The article is a review. It tells you what changed, and what didn’t, with the understanding that you have played the previous iteration of the game. The title tells you the conclusion of the review. A single paragraph is less than other outlets, like RPS, are giving the issue. If you are that bothered by a tiny…

He did. It’s Diablo 2, only shiny. Nothing more, nothing less. Only the networking options have changed a little, and that shift, to “always on,” is also mentioned. What more do you want, an extra sentence explaining further that the base game has been untouched aside from what was already mentioned?

The title is literally a TL;DR for the article. It states specifically what the game is, and makes no judgement call as to whether or not it’s a good thing. It is, in fact, anti-clickbait, as you already can tell what the article’s conclusion is just by looking at the title.

Their job is to review games. That’s what they did, reviewed the game. The review shows both what was changed and what was still the same, which is the point of a review of a remake. The article was made specifically to review the game and nothing else. If you think it’s to “bash Blizzard,” maybe try some reading…

Because it’s games news. That should be obvious to anybody who doesn’t use “woken flake click bait” seriously.

Did you read the article at all?

Did you read the article? It doesn’t bash on the developers of D2R or D2R itself at all.

Whether you like it or not, this game is news, and Kotaku is a games news blog. So they should cover it. You don’t have to like it, but you also don’t have to read it.

Did you forget that games being cheaper was supposed to be the draw for the Epic Game Store, too? No, the prices won’t change, and people won’t jump through hoops for an impulse purchase.

Because companies won’t be offering you a percentage off. They’ll pocket the difference. If you doubt that, look at the Epic store; despite taking a smaller cut than Steam, none of the games are cheaper. Any company that makes money off microtransactions isn’t going to do anything to slow your spending rate, and…

Yes, they would, but they’d also then boycott that company for that decision. You know, like the Blitzchung incident. Perfect parallel, people fired for expressing a view without consulting the company first that may damage the brand, complete with a public response.

As someone in the Twitter comments shared, it’s possible to ignore results from an entire developer in Steam. If you go to their specific Steam page and click on the gear, the option “Ignore all from this creator” becomes available.

I couldn’t give two shits about Valve. They just have the better product. Every time there’s a criticism of Epic, however, you jump in to their defense, usually with a “that doesn’t matter.” If it doesn’t matter, people wouldn’t be complaining about it. Epic is providing a shittier product, all around, and I’m frankly…

You really haven’t used Steam in a while, have you? It’s awash with crap games, with quality indie games nestled in and amongst them. And pretty much the only way to find out if they are crap or not is the reviews, because a website is ridiculously easy to throw up and there aren’t many reviews for these tiny games…

Also, since you insist on being dense about this particular topic, the answer is time. Trawling the internet is a long, time-consuming task, and some of us spend most of our days working and keeping up house. That leaves precious little time to spend trawling the internet, and every minute spent doing that is a minute…

You know what else Steam does that Epic doesn’t do? Show reviews and articles relating to the item on it’s page, so you can browse them readily and get a good idea as to whether it’s worth investing in. It’s almost as if Steam is more interested in serving consumers than Epic is. Stop defending anti-consumer practices.

No shit. But some companies do make an effort to offer features to retain a user base. And Straw Hat shills really fucking hard for Epic as if they are some big software store messiah who can do no fucking wrong. Epic is extremely anti-consumer in their approach, and the more this is pointed out, the more pressure can…

Ah, back to leaning on Steam to fill in for the Epic Store, eh? Just admit that Epic doesn’t care about you, the consumer, and move on.

How are you supposed to know whether one of these games is worth purchasing without user reviews and forums?

The problem is in differentiating between what a word actually historically means and how it’s been inappropriately used. A word that is used solely to be demeaning? Sure, stop using it. But other words have been misused and still have their original meanings intact and used properly, and demanding that those words…