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Diablo Immortal is targeted towards "die-hard Diablo fans from the PC space"
- Thread starter Strakt
- Start date
So it can ask you to buy mana crystals for 99 cents every 20 minutes? :/
Use a cheat trainer
Nobody wants this game, I'm mocking them saying it's targeted toward die hard fans from PC when it clearly is not
Can you attach a mouse and a keyboard to this? Because that's a bad way to attempt to target PC players.
The problem is hardly any if any at all die hard Diablo fans would chose a phone experience over a clearly superior PC experience.
"This mobile game with timers and addictive microtransactions is targeted toward hardcore PC players."
Guess it really is an elaborate April Fool's joke.
Guess it really is an elaborate April Fool's joke.
To me this is great news. Full fledged Diablo on the phone.
To everyone else, this isn't helping sway their opinions.
To everyone else, this isn't helping sway their opinions.
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Posted this in Ubisoft R6 thread. Belongs here as well:
Here's a few things to notice and talk about:
1. China has halted game approvals in China since Early 2018, and may not be available until Mid 2019. Even if they start approving Early 2019, it still takes atleast 3 months to approve them, and even those get straight scrutinity.
2. Games that make it to China are very strictly Pay2Win. Chinese gamers want to pay or cheat to win since it's a big part of their culture to be dominant and winning, so most, if not all games, in China are F2P with strict P2W elements (it's why they have their own version of Call of Duty Online). Expect this game to have serious microtransactions and coins and P2W abilities.
3. Even if they do make all these changes, there is no guarantee that the new approval team in charge (most of the old team got fired) will even approve this due to strict Chinese values (see # 5).
4. NetEase is distributing this game in China. Both Tencent and NetEase stocks have dipped heavily since January because of lack of new game approvals, and are getting desperate.
5. Chinese government may got really strict on games due to their heavy Socialist view, and how games are ruining the youth and pushing them to addiction and gambling (a big NO NO in China, arrest/imprisonment/re-education/camp worthy). Games may require to have a forced shutdown after 1 or 3 hours of play, games may require to use facial recognition to spy on users, games may require to disclose more info about you to the government, info that you don't want to share.
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So with all this in mind, this is not a good look for gaming in general if everyone focuses on China, when China don't want you.
So... Who really is the audience for this?
Here's a few things to notice and talk about:
1. China has halted game approvals in China since Early 2018, and may not be available until Mid 2019. Even if they start approving Early 2019, it still takes atleast 3 months to approve them, and even those get straight scrutinity.
2. Games that make it to China are very strictly Pay2Win. Chinese gamers want to pay or cheat to win since it's a big part of their culture to be dominant and winning, so most, if not all games, in China are F2P with strict P2W elements (it's why they have their own version of Call of Duty Online). Expect this game to have serious microtransactions and coins and P2W abilities.
3. Even if they do make all these changes, there is no guarantee that the new approval team in charge (most of the old team got fired) will even approve this due to strict Chinese values (see # 5).
4. NetEase is distributing this game in China. Both Tencent and NetEase stocks have dipped heavily since January because of lack of new game approvals, and are getting desperate.
5. Chinese government may got really strict on games due to their heavy Socialist view, and how games are ruining the youth and pushing them to addiction and gambling (a big NO NO in China, arrest/imprisonment/re-education/camp worthy). Games may require to have a forced shutdown after 1 or 3 hours of play, games may require to use facial recognition to spy on users, games may require to disclose more info about you to the government, info that you don't want to share.
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So with all this in mind, this is not a good look for gaming in general if everyone focuses on China, when China don't want you.
So... Who really is the audience for this?
Nobody's forcing anyone to choose one over the other.
Play Diablo 3 on your PC, then play Immortal on the go (assuming you don't own Switch).
Genuine question, do we know anything about the monetization of the game at all or is everyone just shitposting and fear mongering?
Chinese players have called netease a pig farm, much worse than EA.
Neteases other games are riddled with microtransactions and reminders to spend money to defeat your foes :/
Can you link me to the video detailing the pricing and timers? I'm curious to know what their plan is in terms of that.
Log off and take a break. Do what you need to do off the internet. Don't get yourself caught up into these things too much.
Yep tone deaf.
Die hard PC - and console fans for that matter, don't want to play on mobile.
Blizzard decision makers should visit a message board for 10 minutes of their lives. Or *gasp* maybe ask your own community on your own message boards.
Die hard PC - and console fans for that matter, don't want to play on mobile.
Blizzard decision makers should visit a message board for 10 minutes of their lives. Or *gasp* maybe ask your own community on your own message boards.
It's NetEase's M.O. while not confirmed they do have a pattern of behaviour.
Do mobile games still do that "Character recharging/Out of moves -- BUY NOW" thing?
I havent played any in like 5 years
I havent played any in like 5 years
Yes I think so. The YouTube trailer has so much dislikes it's crazy. The whole bar is gray
Sounds about right, either get you with gacha loot box rng for waifus or pay for power or pay to not have to wait for turns/moves