Still too high. Why is there anyone playing Blizzard games right now? They haven't earnt a reprieve from their reprehensible behaviour yet. Not even close.
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Diablo Immortal now has the lowest user score in Metacritic history
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You're missing that the "normal mobile gatcha MTX" is awful no matter how normalized it's to some of you. The companies don't have our best interest in their mind, so just because it works out great for them and they did their very best to make it the standard, doesn't make it fundamentally good.
Watching this now.
I knew that as soon as Blizzard announced a "F2P" Diablo game for mobile that it was going to be a disaster. The initial Blizzcon reaction was spot on. Old Diablo fans knew exactly what Blizzard was doing.
Gran Turismo 7 was bombed through Metacritic user scores and Polyphony Digital absolutely listened to that and all the other criticism and made improvements to the game's economy due to it.
Gran Turismo 7: An update from Polyphony Digital
Details on player experience improvements, upcoming patches.
blog.playstation.com
There are plenty of examples where negative feedback has changed the course of a game's direction. Battlefront 2 being the most obvious example. Just because some publishers are irredeemable doesn't mean that people should be quiet about this kind of bullshit.
Gran Turismo 7 was bombed through Metacritic user scores and Polyphony Digital absolutely listened to that and all the other criticism and made improvements to the game's economy due to it.
Gran Turismo 7: An update from Polyphony Digital
Details on player experience improvements, upcoming patches.
Gran Turismo 7 and Battlefront 2 were both neither F2P nor mobile games. It's also worth noting that the MC highlighted here is for the PC version. While I'm not saying that critiques for that release aren't valid in terms of the MTX model, it should be noted that that particular version is advertised as a beta and it shows. Even someone that doesn't mind F2P monetization strategies is likely to run into game breaking bugs. That release is not ready for prime time.
iOS reviews for me in the US show a 4.5 out of 5. If you are hoping that bad user reviews are going to send a message that their game stinks and users hate it that's not a good sign. Again, that's not me arguing that these particular user reviews are more valid than the PC MC, but just noting that there's not a clear consensus that users are outraged over Immortal's business practices across different review aggregates.
Because you can make meme content higher than the cost of P2W if you make money with social media.
Also lots of people out there who want to get good and have money/don't care about all the problems with AB.
They just need to do a Diablo 4 59.99, no deluxe, collector's shit just the game, solo or online co-op. No shop of any kind with real cash. Nothing, release a paying expension each year do be able to survive. Done....
I mean i don't need to be a markething master to do something like that.
Just the idea that beating an area gives you the opportunity to make a limited time purchase is so yucky.
Probably already been said before but what's so odd about this is that a reasonable model from a competitor (Path of Exile) already laid the framework of what a f2p Diablo could be modeled after and have a reasonable chance at people not getting too aggravated over the monetization.
Great way to show how not requiring users to have played the game or seen a movie makes user reviews useless
You just have to download it I've downloaded it but never played it and was able to rate it
Outlet score is low too, and I suspect will continue to drop.
This is pretty normal for those predatory gacha games I think.
A paraphrased-quote from earlier, "Because their games are fun!" Isn't that reason enough to say fuck it to the awful things they've done?
Ah that's not good.
I hope Diablo 4 is good - I know thete has been huge workplace issues over there but they haven't put out anything memorable for years. I can't see Overwatch 2 helping either.
What's really shitty Is the fact that this game is immaculately designed!
From the ui to the way it auto navigates to objectives to each class having a unique portal animation you can tell that the developers really poured a lot of love and work into this free to play mobile game.
It plays better than any mobile game I've Ever played. The combat is fun and engaging. Everything is so well designed.
It's so shitty that blizzard decided to make It have gross and predatory microtransactions..
From the ui to the way it auto navigates to objectives to each class having a unique portal animation you can tell that the developers really poured a lot of love and work into this free to play mobile game.
It plays better than any mobile game I've Ever played. The combat is fun and engaging. Everything is so well designed.
It's so shitty that blizzard decided to make It have gross and predatory microtransactions..
GI got review bombed because they didn't give enough freebies during the 1 year anniversary :D
so the user base are fine with all the monetization, they just want more free stuffs also
I don't think there's any actual correlation with "lots of microtransactions=not many sales."
I mean, the MTX is gross and deserves criticism but this means nothing as long as the game is sitting in the top 10 of the iOS/Play stores with positive reviews.
At least in my opinion, I'd describe it as a good game with lots of predatory monetization. If they released it as a $20 game with a subscription without all the shit, it would be an incredible product.
I like it in 20-minute bursts while completely ignoring all of the monetization BS. I have fun with it.
What are you talking about? There absolutely are horrible products that deserve to have a light shine on them.
I think many people get too emotionally invested in their communities and forget that these are products. We are consumers. The games and movies we enjoy are products. We have every right to voice our displeasure with said product if we find something wrong with it.
They are on completely different platforms but so far, between corporate filings and market intelligence software, it looks like Diablo Immortal (on mobile) is earning 3-4x the daily revenue of Path of Exile.
Will be interesting to see how things hold as downloads have had a steep dropoff, though the revenue hasn't. Certainly Path of Exile has had amazing growth and stability over the years. In any case, with this start, even with dropoff, I'd be expecting Diablo Immortal to at least be earning in the "hundreds of millions" range lifetime. It just might not have the legs to make it to "billions" which I am sure they were hoping for.
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Rumor has it two or three of the angry users actually bothered to play the game for themselves.
LMAO they couldn't be more of a shady cartoon businessman if they tried
Gran Turismo 7 was bombed through Metacritic user scores and Polyphony Digital absolutely listened to that and all the other criticism and made improvements to the game's economy due to it.
Gran Turismo 7: An update from Polyphony Digital
Details on player experience improvements, upcoming patches.
Plus NBA 2K is the only basketball game in the business, which is why they don't care about milking basketball fans dry every year.
There are many alternatives (good ones) to all of Blizzard's games.
