“Now that the game is shutting down due to nobody wanting play through a terrible slog, we’ve made it less of a terrible slog.”

It was pretty much universally panned at launch for being a buggy, unfinished mess. It got pulled from the Playstation Store days after launching and remained unavailable until they could figure out how to make it stop crashing people’s consoles and every major digital storefront (Steam, Sony, Xbox) had to start…

Exactly, how many seasons was Fortnite raking billions in on an “Early Access” that quietly faded into “release” with no such distinguishing changes to the Battle Royale side of the game.

There hasn’t been 1 example I could think of an open beta going fully offline until the launch at its end. This seems to be a first and hopefully it doesn’t start a bad trend

Feels worrying that:

When? More like IF

Putting it in the terms of service doesn’t necessarily make it enforceable.

This just makes the shitshow that followed the accusations even more embarrassing for all the internet commenters involved.

Hopefully he’ll get back on his feet and work on RPGs again. He’s too talented to remain in the freezer.

Thanks for that clarification. The official statement that “we have no knowledge that he has ever sexually abused any women” and “anything we have previously said or written about Mr. Avellone to the contrary was not our intent” flies in the face of how specific Barrows accusations were, such that it was impossible to…

Unless “plans change” and it never comes back. Remember, this is a company which prevented at least one fully completed movie from seeing the light of day in order to take tax writeoffs, among other controversial decisions.

The technically correct nerds will come for you, but this was one fucked up “beta,” what with selling season passes and all and not making it clear when it would all end.

I didn’t play it, but I can see why people are pissed. Seems like it was more a test to see how much people would spend, and now that interest is dwin…

ok, thank you for that because i felt like i was going crazy that they had actually released the game

Made worse by how abused the “beta”/”Early access” tags are these days. With games going years in “beta” even though everyone knows that it is functionally released. No one expect a MONTHS long open beta with MTX to “unrelease” these days.

The July launch you referenced was the actual beta period. I participated in the closed alpha, which was last May, and then the game came back in July for an open beta before launching with season one in August. They have just now decided that the game was in beta the whole time because they fucked up so bad. You…

Somebody’s fishing for a class action suit.

How dare you challenge the fact that Microsoft is a bigger and more profitable company than Sony? Are you insane? It sounds like you’re blaming inexperience for the problem and not profits.

The problem is that when their message includes lines like “Not all classes at level five should have the same power”, a statement that is inherently false, its going to make me grumble.

Okay, uh, yeah, sorry, bullshit. The goal for class balance in a game like Diablo 4 should be that all classes are at the same power level at all points in the leveling and gearing curve. Your decision on which class you play should be based on personal playstyle and aesthetics, not which one is stronger at which…

Considering the show isn’t active right now and it mentions the manga as the context in the second paragraph I don’t know what you expected.