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Diablo IV

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Blizzard stopped depending on fans and mostly on whales (primairly saudis) to deliver the profits years ago, even the phone game made them a nice chunk didn't it?
 

abija

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Blizzard stopped depending on fans and mostly on whales (primairly saudis) to deliver the profits years ago, even the phone game made them a nice chunk didn't it?
Dude, the article mentions most of it is in sales. Demo was well recieved and then they did serious marketing and sold the shit out of it.
 

ferratilis

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Skins in this game are like designer clothes, poor people buy them to feel better about themselves and shit on other poors, while the Jews who designed them rake in all the cash. That's why SDG and the like are the backbone of Blizzard's customer base.
 

ERYFKRAD

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth

Gargaune

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For something that has been viewed as a bit of a failure by most fans, DIV has still raked in over a $1billion since release:

https://www.vg247.com/diablo-4-one-billion-microtransactions-revenue-breakdown
There's a silver lining here. I'm not interested in D4 myself (online service, hard pass), but it's game with a decidedly grimdark art direction raking in the megabucks. Maybe publishers will finally get that your big AAA tentpoles don't all have to look like an Overwatch petting zoo.
 

KeighnMcDeath

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Dunno why they keep shitting on the off-line community other than $$$$$. Still, you'd think they could net profits from offline players. Fucking WOW mentality.
 

mediocrepoet

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Codex 2012 Codex+ Now Streaming! Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. MCA Project: Eternity Divinity: Original Sin 2
Don't drag me into this. I haven't played the game in like a year.
Sure but did you buy any more cosmetics for your trans sorce?
She's not a trans. I own her and therefore I choose what she identifies as.
Only thing you might own is a cat and even that feline does not do what you want.
Wait a cat? I thought he had three?
Yes.

Fucker can barely keep himself alive. What did you expect?
 

H. P. Lovecraft's Cat

SumDrunkCat
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Don't drag me into this. I haven't played the game in like a year.
Sure but did you buy any more cosmetics for your trans sorce?
She's not a trans. I own her and therefore I choose what she identifies as.
Only thing you might own is a cat and even that feline does not do what you want.
Wait a cat? I thought he had three?
Yes.

Fucker can barely keep himself alive. What did you expect?
Rent. Free.
 

ERYFKRAD

Barbarian
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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
Don't drag me into this. I haven't played the game in like a year.
Sure but did you buy any more cosmetics for your trans sorce?
She's not a trans. I own her and therefore I choose what she identifies as.
Only thing you might own is a cat and even that feline does not do what you want.
Wait a cat? I thought he had three?
Yes.

Fucker can barely keep himself alive. What did you expect?
Rent. Free.
Lmao as though anyone expects cats to pay rent.
 

Darboven

Novice
Joined
Feb 9, 2022
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Don't drag me into this. I haven't played the game in like a year.
Sure but did you buy any more cosmetics for your trans sorce?
She's not a trans. I own her and therefore I choose what she identifies as.
Only thing you might own is a cat and even that feline does not do what you want.
Wait a cat? I thought he had three?
Yes.

Fucker can barely keep himself alive. What did you expect?
Rent. Free.
Lmao as though anyone expects cats to pay rent.
you need to pay tribute to cats so they deign to live with you
 

Yoomazir

Educated
Joined
Sep 21, 2020
Messages
293
Got this game on sale a couple days ago, I really don't understand what they're trying to do with the classes, there isn't a lot of synergies between skills and abilities.
These first hours almost makes me miss D3...
 

Perkel

Arcane
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Messages
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few weeks until expansion launches. Get sufficiently HYPED boyos.

DIS GON B GUD

It won't.

Game is just hodgepodge of different designs that barely work as an ARPG. Throwing more into this hodgepodge won't make it better. It needs foundational rework
 

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