This isn’t even funny anymore, after the full reveal of POE 2 the official Diablo General Manager has come out on X / Twitter to state that it’s unfair to compare Diablo to POE 2 because Diablo is not an ARPG and that it should be called a “Diablo Like” game.
This is some next level coping, how about hire people who knows what they are doing and who can make a proper Diablo sequel rather than blame POE 2 for being so good?
Heya,
I do play PoE, enjoy it quite a bit, but to say that PoE 2 is good is something NOBODY knows yet, and considering it won’t be actually playable in full for QUITE some time is disingenuous at best.
Yeah, not so much.
I agree. Diablo 3 and Diablo 4 is not an ARPG. It’s a Diablo-like, much more aimed for casuals unlike other ARPGs. Blizzard themselves even said it themselves so I don’t think you can call them out on it.
Indeed… If it became like D1 people might actually have nightmares.
Rip babies!
Diablo 1 isn’t difficult and it’s quite casual friendly. It wasn’t a bloated, unfocused mess like Diablo 3 either. No opinion on Diablo IV I’ve never played it.
It’s a marketing trick or trolling.
I’m not really sure why that guy gets super butthurt for.
He got hired to do what he does best, and that is take something in bad shape (Diablo 4) and pull it together for a release to applease shareholders.
He is the master of that, and he should celebrate and FEEL GOOD, about meeting the expectations of the top dogs.
This is where it gets strange, he isn’t a hardcore Diablo fan - yet acts like a hardcore fan. He isn’t experienced to know how to make a Diablo game or who to hire to make a true Diablo game. And it has taken him this long to kind of get hints of that by seeing how people react to Path of Exile 2 - seeing the polish of Path of Exile 2. But the thing is, and here is the thing, it was 100% obvious day 1, on day 1 of Diablo 4 every veteran can tell you it wasn’t Diablo and needed insane work to even get close to being fixed. The cleanest and unbias take on this would be Kripparian’s first impressions of Diablo 4. The producer guy dismissed it all and just thought “Diablo is a goofy game you kill monsters!!! it can’t be that difficult!!! these gamers are over thinking it”
I think it was obvious long before day 1. Their recent history has shown they were going to release a game basically in early beta state and try to fix it on the fly. As for gameplay, it was more than obvious they weren’t making an ARPG.
Lackluster sales and the massive amount of game changing patches they have done show they had no idea what they were doing or which direction they were going.
all diablo games are ARPG, but last 15 years maybe orless, blizzard always is making worst desicions, recruting worst ppl to work on games, and ofcourse, always out of touch.
so GGG made a smash master piece (poe), because they have better devlopers, and they listen to comunity. this is the truth…