I loved Diablo II and III, but between Blizzard's toxic corporate culture and their predatory pricing strategy for Diablo IV, I have zero interest in re-installing Battle.Net.

There are so many games coming out this year that I'm going to wait on until 2024 or 2025, because I only want to pay for the game once, not buy into these "games as a service" schemes.

Diablo 1 and 2 are some of my all-time favorite games. 3 was such a disappointment, it had lost everything that made 2 amazing. I've heard that they've mostly fixed 3... but I'm jaded now. I'll probably skip 4 as well.

Like all my many years as gamer thought me, I will wait a couple of years to decide to buy it or not.

Already played this morning before work. 😁 I also tried it out in the last two test weekends and enjoyed it. I don't care much about the shop and don't intend to spend more money in the near future.

I have basically no interest in it thanks to what actibliz did to ow2 and DI prior. I simply can't trust them enough to let myself get invested in the launch.

If it seems great 6 months post launch I may try it out.

I'm really just waiting for Path of Exile 2.

I don't plan on buying Diablo IV for probably a year or so. I'm going to wait for it to be cheaper than $70 and also I have too much experience with games being launched too early. I don't really preorder or play games at launch anymore.

That said, I'm playing Necro when I do get in there. Love the class fantasy of controlling an undead army.

Yes, see here.

I'll be leveling with the sorcerer and playing endgame with the druid.

If past patterns continue, I'll wait for the micro transactions to ramp so high people get outraged, items get nerfed/pumped/micro'd. Blizzard milk the whales for a bit. When they can't get much more out of the whales they say "we are sorry, we fixed it and removed most micro's" . (And keep the money)

Then it will be the "regular player" cycle of expansions and a more polished game. So maybe 1-2 years time?

Is it like some games, you have to pay subscription to access multiplayer. If i dont subscribe. Can i play solo?

My girlfriend and I are taking a week off at the end of this month to start our coop campaign! My only fear is that it feels a bit too mmo as we want to keep to ourselves rather than wait in some dungeon group queues.

I’ll be playing Last Epoch and Path of Exile 2 instead.

Diablo 3's co-op campaign with my wife was a great time so I'm hoping D4 holds up just as well. Was a great way to unwind over a weekend.

Sorcerer here

I have it and I think it’s kinda boring. I’m playing a necro, and while the class has some cool abilities, the game itself is kinda grindy. And I’m only level 30-something. The core gameplay loop of kill things, get new gear, repeat, just isn’t exciting enough to keep my attention.

Maybe it’s just not my genre?