So, i bought my self the ultimate edition for Pc. I also own an XBOX. From what i see you “Get Diablo IV on your preferred platform. Your progress is shared across all platforms…”
The question is… Do you have to buy the game again? I dont trust blizzard to be like. No… Never… On something like that. I can see my self have to buy another copy on xbox to play it in there shared progress.
Blizzard to me past years now, have gone down some deep rabbitholes for money. So i feel like have to ask this stupid question, you should not ask.
You’ll want to refer to this Support Note:
Diablo IV will feature cross-play and cross-progression. And you will need to purchase the game for each platform you want to play the game on.
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Ofc they are going to make you pay minimum of the price. Where i buy it, i need to pay minimum of 84 dollar. or close to 120 dollar if i want an ultimate edition. Then they want me to pay it twice! Scummy!!! This is how blood boil happen.
The fact that you must link it anyways! Still they charge you…
Cross-Play and Cross-Progression in Blizzard games require that you [link your console and Battle.net accounts]. For Blizzard games that feature Cross-Progression, your progress is stored on your Battle.net account.
So basicly i could have linked it for free, but nooo… You need 2 copies to play the same fucking game you just payed for. Is it 84 dollar for downloading it?
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I thought you were serious and wanted to know whether you needed to buy another copy for your XBox… I wouldn’t have bothered answering you had I known all you wanted was some excuse to bitch.
I don’t see how the situation is different from the « old days » when you wanted to play an album on your Hi-Fi system and have another copy for you tape deck so you could play it on the beach. ofc, you needed to buy the vinyl for your Hi-Fi and then the cassette for your boom box…
Sheesh !
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Back in the << old days >> people bought albums on vinyl, then recorded them onto blank cassettes so they could listen to them in the car or on their ghetto-blasters.
It made no sense to expect people to buy an album twice just so they could listen to it in different places and the whole “home taping is killing music” marketing campaign in the 1980s UK completely failed.
If I’ve bought a product, I should be able to use it where I like because I’ve already supported the artist / group / company that produced that product with the initial purchase.
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What a question 
Ofc you have to, if I bought last of us on pc I can’t get it on so sole for free
You buy it for that Plattform you wanna play it.
This discussion reminds me of when i brought a bmw for the town and a separate but identical one for the motorway… then i decided b roads were worth exploring so i got another 330i for them too. It was getting ridiculous so i wised up
Did your BMW came in with this notice in the Owner’s Manual:
Did your speedometer also have the same notice, as in:
Yes, I know people largely disregarded this notice… but there is a difference between oneself disregarding that notice (and taking a chance one won’t get penalized) and advising someone else to blatantly disregard the notice.
End of discussion, as far as I’m concerned.
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I cannot completely disagree with the purchase of two separate D4 for different platforms: I play entirely on PC so I won’t purchase two editions. I’m estimating the vast majority will be making only 1 purchase, either for XBOX or PC. A few diehards might be buying both
Incidentally, i discovered St Pepper about a month ago. Some of those songs are quite edifying. A little help from friends, but the lonely man who shot… well, that hits like a taser.
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No, but would you buy two BMWs depending on where you wanted to drive?
It’s why, in the 1980s in the UK (not sure about the rest of Europe) there was a tariff imposed on the sales of blank cassettes, and some of that tariff went to record companies to offset supposedly lost sales of albums due to home taping. Of course, what actually cost them sales was people taping the Top 40 from the radio on a Sunday afternoon rather than buying the songs on 45s, not people taping the LPs they’d already bought just so they could listen to them in the car.
No-one’s advising it, they’re saying why people did it. Again, if I bought a copy of an album on vinyl, but wanted to listen to the songs in the car, it makes no sense to me that I’d have to buy a second copy (on cassette) just so that I could listen to it in a different place than I listen to it on vinyl.
The music industry eventually caught onto this. Nowadays, if you buy a song as an MP3 (or whatever format they use these days digitally) you can put that onto any and all devices you own, and listen to it anywhere you like, on a personal device, on a player in the car, on your phone, on your PC, etc. They care that you bought the song, not where you listen to it.
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