddenly. blizzard added damage/xp boosters, loot boxes and mounts with extra bullshit because community asked for it
The cum guzzlers that still buy Blizzard games probably would do that
there shouldn't be day 1 cosmetic microtransactions in a $70 game
There likely won't be. Because the servers will be crashing day 1 and they will turn off the cash shop until everything is stable.
>they will turn off the cash shop
They did that for OW. It wasn't worth the hassle getting 1 million support tickets about people's cards having money withdrawn, but no skins received.
this game is set to make billions more than their shooter
>they will turn off the cash shop
>they will turn off the cash shop
I agree, but unfortunately it's the norm now (look at RE4 costumes)
yeah wake me up when I can turn compulsive multiplayer off and remove all microtransactions from the UI
>when I can turn compulsive multiplayer off
They said a while ago that this would be possible, but I don't know what ever came of that. You'd still be online and on the same servers, you just wouldn't see other players.
good. now all that's left is for the game not to pester me with notifications and splash pages asking me to pay 9.99$.
I just want to chill and have a grim diablo adventure, not feel like I'm playing a god damn blizzard e-sport
>They said a while ago that this would be possible, but I don't know what ever came of that. You'd still be online and on the same servers, you just wouldn't see other players.
No, cant turn other players off. But besides towns and worldbosses you will not see many.
> notifications and splash pages asking me to pay 9.99$.
not a thing
>not a thing
see
bnet does not spam me nowadays. and D4 ingame was clean on that shit
but sure, dont buy if you dont want
Ooh, can't have that. It's no good for engagement! The psychologists we employ say you need to be ENGAGED and JEALOUS so you spend even more money after having paid $70 for a game and $10 for each battlepass season!
Free beta in a couple of days that I will play, I'm not hyped though since I dislike almost all modern games, but I hope it will be fun.
No one expects anything from blizzard anymore. Horrible company
Looks like it could be a fun middleground between diablo 2 and 3. The previews have been strong. Shame regardless of its quality it'll be fricked by microtransactions, so nobody should be hyped.
Microtransactions are the reason it will get actual updates moron
Diablo chinkchong edition alone is pretty good but the leveling and items were fricked to make way for microtransactions. And the game made billions. D4 is going to be the same shit.
>D4 is going to be the same shit
It's not though. Are you unaware that people have played through the game already, and have said that it's not like Diablo Immortal in terms of any kind of progression, monetization, etc.?
>Are you unaware that people have played through the game already
Are you unaware that the preview builds didn't include the microtransations?
So you're fully convinced that right before they launch the game, they are gonna implement microtransactions that go against everything they have said and done for the last couple of years?
Come on, you're borderline schizo if you are genuinely convinced of this.
>So you're fully convinced that right before they launch the game, they are gonna implement microtransactions
Yes because that is what they are doing you moronic shill.
>costumes
problem?
no, the ingame armors do not look bad
>Yes because that is what they are doing you moronic shill.
You are the moron here. You were claiming that they would implement progression microtransactions like Diablo Immortal, which is not happening.
>which is not happening
there will be a discord/reddit campaign WITH POLLS to get that implemented
>which is not happening.
>dude sure blizzard just released a diablo game choked full of microtransations that made them billions of dollars but they said they won't do it again
>you can trust them!
Not preordering, shill.
They will already make tons of money from cosmetics. There will be armor sets, mounts, mount armors, teleport VFX, wings, footstep VFX, emotes, borders, UI packs, pets, etc. etc. along with expansion packs and a new battle pass every 3rd month.
I can say with 99.99% certainty that there won't be any kind of pay2win or pay2progress or pay4convenience. They will already make so much fricking money from everything else mentioned above.
>They will already make so much fricking money from everything else mentioned above
never underestimate the other guys greed
>They will already make so much fricking money from everything else mentioned above.
>they won't do it because they already will make lots of money off this thing
>they won't want to make more
>same company that released diablo immortal
>same company that sells gold in wow
>same company that sells boosts in classic wow
>same company that added a map to Overwatch and called it Overwatch 2
Blizzdrones are the absolute worst.
why do they have a paid battle pass if it's only cosmetics you can get from the shop?
so you can get that other currency
The premium battle pass only has cosmetics that you can only get at certain times. It's based on FOMO. The cash shop is there to cycle through the cosmetics that people missed from the premium battle pass. If you missed something, it might appear in the shop like 12 months later.
>The best-looking cosmetics aren’t exclusive to the Shop. Diablo IV will ship with hundreds of transmogs unlockable from drops in-game, including dozens of armor sets of the highest visual quality. There are incredible pieces—Unique and Legendary quality items—for players to find without ever going to the Shop. The Shop offers more diversity of choices, not systematically better choices.
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23816415/diablo-iv-quarterly-update-august-2022#Journey
>They will already make so much fricking money
>CEO of company
>Well we made enough money time to stop making more money
It's established practice in the industry. GT7 won lavish praise from critics prior to release, then Sony/Polyphony flipped the switch and turned it into grind hell that you could bypass by buying in-game currency :^)
The game will be 70 fricking dollars and Actiblizz is a billion dollar company. If they cared they would update the game for free, like any good studio.
>If they cared they would update the game for free, like any good studio.
such as? genuine question
Like any fricking studio that is not ACTIVISION fricking Blizzard jesus
give me an example. I can only think deep rock galactic does such thing, but they still sell you some dlc
Blizzard back in the early 00s.
>D2 had a paid expansion
>SC had a paid expansion
>WC2 & 3 had a paid expansion
want to try again moron?
yes and? Paid expansions are great. you pay for new content. But all of those games were still getting frequent updates outside of the expansion releases. Obviously no big content updates, but D4 won't be getting those either.
>But all of those games were still getting frequent updates outside of the expansion releases.
bug fixes arent remotely comparable to content updates you lying israelite
>D4 won't be getting those either
nice headcanon
why do you need constant updates in the first place for this type of game? It costs them nothing to release new seasons every couple of months and they are already doing that for free in D3 and D2. Other than that, I'd be perfectly happy with just the occasional bug and balance fixes and then maybe every 2 years down the line a big expansion with new content.
Maybe the point is that they don't want to release big expansions every 1/2 years, but they want the game be funded by people buying those cosmetics.
but you likely won't be seeing any major content updates outside of big expansions anyway. I mean, just look at WoW and how little content is added between expansions these days, despite the fact that the playerbase pays full boxed price each expansion, a subscription fee AND pays for cosmetics, mounts and convenience on he cash shop. The money players spend on microtransactions never gets reinvested into making the game better.
>but you likely won't be seeing any major content updates outside of big expansions anyway
They have said that every season, every 3rd month, there will be big content patches. The whole reason why the game will be full of cosmetics is to fund this.
Haven't ABK got enough frick you money that they don't need to do that?
>I mean, just look at WoW and how little content is added between expansions these days
you mean way more than ever in the past?
Yeah good example moron
Why dont you count how many new zones were added in Wrath versus how many were added in modern expacs
>it'll be fricked by microtransactions
Who cares about microtransactions? I will be running around as a naked Barb.
>Looks like it could be a fun middleground between diablo 2 and 3
Just play Last Epoch for that.
You mean that game that is neither as smooth as diablo 3 or as deep as path of exile, titans quest or grim dawn? You mean that game in early access, that game that has a cash shop ready to go? That game? No thanks.
>or as deep as path of exile
Path of exile is not "deep". It's just convoluted for the sake of it and has system and mechanic creep.
My friends are trying to push me to play d4 with them but I hate the idea of giving any money to blizzard.
Have a good time with your friends.
When they stop playing it in two weeks, you stop too.
Then you can come back in a year or two when the game is actually decent (if it turns out decent) and enjoy it again.
play coy, if they are real friends they WILL buy it for you.
It has a 3-day free beta so you can try it. I really don't want to give them money either but if the game is actually good I will.
Is it really so hard to have games that can be played offline nowadays?
Dont care, gonna enjoy it while Ganker/ seethes.
I'm just happy it's already dabbing on PoE. RIP GGG
Blizzdrones before
>I will buy giant boxes with books and extras for every blizzard game
>I will tolerate a 60$ game with a subscription model
>I will tolerate the removal of LAN play
>I will tolerate a 60$ game with an auction house for real world money
Blizzdrones today
>I will tolerate an impossible to grind without paying phone game
>I will tolerate a 70-90$ game with day 1 microtransactions, paid early access and game boxes that do not even include a disk of the game
You have adopted all the features of a chinese bugmen. You are the cattle that is ushering in the age of pay for everything in gaming.
You were the pioneers of the subscription model.
Now you are the pioneers of the 70$+ microtransaction game model.
You will eat any and every shit that comes your way.
You are normies.
I make 150 dollars an hour, why should I care about a 70 dollar price tag? I just want to play a new game.
Fine mister 150$/hour you can buy me a game but I want deluxe version, you know I don't wanna play with poor plebs. Ohh and collector's edition would be great too. Its good to have such a good friends in anonymous anime porn site, geez I'm so lucky.
Once the crisis hits properly, you won't be making 150$
>being advertised as a console game
made me lose any interest i had for it tbh
I played Diablo 1 the first day it came out and I had every diablo product on release day
For me it's the battle pass stuff-- I have to spend maybe 10-12 minutes doing the commissions in genshin impact per day and it's excruciating already. Can't imagine having two things I have to do daily
Also since games are becoming less entertainment and more a place that you spend time-- I don't want to spend time in hell when I could spend it with beautiful anime girls in a beautiful world. I'm tired of the dark
The game will make money because Blizzdrones are Blizzdrones.
>forced multiplayer
>lone wander against demon vibe completely gone
>shitlickerxxx34 running around town
>BRs and gold sellers spamming the chat that you can't disable
Pass.
>BRs and gold sellers spamming the chat that you can't disable
We can disable chats
>70€ for the standard version during a worldwide crysis
gee, i wonder why no one cares
>crysis
english is the prostitute of languages, who cares about a typo in this shit basic ass language
Without Uelmen it's already guaranteed minimum soul.
>ALWAYS online
>ALWAYS sharing a server
>Forced into their MMO-lite where you HAVE to play with other shitty homosexuals.
>Forced into encounters where you have to partake in shitty world boss events to compete for good loot that YOU HAVE TO DICE ROLL FOR WITH OTHER PLAYERS.
>An even MORE streamlined equipment system that sums up to damage and defense.
>And holy fricking shit is this game going to be milked to the last smidgen drink possible, Blizzard is going to be the biggest pieces of shits with this game and act like absolute carrions, and blizzdrones are going to learn NOTHING.
Holy fricking shit, how fricking moronic must you be to buy this shit. This is just going to be Diablo Immortal with a hilarity inducing price-tag robbing you of 90 dollars.
>YOU HAVE TO DICE ROLL FOR WITH OTHER PLAYERS
wait, what in the frick?
source is his ass
everyone gets their own loot
you homosexuals probably never meet
I'm not sure what that guy is talking about. They have stated that D4 has personal loot and smart loot, just like how Diablo 3 functioned.
No one is forcing you to play with others. You can ignore them entirely.
I don't want to see your shitty troon in my game.
>where you HAVE to play with other shitty homosexuals.
you dont
>world boss events to compete for good loot that YOU HAVE TO DICE ROLL FOR WITH OTHER PLAYERS.
you dont
>that sums up to damage and defense.
there is dozens of detailed stats
y u so mad, boi
I like to shitpost to things I don't know
truly anyone buying this is fully moronic
>lying to defend blizzard
cattle
>defend blizzard
explain how i did that, please
>lying
i did not
You're no different than twitter weirdos bullying people for buying hogwarts. Seek help schizo
I like to see other players going about their thing and hate joining lobbies. MMO-lite isn't so bad.
>Why is no one talking about Diablo on Ganker, when the majority of Ganker absolutely hates, fumes and seethes at the mere mention of Blizzard?
>popular
Nice twitter meme but how can you know someone hates popular things from a single anonymous shitpost on mongolian basketweaving forum
>why do you like popular thing
>I don't know, I haven't found a 2 hour yt video telling me what to think yet
I can't believe there are people here who are going to buy this.
Ganker is the biggest moron and hypocrite board on this website.
It will make a ton of money. Blizz fans are battered housewives and it's a popular brand name on a console.
AAA vidya really went to shit. We should have gatekept harder.
D2 sucked ass you coping boomer moron
frick off
Go use your mommys creddit card on Blizzards latest gacha trash game you cum guzzling moron zoomer
game sounds frickin sick i didnt know there was a world
>freebies are for WOW,Diablo 3 and diablo immortal
>70 fricking dollars
might as well have given us a foil wrapped turd at this point
That's just the late start edition for poor people, anon. Standart edition costs 90.
SOURCE???
frick off moron
Learn to use Ganker you imbecile. We have built in imagesearch.
>Zero Hype
I'm hyped as I've ever been.
I've already built my shrine to Lilith (I'm not a satanist).
nice!
>(I'm not a satanist).
I laughed
>I'm not a satanist
I think that shrine is easily the most satanic thing I've ever seen, though.
>$800 leather bound Bible
Why would you put such a holy relic next to Lilith?
I'm hyped as far as my sour ass 36 yo brain can get. I already paid 99+taxes+tips for the ULTIMATE KEK edition, but I'm still cautiously waiting for the game to be really excited. I hated Diablo 3 when it came out, but I even build a new PC back then for it. In the end, I played the shit out of Diablo 3 on consoles ten years later and loved it on its own merits. I'm hoping I get at least something similar.
>I already paid 99
>but I'm still cautiously waiting for the game
Jesus fricking christ blizzdrones are some of the most brain damaged people on earth
I play fortnite an I'm re-playing borderlands right now, my taste sucks.
meds, now
this is horrible, but if the figure is the one in the satanic anon altar it looks fine.
>fortnite audience
Yep these are the people willing to buy trash like diablo 4
Diablo 4 has all of like 2 colors on the screen at a time. It's for mature adults.
the less, the better
you wouldn't understand
Mature adults would understand that giving money to ACTIVISION "Blizzard" for a GAAS is absolutely moronic
totally, I'm ready for some sweet FOMO
Haha so true fellow Diablo gamer!! Maybe if Tyrone hears about my refined gaming taste and loyalty to such a iconic franchise like Diablo, maybe he'll let me frick my wife for once!
This is how you shill for the product! Look at him/xer/they/them pajeets, he/xe/they/them is truly the best of you
did you buy the game though?
Four times, for me and my mates. So yes.
>I already paid 99+taxes+tips for the ULTIMATE KEK edition
>NO GAME INCLUDED
bro?
why the FRICK would you pre-order a game in fricking 2023????????? you are 36 years old for fricks sake you should know better by now.
>Stop buying the game, it's too expensive and blizzard should fail. Only my f2p garbage is supposed to stay on top!!! HELP ME
It's over zoom zooms. I'll be playing it with my controller plugged in on my desktop.
Holy fricking based and same but I’m waiting for the DLC first 😉
They should just add a subscription fee on top of the microtransactions.
Just to make sure you can spend more money.
it's because it has 3 battlepasses and a dozen ingame currencies with a cash shop on top of a 70 dollars pricetag (but actually it's 90 if you want to play day 1 instead of waiting for 4 days)
>3 battlepasses
>a dozen ingame currencies
Why even lie like this? There's so many valid things you can complain about, but instead you choose to lie and make yourself look stupid.
it's not a lie moronbro
There is one battlepass split into 2 paths, one free, one payed. not
>3
there are 3 game currencies, not
>a dozen
Lol, lmao imagine being 3rd world blizzard contract employee and defend this piece of shit online, frick I'd rather open an onlyfans account at this point
>Lol, lmao imagine being 3rd world blizzard contract employee and defend this piece of shit online,
Yeah, sounds crazy, who would do that
I calculated roughly 100k d3 players on EU servers on 3rd day, this is just for public games
(thousands of bounty lobbies + other stuff)
100~k not counting how many were solo and not counting other regions
BUT eu servers were always the worst ones (stability and Q times, presumably due to amount of players) so its fair to say other regions had much lower playerbase
still, impressive numbers. d4 will have millions concurrent during the first week.
>every blizzBlack person in thread talking about how it will be good in 2-3 years
>multiple posts with screenshots shwoing their receipts
>constantly telling every anon they are wrong and hyping each other up
Blizz Black folk are the trannies of the video game drones, they come here and post about eating shit and how it's not shit and how we should all eat shit with them and when everybody tells them to frick off because they are filthy disgusting freaks they jerk off to it because thats all the measly attention they get. It's going to be amusing watching Dogshit 4 crash and burn when microsoft manages to finish it's purchase and stops all production on further content with all the beaurocratic bullshit that you would have paid 50$ for.
>It's going to be amusing watching Dogshit 4 crash and burn when microsoft manages to finish it's purchase and stops all production on further content with all the beaurocratic bullshit that you would have paid 50$ for.
You have an IQ of 80.
Stay mad gays, i wouldnt even rape it.
You can try it out in a week. Paypigs even this weekend. I don't see the issue. Either you'll like it and buy, or hate it and pay nothing.
>Spend $100 on the Ultimate Edition.
>I-It doesn't even come with the game.
What the frick?
I mean it's only another 70 euros, why not treat yourself?
It does. Stop lying
> Collector’s Box
does not, but who frick cares about the stuff in that box
>It does. Stop lying
post proof?
everywhere i see, it does not.
>Ultimate Edition.
>I-It doesn't even come with the game.
https://eu.shop.battle.net/en-gb/product/diablo-iv
is that for PC or lmao console?
PC
but probably same for consoles. i dont give a shit about consoles
consolegays have to pay extra for PS-online or some shit. frick em all
it's a code for the game, isn't it?
Both but its shitty port from console to pc so what did you expect, console games were always more expensive and that is a good thing (for bobby) , at this point they just should turn diablo into another dark shit with 2 skills 1 roll button and 1 button for drinking with 30 reskinned bosses and call it a day. People would still buy it.
15$ a month so you can play your Diablo 4 always online game. Rofl lmao.
He is but I like idea of tier 3 game pass being unlocked on ultimate version only.. Oh and emote to show that you are superior to others for 10 fricking $
>He is but I like idea of tier 3 game pass being unlocked on ultimate version only.. Oh and emote to show that you are superior to others for 10 fricking $
>Accelerated Seasonal Battle Pass Unlock
is just the same Premium Seasonal Battle Pass unlocked and then 20 Tier are already unlocked
>emote
heh yes, kinda silly
but i have cash leftover recently, so whatever
i think hes confusing it with the collectors box
yes, anti-shill has lost his mind
I heard its a code on consoles, dont rly know.
On pc you just buy it in the bnet store like a normal human.
>yes, anti-shill has lost his mind
Yeah true collectors boxes not having the game makes sense.
different things, moron. take meds
okay, have fun bro. i'll play it again soon
>collectors boxes not having the game makes sense
It actually does. You're meant to pair the Collector's Box with whatever game edition you want.
>On pc you just buy it in the bnet store like a normal human
i'll wait and buy a heavily discounted code from one of those key sites with an added discount from some streamer's sponsor.
Every person i know that is into arpgs has 0 hype for it. Most will still try it, but its kind of a morbid curiosity kind of thing.
We know its going to be ok. But yea, I doubt it will be the same hit D3 was (sales wise).
>americans wakes up
>thread turns to shit
Its all just streamer and content creator fluffs. Blizzard Activision titles always generates clicks, and views. Most of it is negative.
>$70
>battlepass
>cosmetics shop
they literally put fortnite in diablo. that's it. if you defend this, you're a piece of shit. period.
this is ignoring the reveals showing the embarrassing itemization and the general feeling that no one working on the game knows that the frick they're doing outside of the monetization team.
i dont mind cosmetics,
and ill wait and see until the battle pass is explained.
COD has the best battle pass system because its very f2p friendly and gives you back more currency than you spent to get the pass.
if they do that for diablo its fine, i think they made overwatch 2's battle pass similar to that as well
FOMO fans are disgusting. I'm not playing games for second job experience
I like to see bars go up
I do not doubt in that.. I do not doubt.
its not about fomo its about how f2p and accessible it is, if its a paywalled battle pass every season its gonna be exponentially expensive game that requires you to buy in every 8 weeks for 10 to 20 dollars
COD gives you back all the cod points you use to buy the pass each time which is the point im making
>that requires you to buy in every 8 weeks for 10 to 20 dollars
Or you could just ignore the paid battle pass entirely, because it's only cosmetics.
yeah just ignore the only live content the game has for years. what are you gonna do? play it like a singleplayer game, for 70 dollars, then uninstall after you beat the final boss? lol
>just ignore the only live content the game has for years
Are you moronic? They are doing PoE-style big patches for every season, every 3 months. 1 new big gameplay mechanic, 1 new area/zone, new main storyline, new sidequests, new legendaries, new achievements, etc.
Do you haters even know ANYTHING about the game, or are you just spouting absolutely moronic shit from your empty skulls?
>Or you could just ignore the paid battle pass entirely, because it's only cosmetics.
The game is $70.
>ignore the only reason people play ricing simulators in the first place
>people play ARPGs to play dress-up
Are you fricking moronic? The genre has existed for +20 years because people want to see numbers go up, NOT because they want to dress up.
I want a feast for my eyes AND my brain.
>its about how f2p
This video game is $70.
Also the "you can make your money back" is a way for devs to game you into playing the game longer you want to. It's somehow even worse when it isn't an option, but they're hardly being your friend by including it.
your like an autistic person trying to explain to me common sense
other games dont even give you the option to get your cash shop currency back after purchasing a battle pass
American education.
your the one sperging like an autistic homosexual, not me shrug
>he doesn't work from home
I'm sorry for your loss, anon
>he is getting replaced by either pajeet or ai
Well, sucking wieners also makes money I guess?
>COD has the best battle pass system because its very f2p friendly and gives you back more currency than you spent to get the pass.
>if they do that for diablo its fine
These games are $70
>free to play friendly
COD is not "free to play" moron
>almost no material on the game 1 day before open beta starts
>cash shop battle pass in a 70 (seventy) dollar game
NOOOOOOOOOO thank you sirs.
>almost no material on the game
What does this even mean?
Action rpgs have come a long way from this garbage, zoomers hate top down shit, is it really shocking the hype is dead?
there's genuinely nothing whatsoever to indicate that it would be better than any of its predecessors or competitors
You're just objectively wrong in every way possible. If what you were saying was true, then literally not a single person would buy the game. Try to think before you spout your dumbass opinions as fact.
plenty of people will buy new games regardless of quality just because they are new and they want to be "in" on the latest thing.
If people actually only bought good games, the industry wouldn't be in the state that it is in, where more budget goes to marketing than developing the actual games.
I'll end up playing it like I always do with these games, I have 0 hope for it though.
>The Collectors Box is DIFFERENT than the Ultimate Box.
????
>The Collectors Box is DIFFERENT than the Ultimate Edition.
Yes
Collector's Box vs Ultimate Edition. What are you confused about?
Wake me up when Crate are done with their town building thing and they start work on Grim Dawn 2. You can tell they have plans on merging that shit. Until then we simply have to put up with mediocrity.
'slop
anyone got a kfc key they don't want?
hahaha driving to kfc in less than an hour to get my 2.50 sandwich and my code
itll be my entertainment for the weekend 😀
i wish i was smart/ cared enough to farm for codes and then resell them so id just get the game for free instead, but oh well
>i wish i was smart/ cared enough to farm for codes and then resell them
already made 400$USD
>knows someone on the inside
cant you just order it, get the code then cancel?
or even easier just preorder the game then cancel the preorder lol
you can get a code per email from kfc
That what I did for D2R just preorder then refund
Didn't ask
>every game with a multiplayer lobby is an "MMO"
Wtf does wall street think an mmo is?
Also BOBBY KOTICK the ceo of Activision was on Epstein's black book.
But many of you slaves will buy it anyway like a good goy.
Is there any hope for the ARPG genre?
i have seen a lot of DIV hype, just not on Ganker
>paid shills are saying they're hyped
a strange coincidence
the fact you think blizzard has to pay these people shows how your views are skewed to just how many shills there are that just do it for free
nta. Blizzard doesn’t have to pay them but they are still fully incentivized to shill for the games. When you make your living being an ARPG/MMO gay your relevance is directly tied to the popularity of new games that come out in the genre. This is like the fricking harvest for them, and they’ll hype it up every time.
nice i didnt have to drive 15 minutes to kfc to get my code, cancelled my order after redeeming 😀
Can someone explain diablo 2 nostalgia to me? I also played the game as a kid, thought it looked amazing and the skill trees and the classes were interesting, but past beating it I had 0 interest to grind for better items so I can... grind faster for more items? Play the garbage imbalanced pvp? I honestly don't get the appeal of the """endgame""" of these games, I tried to watch POE a few times it looks like some kind of parody of a game, how do people find running at mach 3 instakilling screens of enemies until one unique rolls some unholy combination and one shots them off screen fun?
You could describe 98% of video games in all of existence in this sort of way if you just boil it down to its basics.
Yeah and those basics make sense, people play multiplayer games long-term for the competition and the variety in what can happen every match with human opponents, people play single player games generally once to see all the content or a few times if it's really good unless they're specifically designed for multiple replays like procedurally generated roguelikes or gachashit or something. So what I'm asking is what is there to the repetitive "endgame" of diablo, it seems like the most boring shit, at least mmos have endgame raids usually.
Would you play it past getting your fill of the setting and characters though? I just don't get people who play it long-term.
I'd play it long-term if it was the only game I owned, sure. If I'd had better internet back in those days I'm sure I'd have been hopelessly addicted to playing D2 ladders, too.
I have no nostalgia for D2 endgame or its rudimentary gameplay, but the oppressive atmosphere when you're barely surviving by the skin of your teeth is what makes it.
>how do people find running at mach 3 instakilling screens of enemies until one unique rolls some unholy combination
Getting to this point is what's fun. Most people don't keep playing indefinitely once their character can zamboni max level content.
The way these games are designed these days, the zamboni mode is what they're balanced for and everything before endgame is just an oversized unskippable tutorial. Things like enemy design are non-existant.
It works well. The gameplay fits nicely. Unique weapons are memorable, not just random bundles of stats. Niche builds entirely around specific uniques or runewords.
The story is great, the medium of delivery is top tier.
The atmosphere is just right for dungeon exploration.
Sound design is top tier.
You have clear end goals, that are hard, but doable.
The pacing of the game is good, combat flows nicely. There is weight to your build decisions and multiple options for each character.
There is weight to combat, enemies do not get ragdolled and throw around like weightless dolls in d3 and subsequently d4. Death animations.
I dont like seasonal games that are pay to play, feels like they will do a season or two and then drop development.
Will not fall for fomo and wait for a year
>play poe
>buy tabs
>good to go
I never played the other diablkos but I'm excited to play this one at launch with friends.
Games have plenty of hype but shit is only posted on Ganker if its controversial.
I haven't received my beta code from Amazon yet...
>kfc beta actually work
Man I always have issues with this kind of promotions but I'm glad this one actually worked
KFC chicken sux tho
Why? Unironically think these kind of promotions are great. Like no one is hurt, but now you have a really stupid meme to joke about.
>Falling for Blizzard shilling in 2023
>Some of you frickers actually preordered
So THIS TIME when its dogshit will you actually fricking learn? or be first in line to prepaypig for the next product having less pattern recognition than a labrat in a maze AGAIN?
As soon as someone makes better products, I will immediately ditch Blizzard. Until then, I have to play their products if they produce the best games in their genre.
Blizzard hasn't made a good game since WC3. I'll give WoW being a top mmo for a long time which idk if even is true anymore, but it's an mmo so I refuse to call it a good game.
WoW, SC2(aside from them going full israelite on the expansion packs), D3(aside from the endgame devolving into GRs-only), Hearthstone, Overwatch. All good games.
>D3
KEK
>Hearthstone
KEK
>Overwatch
Pffffffffffff
>SC2
Dead genre
Wow, those are some amazing retorts. The matter of the fact is that all of those games were industry leaders in their respective genres and went completely unrivaled while also having +10 million players.
>industry leaders
At least they lead the blizzdrones to the assfricking machine
All of these titles are dead or dying, it doesn't matter what they were before because company and people who made these are long gone and they sold good only thanks to previous titles (and overwatch thanks to porn)
Blizzard you can send better than this, I'm disappointed even with your shills
tasteless elden pleb
What do you dislike about D3 Grifts? They're the best part.
I just disliked that it was all there was to do at endgame. It felt boring once you already had all your gear and all you were doing was just fishing for the perfect layout with the perfect pylons. Luckily with D4 they have understood that there should be like a handful of endgame activities so you're always doing different things.
it wasn't really about understanding anything
they just dropped the dev for d3 because of the public reception even thought it sold billion copies
Ah, so your beef is the lack of variety, rather than GR in general?
I dunno, I didn't mind it, specially I think, that if they offered multiple things, it would always boil down to just doing the most effective thing.
There were times where you had to do alternatives, like fighting the infernal machine bosses, and you only did that until you got what you needed and then you went back to "whatever gives the most drops / hour". And for that, getting to open your own dungeon with open ended difficulty (well previously, in current season reaching 150 is a lot more realistic for a lot of players), that you could farm like a motherfricker was nice.
And I also like that you didn't have to do targeted farming, which I'm not super excited to hear will make a return in D4, in the form that certain enemy types apparently tend to drop certain item types, which might mean you'd have to grind the same shitting mobs for hours and hours and hours to get that [item name].
>Ah, so your beef is the lack of variety, rather than GR in general?
Yeah, if there had been a handful of different activities that you'd be doing regularly, then I would have enjoyed that more. To me the start of D3 seasons were always the best because you were doing journeys, bounties, normal rifts, GRs, crafting, etc. but eventually you ended up just only doing GRs. And the higher the number of seasons went, the faster you would reach that state where you'd just do GR and nothing else.
>And I also like that you didn't have to do targeted farming, which I'm not super excited to hear will make a return in D4
I am fairly excited for stuff like that, especially if it means that every season you will be target farming new areas/elites/bosses/whatever to suit whatever item you're lacking or hunting.
>I am fairly excited for stuff like that
It has it's ups and downs. On one side, if you need something it is nice to know that you can go somewhere that has a higher chance of dropping it. No question.
But at the same time, I'm telling you: Farming the same area over and over is what drives you fricking nuts in video games. SPECIALLY if it's an enemy type that is annoying to fight. (Imagine having to target farm the Bee's in diablos act 2, at a time where one of their dumb projectiles could absolutely frick you up).
How can SC2 be the best in the genre when everyone ran back to it's own predecessor. I haven't heard great things about the story either, never bothered playing it myself. I'm gonna go with a
>D3
KEK
too. Hearthstone was alright to mess around in at first but that shit is maximum israelite even for a card game, enjoy paying hundreds every expansion or playing it religiously. And every big hearthstone streamer still dropped it for battlegrounds from what I saw, which was also fun for a bit but got stale as shit. Overwatch is not my kind of game but it looks maybe fun for casuals for a while now that's f2p? Even idiots progress in a game if they play it enough though and even remotely competitive overwatch looked like a fricking joke.
>blizzard makes 2 or 3 different seasons with gimmicks
>proceeds to just put those three on loop for a year
>btw here is a 50 dollar dlc a year after launch
>two new seasons
>the game proceeds to be the same 5 gimmicks each season until diablo v
Never ever
i'm just going to play the beta for free and i'll probably figure out the game is trash with no future and not buy it.
blizzard is probably going to turn off more players than actually gain by running a beta and not making people blindly purchase it at launch.
yeah good luck getting a "Free weekend" or demo for any retail game, beta is literally the only method to try before buying games any more, its pure cancer . and they do it that way because they get more sales doing it that way, not letting peopel find out the game is shit before they already paid full price for it
>nearest KFC is 5.3 miles away
Guess I'll just pay the 69.99 since I'm going to buy it anyways.. I know I will
>have to buy game
>have to buy updates
>has microtransactions
>has BP
what is this double dipping bullshit? who in their right mind would fall for this scam?
>have to buy updates
Not true.
>has microtransactions
Not true.
>has BP
You can ignore the premium battle pass entirely, since it's only cosmetics. The non-premium battle pass is free.
>he doesn't know
bro, it's the destiny 2 monetization scheme, it's identical
It's not, and you're moronic.
you're pretending right?
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23816415/diablo-iv-quarterly-update-august-2022
chash shop, BP, free "seasons", paid expansions, paid characters, and paid base game
Their monetization is base game + premium battle pass(cosmetics only) + cash shop(cosmetics only) + expansion packs(probably 1 per year). There's no paid characters, there's no paying for any kind of power/advantages/convenience, and they won't be REMOVING content like Destiny has done.
>it's okay if it's only cosmetic
oh, you're one of THOSE morons
If cosmetics can pay for big updates every 3 months, then yes.
show us a game that has regular updates throughout the year that doesn't include paid cosmetic shop
those games are F2P
yea and they look like trash, like poe
janky animations, stiff controls, ugly non paid cosmetics, desync problem for a fricking decade. remember that?
Inquisitor martyr, grim Yawn, in total war warhammer you pay for content not cosmetics ( you did not say in specific genre). The AAA american or european studios are fricked by default because they outsource their work to third world countries and keep on hiring morons for 6 digits + also remember marketing costs & bobby yachts, if the game is actually good it doesn't need to hand free fricking Keys for KFC products. Diablo 4 is clearly not a good game
>You can ignore the premium battle pass entirely, since it's only cosmetics.
This game is 70 god damn dollars and you're damage controlling the bp by saying "oh just ignore it". If I'm paying $70 for a game it better come with a free dick sucking, not extra price tags for sliced off shit that used to be free.
>for sliced off shit that used to be free.
Which APRGs gave you free cosmetics, in addition to the armors and cosmetics that were already in the base game?
>in addition to the armors and cosmetics that were already in the base game?
You mean back before MTX when the armor you unlocked actually looked cool and didn't warrant a meaningless $15 skin be pasted over it to not be an eye sore? You're right, none come to mind.
>You can ignore the premium battle pass entirely, since it's only cosmetics
it's an rpg
the only reason why you keep playing it over and over is to get better and cooler gear
cosmetics being sold for money is p2w
The APRG genre has existed for +20 years where people were just hunting for better gear upgrades. Please show me the games where you think people played them to play dress-up. Also, they have specifically said that the paid cosmetics won't inherently be better looking, they will just be different. Back when they showed a handful of different armor sets that compared in-game vs cash shop, it was 50/50 between what people liked the most here on Ganker in every thread.
>cosmetics being sold for money is p2w
You are a moron.
>dress-up
I love how you morons harp on this dress up thing so much, like only a homosexual would appreciate their character looking cooler as they get stronger. Like you'd have to be gay to want the extravagant luxury of visual progression, out of a $70 video game.
You will never convince anybody with that lazy shit.
Are you under the impression that you're just going to look the same at level 1 as you do maxed out in D4, unless you buy cosmetic items?
>Please show me the games where you think people played them to play dress-up
any rpg can be played as dressup
fashion souls is a thing, nioh has pretty extensive customization options, transmog was a very successful feature introduced in wow
>Also, they have specifically said that the paid cosmetics won't inherently be better looking, they will just be different
yeah they also said d3 would have pvp at launch
also it's still cut content, just because it's allegedly a side upgrade doesn't mean it's not
>You are a moron
and you are a shill
I'll say it again, the entire point in an rpg is to pimp your character : this
>it's just cosmetics
bullshit doesn't apply here
>watch cinematic trailer
>instantly met with niggress
Frick.
Off.
$70 game
just give up on AAA gaming, guys.
After diablo immoral i don't want to support blizzard again
AAA games aren't special anymore and Blizzard games suck dick
It's blizzard. It's going to be shit. They're done nothing but squander their good reputation in the past 10 years or so.
I would buy it but I can't afford it, so have fun guys.
>closest kfc doesn’t take online orders for some reason
>next closest one is 15 miles away
See you lads next weekend.
>make game function like f2p with cosmetics
>place a battle pass you NEED to stay on pace with the rest so its like a subscription almost
>also charge 70 dollars for the game
>but actually you need to pay more to win since higher tiers have 4 days headstart
>you want the collectors edition? No game included, btw
>havent told us for how long they'll support the game with updates so it could be put on maintenance after couple weeks if it doesnt sell enough
told us for how long they'll support the game
Have they said anything about post-launch content? Because iirc D3 updates were just balance changes and leaderboard resets along with a gimmicky new gear set. Not really content-oriented. Anons itt are talking like this is going to be a full-on GaaS.