Eh, open world adventure has been a thing since… uh… huh.
Google claims 1984. Which… wow. I knew it would have been longer than I thought, but that’s insane.
Point is, Elden Ring is just a Dark Souls-y take on an ancient genre, and outside that, I can’t see D4 having much to do with it. Sure, it’s dark and gritty, but opaque and challenging? Probably not.
Yeah, I doubt their will be any kind of challenge before you get to the nightmare or hell difficulty ratings, if that’s the way they’re going.
Hopefully it’s not close to the level of difficulty of the Souls games.
I blame the greed and the fact that it’s changed story writers so many times and the fact that…clears throat…NO ONE KNOWS WHATS GOING ON ANYMORE!!! (I mean the writers btw)
pfffahahah nice i laughed 
Diablo Immortal is what you play when you’re taking a crap or in a zoom meeting. Why did you think it was going to be your WoW replacement?
There is an untapped market of mmorpg players atm.
That’s not my goal in a Diablo game lol
Besides you who said it would be? lol what the hell.
Diablo Immortal isn’t a game. The end game is so limited by free2wait timers that it has the same amount of value as an MMO as watching water boil.
^^ My friend was watching a guy spend money on the game and he spent enough to buy a car and still didn’t get his full P2W experience.
Further proving the shop is just a tax on stupid people.
Please show me where I typed something that implies that my statement was anything other than my opinion?
No shot D4 is going to be good. Them releasing D4 with a “traditional” monetization scheme will hurt Diablo Immortal and it’s ability to hunt down whales.
They’re also choosing their words carefully when talking about it, They didn’t say the store in D4 would be “only” cosmetics. They said “anchored” around cosmetics, which they 100% used to leave the door open for other monetization and possible P2W shenanigans.
It’s simple:
Diablo 4 has no monetization other than expansion packs: Buy.
Diablo 4 has any other kind of monetization: No Buy.
The more people who adopt this view the more likely the predatory behavior is removed.
Pretty accurate.
Eh, probably not. Or at the very least, not exclusively.
If you can ramp the difficulty up to “Souls-like” as an option, that’d be one thing, but also inherently defeating of the whole notion of Souls-likes, at least according to many die-hard fans of the “genre.”
It’s not Dark Souls if there is a safe-word difficulty option.
Not really, the game is not predatory, only to people who can’t resist clicking the “buy” button, that is not even in your face most of the time (it is a few clicks away). It is just easy click-bait views for streamers and such to jump on the “P2W / Predatory Monitization” bandwagon.
My craps deserve a better game than di.
They’re fancy
Why are you looking for a WoW replacement? Are you on an entertainment diet?
Is this like one of those dopamine “tolerance break” things? You’d probably get the best results just being bored for a couple of weeks and then jumping right back into WoW.
Don’t base what you do or enjoy doing on the behavior or participation of others.
The only way to spare yourself from this sort of turmoil in the future is to learn to do and enjoy things that rely on nobody but you.
If you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it. What do you enjoy? Do that.