i’ve been playing D4 for a couple of weeks now and i’ve experienced everything from game crashing to desktop to not being able to connect to servers, huge lags and overall game playability and fun. some of the voice acting (the one with that fake i would say russian accent) is ridiculous, unnecessary and reused waaaay too much! same with WoW. i’ve played WoW for years and now i can’t even look at the game anymore. little by little you have strayed away and its a sad picture lemme tell you. someone will say if i don’t like your games, then don’t play them and you’re right. and i wont. but for me its just sad to see what this company has become. is it due to woke mind virus, greed, bad decisions, idk. or i guess all things comes to an end. anyway, its been fun while it lasted. i wish you luck with finding yourself someday.
Anything new?
It is greed mostly. Developing a game takes a lot of time and in case of those corpos a ton of money. For that reason they always play safe and don’t do anything fresh or new cause in case of failed game the corpo can collapse. So they mostly live on hopes and dreams of players that get hyped for “new” game.
If you look at the market everything is almost the same as 20 years ago with updated graphics. Sadly people can’t hold up their wallets, overtaken by hype and paid reviews that praise every crappy game to heavens, while really fun games from indie devs go unnoticed.
All Blizzard did with the player data from their games being online was learn how to dilute the ‘fun’ while increasing profits and their aim after that was to maximise that position by further increasing control over the whole process, hence time gating etc.
i.e. Grinding increases, rewards go down, while ways to spend money increase across the board. Rinse and repeat.
Normal, honest company would add dedicated servers so people can mod and host the game. Here they don’t want to do anything like that cause you need to be on their platform and spend money on cosmetics and stupid battle passes. With mod support and dedicated servers game would sell much better and would be alive for much longer.
Well, that’s the formula today. For some reason these companies prefer to spend the money on hype and presentation rather than substance. Sadly, it works because people these days are happy to play any old garbage just anything other than having to turn the computer off. So, the companies keep getting away with it. Everyone says they’re unhappy and won’t continue to pay but they do because of nostalgia, fomo or youtubers brainwashing them.
One thing is >> Fixed character bodyforms from fat to slim with no way to choose.
I have a friend who managed to lose almost 50 kg of body weight over about two years. He is very proud of that. He wants to play Diablo 4 but has a huge problem with the fat Druid and Barbarian, as they remind him of himself and how difficult his life was when he weighed over 135 kg (270 lbs).
Being forced to play as slim, fat, or something in between if you want to choose a specific class is just rude to the players.
There are so many issues with Blizzard…
Without VoH Expansion >> no Millions and Trillions of damage for example… No Torment4 or Pit 62+ either…
My wife calls me crazy for not de-installing Blizzard Software once and forever…
All you said is true.
At the moment many of pc players have to play with battle encoder shirase limiting the game’s CPU load -10% because there is an acknowledged bug for more than a year that makes the game to use 100% AMD CPU for no reason and it creates black screen on teleport, you have to alt f4 twice before the game works again and it happens constantly without limiting CPU usage.
Why I came here though is the fake Russian accents, man they are ridiculous indeed and I can’t believe how no one is talking about them, someone forced these voice actors to do these horribly fake Russian accents and decided they were good enough to be in the game, this is truly an out of season April fools joke and is destroying an otherwise very atmospheric game.
About cosmetics I don’t mind they are purely optional and have no impact in game.
The Black Screen on Teleport is still there on Ryzen 9 and on Intel Cpu´s
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