Why on earth did they have to do this? I would have been fine with them making this PC only and THEN adding support for consolers, by all means. But These games cant be built for console at equal grounds. Then you ruin the PC experience. This is just so annoying. Its why the horse is bonkers, rubberbanding all the time, endless extra times to push patches/content etc. Why did Blizz become such a profit first at all costs kinda company? Sure i understand companies need to make money, but after this junk push of a game they probably lost alot more cash in the long run even if they pre-sold for billions.
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Don’t forget that in-game social functions don’t exist because you can’t type with a console controller
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If that is the actual reason then im really baffled. Yeah i totally forgot that. Unbelievable that there are no chats etc.
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In business, u always look top of funnel. I have current customer base, how do I grow more. U look upstream to broaden ur catchment. Just like bud light. Male, red necks r buying, who isn’t? Go for them but little did they know, this decision backfired like how it for Blizz now.
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To be fair, I think rubberbanding is mostly client side; also, I would not have been able to play with some friends but for console support.
HOWEVER, the missing social aspect of the game is very annoying. No chat rooms, no LFP, no market place… Diablo 2 had a lobby that looked like it was done using html and it worked better than whatever is in d4.
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i don’t think that has anything to do with console though,
it’s merely blizzard’s fault
i really think it would have been the same if it was only a PC game
don’t forget that diablo 2R and 4 has joystick / controller mode too even on PC
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I don’t understand the Bud Light thing. Is the drink good? If yes, then why does marketing matter? If no, then why were people drinking it in the first place?
World population owns more phones and consoles than PC. More money to reel in.
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When PC sales for typical AAA games are ~20-10% of the console sales, it is not „profit-first“ but „profit at all“
Face it, PC gaming is only for niches like Mobas, MMOs or RTS
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The characters move as if they were tarred but still better than a horse.
Nothing to complain about by Activision standards.
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Many people drink it. We don’t have to understand why they drink it. Evidence based data is enough to form business decision.
Bud light wanted to expand customer base and new criteria of loans is to include more diversity, so they ran a marketing with a trans drinking their product. Red necks don’t want to be seen as trans. It went viral and now Bud laid off thousands of workers.
Blizz is doing similar stuff. PC gamers have always been the traditional player base. But they want to catch more, so it has to come from consoles. U bet if mobile can support D4, they would.
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You can actually connect a keyboard to consoles …
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In general, this game has been destroyed on so many levels that
I don’t think even console players have fun.
I have both the PC and the console version and it actually plays well (from a technical side) on the ps5… somehow my 3090 cannot hold up the same framerstr as my PS and the frametimes and rubbernanding are no issue on console. Also targeting is way easier with controller
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What exactly did “catering to consolers” ruin for the game ? 
Like the stash space limitation is the only thing I can legitimately think of, and that’s not really due to console’s limitations but decision (for whatever the reason) by the design/management/dev team
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I mean on Consoles people can either use their keyboards to chat ingame, or an app on their phones that lets them type on the phone like a message and then it pops up in the chat channel of your choosing.
this is 2023 if you think consoles are the reason for missing social stuff…
I think if you stretch your tiny collection of grey matter a bit more, you might arrive at the realisation that global chat channels require moderation, gm’s etc etc, this costs them money, lots of it.
I’ve played many many games on P.C. and Console, the only real difference between them these days is P.C. usually gets modded and console don’t.
I’ve been saying for over 10 years, why do my P.C. games run like crap compared my console version, my Graphics card cost twice what my console did alone, and yet console games get properly optimised and P.C. games do not, go figure.
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It doesn’t matter how many times you invoke the console boogeyman and blame consoles for things you don’t like about the game, it still doesn’t make it true.
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Care to state what you feel is a compromise to consoles?
Lots that u dun even see because they can’t be implemented. But principles wise, technical considerations ie. number of mob on screen, zoom out.
Any new feature has to be worked 3x by 3 different teams - PC, PS and Xbox. They all have to be released together, if one says they can’t, all can’t.
Apparently the way keystrokes are sent to game on PC is a workaround for console. That could mean the keyboard input bug. For sure, number of hotkey skills is limited by consoles.
short answer? money. long one? they made more money like this. nothing new btw. they did already exactly the same in the past, so the only surprise is why someone is surprised.