Where’s your season heroes??? This season is the best ever.
The reason I’m not buying D4 (right now at least and apart from my computer being a bit old) is that Im beginning to grow a little bit tired of the grind and repetitiveness of the game. Not that there is anything wrong with Diablo. It’s just been a long journey with 1, 2 and 3. Wouldn’t mind experiencing the story and all the cinematics in D4 though…
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They all got one shotted in the 1st 2 minutes of the season.
Hahahaha
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If the game was doing well, it wouldn’t be on sale less than three months after its release…
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Or it’s doing so well that that their financial goals (or what you call it) have been met or exceeded, so that they can afford to lower the price and still make money… 
Or they are trying to counter some of the negativity around the game…
Or they foresee that season 29 will soon make a lot of players want to find something else to play.
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Back to school sale
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Kirottu: I don’t like playing the devil’s advocate here but game prices haven’t followed the inflaltion over the years and 70€ is actually lower what the price should be according to inflation.
Oversimplified industry excuse for the hikes. The cost of production has decreased. Also, remember when Digital Downloads became a thing and prices went down for like 10seconds before they realized there was nothing stopping them from charging the same as a physical copy and just pocketing the rest? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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You are wrong on almost everything there. The cost of production most certainly has NOT gone down, in fact it has risen by quite a margin. Making a high level game now requires a LOT longer than before and the pay for digital experts is crazy compared to say 20yrs ago.
And whilst it is true that games no longer have a physical cost because they are digital you are ignoring the high costs of maintaining live servers for these games.
Things have changed for sure but not to the cost benefit of the companies. No it is indeed US that have benefited from these companies eating up the inflation costs and not passing them onto their customers.
Meanwhile…
For around the last decade, the average price for a physical copy of a game, sold at retail in the UK has been £30-£35. Compare that to Diablo IV which, depending on version purchased, costs £59.99, £79.99 or £89.99, i.e. a digitally distributed game is being priced at roughly double to triple the average price of a physically distributed game sold at retail. Not only is the base cost vastly higher than average, they also sell cosmetics in-game, some of which have a monetary equivalence of around £24 each. Then, on top of that, they’d also like you to keep paying regularly for the super-duper-fancy battle-pass.
On top of this pricing nonsense, apparently the game’s pretty tedious and uninvolving too. This absolutely justifies my decision to not buy it, and it’s the first ever game in the Diablo franchise that I haven’t bought / played and most likely never will.
Considering how bad it is, yes, 70€ is totally a salty price to pay. I just cant feel somewhat sorry for the people who put 100+ euros into it. This game was nowhere close to worth even 50€, I would say it was tops 30€. And now the battle pass payments on top, the yearly expansions they spoke about (yeah right, lol) and all… This game is dead by 2024 september when PoE 2 releases.
I dont know where you got those stats from dude but I promise you they are 100% incorrect.
Well actually the stats shown above may indeed be correct but they are misleading in the context of this discussion. There are factors that it does not take into account. For instance that graph only shows physical games and anyone who plays games a lot will know that the VAST majority of games these day are digital. Even when you go into a retailer and buy a game it is almost always just a code that you get to then download your game. The only games that you buy here and get an actual physical game are much older games which have been reduced or low quality games made to be cheap anyways. The graph is likely also taking into account second hand games which are often sold for as little as £10. These are what your graph there is showing…the crap nobody wants.
If you were to get the stats for new and top end games sold, including digital, then your results would be quite different.
Also Diablo 4 is an excellent game. The only reason it is getting such a bad rap is because the hardcore players who like to speed run everything are bored already and unfortunately they are the loudest people out there. Anyone who plays the game more casually is still very much enjoying it. This is a big problem these days for every game…the hardcore players rush through everything, desperate to be rank one and the first to complete it and then they complain because they have nothing to do. Its pathetic behaviour and the games companies need to stop listening to them.
My post literally has a link to the source article.
So, which is it?
That’s entirely the point. Physical games prices have stayed pretty steady for over a decade. Diablo IV, a digital-only game, is 2-3 times that price and it has none of the prices associated with physically distributed games, i.e. they don’t need to press DVDs, they don’t need to source DVD packaging, print the DVD covers / inserts, distribute them to wholesalers, distribute to retail outlets, distribute them to online sellers, and so on. Diablo IV has none of those costs, and is still charging up to 3 times such a game’s price and on top of that is asking for regular Battle Pass money, and is selling in-game cosmetics, some of which cost almost as much as a physical release game.
Almost every review of it I’ve seen has very negative things to say about it, and it went on sale less than three months after release. If it’s such a fantastic game, why do the reviewers not agree and why are they already discounting it?
My son bought it. He hasn’t even bothered to finish the campaign as he got so bored. He hasn’t even bothered making a seasonal hero. I haven’t bought it and, having seen his experience of it, I doubt I ever will. It’s literally the first game in the IP that I haven’t bought.
So, what about casual players like my son who also don’t like it and found it so slow and boring they can’t even be bothered to finish the storyline, let alone attempt to fill up their paragon? Should Blizzard ignore the swathes of players like that too?
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