The high-profile Diablo Immortal finally received the exact news released on June 2, and even more surprisingly, the game also announced that it would land on both PC and mobile platforms. To know that "Diablo: Immortal" has been promoted by mobile games as a carrier before, and once caused players to resist and complain, in this regard, game development director Wyatt Cheng also exposed the classic quote "Do you guys not have phones?!" ）。 Today, Blizzard has reneged on its word, and although it is a good thing to let the game land on the PC, it still can't resist the player's spit.
"It seems that the players' mobile phones are not enough"
"Blizzard Fiesta 2018: Who doesn't have a cell phone yet?"
4 years later: Who hasn't had a 3090 yet? ”
"Thanks to the guy in red for making this game on PC"
PS1: Brother in Red refers to the 2018 "Diablo: Immortal" conference Q&A, the scene asked Wyatt Cheng "This mobile game is an outdated April Fool's Day joke" brother, by many dark players called heroes, as shown in Figure 1 below
PS2: This comment is a bit of a misconception, in fact, it was Lord Fluffy who promoted the PC on Diablo: Immortal, who was the character who provoked boos on the spot after the conference "Who doesn't have a mobile phone", and the player who was jokingly called Brother in Red 2.0 by the player, as shown in Figure 2
"Seeing the multi-platform success of Protoshin and considering the strong dissatisfaction of the fans of the blizzard for not supporting PCs, Blizzard has finally made a change, and it seems that the game extension still makes sense."
"Blizzard has to wait for things to deteriorate to a certain extent to know the rescue, but unfortunately a bunch of Blizzard fans have been disgusting and will not buy it, Blizzard now has no credibility to speak of."
"The biggest problem with this game is still marketing, when a group of people were looking forward to Diablo 4, they ended up being fed a mobile game, and now it is announced that it will be online on the PC side at the same time, and it will not let these people buy it, although I think this game should be good."
In addition to the pressure to let Diablo: Immortal landing on the PC suffered from spit, the game's post-release operating model also caused a lot of discussion among players.
"The biggest problem with mobile games for me is not the hardware, nor the operating system, but the business model.
Anyone who has played mobile games with a controller knows that many mobile games now have an excellent game experience that they want to match on the basis of portability, and if Dark 3 also has a mobile version, it should be very suitable.
However, due to the current business environment of mobile games, the buyout system is not a profitable thing. Diablo Immortal may have found a balance between the F2P business model and the player experience, but past mobile game experience has not given me much hope for this. ”
"I guess the game is based on the F2P operating model, right?"
I wonder if there are disgusting microtransactions, will there be a tactic of missing out on the phobia to lure players, and the classic stamina slot mechanism of mobile games? I've played D3 and D2 without these."
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"The appearance of the F2P payment mechanism on PC games is not what the market needs today, and I hope that this game will fail when other game developers have similar ideas." There is a UP Lord mentioning that this game is compared to the original god. Although the original god is also an F2P game, it strictly limits the ability to pay to win, basically the original god spends money to support the developers, and itself does not allow players to easily complete tasks through payment in the game. In Diablo Immortal, players can pay to expand Farm's area, essentially paying to win.
In addition, the funny thing is that Blizzard originally rejected D2 and D3 and Overwatch for cross-platform release, while Diablo: Immortal started this mode. ”
"The so-called P2E game is actually the vest of the P2W game, just like real life is also a P2E game, you can be a middle-class person, use student loans to pay for college, and then use the next 10 years of life to work to pay off this debt." Or you can be a rich second generation, hiring 20 private tutors or poor sought-after players at once to help you complete your studies and earn a degree. This also happens in P2E games. And when the situation arises, it will make the game crash in an instant, some people will see the business opportunities inside, become the studio to make money, another group of people consume to win, and ordinary players can not compete with them at all, until the game experience drops to zero value and leaves the game. ”
PS1: P2E refers to Play to earn, an emerging game mode of blockchain ecology, which earns while playing, that is, game items can be traded with real money
PS2: P2W refers to pay to win, that is, paid wins, the most familiar game mode for Chinese players
PS3: The P2E gameplay was mentioned in the Diablo Immortal promotion
So far, reviews from overseas players have mainly revolved around Diablo: Immortal's access to the PC and dissatisfaction with the F2P game mode. However, even if there are many dissatisfactions, players are still looking forward to the launch of this dark mobile game, after all, for an old big IP, there is never a shortage of audiences.