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I believe that's an exception. WoW Classic lives based on nostalgia. Its game-play is extremely outdated and monotonous for 2019 standards. Of course, it has its own playerbase... that's for another discussion. To each their own.
New MMO's don't have that, however. No MMO has 15 years of history.
I also believe that the era of MMO's is ending. But I'll be happy if that isn't true!
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Yeah PoE is trash. It lacks the very thing that makes Diablo-like games fun, thanks to it costume shop.
Every single item you get looks like shit, and there's basically no variation. Unless you PAY for it.
Then there are some idiotic designs, like if you click on a monster and hold a left mouse button to attack and then move it without releasing to a second monster, your character just runs around it like a headless chicken, lol. Who the fuck thought that would be a great idea?
Also, the character models look ugly. The visuals are terrible and the art is shit. The combat is unappealing.
Grim Dawn does all those things better but the visuals are not to my liking, and the combat feels unsatisfying. But it's MILES better than that shit PoE.
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"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning." by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher and Educator
tbh, I don't find diablo's world so fascinating to explore. I find it is better served left as an arpg, an RTS or maybe a single player RPG with an ending. If they go too far off from heaven, hell and deppressing gothic stuff it would stop feeling like diablo at all, and you can recycle those 3 themes only so many times.
After thinking it through. A prequel action MMORPG makes the most sense for Diablo IV.
Yes, there are some big rumors around about both Diablo 4 and Diablo 2 remaster being announced on Blizzcon.
In that case, I expect Diablo 4 to be drastically different from other Diablo games, while Blizzard at the same time giving players their favorite Diablo game in new clothes.
I think blizzard has been watching lost ark online and they will improvise on it. I really expect a new diablo on pc.
Yup, it's part of game development. See what your competition is doing. Lost Ark is so impressive and doing so many things it's easy to find things to adopt in it. Which is probably why D4 has taken so long. They probably were happy with how it was till they saw what they were going to be facing in a few years.
Not that I mean to diminish PoE at all, it too has things in it someone might want to adopt, but information about PoE is widely available and D4 devs are likely playing PoE to learn as much from it as possible. The whole Lost Ark hype came out of nowhere, because we all thought it was going to stay in the development hell it seemed to be in for so long.
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why big tits and ass with skimpy armor turns off people got no idea I haven't tried lost ark myself. I watched a few videos here and there. I can guess though, it must be pay to win, even if it is not now. They will heavily milk that game. But blizzard cannot do that backlash would be immense. They have to make either a sub based or b2p diablo. Since its been a tradition of diablo universe i don't expect a sub. That means, they need to find a better way to monetize their game. Purely cosmetic? ok, but even extra stash tab would be unfair i think. Nothing but cosmetics and maybe different soundstracks etc. visuals.
apart from that I could easily imagine how awesome a diablo would be with lost ark settings.
It would not be a mmo like WoW, it would probably be a lot closer to Lost Ark or something like that, top down arpg like diablo but with a lot more MMO elements like open areas where you see other players, forms of instanced dungeons, maybe some type of raid like stuff etc
There is no way they are just going to make a diablo 4 thats close to diablo 3 without many changes, from credible rumors we even heard they tried making diablo more like a souls game but scrapped that so they are obviously trying a lot of different ideas to "reinvent" the diablo franchise
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