50 hours

It’s an artistically gorgeous game. The details are amazing. It has a high level of polish. Not a single bug.

You are an average shitty user asking for sources and down voting., The fact you liked the game shows it was a business success. But given how poor the execution was, many of us die hard franchise fans would label that response as an apologist. Diablo 3 took 2-3x as long to build, launched with full set armors, full acts, developed a new game engine and still failed at launch. Diablo 4 had roughly 40 uniques? At launch and the Uber uniques were impossible to get. Wow models were used for mounts and mobs. Classes from d3 used the same animations, the dark way was a single dungeon floor was used to at least 15 quests. The story mission was sold as a single act that is added to in the future so they didn’t even write a full story. Please don’t act like it’s perfect

• Stash bug: https://twitter.com/JPiepiora/status/1682622069807394817
• Mob Density happened 3 times to scale with load: https://primagames.com/news/diablo-4-mob-density-increases-detailed
• Timeline:
• D3: https://www.diablowiki.net/Diablo_3_History
  • Late 2000. Preliminary work begins on Diablo III.
  • June 28, 2008. Diablo III is officially announced at the WWI in Paris, France.
  • May 2012 Release Date
• D4:
  • 2018 Blizzcon Diablo Immortal Blunder: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-guys-not-have-phones
  • 2019 Blizzcon Diablo 4 announced to recover from ^
  • 2023 Release

The game is a heart breaking disappointment and a flagship example of enshitification. But the product managers delivered an amazing hack job. They retooled an existing engine, reskinned it tweaked some colors, and added item rolls and launched very quickly after the immortal failure.

The game delivered because the base design was functional, most of the failures came from the new loot system storing cache between players, not being able to scale mob size, lack of qa, lack of added art. All of which can be explained by the rushed time line. But the game sold ungodly amount of copies, just because of the name. Minimal investment and massive payout means it was a business success, although the players are still pissed that the original game designer had no idea what was fun. After the bad press activation did they try clean house but the damage was done.

Mostly no, which appears to be the minority so I’ll share. Adding exercise is adding stress, you need to find time, expend energy, you are physically tired afterwards, you feel guilt when you skip, muscle aches… It’s all just terrible, but your body typically rewards you with endorphins to make it feel worthwhile, and more importantly it gives you a lot more opportunities. When you are in shape your perceived charisma goes up significantly, mostly because you are more attractive.

Reward needs to balance with effort. You’ll have a lot more fun with concrete commitments, or if you actually enjoy the activity and want to do it. Going to the gym is depressing, but showing up for the weekly sportsball game will make sure you run a little every week and you might make some active friends that will introduce you to more things. Pickleball and indoor rock climbing are two entry friendly activities.

Dynamic pricing is exploitive at it’s base, allowing it for any industry is a mistake. Setting precedent for food is extremely dangerous regardless of the source.

Or they felt confident that they would get a free win, and delayed it until the election news cycle. It’s likely a bit of both.

You can flash a pi and have a standalone individual instance. Computing power is growing, scaling grows too. We don’t have an option for stuff like AI today, but I could host my own Lemmy instance that only supports my household for $30. Site hugs can still happen but there are still solutions; seeding partitions is one way to resolve that, reposting requires rehosting.

Open source will eventually create viable platforms, I’m not giving up until platforms successfully campaign to kill free alternatives