Releasing games with low amount of patching is not that uncommon. Nintendo rarely seem to patch their games much, as an example.
The main point you’re missing is Blizzard is notorious for copious amounts of downtime while having much more revenue for the same type of game. I’m not here to compare companies, just provide factual information on why I would never give Blizzard money ahead of time.
Why would I criticize every other gaming company just because they need to patch something? The other company I mentioned patches on their end without downtime, only thing you need to do when it’s ready is relog. Unlike Blizzard who has had several hours to days of downtime, while charging monthly fees.
I pre-purchased but not for early access. I figure D3 has paid for itself 10x over, and if D4 is even a shadow of this game, it will be worth the $.
3 months, but you don’t “have” to pay for those at all. What you can CHOOSE to pay for is a season pass that gives you access to unlock cosmetics, everything game play related is accessible to everyone.
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No, I will not pre-purchase the game. I will wait and see how it looks and most likely buy it then.
I have pre-purchased a few games. One that was worth it and others that I was very disappointed with.
I have friends that pre-purchased other games that were never fully released. So, I can wait.
I am still having a good time playing D3.
If you are absolutely sure it is fact and not ambiguity gleaned from the internet, maybe you should write to them directly. D3’s downtime has been minimal.
You obviously have seen the code of both companies, the one that can patch without downtime and the Blizzard who you seem to indicate has more downtime than anyone else. Some applications are designed in a manner where they must go offline to do updates and patches and this is not limited to games. corporate servers all over the world do this on a regular change management basis.
Me personally, if it annoyed me that much, I’d write to them directly and ask why with a formal complaint or simply not bother posting on the forum because I would not be playing any of their games.
I will let the open beta convince me if I’m to get D4.
Same thing happened with D3. I was more keen for Torchlight 2. D3’s always online requirement was an annoyance at the time. But then I played the open beta and really enjoyed the freedom of switching skills at will. Went and bought the CE immediately… as well as the book of cain.
11yrs later, I’m still here enjoying the purchase.
Dude, I’m not annoyed with Blizzard. This was a response because the post you responded to was for someone else stating “name me another company that can launch a game on day release withoutt issue.” When I did, they decided that information was invalid due to genre even though the genres compared where apples to apples. Either way this whole conversation is ridiculous since the OP only asked who is not pre-purchasing, which I obviously am not.
Not me…I’ll wait and see how the first week or two go…then maybe buy after that.
Whats keeping me from preordering is lack of information. I have 2 major issues one being how will expansions work, will it be an expansion to the story or is it just going to be class dlcs like they did with the necro in d3. My second beef with d4 is why is the most fun archetype missing sword and board has existed since d1, they punished us in d3 made us wait for the expansion to get it now they are doing the same in d4.
I don’t have it yet because the Beta really did not run on my PC to speak of. I VERY rarely could get in without Windows crashing. Very frustrating. I will get it when I know it works. I did enjoy what of the Beta I did play though!
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I agree, Which is why asked why bother posting anything other than the last ten words because there is no programmed application created that is bug free.
I’ll buy in of course but there is time.
I have no interest in gaining early access for D4. But the game looks great from what I’ve seen and I’m very much in desire of getting it.
For now, I am buying more and more Bitcoin each and every week. Further, I will continue to do so before and after my actual purchasing of D4.
Here, i fixed it for you.
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you’re right. that’s a good example. but now that i recall- what downtimes are you referring? I’m guessing this is WoW. so in WoW you had to wait for the patch to be installed in the servers? in D3 or D2 its not like this. you just patch it and go right in?
I don’t recall downtimes in the diablo franchise. except from the launch times where they had the servers crashed, or just too much queue. but that’s because there are way more folks playing than GW2.
EDIT: I pre-ordered!
You checked what caused the crashes?
If yes, was memory fail or incompatinility with graphics?
Beucase sometimes I have issues with some commercial games using Vulkan/AMD graphics. While the same game runs smoothly on OpenGL.
I haven’t bought the game simply because I’m worried it will end up pay to win like Diablo immortal or completely unfinished/buggy like Diablo 3 was at launch.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely excited about D4, as I played D2 for almost 13 years - and i hope they are going back to the roots on what made Diablo in general so great… but I’ve seen the paywalls, the extreme difference between players who have dumped money into Diablo Immortal vs those that haven’t. My understanding is they made quite a bit of money off its players and I’m hestitant to purchase if they intend to make it pay-to-win using the same greedy model.
Diablo has had plenty of downtime between login errors, server authentication. There are dozens of posts with can’t log in issues. Those issues persisted for hours for most folks, to days for others.
You’re comparing a $60B company with many issues to a $7B company with very few issues. If you weren’t around at the time, or don’t have a great memory, sure it’s easier to justify. Blizzard needs to reinvest in it’s operational needs. I’m done talking about this, you tried to justify every company has problems and downtime when that’s simply not the case. Non interfering patches and small bug fixes are not in the same class as can’t access a game for long periods of time.
ok I guess you’re talking about “closed for maintenance”.
I’m not arguing or justifying. just want to understand what was the problem you were talking. sorry.