With the average age of gamers being mid-30s and Diablo likely skewing older than that due to the brand’s historical nature and the genre in general I am going to assume that this isn’t a very valid game where you can say this and encompass even a large % of customers.
There are some free skins that are nice, but ultimately none of them will ever look as pristine or nice as any of the premium skins, which is a whole other issue with cosmetic shops. While I’m not personally against cosmetic shops provided that they’re implemented in a reasonable fashion, Blizzard will never put something on par with a cash shop skin for free. It would undercut the entire point of the cash shop to begin with. Everyone has different tastes in style and whatnot, but I don’t think it’s ludicrous to assert that the cash shop and battle pass skins are far shinier than anything earned in-game.
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Everything in the shop is expensive af. Imagine buying a mog for $25, lol.
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This in itself is a sad statement. Way to not teach children value and just give them what ever they want.
I’ve never understood the urge to spend a bunch of money on cosmetic items.
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Have you ever been a guy in a gun store or sports section?
Or a woman in a perfume place or shoe store?
“Leagues above D3…”
Irrelevant to compare art style of games, when the point is comparing art styles of items within the same game, between in game cash shop and in game vanilla art. Again… Blizzard knew it was going to be an issue, and they tried LYING about it, by comparing the end game armor vanilla sets to the cheapest cosmetic shop items, which is the definition of disingenuous.
Once the necromancers wraith set was “leaked” a few days after, it was beyond obvious they dumbed down the vanilla art to push cosmetic shop items to nickel and dime players. The more cosmetic shop items they release only compounds this fact.
People tried defending this game with “IT WAS ALL KOTICK…” Well… Kotick is gone, and the cosmetic shop is still in full swing, with no attempt by blizzard to reverse it by selling a bundle of all cosmetics and move forward in good faith that people will buy their expansions(and even the seasons). When you have bad faith in your own product, you resort to this petty cosmetic shop BS as your source of revenue.
I put well over 3k hours into D2, running my fair share of pendleskin/baal/meph runs. I played probably 2k hours in D3, and had plenty of harsh criticisms prior to RoS saving the game. However, I didn’t buy Season 3, I will likely not buy season 4 if it follows this lack of imagination as season 3, and the expansion is under risk of not being bought either. I hope, and believe more players feel the same way.
You can be R* type developers who develop a great game that millions of people will pay full price for nearly a decade to play…
or you can be Larian type developers who put their heart and soul into the game for a single price as people play test it for years before release…
or you can put your game on sale for 45% a few months in and push cosmetics to generate revenue because people stopped buying your game.
Blizzard chose poorly…
I don’t know that they chose poorly from a revenue perspective, I would be willing to bet they are making money hand over fist.
If they added something that let me turn my character into a Plague Maggot for $100.00, I would whale on up and buy it.
That’s all I have to add. Wouldn’t personally spend what they want for these portals but fortunately, I don’t have to.
Time will tell…
Selling $28 cosmetics to a few thousand or tens of thousands of people, VERSUS having millions of people invested in each season/expansion may be equivalent in revenue… yet the nickel and dime cosmetic route certainly ruins your reputation for delivering a quality game. Again, the way I see it, is they have no faith in their creation garnering said millions of return players, which then leads me to wonder why I should buy their expansion, and question whether I want to buy D5 in 8 years at full price, or wait until the inevitable sale of shame after the initial launch bugs get squashed.
What, lol? I havent bought anything. Even if I did, I wouldnt think twice about something so trivial.
Okay, so you’re basically here just to troll then? Why even insert yourself into a conversation you have no interest or stake in?
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How is saying something isnt overpriced trolling? Some of you have a real hard time making much sense.
Yeah, I imagine common sense is really difficult to follow for you.
I just personally don’t understand the mentality behind arguing something you clearly don’t care to discuss. You don’t buy skins and you don’t care about the price, and any semblance of commentary is shot down by blasé remarks that don’t actually engage with the arguments made. You repeat the same points over and over without any elaboration. At this point, the only thing I can assume is that you’re here to troll because it’s the only logical conclusion that can be made for someone so disinterested in participating in the discourse but still hanging around to contribute absolutely nothing of value.
So if someone provides their opinion that something is not overpriced that is a troll comment? Again, you still arent making any sense. Just because someone disagrees with you doesnt make them a troll. Throwing out juvenille insults just hurts your credibility.
If enough people pay for the product to satisfy the seller it is, in fact, not overpriced. It really is as simple as that no matter what someone mad on the internet has to say about it.
These guys, im guessing.
Except,
buying games = promoting game development
buying microtransactions in buy-to-play/monthly sub games = promoting predatory business practices.
Once they know that a large portion of people are willing to buy “extras” they will find ways to make “extras” feel like necessary purchases.
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That’s a big assumption. People often buy stuff they think is way too expensive, but they couldn’t resist. Doesn’t mean they spent more than they can afford necessarily, but simply that they’re aware the price they paid was way too high.
And I’m sure you have so much knowledge on how these things are made right?
Yeah I didn’t think so…
People in glass houses should not throw stones.
Idk if I can agree with this analogy, if this game was a Subaru it wouldn’t be stuck spinning in place.
I mean yes the interior would smell like sweet fruit vape juice and half of the electrical systems would have broken by now but we would be moving ^^;
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