Diablo 4 fans plan Season 1 boycott after disastrous patch notes

The most recent patch for Diablo 4 does not appear to have gone down well with the community so far.

[sadraiden]

Funny how this game has nothing but 9s and 10s out of 10, but the people actually playing the game say it's fucked. Grim Dawn has got my back.

[notachance]

It is, one of the main complaint about d4 is it’s lack of end game contents. What did the devs do in season 1? Instead of adding endgame contents they make the characters weaker and the leveling harder so that players reach end game way longer, it’s stupidly hilarious.

[Christopher]

Don't forget to take a break from the game, though, because people are playing it too much! https://n4g.com/news/255911...

[Crows90]

The issue isn't lack of endgame content. There's actually a good amount....the big problem is that the entire game is that same content. Nothing really new and exciting opens up. There is not other content except endgame content since everything scales more or less and you're going to be doing the exact same activities that they want you doing at end game. Sure you get "new activities" but they take place in the same areas you've already been in. It's horrible game design AND endgame design.

[frostypants]

The issue is this weird mentality that end game is the whole point, where players just rush through what was intended to be the actual experience. Blizzard unfortunately cultivated this attitude with what they did to World of Warcraft. So it's kind of their own dumb fault.

[notachance]

@frostypants ‘Rush through’ is a weird wording of ‘we don’t have enough content’ as the campaign is only 10 hours long on average, even I only took maybe 4-5 days to finish it and that was by playing at most 1-2 hours a day.

Maybe that’s enough if it’s a meticulously crafted single-player experience, but this is a forever-game intent on keeping you engaged as long as possible with randomly generated dungeons. Intentionally padding the game is the laziest possible solution.

[raWfodog]

One of the Diablo 4 devs was also chiming in about how Baldur’s Gate 3 shouldn’t be considered a standard for RPGs. Small studios have a point but AAA devs should be ashamed that they are doing damage control for their own games.

[Christopher]

I'm amazed any developer would support business decisions over game innovation decisions. I know they were praising BG3 in the process, but it's sad to see a game that is doing so many things right and for other developers to say "Hey, this great thing over there? Our execs don't want that for our games because it isn't worth it when they know we can sell less to you for the same and we're okay with that."

[CobraKai]

I read Ubisoft or something saying something similar. Like BG3 is an anomaly. Don’t expect this game to be the new bar or something. My thinking is, if BG3 turns out that good, it should be the new bar.

[-Foxtrot]

I know

It happens all the time with massive AAA games full of MTs or built on live service with huge publishers behind them.

Al I’ve seen is people complaining and being let down by the game

If reviewers were honest and marked games down not just for the flaws but shitty business practices in the game then developers might hesitate doing it next time

[Tzuno]

Those 9s and 10s are for campaign, it is solid, no one had the time to touch the end game more profoundly in that short review window, they fk ed up the endgame, world bosses are a joke, dungeons are boring, get back to the drawing board.

[babadivad]

I'm still having a blast. I haven't gotten to truly end game content yet. Part of the fun is playing with my friends.

[Jin_Sakai]

And yet people keep buying into it. Sad.

“Diablo 4 reached 10 million players in June, driving a record quarter for Blizzard”

“THE GAME IS THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT STUDIO’S FASTEST-SELLING TITLE TO DATE”

https://www.videogameschron...

[Terry_B]

..smart people wait until mid /end of 2024 to buy Diablo 4.

[notachance]

now that MS and ABK deal nearing its completion, no need to bother buying ABK games anymore, just wait until they show up on gamepass

[Terry_B]

Hell no. I buy games, I am not renting them and have bad luck if they are removed from a service

[starsi360]

@Terry_B

Microsoft don’t remove first party games from gamepass - once they’re on, they're on for good

[rippermcrip]

And how does the make sense? The replayability of the game is due to the seasons and changes they make, so what's the advantage to waiting exactly?

[Terry_B]

I guess..or hope that everyone thinks different about that matter. I played Diablo 1 and 2 for many years as example. With different character classes and different own goals. There were no seasons or anything and that was totally fine.

Beside that...Diablo 4 should have more than enough to offer in 2024 when the expansions are out and the game got many balances and smaller updates. + there are enough other great arpgs similar to it on the market.

[Christopher]

There's a balance game they're playing, between how much power they want to give characters and how little the community will accept as a baseline of said power. Waiting might get you to a point where you come in and there won't be big updates that massively change the balance of your class and the changes will be minor in nature (if at all) down the road.

Honestly, it's quite frustrating to have such big swings in class abilities like this in a game that, even with D3, was just about you becoming powerful and not about maintaining some sort of difficulty scale that favors specific builds and leaves some to just be ignored. Heck, the fact there are unique gear in this update just for specific builds and not items for all build types should tell you how this game will look in the future.

[Bobertt]

Smart people would avoid Blizzard games.

[Crows90]

Smart people would play Diablo 1 when diablo 5 comes out.

[Cernunnos]

Smart people stopped buying Activision-Blizzard games many years ago.

[dumahim]

Or enjoyed what was good about it and bailed after realizing there was no reason to keep playing and before they made it worse.

[BlackDoomAx]

I hope they will do what they say.

[Rynxie]

Yeah, they nerfed my sorc to oblivion. The sorc already has to deal with disadvantages and was the weakest character, but now? It's just a bad joke. I played yesterday and it's crazy how badly they nerfed her. My mana (yes, mana that us sorces already suffer with) was reduced, my vun damage was reduced from 190 to 162, my critical chance reduced, my critical damage reduced, my armor from 5500-5800 reduced to 4700. My cool downs increased due to them reducing cool down affects.

I too, decided I would stop playing until they fixed this crap. Because it's just not fun. Monsters are also dropping less gear in dungeons.

[dumahim]

Aren't sorcerers the one that has a glyph or two that you can't really use because there isn't enough nodes in range to make use of the extra boost?

[Rynxie]

Yeah, lol

[Tankbusta40]

This is a GAAS title....get used to it...but hey they already got your money

[jznrpg]

And they will be asking for more sooner than later. You want new conentent? Buy this battle pass

[MetroidFREAK21]

So I shouldn't finish the story right now?

[Kaozz1979]

If you have fun, keep playing it. I don't understand why people always listen to other people. Just play the game until you find something new or are tired of it.

[Crows90]

People don't always listen to other people. Doing either isn't good or bad.

[Kurt Russell]

I agree with Kaozz1979. It's ok to put down a game when it gets boring. If you're enjoying it, that's all good too.

[MetroidFREAK21]

That's the plan anyway. I'm not a grinder. Just trying to play very casually

[rippermcrip]

These changes mostly only harmed high level players who were min/maxing the best stats. So they spent all that time finding gear and spending tens of millions of gold to get the right build.

But if you never got to that point, you weren't really harmed. People who weren't min/maxing will actually be buffed since they buffed baseline stats.

[Christopher]

If you haven't finished the story, finish it and then determine for yourself after that.

***These changes mostly only harmed high level players who were min/maxing the best stats. ***

These changes affect anyone in Tier 3 or higher worlds. Cooldown increases some classes across the board with builds that already aren't optimal. This just forces more people into cookie cutter builds in Tier 3 and higher. It's the opposite of what they should be doing, IMHO.

[anast]

It's a mobile port with battle passes. Everyone knew this and they still paid full price for it.

[NoFanBoy]

Boycotting the game after they haven given them their money, well done.

[gleepot]

Boycotts never do anything. So have fun, children.

[dmonee]

I played it for a week, finished it, have no desire to go back. Perhaps the developer pulls a rabbit out of their hat, and makes it better over time like they did with D3.

[HyperMoused]

Im playing it and am having fun, havnt finished the story yet doing side quests etc, i dont get teh hate really its exactly what i thought it would be, Diablo

[CrimsonWing69]

What I don't understand is, why won't they listen to the fans?

I don't know who thought this would be loved by the fans and gave everyone a pat on the back for coming up with it.

Do yourself a favor Blizzard and listen to what your fans are telling you.

[Pyrofire95]

Game from famously screwed up studio has disastrous patch notes that make the game worse after launch? What a shocker!

[GhostScholar]

Nobody that cares about that game that much is boycotting anything but cool they claim that. That’s like saying PlayStation fans are never playing ABK games again.

[ichdich]

..smart people wait until mid /end of 2024 to buy Diablo 4.