I used to be a white knight fan boy of Blizzard games but no more. I simply cannot stand by it anymore. Why do Blizzard and it's Diablo 4 suck so freaking much? I mean, come on.. you had the perfect recipe for a ARPG with Diablo 2. You created Diablo and took absolute nothing from D2 that made it great. Yes Diablo 3 sucked so hard as well. To even call it a 'Diablo' game is disgrace to it's name.

We were promised that Diablo 4, it would return to its roots, to all the magnificent that made it great in its first place and what do we get? Absolute nothing!?! Diablo 3.5. I have been trying to figure out for myself how can this be? What in absolute god's name drove them to disband, don't use Diablo 2 and what made it great and use it for Diablo 4? Blizzard are so out of touch with their games it's quite unbelievable to be honest.

How hard can it be to take a good look at Diablo 2, what made it great; take all the good stuff and use it for Diablo 4 ?!
Sigh.. #AllHopeIsLostForD4 .

I could mention the first 20 things that are awful with Diablo 4 but hey.. I guess we all are aware of it by now...

There was no cash shop before, that is why. All focus were basically designing a perfect game.

But now, half the focus is monetizing from cash shop with dirty schemes.

this 1000% . the only thing d3 needed, before they forced the franchise into a downwards spiral, was to literally copy themselves. and d3 should of added onto what d2 was, and d4 should of added onto what d3 should have been.
just the simple fact that runewords were not in d3 absolutely boggles my mind.




lol, not true. i highly doubt that the amount of time invested in making a cash shop really takes away from making the rest of the game any good.
the issue with d4s monetization is simply that the game sucks... at the same time that they aggressively force it on us. im not a fan of microtransactions, but i think most players can easily look past the shop, if the game is actually worth playing and there's no pay2win.

im generalizing, but for me there are 2 main reasons why i think d4 is in the state that it is in...

- their devs seriously dont understand what actually makes an arpg good. what actually makes us want to come back day after day, or ladder after ladder (fuck seasons, theyre called ladders you muppets). this looks after alot of things like itemization, open trading, build diversity, risk/reward structure etc... all of which d4 fails at.
- they attempted to develop a game to please everyone and therefore no one is happy. and for the most part, casuals now are done with this shit show too.

This post was edited by C4NTWO on Jan 26 2024 12:36pm

Did it sell well?

Did it pay the bonuses to all of the decision making managers?

Would D5 sell as well, if they were to release it in a couple of years?

If the answers to all the above is yes, then it was a success in Blizzard's eyes.

Gamers are not the target. The investors are.