I think the craziest thing is, that the survey starts at 50$. They just assume that must be the minimum prize everyone is ok with.
Lunatics…
Neat trick, isn’t it ?
Seems like they’ve got experience…
What…? That’s 20$ short of the whole game…
I’m hoping the collective answer is: “stop smoking crack”.
Who is playing Diablo 4? Especially this year.
I mean, I checked it out at launch, thought it was fine, didn’t even finish the main campaign, moved on to the other million great games that came out the past few months. Is this game still relevant?
I’m playing season two. It’s quite decent, a good game for me to decompress. TBH I played pre-season until WT4 and stopped at level 79. This season is much more streamlined and I’m currently on level 75 after 1/3 of the time played vs my pre-season char. I’ll give Last Epoch a whirl after beating all the endgame bosses.
Fair enough. D3 took a while to click for me, too, and it only did once they turned it into basically an idle game or digital bubble wrap. D4 felt a bit more MMO-y and I wasn’t there for it, but I always figured they’d get to making it more D3-ish eventually and I could check it out again then.
And then the best year of gaming in a decade happened and I forgot D4 even existed. But I don’t resent anybody who stuck with it. I bet I would have given it more of a go under different circumstances.
I feel ya on the MMOishness of D4. When you’re doing an event and all of a sudden a 100 level guy comes in and destroys everything in 0.5 second it can ruin the immersion somewhat.
Yea, I only played D4 again after finishing Starfield, BG3, AC6 (till NG++), and AW2 (definitely will play again when the NG+ dropped).
anyone who didn’t uninstall battlenet after the Blitzchung nonsense gets the DLC they fucking deserve
Who wants to pay $100 to run into a thousand cellars?
Rant
I’ve always been of the “vote with your dollar” or “If you don’t like it, don’t buy it” mentality until recently. Now it seems like the heavy concentration of market power into a few companies is spurring on the continued development of “pricing innovations”.
Remember when they said digital distribution would make the games cheaper and they would pass the savings down to us? (surprise that was a lie). That’s just the cost of innovation.
Diablo 4 isn’t a “bad game” but for games as a service that contains microtransactions, it certainly isn’t a game worth a $100 expansion pack. They didn’t even include the game with the collectors edition. Sell the collectibles without the game for a premium! Get paid twice! Innovation!
As more and more disappointments land face first on the concrete floor of the empty swimming pool surrounded by apathetic"entitled " gamers they still will not learn from their mistakes because the money says otherwise. They would rather go out of business then sell you a product you actually want to buy. That’s the cost of innovation.
I don’t know if this is the right place to say this. I urge everyone to collect physical copies of games, back them up, share them and archive them. We’re never getting back what we’ve lost no matter how much we’re willing to pay for it.
Relative to the cost of everything else / inflation, games actually were pretty cheap. They had been $50/60 for nearly 30 years. Now we’re in the shitty time where it’s $70 for the base game, $30 for day 1 dlc, battlepasses, micro (really macro) transactions, etc.
Yes that is true.
Games were cheap for a long time. It was a competitive market. When the N64 came out, game cartridges were 80$ in the US (depending on the title). Neo Geo games were $200 a cartridge new before that. The prices resembled a (arguably) higher quality item.
The Sony PlayStation had games typically around the $30 to $40 dollar price point and that enabled Sony to sell endless copies of Blasto and other (arguably shovelware) games at the time. This loss leader strategy Sony had destabilized a lot of the market. Systems makers had to lower the price of games to increase the install base and they constantly lost money (sega Saturn games used to sell as low as 10$ new in 1997).
$70, $80, even $120 Dollars for a triple A title like Elden Ring or Super Mario Galaxy wouldn’t be that crazy to me depending on the state of that market. Some people are buying OG PlayStation games like MegaMan Legends in excess of $200. In the end though, you have the game. It is your copy.
The wake up call for me was when Microsoft has to be shamed into walking back their weird anti consumer Xbox game cd key sharing policy because Sony made this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
What?
First of all, after the shitshow that was the launch of D4, that’s just hilarious. S2 is certainly better than the start, but it is no holy grail that magically fixed everything.
Secondly, you’re dreaming if you think a DLC is worth more than the base game.
And finally, I like how they’re “asking” players if they’d “be okay” with it. Are you telling me that if the majority of the player base said “NO!” they’d actually listen? If there is anyone who believes that, well I’ve got a bridge in Sanctuary to sell you.
Depending on how extreme the NO! answers are, they may delay it or split the 100$ DLC in 2 50$ DLC, which you both have to get to actually play the game.
I think you mean 2 $70 DLCs because “the $100 was a discounted bundle” now available for $120.
Blizzard: Would you be okay with a 100$ DLC?
Me: Sure, I stopped buying your overpriced crap years ago :D
70 for a game that doesn’t feel finished wasn’t ok.
Agreed, do what you want, I’m not buying regardless.
Honestly I’d like them to release enough content to make me feel like I didn’t waste my original purchase price, maybe I just am wanting for Diablo 1/2 days :(
Diabo 2 remaster is still really good
Other than that, il just wait for poe 2
Diablo 4 isn’t that good of a game and not even close to the best arpg. I admittedly got hosed on buying it at launch and am not giving them more money. Why would I spend over 150$ total to get the equivalent of 1 mediocre game assuming they fix all the bs. Definitely regret the purchase at this point, and if a fixed version is going to be locked behind absurdly priced dlc in the future I feel like I got scammed twice.
Ahh, this must be where the laid off Bungie employees went to.
No
Hahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahaha… Fuckin idiots.
I swear they’re spiking the water with acid down in silicon valley, how can so many companies be making so many dumbass decisions all at the same time?
I don’t think that Blizzard is in Silicon Valley.
googles
Yeah.
They’ve got a location in Southern California – not Northern California, where Silicon Valley is – and another in Boston, Massachusetts, and something in Austin, Texas.
Vomit. Blizzard gets worse and worse. Good ole capitalism.
It encourages innovation
Blizzard hasn’t done shit for innovation for a very long time
