With the big shocking jaw dropping moment yesterday that POE2 launch is in fact delayed to at least until the end of next year, Diablo 4 doesn’t have to worry about POE anymore. Nobody cares about POE leagues anymore as well.
There are other games coming out like Starfield, BG3 etc, but those are not direct threats to Diablo 4.
We are now at a point where the only game that can kill D4 is D4 itself. They need huge changes to the game and a roadmap published of how and when they are going to get there.
Seasons are a waste of time and failure for D4. Seasons are a case of Garbage In, Garbage Out. The base game and endgame need wholesale changes and I am not sure if Blizz even realizes this yet.
The good news is that they do in fact have some time now to get it right. Will they?
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They will probably do but at droping time of poe2 . Guess what a new expansion for idk how many dollars so be prepared with a wallet.
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its not coming till early 2025 or further down the road so ya blizz has time to release an expansion by then.
especially if microsoft does a “kill poe fund”
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This war that supposedly exists between the two games is mostly something that has been created online by us. Didn’t a Diablo IV dev praise the presentation yesterday and said he looked forward to what they have to offer??
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I liked D4 and I can’t wait for PoE’s new league release.
Nowadays, every new game is a direct competitor to your game if it wasn’t fun enough and retained the players.
Kinda not true…
Login queues during season launch says hi.
I really hope so
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So the POE team did the right thing and realised the game needs more time….Blizzard North used to do this.
Sure it buys Diablo 4 a little time but the developers already seem defeated.
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Yeh, I wouldn’t be surprised if those highly paid devs at the two companies laugh at us while they count their money.
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I mean, PoE1 is still awfully active for a game that’s supposedly no longer relevant. Doesn’t matter that PoE2 is massively delayed if the original game’s retention is somehow still going strong.
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Did you see the content for the next league in 17 days?.
Its massive.
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Path of Exile has not been put into maintenance mode, whereas Diablo III specifically has (Season 29 will be the last with any unique theme, at which time it will start rotating in a mix and match of old seasons). I have serious skepticism about just how much Path of Exile 1 will be “maintained” once the sequel comes out.
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Because it completely annihilated D4. It should be a prerequisite in devs job requirement to have mandatory Diablo 1 - 3 hrs in at least thousands of hours as well as other aRPG titles. You simply do not design classes/builds upon pure imagination and impracticality.
@ devs play your game and plz do solo uber lilith and speed farm NMD 100 then talk.
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New leagues in POE is like beating a dead horse at this point. Each new league seems to have less and less of an impact.
It’s the same game as it has been for ages. My favorite part of new leagues in POE is watching the “countdown” streams. When the league starts, im like "oh its still the same old POE. LOL
in 2 years, expansion already on the horizon. we r doing beta essentially all the way until season 3, thats when new competition mechanic and ladder board will be inpomented
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D4 is already dead.
Baldurs Gate 3 and Starfield…
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This is untrue. All games compete for our time. This idea that people only play games within one genre is nonsense.
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yes thats how I feel. I feel like I am a beta tester for Blizzard and they make me pay for it too. lol
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I don’t know, this next league sounds pretty interesting on the 18th. I’ll definitely be playing. I always have a hard time leveling through the acts because I’ve done them so many times they’re just stale. By the time I get to act 6, I usually quit.
What I need to do is figure out the best way to level quickly. Sounds like a lot of people can just get through the acts in a couple of hours.
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I am going full-time on Starfield when it launches, but that was my plan no matter how good D4 is.
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You are a beta tester, game is so unfinished its embarassing.
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“You simply do not design classes/builds upon pure imagination and impracticality.”
lol what. Fantasy man…This is fantasy.