Just play the game and enjoy it. Blizzard are big boys, and they know how to handle constructive criticism. Do not worry.
The cosmetics shop pays for their bills. Also, you probably don’t want graphic artists working on game play mechanics… everyone has a different job and not everyone can work on everything.
To be fair, they are separate teams, the one that handles the cosmetics and microtransactions, and the one that develops the game, systems, etc.
In my opinion, I have no issue with the cosmetics shops, or anything they sell there, some of the sets are actually cool.
The issue comes down to the fact that we only see the cosmetics team delivering content in the game, the actual developers on the other hand, not so much.
And therein lies the problem, they don’t want to make a good game.
I doubt they don’t have the skills, money or time to do that.
There are a ton of ways they can get insight into what a good ARPG is, both internally from their own experience, and externally from every other game in the genre that has come out in the past 15+ years.
But they don’t want to, it’s the minimum amount of effort, no fun allowed, get you to keep playing as much as possible so they can hopefully sell you something in the cash shop.
I took a break from Diablo 4, and I have to say, man, that feels good.
The game is out , has been for more than 2 months, it’s too late to put it back in the oven, but they have around 10 months left, until it celebrates one year from release, to show that it has grown, it has changed, and it has become a good game, worth playing.
However, we shouldn’t completely give up on the game, as long as we still care or want to care about the game, we should keep posting here, and give our honest feedback, solutions to ingame problems, ideas for what we want to see in the game, upvote the ideas we like, support each other.
These were probably all ready to go at launch and are just being rolled out a few at a time.
MTX gives developers incentive to create new content to keep current players engaged. If you want them, great! You are bankrolling new content I get to enjoy. If not, that’s fine. Maybe other people will.
Wait there are new cosmetics in the store? Thanks.
edit: aww it’s only like 3 new ones.
also this is just WRONG
I watched that new-ish dungeons and dragons movie recently. Cosmetics and custom designers deserve A++.
Druid girl for alternative ideas for what Druids and Owl-Bears could look like, also A+.
Blizz non-cut scene cinematics artists should take some cues. Make the cosmetics actually worthwhile. (And also give Sorc males an option not to look like they are wearing dresses. I’m okay with the existing option existing! I’m not okay with that being the only option…)
Yeah the skins are way too expensive and low effort like in Pokemon Unite (maybe they took notes from them). Some do look cool but they’re just pretty transmogs with nothing else to add, would be cool if they changed how some skills looked like in heroes of the storm but as it stands I won’t pay $10-20 for them. maybe I’d buy them if they were $3-5 and even then it would really have to be appealing to me. But thankfully I’m quite satisfied with the base transmogs of my character.
Say’s he can’t do this anymore. Proceeds to make like 4 more “diablo is the bestest game ever” threads.
I don’t know really. The prices might be a little high, but as time has gone on, most of them look pretty cool in my estimation. Not saying there haven’t been clunkers. But there are some pretty good ones. And even the bad ones might come with a weapon or two that looks good. On those, it would be nice if you could just buy parts of the sets at a reduced price.
For instance, if a set has a cool helm or a weapon or two, you could opt to buy only those parts if you’re not really interested in the rest.
Then again, I did buy a whole set for the necromancer just because it came with a Necronomicon mog for focuses, and I thought it cool enough to fork over the cash. So they got me there. Fortunately, the rest of the set was okay looking but it was the focus that I was really after.
There’s a couple of Rogue sets with the same issue, the weapons or parts of the set look awesome but some of the other parts aren’t as good looking. So, like I said, it would be nice if you could buy some of them piece-meal.
Rogue got a new skin from what i could see.
Still nothing new for Necro.
Ah to old mobile game method of swindling more cash out of you though most those games are free or a few bucks.
A $70-$100 game then that just shows how the regard their player base. Idiots who will buy anything no matter how crap it is.
Gotta get that last Hussle before Microsoft I guess.
Blizzard promised that D4 would not be a pay to win game. Their business model now relies on people making frivolous choices that in no way impact game play.
Blizzard, for a a game such as this, had its first three updates outlined before the beta release. Anything causing so much grief to players is anticipated (expected).
I swore I’d never purchase anything that didn’t directly correlate to character advancement and have since eaten those words several times over. I have to respect the sacrifice and discipline it took to make skill and time spent being the primary determining factors of character power I felt obligated to contribute.
That said, well done on the mount cosmetics! The moose is fantastic. I’m looking forward to lions, tigers, and bears- oh, my!
A ten second car can look like a beat up Nova or a Corvette. I know which one I preferred driving.
Hilarious. I like how they have resources to develop paid for armor shop items but not design a few new vampire models for season 2 
The sad part is, apart from monetization, DI actually does a few things right.
The game was decent, until all the lag started happening, at the beginning of August. Game sucks now.
Oh well, Starfield will be out soon. On to the next!
I mean, do what you want with your money but 18-25 bucks for an off hand transmog? This is why companies release games in the state they do. They just don’t care anymore. People will spend more money on crap that takes them no effort than they do on an actual full game.
Your relationship with this game is like a bipolar high school kid. I feel sorry for you, honestly.
Of course, I can do with my money what I want, thank for your permission though, much appreciated.
But I’ll mention, that it isn’t like I just sit in the shop all day. I do actually play the game. I mean, I spent $100 on the game not only because of the battle pass that came with it because of stuff that transfered to other games like Diablo 3. So I am a bit of a collector of stuff I think is cool. It’s no different than buying a hardcover book when you could just wait for the paperback.
All that said, I pretty much like the game, not that it doesn’t have problems that I’d like to see fixed. But, the shop was promoted with the rest of the game, so it isn’t like folks that bought it didn’t know it would be there. It’s not like they released the game with problems and ignored them and then added the shop.
In fact, they’re fixing some stuff that’s off about the game and I like seeing that. Could they do more, sure, I guess but they don’t work on my schedule. Anyway, as I see it, them working on the game deserves a bit of credit and throwing bit of disposable income their way is one way to show some appreciation from me personally.
Holy crap welcome to the light man!
If you don’t understand, you probably never will.
I think this game is bad for me