Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. TsaiJY
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    If you haven't bought the game, please don't
    Because you don't want to play a malicious game with random changes
  2. thedogalan
    Aug 16, 2023
    1
    It's not you playing the game,
    this game is playing you.
    Blizzard has changed to a greedy company that no one cares about making a good game to make players happy but only cares about how to make a fortune. They want you to spend a lot of your time playing this game, by making players not able to get what they want in a short time. Players have to work harder on it to achieve the same    It's not you playing the game,
    this game is playing you.
    Blizzard has changed to a greedy company that no one cares about making a good game to make players happy but only cares about how to make a fortune.
    They want you to spend a lot of your time playing this game, by making players not able to get what they want in a short time. Players have to work harder on it to achieve the same goal, but only get frustrated in return.    … Expand
  3. deers
    Aug 19, 2023
    0
    I have been playing blizz games since wrath. I have no lifed wow for years. Played a bunch of SC2, and absolutely LOVED D3. thousands of hours.

    I have never reviewed a game. I created this account specifically for this review. This game is complete trash. Especially in comparison to D3. It is soulless and empty. It is extremely grindy. Leveling experience is good until about level    I have been playing blizz games since wrath. I have no lifed wow for years. Played a bunch of SC2, and absolutely LOVED D3. thousands of hours.

    I have never reviewed a game. I created this account specifically for this review.

    This game is complete trash. Especially in comparison to D3. It is soulless and empty. It is extremely grindy. Leveling experience is good until about level 10-20, than its just garbage. Super boring. The story is mid but mind numbing a couple acts in a not interesting to follow. The background art is utter trash. The world map is huge but its the same boring background of desert and plains. A lot of running and wasting time in the same boring environment. You never feel strong during the leveling process.

    I have been waiting for years for this to squad with the boys, but this is just garbage. Not even close to D3.

    I would refund if I could but you cant refund after 2 hours played. Blizz is officially dead. Soulless corporation that only wants your dollars. Buy this game if you hate yourself and the gaming community and want to buy bobby another yacht.    … Expand
  4. mrRipley
    Aug 21, 2023
    0
    In general, the game is very poor, the story is not bad, but the endgame is one of the worst things I've seen in my more than 30 years of playing video games. Many things can be said, but it can be summed up by the fact that it is an extremely boring game, with mechanics designed by children. It seems like a game from 15 years ago, with no content and no motivation to keep playing.
  5. PreyyNation
    Aug 21, 2023
    0
    After lvling 2 characters to endgame (launch day character blood necro lvl 90, and Seasonal Character Twisting Blade Rogue lvl 100) I have come to the conclusion that the game is great from 1-60 but really shallow and undercooked beyond that. The game was so obviously released to appease the shareholders by appealing to the casual crowd by raking in as much profit as possible at theAfter lvling 2 characters to endgame (launch day character blood necro lvl 90, and Seasonal Character Twisting Blade Rogue lvl 100) I have come to the conclusion that the game is great from 1-60 but really shallow and undercooked beyond that. The game was so obviously released to appease the shareholders by appealing to the casual crowd by raking in as much profit as possible at the expense of the hardcore fans of the diablo series and ARPG genre in general. Profit before quality, as per Bobby Kotick's plan. Blizzard needs to stop trying to satisfy shareholders and start making well considered finished great games again. POE 2 is going to make D4 look like an absolute joke.… Expand
  6. BoooN
    Aug 28, 2023
    0
    Incredibly boring and repetitive, feels like a grind and cant bring myself to play it any further. I am 100% done with blizzard games.
  7. war_dog
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    The game is litterly unplayable, because of the constant online requiremenet and Blizzard are being too greedy to provide enough server capacity to support this.

    Boss fights are too long, too tiresome and too boring dodge fests vs bullet sponges. On top of that, if you ever get it to run, its very grindy and boring once you complete the main story. Also, they keep nerfing the    The game is litterly unplayable, because of the constant online requiremenet and Blizzard are being too greedy to provide enough server capacity to support this.

    Boss fights are too long, too tiresome and too boring dodge fests vs bullet sponges.

    On top of that, if you ever get it to run, its very grindy and boring once you complete the main story.
    Also, they keep nerfing the classes for what ever reason, my guess is that they want the grind to be even bigger.

    This is the last time i have bought a blizzard game.    … Expand
  8. jDyn
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    A far cry from what the newest title in the legendary Diablo series should have been
  9. RatKiller
    Jun 16, 2023
    2
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    ce jeu ne mérite peut être pas un 2 mais il faut bien compenser le loobing e
    des critiques professionnels.
    Les + : la narration globale de la campagne, les arbes de talents, les compétences.
    Les - une évolution trop lisse en terme de puissance, des décors qui se ressemblent trop entre les régions. Je suis passé du début de la campagne à la fin sans me rendre compte que j'évolue ni à quel moment je change de régions.
    wft aussi les graphismes devant lesquels tous les critiques se pavanent...euh ce n'est pas si mal mais c'est loin d'être magnifique
    This game may not deserve a 2 but you have to compensate for the loobing of professional reviews.
    The +: the overall narrative of the campaign, the talent trees, the skills.

    The -: too smooth evolution in terms of power, regions look too similar. I went from the beginning of the campaign to the end without realizing that I was evolving or when I was changing regions.
    wft also the graphics in front of which all the reviewers are strutting...uh it's not that bad but it's far from being magnificent    … Expand
  10. Brian66
    Jun 17, 2023
    0
    This game has been modified to the point where it’s no fun. Blizzard’s officials don’t like the players at all. The previous elite monsters have all been changed. It’s okay if the PvP mechanism is bad. There’s no way to play PVE well. It’s really bad.
  11. Scarlsson
    Jun 18, 2023
    5
    Diablo 4 is a 50$ game with a 70$+ price tag. The "professional" critics are just plain wrong on their assesment of this game.

    It is one of the most meandering slogs of a game I have played in many years. Lacking in finesse and creativity, it's a homogeneous romp through an ARPG that entirely lacks in re-playability. The main campaign is slow and unfocused, with only the boss fights    Diablo 4 is a 50$ game with a 70$+ price tag. The "professional" critics are just plain wrong on their assesment of this game.

    It is one of the most meandering slogs of a game I have played in many years.
    Lacking in finesse and creativity, it's a homogeneous romp through an ARPG that entirely lacks in re-playability.
    The main campaign is slow and unfocused, with only the boss fights as highlights in an otherwise boring main quest with at best a mediocre story, that was mostly un engaging and amateurishly underdeveloped. Your average modern entertainment slop attempting to recapture the essence of past successes while towing the line to keep Actiblizzions ESG score up in the face of still relevant controversies.

    The endgame fares no better, post 50 your leveling pace will be quartered as every level in now 4 in 1. So you had better enjoy the myriad barebones dungeons which mostly follow the same basic template of non-contextualized standardised objectives to progress towards one of the 10 or so generic boss fights, that are of a much lower quality compared to the bosses in the main quest.
    It is almost as bare bones as it gets. And the absence of the objective would only make the dungeons better at this point.

    Alternatively you could engage in open-world checkbox gaming, like repeatable bounties such as kill enemy type in area, click on thing to spawn an elite/champion, click on four things in an area, participate an event encounter (protect civilians hiding under carts, protect generic NPC that isn't hiding under a cart, different flavours of kill enemies in the event radius etc.) and gather essence balls from slain enemies to spawn three elites at a vending pillar. The reward for completing enough of these is a loot bag containing 4 elites worth of loot and some materials along with a chunk of xp.

    If that isn't your cup of tea you can finish the area renown system, which is discover waypoints, complete side-quests (most of which are filler and all are disappointing lacking any meaningful rewards), uncover the area map, do all the boring dungeons, find altars of lilith (moderately hidden statues that give you a pittance of extra stats) and complete the strongholds. These are probably the most interesting as they are bespoke overworld micro dungeons, though the activities offered aren't all that interesting, they are at the very least unique. Shame that there is only three per act.
    This system is mandatory as this is where you get your extra skill and paragon points.

    There are also the helltides, in which demons invade an area and you kill them for a temporary currency to open chests containing generic items but with a good chance of legedaries. Helltides spawn special crafting mats and are therefore mandatory.

    You might also run into an event marker for a world boss, which look good but are very easy and boring to fight and seem to give no special rewards. Just more of the same as everything else in the game.
    Though since launch I have only fought a single one so they are easy to miss.

    I have only gone over a fraction of the fundamental issues plaguing this game, and 5/10 feels generous after writing this. The zeroes and tens that are spammed here are clearly not born of nuanced opinions but review bombers and blizzard defence force guys jousting.    … Expand
  12. Firediabloteam
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    The devs destroy the game with a single patch. Well done. Very impressive
  13. tonymei999
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    Game was good at launch with minor bugs, but it was fun. They patched the game and nerfed a whole lot of things prior to the launch of the new season. I was disheartened reading the patch notes, but I gave the game a chance. I made 2 characters for the season and leveled them decently, and it was a significantly terrible experience compared to the launch. The game itself has becomeGame was good at launch with minor bugs, but it was fun. They patched the game and nerfed a whole lot of things prior to the launch of the new season. I was disheartened reading the patch notes, but I gave the game a chance. I made 2 characters for the season and leveled them decently, and it was a significantly terrible experience compared to the launch. The game itself has become borderline unplayable and definitely no longer any fun.… Expand
  14. 4r4r4r4r
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Worst games of all time
    Worst games of all time
    Worst games of all time
    Worst games of all time
  15. sex69
    Jun 30, 2023
    0
    It's **** it's pee diarrhea DIABLO IV is **** 4". It is a sleeping pill game that makes you fall asleep. it's not fun.
  16. Mog1
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Complete junk. Dull story, I skipped every cut scene, dull game play loop, boring world that looks like it's been churned out by an algorithm, same with the dungeons, all non-memorable computer generated bores. Skip this junk.
  17. leimingdun0
    Aug 15, 2023
    0
    As a HC player, and a former HC player that has hundreds of hours spent on D3, further more, as an old blizzard player that’s been playing their amazing games since WarCraft 2. Spent more than a decade on WoW. And more time on other blizzard games.

    I’m frustrated when, they said you level up to fast and you will have to spend more time on leveling each time your character dies -a    As a HC player, and a former HC player that has hundreds of hours spent on D3, further more, as an old blizzard player that’s been playing their amazing games since WarCraft 2. Spent more than a decade on WoW. And more time on other blizzard games.

    I’m frustrated when, they said you level up to fast and you will have to spend more time on leveling each time your character dies
    -a useless, dreadful, repetitive gameplay that feels like work.

    I’m frustrated when, I found out each time I teleport to a dungeon I’m right outside of the entrance instead of inside. Causing me to go through the laoding process one more time, each time I decide to play dungeon again.
    -a useless, dreadful, repetitive gameplay that feels like work.

    I’m frustrated when, I have to unlock the waypoints each time my character dies.
    -a useless, dreadful, repetitive gameplay that feels like work.

    I’m frustrated when, I found out this game isn’t about you defeat a herd of demons with a carefully combined actions, and feels good and powerful like a true hero. Instead your gameplay is filled with small kicks that slowly kills your passion for the game. And feels like s**t each time some “flaw” that’s designed to get in your way.

    What a dreadful game that cost me $89. Twice as much they cost in the past, twice of the frustration comparing to other games that only cost a fraction.

    The old blizzard is long gone, I will not buy any of their games anymore. And more than gladly to tell my friends not to.    … Expand
  18. Hey0cean
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Pre S1 game was mid , but the latest update killed my will to ever log in.

    Even double goblins would've been better.

    GJ Blizzard.
  19. realskykoopa
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    The latest patch's new aspects and uniques are incredibly disapointing. This gives us a sign in the lack of build diversity. Copy + Paste builds still rule. Fix minions so they don't die so much for all classes. Season 1 looks ok, but nothing I'm hyped over. QQ
  20. DarthNasty
    Jul 27, 2023
    1
    This game was decent through the campaign, but I could not get through the mid 60's without feeling like I literally was running the same things over and over and over. Leveling after the 50's took too long, and before season 1 started I took a break. I figured I'd come back to it once the season started. After I heard you had to make a new character I was done with the game, andThis game was decent through the campaign, but I could not get through the mid 60's without feeling like I literally was running the same things over and over and over. Leveling after the 50's took too long, and before season 1 started I took a break. I figured I'd come back to it once the season started. After I heard you had to make a new character I was done with the game, and uninstalled it. Honestly the campaign was good, but I cannot say the same for the rest.… Expand
  21. EternalEnvy
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    The most **** diablo with the most tone deaf dev team. Do not buy this. Go play POE 2
  22. Imamezamani
    Aug 4, 2023
    0
    Grossly overprized + ridiculous in game shop. Why does a game for 70 damn bucks need to have a ridiculously overprized only shop? On top of that, they added extremely boring and worthless MMO style quests which obviously just serve the purpose of having you engage in multiplayer so people can show off their skins (so that people actually buy those skins and waste their money on thisGrossly overprized + ridiculous in game shop. Why does a game for 70 damn bucks need to have a ridiculously overprized only shop? On top of that, they added extremely boring and worthless MMO style quests which obviously just serve the purpose of having you engage in multiplayer so people can show off their skins (so that people actually buy those skins and waste their money on this excessively greedy company named Blizzard).… Expand
  23. Eremoo
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Don't waste money on this game. Had a decent foundation, but devs just took it in the completely wrong direction. Feels like playing a beta, half the things are bugged, half the skills aren't competitive with each other, in a game that already only has 5 main skills you can play around with
  24. rainkioutou
    Jul 31, 2023
    0
    I accepted a quest and then there were no more enemies on the map, after that it crashed, it's not the first bug of the day, **** update.
  25. LMFSIN
    Aug 15, 2023
    0
    The 1.1.0 patch just destoryed the game. All the nerf. Do the game developers really play the game? Or just check the numbers and did this patch??? If you not buy this game yet. Congrats. The way Blizzard running this game just like a fraud. If Blizzard been sued, I will not suprise.
  26. Rollmop
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Diablo IV...

    I may give a positive grade to a game that's finished, not a beta as it is on the launch day of season 1. When you get people to pay up to 20% more than what the price fore a usual AAA game used to be, you just buy servers, or you make your game available offline. Until then, you get zero, which is frankly undeserved because the game is truly awesome. Just too bad that I    Diablo IV...

    I may give a positive grade to a game that's finished, not a beta as it is on the launch day of season 1. When you get people to pay up to 20% more than what the price fore a usual AAA game used to be, you just buy servers, or you make your game available offline. Until then, you get zero, which is frankly undeserved because the game is truly awesome. Just too bad that I can't play it, especially on launch day, where all my hype is focused. Please start caring about our experience... Thank you!    … Expand
  27. evernite
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    The graphic is good. The story is fine. The end game sucks, How devs treat the game balance sucks. Blizzard do not listen to players and just do what they want to do to upset players. They just do everything to remove your joy from the game. It sucks.
  28. Sathion
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Game was a grind before the season patch, but they went and made it worse by nerfing everything into the ground.

    Seems they would prefer to use time played as their main KPI instead of number of active users.

    We can only hope the directors of Diablo 4 get Jay Wilson'd
  29. Hollow-
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Seasonal patches are supposed to bring players back. This patch is about as appetizing as a week-old sundried piece of dog crap.
  30. Maney
    Aug 23, 2023
    0
    Absolute Frechheit dieses Spiel im aktuellen zustand zu verkaufen. Das ist eine Zumutung.
    Buggy und unter Alpha, das Game wirkt als wäre es in 6 Monaten dahin geklatscht worden.
    Frech einfach frech.
  31. Froh
    Jul 20, 2023
    4
    While the story is actually enjoyable, the game strives to be a mmo instead of a diablo game, and it goes with pretty slow endgame. To the point where it becomes boring. You can't stuff yourself, the end game is out of reach if you don't have time to farm, and the best farm spot is actually the market, out of the game. It's diablo 3 launch again, with the in game activities that are notWhile the story is actually enjoyable, the game strives to be a mmo instead of a diablo game, and it goes with pretty slow endgame. To the point where it becomes boring. You can't stuff yourself, the end game is out of reach if you don't have time to farm, and the best farm spot is actually the market, out of the game. It's diablo 3 launch again, with the in game activities that are not rewarding.
    And that slow pace kinda eclipse all the good stuff in this game, because the art direction, the writing, even the impressive open world technology is good. I'll even say that the class design is really fun.. with a lot of builds if they were playable at high level of course.

    But the fact that the end part is so slow, so expensive when you want to change your build (because of the nice idea that the enchanting cost should be exponential, for some reason), means that you usually don't want to grind to infinity and beyond.

    And when the grind becomes a bad thing in a diablo like where it's usually core, that really means they push way too far on this.    … Expand
  32. Damonos
    Aug 17, 2023
    0
    Got a Bad reward system. the legendary chest at the end of the season 1 journey is a damn joke.... 3 yellow items with bad stats and item level 772???? this entire value assignment on the items is completely exaggerated and badly done. I play it through to the end, but it was more excruciating than fun. game deleted. shame on you blizzard.
  33. blizzardscamm
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    As someone with thousands of hours in every Diablo game created so far I just can't even stomach this. I feel so betrayed I just can't even.
  34. tiffys
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    I played Diablo 1, 2, 3, and now 4. The developers of 4 are completely out of touch with the users. From the betas to Season 1 the game has been on a downward spiral only getting progressively worse.

    From start to finish your character will feel weak and pathetic by design. You get suitable new gear pieces very slowly yet mobs scale every time you level so every time you level you feel    I played Diablo 1, 2, 3, and now 4. The developers of 4 are completely out of touch with the users. From the betas to Season 1 the game has been on a downward spiral only getting progressively worse.

    From start to finish your character will feel weak and pathetic by design. You get suitable new gear pieces very slowly yet mobs scale every time you level so every time you level you feel progressively weaker. This is compounded by constantly seeing other players everywhere making your character not feel special whatsoever and certainly not some heroic world savior as per previous Diablo titles. Diablo 4 isn't a power fantasy. It's a resource starvation and suffering simulator.

    Mob density is bad and if it's ever good it's nerfed and the itemization is appalling. Rerolling a stat a few times shouldn't completely bankrupt you but it does. My class (Sorc) felt bad to play from start to finish and it's only gotten worse. Random elites and capstone bosses are harder than any boss in the campaign and it's not even close. Uber Lilith is a joke taking difficulty from about a 10 to a hundred with no reward to show for it. Uber uniques are so "rare" they effectively don't even exist.

    Seeing nothing but constant nerfs to anything remotely good made me lose any hope of ever finding anything actually good that didn't suck. And when they nerf your build into the dirt they don't even have the courtesy to give you a free reroll. In fact, you probably can't even afford one.

    There are some dire issues like storage space, reroll costs, build variety, etc that could be fixed in the future. But there are core fundamental issues with the game that I don't think they will ever fix.

    With massive nerfs to damage, defense, and XP I'm honestly not sure who this game is even for because it's certainly not casuals. A casual player will never make it to 100 in 3 months. It's worse than most MMOs as an ARPG.

    The developers use a heavy handed clueless approach to managing the game. They see what most characters are using and decide it must be OP so they nerf it into the dirt without understanding the underlying basis of WHY they're all using it or providing any viable alternatives. Their approach is instead to nerf everything good to try to force players to use a greater variety of skills and affixes instead of making other skills and affixes actually viable and giving the players a reason. They clearly don't even understand how their own damage system works. For instance, nerfing crit and vulnerable damage won't make people use other damage bonuses because those two are multiplicative rather than additive so even heavily nerfed they're still better than the alternatives because there are no alternatives. Users heavily used cooldown reduction and lucky hit so they can actually use their skills and manage their mana in this resource starvation simulator but they took that away too with nothing to compensate. Diablo 4's season 1 patch alone is probably the single worst Diablo patch in the past 20+ years of the franchise and I doubt the game will even be worth playing until many seasons from now once this terrible dev team is cycled out and a new one actually give the players what they want.

    There are some things the game does well. The art department did a good job, and cinematics that feature your custom characters is really cool. I also like that there's (albeit limited) character customization and we can zoom in. Many praise the story though personally I don't think it was very good. There's no Diablo, Mephisto is an absolute joke, the Nephalem from Diablo 3's existence is directly ignored, and the ending is just stupid. If you liked Mephisto in Diablo 4 keep in mind in Diablo 2 he said "The skies shall rain fire, and the seas will become as blood. The righteous shall fall before the wicked, and all of Creation shall tremble before the burning standards of Hell!" Now compare that with his presentation in Diablo 4. It's an absolute joke.

    Ultimately if the story is bad, the gameplay is bad, there's no endgame (you think nightmare dungeons that actively punish users by design is an endgame?), it isn't fun to play, and the developers are actively doing their best to ruin the player experience then there's not really any way to give this a decent rating. I didn't have fun, everything felt punishing like it was designed to make us suffer. So a 5/10 for an average run of the mill game is out of the question. During the preseason I would've thus given the game a 4/10 as I considered it bad. Though with season 1 it's clear that a rating of 4 was too high with these developers at the helm.    … Expand
  35. teagynzhaire
    Jul 8, 2023
    0
    Flame shield, despite saying it makes you immune, apparently doesn't 30% of the time.
  36. Hydra129
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    No end game, lacks the depth of community or gameplay to keep you playing after finishing the campaign.
  37. Jollyjamm4
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Season 1 patch just sucked out all the fun and made the grind unbearable.

    The made almost every huild weaker and the weakest class (sorc) worse, while decreasing xp gain, increasing monster health and decreasing values such as damage reduction and armor.
  38. Tlabi
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Completely ignored the player base with the new update. Everything is so much worse, and it wasn't great before.
  39. steve_tt
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Was fun until latest Patch 1.1, un-installed game will check again a year or two later.
  40. aerrex
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    we have to nerf some things some times we can’t always buff all other things
  41. Hansfreeman23
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Started out as decent then slowly went downhill fast. The latest patch destroys builds, mitigation, loot, and strategies while addressing none of the concerns the community had. Its obvious that the dev team is not only out of touch but arrogant and lazy. I had a lot of hope for the game but in the end, its a massive disappointment.
  42. Skidmarke
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Patch 1.1 destroyed the last few good things remaining in the pre-season game. The pace now moves extremely slow and it feels like Blizzard wants you to spend more time playing to get to the same point so they can avoid adding end game content.

    The end game loot system is pure luck, where you will spend days playing without finding any useful items. The dungeons are extremely repetitive,    Patch 1.1 destroyed the last few good things remaining in the pre-season game. The pace now moves extremely slow and it feels like Blizzard wants you to spend more time playing to get to the same point so they can avoid adding end game content.

    The end game loot system is pure luck, where you will spend days playing without finding any useful items. The dungeons are extremely repetitive, and now with patch 1.1 they are slow and repetitive.

    I do have faith in the potential of this game, but developers will need to focus on improving the loot system, end game content, and PvP areas in order to bring me back to playing regularly.    … Expand
  43. titusspqr
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Started off strong at launch. Season 1 patch ruined the game for all classes. They nerfed class abilities, already equipped gear, paragon board, important damage types. For anyone trying to do the end game World T4 have replaced fun/excitement with BITTER resentment for wasting our +50 hours into each class we tried. The NERF HAMMER was too BIG, waste of my time to play the game withStarted off strong at launch. Season 1 patch ruined the game for all classes. They nerfed class abilities, already equipped gear, paragon board, important damage types. For anyone trying to do the end game World T4 have replaced fun/excitement with BITTER resentment for wasting our +50 hours into each class we tried. The NERF HAMMER was too BIG, waste of my time to play the game with useless abilities/gear/dmg output that makes anyone want to throw their keyboard/controller across the room. It's a single player Action RPG and the action is now a *wet noodle* and getting destroyed by content that used to be manageable or easy in World T4. There is no END GAME worth playing before the NERF patch, WHY would anyone roll another alt to suffer. Why spend +100 hours to get what used to take +50 hours? It's SINGLE PLAYER game Blizzard! What happened to the hype of telling us we could build *powerful characters*? And destroy HORDES of monsters? Not anymore, not with NERF hammer that BIG. Moving on to Baldur's Gate 3 & Starfield! Don't buy ANYTHING else, no battle passes, Expansions, DLC, etc until they reverse across the board damage nerfs.… Expand
  44. HTXEGoose
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Deleted the game, pay to play base, no enjoyment at all, every update made it even worse
  45. jnsx
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    This game is absolute garbage, and a disgrace to the Diablo franchise.

    They released a game in beta. The 5000 max characters is not enough to describe this atrocity of a game.
  46. lazyconvict
    Jul 19, 2023
    6
    Itemization - amongst a pool of different potential stats there’s really only 3-5 that matter and good luck hitting the relevant ones you really need. Say you hit 3/4 of stats relevant to your build on an item and want to replace a stat (I.e you’re a WW barb, you got a pair of gloves with good stats +2 to WW but you want to try to reroll int for str or maybe crit chance. Pay the resources,Itemization - amongst a pool of different potential stats there’s really only 3-5 that matter and good luck hitting the relevant ones you really need. Say you hit 3/4 of stats relevant to your build on an item and want to replace a stat (I.e you’re a WW barb, you got a pair of gloves with good stats +2 to WW but you want to try to reroll int for str or maybe crit chance. Pay the resources, reroll the stat and it’s in a completely random pool. You rolled 21 fire res… weird.)

    Too many items?

    - You will easily spend 20 minutes sifting through a full inventory to ensure you don’t get rid of items that might prove useful. For us single folks playing the game and can dedicate 6-7 hours on a weekend to play, you can find yourself doing this twice an hour. So now a good chunk of your gameplay is roleplaying an inventory management simulator. Can we PLEASE get a loot filter? At the very least display the item level next to the name when it drops ?

    Random explosions

    - Speaks for itself Cosmetics - My personal opinion on this, if you got the money to throw 1/4th of the cost of the game you bought on an outfit for your character then that’s great. Cosmetics aren’t actually super cool in any way compared to gear you’ll find and salvage. Without spending money for majority of classes you won’t be missing out. That’s a definite win. If you’re playing a male sorc… go fish.

    Abilities

    Super responsive gameplay, feels great and one of the main reasons I do continue to play the game. The mechanics themselves are fun. The combat is fun. The caveat to this is your basic skill and core skills are completely polarized to fit two purposes: basic skill = generate resource
    Core skill = damage
    That’s a generalization but it’s not an exaggeration. You’re likely to be chipping away on a weak targets health while generating and waiting for either cool downs or enough resource to use your core skill.

    TLDR:

    Pros
    1- combat feels good 2- transmogs and loot available in game looks good as it pertains to the comparison of purchasable cosmetics Cons:
    1- rares are easy to come by. Relevant items are far very far and few between 2- mob spacing makes world feel empty at times
    3- a lot of running back and fourth in dungeons doing menial tasks instead of fighting monsters 4- 1000 ways to die (CC locked, random explosions, monster explosions, poison explosions, explosions on monster death, explosion after a monster explosion, invisible explosions, stun locked-monster drive by explosions, dead boss explosion, ballista instadeath, etc, etc, etc.)
    5- server lag
    6- level scaling (not a bad concept in and of itself but makes progression feel less existent. You never really feel like your character is truly overpowered for any enemy in the game unless the mob pack was already weak to begin with. For example: my character was lvl 64, tried out t4. Weak packs easy, elite packs obviously not. On t4 with same character only difference is elite packs are just monotonous to kill.)
    7- 8/10 aspects for any build you try are pretty weak and make little to no difference in how you play Disclaimer: I enjoy playing the game. It has a great foundation but is pretty rough around the edges. It’s great at face value when you first start playing but as you progress the chinks in the armor so to speak begin to reveal themselves. It seems unpolished and some mechanics feel… lazy. All of that aside I really can’t wait to see what they come with and how things will be adjusted as they improve the game and am super hopeful and positive about the games outlook.    … Expand
  47. czadek
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    First two weeks of the game were amazing! Campain and progress through world tiers to world tiers 4 was nice. After that game become null and boring. Loot become terrible and looking for upgrades with at least 3 good affixes (1 to roll) feel tedious and extremaly rng as there is no way to target specific loot. Most uniques are bad via stats or effect. A lot of aspects are generic, not aFirst two weeks of the game were amazing! Campain and progress through world tiers to world tiers 4 was nice. After that game become null and boring. Loot become terrible and looking for upgrades with at least 3 good affixes (1 to roll) feel tedious and extremaly rng as there is no way to target specific loot. Most uniques are bad via stats or effect. A lot of aspects are generic, not a lot of build altering. No real endgame loop --> nightmare dungeons are failed copy of greater rifts in every aspect.

    And when u think it can not get any worse, patch 1.1 comes :) As the saying go: "if it aint broke, blizzard will break it" and "we asked for end game, so blizzard delivered and ended the game"    … Expand
  48. Jumpy121
    Jul 19, 2023
    3
    Game is very repetitive
    Season 1 patch notes nerfs around the board is a bad choice
    Cash grab compares to other Diablo games
    Fixing issues the players care about isn't important to Blizzard but nerfing stufff that wasn't broken is important to Blizzard
  49. Ihsahn1975
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Blizzard has sucked all the fun out of this game and made it harder and more of a grind for no reason.

    They fix nothing of note with the latest 1.1 patch.    … Expand
  50. Maaxxis
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Used the release as a beta and absolutely gutted everything to extend the leveling process instead of adding content.
  51. cmdRoo
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    Blatant predatory business model which drives profits at the expense of customer enjoyment. THERE ARE NO better examples of Company-Client disconnect.
  52. Claylet
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Played for over 300 hours leveled all the way to 100 on hardcore almost twice, Why almost? Cause my other character died at level 99, 55% to 100 dies to a disconnect.

    Even still, I kept playing and was even looking forward to season 1. But what the fk are these patch notes. They are basically forcing their hardcore players into softcore. with all these damage and survivability nerfs.    Played for over 300 hours leveled all the way to 100 on hardcore almost twice, Why almost? Cause my other character died at level 99, 55% to 100 dies to a disconnect.

    Even still, I kept playing and was even looking forward to season 1. But what the fk are these patch notes. They are basically forcing their hardcore players into softcore. with all these damage and survivability nerfs.

    On top of that, they heavily gutted exp and put a **** level cap on Tier 3/4.

    I get it you want to stop level boosting. How about you just put an exp reduction on lower level players for every 10 levels below they are from their party member. And what still no "Scroll of Escape" fix? It's been a month blizzard? the tool tip on the items says it will automatically activate on disconnect. and you dont want to fix it till season 2? with the heavy nerf on survivability on all classes?

    Also thes exp nerfs as well as capstone level cap are **** since every build for every class needs minimum level 60 to actually have a working/functioning build w/ a useful paragon board. And need to be at WT4 to actually have a finalized build because their aspect and Unique drops are capped behind level 85 monsters.

    And what minimum level for WT3 is 50 and WT4 is 70? How the fk are people going to try different classes with different builds in a span of 3 months? Did they expect everyone to play the game 24/7?

    At lest have the decency to refund players after you make them pay $100-150 to playtest your game for a month Blizzard.    … Expand
  53. grovie
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Don't waste your time on a game run by developers that do everything they can to extract money from you as a consumer while simultaneously going out of their way to make things unnecessarily tedious, slow, and frustrating for you as the player. I've never seen such a disconnect from developer to playerbase in my entire life.
  54. Fresh_Angel
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Would have rated it a 4, the latest patch has lowered the quality of the gam significantly.
  55. ZettaTek
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Artistic team, the game is beautiful. But that won't make me stick around. Every thing about this game is repetitive and boring, and just a total grind. Its. Just. Not. Fun.

    Every thing that was great about D 1/2/3 has disappeared, and in its place it utter **** Loot? Dream on,. This long ass grind to 100 just so you can play seasons? Pathetic. A micro transaction game after spending    Artistic team, the game is beautiful. But that won't make me stick around. Every thing about this game is repetitive and boring, and just a total grind. Its. Just. Not. Fun.

    Every thing that was great about D 1/2/3 has disappeared, and in its place it utter **** Loot? Dream on,. This long ass grind to 100 just so you can play seasons? Pathetic. A micro transaction game after spending more than enough to purchase the base game? You should be ashamed of your selves.

    This is just a beautifully drawn rehash money grab. My gaming time, dollars, goes elsewhere.    … Expand
  56. Gavinsu
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    A game that cost over 70 Dollar, yet it fails to provide any improvement or more gameplay and only cut down the fun from player.
    The lag/rubber banding from server was never fixed. But in newest patch, they fixed nothing about the game. Only making the gaming experience even worst.
    It's clearly the dev/blizzard were incapable to listen to players or they have run out of things they can offer.
  57. Toda
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Disappointed in the new patch. It feels like the dev forgotten the core fundamentals of the Diablo series. Guess I will be playing something else.
  58. noctisaeterna
    Jul 19, 2023
    2
    One of the worst patches ever released by a gaming company in history. Only SW Galaxies NGE has achieved to do worse.
    Whoever is managing the balance of the game, either the devs or if they have a specific "balance team". They better have a meeting real quick and explain that in ARPG games people want to have fun and not go thru gaming torture. If they disagree with this vision then maybe    One of the worst patches ever released by a gaming company in history. Only SW Galaxies NGE has achieved to do worse.
    Whoever is managing the balance of the game, either the devs or if they have a specific "balance team". They better have a meeting real quick and explain that in ARPG games people want to have fun and not go thru gaming torture. If they disagree with this vision then maybe is time for them to change their career path.

    I find it fair and square since they nerfed the game in everything possible and imaginable, that we repay with the same coin. By nerfing the game score all across the whole internet, all across social media and stop giving them a single penny until they come back to the real world.

    I am going to give a 2. 2 as a sign of hope, if things won't change this will be changed straight to 0.    … Expand
  59. bortnm
    Jul 20, 2023
    1
    Only 2 classes are any fun to play for the first 20 levels. 1 Class is never any good. Once the main questline is done its gets harder and harder to keep playing. If you are good with 20 - 30 hours of play time for that price then its fine, but if you want 100+ hours out of it, best of luck. No signs of improvements on the horizon.

    So its about 8/10 for 40% of the classes for about    Only 2 classes are any fun to play for the first 20 levels. 1 Class is never any good. Once the main questline is done its gets harder and harder to keep playing. If you are good with 20 - 30 hours of play time for that price then its fine, but if you want 100+ hours out of it, best of luck. No signs of improvements on the horizon.

    So its about 8/10 for 40% of the classes for about 40% of the game. 8*0.4*0.4 = 1.3 Stars.    … Expand
  60. gamehits
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Sadly, and I'm sorry to say this: I _was_ having a lot of fun with D4. Until 1.1 patch. I'm sure the uber gamers love how hard it is now. But for me, as a more than casual player but never top tier, it's not fun anymore. I understand the re-balancing is most likely for season 1, but unless they go back on the nerfing they did to eternal realm, I won't be discovering that. For me at least,Sadly, and I'm sorry to say this: I _was_ having a lot of fun with D4. Until 1.1 patch. I'm sure the uber gamers love how hard it is now. But for me, as a more than casual player but never top tier, it's not fun anymore. I understand the re-balancing is most likely for season 1, but unless they go back on the nerfing they did to eternal realm, I won't be discovering that. For me at least, the fun of D3 was always in discovering how OP you could get. If you tell me I can still do that, I believe you, but I'll never discover it for myself. It's just not fun at this level. And I definitely feel like I've wasted my $100. All IMHO.… Expand
  61. Brent_mack
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    No spoilers You greedy monsters need to start listening to your fans before your shareholders.

    Don't pat yourself on the back for 6k words in a patch release bozos

    Fix the update.
    Do what's right
  62. OGJuanKenobi
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Disappointing doesn’t begin to describe how this once great franchise is now a laughingstock. This game quickly becomes a chore. It does not resemble an Action-RPG; rather leaning towards slow pace, monotonous, painstakingly boring MMO-like gameplay with painfully long cool downs. The story is woefully bland. Endgame results to uninspiring dungeons that are far from rewarding.

    You know    Disappointing doesn’t begin to describe how this once great franchise is now a laughingstock. This game quickly becomes a chore. It does not resemble an Action-RPG; rather leaning towards slow pace, monotonous, painstakingly boring MMO-like gameplay with painfully long cool downs. The story is woefully bland. Endgame results to uninspiring dungeons that are far from rewarding.

    You know what made Diablo great? The items. Good luck sifting through to find ANY items that either make you considerably more powerful OR excited to use. Legendary aspects often boil down to absurd conditions that are overly convoluted for no real purpose. X skill deals +Y% damage if Z happens. Why? Better yet, some items have aspects that somehow aren’t 100% positive. I haven’t even delved into how the sorcerer is basically unplayable. Old Diablo games would have items that differentiated you from the pack. Get this: you’d be REWARDED for all the time you spent farming. On top of that, farming would be fun because you didn’t have to spend 25% of your time using an underpowered skill that deals a fraction of your real damage against spongey mobs. These older items would have affixes that players revered. Enigma was such an awesome example. Any character can teleport now with this? Skills transcended characters because of the items. It was an extra layer of itemization when you could use barbarian shouts, or equip fanaticism aura to make your attack speed faster. Instead, you get uninspiring items in D4 that absolutely no one clamors for. Zero creativity and worse yet, minimally game-changing for the time invested. In previous Diablo games It took time to get powerful, but the climb was exciting AND you FELT when you got considerably stronger. You could go to different areas of the game now, you could farm for different items now. You accomplished something. Diablo 4’s level scaling gives you no such satisfaction, rather just a constant slog of mobs who will almost always take the same amount of time to kill. I had very low expectations for this game, but it’s time to just give up hope on Blizzard entirely to rectify this once upon a time titan in the ARPG landscape. Any hope of Diablo going back to the great game it was means slamming on the breaks with the direction it is going.    … Expand
  63. diablo4sucksnow
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    It took one major patch for Blizzard to Blizzard Diablo IV. Were you having fun three days ago? Welp, too bad. Blizzard does such an awesome job listening to their communities! The new WoW!
  64. ytanime
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Very short live gameplay, doesn't worth the AAA pricing. There's simply no reason to buy Diablo 4 over Diablo 3 if you want to play a diablo game.
  65. Denzz
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    Overhyped yet incomplete game with very little testing by the actual devs. Only after initial release do they "attempt" to fix bugs and glitches. Developers constantly "listen" to the feedback of the players too! Currently, game has been nerfed to the ground because the developers think it's the better course for the game. I don't think they actually played the game though....
  66. jasonjrr
    Jul 19, 2023
    1
    The game was fun, if a bit shallow until the July 18th patch. They pulled the plug on gun everywhere and basically deleted one class that was already seriously suffering. The developer is out of touch with reality.
  67. theiamfish
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    blizzard clearly does not listen to what its players want from the game... can't fix server issues? might as well make players quit the game instead to solve the server issue
  68. ksliger2
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    The latest patch absolutely killed the game. Why would they do this? The short answer is that the greedy corporate **** sticks want us to play the game more and purchase battle net passes. However, in the process they abruptly destroyed that which was fun about the game. i regret spending money on the box and PC versions. I won't be back unless they fully revert the patch.
  69. BagFulOfYeets
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    these patch notes are the worse thing ive seen since the new season of the Witcher
  70. Yournabu
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Fantastic patches and seasonal content
    Plenty to do for endgame
    Great class balancing
  71. Aznmuzza123
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Never had to rate a game that really disappointed me. Devs are using players to adjust their unfinished game.
  72. Eldin67
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Played the game, liked it. Devs are now forcing you to participate in their seasons mechanic and try to get you to buy a $20 battle pass for a game that already cost you $70 when you just bought it.
  73. kkkk66666
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Do not buy this game
    Do not buy this game
    Do not buy this game
    if you do ,you will regret to do this.
  74. Wojomojo1616
    Jul 24, 2023
    0
    Busted half baked game barely surviving due to the achievements of its predecessor. If it wasn’t called Diablo it would be a $5 game on steam that nobody’s heard of and nobody plays. Stats don’t work like they’re supposed to. Itemization is boring and convoluted. Legendaries are boring and not good. Story is a mess. Endgame is non existent.
  75. TheMoebius
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Game was *OK* until latest garbage patch gutted everything, the blatantly clear intent of which is to force people to play longer, make it more difficult to progress, thereby spending more time in game hopefully buying more ugly-ass skins, and paying for the quarterly Season passes to try to regain some of the ability they lost. Then they "conveniently" decide to host a fireside chat inGame was *OK* until latest garbage patch gutted everything, the blatantly clear intent of which is to force people to play longer, make it more difficult to progress, thereby spending more time in game hopefully buying more ugly-ass skins, and paying for the quarterly Season passes to try to regain some of the ability they lost. Then they "conveniently" decide to host a fireside chat in response to backlash, but only AFTER Season 1 launch so they can see how much they can get away with.

    I get that companies exist to make money... sell the game, great. Sell seasons, fine. But this blatant manipulation to keep players locked in AFTER they have progressed, found gear, and become used to and are enjoying a certain type of play... total garbage from a garbage company. I'm only one person, but clearly one of many. Uninstalled, and they will never get another cent from me.    … Expand
  76. Bobbybo
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Well the new seasons seams to have a game breaking invisible wall bug after just some minutes playtime were everyone just runs against.. gg i guess
    but what did i expect after the seasons 1 patch
  77. davidhsv
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Disappointing game with bad devs that want to suck the fun out of the game by nerfing everything into the ground
  78. Drgreatcatsby
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Just skip it, devs are only interested in your wallet and don’t care about how fun the game is
  79. skcsk89
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
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  80. Lichar__
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    It's a crap show, just save your money for a good game or wait for PoE2 which will be way better than this thing.
  81. avatar890
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    You had us all hyped for a new season, and took everything from us. Same old Bliz,
  82. Epstorm4072
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    Nerf everything
    Make everything unplayable
    Just because Blizzard thinks it's coooooool
  83. priyopal
    Jul 22, 2023
    1
    The PC version crashes once every hour on the average. At every crash you lose your current potion, dungeon progress, etc. During helltides, it crashes every 15 mins, & you lose your collected points. Its infuriating, disgusting & frustrating!!
  84. dennisho797
    Jul 22, 2023
    1
    Nerf ! Nerf ! Nerf ! This is how Blizzard do the balance in Diablo IV. They only know how to nerf things. The most disgusting part is that they never test before they do the nerf. It causes two out of five classes are nearly unplayable in the game. The latest campfire chat is just **** They said they knew the community was angry and they would change IN THE NEXT SEASON(3 months later) orNerf ! Nerf ! Nerf ! This is how Blizzard do the balance in Diablo IV. They only know how to nerf things. The most disgusting part is that they never test before they do the nerf. It causes two out of five classes are nearly unplayable in the game. The latest campfire chat is just **** They said they knew the community was angry and they would change IN THE NEXT SEASON(3 months later) or even later. They can nerf anything within a week or shorter, but they need 3 months or longer to get the things right. Ha, I regret buying this "thing". Please don't buy this game or trust Blizzard anymore.… Expand
  85. smokelo
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    Patch killed the game, campfire chat was ass, devs seem like they dont care.
  86. BigTL
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    The game content is fine before the patch. Honestly, I would give this game a 5 overall, but I also understand why many people are upset with the game recently. Really dislike some people give 10/10 just because they saw others don't like the game. So I am here to do the opposite to balance it.
  87. Toblakai_85
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Pay-to-win is the way to nowhere. In the end there will be one legendary donater-idiot who will be ultimate. But when she/he tried to find someone for PvP - there will be no one on-line.
  88. Rhezuz
    Jul 23, 2023
    1
    The launch was pretty exciting, but the first season is bad and boring. Developers can't decide, sometimes they nerf and other times they huff the content. It's an eternal indecision
  89. smarekz
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    It's evolving, just backwards!

    what's to say, when devs say that game isn't fun XD
  90. MateuszT
    Jul 24, 2023
    2
    the new patch took all the fun out of the game, everything that made Diablo Diablo was destroyed
  91. mhhllyy
    Jul 25, 2023
    0
    Just like the tradition of 2023 Blizzard, they dont try to make the game fun to play, instead they mess with players by killing every aspect of the game so that players have to suffer and spend more time. Doesnt worth the money. Just like their every other games.
  92. Redsign89
    Jul 26, 2023
    0
    Nerf everything all the time. Disappointed. PoE is way more better. A speaking camel?
  93. KalessinCZ
    Jul 26, 2023
    1
    The game was fun for a few hours - you know, cool visuals and stuff... Then it revealed itself to be shallow, repetitive and pointless tedium. The introduction of battle pass is insolence beyond belief! Tolerate bad games, and you will get more bad games in the future.

    Do yourself a favor and avoid this steaming pile of manure.
  94. Soulsgamer
    Jul 26, 2023
    0
    Inventory stash is a joke.Every 10% of the Dungeon u need ro teleport to the main city and sell ur inventory. Sad State
  95. Irishfrank
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    Put hours into the game, purchased the ultimate edition had a max lvl sorc, lvl 80 barb, lvl 80 necro, lvl 53 Druid, lvl 29 rogue. Was really looking forward to see what the fist season would bring.

    What can I say but never again, never again will I spend money on a blizzard product. My battlenet is uninstalled along with every connected game. You have robbed and made a fool of me once    Put hours into the game, purchased the ultimate edition had a max lvl sorc, lvl 80 barb, lvl 80 necro, lvl 53 Druid, lvl 29 rogue. Was really looking forward to see what the fist season would bring.

    What can I say but never again, never again will I spend money on a blizzard product. My battlenet is uninstalled along with every connected game. You have robbed and made a fool of me once but, now; never again as I shall not give you the opportunity!

    There are no shortage of games to spend my money and more importantly my time.

    I just hope that fellow gamers rely on the voice of the USERS and not the marketing propaganda machine, as any look at user reviews of this game show overwhelmingly this should be avoided at all costs.

    It’s obvious that love of the craft is totally absent and focus is purely financial, which for a business with a good product is the way of the world but this is simply frustrating and not fun.

    I feel dirty and used for giving you my money, for anyone reading this don’t support this any further if you do then I am sure you can also find a Statue of Liberty for sale    … Expand
  96. bestalouca
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    How to end the life of the game? Give to blizzard... Without offline mode this game will go down even further.
  97. PariahFIles
    Aug 29, 2023
    3
    Diablo 4 has been out for over two months and luck has let me spend a lot of time in Sanctuary. Leveled a druid to 100 in both Eternal and Seasonal realms. It hits a homerun in a few places; the campaign looks and feels great to slice and crush through. Sadly campaign has almost no replay appeal. Thankfully a "skip campaign" option becomes available after your first completion. SinceDiablo 4 has been out for over two months and luck has let me spend a lot of time in Sanctuary. Leveled a druid to 100 in both Eternal and Seasonal realms. It hits a homerun in a few places; the campaign looks and feels great to slice and crush through. Sadly campaign has almost no replay appeal. Thankfully a "skip campaign" option becomes available after your first completion. Since little to no impactful endgame content exists and season one was abysmally thin, the campaign is the only real meat and potatoes Diablo 4 offers. Guess campaign skipping isn't all that great then...

    The real problem with Diablo 4 is the downward trajectory of Blizzard itself. Played every Diablo title since day one and that nostalgia is the only reason I even open Battlenet anymore. The framework or substructure if you will, of how the game is designed and deployed on is both less enjoyable than previous Diablo games and money hungry. Items from the "micro" transaction shop very frequently cost greater than 30% of the base cost of the game. Many say this is the industry standard now. If that is true, why then is Blizzard looking to be faceless among the pack by doing what everyone else does? Long ago, they were known for leading... Without spending a lot of real money after already purchasing Diablo 4, your Nephilim hero will forever be drab and unloved.

    Patches have been released to slow down player progression, really. Experience gained in combat was nerfed because people were finishing the game and turning it off too fast. Another patch lowered overall player damage so much that all classes lost viable builds, some classes became temporarily unable to play at the highest difficulty. While DPS adjustment patches and fixes have become fairly routine in games like this, the way it was done was obviously not for gameplay improvement but to extend the life cycle of a game that almost didn't make it to it's first season.

    A very large amount of Quality of Life mechanics (build switching, quest management, etc) and character customization options from the previous entry were simply taken out of Diablo 4's development. Many speculate that they weren't actually removed but were instead purposely held back and slated to be slow rolled into the game over time to make it seem like developers are coming up with new and great things. Not sure which answer is worse: incompetence and the inability to look at what worked in previous entries to the franchise, or that Blizzard has just become that bad an talentless at making an ARPG. All I know, is they aren't there and game franchises are supposed to improve from title to title. Otherwise, why make a new one at all?

    Blizzard could be developing fixes and improvements for down the road that bring Diablo 4 up to where it's predecessor finished. But from watching the livestreams and posts from Blizzard, I doubt it'll arrive wrapped in anything but an expensive insult to one of the (formerly) greatest game franchises.    … Expand
  98. Markezen
    Jul 30, 2023
    0
    And now even on Season 1, after one month of release "game" continue with tons of optimizing problems and is no longer fun with nerf patches. Just a big waste of time.

    But well... is just a beta guys, it just need five more years of dev to be complete.
  99. Nyfz29
    Jul 31, 2023
    0
    Fell asleep 5mins after entered a dungeon....not to mention the 1.1 patch which destroyed my gaming experience with sorcerer.

    Baldur's gate 3 I'm coming!!
  100. doggie1989
    Aug 1, 2023
    0
    I have purchased ps5,xsx and pc version, after your stupid upgrade...I cannot play... please refund.
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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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