Been playing d3 last few days and id like to say this..
" Games nowadays cost so much money to make, I don't see why it isn't the top priority especially to these multi billion dollar companies. Making fun games sound fine and dandy but unless you are making a profit you aren't gonna be doing it for long. |
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Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 were some of the worst optimized games ever on release.
BlizzardActivision is one of the worst and most overhyped devs out there. If any regular sized gaming studio would've made hearthstone under a different name but same gameplay mechanics it wouldn't even manage to hold 100 players. Blizzard mostly sells their games because it's Blizzard. The main issue I have with Blizzard is how incapable they are in making a game story that doesn't have huge gaping plott holes in it or just doesn't make much sense. This wasn't the case with their earlier games which I played when I was pretty young. Diablo 2 , Warcraft 3 were very good games. Even world of warcraft was very good until halfway through their second expansion. Also how can a game developper earn 1.5 billion annually in the form of a subscription program yet only manage to get out 1 significant content update to that game (WoW)? And players even buy their ridiculously priced expansion packs for 45 euro each. I really don't like the return that Blizzard gives for what it gets in terms of money. |
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" Mal'Ganis popping up out of nowhere would've maked more sense than most of mists of pandaria. Warlords of Draenor has also gaping holes in it with the time travel stuff. Cataclysm was just lame (Deathwing? He was already dead...). But WoW has more money grabbing techniques. In the past they used to release content in weeks. Like you get 2 bosses released in 1 week, then the following 2, then the following 2 and then the last boss. These were schemes so people would stay subscribed. Then they decided somewhere halfway in wrath of the lich king to make end game content more accessible for the majority of players. You would think that is great, however the way it was implemented with raid finders and dungeon finders killed most of the interaction you would have in a game. The current state of WoW is nothing like how it used to be. It's just going online, if you have a guild raid or otherwise stand in town and do nothing. In 10 years off their product they actually managed to make pvp experience significantly worse than from when their game launched. That's quite an achievement. |
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Yeah would be nice if the sellouts like Acti-Blizz could just give all their funds to companies that actually care like GGG :/
Like... the games feel nice because their engine is great and they have fantastic artists but everything else is just so blech. Every Saturday = National Booze n Poe Day
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hey look a legitimate thread turned into a D3 bashing thread. i am shocked here.
D3 isn't that bad, it is just targeting a different audience and we just have to face the fact that we are not that audience. That being said, i do wish GGG had blizz money so we could get a better engine.... Последняя редакция: Saltychipmunk#1430. Время: 21 дек. 2015 г., 10:42:50
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" Blizzard Activision is like McDonalds. They make good games that sell, they just don't make great games that people wish they would make that cost so much to develop that it doesn't even breakeven. They make a variety of good games that is accessible. Their game wouldn't be possible without mass market appeal. What do people expect when you need to make lot of money, push it out of production line in a limited time and sell it to a lot of people? Certain aspect will need to be compromised. It is good value for your money, it is convenient, it is accessible. GGG does it in another way. They make burgers, they are trying to make the best beef burger. But there is no choices in their burgers, they only make beef burgers and nothing else. They don't even sell fries or drinks. They only have burgers. They work on what they do best. POE is rather successful. I guess that works too. GGG has its own flaws. I don't see GGG as being better but rather they are just different. If you ask GGG to make hearthstone under a different name, they might just flop. GGG could possibly get more money if they wanted to. I would assume they would rather not, money doesn't come for free. I would think GGG would lose their independent and control, and would have listen to investors and shareholders terribly bad ideas to monetize their game. |
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I actually agree with the OP.
Diablo 3 is the most fluid action RPG that I ever played. The problem is, there is no economy. Farming is pointless. They literally removed trading which was a huge deal with diablo (d2jsp is just a testament at how big that market is for aRPG's). The thing about POE is, it's just different and has its own art style and gameplay. Which is something I really love. And plus, the economy is very, very appealing. Farming for items and finding that exalted orb that makes you feel rich is something diablo 3 doesn't offer anymore (or never really did). You can farm 24/7 and get 123213 veiled crystals and you feel like you've done nothing. If I farmed 10 exalts in under a week worth of currency on path of exile, I feel like I've spent my time doing something beneficial and feel like I am advancing in the game. I also feel like I can buy other items to help with character progression. Again, this is not available in Diablo 3. Obviously this is just one reason out of a hundred, but it's a big enough reason for me to play POE over Diablo 3. I'm going to be brutally honest. If Diablo 3 did infact add trading, I wouldn't be on POE. I'd be playing the living shit out of Diablo 3 just like how I did on Diablo 2 and (right now on POE). Just my honest opinion on this topic "Good thing they nerfed the carto, it wasn't fun to find one in every map." - Haborym Последняя редакция: monkuar#2123. Время: 22 дек. 2015 г., 07:43:43
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Smoothness was one of the huge turn offs for me when playing the PoE beta whenever when that was.
I come and go a lot, I don't even know most of the basics, let alone anything advanced. I just yolo solo hardcore from time to time until I get bored of dying. PoE now feels very smooth, I haven't played D3 for almost a year now but I don't think there is much of a difference in smoothness between the two game engines anymore. D3 will always feel like a console port to me though, PoE is a vastly better PC title. |
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I 1000000% agree. If PoE had the silky smooth combat animations and server performance of D3 it would be the game of the century.
ProbablyGettingNerfed - L100 Occultist
Vinktarded - L100 Pathfinder GoogleDiversityHire - L100 Necromancer 3.13 was the pinnacle of PoE. IVYS+1 Gang 4 Life. |
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" I don't really know of WoW much to be honest. Never really played it. I only know that it's story is butchered, and same old stuff is recycled into use. Which is really a sign of lazy storytelling, as it's a lazy trick used in TV shows, video-games, movies etcetera. It means the author is unable to create new interesting characters, events etc. Well, most of the time. What I know is, blizzard has the capacity to sabotage their own game. So, I can confirm. It's not even producing good burgers anymore. It's reaping the fruits of their earlier successes and making people unable to leave due to the sunk cost fallacy they have gotten themselves into. Also, whoever made that burgers anology has gotten my disgust. Of all the food there to come up with, you choosed burgers? Really? Master Carrrrtographerr! Yirim Последняя редакция: M_Ronin#1351. Время: 22 дек. 2015 г., 17:06:25
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