Diablo 4 Steam reviews put Blizzard’s RPG in the ‘mixed’ category less than a day after the D4 Steam launch, as player numbers struggle on Valve’s platform too.
  • haysupdood@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1252·
    2 years ago

    That Blizzard is selling their games on Steam at all speaks volumes about how poorly they are doing.

    All of the design talent and experience has been purged from their ranks in the last 10-12 years. They are a trash tier developer and have burned all the nostalgic goodwill of their past successes.

    Kotick killed the golden goose, ruined countless careers and lives, and now he gets to leave with hundreds of millions at the end of the year. Capitalism at is finest.

    • Naz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      It’s so sad to see one of the greatest gaming companies in history go down such a dark path…

      It feels like almost yesterday when I was unwrapping that fresh copy of WarCraft II and being stunned by the CGI intro, seeing the Orcs on their great warships and thinking “Holy hell”.

      What happened, man? Why does money ruin absolutely fucking everything?

      • LoamImprovement@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Why does money ruin absolutely fucking everything?

        Because nobody who gets a sufficiently large amount of it to stop worrying about their finances is ever satisfied with that amount of money.

  • NinjaJoey209@lemmy.caEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    Blizzard really sleeping at the wheel this past decade, they probably should have invested into talent and another IP instead of pleasing their shareholders when Activision was associated with them.

    Sucks what business does to moniize creative process/art.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    I played the beta and it was the most bland shit ever. Blizzard seems to think making shit boring as fuck and soulless is a good thing? I hate the art style of both 3 and 4 as well, no idea why Diablo games look like cartoon shit these days instead of the dope ass dark moody environments of the first two. 4 is pretty much the culmination of every bad idea Blizzard has wrapped into one

  • Stuka@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    There are too many good, reasonably priced games for overpriced, mediocre bs.

  • shectabeni@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    As nice as it would be to have it on steam there is just no incentive to rebuy it. It doesn’t even take much extra work to get the battle net version running on a steam deck.

      • shectabeni@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I think the guide I had originally followed was actually for World of Warcraft so I don’t see why you wouldnt be able to apply that to Diablo 3 - but the issue with D3 on the deck would ultimately probably be that the PC version of the game has no official controller support.

  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Why on earth would they release during patch 1.1 and season 1 when everyone has said it’s garbage?

    Season 2 is OK so far, but it’s still early. They actually made it possible to get something done. Release steam version after you’ve built some good will.

  • _spiffy@lemmy.caEnglish
    26·
    2 years ago

    I bought it because I was tired of the launcher and the bnet version was gifted to me. I also wanted to do my part for bumping the numbers for linux players.