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Diablo is getting a 'full-fledged' mobile RPG
Blizzard is bringing Diablo to mobile devices, the company announced today during BlizzCon 2018. The game's creators promised a "full-fledged action RPG" called Diablo Immortal. Diablo Immortal picks up after Diablo II: Lord of Destruction and will launch for iOS and Android.
The mobile RPG is a massively multiplayer online action game; players will be able to drop in and out of groups and play through "dynamic events" as they travel through Sanctuary. Classes include monk, wizard, crusader, demon hunter, necromancer, and barbarian. Blizzard is currently allowing players to pre-register for a chance to join the game's upcoming beta.
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Also at Ars Technica.
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(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Saturday November 03 2018, @11:07PM (7 children)
Also, like... if you hate microtransactions, have you looked at basically any of the last 3 blizzard games? They're all rife with them.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday November 04 2018, @01:07AM (5 children)
Are there even AAA-tier games released any more that doesn't come with umpteen DLC:s and Microtransactions? Combined with Pre-Orders I guess that is how they pay for the development these days.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 04 2018, @01:19AM (4 children)
There are games that come with microtransactions that do not affect gameplay, i.e. you can buy skins, emotes, and other things of that nature, but not pay-to-win or expansion type content.
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(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday November 04 2018, @01:37AM (3 children)
I'm ok with paid expansions the way they were done in WoW and D3. Those were serious world building, new continents, new races, new classes, new functionality.
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Dunno why, but that approach just didn't bother me and I'ld always pre-order collectors editions to boot. Expansions were as expensive as a new game almost, but on the flip side, you really almost got an entire new game when you got one.
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Loot boxes seem kind of like playing card games where you keep buying another pack of cards to get another chance to get a rare card. Like gambling and lottery tickets, this really appeals to quite a lot of people. I just do not happen to be one of them.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday November 04 2018, @02:20AM (1 child)
I'm fine with that to, certainly so considering that I still play WOW -- just not as much as I used to. But then the expansions for something like WOW is really more like a new game, you just get to keep and play all of the old game to. But yes it's more about the lootboxes, the weird and expensive downloadable content that really just add what feels should have been in the game to begin with but they took it out so they could charge $5 extra for it.
If one takes WOW as an example we have the endless amounts of mounts and pets, those are the things you can buy with real money, nothing really game changing even tho there has been some really overpowered pets that you could only obtain for money (the pandaren monk comes to mind). WOW do seem to have loot boxes thou, you just don't have to pay actual money for them, but there is the Black Market auction house chests that can if you are lucky contain upgraded current content loot and another example would be the Mythic+ weekly chest that contains "random" loot depending on the highest level M+ dungeon you did that week. Then we have that other aspect of people paying in-game gold to be carried thru content, which is beyond stupid but to each their own and such.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Sunday November 04 2018, @09:40PM
I went an grabbed Crusader of Light and played it on a high end gaming tablet.
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Buttery smooth, honestly it felt like some things were built for a slower device and flashed up and were gone too quickly.
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It seemed more WoW clone than D3 clone. That said it already pretty much lost me. Looks like the standard cookie cutter daily rewards box/reward crystals BS.
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First time buyer screen popped up repeatedly to entice purchase.
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I did really appreciate the auto quest following/completion though. That made mobile play much less thumb destroying.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 04 2018, @08:27PM
Dopamine is a powerful drug...
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday November 04 2018, @01:21AM
Well, no...
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Diablo III is the most recent thing I've played of theirs (and actually the most recent thing I've played period...)
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