D3 sold more copies and made more money than D2 ever did. More people played and still play D3 than D2 — Data and metrics inform game design decisions - Blizzard would be foolish to not make D4 have a decent amount of D3 in it and then add some new 2022 game service sauce. If D3 had not looked like WoW, if D3 had looked more like what D4 looks like, D4 would not exist today.
D4 should look like D2 in terms of feel, and environment, dark, gritty, psychological grossness, but it should play more like D3 did.
MTX - yes bring it on
Battlepass - yes bring it on
full paid game and expansions - yes bring it on
D4 will help keep D2 running and have free servers, it will keep D3 running - it will support D4’s future service and content dev.
yes Blizzard, I will buy all your MTX, your battle passes, your paid game and paid expansions. It will keep the f2p drivel that is in PoE out.
What D4 should look like, should not be dictated by one person.
D4 exists cause people asked for it and have played the Diablo line for many years now.
Sooo… What? D4 fixes the style of D3, but D3 is better as cartoony looking than D2(witch was pixel style), and we are going back to realism, which was esxistent in which game?
We all are, and no one will admit, that they were wrong, because we live in a time where everyone is right. Well atleast everyone will find a group, where all the that is pouring out of them, is accepted like it was gold.
I would prefer D1, even with lower graphics it’s been nailed in a way better than D2
Faster than D3… I hope so. But with class/specs adapted for all kind of hands and eyes.
Indeed D3 sold more copies but there’s many things too many things to consider, nonetheless D2 and D3 has been records breakers in term of fast sales.
While D3 is ranked 20th on the best seller games WoW isn’t even close from the top 50, I would like you to extrapolate on your arguments related to cartoonish character style.
I agree that D3 has been designed to please the biggest crowd as possible and it’s been half a mistake imo, at least RoS has been the best Band-Aid I ever saw in video game history in that matter.
I don’t know from where comes the 100 millions accounts? The highest count WoW ever had was around 14 millions between 2008-2010.
WoW regenerate more $ but the amount of accounts has never been above this number and going down since, that said there’s more accounts than active players in WoW, so there’s even less active players.
Diablo & Call of Duty are the only titles on the top 50 that Activision-Blizzard have developed, there’s 3 games with >/= 100 millions which are:
Tetris (EA) : 100 millions
Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar Games) : 169 millions
Minecraft (Xbox Game Studios - originally Mojang Studios) : 238 millions
Then, looking at the Top 50, something become clear, NINTENDO may not have any title above 100 millions but dominate the leaderboard
D3 endgame is all right, I just miss the loot hunting, Primal items doesn’t make me feel that I found something special.
I have more satisfaction to upgrade my items with Caldesan Despair than actually looting these items.
D3 had 65M unique accounts made, which included any free trial accounts throughout the years. It’s doubtful it had sold 65 milion units without Blizzard staking claim to it.
WoW capped out ar 12.5M accounts near the end of WotLK(2010). The 100M number was from Blizzard saying since the start of the game 100M unique acxounts were made. That was a l9ng time ago, I’m sure that figure is much higher today.
Didn’t even know D3 had trial accounts. Anyway then clearly WoW has outsold Diablo by a huge margin.
It was by the end of 2013, so 9 years ago.
You’re confusing active accounts with total accounts, and I get it from the official statement they made back then, as I do get the numbers of D3 players from the statment they made at the 10 year anniversary.
I assume you’re looking at wikipedia, which if you look a little closer is quite inaccurate. Plenty of sources they cite are 10+ years old while others are updated.
that is pouring out of them, is accepted like it was gold.
