Lol. I have hundreds of hours on OW (NOT OW2) and Diablo III (not IV), and i can safely say I forgo ever playing those 2 games again because of the toxic entity that is Acti-Blizz. Not that I have much choice considering OW cannot even be played as its own game now.
I left when I read that Blizzard staff got the axe while Kotick got himself a sweet sweet money enema of a bonus.
When Michael Chu left in 2020 i started playing more Monster Hunter and Genshin. When Jeff Kaplan left I finally uninstalled Battle.net.
Now unless you dedicate a full time job amount of hours, you’ll be lucky to get 4 unlocks a seasons
Thanks. At least I have some affirmation I made the right choice. At least I can be content I’m playing something worthwhile like Genshin. #damnedeitherway 🤣 🤣 🤣
We still can’t get free expansions for WoW subscribers? I can’t think of any other service where you have to buy the software and pay to use it. Either you buy it and own at least that version outright or you pay a recurring fee for access to the latest version.
This used to be pretty common. And to be fair, I prefer this model compared to excessive cash shops. (WoW also has one which I don’t like, but at least there is no item shop. Though I’m sure they would if it not caused too much of a backlash)
Guild Wars 2 has no monthly fee and has a cash shop but the items are either QoL improvements or cosmetic. There’s nothing there that gives the player an edge over non-paying players.
I really like the Guild Wars 2 model. The base game is free to play now too.
Yes, I played gw2 for a long time. Unfortunately, I didn’t like how WvW played essentially as big blobs stuck together. Pvp was interesting, but missed some objectives there. I’m currently trying WoW, it also has its many flaws, but is a new flavor for me.
Gw doesn’t really have anything that gives someone an advantage though. It’s designed completely different from WoW and to compare them in this way is kons of disingenuous.
The idea is everyone can reach the same statistics in terms of weapons, armour and build. It’s skill that makes a player better than others. That’s why I avoid PvP and WvW :D
Oh I know. I was a huge fan of GW1. Wife and I bought GW2 opening day. And while it was an interesting game, it wasn’t for me. I loved the skill system in GW1. I spent too many hours designing skill builds while at work (shhh).
But that was gone for the sequel. I understand why they did it, but I still think it was a travesty to lose something so unique and well thought out.
ESO doesn’t require you to buy the latest expansions to play them, they only require you to have an active subscription. Buying the expansions gives you the option to play them without the subscription.
FFXIV took after WoW, so no surprise there, but they also haven’t thrown away their earlier expansions either - in fact, to properly enjoy it, you should play through them in order, otherwise you are just rushing to an endgame of fashionwars for no reason.
The real reason this model persists is because MMO devs realize that they can milk a lot more from MMO addictions than from normal games, not because it needs to be.
Reading the comments I tend to think that people are so unfamiliar with competition that they fail to recognize it when seeing it at work: if you have competition, stuff fails and dies. This idea that everything should survive and that I as the user should be the receptacle of thousands of shitty products preaching variety as an excuse for their existence is insane. Launchers existed, could have used IP as an advantage to develop a valid product instead failed and therefore will disappear. I still use GOG Galaxy no problem alongside Steam.
Yeah, but it’s a bit easier to install the game directly from Steam instead of installing Bnet as a non Steam game and then downloading the game on Bnet.
Awww, they are such a good guys. They are doing this for us and they want to make sure they respect user’s choice. Totally it’s not the fact Overwatch2 is not earning anything and other games have been in decline since Activision merger.
With ActiBlizz it’s all about money. Just look at D3 auction house. They purposely dropped wrong items to players in order to force them to use auction house. When it was found out they backtracked. But it’s always been like that. Same with WoW and mounts. Etc. They keep milking everything.
I have never thought I’d see the day when I think MS is the good guy in a merger.
Burned my Battle.Net account when they shat on Taiwan advocacy, not keen to return given all the bullshit that has continued popping up about their abusive workspace environment. Maybe they can go to GOG and shit on Devotion together?
Isn’t Diablo 4 one of the top profitable games this year (if you include extra transactions), and are there deets on how much Overwatch 2 makes in a month?
Naturally gamers here don’t care, but I imagine much like Madden or Fifa the mainstream buys tons of Blizzard stuff.
When I did in home jobs decades ago there were quite a few people who played Warcraft and not even remotely familiar with other games let alone how to use their PCs
I do run a game store nowadays and it’s interesting to see diehard board games on message boards get confused why their favorite games sell so poorly compared to more mainstream titles. 😌
I saw a comment the other day that said something to the effect of “shout out to r34 artists I didn’t even know overwatch was a real game until 2 years after it came out”
I fully agree. My statement was meant to be subjective. Gaming became so mainstream, they can sell anything and make millions as long as the games have new shiny graphics. For me as a former Diablo2 player, Blizzard became irrelevant with Diablo3 being a huge disappointment and PoE coming out. As you say that is ofc just my opinion.
Man I was really hyped for Diablo 4 but I think I just finished act 3 recently and I’m already bored. I don’t know what it is that makes the game so soulless to me
I agree but I’ve been around from Diablo 1 original launch and in my fourties now so I was just chalking it up to me growing out of it (“it” being Diablo and maybe gaming at large). I’m really bummed about it though because I expected a completely different feeling, even buying my console largely for it. Diablo 2 Resurrected cheated me, maybe out of nostalgia. I found that one really fun and thought D4 would learn D3 lessons and be amazing. But I barely feel anything playing through its campaign. It just feels like work. That I’m following a carefully planned treadmill and pacing with the monster scaling and all. In a grey world with generic monsters. Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s the game, maybe it’s both, but it’s made me finally begin disregarding Blizzard Entertainment games…
Its dead after the story. They nuked endgame content imo.
Was not happy with the patch notes but signed in with my 4 friends. We beat the start of the new season stuff, then immediately saw how shit the season was about to be.
Basically after 2 short missions, you do NMD only. Helltide is worse than useless, which sucks because it was my favorite solo casual grind for endgame.
All 5 of us were off the game within an hour. We decided to go back to playing old games. 2 of us went back to playing Diablo 2 lol.
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