Literally gambling, but with out any regulation, restriction, oversight, or anything that gambling deals with.

No, gamers don’t want this. But enough of us are simple minded and have zero patience that companies make more money when they do something like this. They’re exploiting gamers’ yearning for instant gratification, not filling some sort of actual desire for staggered starts. 

Put this in perspective: Every single person in that room spent $200+ to see this.  Tickets to Blizzcon are $199 + relevant taxes and fees.  Many of these folks flew in to California to see this so add in hotel and plane tickets.  These are the most hardcore of the hardcore Blizzard’s PC game fans, they aren’t going…

So why show it at an event filled with that less than half a percent?

Your “ignore it and move on” attitude is fine if you see a commercial for it on TV or an ad in the banner of a webpage, but when you create this self-congratulating, self-aggrandizing event to announce it, you’re wasting the time of everyone who specifically took the money, time, and effort to come to Blizzcon. It…

The problem is Blizzcon is specifically designed for that “less than half a percent of active Diablo players” they are the exact people who would hate the idea of a mobile game. Your right Diablo Immortal isn’t designed for these people so why announce it in this forum. I don’t understand how they didn’t see this…

The biggest scam ever in video game history, probably one of the largest across all industries, yet people will defend this shit til the day they die and how it’s not a scam.

There’s also the fact that direct purchases undeniably mean better content for everyone. When you’ve got loot boxes you can get away with having 1 great skin and a dozen crappy ones because people will disregard the crappier ones in an attempt to get to the good one, which has lower odds. But with a cosmetics store,…

Wouldn’t you rather just be able to buy what you want? I think cosmetic MTX in $60 games are never going away, but they feel far less predatory when you can just go to a shop and pick whatever skins or hats you want rather than rolling the dice in hopes you’ll get that rare Junkrat outfit you’ve been craving.

The MMO genre is basically dead. Its a graveyard of greedy publishers who all thought they could copy/paste WoW’s profits. Its sad, because WoW disrupted the genre so successfully that it redefined the genre, and in doing so, ultimately monopolized and killed all of its competition.

My audience felt completely let down by the “twist” with Luke. They absolutely cheered when it looked like Luke wasn’t going to die and would be back. Thrilled. If they had cut away with him looking at the sunsets, people would still be cheering. But instead, “LULZ, HE ACTUALLY DED.” People walked out of the theater…

To be fair, FF XV has a large number of criticisms lobbed its way, and it deserves all of them.

As other folks have said in the thread, I wouldn’t buy the Switch for a young kid. I can’t slip it into my pocket, the 3DS has some amazing games and continues to do so, the dual screen thing is still unique, setting it apart from the Switch — so many things.