@gk99
@lemmy.worldI'm really glad I never really developed an interest in Diablo. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is supposed to be the same sort of genre as Minecraft Dungeons and Torchlight, right? Not some weird fucking pretend MMO where disabling features at players' expense is just okay?
Activision-Blizzard's obsession with stripping player freedom out of their games is suffocating. This franchise used to have mods, now you're not even allowed to trade if they find out that people who don't want to grind are duping items.
I don't keep an ATM in my bedroom, unfortunately.
Only time I have cash for tipping is when I get tipped.
A game they have nothing to do with? I'm pretty sure they put their budget into The Surge, a game they actually developed.
Lame. There's no reason you can't have co-op in an RPG. Wasteland 3 was made 100x better with the addition and allowing me to share the experience with a friend.
How am I supposed to sleep at night when my computer's acting like it's at a rave?
...Turn it off?
I don't agree with the classification of 360 as "retro," because I can think of multiple 360-era games in the top 50 charts today. The implication being that if the 360 is retro, so are its games.
And I can't imagine going up to someone playing GTAV or CSGO and saying "bro this game is retro."
Especially since they thought selling all their western franchises off at bargain bin prices to go all-in on NFTs was a good idea, and they've been pushing them to date despite continued unpopularity. Decisions like that aren't just out of touch, they're downright stupid.
It wouldn't surprise me if they ended up bought by Sony, considering their working relationship and poor leadership. Hell, I never bought FFVII Remake despite really enjoying FFXV, my first FF title, because of their business dealings. It was PS4 exclusive and I didn't wanna play it at 1080p 30 FPS on my near-launch console at the time. I knew it was temporary and coming to PC eventually, so I waited. This was followed by being Epic exclusive and the first $70 PC title, so I waited for a launch literally anywhere else and a sale. Eventually that happened with a Steam launch, woo-hoo, except by that point I didn't care as much as I did at launch and they had already given me the game as a PS+ title. Didn't really feel like buying it when I already had access, didn't ever even end up playing it, and now I have Intergrade's PS5 version as part of PS+ Extra these days for when I get around to it. In my eyes, they're kinda just standing in the way of their own sales in favor of taking whatever cash these companies are willing to offer them. I didn't buy FFXVI either, because I still have VII RI in my backlog from all that shit.
People complain about them supposedly having DRM now or whatever but, to be frank, the fact that I can just click "print" and it actually prints makes it miles ahead by default. My printer actually functions now so I can't say I have any regrets.
That said, this was a terrible business move. Under no circumstance is giving viability to formerly unknown competitors a good thing. Reddit may still have the raw numbers, but the fact that Lemmy and Kbin are as usable as they are is a problem Spez created.