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Diablo 4 players review bomb game on Metacritic after awful Season 1 patch reception

Fans are voicing their displeasure at the latest Diablo 4 patch by review bombing the game on Metacritic.

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Rynxie696d ago

Review bombing does nothing in this case. I suggest sticking to stop playing the game and persuading others not to buy it or play it as well.

Rude-ro696d ago

Is that not what review bombing supports?
Telling other players of the state of the game?
Ie it is not the money they already have, it is to curve new purchases… in todays live service games, a lot of gamers wait to see what a season will bring.

RpgSama695d ago

After 10 million sold, what is the point, they should have waited

Sonic1881696d ago

This game is starting to be Diablo Immortal

Palitera696d ago

It “informs” other people’s purchase decisions.

notachance696d ago

Not true, I always check user reviews on metacritic to see what the general praise/complaint is about from other players.

anast696d ago (Edited 696d ago )

Causal gamers won't buy a game with a low score.

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Duke19696d ago

lol @ review bombing. People are pathetic

ChronoJoe696d ago

These guys are super optimistic about people using metacritic user scores to make purchase decisions. No one is.

“People need to leave their feedback and reviews, where it hurts Blizzard’s pockets. Reddit is not the place, encourage everyone to go to Metacritic and make your voice heard. Reviews are used by consumers to inform their purchase decision, not Reddit.”

Yeah, no one is doing that. No one is filtering metacritic by user score. Even metacritic itself doesn't showcase those scores, because they don't mean anything. In large part, because of stuff like this. I'm not saying I agree with what Blizzard are doing or anything like that, but this type of action doesn't achieve anything at all really.

neutralgamer1992696d ago

You would be surprised. There is a reason IGN has like 15 plus million users. After a story like this IGN will most likely cover it meaning many casuals will see it

And many publishers still use MC and open critic when deciding the royalties be bonus so yes it makes a difference

EvertonFC696d ago (Edited 696d ago )

Unfortunately alot of people can't think for themselves or make own dicisions

CobraKai696d ago

Agreed. There are people who swear by metacritic or rotten tomatoes. Weak minded people who need to be told what to like or not like.

enkiduxiv696d ago

@CobraKai Nothing “weak” about reading a few reviews before spending time and money on something. Only a moron would pay a publisher blindly before even trying to figure out if the product was good or even functional.

frostypants696d ago (Edited 696d ago )

Oh please. So you don't consider reviews at all? You just buy the game? Get off your high horse. Who do you think you're fooling?

notachance696d ago

lol what? if people get to play the game for free like reviewers did then sure, think away.
In this case however, it's great to also see what the normal players who have to spend money first before playing have to say about the game.

Cockney695d ago

Perhaps they're making an informed decision based on popular critique, nah surely not, that would be crazy

CobraKai691d ago

@enkid
only a moron would trust the opinions of others. Especially with all these review bombers. I'd rather research the game to see if its gameplay is something I'm into. Then I'd buy the game. If I trusted the reviews for Cyberpunk or Jedi Survivor, I would never have given them a chance cuz they were considered "broken". I played em and loved em.

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shinoff2183696d ago

Thats not true at all. I bet lots are using it. People use reviews from all over to confirm purchasin games. I don't understand why but ya know people

ChronoJoe696d ago

From my experience working as a game dev at major studios, they don't put much weight on metacritic user scores. They do use critic scores as internal benchmarking, but analysing player sentiment is much more holistic and complex, and it does involve reading on places like reddit (even if they do not post there). Today, a lot of it involves using AI to analyse data too, as they can pull player sentiment from thousands of posts on reddit without reading and coding them individually.

I don't know how many folks go onto metacritic to look at user scores either, but I would bet it's a tiny number of the potential consumerbase. Something like steam reviews matter a lot, but metacritic user scores are not the same, largely because they do not require verified proof of purchase.

frostypants696d ago (Edited 696d ago )

I use it, or at least consider it. Metacritic is the only place where you can tell if a producer of a game or movie really stepped in dog crap. People don't review bomb if someone didn't seriously screw up. Other sites sanitize the truth away to protect their rep with the producer of said crap.

ChronoJoe695d ago (Edited 695d ago )

People do review bomb all the time on the basis of political views and in most cases I don't believe those are any indication of the quality of the game. For instance TLOU2 was review bombed for having playable female characters and trans characters. Nonetheless, it sold over 10 million units in 2 years, on one platform.

Bobertt696d ago

I agree most regular gamers don't care about metacritic scores but these game publishers do so when they get review bombed it gets their attention.

anast696d ago (Edited 696d ago )

Nice out of touch statement...

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neutralgamer1992696d ago

I really want to play this game but I just want all this nonsense to end and things to be ironed out. I will most likely start playing towards the end of the year

EvertonFC696d ago

I'm 20 hours in and I'm getting bored, it's a good game but just very samey already. ATM I feel like I could have just replayed D3 and saved my money tbh.

JeffGUNZ696d ago

What killed my desire to keep playing was how big the map was and coming to a realization I would lose everything every season to make a new character. The world is massive and to 100% that map takes time. Then you just lose it all. Just a bummer. Diablo 3 this was easier to take, but this one just hits different.

OMGitzThatGuy696d ago

Only negative is the nerfs and that is while making monsters 5 level behind and making other builds viable now or did people expect season 1 to make all the changes that Diablo 3 did in its 10+ years of updates?

Christopher696d ago

Why wouldn't you not start your next game in the series having learned from a decade of your past game? Are we supposed to be sympathetic that they're making the same mistakes all over again?

OMGitzThatGuy696d ago

Every game with stats goes through trial and error when the game goes out to millions, people seem to forget Diablo 3 even now still doesn’t that have the amount of endgame content that they think it has. It had 1 dlc and rifts, thats it and people still play it to this day and the seasons where just wipes with a few armor pieces, D4 season 1 is already gonna change more to the game than a D3 season ever did. D3 also launched with no rifts, while D4 launched with Nightmare dungeons.

Christopher696d ago

***Every game with stats goes through trial and error when the game goes out to millions, people seem to forget Diablo 3 even now still doesn’t that have the amount of endgame content that they think it has.***

This isn't about having content, it's the quality of it and their design choices that they have 10 years of experience working toward and had multiple betas with feedback on it.

neutralgamer1992696d ago

Why couldn’t they build from all the knowledge gained instead of starting from scratch and acting like they don’t know what they are doing and what gamers want. Seriously launching sequels with knowledge of what worked in the past games should be utilized

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Diablo 4 Year 2 Anniversary event with free goodies confirmed for Blizzard’s ARPG

Blizzard’s Diablo 4 is almost two years old with the game’s upcoming anniversary taking place on June 5, 2025. While no official announcement has been made from Blizzard about its contents, the ARPG developer is releasing a new event for the game’s second anniversary.

Retroman11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Was interested in purchasing Diablo 4 but after watching 10 hour video on YouTube changed my mind . Too many cut scenes than gameplay actions, I want to play the game Not watch mini movie in a game LoL 🤣🤣🤣

wesnytsfs10d ago

Would be nice if they put the expansion on Game pass.

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Diablo 4's Berserk Crossover DLC Costs an Insane $150

And there's no bundle

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Lionsguard37d ago

Remember Oblivion horse armor everyone? Good times good times.

gigoran837d ago

I remember when they were testing the waters with paid DLC and people were screaming to not buy them so that companies would get the idea that we didn't want to pay for unfinished games. Gamers didn't listen, now the game companies are lapping it up.

Xristo36d ago

The Oblivion horse armor may have been the beginning of cosmetics however, the WoW Celestial Mount takes the cake for setting us up for the present day. That mount made more money for Blizzard than the whole Starcraft 2 franchise. Just sad and crazy.

Michiel198936d ago

horse armor wasn't the first mtx, far from it.

PRIMORDUS36d ago

Nope cause I torrented that game and the horse DLC lol

tombfan36d ago

When did we lost the ability to see COSMETICS on game stores at just $3 DLLs...

anast36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

It's Diablo Immortal: Re-skinned, the Orca edition.

Michiel198936d ago

at least be right for once...diablo immortal is D3 reskinned.....
You are always the most opiniated on games you haven't played and don't know a single thing about.

anast36d ago

Hi Mich. Good to see you are kind of doing okay. You still have this fascination with imaginary omnipotence, but at least we are getting somewhere.

Michiel198936d ago

you recovered from the iceberg?

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Diablo 4 devs state game’s hated roadmap is incomplete, promise “good surprises” are coming

Speaking to fans on Twitter, Blizzard director of social and content marketing Adan Fketcher explained that the roadmap fans have been given is incomplete. While the roadmap does include some of the additions coming to the ARPG, there’s also more that the studio has yet to reveal.

AndrewM63d ago

Sorry I picked up Poe 2 last week, and it is way better than your game will ever be.

anast63d ago (Edited 63d ago )

They should have taken their time and made a good game instead of panicking after the Immortal "Don't you have phones?" fallout.

Michiel198963d ago

it already took them a decade, not sure how much more time they need

anast63d ago

They hadn't worked on it for a decade: "instead of panicking after the Immortal "Don't you have phones?" fallout."

CrimsonWing6963d ago

I haven’t beaten Diablo 4, but from the time I’ve spent I really loved it. What is it that people hate about it?

anast63d ago

The builds are too basic and the end game is not good, which is fine if they went the Diablo 2 route, but unlike D2 the build complexity really isn't there — the lack of tend game quality and the lack of build complexity is a recipe for suck in the ARPG space.

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