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RolePlayer

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Devs very rarely do. This shouldn't come as a surprise.
Everyone knows this, but few people are stupid enough to choose someone who doesn't have the slightest idea about their own game. This makes developers look like a bunch of morons.
Agreed. it also just makes blizzard look completely out of touch. lol @ them using a controller/gamepad instead of M&K too. It's almost like Blizz is purposely trying to troll their ex fans/customers.
 

Reinhardt

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Devs very rarely do. This shouldn't come as a surprise.
Everyone knows this, but few people are stupid enough to choose someone who doesn't have the slightest idea about their own game. This makes developers look like a bunch of morons.
Agreed. it also just makes blizzard look completely out of touch. lol @ them using a controller/gamepad instead of M&K too. It's almost like Blizz is purposely trying to troll their ex fans/customers.
what do you mean? sdg, their biggest fan on codex, plays on console too.
 

Feyd Rautha

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Anybody seen the latest blizz embarrassment?

Diablo devs don't even know how to play their own game lol
I've never watched anything by him before but I got another recommendation after having seen that:



If you watch the first minute he reacts to the obviously made up number of 6 million+ people as the peak player count. It's interesting that the fake number is 6 million of all numbers that they could have went with. What's up with that? Might have to watch more Asmongold to find out...
 
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whoa its coming to steam? Have they ever done that before? I thought I logged into the wrong thing when I clicked steam and Diablo IV popped up,,,I have no bought or played it, will it cost $70 dollars or some shit?
 

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whoa its coming to steam? Have they ever done that before? I thought I logged into the wrong thing when I clicked steam and Diablo IV popped up,,,I have no bought or played it, will it cost $70 dollars or some shit?
Overwatch 2 is on Steam too. Wouldn't be surprised if WoW and Hearthstone hits steam at Blizzcon this year. I'm guessing D4 will go on sale coinciding with the Season 2 launch for $54
 
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whoa its coming to steam? Have they ever done that before? I thought I logged into the wrong thing when I clicked steam and Diablo IV popped up,,,I have no bought or played it, will it cost $70 dollars or some shit?
Overwatch 2 is on Steam too. Wouldn't be surprised if WoW and Hearthstone hits steam at Blizzcon this year. I'm guessing D4 will go on sale coinciding with the Season 2 launch for $54
lol, I have never played overwatch 2, just looked it up...WTF? What is with the reviews? Its like the worst reviewed game I have ever seen..nearly 200,000 overwhelming negative 10%....yet its obvious people are playing it..what is going on?

What type of game is it? It does not say its one of those Arena combat games, but sort gives off that vibe..I hate those games..I can't really tell WTF it is..
 

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Overwatch was basically 6v6 Team Fortress 2 but much shittier where all the characters had MOBA-style abilities and it was entirely gated behind matchmaking. None of the custom content that Valve's multiplayer games have created by the community. It cost $40, all maps and characters were free and all of the cosmetics were unlocked through lootboxes that you could earn.

Now Overwatch 2 is just Overwatch 1 but 5v5 instead of 6v6, made free2play, the in-game lootboxes were taken away and all the skins cost >$20. Also one of the worst battlepasses in gaming. Characters are technically still free, if you grind your ass off and unlock it in the seasonal battlepass. They actually planned a PvE campaign with a hero progression system but they cancelled it after two years of development hell, then uncancelled it following the backlash and proceeded to sell what little they had developed for $15.

Combine all that and you get the worst reviewed game on Steam.
 

Cyberarmy

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LOL, LMAO even, as the youngsters say nowadays.

RIP part 4 for Blizzort, let's see what M$ gonna do with them.

Edit:
Kidding aside I really hate to see this kind of production values are keep being wasted like this. My inner child is still hoping for a decent Arcanum or Dark Sun game with D4 or Assassin's Creed kind of production values. But as a grown up I know I have to rely on The Colony Ship and Underrail 2.
 
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Zeriel

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It's fine if some devs didn't touch a game in their life, but not in this case. Going by what they say in the video (which could be total lies ofc), the dyke playtests and then adjusts content based on that. She shouldn't be at that level of (in)competence.

This is the same company that put a guy who played WoW on a tablet as Lead PVP Designer. Honestly, none of this is new, Blizzard has been a pozzed up pile of shit since like... 2012? Or thereabouts. That's when the old guys started to get filtered out of roles that had actual real influence. Not like they were ever le epic hardkore gamerrrrrz, but it's definitely a big difference between what they've become and when Chilton was able to get 2000~ ranked or so in arena, that at least shows someone who knows how to play at an acceptably average level.
 
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Dont think it has anything to do with sales, seems like concessions being made to get the merger approved, like Blizzard games becoming part of the Ubisoft+ subscription.
https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/arti...H/activision-blizzard-games-coming-to-ubisoft
The concessions being made are for cloud services since that was the fake concern of the CMA.

Overwatch 2 and Diablo IV hitting Steam have nothing to do with those concessions. Blizzard is just trying to save their dying live service trash by tapping into the largest player base on PC.
 

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So, a year-round of Steam sales milking, and next up, free-to-play?

Anyone who cares about Diablo won't care anymore at that point, so they'll be able to go full Immortal on this bitch franchise.
 

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