Dragonflight Alpha - Slug Library, Diablo IV Quarterly Update - August 2022

A variety of rewards can be earned for free by just playing the game.

How generous of them considering the game costs 60 dollars.

They both look the same to me

Originally Posted by SinR

They both look the same to me

agreed. They look different but equally bad.

Purchasing the Premium Pass unlocks all Premium Tiers, which feature seasonally themed Cosmetics and Premium Currency.

Cool, I like it, I think it will improve the quality of games.

Originally Posted by Flame6

agreed. They look different but equally bad.

Originally Posted by SinR

They both look the same to me

The initial one experiences artifacting and other wonkiness. You can see here that the text, especially when there is some distance to it, begins to get wonky, as if parts of the font or even parts of letters have been bolded while others have not. Note how in 'defender' the "De" is very clear and thick, but the top of the "f" and part of the "r" are degraded away and the "n" is very thin.


While the new slug version maintains an exact crispness throught, with the text keeping uniform and clear.

"Premium" ok bye

Originally Posted by Hitei

The initial one experiences artifacting and other wonkiness. You can see here that the text, especially when there is some distance to it, begins to get wonky, as if parts of the font or even parts of letters have been bolded while others have not. Note how in 'defender' the "De" is very clear and thick, but the top of the "f" and part of the "r" are degraded away and the "n" is very thin.


While the new slug version maintains an exact crispness throught, with the text keeping uniform and clear.

Yep, it's a little hard to see because of the JPEG artifacting, but WoW has notorious font readability issues for NPC names and the like at a distance. This is a huge improvement you will notice in game.

Originally Posted by Hitei

The initial one experiences artifacting and other wonkiness.

They both look equally bad. Regular version the text in the back gets jagged while in the slug version it's the ones in the front.

It's not an upgrade in any way, shape or form.

Originally Posted by VoidSeeker199X

How generous of them considering the game costs 60 dollars.

This isn't all that reasonable an argument.

$60 gets you exactly what it does in a standard singleplayer video game and has since the introduction of Xbox360 and PS3: The game with its various storylines and content and all the regular items and cosmetics of an ARPG looter. Season pass content is the modern version of DLC. Additional post-release content added to the base game that was paid for, only unlike the original DLC iterations, season pass content typically involves new free stuff for people who aren't interested in paying for more, but extra cosmetic stuff for people who are.

It's like people have forgotten that 20 years ago you'd go to your local game-selling store pay the sticker price for a new game, and get that new game, and that was that. You play the ~15 hours of content and then the game was over and you wait for maybe an entirely separate sequel at the exact same price to release. Imagine walking up to someone from 2005 and going "Hey, bud. I know you just paid for that game and beat it, but actually the developer is going to patch in new areas and bosses and side story stuff every few months for the next several years that you don't have to pay anything for." Do you think they wouldn't consider that wildly generous?

People have become so jaded that they view devs as stingy if their additional free content for the game they flat bought also has entirely optional even more content that can be purchased.

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Originally Posted by Daronokk

They both look equally bad. Regular version the text in the back gets jagged while in the slug version it's the ones in the front.

It's not an upgrade in any way, shape or form.

...No?








The text is less bold in the slug version (guessing that's because it's the actual font where the current version has mild blurring/bleeding as it renders, making it seem larger than it actually is) but it's still consistent when close. Dunno how anyone can pretend that's not an upgrade.

The text looks the same to me.

Originally Posted by VoidSeeker199X

How generous of them considering the game costs 60 dollars.

This is a reasonable argument.

"Purchasing the Premium Pass unlocks all Premium Tiers, which feature seasonally themed Cosmetics and Premium Currency."

Okay I'm out.

Originally Posted by SinR

They both look the same to me

Yeah fucking hell took me ages, the first one is slightly bigger and ever so slightly clearer, maybe because its slightly bigger, but I dunno which is even the slug one, like its hardly a noticeable thing.

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Originally Posted by Hitei

The text is less bold in the slug version (guessing that's because it's the actual font where the current version has mild blurring/bleeding as it renders, making it seem larger than it actually is) but it's still consistent when close. Dunno how anyone can pretend that's not an upgrade.

Pretend it is not an Upgrade? I think missing the mark there, people cannot tell the difference or its super minute, an upgrade is overly generous.

Originally Posted by Daronokk

They both look equally bad. Regular version the text in the back gets jagged while in the slug version it's the ones in the front.

It's not an upgrade in any way, shape or form.

Open both images at full screen resolutions, and directly compare the names of the two back rows of units between the two. If you can't notice a distinct difference between the consistency of quality across all the names in the second image (slug on) compared to the first image (slug off) then you should probably schedule an appointment with an optometrist.

The slug on image has a distinct improvement in crispness and uniformity across all of the names, no matter how far back in the lineup you go.

Originally Posted by VoidSeeker199X

How generous of them considering the game costs 60 dollars.

We can expect this trend to continue as long as whales are unable to vote with their wallets.

Though I don't really blame blizz for milking whales for all they are worth. If I knew there was a audience of whales just begging for any reason whatsoever to throw money at my company, I'd be sure to give them plenty of reasons to part with their money.

Now I am mad...I was hoping it read "Slug Front" we would have to fight a giant slug infestation, with the the help of the all new warcraft DUCKS!

Originally Posted by Hitei

It's like people have forgotten that 20 years ago you'd go to your local game-selling store pay the sticker price for a new game, and get that new game, and that was that. You play the ~15 hours of content and then the game was over and you wait for maybe an entirely separate sequel at the exact same price to release.

Or you'd wait a much shorter time and buy a cheaper expansion pack, which would come with new areas, new characters/classes, new items, mechanics and story.

I'd very much rather pay just once or twice and have a complete game where I can get everything.

Originally Posted by Mic_128

Or you'd wait a much shorter time and buy a cheaper expansion pack, which would come with new areas, new characters/classes, new items, mechanics and story.

I'd very much rather pay just once or twice and have a complete game where I can get everything.

So then you should be happy about this model, wherein you can pay once, get the complete game and then also get free stuff each season.

Originally Posted by Hitei

The text is less bold in the slug version (guessing that's because it's the actual font where the current version has mild blurring/bleeding as it renders, making it seem larger than it actually is) but it's still consistent when close. Dunno how anyone can pretend that's not an upgrade.

The first two rows look better in the original form. Some of the letters gets cut off in the slug version. Just look at the "m" in Crimson in the bottom left. Original is way better.

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Originally Posted by Kotenk

Yep, it's a little hard to see because of the JPEG artifacting, but WoW has notorious font readability issues for NPC names and the like at a distance. This is a huge improvement you will notice in game.

If you have such bad eyes you shouldn't be playing games on a screen in close range and should go outside to actually train your eyes for far distance.