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It's probably the worst because it interferes the most with gameplay.
What?!

Why is summary execution by firing squad not allowed on the internet?

D4 is lightyears better than D3

Not exactly a Herculean feat
It is 2 lightyears better than D2 and that still ain't a Herculean feat.

Imagine arguing which dead rat looks the prettiest.
You make a fair point. Can't say that I disagree. But I am a simple man. I don't have high demands. I like my demons butchered and my inventory full. At 60 FPS. Something that D2 cannot even deliver. Because that ruinous piece of garbage is capped at 24 FPS.
 

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Rats aren't pretty..... but they can be pretty dead.
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What?!

Why is summary execution by firing squad not allowed on the internet?

What what?
Instead of being able to play the game during campaign (you know, killing mobs and looting stuff) you get WoW patented design like: wait a bit til that npc finishes talking, click on highlighted item1, then click on highlighted item 2, then wait for npc a bit more, then follow the npc, then ...
 

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It's not even across the board. The skills are decline for sure, both in how fun they are to use and build complexity.
Nonsense, the skills are way better than in D2. This time hey don't cheaply pad the game by allowing you to allocate 20 points into loads of useless skills and mostly all of them are useful, have a good feel and more variability. Of course it is not on the level of PoE but still lightyears above and beyond D2.
 

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Blizzard stopped depending on fans and mostly on whales (primairly saudis) to deliver the profits years ago, even the phone game made them a nice chunk didn't it?
 

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Blizzard stopped depending on fans and mostly on whales (primairly saudis) to deliver the profits years ago, even the phone game made them a nice chunk didn't it?
Dude, the article mentions most of it is in sales. Demo was well recieved and then they did serious marketing and sold the shit out of it.
 

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Skins in this game are like designer clothes, poor people buy them to feel better about themselves and shit on other poors, while the Jews who designed them rake in all the cash. That's why SDG and the like are the backbone of Blizzard's customer base.
 

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For something that has been viewed as a bit of a failure by most fans, DIV has still raked in over a $1billion since release:

https://www.vg247.com/diablo-4-one-billion-microtransactions-revenue-breakdown
There's a silver lining here. I'm not interested in D4 myself (online service, hard pass), but it's game with a decidedly grimdark art direction raking in the megabucks. Maybe publishers will finally get that your big AAA tentpoles don't all have to look like an Overwatch petting zoo.
 

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