Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 6,766 out of 8271

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  1. Strombulo
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Season 1 patch ended an already not great game
    Nerfs to every class, nerf to xp, nerf to gameplay pace
  2. Deempeer
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    As many others I was extremely excited for 1.1 pre-season patch notes. Now as many others I probably won't touch the game until Blizzard fixes their **** The pre season patch notes were supposed to hype up the first season, not suck the life and all the fun out of it. I'm currently done and over with this company.

    Now everyone say it with me. **** YOU BLIZZARD!
  3. Deesweigert
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Atleast the blizzard devs listened to me more than what my parents did. I believe they made their damage buckets so convoluted that they don't realize how it all works. Instead of patching for balance they patched for frustration.
  4. rnzerk
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Played D2 and Path of Exile for years prior to D4, so you could say I have an ample amount of experience to review D4. Recently, I had that thirst to play a good ARPG and D4 was the first choice. I was wrong to set my expectations high--or even at the minimum, As things currently stand right now, D4 has become a generic, bland, content-lacking, and linear game.

    Outside its cinematics    Played D2 and Path of Exile for years prior to D4, so you could say I have an ample amount of experience to review D4. Recently, I had that thirst to play a good ARPG and D4 was the first choice. I was wrong to set my expectations high--or even at the minimum, As things currently stand right now, D4 has become a generic, bland, content-lacking, and linear game.

    Outside its cinematics and combat mechanics, D4 has failed to offer something new--something to keep players wanting to play more. Instead of listening to its player base, the team/s behind D4 push/es their own goals and thoughts for the game, alongside the business model they're trying to promote; That is, they're making players NOT WANT TO PLAY MORE, but PLAY MORE--a philosophy aligned with their business model that is to milk every cent as much as possible from players, hence slower gameplay, slower progression.

    But they will not be getting any cents! The time has come for players to unite and show these **** pigs who don't even play their own game that we are not their cash cows, and that our voices are pertinent to the development and success of the franchise.    … Expand
  5. Jbowbow
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Blizzard had a strong foundation to work off of with the previous titles and the campaign was great, but they have intentionally slowed the pace of the game to a crawl in an attempt to milk their players without having to produce new content. I held off on reviewing until the first large patch and it only reinforced my concerns. Most classes experienced a 30-50% nerf to their damage -Blizzard had a strong foundation to work off of with the previous titles and the campaign was great, but they have intentionally slowed the pace of the game to a crawl in an attempt to milk their players without having to produce new content. I held off on reviewing until the first large patch and it only reinforced my concerns. Most classes experienced a 30-50% nerf to their damage - reducing the pace of the game even further - and nearly none of the quality of life or class balancing requests have been addressed (lol sorcs). This game reeks of corporate greed and it's clear their intent is to find the minimum threshold their playerbase will tolerate without uninstalling. Well, sad to say they overshot their estimate and the community has responded accordingly.… Expand
  6. Haglaz
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    They need to fix the VRAM leak problem.
    It's been using 20 GB of VRAM (90% of my GPU) causing stuttering, freezes and even crashing.
    The devs don't really care about the user experience, this problem has been with us since the beta launch. If I'm with problems with a High end Pc, immagine people with enough specs to run it on low. This issue must be fixed because when you can literally    They need to fix the VRAM leak problem.
    It's been using 20 GB of VRAM (90% of my GPU) causing stuttering, freezes and even crashing.
    The devs don't really care about the user experience, this problem has been with us since the beta launch.
    If I'm with problems with a High end Pc, immagine people with enough specs to run it on low.
    This issue must be fixed because when you can literally play the game (20 mins tops) it's a very good experience. But it was not worth my R$350.    … Expand
  7. Vector88
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    I pre-purchased the Digital Deluxe Edition for 89.99. Mainly becasue of the scammy "Start 4 days earlier" and because of the peer pressure. Campaign was good. Reached 100 level. Never logged in again. Game was boring from level 80. I was waiting for fixes and content in Season 1 start, but the patch notes were an April Fool's joke. I should probably uninstall it now and never play it again.
  8. ztier-d4patch
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This game started out okay, but it seemed like it was in a promising state to be improved upon over time. But this is Blizzard.

    Despite bugs, an unfinished and badly written linear story that's only intended to slow down leveling, a prewritten fake username submitted Q&A for a dev stream, and highly requested improvements from the start, people were wrongfully comfortable with the    This game started out okay, but it seemed like it was in a promising state to be improved upon over time. But this is Blizzard.

    Despite bugs, an unfinished and badly written linear story that's only intended to slow down leveling, a prewritten fake username submitted Q&A for a dev stream, and highly requested improvements from the start, people were wrongfully comfortable with the problems described below before they worsened, and were excited for a new Diablo game (even comparing how good the release was to how terrible D3 was).

    This game caught the attention of most of my friends that play games. Over 90% of my friends list (casual gamers and hardcore gamers alike) were playing it consistently each night for the first month, which is rare considering limited free time and how many new games there are to choose from.

    Besides what was mentioned above, terrible itemization, lack of common sense quality of life implementation or social features, and over-the-top conditional affixes were main complaints and have been mostly ignored or shelved for empty promises to be added 4-6 months from now, when exploits caused from their patches are fixed within hours.

    The problems and worsening of gameplay have only grown larger over time due to unfixed broken builds (and a month-long blinding blight animation bug on necromancer that made partying with them undesirable), skills being nerfed or gutted to the point where they're unquestionably useless or outright removed from classes, a loot table that drops majority of items intended for people 20-30 levels lower than your current level, level caps, enemy density reductions, reduction of xp earned, increase of cooldown reductions, reduction of the main aspects that determine damage, and nerfing damage and damage reduction while buffing enemy damage in game-wide patches to "compensate for powerful" seasonal mechanics that don't equally empower players (especially nonseasonal characters that can't access seasonal mechanics, rendering all nonseasonal players' build options completely useless).

    Resistances to elements were added and even expanded on items and aspects, but they admitted that it's completely broken and would not resist anything by the time you have died, and fixing this problem was stated to take multiple seasons to resolve.

    Before the 1.1 patch, Lvl 120 bosses in nightmare dungeons were easier to kill than the Lvl 100 "pinnacle boss", and now they're both out of the question.

    Hardcore mode was already out of the question due to bugs and server problems that could delete your character without any fault of the player.

    This only shows that Blizzard believes unneeded intentional slowdowns, limits of stash tabs, more limitation on viable builds for a game that has a higher complexity of possible builds, and inconveniences are more important to prevent players from having fun while slowly grinding the same 30 dungeons monotonously from lvl 50 to lvl 100 for an endgame that does not exist.

    It seems like a team of people that don't play the game at all have completely ignored all feedback while lying that they were paying attention to feedback, instead looking at spreadsheets to find and remove the most popular meta mechanics that their development choices shoehorned players to gravitate towards without making anything viable to choose to play, not to mention completely gutting any capability to play or enjoy Sorcerer class MULTIPLE TIMES. The balancing team is not creating balance, they're making the game unbearable to enjoy across all classes and builds.

    Despite experiencing all of Blizzard's previous terrible games, I made an exception to purchase this game due to the baseline of quality they presented during multiple beta tests and preseason gameplay, but Blizzard does not value the time and money spent, feedback, or enjoyment of its customers.

    My friends that played this game every day for the first month were excited for Season 1, but since the latest patch notes have already stated they've lost hope and have moved on to other games, and the game's reddit is on fire.

    I'm not hopeful for the "campfire" dev stream that is scheduled one day after the new season starts with these new changes, and I'm moving on to indie games from passionate developers that listen to their customers' feedback rather than spoonfeed "this is what's good for you" decisions.

    The new state of this game further cements the fact that current and future game quality from AAA developers will continue to decline due to leadership that have no interest or passion in gaming besides how quickly it brings money in, and how quickly developers can release a game with depressing alpha quality state.    … Expand
  9. Tamlon
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    I actually enjoyed the game till level 70, when i ran out of content. Then i wanted to wait for the season, but blizzard descided to kill the game early. Im playing a Barbarian and im gutted to the ground and have not an inch of fun anymore. I get oneshot at every corner and my dmg was cut in half. But thanks to that i can start playing an actual good game like baldurs gate 3, thanks forI actually enjoyed the game till level 70, when i ran out of content. Then i wanted to wait for the season, but blizzard descided to kill the game early. Im playing a Barbarian and im gutted to the ground and have not an inch of fun anymore. I get oneshot at every corner and my dmg was cut in half. But thanks to that i can start playing an actual good game like baldurs gate 3, thanks for freeing me blizzard.… Expand
  10. Maclne
    Jul 21, 2023
    5
    I was loving the game but the absolute trash of an update for Season 1 feels like a game killer. D4 needed some tweaks and balances, but this update nerfed everything to the point that the game will feel extremely tedious to play.
    I will continue to update my review once I see how the developers handle the latest changes.
  11. ballestplaya
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Got all 5 classes to 100, and don't mind the grind. However, the latest nerfs are a bit of an overkill for sure. Devs/team needs to get this corrected ASAP.
  12. Alexozorus
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Last patch (1.1.0) wad like a slap in the face, i don't get it.
    They ignored all the community feed back asking for multiple QOL (horse, gold cost...) and instead patched the fun out of the game. And keep on nerfing sorc for some reason when the class could as well not exist at the moment since they don't fix it.
  13. ladydeathmage
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Diablo 4 has been nothing short of a massive disappointment, and it's abundantly clear that the game developers are entirely incompetent, having driven the franchise into the ground. What was anticipated to be a triumphant return for the series has instead become a tragic reminder of the developers' lack of understanding and disregard for their loyal player base.

    It's clear that the    Diablo 4 has been nothing short of a massive disappointment, and it's abundantly clear that the game developers are entirely incompetent, having driven the franchise into the ground. What was anticipated to be a triumphant return for the series has instead become a tragic reminder of the developers' lack of understanding and disregard for their loyal player base.

    It's clear that the developers have turned a blind eye to the overwhelming criticism. Glaring issues pointed out by players remain unaddressed, and it's apparent that the devs are more interested in pushing their misguided vision than in delivering a game that resonates with fans.

    Diablo 4 stands as a testament to the incompetence of its developers and the devastating consequences of ignoring player feedback. It's a tragedy to witness a once-beloved franchise brought to its knees by the very people entrusted with its revival. As a long-time fan, I can only hope that the developers take this as a hard lesson and reevaluate their approach, but until then, I advise anyone to steer clear of this catastrophic failure.    … Expand
  14. t0x1x2
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    nice patch,nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf
  15. garamyi
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This patch made it a garbage game (1.1 patch) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  16. dbcoop3r
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Trash. Skills are a joke. Complicated item system. No endgame content. Grind grind grind to get to higher level and the only thing that drops is 80% lower level trash. IMO it's not worth the money. Plus they just made the game even worse with the latest patch. I wouldn't bother with the game for another few years until they start listening to the feedback of the community. It really feelsTrash. Skills are a joke. Complicated item system. No endgame content. Grind grind grind to get to higher level and the only thing that drops is 80% lower level trash. IMO it's not worth the money. Plus they just made the game even worse with the latest patch. I wouldn't bother with the game for another few years until they start listening to the feedback of the community. It really feels like the developers don't even play the game.… Expand
  17. Memrez
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Latest patch…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………,……………………………………………………….
  18. impossibleTu
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ampaign interesting, end game sucks.
    The game after level 60 is not to be satisfied. Overall the game is played for nothing. Level scaling does not reflect the increase in power. Itemization is very poor. Item to skill balance is lacking. Technically better than D3, but same crap. I prefer D2.    … Expand
  19. nerobot21
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Do not play this game, with the recent patch they are trying to make the game last as long as possible in the most UNFUN way possible.

    They nerfed exp so you have to grind more. They nerfed damage, so you take more time to clear dungeons They nerfed rewards from events so you have to do many more of them to get a reward. They nerfed ALL classes without buffing almost anything    Do not play this game, with the recent patch they are trying to make the game last as long as possible in the most UNFUN way possible.

    They nerfed exp so you have to grind more.
    They nerfed damage, so you take more time to clear dungeons
    They nerfed rewards from events so you have to do many more of them to get a reward.
    They nerfed ALL classes without buffing almost anything

    Don't buy if you respect your time, they don't look at what's fun, they look at numbers. If they see 100% people are using a single Sorc spell their small brains asume that as "That must be overpowered" instead of just looking deeper into the class and realizing that every other skill sucks.

    Hopefully the user score will get the point across their thick skull. Idiotic team.    … Expand
  20. book55422000
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Really sucks, did the developers want to be born in China? I've never seen someone stealing money openly and asking someone to open their **** to do it for you
  21. BuffSorc
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    if you looking game ;
    optimization issues,
    weak charecter power isue,
    repetitive,
    also when bugged the game , some peoples get the uniq shako headres developers nothing to do them no reroll server no apology,no anything.......deserve to 0 star
  22. Moridin716
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Been a huge fan of the Diablo franchise since the first installment, and have never stopped playing them over the years. Diablo 4 was already missing the endgame content and loot progression aspects of it's predecessors and felt like a game still in development to begin with. However, patch 1.1 notes for Season 1 are absolutely abysmal and are simply slowing down the game and making allBeen a huge fan of the Diablo franchise since the first installment, and have never stopped playing them over the years. Diablo 4 was already missing the endgame content and loot progression aspects of it's predecessors and felt like a game still in development to begin with. However, patch 1.1 notes for Season 1 are absolutely abysmal and are simply slowing down the game and making all classes weaker, mechanics clunkier, and the game more frustrating just to slow people down and prevent them from realizing how little there is to do at higher levels. People should not spend their money on this game until the developers realize how poor their insight is for what their playerbase desires in the game.… Expand
  23. cYrus821
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    that”s **** game just care the camel,not care player, not listen player opinion , fk this game
  24. p3king
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Gotta wait a few years until its playable, just like Diablo 3. Uninstalled until then.
  25. TeraE47
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    - No world chat
    - Trade chat where I haven't seen anyone write in the entire 350 hours
    - You have to have open like 10 **** chrome tabs to find what you need - Trading only rare items which you can only sell/buy guess where... on a **** discord or find people on social media??????? **** WHY Why is everything else account bound? Diablo 2 has none of this features and it just okey nobody    - No world chat
    - Trade chat where I haven't seen anyone write in the entire 350 hours
    - You have to have open like 10 **** chrome tabs to find what you need
    - Trading only rare items which you can only sell/buy guess where... on a **** discord or find people on social media??????? **** WHY Why is everything else account bound? Diablo 2 has none of this features and it just okey nobody complains?
    - Also i got spectral (horse skin) like 20 time and i can't do **** with it cause it's account bound. WHY? I already have it...
    - The Skill Tree is absolutely pathetic. You have like 6 skills which 4 of them are garbage without damage or any good bonus. Yeah so everybody use the same stupid build. There is no diversity.
    - Aspects are piece of trash. Half of them are not interesting or useless and the good ones just got nerfed to hell.
    - But don't worry we made some new aspect for you to enjoy like 20-40 % movement speed when you moving AWAY from slowed or chilled enemies.... oh my god is this a **** joke?
    - No kill count
    - No gold count on pick up
    - No counter of destroyed things (There is a achievement for it) but i can't see how many things i destroyed... yep
    - No counter for killing spree
    - You have to make a new characters to stash your items... in cause you don't want to scrap/sell your stuff cause why the **** not
    - No stash search bar.. when pretty much every item looks the same yeah it so much fun to spend 20 minutes searching for what you need.
    - nearly a hundred and **** fifty dungeons but everyone of them feels the same good job
    - Yeah and for anyone wondering in the endgame you only doing like 3 of them cause the rest is a **** garbage without mobs ZERO EXP and loot just a waste of time.
    - Hellties are good only for gear once you get decent items its a waste of time again
    - Tree of Whispers is a joke droping level 15 sigils for T3 on 90+ levels... ??? XDDDD
    - Boss battles are about who can kill it faster and say im **** tired of this bull**** i quit (It's like 3 bosses all the time)
    - I had a hard time to understand which stats are better is it overpower ? is it vulnerable? is it critical damage? is it psychical damage or all damage... come on guys
    - Where are runes you promised?
    - Where is some kind of dmg dummy ?
    - Why do i have tab for materials but not for gems ? And why you can only stack them to 50 pieces????
    - It's currently patched but why cap materials to only 10k?
    - You can respect all skills at once but not paragons... why? You have to click every single one of them to start again holy **** **** that's just so depresing.
    - No addons maybe?
    - You have to go to 3rd party websites to check when is going to be another WB, Helltide or Legion... why?
    - Im not a fan of the one item one slot thing. I know it's hard to code this i made my own inventory in my own game but how does it make sense to have 50kg double hand to take same space as a ring.. why is it have to be so simplified?
    - It's pretty much pointless to go out of town and do anything besides ND and now it's even worse, much worse. You don't get any EXP nor a better loot.
    - Talking about loot is it just my or is this crap so boring? How can rare item be rare when it drops 20 thousand **** times with the same boring stats over and over again. Look at Diablo 2. You drop white **** shield with only +15 enhanced defense and who knows it's good af. No you drop "rare" click 5 times add aspec there you go. You little crafter theres your achievement. This just make me so sad, so depresing. It's like for people with 20 IQ to feel good.
    - Side quests besides the "story" ones are just boring. pretty much everybody skips them and the "reward" is a just a pathetic so bad you want to kill yourself after. Yeah, there you go, you spent 20 minutes doing this now you can have 1 **** VEILED CRYSTAL. xDDDD What are you smoking guys
    - The amount of gold for stat rolls on items can get to astronomical numbers to the point when its just better to drop the item again
    - Cursed shrines/chests/wells can be real good or another crackhead story. Sometimes it's rly good, so much mobs you can't see **** over all the effects etc. And sometimes it will spawn 3 demons and 1 sucubus. You would expect to spawn more mobs in higher waves. No next time you get 3 demons and 2 sucubus. I don't know what to say. People who designed this should be fired. I skip these, waste of time.
    - Resource Burn affix is so OP i actualy started thinking it's out of season april fools joke. Litery one mob can drain your mana/essence etc. to absolute zero and you cant doo ****
    - Cobwebs are invisible have fun getting stuck every 5 meters
    - F you im done

    + - I enjoyed the story with my friends it was actualy fun and it was fun to get to like lvl 70+ but after that its just a stupid grind doing the same ND again and again and finding gear with +1% better stats...
    + Paragon tree is ok
    + They promised shop with only a cosmetic items so props to them at least...    … Expand
  26. Grim0verlord
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The developers cannot leave good things in the game alone, they keep changing and tweaking things that we enjoy making them actively worse while ignoring the issues and problems we keep asking to get fixed... They tell us they can't get us the improvements till future seasons but can continuously change things that we love in the game and make them terrible... damage nerfed, survivabilityThe developers cannot leave good things in the game alone, they keep changing and tweaking things that we enjoy making them actively worse while ignoring the issues and problems we keep asking to get fixed... They tell us they can't get us the improvements till future seasons but can continuously change things that we love in the game and make them terrible... damage nerfed, survivability nerfed, experience nerfed, items I worked hard for and spent tons of gold on to get max stats nerfed... Legit they take things you worked for and earned in game and change their stats, nothing is safe. I would not recommend... Diablo 4s best days were pre-Season 1 patch.… Expand
  27. StoofedPork
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Game is great, new patch has ruined it completely though. These developers DO NOT play their own game and this patch (1.1.0) has proven that beyond a shadow of a doubt. They want to artificially (in the worst way) extend play time. But at the same time, have no idea how to even do it properly. With these changes everything just feels weaker and slower, including the worst class ALREADYGame is great, new patch has ruined it completely though. These developers DO NOT play their own game and this patch (1.1.0) has proven that beyond a shadow of a doubt. They want to artificially (in the worst way) extend play time. But at the same time, have no idea how to even do it properly. With these changes everything just feels weaker and slower, including the worst class ALREADY getting even worse now. They took the first month to pretend to care about the game, after everyone gave them money they threw the game into the trash.
    If you value ANY of your time, don't touch this game. With the current patch it is NOT fun, it is NOT entertaining, and there still is ZERO end game content at all that is of any value, along with still no leaderboards.    … Expand
  28. snowman5677
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Ruined their own game by slowing down an already arduous experience before S1.
  29. blackthorne18
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    To watch the hype of Season 1 and hook everyone on high damage and keeping it that way beyond the point of refunds and then hitting the playerbase with the nerf bat right before seasonal content launch is Marketing 101 failure. Some nerfs were perhaps needed, but buffs to less represented builds was needed more.

    Itemization is just garbage, random at best, futile at worse. They added    To watch the hype of Season 1 and hook everyone on high damage and keeping it that way beyond the point of refunds and then hitting the playerbase with the nerf bat right before seasonal content launch is Marketing 101 failure. Some nerfs were perhaps needed, but buffs to less represented builds was needed more.

    Itemization is just garbage, random at best, futile at worse. They added MORE affixes to have sort through. To summarize there is a 5% chance that this review will lead to a 30% chance of slower downloads which has a 2.7% chance of causing people not to buy this game.

    Zero QOL Changes for the Positive in the update. Stash space limited, rerolls insanely expensive and tedious, xp grind up exponentially. All of this to cover for a lack of content.

    Cinematics and campaign and great on first run. Wait for a sale and some expansion packs before purchasing.    … Expand
  30. draecho
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    decent story unfortunately marred by extremely incompetent and clueless developers who have zero understanding about arpg game mechanics, end game content, and player retention.
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86

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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