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Diablo IV is the fastest selling Blizzard game of all-time
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The fires of Hell burn bright 🔥#DiabloIV is the fastest selling Blizzard game of all-time. pic.twitter.com/L4pdjVnWFE
I'm holding off on buying it for a while until I can get a good picture of how the monetization is going to be with this game. If it ends up anything like Diablo Immortal, I think I will pass on it and continue with PoE to scratch my ARPG itch.
If you don't want to feel like you're contributing to vileness, Torchlight II is quite solid and can semi-regularly be found on on sale. It's got a bit of a weak third act, but boasts a good Steam workshop.
I've been enjoying it. I'm not a big ARPG person, but I do like them as a "side" game where I'm watching or listening to something else, or feeling bloated from dinner, and you can just mash buttons and watch things explode in the game. It's very polished for an ARPG, and the rough edges and marketplace is what never let me get that into PoE.
I'm playing through the campaign as a rogue right now. I was debating between rogue and sorcerer but it sounds like balance patches affected sorcerer's builds more so I'll just stick with twisting blade rogue for now. If I ever get around to a second playthrough it'll be on a sorc.
I finished the campaign yesterday as a Sorcerer. I have to say, I'm not really enjoying it. The game itself is pretty good, but the Sorcerer class is very underwhelming. I haven't checked the balance patches, nor do I have any interest in doing so since I'm playing casually, but the class felt a lot better during both betas, so it may have been nerfed significantly. I think the main issue with it is resource regeneration, though. I run out of mana quickly and it takes awhile to regen. I'm sure there are items that will make it better but it's just a chore until I get there.
Do you have the resource issue with rogues? I've not tried the class yet. I honestly don't care about the overall damage that much, but not being able to use your abilities is just dull and momentum breaking.
I think that's somewhere where using class builds makes a difference. While I am playing casually, I'm not above using a build for at least the main skeleton of my character progression.
I'm not sure what it is currently, but in the betas the standard sorcerer leveling build was spamming arc lash, which is a basic skill and doesn't use resources. So I'd imagine that'd make resource consumption less of an issue.
For rogue, you also have resource considerations. Twisting blade is a relatively expensive skill. That being said I haven't really been bored by it, rogues have to use mobility for their defenses so if you can't use twisting blade then it's still pretty frenetic gameplay moving around and using puncture until you have enough energy.
Once you get inner sight as a rogue, it also adds a nice bit of depth into energy management. Inner sight marks one enemy with a purple eyeball, and if you kill them you get full energy. So it not only makes resource management easier in general, but makes mob clearing slightly more interactive.
I'm not that casual 😊! I haven't checked any guides during betas but I have been following Maxroll's guides and I tried all of them. There's certainly an Arc Lash build that requires almost no resources spent but it also requires me to be in melee range and that just doesn't fit me. I like melee classes, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't feel right to be that inside the action as a Sorcerer.
I like the Flamewall build the most, but it's very resource hungry, despite getting the necessary Codex's to ease the consumption a bit. Same goes for the Ice Shards build.
I'm sorry to hear Rogue has a similar problem. It looks like I'm not alone in having this complaint.
I've been on the fence and so far resisted buying it. I have positive nostalgia when it comes to Diablo (have had very good times with friends in D3, and D2 is one of my favorite games of all time). I think D4 could prove to be a nice time as well.
I just wish it didn't involve giving money to Blizzard. Days before release, Kotick (who IMO should not still be heading ActiBlizzard) had the gall to give an interview where he denied there ever having been "systemic issues" with harassment at the company. I might have bought it had that interview not surfaced up to me in the preceding days.
Clearly it seems the company has learned nothing and makes me very doubtful about their current work atmosphere and much less inclined to want to give them any money. That said, I understand there likely plenty of people that worked on the game that are fine people that had no involvement in the extensive problems they've had previously. Thus, why I feel like I'm currently "on the fence" about it overall.
With their sales (and plenty of people playing it that would be against what has happened at Blizzard previously), it seems the majority of people just aren't worried about drawing a line with D4, or maybe just feel boycott is pointless (no ethical consumption under capitalism etc etc - though personally that doesn't mean we shouldn't try, necessarily) or just prioritize playing a fun game, idk
Couldn't agree more. The biggest problem I have with the whole situation is that poor woman who was sexually harassed to the point of suicide and no one was punished. This company literally got away with murder with absolutely no consequences and everyone has forgotten or brushed it off. She didn't deserve any of that treatment.
Kotick of course agrees with you that he should not be running the company any more. Currently his exit, but more specifically the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft, is being blocked by UK regulators. Other than Sony and the UK government, most everyone involved wants that sale to happen too.
I'm not interested in the acquisition side of this. Kotick should have been gone long before this and if there is some regulatory reason he must stay around related to acquisition items then he should do one of the following:
He just wants to blame unions for causing problems instead of acknowledging the real issues. I have no time for his BS