Yeah, Diablo 4 has been pretty controversial ever since they said it would be an online game, leading to it getting alot of bad user reviews at launch in spite of the good critic reviews. But the fact that it dropped by about 2.5 points in just a few days shows the patch was a poor idea.

Eh, only when it comes to his takes about the Microsoft acquisition, he posted some pretty asinine takes about that, and then when people called him out and gave him information negating alot of his talking points, he called everyone criticizing him an Xbox bot brigade. Usually though, his gaming takes are alot more sane that, for instance:

Anyway, I posted his take on the Diablo 4 patch because he was one of the leads on Diablo 2, which is considered to be the gold standard for the series by most of it's fans.

They interviewed a bunch of people for this piece but one of the people they talked to is a French lawyer who thinks the deal could still be blocked and who also think Microsoft agreed to pull out of the CAT appeal because they thought they would lose. 

I will say I'm still having fun with Diablo 4, in-spite of how crap the patch is, and the patch is pretty crap, when I played yesterday some of my Sorceress spells were suddenly doing half the damage they were before the patch, though on the plus side, they did make Sorceress a bit tankier, at least at my level. Not sure if that extra tankiness was worth such a big damage nerf though, being tanky is nice because it makes boss fights less stressful, but doing half the damage slows up my levelling speed quite alot since DPS is far preferable to tankiness for fighting random mobs.

Regardless of the final outcome of this, if I am Microsoft I would be immediately beginning the process of withdrawing as much of my operation from the UK market as possible as quickly as possible. You simply cannot allow a market that small dictate global regulatory terms.

You need that tankiness.  Trust me, at Tier 4 you can get one shot and you are done.  I tried Uber Lilith not to long ago and she killed me with one hit.  I have not gone back to her since.  I am thinking of trying her again soon as now my Sorc has a lot more armor, reduction etc.  I had to give up killing power to balance staying alive because in Tier 4 there are a lot of mobs that are resistance to a lot of damage but deal a hell of a lot not to mention nightmare dungeons.

They may be small but for MS the UK makes up a huge chunk of their marketshare.  Hell I believe they make up way more than the rest of the EU so its not insignificant to pull out.  I do believe that no matter what MS do, people in the UK will still be able to get a Xbox so it might not be as big of a hit as it could.

Lilith spams a lot of one shot attacks regardless of how sturdy you are. She's not a particularly well designed fight imo. You either have to be perfect dodging all her one shots, which...again...she spams like a mofo, or you cheese her to the point of not engaging with her mechanics at all.

Damn, not even 5 seconds to find a match!