So, I've finally gotten around to detailing my thoughts about Diablo IV up through the first season. It's been a rollercoaster to say the least. Started out strong, then after the campaign it sort of fell off. Then there's the tragedy of the 1.0 patch which nerfed everything into the ground. Of course, things have been slowly rebuilding and getting better again since then but it's been a long road (even though it's only been just shy of three months). Season 2 is right around the corner and I wanted to give a breakdown of what has been happening.
To briefly summarize: everything got nerfed including exp. People then started complaining that this was Blizzard's way of making more money by essentially using Stockholm Syndrome against their player base and hoping to extort more money out of them via battlepasses. Of course, battlepasses only give glamors and emotes as well as some premium currency you can use in game for...wait for it...more glamors. So, all of it is totally optional, but that doesn't stop people from venting their spleen about how evil and corrupt Blizzard is. That may be true, but the battleapss system as it stands now doesn't prove that since you don't actually need to buy one to play either the base game or the seasonal content.
Then of course there is the story which is pretty good overall but has some questionable decisions as far as what happens. Some of the characters go full Patrick Star and make some of the most idiotic decisions I've ever seen. Then the story ends on a cliffhanger which, in retrospect, is pretty par for the course for Diablo.
Let's see, what else was there? Well, there's the usual bugfixes and patches that happen with any live-service game, but the biggest complaint has been the lack of endgame content. I agree, I just don't know what else they could do that they haven't added to previous games in the past. By that, I mean that the endgame content is almost identical to a lot of what was in Diablo 3 and that game didn't have any of this stuff at launch. In fact there's more endgame in D4 at launch than any other one, but for some reason it just doesn't feel as fun at times. It could be the itemization but I'm not really sure. The campaign and levelling up until 70 is fine, but after that it's sort of "meh". Still, if you're a fan of the series I'd recommend giving it a shot. Things will be improving more over time I'm sure, and maybe Season 2 will add a lot of stuff that feels like it should have been there in the first place. The devs seem to be listening and want to do better, but time will tell.
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