Yep, I’m done with Blizzard. Diablo IV is a mess, and they’re pulling this shit?
If people buy it they will keep selling it
They only need a couple people to buy it to make it worth it. It’s not the same supply demand equation when all you have to do is swap an asset’s color.
I’m not an expert and idk what game devs are making but if you have someone making $60/hr do that in 5 minutes how many do you have to sell to be profitable? 1
Path of Exile 2 is looking pretty cool.
I’ve been having fun with Last Epoch as well.
Last Epoch is definitely on my list to grab on release. I tried original PoE and my only issue is with the currency system. I get that it’s unique and I can see how it would be cool, but I don’t want to barter useful stuff for other stuff and be hit with analysis paralysis every transaction. Give me straight up currency that’s has no use except to buy stuff.
The currency in PoE makes more sense if you view is purely as currency, and the fact that it can be used for crafting as secondary. Realistically, unless you have hundreds of hours in the game, thats how you should use it.
In other MMOs you would make money by farming iron ore, trading that ore for gold, and buying things with gold. OR you could craft something with the ore. In PoE, you farm, get a divine orb, and then can use the orb to craft, or it just is the currency. No gold conversion required.
There really isnt that much bartering to be done on the currency end. the market has some pretty set prices. 1 divine is 125 chaos. View them as gold and silver, and never use them for crafting and suddenly the economy is basically like any other game.
The actual trade mechanics on the other hand. The game director has said he actively wants it to be a miserable experience. Its literally a game for masochists who find fun in the struggle.
Titan Quest is on sale for Playstation. $6 which matches its all time low.
A comment I made in an thread earlier that belongs here. Diablo isn’t the only game in town. After being a dedicated Diablo fan since LOD, I’m done.
I played the original, and the Sierra expansion too. I had the strategy guide with some full page artwork… Lets just say the original Rogue concept art was scandalous in middle school.
They lost me with three, in the art style… I picked up four to play with a friend, but even their company couldn’t keep me playing the drek that is Diablo 4.
Grim dawn is one of the best arpgs I’ve played and it’s made by the people who made titan quest.
I highly recommend it.
I regret buying this hot pile of shit incomplete game
Just remember this when Diablo 6 “looks good” and “they’ve finally changed”. If people took a little more time to consider the historical value of what their abusive ex did instead of taking them back we’d not be in this situation.
What kills me is that the game WAS fun, and blizzard patched out everything that made it fun. Like they were scared people would get a taste of standards and want more.
Path of Exile is so much better.
PoE is a mess lol. They charge you for having the inventory space to store their 50,000 different kinds of currencies that are all just gigantic slot machines. And the whole way they set up trading is a disaster. I say this having played a lot of PoE and wishing they did it better every step of the way because it has so much promise.
My vote is Grim Dawn that game is a lot of fun
this is where I’m at, grim dawn is great.
D3 eventually got to a place where I actually liked it although it was too simplistic for most people.
I picked up D4 played the first season got bored before I even got it to end game content and gave up
POE had fun gameplay but is artificially cluttered and constantly balancing the fun away.
I’ve got high hopes for last epoch we’ll see.
The last straw for my latest PoE binge was I just got done setting up a pure aura bot. Couldn’t do any damage myself I was on support duty only it was a lot of fun for me (and helped reduce what I had to pay attention to because PoE is visually messy, fine for some people but fatigues my brain quickly). They nerfed the pants off that build multiple updates in a row. I just wanted to be the team morale officer but in the end the only sadness I couldn’t fix was the aura shaped hole in my heart
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Chaos gem? There are chaos orbs but those are quite common. Maybe exalted orbs? (Which got basically replaced by divine orbs a while back)
It doesn’t have a lot of room to take the high ground on microtransactions, though. Like half of the characters can’t wear pants without a paid cosmetic.
Two completely different audiences. Myself and everyone I know hated the absurd walls and pains to even just respect.
It wouldn’t help if you went ssf, but if you’re in a trade league and asked in general for regrets to respec your first build, ppl would happily give them to you.
It is a bit of a backwards system, when you’re learning how to play it’s hard to get enough regrets to do a full respec and then once you don’t need regrets you’ll be swimming in them
I wish there was a thread or mega post with how many dumb things Blizzard has done over the years
These games are so big that I don’t know why you’d even need Diablo 4. D2 and D3 are still lots of fun, as are Grim Dawn, PoE, Titan Quest, and I feel like there’s several more. I used to care about Blizzard’s stories, but that ended in the D2/WC3 era for me.
Titan Quest
Well, there’s a name I haven’t heard for a long time. We loved that game. I played the crap out of it back in the day. Played through three or four times. I thought I remember my family bringing over their characters on floppy disks to play in my instance. Am I remembering that right? Didn’t Diablo 1 allow for this too? Been a while.
I think I still have a backup directory of my characters.
Wait… For $30 you get all five colors. That’s totally different. The title kind of implies they’re $30 each since it mentions the class restrictions. Maybe it just sounds that way to me. Language is so ambiguous.
And it’s basically only $20 but you are also forced to buy 1000 platinum at the same time. That’s real value! Diablo 4 players should be rejoining! This is an exciting offer!
This entire comment is a chasm of sar.
Don’t care, it’s a skin. I finished my season, didn’t pay, and can’t wait for the next one.
I was planning on picking up d4 soon but fuck that guess I’ll skip it now
I’ve been very much enjoying D4. Especially since season 4. The town portals they’re talking about here are purely cosmetic, you don’t need them. No one needs them. They’re there for the whales who will buy them, they don’t expect the average player to buy them.
If you were going to play a game but now won’t because entirely cosmetic items that have no gameplay impact cost money, why did that stop you?
I would say their greed is hitting a new high
Sure makes me feel justified when I tell my friends I won’t buy Diablo 4. The last 5ish years have really told me all I need to know.
good thing my kids and i can’t play it. it’s not very Diablo in our eyes and terribly boring. we still play 3 from time to time but 4 is some other thing i guess. just not our cuppa. feel bad we liked the hype teaser video so long that when it came out we tried hard to like it but couldn’t.
I played it for a couple hours until i got to the first town and got bombarded by irrelevant sidequests and holiday special events and whatnot. AND THEN I left town and discovered its an open world where you can go wherever tf you want because monsters scale with your level which discourages you from progressing the main storyline. I shut it off and have no intention of going back.
At the very least i got it for free in the xbox holiday bundle sale and didnt directly buy the game
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Oh, could this DLC finally be a reason to reinstall Diablo 4? Well done King-Activision-Blizzard-XBOX-Microsoft
