| shikamaru317 said: On the other hand, it does look pretty shitty when you compare it to PoE 2, which is going F2P with a similarly large campaign to Diablo 4. They are using their cosmetics to fund the game being F2P to start with, unlike Blizz who is doing both B2P (buy to play) and cosmetic battlepasses. |
That's the thing. I'm huge ARPG fan. I'm playing Diablo since the start, playing D2R/D3 right now still, every season/ladders.
As an hardcode Diablo fan, I'm more than happy about the route they are going...
And I'm playing POE... POE "is" a free to play game but you get what you paid for... Diablo and POE are 2 different beasts. I'm sorry for the POE fans out there but Diablo is just at another level and I'm okay to pay 70$ for that. I would never have payed anything for POE. But the free model works for that kind of game (lacking so much content/production).
Now, POE 2 will come with a campaign but I do not think it will be close to what Diablo 4 offers (in term of content too). Which would not justify a full price anyway. This is def. an assumption and they can prove me wrong, but so far that's how F2P games work. Other than maybe one or two exception, the quality/content of any initial F2P game is just not close to any AAA out there.
See it like that, and tell me if I'm wrong, because I think this is just people being stuck on principle at this point:
- If a game comes out at 70$, with no microtransactions, this is fine...
- If a game comes out F2P, but no initial price this is fine....
- If a game comes out at 70$ (and with the full content expected for it like any AAA game out there) but also with micro-transaction to support future content, people are calling this a joke?
Of course, all of thise would be fine, if the following asumption were true:
- Free to play games offers the same quality of production/content than AAA (nope...)
- The initial 70$ would not give you a fully completed game with tone of content (nope... Diablo 4 is a fully fleged AAA game)
- The seasonal/battlepass fees would be required to access new content in the future (nope...)
