"As most of you probably already know by now. Just recently Blizzard announced "Diablo Immortal" for mobile at Blizzcon 2018. Well, the Diablo fans didn't exactly like what they saw (including myself). So here's my take on the matter." - Robin Ek, TGG.
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With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?
Unless they are trying to kill their recently created PC business, I would advise against opening a dedicated PC store. It's an extremely hard endeavor, and people, in general, are very comfortable with Steam. Even Epic, with their billions of dollars invested, is still struggling to find a foothold, and they have Fortnite.
Money is one thing security is another but again millions have 0 knowledge past 2020.
Epic store for years struggled with a shopping cart/account theft/credit card theft
Rockstar launcher/store to this day over 5 years later still has horrific user interface security flaws lost account's and stolen CC
Then you got that activision need phone number oh we lost it launcher
The crown jewel is the ea launcher/store ea app 3 yrs old still has hundreds of threads were people lost games/accounts/game access or just straight up crashes.
Edit" Oh ubi launcher were you buy a game that may or may not be there again or work and the launcher 5yrs old still has no 4K support if you launch it on a 4k screen there is a high chance it will just crash.
Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming.
It's just a known fact. The PC gaming community prefer Steam and Steam alone. They don't like different launchers. I personally don't mind them. But majority just stick with steam. Hence why EA and Ubisoft went back to on releasing on steam and why Microsoft release games on steam as people hated buying from the windows store.
The only other launchers that I imagine are doing ok is GOG due to being drm free and epic games due to the free games every week. Sony shouldn't release any sort of pc launcher n
It literally says in the OP that PC gamers don't like multiple launchers lol. It even mentions Steam being the go to for gamers
Title: "PlayStation Doesn't Need a Dedicated PC Store Launcher"
N4G: "Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming"
When you don't even read the headline...
I read it and had a brain fart. As read the title then this "With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?"
So I hold my hands up on that mistake. Rest of my comment still stands.
Steam and GOG are highly preferred because of the rich feature set. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Epic etc have all set a precedent over the years for customers to instinctively expect individual publisher launchers to be so extremely half-assed that the majority simply don't want to bother dealing with what is almost an inevitable disappointment by comparison to Steam or GOG. Those publishers and their inaction or general disinterest to improve have effectively ruined any future adoption to be taken seriously.
This is just another ridiculous double standard article.
It's like how Microsoft can spend 20 years of making nothing but gaas and live service style games to sell microtransactions, dlc and subscriptions and get praise for doing it, but if Sony wants to make a single game like that every website under the sun is writing articles saying how Sony is anti-consumer or whatever.
Yep, huge double standard look at the tortured reaction to the ps5pro, websites hyperventilating like Sony is forcing people to buy it.
Wait my xbox from 2004 has avengers gaas on it? wow your so smart
m$ Gaas started with the other companies like sony
Gamepass yes they are deep into that but its still a huge money saver sense you do not own your games then get a service like that.
Now there pc xbox launcher that is trash for years now
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
It’s very disappointing.
My only disagreement with your piece came when you said that we don't know that Diablo Immortal is going to be a bad game. Yeah, we do. It's going to be an officially sanctioned mobile knockoff of Diablo by a Chinese company known for mobile knockoffs, monetized to the bejesus by ActiBlizzard--a money-milking machine disguised as a game.
Diablo immortal being a mobile game isn't a big issue, it's how everything is presented. Its presented to the PC and console gamers as a big flagship thing that we SHOULD care about....we don't. Its not for us but they want it to be. If they announced d4 or a d2 remaster, and then also announced diablo immortal on a smaller scale, most of us wouldn't have mind.
I can understand why they decided to create a mobile game. There is a lot of exploiting your fans for money to be made I mean just look at Fire Emblem Heroes by Nintendo. The game is just a shollow tactical game focuses on spending money rolling and praying to the RNG gods for the best hero. Unlike the actual Fire Emblem games that we all love on 3DS and GBA.
My issue has to do how Blizzard is handling the situation. In my personal opinion, as a developer, you should always be professional with your fans even if they line up one by one to express their disapproval. I mean, "Do you even have phones!?" or saying "Don't be a dick!?" I mean come on! As a consumer, and a faithful one when it comes the Diablo franchise, to see the developers act in that way makes me feel uncertain and dissapointed for the future of the franchise.