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Blizzard is solving Diablo 4's big battle pass problem in the most low-effort way (www.vg247.com)
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[-] absquatulate@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Jesus christ, a whopping 500 word article just to say: "players used to be able to earn 666 currency, now the max per season will be 700. we want more!". Is this what passes for game journalism these days?

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

This is what happens when shitty news org replace writers with freelancers who get paid $10 a article. They're not doing research, they're trying to get clicks and views.

There's still some gaming sites that actually have writers. Whatever this site is ain't it.

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I expected more from a website that sounds like it was named after a Sony television model.

[-] Muhr@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I love the fact that diablo is also on steam now. That's kinda hilarious

[-] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

All the fuckstains who tried to create their own store/launcher have been coming back. Epics store is still running at a massive loss and their own projections (which are probably wrong) show they'll need to operate at a loss for at least another 4 years. The only games most people I know got on epic store were the free ones...

[-] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

I bought a game on Epic once. It was $20 cheaper than Steam.

Then I use GoG to launch all the games for all my stores so I only use one app.

Epic's free games are making them some revenue. If they ever lock down third-party launchers, though, I'm done with them.

[-] Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

At this point, it feels like people who buy ActiBlizz games are asking to be screwed, so who can blame the company for following through?

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

IP nostalgia. Lots of us grew up with those IP.

[-] moipe@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I never saw anything appealing in the battle pass - not that I wanted to pay the company just for the opportunity to work for something. All the emotes were someone struggling with a caged heart and only the already free pajama set looked like clothes someone would actually wear.

My favorite part was to look for other people wearing the comsetics so I could smugly think about how they paid to work for that. If season 2 holds my attention I can't wait to whale watch again.

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