I buy expensive things and drink IPA’s. The store is for certain folk. You are not that folk. You are peasant.
It affects the game from a design standpoint. The game was developed with these ‘luxuries’ locked behind a pay wall in mind. that 100% does affect gameplay as these luxuries could have been included in the game as rewards for… playing the game… that we already bought.
It also adds to the forum posting end game meta of back and forth salty comments. 
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“somebody doesnt agree with me, i will underhandedly call them immature or stupid”
This is a large portion of your activity on this forum. Lets not pretend you’re above that now.
also, you actually sound like a zoomer. the fact that you have an issue with a tiny yellow diamond off in the corner when you are in a menu, just screams “entitled zoomer”. so… i dunno if you should go around calling people “little one”.
Oh, the irony.
im 40 years old by the way. ive been around long enough to know something as tiny and insignificant as a little yellow diamond on a button i dont even look at is not a big deal. there are far worse things in D4 and in life.
If you’re 40 years old and leaving comments like you have been, I can understand why hypermonetization wouldn’t bother you. You clearly have much deeper issues than anything happening in a video game.
Ignoring you now. Thanks for the laugh.
hey no problem.
lemmie know when tiny yellow diamonds that dont affect you at all stop bothering you!
lmfao dude really thinks that i have deeper issues because a tiny yellow symbol in a video game doesnt bother me. wewlad what a winner.
Those comments would actually be worth far more than that.
Lol. Learnt a new word today.
There’s nothing wrong with providing feedback about the shop though. A healthy company would soak this up and read “we’re doing something wrong what can we do better”, but i think when developers become publishers and then get absorbed into global mega-corporations, they simply can’t respond even if they want to so its broken.
I’m not convinced microsoft even care they’re not min maxing the revenue out of the diablo franchise until some vp finds reviewing a minor brand added to their long corporate checklist.
- Peasant Tears * The Store…
Sure, if you’re poor and can’t afford these things, stay away from them and be smart and wait for a sale or skip them all together. Whatever works for you
It’s greedy and stupid. I pay a lot of money in gacha and i would’t buy the trash in this game, part of it is that i like collecting things but not only the garbage in the game is too expensive but they also bundle it with trash for other games that i don’t care about.
Schill…
or plain ignorant derp who doesn’t understand consequences.
Theres a reason Blizzard DISINGENUOUSLY discussed the criticism in a fire side chat prior to launch… “Look at this high level Vanilla armor… and now compare it to this shop cosmetic armor! See, there identical in fidelity!”
What they didn’t mention, which circles back to and validates the initial criticism, was that they would INTENTIONALLY dumb down the art of vanilla armors in comparison to SUPER BADDASS SPECTACULAR ARMOR GALORE!!!.. aka $28 cosmetic sets.
“Optional” maybe… incentivized by making the vanilla armor look crummy. ABSOLUTELY.
I’ll say it again. Gennaro, the blood sucking greedy lawyer, was an antagonist… not a protagonist in Jurassic Park.
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I appreciate OP’s sentment. Truth is, half the industry consumers are now defending this since they’ve become so used to microtransactions everywhere. A lot of people by now grew up with mircrotransactions and a lot of people that are adults just make enough money that they don’t care about so they don’t mind supporting this business model.
Companies have been steadily forcefeeding people this for so long that the consumers themselves are defending in their stead now. The battle is over, extreme capitalism won.
Too bad we pay for a battle pass and get the same generic skin for each class. It’s like there is no thought put into the design of the season pass skins at all. Of course, Blizz wants us to pay those outrageous prices for new skins but I will not do it out of principle. I can afford to buy the skins but I won’t for those ridiculous prices.
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I would love to get the “Day of the Dead” style mount, but can’t support buying anything anymore for these prices (bought a few things before season 1).
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I hear ya on that one, I love IPAs !
I think the trade off is games are much higher budget than they would have been otherwise. And immediately i know this is just following the path of cinema which has for decades burnt in trash high budget low quality junk.
If you want to roll back though, another way to look at it is… back in the day there were only 3-5 games every 2 years worth playing? Well that’s pretty much the same as it is now, but are allowed to be high budget. Activision ubisoft etc are just padding to let rockstar and cdpr exist So it still is the same as it was before really, you just have to accept not all of its for you and hope it doesn’t all vanish to nothing.
In other words u got no clue about economics. But keep arguing about a business shouldnt set the price which would give them the most profit xD
A company like blizzard do their research before they set a price. Only bald clueless ppl think otherwise.
What else a company shouldnt abuse the fact ppl are willing to pay much to be able to play the game early? XD
If they want money, I’ll pay 10 euros for each 5 stash tabs. And I’ll buy 100 then.
For cosmetics, I’ll use the season pass ones.
They’d have to go way out of their way to make something compelling to spend money only on them.
Agree on prices too high for cosmetics only.
The pass is the best deal imho, if you want to support the game.
IMO the root problem is that there are no cosmetic rewards to earn in the actual game. The shop probably wouldn’t be so egregious if this wasn’t the case—i.e. if they hadn’t charged us for a full price game and then delivered a still-in-development freemium experience.
As it stands, the earnable rewards only include a small splash of forgettable junk like horse trophies and a handful of mounts on low drop chances. There are no armor sets or weapons tied to any achievements or accomplishments, and even the battle pass is really just another store set with two tints and a bunch of dismissible thematic bloat bundled around it.
It leaves the game that we paid for feeling bland, boring, and low quality, and yet they have the gall to try and upsell stuff that should’ve been included—at 20x the price.
The best way for a consumer to be heard is in the way they spend their dollar. Obviously there are people who will pay outrageous prices for what I believe to be meaningless overpriced products. The consumer can scream all they want to be heard but if the market says these useless intangible goods have value to the consumer at this price point then it shall be.
This problem is amplified because there is no supply . The supply is endless, all that matters is the demand and obviously people are opening their wallets and accepting the market price clearly sending a message to the seller that their price is set where it should be.
If there were no buyers the curse of MTX in gaming would not exist. But here we are.
Games are a luxury too. So in that regards i do hope you never…NEVER complain about any game price out there.