I have been playing Diablo ever since Diablo 2, and in terms of story, Diablo 4 is the absolute best. It was told in a fluid and exciting way that always had me wondering what would happen next. The in-game cinematics were also fantastic, especially the one featuring Inarius’s death.
But despite all these good things, I’m sad because Diablo follows a pattern. It releases, we play the game, and it quickly stagnates, and we know that’s because Blizzard has left it for other projects. Inevitably, Diablo 4 will see this same fate, as it is the fate of every Blizzard game, with World of Warcraft being the exception. And let’s face it; Diablo will never get the same steady stream of content as WoW because it’s not an MMO and not their primary money maker.
I played D2 for over 20 years…
Diablo IV could get development cycles like WOW because it is a live service game. It all depends upon how much copies were sold at launch for both launch periods between early access and official launch. Then it comes down to growth sales overtime.
This doesn’t even account for the shop nor the battlepass that will be coming with Season 1 in sometime of July.
They’ll milk this cow like they did with D3. This is only its first form. It’s success will make them MORE determined to sell those battle passes. And expansions, those will probably bring back some prime evils or we’ll see new antagonists. This wasn’t some one off. They have a fresh start here and it’s in the right direction.
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Yeah I’m never touching any of that. If they want to do seasons and have people grind ladders, fine. I’m really just here for the single player story.
The story thus far has been good, but good god why do I have to have other people around to experience it? D3 being always online was bad enough, now it’s not just always online, it’s always multiplayer.
If I still wanted an MMO I would not have turned off my wow sub.
I’ve been playing ARPGs for the past few decades. Sadly D4 is very basic game play. However it does have some of the best graphics today. But gameplay is most important and D4 is far from the triple A ranks like D2, Poe, GD, LE
wow can you put a spoiler warning for others please? I havnt gotten to that yet…