Pet peeves: The return (Part 4)

Not a peeve as such, more looming existential dread but;

There’s a band playing in the park 5 minutes from my house, and I’m walking all by myself through a mass of chattering friends and happy couples, all to go home and sit in complete silence preparing for next week at work

I look the narrator of my life right in the eye, and he simply replies;

“if only you knew how alone you really were, Garfield…”

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And you reply, as tentacles slowly grow out of your cat mouth: “I’m sorry Jon…”

I honestly think that will not happen. It didn’t with D2R, nor with D3 (in fact, AH for real money was removed from D3), and D4 looks like just basic transmog shop, which, I mean, is whatever.

They will not make it P2W as it was with Immortal, I truly believe it will exist only in that game as it is still making money to the company, whilst they will try to “repair” their reputation with D4.

(Watch me eat my words within a month)

Juat done a metric ton of maths for exams myself, my condolences friend. I can finally go outside in the evenings and enjoy myself. :sob:

Because, I guess, even they realize that this would be sacrilege.

AH was a big, but not the only problem the game had. What the game turned into for the sake of player retention is, imo, not a good thing. It also didn’t have the dedicated cash shop and battle passes, which d4 has (battle pass coming a bit later), immediately setting some expectations. I think it’s okay for the game to be “finished”, but that would go against live service bs philosophy.

Hot take (maybe?), but p2w isn’t the only bad thing about microtransactions. Perhaps it’s my boomer sensibilities, but I’d rather it was buy to play + an expansion or 2 later down the line. Adding a cosmetic cash shop in a game where collecting powerful and good looking loot is one of the main points (hence the looter rpg and looter shooters that spawned from it) is antithetical. I could stomach it better if the cash shop stuff was also earnable in game, I suppose.

Well, typically once a game stops making money, companies double down on the cash shop.

I truly hope you’re right, but given the company in question and general direction the industry is going in full speed, I can’t help but stay noided.

We laughed at Oblivion’s horse armour… now look at us. Bethesda commit the original sin. :pensive:

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Todd Howard can’t keep getting away with it!

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I hope the weather does not betray you.

D3 was a glorified gacha game and i’m not afraid to say it

Too few waifus to qualify.
Assessment rejected.

Does Grey DeLisle voice any of the playables in D4?

diablo is literally a waifu in this, quality > quantity

Sure, but you can’t have diablo in your squad. Infact you have to kill him (them? Her?).
Heroes of the storm wins on the gacha scale over d3.

I got the legendary skin for diablo in HotS (basically the D3 skin)

Which is cool, he was practically my main.

diablo: trans icon

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We do in fact claim them

Pride month
Pride mont
Ride mont
Ride mon
Ide mon
:rainbow_flag: Demon :rainbow_flag:

Yaaaaas~

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Somebody’s title in D4 is “rampaging trash”

Horse Armor is only the beginning. Next watch them release a game four more times and make you pay full price for it. The Remaster. The Special Edition. The Legendary Edition. And of course the VR edition.

I want someone to show me VR Diablo 4.

Would it be like this