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Diablo IV Gets A New Trailer And Release Date At The Game Awards 2022, Coming June 6th 2023 | MMORPG
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Diablo IV Gets A New Trailer And Release Date At The Game Awards 2022, Coming June 6th 2023 | MMORPG.com
Diablo IV finally has a street date after years of development. Coming June 6th, 2023, Blizzard Entertainment revealed a new trailer as well, showing Hell and its denizens in full cinematic glory.
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The beta was pretty underwhelming as well. I'm sure some people will eat it up, but I'm just turned off.
But atleast you get cosmetics and a mount for World of Warcraft which would cost about 20-25 in the ingame shop. But still a version where you can choose to pay less without the pet whould be better.
But in the end it will be payed by my WoW Gold so jeah no costs for me there.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
If it's a good game I will pay it.
Just do not nickel and dime me
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
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/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/diablo-4-development-mired-in-crunch-and-poor-leadership-according-to-new-report/1100-6509862/
In other words, this is exactly how the free market is supposed to work. The developers are not slaves. They can decide if their compensation is equivalent to the work they are producing. If not, they move on to where they believe greener pastures are. If enough people do that then the company needs to address the issue by paying more, better benefits, or outsourcing
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
Faction grinds = killing stuff. Quests = killing stuff. World quests = killing stuff. Rift events = killing stuff. A grind by any other name is still a grind. I am pretty sure Deckard Cain and other NPCs have been sending me on quests for decades, so what's the difference? And I would also bet that mobs will still be wandering around even if you don't click on a ! or ? before heading out of town.
The cost of a movie ticket in 1996 was less than $5. The cost of Diablo in 1996 was $50. The cost of a movie ticket in 2022 is just over $9. The cost of a game is $60-$80. I'd like to still be paying $50 for a game, but given the number of hours I'll play Diablo 4, it's still a pretty good value.
9$? It is like 24$ for a movie ticket with no food where I am. Dang
However, 80 bucks is not the standard in the gaming world. After more then a decade of 60 bucks the 70 bucks price was introduced a year or two ago and even that isn’t the standard. And now we have 80 bucks already. That isn’t a normal increase in price, it are huge leaps in short succession trying to ‘force’ a new norm, a ‘catching up’ so to speak that, although understandable, feels very forced and isn’t, like I stated, the norm. I am also very curious about the price of the physical edition.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Check the reddit /r/gaming post about this games cash grab p2w. Over 100k posts and 700k views in 24 hours. A new record.
Absolute disaster of a game, avoid it.
€70 base game
or
€90 base game with 4 day head start (pay to win)
Cash Shop
Premium Platinum Currency (Warcraft doesn't have this, they allow direct USD purchase for cosmetic mounts)
Premium Battle Pass
€60 Expansions
Archeage EU - Nui
Whats in the cash shop? In the Battle Pass? What can you buy with the Premium Currency?
Is it all cosmetic or is there more too it?
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
Online-only even for single player.
A bunch of useless cosmetics that have no bearing on the game itself.
Before the Activision fanboys come screeching about how the game is online-only so that cheating can be avoided, I should point out that it would be quite simple to ship Diablo 4 with two clients:
- one client for Online-only play, whether multiplayer or single player with the extras of leaderboards, achievements and stuff.. and everything is stored on the servers, nothing on the player's machine
- one client for purely offline single player play, that has no access to the internet whatsoever and the character save files use different formats so it can't be used for any injecting into the online version
If Diablo 4 had offline single player mode, I would be more lenient towards it and would be remotely interested in playing it, but now I just don't care. This GAAS (Game-as-a-Service) scam grift is ruining gaming and the sheeple professional consumers who buy into it are enabling it and securing its future.
Sorry, there's so many games out now that require you to be online to play it's just become the new normal. I realize there's people who live in remote areas with crap internet connection, but that number gets smaller every year as technology and infrastructure advance. However, just recognize you're in a shrinking minority and the game companies simply don't see you as enough of a market share loss to worry about versus combating piracy and the game as a service model which they find more lucrative.
That is a shame, i would've bought a standalone version