Blizzard says that modding Diablo IV can result in a permanent account ban::undefined
Any company that treats creativity as cheating does not make games I care to play.
Can they just give us an offline version and let us do whatever we want on it?
No that would involve you owning the product and thats bad.
Also cuts into their live service cash flow.
Ever since that mobile Diablo game came out, I knew to be wary of this one.
I’m not ever participating in those aspects of the game anyway. I’d be far more likely to buy content if they had an offline mode and published new content as DLC.
But then who would buy what they’re offering in their online store, item crates and other boxes.
The people who care about the seasonal GAAS content and online MP. I’m not touching that shit either way.
Suck dick and die Activision. Fucking EA 2.0
They did the same with diablo 3. Always on drm so that people couldn’t use cheats to get better loot IN A SINGLE PLAYER GAME. Why? Because they want you to their market and spend real cash for stuff
Then make more than 4 enemy types.
I was considering giving a Diablo game a shot for the first time, not anymore, this is just dumb
You can still try the earlier Diablo games. Diablo 1 with Belzebub mod is pretty fun (or get DevilutionX if you want a more authentic experience but with some modern QoL stuff), Diablo 2 with Project Diablo 2 mod is even more fun (probably the best Diablo variant IMO), and there’s also Blizzard’s official Diablo 2 Resurrected, if you can’t tolerate old school graphics.
Yeah, if you’ve never stepped foot in the Diablo world don’t bother. I had a good time with the D4 campaign, I actually think that part shines but it’s maybe 30 hours of gameplay at best, even if you take a few detours along the way. Pretty steep price to game ratio.
Is every major tech company a tyrannical bitch that hates their customers?
Yes.
I’m moving to POE.
PoE is a great game, and there are many reasons I find it more fun than D4. Seriously, I find myself leveling multiple characters each league, which means running through the campaign each time. Can’t really force myself to do that in D4.
Unfortunately, you will get banned for modding PoE as well. Hell, admitting (in game or on forums) to using any sort of method of flask automation can get your account permanently closed.
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They super fucking salty that computers are not ushering in their utopian self-contained artificial society as they expected.
Can you imagine if the Spalding company told you that they’d come and take their balls back if you didn’t play according to their rules?
I feel like people are acting a little TOO hurt in this thread… debate on games being moddable vs not aside, this was obviously always going to be the case for a live service game like D4. D3 was (but wasn’t really) a live service game and also was not moddable at all, even after the auction house got canned. Same for Overwatch 1, I’m quite sure OW2 as well. There should be no surprise here, and cheaters absolutely knew this would come.
For A$120 asking price, and an almost immediate cash grab/season pass, I should be able to mod whatever the fuck I like thank you very much
Hey, I support you voting with your wallet then, and you should hold out for Starfield and GTA VI. Maybe play some Cyberpunk or NMS. Hogwarts Legacy too.
But if moddability is a prerequisite for you on full price games, you’re probably due a lot of disappointment going forward as games continue to shift to GAS models (and honestly, if you’ve been beating this drum you’ve been real disappointed for the last decade anyways). Mods are a great experience for a single player game, but invite rampant cheating in competitive multiplayer games that need to be fair and balanced for all players. You’re just not going to see moddability in multiplayer games. And one certainly doesn’t have a right to interrupt or destroy other players’ enjoyment of a game because they want to cheat.
To be clear, I am not arguing against modding being allowed in games. I ran a VERY heavily modified UI in World of Warcraft, and have had a blast with tons of mods in games like Skyrim and Minecraft. It’s just not a hill I’ll die on either. Not every game can or should be modded.
To be fair the way it worked in d2 was great. You had a closed battle.net which worked through official servers and an open battle.net where your local/twinked/hacked/whatever char could run rampant and play online with friends.
The modded versions of diablo 2 by replacing actual gamefiles is also still possible if you play it off line/local lan.
GaaS just sucks in that regard. A lot of great things came about by modding like in warcraft 3. Or even the superhero/Warcraft mods in counter strike 1.6
Or the max Payne Kung Fu and whatnot mods. I had hours of fun on that. It wasn’t the way the developers intended it to be played. But who cares.
They’re trash at making games so they should let others make the game for them. This is a dumb decision.
Fuck Blizzard. Stop buying their games.
And I didn’t even need any more reasons to not get this game!
Diablo was dead after Diablo 2. Resurrected was pretty good but I really dislike the always online BS. And at the end of the day, it’s still the same old game with a facelift. Recently started playing Diablo 3 again and I realize why I never really got into it. It’s more like gauntlet than Diablo.
permanent account ban
Don’t threaten me with a good time Blizz.
I can’t speak for Acti-Blizz but Ubisoft regarded people finding and using exploits or even power imbalances as cheating and a banhammering offense if they got too much loot for their efforts.
Finding the exploits is part of the whole point.
that’s close minded. “you are only allowed to enjoy the game exactly as we intended it to be played”
Are they trying to nuke their game and community? Cause at this point, you gotta wonder if it’s intentional.
