Personally I deleted blizzard games after the sexual harassment lawsuit/investigation by the California AG, but many hate Diablo specifically for the immortal mobile game. Diablo 4 also increased the grind after launch to pad content further, it’s a $70 game with cosmetic macrotransactions, and it has season passes and other garbage.
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MxM111@kbin.social 8 months agoWhy? Why so much love for this game in particular?
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I ditched them in 2019 after the Blitzchung “liberate Hong Kong” controversy.
Astroturfed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Blizzard is a shit company that exploits their customers, their employees and had a huge sexual harassment issue recently. Overall just a complete shit company making overpriced mediocre games. They used to be great, which is why they draw so much hate for now being awful.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Blizzard is so shit that when I had internship offers from two predatory gaming megacorps, Blizzard and EA, I took the EA position because they didn’t have a history of abusing and sexually harassing their employees.
Was a real Sophie’s Choice there for me.
Astroturfed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Please tell me you did something horrible on your way out, or plant to…
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Haha, I wish I could say I left their offices cussing and flipping them off, but I actually had a great experience working for them.
Their customer practices are horrendous, and management is 100% always down to nickel-and-dime every possible aspect of the games they can get away with. But the internal practices and office culture are actually pretty robust regarding toxicity, sexual harassment and work-life balance, at least at the office I was at. I can’t speak to fair compensation, since I was an intern.
Ok enough EA shilling. Don’t buy their games, they hate gamers and see you as nothing but bags of money, lol.
BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 8 months ago
For me, I love the franchise and have really fond memories, but this one feels like a free to play game, but then they also want $70 for it. A game with a premium price point can be okay and a game with microtransactions can also be okay, but trying to be both is going to result in those of us who've been around awhile just taking a pass.
MxM111@kbin.social 8 months ago
So this huge game with ton's in game stuff you ignore because there is also a store where you can buy if you want to few armor pieces, which are not even necessarily better, just different?
Nobsi@feddit.de 8 months ago
This game doesn’t have tons of stuff… path of exile has tons of stuff. Diablo 4 has nightmare dungeons. 12 of them. That’s it
BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 8 months ago
There's always the main story of Diablo, but for a lot of us, the real game, and the reason we kept coming back was to get those cooler items. It's what turns Diablo from a play once experience to a put 100s of hours into it experience for me, and now it's turned into a pay $30 experience which feels really bad.