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@____SK____

2 жыл бұрын

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@cd-yx3nv

2 жыл бұрын

Not first :(

@nightwolf9375

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@Confapulator

2 жыл бұрын

!

@____SK____

2 жыл бұрын

@@cd-yx3nv its ok you did a good job regardless

"Is this an out of season April Fool's day joke?" is turning out to be one of the most prescient quotes about this game I've ever seen.

@MrVentches

2 жыл бұрын

would have been even funnier if they had released it this april

@s3m4jno5w4d

2 жыл бұрын

Should flood Blizzard's forums with that clip, constantly. From here on out

@BRUXXUS

2 жыл бұрын

A joke they're laughing all the way to the bank on.

@Ichi.Capeta

2 жыл бұрын

@@BRUXXUS sad truth isn't it? they intentionally implemented this while knowing the tsunami of backlash.

@arathoras12

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

It really shows how bad EA / acti/blizz truly is when every few months their newest release breaks that record.

@tjenadonn6158

2 жыл бұрын

We know for a fact that the worst game I. Metacritic history will be the next game released by ActiBlizz or EA.

@amandineamanda5630

2 жыл бұрын

This game has one of the worst economies in the video game world, so don't play the AAA games.

@ricardohoang8452

2 жыл бұрын

ActiBlizz vs EA is like CoD vs BF - Which one is worse? Yet they still got so much money for so many Warzone/Apex Legends kids

@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they’re doing this on purpose? Torch the franchises before Microsoft acquires them and bolt with the money out of sheer spite for Microsoft, their own games, all their soon to be former employees, the very law itself and every last human being who had ever trusted them?

@sharpester7277

2 жыл бұрын

With Diablo Immortal Activision Blizzard earned this spot on my official shit list right next to Titus Software, Ubisoft, Take Two and EA.

Can you imagine paying thousands as a box price for a mobile game and still not have the whole game available to you.

@AdmiralBison

2 жыл бұрын

"whole game" With "Free" 2 Play you don't even own the game.

Little detail that was recently pointed out by KZreadr Josh Strive Hayes: The game actually differentiates between the drops you can get from playing with paid legendary Crests compared to legendary Crests you earned through any of the in-game methods: Legendary Gems that dropped whilst using earned Crests are "bound", meaning they cannot be sold in the in-game auction house to earn platinum. This also means that every last legendary gem in the auction house was obtained using Crests that were bought with real money.

@MrRAGE-md5rj

2 жыл бұрын

@vinasu maaj Show this to 'em.

I gotta applaud him for just being able to explain the utter ridiculousness of this system

@Subarashii_Nem

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. Reading it all confused the hell out of me. It sounds like total nonsense but the fact it's real is insane to me. It's like a child came up with the currencies and upgrades and never finished the actual points they tried to make. I have never seen a game as egregious as this one. Even most p2w, purely for profit mobile titles aren't _this_ bad with their monetisation. It makes the average p2w game look like a f2p dream.

@justinbuergi9867

2 жыл бұрын

@@Subarashii_Nem that’s because they know they have the audience that’ll pay for it.

@OmegaZyion

2 жыл бұрын

If a game's monetization system is more complicated than your standard JRPG, avoid it like the plague.

@justinbuergi9867

2 жыл бұрын

@@OmegaZyion now I wanna make a f2win game about the plague. It’d be the perfect metaphor

@abelramirez7320

2 жыл бұрын

I posted a comment about this. I completely lost track the more he continued to explain.

I repeat again: This practice needs to be internationally recognized as a criminal offense on a legal basis, enforceable to strip these companies away from designing 'games' as purely online casino's where the intent is no longer to provide a gaming experience but instead put the focus on driving gambling addiction even further up. It is treading suicidal and bankruptcy levels territory for people with gambling issues, and something like Diablo Immortal has no place anywhere in the existence of the universe.

@shaneadams6463

2 жыл бұрын

Steps to shut the model down: 1. Don't download it. 2. Circumvented. Personal accountability.

@MazeMaker4Life

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaneadams6463 obviously won't work mate, because their targeted audience won't be able to help themselves. All those whales and addicts are the target audience. For all the people that refuse to play the game, one whale is worth more than all of the players that never pay/play.

@CHICKENNUGGET69360

2 жыл бұрын

It's voluntary though, you are presented with their terms and conditions and you agreed with all of it before you can play.

@powerdude_dk

2 жыл бұрын

This comment is SO well said it deserves framing on the wall

@GrundleGrump

2 жыл бұрын

@@CHICKENNUGGET69360 Exactly. The only real way to make a proper statement is to simply not play it. All the people that ARENT addicted, don't play it, all the KZreadrs and Twitchers, stop playing it.

As someone who loved the Diablo games in my early teens, this is a real punch in the gut. Cold, greedy and hollow. Games should always be a labor of love, not a means to squeeze as much money as possible from customers. It's sickening. I'm happy to drop $60-$80 on a good game, but not anything like this.

@kightzeareau

2 жыл бұрын

You don't have Developers and artists having control anymore in Blizzard.

@infantryplankton

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just appreciate the old and move on. You'd be surprised how easy it is to fill that heartbreak with people who deserve that money...

@kickintheace

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I would even pay up to $100 for a good triple A title. Problem is you get people like these streamers who pay 10k+ on this literal crap stain of a game. Gaming industries are realizing just how easy it is to poop out a hand job of a game and get paid big. When billions of people own phones and the vast majority of people are irresponsible with their wallet. This is what you get. Unfortunately I don't see this getting better. This is where gaming is headed and the rich & irresponsible are to blame.

@guyverGODZILLAheiseiERA

2 жыл бұрын

Dude back in the 90s when TOYS R US had snes Saturn Jaguar games ( paper labels to buy said games ) WE HAD 99$ games 80$ games …. So seeing game prices at 30-5o NORMAL levels is a shock to us old schoolers

Wyatt Cheng is the kind of person that wraps up empty boxes and takes them to an orphanage, then when the excited kids unwrap them and cry because there's nothing inside goes "What you guys crying over? The boxes technically still count as gifts."

@DeskDrumGun

2 жыл бұрын

LOL, 100% xD "Don't you guys like carton?"

@MyAramil

2 жыл бұрын

Correction, he will ask the orphans to give him 5$ a gift, then laugh as they open the empty boxes and say that the boxes are the gifts

I have no sympathy for Wyatt Chang. He allowed this to happen and continues to mislead even after being caught. It's even more egregious when you consider that this is how Blizzard treats the community that made them successful in the first place. The whales weren't around 20 years ago. Without respect, we reject.

@exploertm8738

2 жыл бұрын

You do, I do, 98 other players who not gamers and havent even heard about metacritic pay and forget.

@SuperTimmmi

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with having no sympathy for Wyatt, but I don't think he "allowed to let this happen". I don't think he ever had a say in the monetisation.

@whiteDragon97800

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperTimmmi Blizzard became like a scam call center and yes fuck ALL those scammers who just work there for a living

@Zeroomilk

2 жыл бұрын

If i saw chang, i would spit on him.

@Theaffinity11

2 жыл бұрын

Regardless of his level of responsibility for this calamity of a game, I hope this trashfire of a game follows him for the rest of his career. I hope that anywhere he goes, he has to face the consequences of what he created. I hope he gets shitty messages on his starbucks on his way to the office. I hope people at stores he shops at give him shitty looks. I hope he has to speak to this at the next company he applies to. I hope the decimation of a beloved franchise for profit at the cost of the very fans that made the IP popular follows him for the rest of his life. Never let Wyatt Chang forget what he has done.

Blizzard in 2021: Wanna see me speedrun destroying my reputation left? Blizzard in 2022: Wanna see me do it again?

@bigleeneth

2 жыл бұрын

New PB

@nihilegojelly7747

2 жыл бұрын

Sony fanboys: “and this is why Microsoft sucks because they bought garbage companies like this” 🤓

@Orrissan

2 жыл бұрын

You know it's fucked when players are looking at an acquisition from Microsoft as a saving throw.

@nihilegojelly7747

2 жыл бұрын

@@Orrissan Sony fanboys are already on the attack when it comes to that

@bradleylavergne5465

2 жыл бұрын

Gold quote brother

I usually get a kick out of trying to "beat" the P2W systems by sheer force of will, grinding hours a day to catch up to the whales. In many games I've been successful and I planned on doing this with Diablo Immortal. This soft cap thing is about 8 bridges too far. They literally do not want players like me. They designed this game to keep players like me away. I think at this point they just see free players as like a bandwidth vampire rather than the literal foundation of your game's community. Guess what Blizzard? We're broken up babe. You wont get another penny. I uninstalled every Blizzard game except Hearthstone. For years I've been able to reach legend rank in Hearthstone every season as a 100% free player. I have a massive card collection that rivals those who dumped thousands into packs. The moment you make that impossible for me I'll quit and not look back. You're not even on thin ice. You're floating on the surface and your whole fanbase is ready and willing to drop lead onto your chest and watch you sink to the lowest low. Players like me are why your stupid games are popular in the first place. Price us out at your peril, you creepy unethical gropers.

@carlosvaldez3093

2 жыл бұрын

you ain't just going to grind hours here tho. you'll need to grind years in order just to get "near" p2w caliber gears

@darianstarfrog

2 жыл бұрын

​@@carlosvaldez3093 yea, that's his point here..lol

@jcorrea8597

2 жыл бұрын

Have you played it? I've played since launch, grinding away. My gear matches my level and not paid anything yet. This game reminds me of playing the older Diablo titles. There is a pay wall, but I truly feel I won't hit it. Also not doing any PvP, so I don't care what others have. As for cosmetics the game is so chaotic with the masses of other players that it's too hard to keep track of what players are wearing.

@leotravel85

2 жыл бұрын

Diablo 2 resurrected is the last proper game from blizzard, I haven't given up on them completely just yet. There's still hope with Microsoft acquisition.

@Zeverinsen

2 жыл бұрын

@@jcorrea8597 Why are you even remotely trying to defend this absolutely _abhorrent_ behaviour?

"You can't buy gear"...yet the end game grind is tied directly to the legendary gems that are socketed in gear and give upwards of 300% stats....these gems don't count as a gear.....what a joke. Flat out deception..I'm done with this lost all hope for them.

The great thing about Diablo Immortal is the sleeze is so transparent, and I felt so disgusted playing it that it helped me break free of some other parasitic games as well. Thanks Blizzard! Always looking out.

@gabrielquintero2137

2 жыл бұрын

Really?

@jamesduncan6729

2 жыл бұрын

Very nice. Don't get suckered into playing these pathetic excuses for "games." They're not games, they are predators looking for their prey. Don't become their victim any more.

@aconceitedbeast731

2 жыл бұрын

So glad to have you back on the right side of things. You'll appreciate the great games more now that you're playing less overmonetized garbage games

@FrenchFryKayak

2 жыл бұрын

I play lost ark and I'm starting to get tired of the game wanting me to pay or be a slave

@josephhuggins5394

2 жыл бұрын

good 4 you. i wasted alot of money on f2p games before i realized i need to just stop playing those types of games.

“This is the worst user rated game on Metacritic” Some other predatory companies: The worst user rated game on Metacritic SO FAR!

@ricardohoang8452

2 жыл бұрын

14th worst user rated game. They are digging to a brand new lower bar!

@alretermerfaldor9927

2 жыл бұрын

Hah!

@masterexploder9668

2 жыл бұрын

First Warcraft Refunded and then this, they are certainly able to set new standards.

@GuyWithChainsaw

2 жыл бұрын

Other Predatory Companies: Hold My Lootbox

@PropaneWP

2 жыл бұрын

The competing companies are getting worried that they're not creating as much personal tragedy as Blizzard's new game. "Ok, we got people to sell their cars and mortgage their houses, but Blizzard is on another level. We got to DO something!"

It’s quite literally a pay to win game, and to “finish the game”, you need to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars. Worthless garbage and shows just how atrocious Blizzard have become.

@Gattsu_OG

2 жыл бұрын

Here is the rub..... They don't care. They will make more money from the whales with the general population hating the game, than they will from the general population loving the game but not paying for it. For example that streamer paying 6k (which won't be uncommon unfortunately) is equivalent to 86 people buying the game at 70 dollars. That means they only need 11,000 whales to make the equivalent of a million individual sales. With a game like diablo, they will get many times more than that. Loot boxes make so much money that they are willing to sacrifice their reputation. They won't care until people stop playing their games straight up. And between WoW, hearthstone, overwatch, diablo.... That just won't happen (again unfortunately). I was a giant Blizzard fan growing up. I thought they were the ideal other game companies should strive to be...... Now whenever I think about Blizzard I feel sick. .... By the light of Elune.... Poof*

@rumers100

2 жыл бұрын

The sad part is that in Pvp you will get your ass whooped by the whales. No matter how much time you spent, the whales will beat you to the ground.

@nolebloodedfarmer7445

2 жыл бұрын

or pay to wish away the win in some peoples cases i am sure.

@5punkybob

2 жыл бұрын

Define finish the game?? Max you character or complete the story?

@eatmoreketchup

2 жыл бұрын

@@5punkybob you can finish the story without spending a dime. I encountered level-gated quests like three times during the campaign, which compared to AC Valhalla is nothing. BUT the whole point of Diablo games is that gear grind. And that is capped for a f2p player every step of the way

I'm seeing a lot of people say "Well, just don't download it." "Just don't play it." "Just don't pay anything." "Have some personal accountability." What these people are failing to realize, or don't care about, is that this is talking about Addiction. Addiction is a Mental Disorder. It is a literal part of your brain and biology that tells you that you Have to Have It. *For people with addiction, the item of their fixation is as important to their body and mental wellbeing as oxygen.* A very small percentage of addicts actually overcome their addiction and even if they do, they have to actively avoid that item for the rest of their lives or risk falling into the pit again. For companies to put this much effort into taking advantage of these kinds of people is downright abhorrent. There is a reason why gambling is almost universally monitored and regulated. These people who are addicts need all the help that they can get.

@bluecannibaleyes

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who has watched someone struggle with gambling addiction firsthand, it really annoys me that people don’t take that kind of addiction seriously. Psychological addiction can be just as powerful and life-ruining as a chemical addiction. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for personal accountability and am not afraid to blame the victim in a lot of situations where people claim victimhood, but addiction is a different ball of wax imo. Things like consent go out the window when we are talking about predatory tactics aimed to specifically target vulnerable people. In such cases, these people are actual victims, and it’s the practice itself that is the issue. I definitely do understand the people who want to blame the victims. I too am very much a holier-than-thou autist who doesn’t understand why everyone can’t just be perfect and responsible. But I’ve become a bit more realistic in recent years. I used to work in the payday loan industry, and I blamed the victims at first because it was the only way for me to sleep at night. But it was ultimately just a cope to justify evil. Sure, they might have been dumb for getting into in the first place, but most of the people were so deep in the scam hole that it was nearly impossible for them to get out. And seeing as how the gambling addict I know also got caught in the payday loan scam industry, I wouldn’t be surprised if many other gambling addicts end up falling into it because of their addiction too. Gambling and usury go hand in hand. Blaming gambling addicts for falling for manipulative psychological techniques aimed directly at them isn't the right call imo.

Worst Metacritic rating well deserved let’s push it to a 0.1 Edit: I’m glad this got the likes that it did let’s all rise and put in our 0.0 ratings for this game!

@Blood-PawWerewolf

2 жыл бұрын

Is 0.0 possible? HAS any game gotten to 0.0? Let’s push this game to 0.0 and make history.

@Yarharsuperpirate

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blood-PawWerewolf Lets push it further! Lets make the game so hated. That metacritic has to modify their rankings to allow negatives!

@Tyranzor64

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blood-PawWerewolf if there's anything above a 0, a 0.0 would required thousands upon thousands of rating to average it down for EACH rating above 0. Worse so with the 10s some bots give

@preztigeX

2 жыл бұрын

Negative infinity. Full stop.

@maddog_27

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with all these let’s go break metacritic push the boundaries

"It is a wolf in sheep's disguise" Not even, the wolf gave up and became vegetarian because he just couldn't unlock enough gems to get the full "Sheep infiltrator" costume set without going to the three pigs for another mortgage.

@mothichorror446

2 жыл бұрын

I love the idea of the 3 pigs being money brokers, maybe they built such substandard houses that could literally be blown down to commit insurance fraud

@kukuhimanputraraharja8084

2 жыл бұрын

pigs are also more popular than wolf in china. hence why mmorpigs scummy casino tricks are everywhere in this game.

@Josh-py9rq

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Josh-py9rq

2 жыл бұрын

@@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 😂

@Tommy_Wimmer

2 жыл бұрын

sheep's clothing, not disguise.

I hope this brings attention to these types of games and we can get them labeled as Gambling.

"Despite the gamer spending thousand of dollars, he got nothing." Good.

@HexPhoenix

2 жыл бұрын

No, not good

@laughingalex7563

2 жыл бұрын

@@HexPhoenix he actually did it to make a point, so he proved a point just how bad the game is. He did it in hopes no one else would fall for this scam of a game.

One thing I wanted to note, activision/blizzard is deleting lower ratings through the play store. Which still sits at a 3.7/5, somehow. I spent a few hours with the game to try it out, I left a 1 star review stating the performance issues and abysmal monetization. 2 days later, it was deleted. I wrote a new review, stated it was my 2nd time posting the review. It's been 3 days and it's still up; for now. I saved the review in my notes, with dates, to repost just in case. I encourage those that have written reviews to check them.

@W0lfMan26

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Google let's people delete reviews which seems bs to me.

@rwilliamson238

2 жыл бұрын

@@W0lfMan26 it really is..

@Greywander87

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that fraud? How is that different from them writing 5 star reviews for their own products, posing as customers? Review manipulation is fraud.

@rwilliamson238

2 жыл бұрын

@@Greywander87 apparently it's OK in Googles book to delete reviews. It really is fraud..

@jonathanlindqvist5271

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering that, even if mobile players are the worst sheep they rarely review (unless incentivized) so I was perplexed at how they [the sheep 5/5'ers] were somehow counterweighing the angry 1/5'ers.

It’s not a game, it’s an addiction manipulation system. Basically dealing unregulated drugs.

@MisterVercetti

2 жыл бұрын

It honestly makes you wonder if the Canadian Devil is actually involved somehow.

@tylermcnally8232

2 жыл бұрын

@@MisterVercetti Hey buddy.

@Skateandcreate9

2 жыл бұрын

Digital drugs

@Half-Vampire

2 жыл бұрын

Diablo casino

@deezy2k1

2 жыл бұрын

Feels like you can’t just play a game and enjoy it anymore these days. To get the most out of games you have to constantly keep throwing money and hope for the best.

Gotta say that that Metascore vs User Score huge gap is probably also a sign of how the videogame focused media is corrupt, insidious, disgusting and couldn’t care less about ethics and protecting people. Utterly repulsive and sickening.

@ralphdailey9503

2 жыл бұрын

The video game media's influence is very powerful. When gamers organized into gamergate in an effort to expose the corruption, the media's campaign to villainize them was very effective.

@Daniel__Nobre

2 жыл бұрын

@@ralphdailey9503 that is so true. I started believing the “other side”, but when I started reading stuff by myself I started understanding that in reality things were much more nuanced than what most were made to believe. Very manipulative indeed. Personal interests above ethics when their profits are in risk, clearly

I've had fun playing it and hadn't noticed anything of this affecting me negatively, until today when we killed a purple boss and it dropped NOTHING. We were all surprised and thought it was a glitch. Then I saw your video, and that explains it... We must have hit the cap....

@jonnywtf3039

2 жыл бұрын

That's fucked up

It is now normal to present a game to the media that's decent, release a different predatory version to the public, scale it back a few weeks later after they get their money from the small percentage of gamers who whale cash to win, then gaslight everyone saying "We heard you, look, we made changes". This is not a mistake, it's standard practice. It's gross.🤢

@Sad-Lesbian

2 жыл бұрын

Joining the standard practice of releasing unfinished buggy messes and calling them full games and expecting full price to be paid for them.

@ScottBuck1843

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sad-Lesbian and the standard practice of day one DLC...

@vindictivetiger

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like they needed capital to finish and release D4 without going to investors or crowd funding asking for more money to finish D4 over budget.

@VesperAegis

2 жыл бұрын

I think companies are just sick of being accused of predatory practices at every turn regardless of what they do; so long as it's a big corporation people are bound to pile on the hate their every move. So instead of trying to tiptoe or be nuanced about it and introduce a few payment features only to receive a huge backlash anyway, they decided to logically go whole hog and not worry about it. Plenty of people realize that time is money, and as a mobile game this really isn't a particularly unusual model; instead of making a pure grindfest they threw in some excellent options that will really only affect around 0.001% of the people that play this enough to reach endgame status.

@paigelove2666

2 жыл бұрын

@@VesperAegis I'm sorry but none of the defenses here make any sense. Developers actively ignoring public criticism with the idea that they'd be criticized no matter what they do is nonsensical. SC2 got a lot of appreciation for its freemium update. Diablo 2 Resurrected got tons of appreciation for just being a buy it once fully functional type of deal. LSC:TTS had a regular and a "premium" version that just had cosmetics, something that was benign and upgradeable to if you cared about the cosmetics enough, and no one batted an eye at that. Metroid Dread, Arceus, and Kirby came out as just single purchase experiences and everyone praised them. I don't know about Elden Ring well enough to judge their but its distribution also seems very reasonable. Fortnite and Rocket League both have cosmetic-only models that no one's complaining about. Overwatch being a 40-60 dollar game that had purchasable lootboxes got some understandable criticism, but the relative generosity of how cosmetics are earned in game made that dwindle rather quickly as levels never stop being fairly quick to earn and lootboxes there give cosmetics and gold pretty reliably. Predatory practices are discrete, avoidable things. The inherent vileness of big corporations doesn't change that companies do get appreciated when they do stuff right. What's being done here is trying to rope you into spending money from the start, and trying to scale that higher and higher the further you go, while punishing you for playing without spending. You start getting payment popups at the first major dungeon, which affects virtually every player, and it only gets worse. The leveling turns into a terrible grind in the 30's, the character maxing is an absurdly expensive process, and the result is an unbelievable advantage in PvP. Only a tiny percent of players are going to have to pay 100k+ to get the endgame, but there's tons of players who absolutely would dive hardcore into a diablo game that are completely shut out by this, or worse being roped in and tempted by addiction-catering mechanics. Any game a player touches, there's always a temptation to learn it and go deeper, on the offchance you might really like it's endgame. Every one person Diablo Immortal ropes up like that can lose upwards of thousands of dollars. "We hired professional psychologists and data analysists in order to figure out how to get people addicted to spending money on our platform, ideally to the extent that they ignore their life needs and finances" in a just world should be a sentence that gets any CEO and board of directors publicly executed, but at least barred from making executive decisions to sell to consumers. That we're even thinking of tolerating that is insane. It's okay to enjoy Diablo Immortal. It's an ARPG, they're fun. But gatcha models in general are already vile things, and this game does go to absurd lengths with multiple gatcha systems roped together. That it helps "save time" doesn't excuse that the mechanics in game actively prevent you from even grinding normally. This being in the Diablo franchise, one that popularized the long grinds and the trading/teaming up to even it out, makes that a slap in the face.

Going up in the hierarchy of Scientology is simpler and cheaper than the pay to win currency system of Diablo Immoral.

@lillet2101

2 жыл бұрын

OMEGALUL

@jamesduncan6729

2 жыл бұрын

Fuckin lol, so true 👍🏻

@jamiestwrt

2 жыл бұрын

Haha 😄

@thierryfaquet7405

2 жыл бұрын

AND you get to meet Tom Cruise. Blizzard just shit the bed with this one.

@Tehilliym

2 жыл бұрын

Kek!!!

From the "Remember to take all things in moderation" of WOW loading tips to forcing players to log in. How much can this company sink is anyone's guess...

I think it's safe to say blizzard has become (together with EA and maybe a few others) the Nestle or Monsanto of the gaming industry. They don't care if you hate them, their products or what they stand for as long as they make money. I doubt you can still very proudly say that you work for blizzard like you used to be.

@luistorres-bj1po

2 жыл бұрын

Only thing left to do is to not buy

@BigOwl51

2 жыл бұрын

Square Enix is pretty bad too. I find independent games to usually be more fun anyway. Like why was Crab Game unironically more fun than anything Enix, EA or ActiBlizz have released in the past few years?

@Tommy_Wimmer

2 жыл бұрын

They kill studios, not people.

"YOU GUYS NOT HAVE PHONES?!" Famous last words before Blizzard went into shit with the Blitzchung and Sexual Harassment incident.

@songogu9

2 жыл бұрын

You guys not have a cool half million to drop on diablo 3: mobile edition?

@tjenadonn6158

2 жыл бұрын

"Do you not have a market research department?"

@Galagagamer10010

2 жыл бұрын

Who was the guy that said that? I wonder if he still works there

@JohnnyMacs19

2 жыл бұрын

The fact that they had that much of a backlash about that then gave us the worst monetized F2P game ever is absolutely hysterical. How do we make this not F2P let's make them pay for EVERYTHING and spend thousands of dollars

@songogu9

2 жыл бұрын

@@Galagagamer10010 Wyatt Cheng, the dude that now cries people judge the game based on misinformation.

"Between paying 6 figures to upgrade yourself, OR ~10 years of grind they can't make it worse can they?" they have daily drop limits "Oh they did make it worse."

@undeath6010

2 жыл бұрын

even with 10 years of grind. you cant get items that are hidden behind paywall. fuck blizzard.

Every streamer who spends thousands on this to "show how bad it is" is part of the problem. They represent hundreds if not thousands of sales had this been a normal paid release.

@bluecannibaleyes

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I really wish they’d stop doing that for clicks.

@Ciopekwah

2 жыл бұрын

my exact thoughts xd

@Solus5048

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluecannibaleyes they are click whores....this kind of news makes their day.... Blizzard has become a gold mine for them....ever since reforged launched I've seen hundreds of new channels pop up who do nothing but complain..... Now tell me this.... reforged+BFA+shadowlands+diablo mobile That makes it 4 releases...... Then how come they are hundreds of channel posting same shit about it?

@MetaMdad

2 жыл бұрын

I have boycotted EA for 10 years, I don't pay into mobile games or anything that shares it's business model. Yet it is still booming. Boycotting isn't enough so long as the streamers are not pretending or trying to convince their viewers it's not bullshit price they are not the problem. The thousands they spend is much less than if they turn off thousands of people from engaging in the game and allowing themselves to be tricked by them.

@PsyrenXY

2 жыл бұрын

@@MetaMdad are they really doing that though? "There is no such thing as bad publicity" and even the streamers shouting from the rooftops how disgusting the monetization is are shining a floodlight on it that is attracting every whale for miles. I can't help but feel they're doing exactly what Blizzard is hoping for.

The progression is so convoluted Yong has to have a cheat sheet up to keep track of it all. Screw you Blizzard.

Blizzard went from being one of the most respected and beloved developers ever to being one of the most reviled. Thank you Activision, very cool.

@muizzsiddique

2 жыл бұрын

WoW already gave them that image long before Activision.

@AscendantStoic

2 жыл бұрын

It's literally the story of Diablo 1, the once beloved hero gets corrupted by Diablo's soulstone until they become the very evil they once stood against, quite ironic.

@Yomush

2 жыл бұрын

"You either die as a hero or live long enough to become the villain" - this quote is pretty much a definition of gaming industry right now

@manfredkandlbinder3752

2 жыл бұрын

That Blizzard you are talking of vanished already more then 10 years ago. They are only second to EA for the despise they deserve for the last decade.

@mikegamerguy4776

2 жыл бұрын

B O B B Y ! ! !

We need a major lawsuit, right now. This needs to shut down big time.

@joshanonline

2 жыл бұрын

No, it needs to be regulated by governments. It ain't gonna stop until it does.

@arandomcommenter412

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshanonline But when governments regulate things that also usually isn’t good, just look at bill C-11

@darthlazurus4382

2 жыл бұрын

@@arandomcommenter412 What other options are there? The gaming industry has shown they will not willing change for better. Doing nothing won't work so I'm seriously asking what other choices are there?

@cesiba1

2 жыл бұрын

No. It's a mobile game. These mechanics are expected. It's a EA game, which means the worst kind of loot boxes, micro transactions, dlc...etc are on the horizon. AGAIN, it's a game you don't pay for. Stop playing it.

@SolusWhite

2 жыл бұрын

I agree... however, a lawsuit won't fix the issue... exploitative monetisation need to be made illegal.

I think it's high time for laws around the world, to stop these exploiting. Let them just be viewed and taxed like casinos. Assume all employees are borderline criminals. 4 tax examinations a year. 1 per year for all employees. And the highest tax rates for ALL their products.... No possibility to write off any costs. Maybe, just maybe they will stop after that.-

@Martin-rb4np

2 жыл бұрын

Don't make it profitable for them and they will stop producing it. No reason to get the government involved, then you're just gonna pay through your taxes.

@bluecannibaleyes

2 жыл бұрын

@@Martin-rb4np Getting the government involved is the only way to make this unprofitable.

@toddclawson3619

2 жыл бұрын

@@Martin-rb4np If I recall, Activision exploits a lot of loopholes in the tax law to basically pay nothing in taxes while claiming millions in tax refunds so we are all paying for this with our taxes already whether we like it or not.

@Martin-rb4np

2 жыл бұрын

@@toddclawson3619 Hahaha, oh you guys definitely deserve the fascism you're gonna get with this mentality.

@DavidClark1983

2 жыл бұрын

@@Martin-rb4np - I agree. As long as people pay for it, they will keep doing it. If you don’t like it then boycott. I loved the Diablo franchise, but I saw what they were doing by going to mobile, then waited to see the reviews. Glad I didn’t get it.

Don't forget, that with Legendary Gear comes a higher Resonance stat. Higher Resonance means that literally 3 ways to get stat boosts, are made stronger with the additional stat % increase from your Resonance. BUT NOT ONLY THAT... We have to visually display who has certain amounts of Resonance, because once you hit a certain milestone, you get WINGS to show off to the world. And the more impressive the wings, the more impressive your (wallet) Resonance.

Well, well, just when I hoped that Blizzard can't hit the rock bottom any lower... They returned with a god damn shovel, drill and couple of pickaxes for good measure.

@chrisfeddema

2 жыл бұрын

Na they just show up with a drilling rig

@SuperLarrythompson

2 жыл бұрын

They hit rock bottom long ago!! Wtf is wrong with you people?

@gabrielquintero2137

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperLarrythompson the guy said that they just got lower than rock bottom.

@marceror

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking more like a fleet of excavators!

@StormsparkPegasus

2 жыл бұрын

Blizzard is one of the worst developers in the world, if not the worst. They make the lowest effort shovelware possible, and their "games" are based on casinos and stores rather than gameplay.

"Don't you guys have phones?" "Yes we do sir!" they said as they pulled up Metacritic

@haaxxx9

2 жыл бұрын

*Pulls out a Black GBA SP with Pokemon: Leafgreen in the cartridge slot* "No sorry, Only have a Gameboy. It's a one time payment too!"

@Khloya69

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody actually pulls up metacritic, the site has lost all credibility with every single recent game being review bombed far beyond what is reasonable.

@xenxander

2 жыл бұрын

"Can't you guys get loans?"

Honestly, I'd ride this wave by making a game that is a satire of the 'pay to play' scam. Offer pay item, but also keep the exact same thing for free and easily accessible nearby. You have an option to pay for an upgrade for fighting a boss. Except as soon as you pay the game notifies you the money was sent directly to him as a bribe. So he falls over and plays dead for you.

@1337penguinman

2 жыл бұрын

There's a game out there called "DLC Quest" I think you'd like.

"Gems aren't gear" But... they slot into gear, and provide permanent stat boosts like gear, so... gear?

Sad part is this is just limit testing before D4. And the fact a lot of people are spending insane money on Immortal is terrifying. Basically press F for Diablo 4

@infinitexp420

2 жыл бұрын

F

@TheAxeLord47911

2 жыл бұрын

F

@AYuki325

2 жыл бұрын

F

@Raider0075

2 жыл бұрын

F

@josuezuniga5208

2 жыл бұрын

F💀

Guaranteed, for their next game Activision will say "We heard you!", and then only strip *some* of the scams.

@beermademesmart

2 жыл бұрын

Strip the scams?? If these last few years show us anything they'll double then triple down on scamming the people dumb enough to still give this shit company money

@anotterwithaphone3077

2 жыл бұрын

Two of them.. That's how many they will take out... while adding in 3 or 4 different ones

@stobiepiel2585

2 жыл бұрын

They will SAY that, then ADD more scams.

@TheLunarLegend

2 жыл бұрын

It used to be two steps forward one step back, now it's two steps forward and they'll lean back to make it look like they took a step back.

People dig into mobile games expecting suspicious shit, and in /most/ cases, find lesser problems. They find caps that are, while sometimes not great, are declared, not hidden. They find gacha everywhere, or if not gacha, lootboxes. They mostly find that, given an reasonable timeframe or very low spending, you do not need perfect units or gear to keep doing the thing if you are smart (or you look up how someone does things with the free characters, which is a kind of smart). There is some surprisingly generous games in mobile at the end of the day. And now we have Immortal, as a massive honking sign of why that suspicion is *well fucking founded* and probably is going to pull even closer scrutiny into the market by continuing to exist.

Lamo, imagine having a game THIS GREEDY that your not even guaranteed a 5 out of 5 gem because these gems have freaking rankings on top of rankings.

When monetization and progression are this intertwined, you can't just ignore it because the game WILL be balanced around it, and eventually you'll hit the famous gacha game wall where everything grinds to a halt unless you start to pay up. It manifests in different ways depending on the game, but Diablow Immoral just straight up tells you to your face that you're a second class citizen unless you fork over that funny money. If there's one positive here, the monetization isn't deceptive or sneaky. It's so blatantly garbage that no sane human will ever buy into it. BTW, the f2p playerbase is just as important as whales for games like this to survive. You don't pay the bills, but you keep the population up, queue times down, and whales have plebs to lord over. If you really don't want to support this, don't play the game at all.

@LSmallCatL

2 жыл бұрын

We’ll see the gating in Hell 3 and higher. Right now, dedicated F2P can reach 1200+ combat rating, allowing to farm for 30+ paragon gear. It remains to be seen whether it’s even possible to gain 2000+ rating for Hell 3 etc. or there is a gap in lower that will have to be breached by spending money

@Ms.Strahl

2 жыл бұрын

You're right of course, but that last paragraph is just the best thing for people to know.

@rayrayz4667

2 жыл бұрын

don't forget that to even become an immortal (from the coveted title of the game) you have to grind endlessly just to try to qualify.

@davidm.schreckii1426

2 жыл бұрын

I started playing Diablo 1 when I was just 11 years old, game scared the hell outta me but still captivated me, years ago when I learned blizzard is now combined with the studio who makes CoD, a game I never ever liked to begin with and still don't play, and eventually learned how horrible Activision and Blizzard workplace is, oh and I did play the hell out of StarCraft and warcraft orcs and humans, tides of darkness and beyond the dark portal, AND WoW when it first came out like religiously. But now from everything I have learned of my old time fave game studio, this is why I haven't touched Diablo immortal, sorry I will stick with D2 Ressurected, now that's a decent game to stick with, if your gunna play anything recently released of a blizzard-diablo game.

@MarkDeSade100

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidm.schreckii1426 D2R was a scam too, virtually no new content and they want me to pay $50 for it when I already played the hell out of the original? It was just a cheap cash grab, make money with very little effort. Blizzard literally didn't even make it, they hired someone else to do it.

A couple of pointers: - 2000 crests/$4000 only gives you a roughly 2/3 chance of getting at least 1 5/5 gem. To be at 90% chance, you need to get 4600 crests. That's more than $9000 to be 90% certain that you will get at least ONE 5/5 - though the drop from the "pity timer" gems might affect that math a little. - You need 6 just to fill your gemslots, not including the upgrades. Roughly, in order to get at least 6 5/5 gems, you need to buy ~24800 crests. That's already $50.000, before you even started upgrading anything. This is the difference between looking at the AVERAGE number of crests, and the more relevant _probability for you personally_. With low probabilities, looking at how much you need to buy in order to get _at least X amounts of gems_ is more relevant, especially since while these numbers even out the higher the numbers are, you won't see it even out before 200-300k, probably a lot more when the probability is as low as .05% (cba to do the math). I haven't bothered looking into exactly all the crap you need to upgrade the gems, but the calculations I have seen so far suggest that the need for duplicates have not been taken into account, and they are all standard averages. Based on that, I would say that a rough estimation of averages, taking duplicates into account for all six - higher chance when you can have duplicates for either gem, lower chance when only one gem needs its last duplicate - will be closer to somewhere between $300k and $400k. And if you take the combinatorics and look at your personal chance, at 90% of getting the required gems, without bothering to do the actual math on THAT part, because it would take way too long, I would be EXTREMELY surprised if you could reach 90% chance before you've spent $500k. - The last thing to keep in mind is that DIABLO IMMORTAL HAS SEASONAL RESETS. So you spend $300-500+k to max your character, then the season ends, and you LOSE IT ALL. This is actually the worst example of a loot box p2w system I have ever seen, and I have worked in the casino industry.

@djtomoy

2 жыл бұрын

This look like pretty spurious calcs 🤓

@arnaudbouret5562

2 жыл бұрын

Well, remember you aren't going to want all */5 gems, but only 3 or 4 of the 9 available - and you're rolling for all of them. The exact probability to get a 5/5 star one is 0.045% according to ingame help - ie. a 0.005% chance to get a specific 5/5 gem you are interested in since there are 9 such gems. And of course, you need 73 of the same gem, several times, to finish your build. I'm quite certain that if you're calculating a 90% chance of having all 4 gems in a build fully upgraded (plus everything else...), you're going to arrive at a 7-figure number. Which won't be enough in 10% of cases, a non-trivial "chance".

It's fascinating to me that they thought it was a good idea to release the game like this after all of the bad publicity it set down for its foundation. Even if the theory about them backpedaling on this as a PR stunt is true, it just seems like an egregious idea after everything their company's gone through lately.

This just signals to me that they know practices like this will soon be legally actionable and they're hoping to squeeze the most out of the brand before that happens. I've seen this with other markets over time and it's pretty disgusting. No doubt all the people directly involved with deciding monetization on DI will be moving on once the Microsoft acquisition is finalized and are just greedily preying on consumers before moving on to another company. My hope is no one will be willing to hire them, but history proves that snakes like this seem to worm their way into most corporate institutes whether we like it or not.

Josh Strife Hayes just made a great video + an addendum detailing how this game tries to exploit you. Its super messed up.

@TyrantWesker

2 жыл бұрын

Just watched that a bit ago, hopefully Yong also makes a follow-up to talk about that so it gets out to more people.

@Lenariet

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think Josh had discovered those hidden caps, so it just keeps getting worse and worse.

@mushroomsteve

2 жыл бұрын

"We want to make a game that is accessible to women", they said at BlizzCON. Clearly, they must see women as marks.

@KPX01

2 жыл бұрын

@@mushroomsteve on par with how they actually ran the company with all those allegations

For once, I'm so happy that the law against loot boxes in Belgium has forbidden the game in my country. That law should be applied everywhere.

@shizmoo5536

2 жыл бұрын

its amazing that a slot machine is legal and allowed for minors if you call it a loot box

@RozKounelakion

2 жыл бұрын

If it was applied everywhere disasters like this would never happen and the world would be a better place, so it's prob never gonna happen lmao

@Mike-iz6li

2 жыл бұрын

Also here in the netherlands. Im glad our gouvernment protect people from this

@machomaam4975

2 жыл бұрын

How week are you as a nation that you need such laws?

@El3ktroHexe

2 жыл бұрын

@@machomaam4975 That's mainly to protect children... The weakest of society.

I was probably one of the few people looking forward to DI when it was announced in 2018. Now I'm questioning if I'll get D4. This company dropped the ball...on the one yard line, with 3 seconds left...in the Superbowl

I love how the ad after this video is for Diablo Immortal

It's also hilarious how the game director is getting on Twitter saying " only judge a game for its merits" What merits???

@dragoncpu2226

2 жыл бұрын

Thats not how judging works lmao.

@damnumonkeyballs

2 жыл бұрын

I mean if you're on the other end of it im sure there's some merit to it...money

@Sylphstone

2 жыл бұрын

Based on what I've seen and heard through videos, its merits are that the gameplay is good; the problem is that the monetization makes it so people can't experience the good game.

@meganinja456

2 жыл бұрын

I know it pissed in your cereal this morning. And it shit on your pizza. But hey it did like one of the dishes for free. Only a little dirt left on it. See, its a good game. Judge it for its merits. -Diablo Immortal Director

@fugoo8912

2 жыл бұрын

This is the dumbest most delusional logic I’ve ever heard. So just judge something on its merits… but completely ignore all its faults and pretend the don’t exist? Like, what the hell? 😂

With just how insanely predatory every other aspect of the game is, I am shocked that it is even possible for the game to be even worse than we all thought. If the complete lack of F2P support was not enough, they actually added a hidden mechanism to remove even the possibility of luck making F2P vaguely playable. Fuck Blizzard.

@darianstarfrog

2 жыл бұрын

I play 5 gacha games, and everything buy able is just to speed up progress,or cosmetic.. Diablo.. is another fish.. pure scummery

I realize this is ultimately just about the revenue, but what really surprises me is the fact that apparently Blizz managed to actually make a basically pretty good mobile game in spite of what people said during the reveal a couple of years ago - only to then turn around and prove all the critics 100% right by making the entire product so revoltingly monetized that people actually consider your product as *_worse_* than Warcraft 3 Reforged. Like, I get the underlying reasons, sure. It's basically aimed squarely at Asian markets and the western release is more of an afterthought, but the company really could do with some good PR and they're sitting on one of the holy grails of mobile gaming, a good-looking, mechanically solid and easy to control legacy franchise for both casual and pro crowds, and they're basically throwing it under the bus. And it's not like this wasn't utterly predictable, too. As such, why not release it in China as is and in the west as a regular title for up-front cash? Yeah, okay, the endgame would need some retuning, I guess, but that's small potatoes compared to the potential goodwill and benefits of shedding at least part of the current rep.

@hocuspocus9713

2 жыл бұрын

Because if they released it in the west for up-front cash and released in china incl all the microtransactions they would have an uproar from the chinese market instead and lose an even bigger market. The answer would be to just remove microtransactions altogether but they wouldn't dare anger their shareholders and bigwigs by doing that.

Bruv, As soon as he said that the score will stay at around 0.3 an ad for Diablo come on, I’m currently on the floor crying right now

Love the Diablo franchise sad to see it go down this path. They should've seen it coming when people assumed it was an April fools joke. Now it's just a joke.

@rogelioVela1985

2 жыл бұрын

lol yeah and I still remember this quote from Blizzard side "don't you all have phones " oof

@koryfunny

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogelioVela1985 Don't you have a house? because you'll need to sell it to play this game

@ASNS117Zero

2 жыл бұрын

I'ma let you in on a little secret - Diablo was *always* down this path, it's just that they only recently figured out how to apply gacha monetization to it. Diablo's loot system has always been based on gambling techniques and the psychology behind it. For ex., Diablo 2's endgame was basically just a slot machine simulator once you got a character that was strong enough to farm Hell Baal, such as a level 70+ hammerdin with enigma and a reasonable number of +skill and cast speed modifiers. A Diablo gacha game like immortal was inevitable as the rise and fall of the sun once the process was perfected.

@kielmessersmith1956

2 жыл бұрын

They couldn't even manage to make a good joke.

@StormsparkPegasus

2 жыл бұрын

I used to love Diablo too. When this piece of crap was announced in 2018, and "don't you guys have phones", I deleted every Blizzard product from every device I own, immediately gave away the Switch copy of Diablo 3 that I had just received, and washed myself of that company forever. THAT was the last straw for me. Since then, they have gotten 10,000x worse. I just accept that Diablo is dead and gone, and it won't ever come back.

Just makes me feel incredibly sad. This is where most game companies see a future. Lootboxes, predatory mobile games, “live service” games. It’s disappointing the direction gaming has gone. Low ratings, controversy, backlash - none of it matters. They make money so at the end of the day they don’t give a shit.

@aconceitedbeast731

2 жыл бұрын

But we won't forget. Game companies will pay in the end

@ironboy3245

2 жыл бұрын

@@aconceitedbeast731 no they won't, blizz has already made 6 million in profit as of today off diablo immortal

@Setixir

2 жыл бұрын

@@ironboy3245 was 6 million in revenue not necessarily profit. Which is still a lot sure but mobile games will always make money. Asian countries are perfectly fine with P2W mechanics. It is what it is. Don't partake yourself.

@ironboy3245

2 жыл бұрын

@@Setixir yeah I made that decision during that blizzcon way back, don't worry

@dennis135

2 жыл бұрын

@@aconceitedbeast731 I was riding on the train yesterday and saw a 40+ year old business man in suits and everything button mashing on his smartphone playing diablo 3 (Japan). That's what people need to realize: "Gamers" are just a tiny percentage of the target audience for diablo immortal. The absolute majority are casuals and people that occasionally play smartphone games. Those people don't care about metacritic ratings or some youtube commentary videos. They just want their 30 minute fun on a train ride. And some of them get hooked and pay money. Personally, I stopped caring about Blizzard. They totally lost all credibility since Warcraft Reforged and I'm not that invested in the diablo universe to cry about this. There are other great game companies out there so who cares about Blizzard.

I’m honestly curious now to see what they’ll do with Dragonflight. Maybe pay wall perfect gems or even sell mythic raid gear in the game store. At this point anything is possible. People would 100% pay for mythic raid gear with real money.

Seeing companies do shit like those hidden caps completely loses my trust as far as I'm concerned. Bye Blizzard.

I thought it was hilarious to watch Yong explaining the MTX in this game and having to constantly look over at his notes on his other monitor, cause it's designed to be hard to keep straight. Just goes to show you how screwed this game is.

@kukuhimanputraraharja8084

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, its like bethesda of old trying to sell oblivion horse armors dlc, but then blizzardvision bought oblivion, and then make you need to buy components to make components for buying the horse armors while also giving some odds of failure when you try to make them components while also selling expensive items that increase the odds of successful crafting of them components... now we wonder why we laugh at bethesda back then for promoting cosmetic horse armors dlc that you get straight after you paid them...

@samgraffen9212

2 жыл бұрын

I know we'll never know, but I'm genuinely curious as to what % of game's total time/money is dedicated to sculpting such an intricate p2w system.

@ralphdailey9503

2 жыл бұрын

One reviewer counted 22 different items that are used as currency in the game.

Wyatt Chang is literally the "don't you guys have phones?" guy... How anyone can trust anything he says is beyond me.

@diethylmalonate

2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised he was allowed to keep publicly representing this game after that tbh

@MrSaintVehementus

2 жыл бұрын

He should be main villain in next Diablo, lord of addiction and temptation.

@chinnithy7156

2 жыл бұрын

Cut him some slack man. All he wants is for everyone that has phone to see how bad this game is!

@Elcarsh

2 жыл бұрын

You know, I used to think he was basically thrown to the wolves; the fall guy for the shitty anouncement, and that it wasn't really his fault. Yeah, he does not get that benefit of the doubt anymore.

@lightningfarronxp8899

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt he's out of touch but if anyone is to blame its rod fergusson. He's the head of the Diablo team and he prior to Diablo, he was the head of gears of war which he also destroyed with microtransactions.

Blizzard developers lies and gaslighting are as bad as Belial who can fool no one despite being the "Lord of Lies".

Extremely pertinent review, and good on you for not mincing words.

You also have to add to that 2 more design decisions made by greedy assholes: -As mentioned by Josh Strife Hayes, there are actually 2 types of legendary crest: regular ones and eternal ones. Only the ones bought directly from the store, the Eternal ones, allow for the gems dropped to be sold in the marketplace. All basic Legendary Crest obtained from the battle pass (both free and paid) or other lower price options (like the Boon of Plenty) yield regular Legendary Crests. They are also made by design to look almost identical, as well as the Rift menu to have only 2 buttons to add crests, as to try to hide this difference. -Regular Legendary Crest and paid Eternal Legendary Crest do not share pity. If you use 30 regular ones and 20 Eternal ones it doesn't count for the 50 pity. Both are tallied separately.

@TWrecks09

2 жыл бұрын

Pity accrual is separate, I wonder if pity payout is shared. Like you hit a legendary on 30 paid crests, does that reset your pity progress on free crests? That would be another direct example of intentional predatory design.

@thatepicwizardguy

2 жыл бұрын

Good thing for people like josh. Fuck activision blizzard! What a bunch of fucking evil bullshit

@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays

2 жыл бұрын

And to quote, "the gems are bound, so you can't sell them in the marketplace, unless you purchased the Eternal legendary Crest. So every gem in the market is from a fully paid up player.

You are completely correct. I was extremely heartbroken when I had been confronted with the legendary crest system. It was enough to get me to stop playing. If we stay quiet and refuse to comment or draw attention to immoral practices, they will never change. As a PC gamer I can honestly say that I am disgusted. One single video game should never ever cost as much as my computer.

@BMAChannel.

2 жыл бұрын

With the amount of revenue they get, they will be able to buy ten thousand fold of company enterprise PC sets.

@LizardVideoDude

2 жыл бұрын

... or as much as your *house.*

@VaniFoxOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Your computer costs $110,000?

@natel7382

2 жыл бұрын

Elon?

@MannyRiberaOriginal

2 жыл бұрын

Heart broken 😂 thats a bit extreme. You must have some miserable life?

this would be different if diablo immortal is asia / south east asia region exclusive. i've seen, and had fair experiences of chinese mobile mmos where people, including some friends irl who mindlessly spending tens of thousands of dollars on highly unfair competitive modes on certain mobile mmos (looking at you ragnarok online mobile franchises) despite of terrible unoptimized game engine, unfixed game-breaking bugs laying for months where you have to brute forcing bugged bosses and praying that you won't get any one hit kill bug, and bad server unable to support hundreds of players doing guild wars, yet people still playing and spend huge amount of money on it, in addition that 2-3 stars playstore ratings that went back to 4 stars literally on the next day. i'm glad that you guys who played diablo immortal still have a common sense and able to voice their concerns on this predatory business model.

This has to be on of, if the most, predatory games ever created.....

Diablo: Not so immortal, soon to be unveiled. Blizzard’s ineptitude to read their player base, let alone the fan base- means they deserve to fall until they go bankrupt, just like their morals.

@joshanonline

2 жыл бұрын

nah, there's tons of idiots that will give them money. 100% guaranteed.

@thomasmurrell9832

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshanonline that's gamers in a nutshell. They'll cry and whine and moan but them immediately forget this is bad and dump their mother's college funds for them into the games that they "absolutely loathe" Come hate me all you want, folks, but this industry didn't get this bad by the companies' choices alone. If the money wasn't there, they wouldn't be doing this.

@TonyCox1351

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasmurrell9832 you really think the people complaining about Diablo immortal are the same ones dumping money into it? I imagine it’s two mostly separate groups … gamers who complain about Diablo immortal, and gamers who don’t mind and shell out cash

@lodsup

2 жыл бұрын

@@TonyCox1351 you clearly have not seen people who "hate" gacha games and games like diablo but they bitch and moan while spending money because they are 'addicted'. There's a pretty big group of those. Be it due to sunk cost, gambling addiction, or peer pressure, or just lack of self control there is a significant amount of people out there like that.

@GreatRottweiler

2 жыл бұрын

@@TonyCox1351 Whether it is the former or the latter, the argument about these gaming companies and their monetization schemes existing is due to both parties being at fault, stands true. One exists thanks to the other.

Yet despite all the controversy, it's currently the #4 top grossing game on Google Play with 5+ million downloads. This is why we can't have nice things. Blizzard ain't hurting from this. I'd also like to propose we change the term "whale" to "paypig", given that these people are pretty much financial subs, who are in an abusive BDSM relationship with these companies.

@ShuKeo

2 жыл бұрын

The game is pretty good (tho im lvl 34), but i wont pay shit for it

Another fact pointed out by Josh Strife Hayes in his Legendary Crest Addendum video is that there's a difference between "Legendary Crests" which are the ones you can earn for free, and "Eternal Legendary Crests" which are the paid for ones, you straight up can't get certain rewards with the free ones, and they're purposefully made to look almost completely identical unless you look very closely at descriptions and fine print, I'd highly recommend going to watch his videos on the matter, because holy shit, it's one of the most disgusting things I've seen in a long, long time

This monitization system is so ugly, it somehow manages to retroactively make all their past games worse by association. Blizzard has gone from my favorite game developer to a company which won't receive another dime from me from the foreseeable future. No way am I buying D4 or OW2 after seeing such avarice.

I'm so glad we have people like Yong speaking the hard truth and advocating for the consumer. Thanks man

@_timetravels4528

2 жыл бұрын

there's always been people exposing blizzard for the shady tactics they use but the pixelated crack is too good.

@GaryGlass1

2 жыл бұрын

He didn’t really expose anything, this is literally his 3rd video of him repeating himself saying “game bad cuz pay to win” it’s hilarious watching people criticize Blizzard for something that’s been going on for over a decade with how mobile games are monetized. Oh and it also helps if you actually play the game instead of only getting an hour in and acting like you know how the game works.

@chiknbasket

2 жыл бұрын

@@GaryGlass1 how’s that boot taste?

@thegrayyernaut

2 жыл бұрын

@@GaryGlass1 He didn't simply say "game bad cuz pay to win". He said the monetization is bad. As you said, this is the third video of his. In each of those 3 videos, he mentioned that beneath those predatory microtransaction, there is a good game. Not like you care about that anyway.

@windebiesteultima3317

2 жыл бұрын

@@GaryGlass1 mommy and daddy gonna beat tf outta you when they see you maxed out their credit cards on this game.

I'd wager the reason he's so adamant about the "misinformation" is purely from a legal stand point. The moment they acknowledge paying for gems is gear then legal recourse would probably open up. 100% it's legal reasons

@oldschooldiablo169

2 жыл бұрын

im sure it is for some legal reasons. they know this game is nothing but a pure casino. admitting it would bring the gavel down hard

At this point im surprised there aren’t ads popping up after every rift clear or even better after every floor change :|

This is why I casually but barely play any mobile games, with actual frequency. 😒 I always found it strange after a few hours things seemed to be blocked.

I wanna see people still defend this cash grab now with arguments like"Oh you don't have to pay anything" or" it's more fun and easy with friends". Non paying players have CAPS! There is NO defense for that.

@Tangence_

2 жыл бұрын

Simple, just visit their subreddits, full of people overdosing on copium over there.

@byteblok

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t wanna see those people do anything but get on an experimental space craft.

@Ashurman666

2 жыл бұрын

@@jojosmitho304 They HAVE been defending it since day one

@IRequiemI

2 жыл бұрын

Fanboys and the average smooth brain gamers will always defend this shit, no matter what you say to them lol They don't want to understand, just like they did with Lost Ark and all the garbage came out during the previous years.

@OmegaZyion

2 жыл бұрын

I think you are sorely underestimating the stupidity of the mobile market players. The caps are no different from the time gates in other "free-to-play" mobile games.

This is shocking. I NEVER thought Activision-Blizzard would do this! In a mobile game, especially!

@TheNewThrone

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair if they're gonna do it its going to be for a mobile game

@YeahItzLA

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheNewThrone he was being sarcastic

@Rictoris

2 жыл бұрын

I know right?! Mobile games are by far the most innovative and least predatory gaming market in human history!

@joelhodoborgas

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah this type of trash is usually done by shady unkknown companies. F

@TheNewThrone

2 жыл бұрын

@@YeahItzLA I'm high rn. Sarcasm didn't register lol

The worst part of all of this, is not from Blizzard, but from other "gamers" excusing this shit. I've seen people defending this monetization with such lines as "nobody's forcing you to pay", "You don't have to pay to enjoy the game or the end game", "You don't need to pay to get the best gear in the game", "the pegendary drop rates for immortal are way better than Diablo 2, and you only have to spend $20 on a free game", "you don't have to have the best gear in the game" ect. As if this monetization is not demonstrably predatory.

who would have thought 20-30 years ago, that video games will turn into this..

i feel like the best gems aren't really meant to be attained. they just want to design their monetization to essentially be infinite for every player and dangle the "but you'll get a 5/5 gem soon! keep trying!" carrot

@Appletank8

2 жыл бұрын

It costs $400,000 ... to whale for 5/5 gems -Heavy

@zakanyimen

2 жыл бұрын

You found out the secret. GET HIM!!

Me to Diablo Immortal players: "Do you guys not have standards?"

I feel like Activision Blizzard has become the reverse of Bluepoint Games at this point. Bluepoint is known for doing amazing remasters and remakes of old games. Blizzard is just remaking its own games - but they couldn't be worse. Warcraft 3 is still completely destroyed due to their rehash attempt. No one wants to play the old WoW they dug out of their archives. And now a bad Diablo 3 rehash on mobile. Ironically they would've done a better job by not working at all. At least that wouldn't have tarnished their legacy. I also got an Diablo Immoral ad before this Video. I think I can guess where the money for decent development went.

LOL Diablo Immortal really lived up to being an "Out of season April fool's joke" what a piece of corporate s*** it is.

My husband and I just had a conversation about our kids never knowing a game without microtransactions. It's so sad. Greed is something I will never understand.

@MegamanXfan21xx

2 жыл бұрын

Introduce them to the classics; show them what a REAL game is. And be sure to help them if they're stuck, since older stuff didn't usually have quality-of-life stuff very often.

@Lenariet

2 жыл бұрын

There are many, many indie games without any of this.

@tylermcnally8232

2 жыл бұрын

Show them Indy games.

@draccanon

2 жыл бұрын

Arcades were a pretty lame business model compared to owning your own console. I suppose the public aspect of it is kind of cool.

@Unregistered.HyperCam.2

2 жыл бұрын

@@MegamanXfan21xx Even then, you may have to use emulation/FPGA hardware to play that stuff. There are millions of 2600s, NESes, and Genesises...? Mega Drives, if you have a system that only has RF out, you can mod it for composite, but fewer and fewer displays are being made that accept anything older than HDMI or DisplayPort, old TVs and monitors will eventually burn out, consoles & cartridges will succumb to rot with enough time. Then, you're gonna have the emulators on the same box that gives access to thousands upon thousands of games full of MTX.

In the end Diablo's Metacritic score is gonna mirror the drop chances for a 5-star legendary gem. 😁

It's funny, I remember as a kid thinking Blizzard games were amazing, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, Diablo. So much more interesting and made me feel like a grown up for enjoying them over Spyro the Dragon on Playstation. It was almost like a never ending journey of enjoyable games and world building. But after awhile, things got strange, mistakes happened more often, retcons, rudeness. Something was wrong, very wrong. Then the scandals popped up and that just broke my heart. I spent nearly 20 years being a Blizzard Fanboy. The names I knew were gone, mistakes piled up, and they just went from being "The Dream" to "The Nightmare." After that I essentially stopped playing Blizzard games cause now I just couldn't stop remembering what they did...are still doing! Like I said, it's heart breaking, but at this point I'm just becoming numb to Blizzards bullshit. I nearly spent nothing related to the company since then and just been chilling with other games, like Stellaris (which I suck at, but still like.) and Payday 2, and other stuff. I tried FF14, it's so much nicer there, but I'm tired of MMO's.

these days the only thing these companies could do that would actually surprise me is make a good game with no bullshit in it. even then i would struggle to believe they havent hidden something in it somewhere

@bluecannibaleyes

2 жыл бұрын

We can’t have good things anymore. Even if it’s not financially predatory, thru are basically required to inject it with harmful propaganda at the very least.

I have never expected a studio to beat every thing EA has done in a single game like that. Wow.

The really sad part is that they have probably already made a fortune on this scam.

@justinconnelly5011

2 жыл бұрын

im seeing reports of over $10 million already. so yea, its a hemorrhaging cash cow for them

@NewYears1978

2 жыл бұрын

Why would they stop? People a finish it but others still play and buy.. it’ll never change

@sirjazz1268

2 жыл бұрын

. . . . . . Could a massive ddos attack help to ruin those greedy slimy pig f***ers ? At this point, Ivonly see violence to arrest their utter madness.

@blessanabey8386

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately yes and I feel like they will not back down from this.

@DougiePlaysSoccer

2 жыл бұрын

Yea…

5:14 That one bot given 10 user score 😂😂🤯

Blizzard: Do you guys NOT have $100Ks to flush?

Even if you go f2p, raid bosses tend to hit you in locations they aren't supposed to be able to hit you at. Including displaced hit boxes flying at you. You start feeling like you are in server desync.

@jamesduncan6729

2 жыл бұрын

I'm willing to bet that those are features, as well, and not bugs 😏

The only innovation these companies have been doing lately is finding new ways to screw players

@Gu3ssWhatsN3XT

2 жыл бұрын

And most of them aren’t even innovative. They’re just reused scams with an added layer of another scam on top of it

I don't know how to initiate a petition that would gain traction, but I personally am getting tired of the monetization aspect in the video game universe... so I think it's time to rally together somehow and put a stop to this shit once and for all by going to Congress and asking them to create a Bill that forces game creators to: A) Make the free-to-play aspect of their games equally as attainable as pay-to-win, i.e. level the playing field by tailoring the amount of playtime to reach "end game" equally as attainable as pay-to-win and also capping the total cost of end game to a fair amount that an average joe can afford. or B) Completely ban the NFT market or penalize the creators by taxing the shit out of every dollar they make on MT's. I don't know how one would go about starting something like that, but I really hope that we can all come together on this matter soon because I'm so tired of corporate greed getting intertwined with our community and ruining it for us. I used to love video games, but now I can barely stand to play anything now without utter disappointment or a paywall. The situation has reached critical mass... so I hope we can stop this before it gets any shittier.

The very unfortunate thing about this whole ordeal is that the reviews and overall general opinion of this game ultimately won't stop Activision Blizzard or Netease from making this game or any future games as aggressively monetized as possible, because at the end of the day the only thing they care about is money, and as low rated as the game is its still making them millions of dollars. The only two things that'll actually make them stop is either if everyone votes with their wallet by not buying into it, losing the companies money in the process, or if the governments of these companies' main markets get involved and legally force them to stop. Nothing short of one of those is going to cause any meaningful change, no matter how much we wish it were otherwise.

You know a game is God awful when Yong curses it out, never heard this man curse before. He may have, but to me it was a bit surprising.

@EonTheAien

2 жыл бұрын

He's quoted swears in the past, but his pinned comment this time gave me some whiplash lol

@Shoyro

2 жыл бұрын

If Yong swears and not as a quote, you *know* it's bad.

@Lord_Humungus

2 жыл бұрын

that's called righteous fury

when they announced this game and that guy stood up and was like "is this an april fools joke?" this is why. this is why they got boo'd that day as well. People knew it was gonna be wasted dev time and money for a predatory mobile game that no one will like.

Isn't this something that can be sued for false advertising because of the fact that they lied about how monetization works and had it be some predatory machine in reality?

@philithegamer8265

Жыл бұрын

LULZ