Can diablo please stop with the giving of mounts or items for other games. Like purchasing the Ultimate edition I get:
Diablo® III Inarius Wings & Inarius Murloc Pet***
World of Warcraft® Amalgam of Rage Mount****
Diablo Immortal™ Umber Winged Darkness Cosmetics Set*****
Like I rather the spend their time creating more in game (not pay to win) cosmetics for Diablo 4 like a hair style or face paint pattern etc. Than to give these 3 filler items that seems rather useless to the people who only plays Diablo 4. Stop thinking that everyone is playing all your games at once Blizzard. Focus on game specific items especially if you want to lump it in a ultimate edition.
Also, for the Collectors Box editon, paying another $96.66 USD for:
Double-sided electric Candle of Creation (Interesting but not impressed)
Cloth map of Sanctuary (Decent for some)
An Occult Mousepad (Are you serious? At this day and age who would use this mousepad)
Pin of the Horadrim (Not collector worthy)
Two matted fine art prints (18.54” x 10.79”) (On the fridge next to your child paintings)
Diablo IV Collector’s Edition Art book (The only collector worthy thing)
I’m really not sure what you’re complaining about here to be honest. Blizzard has been doing this for years, I don’t think it’s going to change any time soon unfortunately.
As for the box, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
I understand that they have been doing this for years. Early on when blizzard was creating top tier games, when they were leading the gaming scene, its understandable to do such a marketing strategy as people are playing mainly their games. But now they have the spiralled down, they should be focusing on creating and making the ultimate eidtion soley for Diablo 4 content. As a wow mount isnt worth anything to someone who isnt playing wow anymore. To them since they included it in, its meant to add value to the hefty price of $99. But from the customer point of view, its worth $0.
Pretty sure it’s meant to bring people to WoW, free advertising to their other franchises. I really don’t see how people don’t get that the main purpose of companies is to make money.
My only real gripe here is the “CE” really needs to include the game. Even at $150 like the Dragonflight CE was, that’s tolerable since it comes with the ultimate version of the game/expansion, along with the collectibles. But having to spend $210 for the same? Ridiculous. Ridonkulous, actually.
Generally speaking, I tend to get the highest tier when getting Blizzard’s games as usually they have decent value to me. It’s the extra and completely separate CE that has myself and others unhappy. And the goodies in the CE aren’t worth that price. Not even close. For that price, the very least they could do is put in the basic version of D4 and then if you want the Deluxe or Ultimate edition you could upgrade them via the Battle.net shop. But not including the game with what they call a CE? That doesn’t go over well with players.
Or else how are you going to get those present D3, WoW, and DI players to pre-order D4 especially when those goods can be used almost immediately or a month later in the game they are currently playing?
The point of pre-order is for Blizzard to get those $$$ first (whether for rolling or funding the development or putting the downpayment to the new yacht and etc) instead of waiting for 6 months later.
You actually don’t. The stuff is in the Standard Edition.
They obviously do this to get people into playing (and paying for) as many of their life service games as possible, but with the current direction they are taking with monetization I am not going to bite.
I have quit every Blizzard game besides D2:R, so I simply decided to completely ignore this stuff when I look at the “value” of any further purchases.
WoW has been terrible for ages in this regard, Hearthstone and Overwatch followed and we don’t even need to talk about D:I.
It’s truly amazing how much more value you get out of your gaming money if you stop throwing most of it at Blizzard
I replied specifically about the collectors box of actual real items, not digital advertising for a couple of their other games.
Last money I spent on a Blizzard product was the Necro pack 5+ years ago. I’ve spent many many times that on games from other devs since then. I’m a gamer, not a Blizzard fanboy. I have 10 games on Battle.net, 200+ on Steam, 200+ on Epic and a bunch on Origin and Ubisoft respectively.
More ppl are playing the other games than there are ppl playing d4 currently. D4 isnt released yet so.
Also im sure there are different ppl working on d3 and d4 for example so its not like they waste time as those d3 devs wouldnt work on d4 anyway.
Well most people are playing the other games are diablo 4 isn’t even out yet. But maybe have the option for people to choose to either more D4 in game cosmetics or a wow mount. Like for the 3 filler items as I mentioned. Give the option to choose whether I would want a something in D4 or wow or DI or D3. So as a consumer there would be more incentive and at least I would feel that it isn’t a cash grab (though we all know it is). But as much as they need to earn money, they need to give value to the customers too. Thus we would also be more willing to spend on the game.
Aww cmon Blizzard has always been superior in making any box offerings . Their art dept is world class IMHO and deserved every penny …
Just look at those earlier CE box , the cinematics , the in game contents …
I know I am a fan boy but I dont think I am alone
It’s not that I don’t get that companies need to make money. Rather as I mentioned to another person. Why not give options for the 3 filler items. Like for me as a customer who only wants to play diablo. So instead of the wow mount, I get to choose an extra D4 cosmetic. But for the wow players they can choose the mount. Would that also make more people wanting to spend on getting the ultimate edition.
What some people don’t realize is that the Ultimate Collection Box is like 100 bucks. Add that and the base game of 80 bucks makes it 180 bucks which is somewhat average amount of a Collectors Edition for other games. You just say paying for all the toys and etc without the game.
Given that players are finding out that if they buy the Standard Edition they can’t upgrade to Deluxe, only the Ultimate Edition, I wouldn’t expect Blizzard to be able to properly handle a BTO system like what you can do with say, computer manufacturers like Dell or Apple. It’d be nice, but the chances of Blizzard getting that working properly are about as good as me getting a date with anyone I actually like.
