Diablo IV

[HeyCheckOutHowHardICanPee]

I'm not sure exactly how to react even at this point, the $70 game will have worse than F2P battlepass rewards and returns.

 

[Skorpion]

Wait this game has Klingons now?

 

[Peachcurl]

It's just cosmetics in the premium pass

I understand we're interpreting their statements differently (which is not a surprise, I think they're trying to be intentionally obscure about this). Well, ayways, we'll see.

 

[Justinian]

So that's a confirmation, they're going for pay2win. Again.

What? Where?

The premium / accelerated pass stuff.

That's cosmetics. And the non-cosmetics are in the free part and even if you buy the boosted pass it doesn't let you use the non-cosmetic shit until you've leveled a character up anyway. And on top of that the bonuses listed were small shit to reduce grinding since you can only play seasons after you've played through the game once.

Sounds dumb. You have to make a character season players likely won't play again just to get to what you actually want to play?
Even if the game doesn't start with seasons, it'll be an annoyance for people who join later.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Sounds dumb. You have to make a character season players likely won't play again just to get to what you actually want to play?
Even if the game doesn't start with seasons, it'll be an annoyance for people who join later.

I agree with that too, honestly. The reasoning seems to be because they'll add new events/quests/mechanics/etc in the seasons (Again, similar to D3 and PoE. And it sounds much like those games where they might make some of the new additions permanent and others will just be temporary) so they want people to play the regular game first before being baffled by extra shit in the seasons but I can't imagine they'll be so outlandish with it that they couldn't just let people dive into seasons. Hopefully they change it down the line since everyone's going to start with vanilla anyway since it'll be a month and a half after launch for when the first season starts (Which also feels dumb to me but I guess they're hoping the servers will be stable by then?) and it does seem stupid to block new players from joining seasons first LATER since seasonal play's usually popular since it's fun to see the new bullshit and have new characters leveling up with you and all that jazz. Which is also why seasons are beneficial to new players so other people are playing new characters too but WHATEVER BLIZZARD

I guess I can slightly see where they're coming from since PoE can be weird with seasons on occasion, but PoE's already a nightmare with billions of currencies and sub-currencies and sub-sub-currencies and... It seems D4's going that route a little too. Not as bad as PoE but there are crafting mats, gold, obols (Which is like the purpleshit in D3 just used for gambling I think), the paragon board which is like the PoE skill tree, "Platinum" which is currency for the cosmetics store, "Ashes" for unlocking bonuses, and I feel like I'm forgetting some. It's easier to digest simply because they aren't dozens of inventory items to stash and manage but it's still a pain in the ass trying to keep track of it, at least before you're actually playing. Maybe after playing a while it'll be easier to know what to ignore and what to look for.

 

[Yosharian]

So it isn't just cosmetics?

Am I understanding this correctly, the battlepass gives you bonuses to XP etc?

Someone please summarise I am not reading a wall of text or watching an hour long video

 

[Reinhardt]

An Obese White Druid

STOP WHITEWASHING AND MANSPLAINING!

 

[Late Bloomer]

So it isn't just cosmetics?

Am I understanding this correctly, the battlepass gives you bonuses to XP etc?

Someone please summarise I am not reading a wall of text or watching an hour long video

As you play in a season you unlock shit. If you want help with xp to unlock shit quicker pay 10 bucks. If you want to unlock shit and not play hardly at all pay 25 bucks.

Shit = Cosmetics and other shit.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

If you want help with xp to unlock shit quicker pay 10 bucks.

You don't have to pay for that. Anyone who owns the game has that.

 

[toro]

we need "la creatura" emoticon

 

[Turbo normie]

Fuck you for buying this game. Stop feeding Blizzard ffs.

 

[abija]

lmao you are fucking nuts if you think this game is going to be on sale anytime soon

It's already given out with nvidia cards.

 

[Yosharian]

lmao you are fucking nuts if you think this game is going to be on sale anytime soon

It's already given out with nvidia cards.

Right yeah, and those are super cheap as we all know and totally aren't rip-offs

 

[mediocrepoet]

lmao you are fucking nuts if you think this game is going to be on sale anytime soon

It's already given out with nvidia cards.

Right yeah, and those are super cheap as we all know and totally aren't rip-offs

Keep on slurping down that hot nuBlizz diarrhea and pretending it's other people who have no taste.

 

[Justinian]

I'm glad Blizzard made the female druid fat, +AAA trolling.

Diablo's behavior is problematic and I can't wait to introduce him to the manager (a raging thunderstorm).

 

[Joggerino]

Is anyone here going to buy this?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Is anyone here going to buy this?

Yup. Was a tentative wait and see until I played this and the other demo weekend, now it's D1P. Still might not have been if they'd fucked up the cash shop and battle pass shit worse but as it was presented it's fine and I can ignore it. Similarly a lot of the semi-MMO shit I thought would drive me insane but in practice it's been fine, my biggest complaint currently is I don't want to click berries and flowers for crafting materials and I looked into THAT some more today and it looks like even if you ignore it you'll get enough magic berries from doing quests and getting herb-packs that you can upgrade your healing potion, getting more will only matter for crafting elixirs (Which incidentally give a 5% XP boost so even the baby-tier elixir is a stronger temporary XP boost than the first level on the season mastery pass) which CURRENTLY don't feel necessary which is nice. Remains to be seen if the game is balanced so you always need an elixir in late game but if it just comes down to hardcore players preemptively taking one to get a resist for certain bosses then that's ducky.

Edit: Oh, they apparently didn't get the big boss started on this first day. I've been bamboozled

 

[Reinhardt]

pay us moni to level up and become weaker!

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Is anyone here going to buy this?

Yes i pre-ordered the ultimate edition or whatever the fuck it's called. Not gonna play it for some months though probably.

 

[KIss My Ass]

I'm messing around with it. This isn't the full character creator, right? Like in the full release I'll be able to remove the butt chin?

Edit

Nah seems they went out of their way to make it impossible to create an attractive looking female character. Holy fuckin shit. I mean they went FAR out of their way. I am at a loss..

 

[Jason Liang]

Downloaded and playing the Server Slam Beta now on PS5 as a chubby black woman.

Hm... if she were a little less chubby I suppose I could larp as Joe Michael Linser's Dawn and cross that off my bucketlist:

 

[Dadd]

I could larp as Joe Michael Linser's Dawn and cross that off my bucketlist:

You can just cross off your bucketlist

 

[ArchAngel]

First beta was exciting, this one is kind of boring with only lvl 20 and no legendary drops.
I am already thinking to just continue my D2R paladin run instead

 

[pickmeister]

I am so excited for Diablo 4 that I deleted the email inviting me to the server alpha test on arrival (let's be real here, the actual server beta test is gonna be on June 6, this is alpha).

 

[Kem0sabe]

For shame that Blizzard heavilly nerfed the Necromancer and sorcerer. We're my two favorites during previous beta, now they feel like shit.

No fun allowed ...