Steam meets Blizzard.

I guess they’re giving up on convincing people to download their launcher.

    • Justagamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t Diablo 4 one of the top profitable games this year (if you include extra transactions), and are there deets on how much Overwatch 2 makes in a month?

      Naturally gamers here don’t care, but I imagine much like Madden or Fifa the mainstream buys tons of Blizzard stuff.

      When I did in home jobs decades ago there were quite a few people who played Warcraft and not even remotely familiar with other games let alone how to use their PCs

        • Justagamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Oh, ha.

          I do run a game store nowadays and it’s interesting to see diehard board games on message boards get confused why their favorite games sell so poorly compared to more mainstream titles. 😌

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Yeah but it’s also the best Diablo game ever made. 1 is the only one even close.

          • Hyperi0n@lemmy.filmEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Diablo 2 Resurrected is the best. Followed by Diablo 2 and then the original Diablo. Bottom 3 are Diablo 4 Diablo 3 and Diablo Immortal.

            • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              We all have our takes.

              Mine goes D4>=D1 > D3 >D2 (and I assume D2R)

              No idea on Immortal from me, haven’t played it. Seems interesting but I’m weird about getting diablo on a phone

    • NuPNuA@lemm.eeEnglish
      133·
      1 year ago

      I mean Diablo 4 is going gangbusters right now. They may be irrelevant to your tastes but clearly they’re pretty popular with gamers as a whole still.

      • Sniatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Man I was really hyped for Diablo 4 but I think I just finished act 3 recently and I’m already bored. I don’t know what it is that makes the game so soulless to me

        • jugalator@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I agree but I’ve been around from Diablo 1 original launch and in my fourties now so I was just chalking it up to me growing out of it (“it” being Diablo and maybe gaming at large). I’m really bummed about it though because I expected a completely different feeling, even buying my console largely for it. Diablo 2 Resurrected cheated me, maybe out of nostalgia. I found that one really fun and thought D4 would learn D3 lessons and be amazing. But I barely feel anything playing through its campaign. It just feels like work. That I’m following a carefully planned treadmill and pacing with the monster scaling and all. In a grey world with generic monsters. Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s the game, maybe it’s both, but it’s made me finally begin disregarding Blizzard Entertainment games…

        • nac82@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Its dead after the story. They nuked endgame content imo.

          Was not happy with the patch notes but signed in with my 4 friends. We beat the start of the new season stuff, then immediately saw how shit the season was about to be.

          Basically after 2 short missions, you do NMD only. Helltide is worse than useless, which sucks because it was my favorite solo casual grind for endgame.

          All 5 of us were off the game within an hour. We decided to go back to playing old games. 2 of us went back to playing Diablo 2 lol.

          Diablo 4 is hot garbo rn.