Yikes, putting your pay rate on a video game forum to flex is really cringe.
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There wonāt be anything to play if the servers get shutdown you know. So itās not in their interest to loose everyone lol.
Are you new to gaming or very young which is a blessing. By young I mean under 26?
The white knights are doing their best in here but the ratios tell the truth.
Diablo 4 in shambles
Then Iāll play something else. Thereās more to life than Diablo 4, though you wouldnāt know it with all the frothing going on in these forums.
So will we all someday, there is alway more elsewhere. And i mean we are on a Diablo 4 forum, so obviously iām not really here to see everything else life has for me, iād be doing something else and we wouldnāt be speaking otherwise 
Just meant it kinda feel wrong to speak about it just like any other diablo when we know if it massively fail, we will never see it again even if we enjoyed it. At best we will end up with laggy server and no more patches lol.
I have one answer for you.
Rod Fergusson, Lead GM of all things Diablo.
the shareholders love this guy, Bobby Kotick loves this guy.
His terrible ideas and takes are the reason we got Diablo 4 in this state, I cant stand the guy.
He even forced his way into the season 1 reveal chat and just had bad takes and rambles on about nothing for 10minutes, he is why diablo games suck,
Someone needs to make a montage of his terrible out of touch takes that he forces to be implemented.
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Open your eyes a little bit. A lot of the criticism is arguably very valid, and it is one of the games Iāve seen with some of the worst criticism Iāve seen in a while, with very valid points.
Also from what Iāve seen of other aRPGs and many games as well, twitch and social media are actually a decent representation of what seems to be happening outside of it. So to completely disregard that information as invalid is probably wrong.
Not only that, but realistically we probably wonāt get the numbers from Blizz, but if we did Iām sure thereās a high chance they would represent a decent drop out, and probably bigger than what we would have expected from a game like this or what people were expecting it to be.
Reputation matters in business, and a lot of business is medium to long-term. If all youāre doing is sacrificing medium to long-term for the short term, itās arguably not necessarily a good business strategy.
D4 could have an easy rebound if they just fixed their servers. I have 5g internet and ExitLag and after all that, the D4 servers themselves lag. I donāt have this problem in any other online Blizzard game.
Iāve never known you to be so philosophical before, Infidelitas-1292.
I canāt agree more, especially lots of fun build required good stats are need to roll on yellow items, I hit 100 last week and was thinking trying Lilith with my 9kish atk, but realized most yt video kills are either not showing profile or 17k atkā¦ then I was thinking keep grinding, but then friend told me to look for discord trade, at first I thought is player trade items with items, but once I saw an amulet that I need end up bid for 400m goldā¦ I immediately got a feeling like D3 RMAH, suddenly lost all my interested to play the game, including all the unique I gather from day 1 felt like garbage. Friend said thatās okay, just start a Rogue in season 1 and farm gold and use gold to buy items I need for the class I want to play? I was likeā¦so my future gameplay is > farm NM > get gold > buy from discord AH? What kinda loop gameplay is that? I donāt think thatās the gameplay I wanted from D4.
Eh itās not much but getting there.
Yes, it is. Businesses, including mine, use it. You should, too.
Spoken like someone who doesnāt work in the industry. How about you go get a computer science degree, work in software development for over 10 years, and dabble in game design before you tell me Iām wrong? Also work for amateur game development while youāre at it.
These metrics are used.
Iām sure the execs Iāve seen fired over twitter issues and drama totally understand and agree with you. These things matter, just not to you apparently.
Your business probably also uses several other metrics rather than using a singular metric. Google metrics in and of itself is not a sustainable way of assessing engagement and interest.
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Yes but that isnāt what you said. You said it wasnāt an accurate tool for measurement, and yes there are times when all we have had to go on to make strategy decisions was google metrics.
The number of people logging in to D4ās severs is something Blizzard considers proprietary information. Google doesnāt have them. So IDGAF what your āgoogle metricsā say, they cannot possibly paint a complete picture.
Itās not. No tool is an accurate tool for a direct measurement unless you have raw, direct data being scraped from the thing youāre measuring.
You canāt determine, for example, from Google metrics that 70-80% of Diablo IVās playerbase have quit the game. It doesnāt provide that sort of data.
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