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The Diablo 4 Steam release is struggling, with mixed reviews and less than 2,500 players
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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Is it because D4 is shit? Because it was kind of shit.
I didn't even try it after reading initial reviews.
They sucked all the fun out of the game.
I love how it’s already 25% off.
I have 3k+ hours in Diablo II and D2R and 300-400 in D3.
I won’t touch Diablo 4.
I'm content to wait a few years to see if it gets any better. I bought D3 on launch and didn't come back until a year after the expansion.
With the amount of microtransactions in the game it's only a matter of time before it goes on sale for like $15, or goes free to play. I'll get it then.
Hot take: I preferred D3 at launch, and was extremely disappointed when they removed trading and economy. The game got super boring to me when I could hear a up a char in a few hours, and nothing I found was actually worth anything. Without a sense of value, it’s just like “oh boy another numbers up item irrelevant to my build.”
The gear before loot 2.0 was atrocious. Values were too random. The best items for everyone was a perfectly rolled Skorn or whatever it was called with stats for their class. I sold and int based one for over 200 dollars.
I found a polearm that happened to have decent base damage, and nothing else. Sold it for $20 on the RMAH and ended up using that to buy the expansion when I finally came back.
Can't stand the way it works now either though. It's basically one of those idle games now. You just play the same shit no matter what difficulty. The only difference is the number of zeros on the damage numbersnas you gradually gear up to whatever the season armor is.
That's what keeps people coming back to D2R. You get a new piece of gear and suddenly you can run areas that you couldn't before. You have that carrot of maybe one day getting an enigma or eBotD, or you'll get a good drop for another class and now you're levelling up an alt so they can use that gear.
D2R have plenty of classes that can run end game farming naked or shopped gear.
The game is 4 months old, 25% off on a sale is to be expected. The majority of a games sales are always heavily frontloaded.
Tell that to Elden Ring and PC Red Dead and fucking where’s my PC Returnal sale for a copy for my partner
Red Dead Redemption 2? I got that on PC for like AUD$20 6 months ago (RRP AUD$120). Elden Ring on PC has been half price at least plenty of times already.
Returnal is Sony who don't like to drop their prices too much, but it has also been on sale for half price.
None of those are in four months, though. Especially RDR2 hahaha
Elden Ring has gone on sale… twice. Only once for half price (when I bought it)
When did Returnal go on sale? It’s been on my partner’s wishlist forever.
RDR2 was 20% off within a month on pc.
https://steampricehistory.com/app/1174180
Diablo 4 is the 4th best selling game in the USA this year. Sales are not an issue for Diablo.
Also Steam isn’t the only place you can buy steam keys.