... They missed the hype train a while ago. Tumblr's over here making them all rainbow and letting people send them to each-other.

I liked being locked in too. I liked being a "Fire Nova maxed, Lightning Nova maxed" sorceress. As opposed to just a sorceress.

Even though the build was shit.

Sometimes I feel the same way, but unless we push back as hard as we can the situation won't be changing any time soon, unfortunately.

So being slightly profitable for 2 years out of a 17 year existence is something to brag about?

Why would others follow suit? That doesn’t sound like a sustainable model.

3's biggest problem for me was how they forced the hardness for the first go through. Normal was easy, I usually switch every RPG I play to hard.

You could trivially buy (if you weren't the first set of players) weapons way stronger than you could get in game in the auction house. Cheaply. Giant damage gems too.

So either you banned yourself from those items by willpower, or you just had to play the game the first time on what was basically story mode. Which wasn't fun for me.

I just want a hard (but not Souls hard, I have a job and kids I ain't got time for that) playthrough please. With multiplayer so I can hang with my bro like the old days.

Where are younger people going now? Tik tok? Where did people go from My Space? There is nothing holding people to a social network, if enough people leave the social network it will die. The journalists and the corporations will follow the actual people, people don't follow the corporations.

It made money in 2018 and 2019.

This is what people aren't realizing. Even if only 100k subscribe...that's going to be close to 1 mil profit with little extra work

Business or not. Only morons would pay for shit.

Absolutely this. They have been cashing in on their reputation and captive audience for years. Diablo Immortal (aka Diablo Immoral), the hatchet job they did with Overwatch, the terrible state of Diablo 3 on launch, constantly releasing games before they're ready, and cash grab that was warcraft 3 reforged.

Everything is designed to squeeze blood out of the stone that is their aging playerbase. Anyone who pre-orders or even joins the beta on this game knows what they're getting into.

There is a saying in computer science.

Garbage in, garbage out.

To show you the source I’ll need a flashlight, rubber gloves and Elon Musk bending over with his pants down.

Diablo Immoral was the most abusive game to be produced in the last 10 years. People are talking about spending over $100k to cap it, and it's a seasonal game. Mind blowing how they're taking advantage of addicts like that.

Bleed off to where? These twitter and Facebook accounts have replaced corporate PR departments and journalists in media channels. These corporate entities will not fund departments again to write email press releases and email out then follow up on engagement, when a few thousand dollars a year in licence fees allows them to remain in touch. Social media may feel like it’s “influencers” and giving voice to individuals it really is just corporate money all the way down.

Soon social media will be even more like Television or radio with a clear divide between licensed content creators and consumers. We are watching the death of social media as we have know it, which was born out of the death of open internet.

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Great game, even if I did mostly cough up plate armor to player killers 2 minutes outside of town.

The shift to an item-based focus is what I didn't like about D3. Obviously gear can make or break builds in D2, but in D3 almost the entirety of character progression was based around gear.

Sure you unlock skills as you level in D3, but once you got to the appropriate level changing your build was as easy as clicking a couple buttons. All the skills were gear-based, and sure certain items worked better for certain skills but once your character was leveled there was little reason to level that class again because you could easily swap skills around and just have gear swaps in your stash.

D2 forced you to think about the character you wanted to play and actually build into that character. Once you did it wasn't easy to change your character, so it encouraged replayability by forcing you to remake the same class if you wanted a different build. The only way I spent years playing D2 was due to this, such as leveling up a paladin into a hammerdin, leveling a different one for boss killing (smiter), and even a third as a zealer. In D3 this would've all been accomplished with a single playthrough and some gear/skill swaps depending on what I wanted to play. D2 gave a sense that a character has a specific purpose to me, D3 was just "idk do whatever you want whenever you want" so the characters felt boring and had no real meaning behind them.

That said I still did enjoy D3, I just felt like it was well behind D2 in terms of replayability. I played D2 for 4-5 years when it first came out, I played D3 off and on for maybe a year, and a good chunk of that was to make a little bit of money when the real money auction house existed.

This game will forever be at the top of my list of PC games. From the first time planting my 7x7 field stone, to running with Adam Ant, to engaging with the Faction wars. Ultima did it best and first and will never be beat.

This isn't high tech. This is a simple machined part and they can't get that right.

It is more that greed. You have to want to make good products.

Yes I get that, but they need the audience otherwise it doesn’t work at all. I don’t know if and how long the people are accepting this new format.

Every time I say that, from personal experience with both groups in IT, I get accused of be racist. Nevermind the obvious that nothing of high quality or high technology is made in India.

They've been learning since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and it doesn't seem to be working.

I would have expected that given my personal experience with lack of quality. Everything was always just "that's good enough".

I'm not at all thrilled with this.