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I keep hearing my friends complain about the status of the servers. I'm just still dumbfounded that people heard it was essentially online single player and bought this anyway.

They killed Warcraft III They killed Overwatch

Why is blizzard going to pick up the ball on D4? Genuine question, no hate.

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[–] bezerker03@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

D3 was terrible at launch and turned into a great game. Dragonflight in wow is a great xpac.

Like all companies blizzard has it's down sides and good sides. Historically except for immortal, diablo always turns out ok.

I'm enjoying diablo 4. D4 is not made for power gamers. It's made for dads and moms who are now in their 40s and have kids. Most of us aren't even in t3 yet. Hell a few weeks ago only a small percent actually completed the campaign! For us the game is great. It will get good for the hardcores soon.

[–] hogart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

D4 also is a game made to play alongside other games. It's not made to be the only game you play. And I like that a lot.

[–] bug_hunter_goblin 3 points 1 year ago

I played a ton of Diablo 2. It’s one of my favourite game of all times. But it’s a old game where the fun lies in dying in hardcore and having all your friends laughing about it at 2 am.

It’s hard to make people play a old game like Diablo 2, but D4 had the new and fresh feel into it that my friends needed to get back into sending demons back to hell.

I just want to play with my friends, like we did as kids.

[–] JoviOnFire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The game looked fun and I knew the servers would get fixed eventually. I just waited two weeks before purchasing the game.

Honestly, I haven't regretted it and it's the most fun in a game I've had in a long time.

[–] ppb1701@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Zuberi. Beyond the DDOS attack there other day I've only seen a bit of lag once or twice, no disconnects. Maybe I'm playing at less busy times. I do wish it had an offline mode but so far it's not caused much trouble for me. As for why....I had been talking about it coming up with some friends and my wife asked what I was talking about. A few days later she surprised me with it as a gift.

[–] spite@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Playing about 6 hours a day for two week since release, and after that about 1-2 hours a day I’ve experienced no server issues. The only exception was this past weekend ddos.
This game is phenomenal, with yesterday’s patch became even better, I like multiplayer aspect and just randomly doing some event with a bunch of ppl instead of being on my lonesome.

Why are ppl so insistent on hating on this game is beyond me. Overwatch complaints at least have some merit

[–] Botree@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll be fair and admit that Blizzard still makes great games, but their monetization model and business practices are some of the vilest in the history of gaming, and I will no longer support them because of this.

[–] hogart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Diablo IV is actually cheaper than Diablo II was if you consider inflation. No idea what everyone is on about. Even Nintendo 64 games cost just a little bit less than what Diablo IV was priced on launch. And when did the N64 release? Game ain't as expensive as people make out.

[–] AstroKevin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

To be clear, there is no monetization in D4 except skins in game. This is the first blizzard game since D3 for me, so I'm having a blast.

[–] Switorik@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I bought D4 because I had bonus points that could be converted into PayPal, so it cost me nothing.

I've been playing it pretty casually and I must say I'm not very impressed. I think D3 is better.

I believe it has a lot of potential but it shouldn't be a $70 to $100 game with a battlepass and mtx.

[–] Shiksewtf@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The status of the server is actually pretty insane. Even up when the are doing some bigger patches. Haven't once waited, but could be lucky eu time zone.

So Blizzard is going to pick up the ball because lately they do. WoW is pretty great this time around. Warcraft 3 was dead in arrival tbh due to it being an RTS.

Overwatch I don't know, think they don't know where to head with this game from the very beginning.

D1 was good, d2, d3 bad start but got better over time, d2r seemed pretty good as well.

Now with d4 looking better than d3 from the very start I think it's save to say you'll most likely not get disappointed if you like the franchise, genre/ gameplay loop.