holy shit, they literally cut off this expansion in half just to meet dead line and not offending the scrub bitching about 80 bucks expansion. so now you will buy half the expansion 2 times, I was thinking about fighting mephisto would be cool, but you actually fighting his dog. and the new runeword system are half assed, some times its hard for me to figure out how blizzard still in the business.

and you will buy their shit anyways

Marketing strategy I mean you can’t tell me you’re not already excited for the next expansion ammirght??? Hahaha sike nah I skipped every cut scene gotta grind idc

Develop a campaign that almost nobody enjoys and certainly won't play for another time? check
Release a lackluster and imbalanced league mechanic along with an imbalanced new char and content full of bugs? check

I mean people spend 99% in the endgame yet Blizzard keeps on focusing on the campaign it's kinda sad.
Next expansion you might get actual leaderboards and after another 40 $ a wardrobe. If that is technically feasible.

Btw is the chat function working? Or is it just a placeholder within the live beta waiting for implementation?

D4’s base campaign was pretty awesome. The expansions campaign was definitely not awesome. But I guess it almost got me to 60.

Would be interesting to see the sales for this. Their videos are barely breaking 50k views on youtube, it's dead on steam, twitch and reddit.

This post was edited by Dmitriy on Oct 11 2024 09:57am

its target audience was casual dad and mom with money, and there a lot of those out there. the base game already made well over 1 billion in revenue 150 million from just selling dog shit micro transaction. even elon musk is playing, I wouldn't be too concern for them on sales front. as long they dont pull a ubisoft, which is pretty hard to do these days they will be fine as daddy microsoft will proc them up.

I think a lot of the advertisement for the game is buzz marketing aka streamers. They generate millions of views prior to release and within the first days of the new season.
Their videos are almost meaningless for the game and unlike in PoE where it's almost a cult to watch the season release stream (people also love Chris Wilson), Blizzard is not really able to build up a climax that could lead to people watching their trailers/dev talks.
Blizzard is lucky they have the Diablo franchise name and the streamers who got their backs in advertisement because their in-house marketing sucks.

This post was edited by Gala on Oct 11 2024 11:37am

idk for me that was good