Diablo 3 is dwarfing Diablo 4 on Twitch as D4 continues to hemorrhage players to other games and older games. Where is Diablo 4 at as I type this? 4.4k viewers. That’s not 44k, that is 4400! Diablo 3 is at 7500. For comparison to similar games, Path of Exile is pushing 21k viewers and Lost Ark is at 19.5k.
Blizzard spoke of Diablo 5 and maybe it is just time to announce maintenance mode for Diablo 4? It seems way too weak to recover and compete with the other games that are up to a decade older not to mention future releases of games that will continue to pull remaining players away. It appears Diablo 4’s time in the sun has come to an end and summer is not even over.
It’s because the two guys who prop up D4 viewership (Wudijo and Rax) are playing D3.
They’re literally 50% of D4 viewership.
The fact that they’re incentivized to return to a decade old game only 2 months after release of the latest game product (and only a few weeks after a season release) is well…idk.
It seems the situation is similar to 2012’s D3 release. It was also VERY poorly received by players. Now D3 is a solid second best Diablo game, after D2:LoD. Give D4 a chance. It will have several expansions. A LOT will change for the better. Don’t be so negative. It puts you down and everybody who reads that.
Frankly, I continue to get a kick out of the trolls posting twitch numbers or metacritic scores as some sort of “ah ha” moment. Whatever gets them off I suppose.
D3 was okay, but it was way too cartoony for my tastes.
What would you go with if you were trying to objectively compare the games? Paid critic reviews for D4 or whiteknights on these forums? Your subjective feelings as you call it cartoony? That isn’t going to cut it.
Cartoony is your issue? Well Diablo 4 is way too unfinished for my tastes. I care about gameplay and itemization not just the art design. Diablo 3 had a better gameplay loop and set items, D4 can’t compete there. D3’s greater rift monster blasting >>> D4’s carry the rock NMDs. Diablo 3 is objectively the superior Diablo game based on metrics.
People that sit on Twitch all day compiling “data” to have that one “Got YA HAHA!!!” moment on the forums are literally Charlie day in the Pepe Silvia meme. Man like touch some grass or something
I would use my own personal experience. Why should I care what others think of two games when I’ve already played both of them?
Twitch views are useless because
1.) those numbers go up and down depending on new content releases and whatever games their favorite streamer is playing
2.) There is no correlation between people who watch others play games on twitch and those who bought and played the game. I already bought and played the game. Why do I need to watch others play it?
And Metacritic is just one of MANY sites you can use for judging popularity of a game. You and others just use that one because it feeds into your narrative. Amazon is far more credible because we know the person doing the review bought the game and didn’t review bomb because they were angry over a patch.
It’s one of many issues, but yes, art style does matter since it’s what I have to look at every time I play the game. I thought I was playing Diablo, not a Disney game. Between the animations and gameplay, everything is way too cute and looks like the type of game that was made for 7 year olds to enjoy.
And I think D4 does both better.
Greater Rifts didn’t come until patch 2.1. You’re comparing a game that has been out for ten years to one that is two months old. And the only true “metrics” is to compare the two games at the same point of their lifespans. Not one game that is two months old to another that’s had the advantage of ten years of fixing and updating content.
It takes a minute to look at Twitch rankings if you know how to navigate the site. I also have 2000 or so hours into Diablo 3. Diablo 4 got stale in about 50 hours for me but I still hit 100 and tried season 1 to give it a chance. D4 is just too weak and unfinished to compete.
Touch grass? This again? TBH I’m leaving Wudijo’s D3 stream open while I do yard work aka touch grass because it is more fun than playing D4.
What kind of argument is this? Blizzard made D3. Blizzard made D4. Blizzard is Blizzard. It’s on them if they forget or fail to include fun/replayable features in their newest iteration.
this is what wrong with games today the view count is more important then the player base its not even about a good game anymore its about advertisement
D4 is one of the worst games ever made. Its non-existence on Twitch is just one of many examples of its failure. Not the reason for it. But a symptom of it.