Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m excited about the news, I’m just cautiously optimistic. The biggest things that are missing in these rumors are: what type of re-master it will be and what platforms re-master will be available on. Those 2 things are kinda big deal.
Does it really make sense though to have a major Diablo 3 expansion though? Historically, that has almost never worked well for games on maintenance modes. I could see a character addition, as that’s happened with other games in maintenance mode, but I honestly doubt that you could bring back players to the game in any significant number, no matter what you did.
Possibly. They’ve already added two. Here’s what I predict, if that does end up happening:
-Introduce Druid (or whatever they decide to bring back)
-Make it paid DLC
-Make it OP as all get out, to attract buyers
-Nerf it into the ground later on, after they have our money
That seems about their speed.
Well…considering D4 is still a ways of…maybe adding a decent size expansion new content would make sense to more or less keep Diablo Players on board and hoping for new ones.
Right now for all platforms, it’s basically Diablo or Path of Exile for those who like this style of game. I play both between breaks in Season and Leagues and while both have Pros they also have Cons as well …Which to me and have seen it on the Forums…players don’t like the Cheating and lack of New Stuff with Diablo and don’t like the Complexity and the Trade Market/Loot System of PoE
I think the issue with getting anything new in D3 at this stage is with Blizzard and Activision, verything is looked thru the prism of…“How much can this make us money?”…and D3 in it’s current form pretty much is zero, zada, nada. Their Bread & Butter on $$$ is mostly WoW and Overwatch.
PoE has a cr*p load of cosmetic stuff and people do buy it but for Grinding Gears they need something. They don’t have several games with monthly subscriptions and other means of revenue…I firmly believe that’s why D4 has been pushed back and on the Back-Burners in favor of Importal…Mobile gaming and probably could generate more revenue off the bat…
It makes sense. Like it or not, the Chinese are now a huge factor in the gaming industry as far as an audience that needs to be targetted. And thus, microtransactions are the way to go, and have been proven to be hugely beneficial to companies in the west too.
Blizzard made a mistake with the auction house, which was pretty much an untested way to acquire extra money, excluding WoW, where microtransactions have a long history of working. And that’s going to be the future of gaming, like it or not.
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A change to endgame is really required for D3 so with the addition of the endgame in Diablo Immortal I wonder if they could incorporate something like it.
That’s been my stance from the beginning, but many players disagree. The company complains that the game doesn’t bring them money anymore, but they refuse a valid revenue stream. I stopped trying to figure out their motivations a long time ago.
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Just a reminder…BlizzCon starts Friday 19 at 2pm PT - 5pm ET and Saturday 20 its 12pm ET - 3pm ET…several game sites like Gamespot, IGN and others are streaming it.
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10pm in the UK with GMT and I’ll be watching…I enjoy watching Quin69 streaming watching it…
What if they did something like you pay for the base game for D4 mabye a better edition that comes with the dlc’s(when if they arrive)
However instead of MTX shop. How about paid seasons? $5 to enter the ‘season’ and the only thing that will carry over into NS is materials, gems, mabye runes, and all the cosmetics that would’ve been in the MTX shop but are now unlockable during the paid season.
Benefits could range from a separate server so if you decide to pay for the season play (there will be a free one) so lag and other issues are nonexistent. The money allows for badass season theme or whatever they implement for both free/paid and allows a nice profit stream for them while still letting people hunt and work for even cosmetics. Mabye being on the leaderboards of the paid season gets you a dope banner or something letting people know what’s up.
Idk I just hate ‘shops’ whether is cosmetic or actual gear I hate all of it. They’re nasty money traps with a revolving door of pixel items to make your character look cool for money. I hate them so much but I know if a cool cosmetic is for sale I will buy it…and I hate myself for it.
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If they move seasons to pay-to-play, it will be the last season I play.
If you read what I wrote entirely it would be an option to get access to cosmetics. paid season and free season with the only difference is working for cosmetics you’d otherwise buy in the shop.
I see. The original wording led me to believe you meant something else.
Yeah typing on my phone while eating breakfast doesn’t lead to clearly worded statements lol.
That sounds fair. 
Not wasting money on a dead game. Will wait to see how D4 is. May not buy it based on their current underperformance of games at the moment.
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If it’s like the necro pack and had some of the other mentioned content/bug fixes and priced similarly, I’d buy it. If it helps them fund more work development and maintenance being done, that’s fine with me. Still enjoying the game and there’s still an inflow of people picking it up. Being on shelves will only help with both. The cost is pittance to what I’ve spent in games with monthly subs.
Even if it were an entirely new expansion, I doubt I’d go for it. This game has a history of invalidating too many of the things I enjoy for me to believe it wouldn’t just be more of the same.
Fair enough. Each to their own there. I think it would still sell ok though.
As thoughts around it start to settle and players here mention classes that as yet haven’t migrated from earlier game versions, it’s starting to make sense to release classes in that way over time while d4 is in dev.
Do you think Necro was OP on release? I wasn’t really following closely when it was released. I note your comment earlier on your expectations if a new class is released.
More people should feel that way. Less fighting.
Oh, it probably will. Everyone has reasons for doing what they do, likes different stuff, etc, etc.
They’ll have to keep us on the hook somehow, and with their other projects somewhat “in the wind”, it’s looking like it’s this or WoW.
My memory was that players were complaining a lot about the Necromancer being too powerful on release, yes. I don’t have any references from that time to point to, but that’s what I remember. I also remember Blizzard issuing one-way tickets on the nerf train to pretty much everything in sight since then.
And…even if I’m wrong about the Necromancer and whether it was or wasn’t “OP”, the above scenario still makes the most sense to me. Players in this game will do anything to get ahead…even pay out money for a new class if it looks like it will represent an advantage. I think we’re all past the point of innocence regarding whether or not a company will use that to make a quick buck.
Hell…even I might do that, if I were the one in charge. Thankfully, I don’t have to find out.
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