This sounds like an absurdist meme, except ... true

True, but they get just like super jealous and toxic towards any potential competition in the 'milking it' department. No dairy farms in a 100km radius from their offices either.

Exactly. The level scaling in particular is what killed it for me. What is the point of even having a level up mechanic if your character doesn't actually get any stronger. Part of the fun of D2 was getting a character to a point where you could just stomp previous areas.

Plus the removal of previous seasons mechanics also makes eternal realm characters weaker than they were when you played them originally, so not really any point to play them again.

I was leaning away from them when they chose China sales over that tournament winner expressing support for the Hong Kong resistance. Then I walked away when the sexual harassment shit came out.

Everything since then has mostly been confirmation that they've lost touch entirely with what I used to love about them. The only "good" news I've heard about them is that Diablo 4 was briefly looking good until they released the first season and made it clear it was just another cash grab.

I miss the Blizzard that would ban waves of gold farmers and buyers. The Blizzard that hired two prominent StarCraft modders to work on the Warcraft 3 map editor. The Blizzard that didn't write a tos that says they own anything created with their map maker ("we own all content involved in our platform" should frankly be illegal, it should just be a license to publish that content is implied by uploading it to be published).

But, the sexual harassment stuff showed that even that Blizzard was toxic, though having grown up through that era, I can't say it surprised me. The only surprising part was how late it went on for.

I loved 1/2 3 was only ok. I played for a couple of seasons and got bored.

From the very release it seemed like it was gonna be a meh game. Not bad, not good, just perfectly ok, and with how many good games exist today, I never saw any point in playing it.

And, yeah, that's basically what the conclusion ended up being.

It's nice to have Gamepass on my PC for this reason. I find a ton of stuff I like and I get to try things like starfield and see how they suck and not feel bad about spending 60$ on it

now that's a game!!

It took your time and your disk space.

I've played that game!

They're not even in the same genre.

Hey I've spent... checks Steam... 120 hours on Grim Dawn, I'll complain about it as much as I want!

Grim Dawn and Last Epoch are indeed good, but for me nothing beats Path of Exile. Whenever I play other ARPGs, I'm just missing stuff from PoE

I'm not sure but I loved Diablo 1 and 2, 3 felt like they completely lost their way... I've watched some streams and feel 4 is even more watered down..

This games in a weird spot. There not enough to keep hard-core fans going, but players like me who will put in probably less than 200 hours a season, it's good. It's still my first season, I'm not level 100, and I'm having a blast leveling, taking on new bosses, and exploring. Works about to cut into my play time a lot more in the next couple of weeks, so I'm already thinking ahead to making a different character next season.

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