Idk I associate the troubles at Activision and Blizzard to a few people, who may not even be there anymore. It doesn't bother me because I'm not going to let a few awful people paint the whole Diablo 4 dev team as horrible people.
Yeah. Like I want to be mad at the ridiculous prices for armor sets in a full priced game, but... they don't really look better than sets in the game? So if it makes it so that the game gets better support as a live service game, then whatever, I can easily ignore it lol. If the in game content was lacking it would be a bit different though
Well yeah but Diablo 4 just came out. Was it supposed to sell more than diablo 3's total sales in its first weekend?
I don't understand what you're asking. If people pre-ordered to get into the first beta and then didn't cancel that pre-order, it counts as a sale.
Yeah, Sterlings videos, unfortunately became a toxic pool of bad faith arguments meant to produce outrage at all costs. Then they flat out admitted to doing videos about mtx in bad faith in their RE4 video, which was also full of ridiculous statements and bad faith arguments and I lost all hope, it's a waste of time to watch content by people like this. There's no value there.
I hadn't watched Sterling's stuff in awhile, and a month or so back watched two and thought they were ok? then realized that it was all just controversy and exaggerated arguments to drum up engagement. Off my sub list. I don't have time for that crap. I don't have time for people that are mad for the sake of being mad.
It hasn't seemed to have much of an impact on them, thankfully. However if the game was a dud I assume the gamer rage folks would've wrapped their anger at the game up in an "actiblizz does bad stuff" wrapper.
Oh VV made this? Well that explains it they made my favorite destiny content as well (forsaken expansion)
This is a very finished, extremely polished game.
I can assure you that while I can't speak for "gamers" as a whole, and really don't want to, at least the handful of people I know of who said "fuck Blizzard" back when they, you know, killed a woman by suicide among other things, the people that then continued to delete their Battle.net account, guess what - we still do not have a battle.net account anymore.
this website is already full of people taking every opportunity to tell everyone else how much better they are for making decision A while ignoring the other thousand decisions they make every day that enables shit that is just as horrible.
To be fair (TM) I was, am, and will do this for people buying the Hogs game, given that they actually know about the issues surrounding the license and the hurt it brings to others, but don't deem it relevant enough to care :p I understand what you mean though.
This press release came out before 24 hrs of full release so D4 probably did more than all of these.
Shipping an unfinished or bad games happened before GAAS and $70 MSRP. While you may not like it, there have been many, many games and genres that have benefited from the live service model. There have also been poor implementations of said model just like anything else.
I'm loving it. Aside from any form of matchmaking. I just want to wreck things with other people and then after through gear and okay with specs..
Blizzard Team 3 worked with Blizzard Albany to finish and release D4.
It looks great, plays great, is fantastic fun with friends, the story is great, and the cutscenes are some of the best looking I've seen since I got my PS5.
The first season starts in roughly a month or so my guess will be that the metrics look roughly the same as they are now or possibly even better due to word of mouth spreading about how good the game is.
My buddy was in a similar situation. He really wanted it for PC because that's where he's always bought all the other Diablo games but he knew that all of the rest of us would be getting it for console so he snagged it up on PS5.
I like the game, but it's not "extremely polished". There is some really worrying stuff on the QoL side that they need to fix asap.
I think with crossplay that wouldn't be a problem. It's just that local co-op is only on console due to some BS Battle.net profile excuse. I'm sure they could have solved the issue but I guess they didn't deem it worthy. Oh well, PS5 is still 60 FPS and will be supported long term so I'm not that upset. I just dread the inevitable double dip.
