Diablo IV

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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. Brwtfsths
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    The latest patch is an abomination. "wE lIsTeN tO yOuR fEeDbAcK". Jesus Christ Blizzard, I guess you are still setting new standards in the gaming industry, just not good ones. Has anyone ever opened reddit or Twitter from your team? How was it a good idea to nerf everything across the board into the ground? You deal less damage than before the patch, which makes leveling even more of aThe latest patch is an abomination. "wE lIsTeN tO yOuR fEeDbAcK". Jesus Christ Blizzard, I guess you are still setting new standards in the gaming industry, just not good ones. Has anyone ever opened reddit or Twitter from your team? How was it a good idea to nerf everything across the board into the ground? You deal less damage than before the patch, which makes leveling even more of a grind. You can take less damage which makes you die faster, which makes leveling more of a grind. On top of that you destroyed cool downs across the board. How is it fun to run in circles to wait for the cooldowns? It's mind boggling really. And to round it up you decided to finally delete the sorc from the game, because f*** it, sorc was bad in pre season already so why not just delete it from the game altogether?… Expand
  2. Dokukaeru
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Downhill since release!
    Blizzard does not respect players time!
    Don see them righting this ship for at least 6 months.
  3. OptimalNoob
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    At this point (and I'll admit, probably many points ago), Blizzard is just another game developer that stopped developing games and became another mindless corporation enslaved to their shareholders.

    Do yourself a favor and just support the few AAA studios left that still have a genuine passion for storytelling and game design, and of course indie studios where raw talent and passion thrive.
  4. Kyoski
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    Alright, I'm sick of Blizzard.
    I literally made an account just to write the review here because they do the same crap with every game, every expansion, every release.
    It's always good at first, and then they ruin everything with the patches, like they're SO out of touch with their community it's insane. You CAN'T even buy a premium battle pass if you purchased the 100$ version that    Alright, I'm sick of Blizzard.
    I literally made an account just to write the review here because they do the same crap with every game, every expansion, every release.

    It's always good at first, and then they ruin everything with the patches, like they're SO out of touch with their community it's insane.

    You CAN'T even buy a premium battle pass if you purchased the 100$ version that came with an accelerated battle pass because the game FORCES you to use it, even though Blizzard explicitly said you can save it for later seasons!

    Sure you can, but if you do you CAN'T get the premium battle pass because the game forces you to use the accelerated battle past first!

    The 1.1.0 patch completely gutted the game, and it was so widely hated they had to do an emergency livestream the following friday just to try and quell the backlash.

    This has been ONE of the BIGGEST flops i've ever seen, honestly.
    I don't know how they dropped the ball this hard, how they're so out of touch with their community.

    The game is not even worth playing in its current state.    … Expand
  5. Kalectwo
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Very bad.. this scaling iS THE WORST THING THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO THIS GAME!!!!!!!
  6. sleepwithme
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Bliz is just milking us with our nostalgia. Story is nice, but the devs behind it are utterly despicable, not once do they listen to the community. Blizzard is dead.
  7. DisappointedD4P
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    At least Star Citizen clearly states that it's an Early Access game, and players know where they are getting to, as opposed to this joke of a game
  8. Longtimeplayer1
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Blizzard veteran here with them since Warcraft 1. Played the ish out of all their games. Bought every single one of them. Played wow for years and then came d3 - what a disappointment that was but not as bad as d4. Preordered ultimate and waited for months until beta came out and was very hyped because it seemed fun and „fresh”. The only thing I said was I hope they dont mess up theBlizzard veteran here with them since Warcraft 1. Played the ish out of all their games. Bought every single one of them. Played wow for years and then came d3 - what a disappointment that was but not as bad as d4. Preordered ultimate and waited for months until beta came out and was very hyped because it seemed fun and „fresh”. The only thing I said was I hope they dont mess up the endgame. I was right because there is no end game to mess up. I dont even know where to begin. Meaningless time consuming grind with no reward behind it. Absolutely no end game, no incentive to keep playing past 70. No set items, no storage, no party finder, no leaderboards, terrible item system. NO TRADING??? Whats the reason behind strongholds ? Regrinding renown is a joke. Why are blue and white items in the game ? Terrible cosmetics. Everything is structured around milking players out of money - terrible seasons system. Since they tried so hard to turn it into a soft mmo its missing everything that would make it any good. Just for example, arena pvp with seasonal cosmetic rewards would fix endgame problems as it would actually give players a reason to grind to 100 to climb pvp leaderboards for rewards. Maybe clan wars since its open pvp ? Or clan battles to take over strongholds (clans keep them for a week and get rewards for it) LITERALLY ANYTHING that would want players to actually compete or interact in any way. But nope that would be too good to be true. Also my grinded renown didnt transfer to season 1. I play HC and died on my rogue at 82, made a new character - got to 82 also. Now comes season 1, for some reason blizzard employees didnt know how to write code so they made it so you have to log in with a character that has everything unlocked. But my rogue died at 82 and my new character doesnt have altars or renown grinded because i refuse to grind it again so now im forced to grind them all over again. My choices are either stick to eternal realm and dont play season ( i got ultimate so i have season pass) because i have the renown and altars there OR play s1 without anything unlocked. Im forced to quit because im not grinding everything again. Im a father and I run a business and it took me a week to get all altars. I will never buy a blizzard game again. Fail dev team… Expand
  9. MakeDiabloGreat
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Diablo 4 is a game with a lot of potential, but the recent dev activity is incredibly worrisome. The intent seems to be to slow the player down in order to keep players grinding as opposed to actually improving the game itself. The nerfing of the eternal realm paired with the solutions to said nerfs in the new season is a very clear attempt to funnel people out of their current charactersDiablo 4 is a game with a lot of potential, but the recent dev activity is incredibly worrisome. The intent seems to be to slow the player down in order to keep players grinding as opposed to actually improving the game itself. The nerfing of the eternal realm paired with the solutions to said nerfs in the new season is a very clear attempt to funnel people out of their current characters and into new seasonal characters. The premium battlepass linked into this seasonal character progression makes it quite easy to see the likely motivation for these changes. The devs want to make money off of the current player base. The way they make money is by getting as many players as possible to play in the new season for as long as possible in order to get as much exposure to and purchasing of the battlepass as possible. This is frankly a very scummy approach and very concerning for the future of the game. Diablo 4 isn't a bad game, it has strong roots to it, and with a little bit of work, it could be an incredible and long lived game. However, the current direction that the game is taking unfortunately doesn't suggest this outcome. Things may eventually start moving in the right direction, but currently the dev strategy seems to be focused on profit over enjoyable player experiences. Hopefully the negative reception to their current direction moves things back on track, but with the current state and direction of the game, I'd advise waiting to see how things turn out. Paying $70 for a game that is seemingly being developed with the primary intent of farming you for more money is frankly not worth it. Hopefully Diablo 4 takes the Battlefront 2 trajectory and rebounds from a predatory game to a genuinely good production, but only time will tell.… Expand
  10. bucthree
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    A loot crawler with no real loot. You'll get drops, but they won't be upgrades.
    End game is completely no existent. You can do 4 different things for end game content. And with the current nerfs, they became a time suck with no additional reward. The main story will take maybe 10 hours. Which means you will have 50+ levels to grind 4 end game events. Combine super repetitive with a    A loot crawler with no real loot. You'll get drops, but they won't be upgrades.
    End game is completely no existent. You can do 4 different things for end game content. And with the current nerfs, they became a time suck with no additional reward. The main story will take maybe 10 hours. Which means you will have 50+ levels to grind 4 end game events. Combine super repetitive with a horrible loot table makes the game no fun.

    Why they didnt look at what made D2 and D3 successful and update for current gen games, I have no clue. But D4 is a GIANT step backward. How do you have mobile game that is more compelling than a full triple A title?    … Expand
  11. jacknife551
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    never should have bought this overpriced piece of **** game from this incompetent piece of **** developer, going back to Grim Dawn, the only true successor of Diablo 1 and 2, and the best modern ARPG that right now you can buy much more cheaply (all DLCs included) than D4
  12. Marijuander
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    past the campaign the game quickly deteriorates and becomes redundant. I might've given the season a shot but then I read the patch notes and remembered that fat female druids exist
  13. Dienex
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    multiple problems on release... still not fixed, plus they just nerfed the game into the ground and made season 1 massively less fun to play than on release, uninstalled battle.net not just diablo 4.
    Blizzard is a withering shell of what it used to be and activison are just cash grabbing on peoples nostalgia craving and riding on the fact the community are hoping it becomes close to what    multiple problems on release... still not fixed, plus they just nerfed the game into the ground and made season 1 massively less fun to play than on release, uninstalled battle.net not just diablo 4.
    Blizzard is a withering shell of what it used to be and activison are just cash grabbing on peoples nostalgia craving and riding on the fact the community are hoping it becomes close to what it once was but this patch is confirmation that its never going to be, not even close.    … Expand
  14. Barb120
    Sep 1, 2023
    0
    Ruined with update. endless time grind to level up now, garbage item drops so your forced to play seasonal because they nerfed everything. 100 percent ruined game. Went from amazing to trash in a single patch. pay to play BS
  15. Gratch
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This is a prime example of what greed does to the gaming industry.

    Pros: it is diablo Cons: -unbalanced system with ongoing nerfs to make gameplay unbearable -intentionally slowing gameplay to try to inflate numbers of active players -unrewarding loot system, when getting loot from monsters your level it will always be 10 levels below you -refusal to acknowledge the community    This is a prime example of what greed does to the gaming industry.

    Pros: it is diablo

    Cons:
    -unbalanced system with ongoing nerfs to make gameplay unbearable
    -intentionally slowing gameplay to try to inflate numbers of active players
    -unrewarding loot system, when getting loot from monsters your level it will always be 10 levels below you
    -refusal to acknowledge the community concerns with the game
    -game is still only half finished with uncountable amounts of game breaking bugs
    -Constant server lag and crashes with forced online play only    … Expand
  16. Endcycle
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Really wish they would offer a refund for this scam game.

    They just keep making the game less enjoyable every patch. Season 1 content is just laughable and then they want battlepass sales. Nah hard pass already uninstalled. Regret purchase.
  17. snibbler89
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Cashgrab ARPG without any meaningful or fun endgame content wrapped in some pretty graphics.

    The Blizzard we once loved does not exist anymore. This franchise is dead, and the only thing that matters for Activision/Blizzard is to make their shareholders happy. The absolute worst ARPG I have ever played. Do NOT buy this game if you're a fan of actual ARPG's looking for any fun    Cashgrab ARPG without any meaningful or fun endgame content wrapped in some pretty graphics.

    The Blizzard we once loved does not exist anymore. This franchise is dead, and the only thing that matters for Activision/Blizzard is to make their shareholders happy.

    The absolute worst ARPG I have ever played. Do NOT buy this game if you're a fan of actual ARPG's looking for any fun activities past the campaign. Hell, not even the campaign was fun.    … Expand
  18. skt1faker
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This game is so dead. Blizzard kill all the fun. They no longer develop games for players to have fun but to treat players as $. All of their decisions is to force player to spend more money while reduces their gaming experience. I will no longer buy another blizzard title after witnessing what is happening to Diablo 4. If you have not bought this time, please avoid and do not give thisThis game is so dead. Blizzard kill all the fun. They no longer develop games for players to have fun but to treat players as $. All of their decisions is to force player to spend more money while reduces their gaming experience. I will no longer buy another blizzard title after witnessing what is happening to Diablo 4. If you have not bought this time, please avoid and do not give this bad and unethical company your money.… Expand
  19. Greysc
    Jul 25, 2023
    0
    The only reason to play the game is continuing the Diablo franchise story, which is probably best done by watching a video of someone completing. This is due to the fact that they have side quests that do not align healthily with the story.
  20. aldover
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Introduced a patch specifically designed to drag the game out rather than improving content.
  21. obituary
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    The bad:

    1. severe lack of understanding how their own game's balance works 2. Classes barely have more than 2 viable specs. Pair that with nerfing everyone and buffing monsters. Why? 3. nerfs all classes, including the weakest class - what? 4. inventory is bad (gems...smaller items should be smaller.) 5. no dungeon finder (isn't this an MMO?) 6. stability issues even a month after    The bad:

    1. severe lack of understanding how their own game's balance works
    2. Classes barely have more than 2 viable specs. Pair that with nerfing everyone and buffing monsters. Why?
    3. nerfs all classes, including the weakest class - what?
    4. inventory is bad (gems...smaller items should be smaller.)
    5. no dungeon finder (isn't this an MMO?)
    6. stability issues even a month after release
    7. Major UI enhancements needed to match D3 in terms of UI/UX...a game that came out a LONG time ago. It can be a different game without HAVING to have different UI/UX things deleted from existence.
    8. Can't respec easily. Costs way too much money. Needs a template system and more reasonable costs
    9. Can't easily redo paragons. Costs too much. Needs a template system or at least a way to delete them all back to a certain point
    10. loot in WT4 is a joke. Same stuff 60-100. Needs more granularity here and a better system. I don't want to click through every item and see if it has the 4 stats I need. Needs a filter.

    The good:

    1. The story was pretty good    … Expand
  22. alanbrado00
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    for each new update new errors appear, it seems that I am playing alpha test instead of the final game, each patch that comes instead of helping only worsens the health of the game to the point of seeming that they are making fun of my face. They want to delay the leveling, but they worsen the game more and more, I paid 500 reais for a game that is not worth the price
  23. Mete0ra
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game had a pretty Ok launch. It had many bugs, however player base ignored that simply because at first the game looked fun.
    Once people started reaching the end of the campaign, leveling from 50-100 became a lot more repetitve, tho you as a player sticked to NMD, Helltides, Whisper Trees, World Bosses.
    Once I got to level 70 it all started to be even more boring, suddenly my only options where Helltides and NMD, (and from time to time Worldboss).
    Once you get to level 100, only thing left to do is grind, grind and grind. I get it, all of this might be part of an ARPG?
    But then I decided to levelup a couple of alters and TBH, my sorcerer early game was fun, but after 50 I simply leveled it up just because I wanted to see its endgame, spoiler, mostly trash, and I tried several builds.
    The rogue, however it was fun to play from the very early to the endgame, tho In comparison to my necromancer (my main char) it never dealt as much damage, but I don't see that as a problem, since necromancer was designed that way (a bit OP, to my taste).

    When patch 1.1.0a came and I read balance patch I was thrilled to read patch notes, maybe they went for an small step towards a balanced game, but I still was missing fundamental features like:
    - More stash space.
    - Turning gems into artisan material (to save up inventory space).
    - Adding loadouts
    - Increasing the amount of end-game content.
    - Social features, like global chat, LFG
    - Many other features actively requested by the community.

    Don't get me wrong I get it, you can't get all the content at the start of a game, but then I went over the patch notes for 1.1.0a and I could not believe what I was reading, they basically nerfed EVERY class, except for rogue (or better said, rogue was the one coming out of it in the better shape).
    And they nerfed XP, consequently slowing everyone's progress in the game.

    So I was pissed of, after investing hundreds of hours at the game Blizzard was just releasing a patch that effectively was making the gameplay WORSE, making the Eternal Realm not a viable option for the majority anymore. So the only hope was the Seasonal Realm

    Today I decided, even after the disastrous 1.1.0a patch, give a try to the seasonal content, and after 5hours of play I just went off-line, everything is much more less fun to play.
    And about balancing (the one thing they were supposedly addressing with the latest patch) mostly everyone is playing Rogue, Necro or Druid in this order and my necro which was OP is still OP, just doing half the damage.

    In conclusion, i would not recommend anyone buying the game, at least for the time being.    … Expand
  24. Wedgehead
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I love having to farm new "fun" dungeons that make old ones obsolete, where the actual good loot is unobtainable until you've farmed them 5 times already. They made anti-QoL changes. The game already had numerous issues, and they actually made it worse...
  25. SunlessDried
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    With season 1, they gave players an inch in QoL, but a mile up the ass.

    The base campaign was already terrible in both writing and experience (30-hour tutorial before the "real" game). Class balance was terrible to start, but was absolutely shafted for season 1. It's literally a "prevent every smooth and fun build" patch, with a side dish of "Barbarians killed my parents, nerf    With season 1, they gave players an inch in QoL, but a mile up the ass.

    The base campaign was already terrible in both writing and experience (30-hour tutorial before the "real" game). Class balance was terrible to start, but was absolutely shafted for season 1. It's literally a "prevent every smooth and fun build" patch, with a side dish of "Barbarians killed my parents, nerf everything they them to death."
    Only good things they did was fix level requirements for gear and make reputation easier to grind. Unfortunately, they decided to 1) nerf all classes 2) nerf offensive capability overall 3) nerf defensive capability overall 4) buff enemies 5) drastically nerf xp gains 6) made item affix pools larger 7) specifically took a massive dump on Barbarians with the new additions to their heart/aspect/unique, just to stay consistent with the treatment they gave the whole pre-season.    … Expand
  26. vigilainte
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Not even Deckard Cain wants you to stay awhile and listen to the **** excuse they are going to give on the "cAmPFiRe ChAT" tomorrow after the dumbest patch in the history of diablo.
  27. JamsheedRPGGod
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Out of touch. Please nerf Barbarian. Game unplayable with Barb being so good.
  28. Endo77x7
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    The patch right before season 1 ruined the game, and grinding through the season is an unenjoyable slog. This is a kick in the pants to any Diablo fan... I had such high hopes...
  29. Toe_stradamus
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    I am a casual player (play 1-3 days a week for about 1-4 hours).

    Huge diablo fan, i played D2 for thousands of hours and D3 for a few hundred. I have been waiting for D4 for years playing D2 vanilla and mods until the D4 release. At first, i thought that the game looked great, but realized how much of a sh*t show it was pretty fast. (Played as hard as i could with a job and a 9month old    I am a casual player (play 1-3 days a week for about 1-4 hours).

    Huge diablo fan, i played D2 for thousands of hours and D3 for a few hundred.

    I have been waiting for D4 for years playing D2 vanilla and mods until the D4 release. At first, i thought that the game looked great, but realized how much of a sh*t show it was pretty fast. (Played as hard as i could with a job and a 9month old baby ~200h hours since it just came out….. I mean it was D4!) I bought the 4 days before release including the season 1 battle pass, but the game has been uninstalled and will stay until this game becomes fun.

    I spent thousands of dollars on Path of exile because i strongly believe on supporting games you like.

    This thing is nothing less than a really really really expensive bad game.    … Expand
  30. StevoPC
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Very poor management from blizzard. Not wasting my time or money anymore . S
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 90 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 82 out of 90
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 90
  3. Negative: 0 out of 90
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Aug 29, 2023
    66
    It’s almost like Diablo 4 developers are consciously fighting against everything that made classic Diablo fun. [Issue#262, p.80]
  2. GameCritics
    Jul 10, 2023
    65
    While the future of the game is anyone’s guess, at present Diablo IV is a solid, but strangely unambitious take that fails to bring much new to the table. By the end of my travels, I was more than willing to put it down and take a break — somewhere amongst all the grinding, Diablo IV had unfortunately ground me down as well.
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  3. Meristation
    Jul 7, 2023
    90
    The best Blizzard launch in a long time and a worthy game to be called Diablo.
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