Chris says 4.0 will take on Diablo 4

Well it hasn't been announced yet officially by Blizzard, but Jasos"s reporting clearly shows that considerable resources have been moved to D4 development.

Just a matter of time now.

https://kotaku.com/sources-blizzard-cancels-starcraft-first-person-shoote-1835285125/amp/

Diablo 4 isn't gonna be around for years though. They're still gonna be releasing Druid, and I think Bard after that. I could be Amazon though, but that would just be stupid.

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BloodPuddles420 wrote:

Diablo 4 isn't gonna be around for years though. They're still gonna be releasing Druid, and I think Bard after that. I could be Amazon though, but that would just be stupid.

That is not what the report says at all, and in fact D4 has already been in development under a code name for a few years.

Its unlikely that it will be ready for direct PoE 4.0 competition, but presumably later that year. Either way we will hear soon officially I'm sure.

People have been making reports Diablo 4 would be announced for so long now. It could be true, it'd be such a dick move to release a new game before finishing their old one though.

Oh crap! It's already hard enough to see what's going on in PoE on my 27" screen with the clusterfuck of animations right now when the action goes "speed racer" crazy so forget about a tiny smart phone screen. That's totally stupid for Blizzard to go for arpg on smart phone except for the money greed so GGG should never follow them (curse you Tencent if you strong arm GGG to do that)..

But seriously, Chris can't know just what Blizzard is going to come out with in D4 so absolutely no way to compare PoE 4.0 with Diablo Immortal. But Chris is GGG's front man so it's normal to hype the next major PoE release to the max (no-brainer).

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DarthSki44 wrote:

So it appears Chris (and presumably the team) thinks that 4.0 will be able to take on Diablo's next generation arpg.

While I applaud him for setting a high goal, I dont see how this is even remotely possible, without massive engine, modeling, and graphical upgrades. Not to mention server stability and performance that these "upgrades" will require.

I think a more nuanced statement of expectations would have been more reasonable. PoE is old, its unlikely it will compete with Diablo 4 from a nuts and bolts point of view, and tbh the core gameplay is getting stale after all these years.

I hope 4.0 (for it's own sake) has some incredible changes that live up to the claim of jumping into the next generation fight.

I dont want to seem pessimistic here, but man that claim and pre'hype for 4.0 seems dubious.

Good luck GGG team! Competition is great for all gamers and I hope your expectations live up to reality!


https://www.pcgamesn.com/path-of-exile/40-mega-expansion

I like how you make a whole case about this issue without taking into consideration the biggest factors affecting it:

1. POE is the biggest on the market for years and that give it a die hard following. I am one of them and I was D1 and D2 and D3 as well before BUT I would never go back.

2. POE owns it's engine and can improve it, hell ever replace it if they feel the need to. With all the money from Tencent that should not even be a discussion in terms of possibilities.

3. POE dev team is in aconstant dialogue with the community. CONSTANT. Interactive, open to feedback and changes. Last open discussion with Diablo dev team spat on players asking them mockingly if they own mobile phones to play their fucking money grabbing garbage.

4. Blizzard (or should we say the money hungry beast that is Activision) does not care about players at all anymore and have betrayed peoples trust way to many times. People are weare or simply fed up. Diablo Immortal was the last straw for many including myself. While I still had D3 installed and went in once of twice a season NOW it is compeltely erased from my PC alongside every single trace of blizzard games.


To summarize: if D4 comes our and you go play it you are nothing but a simple minded sheep contributing to all that is wrong with the gaming industry. Bending over to be fucked in the ass by a company only interested in paying dividents to share holders.

This is comming from a HUGE former blizzard fanboy. My whole youth I have played only Blizzard games exclusivelly: D2 was my life for 8 years, WOW was my life for 8 years after.

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Moridin79 wrote:

At this moment in time D3 is actually in a better place than PoE. Never thought I'd actually say that but it's the truth. The new season is fucking light years better than Synthesis.

Did we play the same game? Two friends wanted to play d3 with me, so I fired it up after 6 years of not playing - and what a silly and shallow game it is (IMO).

On the plus side, made me enjoy PoE more.

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Mikrotherion wrote:

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Moridin79 wrote:

At this moment in time D3 is actually in a better place than PoE. Never thought I'd actually say that but it's the truth. The new season is fucking light years better than Synthesis.

Did we play the same game? Two friends wanted to play d3 with me, so I fired it up after 6 years of not playing - and what a silly and shallow game it is (IMO).

On the plus side, made me enjoy PoE more.

Every single D3 seasson is exactly the same. Items have no variation. YOU just get stronger version of them. You get gear gisted to you buy doing super simple stupid thingsand thus is free loot = boring.

D3 is stale. Even syntesis with all it's issues had more variation of implicits on one gear slot than D3 has variation from one season to another.

People thinking GGG's relationship with its community is excellent are hilarious. You think GGG don't care about money? Look at their MTX trends and at Chris's dev talk from a few months ago. As long as people play their game and buy packs at the beginning of the league, they're happy and consider the league mostly successful. When they screw up, and lately they do it a lot, all we hear are excuses and shifting the blame toward the community. If you can't see that PoE's success is in large part built on the staleness of the ARPG market and mediocrity of D3, you are delusional. I personally think GGG are scared sh**less of D4.

wondering when PoE players will let go of their only dead horse and start looking their own game mostly..

I guess never, npcs are bound by their master.