Hype hype hype!!! Diablo fans brace yourself, Diablo 4 is coming. It feels like ages since we’ve been playing the Reaper of Souls and while we were anticipating a new expansion for the game, Blizzard is however, giving hints of something far bigger. Last Blizzcon was the time we there were some announcements about a possibility but this year’s Blizzcon comes up with a new surprise. Blizzcon 2016’s goody bag received by many streamers and content creators give a hint towards the RPG’s next installment Diablo 4.
Xbox Game Pass and Diablo 4 are a match made in heaven, with the hellish RPG series blazing a path for ActiBlizz’s future on the service.
“Last month we added our first Activision Blizzard title, Diablo 4, to our Game Pass service,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says during the company’s latest earnings call. “Subscribers played over 10 million hours within the first 10 days, making it one of our biggest first-party Game Pass launches ever.”
Sarah Bond announced this a few weeks back. That's the gamepass effect I suppose.
Guess they had to find at least one glimmer of positive news to combat the poor Xbox hardware sales trends. GamePass stats on game from a 1st party studio that they spent $70bn to acquire are kind of useless IMO, especially when other than Act/Bliz the entire XBOX division was flat. I hope that spike on Diablo 4 was worth having to the XBOX brand go multi platform for.
They probably all fell asleep due to severe boredom and left their consoles on overnight.
I really don't get the obsession with these stats. So what? Is always my response.
If 10 million people bought the game, it doesn't matter at all how long they played it for. It's irrelevant. The sale is made, the revenue is earned. The person can take a year to finish the game for all the developers care.
If 10 million played the game on a sub, what does it achieve? They could play 1 hour and delete it as quickly as they downloaded it. I've done this with games like Need for Speed Unbound or Immortals of Aveum, I just don't have the time for every single game.
Unless Games Pass generates developer and publisher revenue for every hour spent, this is meaningless.
If you are considering getting Diablo 4, Steam offers an incredible discount, so now is the perfect time to do it.
The ray tracing update Diablo IV on PC has been released, and if you're wondering whether there's a noticeable improvement, read ahead.
Looking forward to the next one
OMG OMG OMG.... DIABLO 4 LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Omg please be true, huge Diablo fan
Would love to see a 4th installment
How many damn times do we need to kill satan or rather Diablo to stop him for good geez
Please be darker in story/lore-wise like D1 and D2. Like seriously, make me question my sanity!
Also (this may be subjective) but, I'd like to be able to allocate my stats again.