The future of Diablo 4 belongs to us

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Guys, I’m using a translator, don’t judge me for that. I just want to state my line of thinking. And it would be cool if someone who knows behind the scenes gave us an honest opinion.

I realize that most of us have no idea how a gaming company works and the entire bureaucratic and financial process that permeates it.

The current model adopted in Diablo 4, as well as in several current games, where massive updates are constant, themed seasons every 3 months, mini-events in the middle of it all, expansions, etc., HAS made the gaming industry become unsustainable. financial point of view. Think about it with me… the maintenance that the company has with the team must be immense, high salary costs, extra shifts that the developer is often not willing to do, servers 24 hours a day in full operation, teams and more teams divided to create and work on seasons in a very short space of time, fix bugs.

Do you think this isn’t expensive? Do you think that just selling the base game is enough to keep the game alive with massive updates? hundreds of employees working just for that game?

Where do I want to get to? Come on guys, it’s a worldwide craze and everyone around the world has made a fuss about any cosmetic that can only be sold in game, anything a little more expensive, people are already going crazy. If something even looks like Pay to Win then everyone will go crazy like thirsty, hateful devils. But the fact is that the company needs financial returns to support the gigantic team that is there behind the scenes. And selling the base game doesn’t make a profit for anyone in the long term, especially for Diablo 4, which everyone expects will last at least 10 years.

We need to change our mentality, our way of thinking about the game, not just as someone in front of the computer living their own mediocre life. In a blizzard there are guys who are tired of working and working overtime. For you to simply babble that this season is rubbish., who need to rest too. We need to understand that not every season will be wonderful. And above all we need to open the doors, let cosmetics come in, of all types, cheap, expensive, exaggeratedly expensive.

Let the guys work, learn to understand the game, day by day. It’s easy to see that they are trying their best. It’s your illusion to think you’re being the bully just for complaining and complaining and talking nonsense.

Complaining that the game is bad is easy and cool, but thinking differently in a more balanced way makes you a better person.

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i judge you for using translator

GRRRR IM SO ANGRY ! :triumph:

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The game made almost a BILLION dollars. They just don’t care what we think. We already spent the money.

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ok, and I don’t give a damn about your anger

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Season 3 could have been knocked out in a weekend by a team of 4 with access to the backend software. Any good gaming company will have an editor like software or toolset, that use to be included in past games, to make future content.

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Almost one year in and game is not what it should have been at launch… just lol. Keep on waiting copium

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Oh my friend, if you understand a little about the financial world, you would know that the profit a game makes from its initial sale does not justify keeping a large team working monthly without an organic and current return.

Just research a little about the behind-the-scenes of the games. Selling the base game without constant monetization does not make the game live for 10 years.

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I’ll start by saying there is absolutely nothing wrong with using a translator. Not everyone speaks the same language and I applaud people who make the effort to be heard in a language that is not native to them.

While I agree with your generalization of the situation I don’t agree with your conclusion. Customers as a whole don’t care how a product is made, they don’t care who worked on it, they don’t care how many hours it took, etc. They care about one thing: the finished product.

If that product doesn’t meet expectations the customers will complain about it. It’s not the customers fault for all of the problems the game currently has, nor is it up to the customer to fix them either. When you sell a bad product, expect backlash until it’s either fixed or recalled.

Now granted even if they came out tomorrow with all sorts of content, fixes, changes, etc. people would still complain, but at least we’d have a more complete game, and I feel it would just be nitpicking at systems rather then complaining about the majority of the game.

Yes the developers and people who worked on the game have jobs like the rest of us. However if I showed up to work and delivered an equivalent to D4 to my boss, I’d probably be looking for a new job within a week. Video games have the luxury of fixing things in post and have been abusing this fact for over a decade. It’s not fair to the customer, but people keep paying for the products so it’s not going to stop anytime soon either.

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It’s not ALMOST a year, it’s JUST a year, you little haster.

Path of Exile, for example, took years to get good.

Diablo 4 is only in its 3rd season

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PoE had nothing to build from, D4 had 3 previous good titles… one would think they would take good stuff from them and put in D4, but nope.

And even then PoE was better at launch than D4 was at launch.

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Thank you for your generosity and understanding.

What I just want to say is that we need to be more balanced, without anger.

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and i dont care youre using translator

you wall of text post would be alot easier to read

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I agree with you, and I wish we had more constructive criticism on these forums rather than just people complaining and yelling at the developers. Sadly that is not the world we live in, but we do have the option to mute/ignore the horrible posts. I’m trying to get better at that myself.

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I do not agree. POE is almost like Diablo 2.0. Just because it doesn’t have the same name doesn’t mean there’s nothing to base it on and build on.

In fact, in my opinion, Diablo 4 was similar to D2. Cadenced, slow. But guess what? As quickly as possible, everyone wanted to level 100 in one afternoon, massacre and massacre everything with a single blow. At that moment, no one remembered D2 anymore, right?

And if you remember, D3 was also hated to death, so as not to lose the habit. Now we all see what a good game it was, right!?

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Diablo belongs to the shareholders and has done for a while, the future, like the current status quo, will be to milk players for as much money as possible.

That’s all that matters, making money, how it’s done is not important.

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Thank you my friend, I’m just trying to be helpful here

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Don’t forget this all started with Rod and his so called medicine, blame him and Adam who apparently is supposed to be balancing the game but has been on vacation for 8 months Lol

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If extracting money here is all that matters, then they are failing miserably. The D4 store is weak, with very few cosmetic items for sale, and now, joining GAMEPASS. It seems completely opposite to someone thirsty for money.

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Hit the nail on the head ppl want these massive open games that will potentially give us thousands of hours of playtime to be content complete the moment it drops.

I’ve seen ppl scream that Poe did it why can’t blizzard but that game has had years to get it right.

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You seem to me like a very sensible and balanced person. Thank you for that

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