I played a little during the last server slam and I honestly think what we’ve been shown has been superb, genuinely I have been mostly impressed with the way the game feels and play with the short time I was able to spend with it.
However I can not shake the feeling that we’re are headed to yet another poorly handled community blunder.
In the last 24 hours alone ActivisionBlizzard has
Issued a cease and desist to community run servers for legacy call of duty games that made them safe to play online, as these old games have security flaws that have been known about for several years, that not only allow hackers to see your IP thus making you valuable to DDOS attacks but also execute code through the client that put user machines at risk.
And.
Added a legal method to purchase gold in WoW Classic WotLK despite heavy community backlash and years of the community pleading with Blizzard to not do with, RTM has now been added to Classic in order to save money on the GMs and support staff need to prevent it.
This is just within the last day but ActivisionBlizzard is constantly receiving bad press for it’s broken promises and sexual assault allegations one of which led to a suicide.
How are we supposed to expect a company like this to to deliver on a game that we actually not only want to play but stick with? And what assurances do we have that the game isn’t going to slowly boil and just become Diablo Immortal 2 after a year or so?
Why are you so worried about this? You are not getting married to Diablo 4 (I hope)
You obviously enjoyed the beta, so just play the game and have fun. If they eventually ruin the game with poor decisions, then stop playing it if/when they do. Who cares?
Simple really. The devs of this game are completely seperate from anything else happening in the umbrella. Yes Actiblizz corps can have a say, but that doesn’t mean that the dev team responsible for D4 agrees with any of their alignments and i’m pretty sure given how forthcoming they have been with information about D4, the live streams, the betas, the invitations to the content creators - I don’t think they’d be too happy about the suits sticking their nose in either.
It’s only $70; it’s not like you’re co-signing a mortgage with Blizzard.
Even if for some reason the game blunders years from now, if you get 100+ hours of fun out of the game between now and then you’ll have gotten your money’s worth.
If Blizz brakes their promise and ruin D4 afte they just meessed up overwatch they’ll lose a ton of customers they’ll never get back. I think they are okay with making a few 100 million less here and there to keep people engaged for Diablo Immortal 2 where they again milk the people big time.
Erm, I care because the games costs money and are a time investment, I don’t want to invest in a poor product or even worse invest into a product that is good but then becomes bad.
No one on this forum or from Blizzard can help you. Do you expect Bobby coming down from the skies saying “we will be good TopBadger, this time for real” ?
If you are afraid to trust/expect to loose your time/money - refund and live your life. If you want to risk - please do. No one here can tell anything that can make this decision easier/more accurate.
To me looking at a video game as an investment is kinda wierd. Its entertainment, not an investment. You will never get a “return” from playing a video game. Its just like watching a movie, you spend time and money for the entertainment and you don’t get any return from it.
If you spend $70-100 on a game and get a good year out of it like in your example, I’d call that money and time well spent. Would it be disappointing if they ruin the game to a point where I no longer find it enjoyable? Of course. But there is no reason it should be a point of any significant worry, anxiety, or hand-wringing right now.
the community going out of their way to do this is on them for not asking or getting permission. doesn’t matter if its better because they technically broke laws to do it.
the gold is whatever in full honesty… to many players already ruin the AH and the whole buying gear and runs is what ever. it doesn’t effect the players in the slightest and it makes more money. not going to argue it because there is no argument against it that is valid because it doesn’t effect the end-game content.
This is the case for literally everything. I think I’ll risk my $100, not like I’ve put my life on the line for this to be successful for a set time frame.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t the CoD franchise protected by intellectual property rights and only Activision has the right to run CoD servers? I mean, they could have just sued them in course instead of a cease and desist right? Relevant article.
Yes, Blizzard did this. I also don’t agree with it. I understand why they do it, it gives people a “legal and safe” way to get gold, but I think the whole gold trading for runs is bad for the game overall.
They can’t prevent it. Most of it happens outside the game. What they can do is use tools in game to limit advertising, to track transactions, etc. They will still do that. What it cuts down on is compromised financial information and compromised accounts. Something Blizzard can’t prevent when people do business with shady sites, but Blizzard does help clean up the mess afterwards.
Yeah, that happened at Activision and they should have been held legally responsible for it in court! I think the parents dropped the lawsuit though if I remember. It was beyond reprehensible.
I am glad to see the clean up efforts not just at Blizzard and Activision, but also at other game companies like Ubisoft and Riot. It is an industry wide issue.
For your original topic, decide how much money money and time you want to put into the game for it to feel worth it to you. Do not expect ANYTHING to last forever or to always be suitable to your tastes.
The world is very different than it was 50+ years ago. I wish people could get hired at a company and spend a career there as a valued employee, but companies are not loyal to anyone but the almighty stockholder. Always remember that.
They will eventually f this game up anyway.
But played beta and got interested by it’s features, simple reasons that I can afford it and I have not play Diablo since D2.
Presumably this also combats gold seller spam etc. and I’m going to guess that if I wanted to be a Whale in WotLK I would have no difficulty buying as much gold as I wanted to today, so I’m having a hard time building any rage over token sales or whatever it is.
Also D4, unlike D3, is an ongoing continuous revenue game so if you get mad and quit they are going to actually CARE unlike with D3 where it doesn’t really cost them any cash if you do so. So they have at LEAST as much motivation to not screw it up this time (not that it has ever stopped them before lol).
