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I wish more gamers would realise how much power a boycott can have. We're like junkies just waiting to buy the next shot no matter how shitty it will be. My dipping point was Diablo 4. Never again! Vote with your wallet friends! Also ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
Were you a blizzard or diablo fan before then? Curious why d4 was the tipping point when D3 was potentially worse at launch, with the added insult of drops being weighted to encourage/require the use of the Real Money Auction House to make any real endgame progression. You would get more drops for other characters and have to trade for stuff you could actually use, with blizzard taking a commission on each transaction.
Then there were things like Warcraft 3 Reforged, hearthstone monetization, Overwatch 2, etc.
Diablo 4 was the first Diablo I actually paid for lol. But it wasn't only D4 that was the tipping point for me. Cities Skylines 2 was also a big, big disappointment. And I pre ordered the key, so no refund for me :/
For me, i was burned by Diablo 3 (at launch), but I caved on D4 since the aesthetic did look more inline with what I wanted from the series, and a lot of time has passed, so I was hoping they had learned from D3... but no. So I also feel that D4 was the real dipping point for me, where it's no longer an isolated incident.
I know people can chime in with the many times I should have learned this before D4, but I mostly didn't actually buy those games. Plus, I already know it was dumb to buy D4, in retrospect, I just really love ARPGs and D2 (which they did manage to Resurrect really nicely).
By the time I bought D3, with the release of the expansion (and armed with the knowledge that I should do so by prior experience with D2 LOD and even D1 Hellfire), it had actually been made into a half decent game. The true endgame kind of sucks, but it sucked in D2 as well, and up to that point I got a good 200ish hours out of it that I didn't regret.
D4 is just not good though. It's a skeleton of a game and the bones are stale. Diablo and Overwatch were the only things I was still holding out any hope for Blizzard for and they pretty much ruined both those franchises. So I won't be buying Actiblizz products anymore. They've made their point.
What if the new expansion is considered really good? Would you change your mind and buy it?
Potentially. But probably not at this point. They'd have to do such a huge about-face as to be a completely different game.