The folks at BigPoint are nearing an impressive milestone for their free-to-play MMO ‘Drakensang Online’, hitting almost 6 million registered users. The company even goes toe-to-toe with Diablo III and Torchlight II in a comparative chart.
The chart (shown on the right) was sent to us from BigPoint, who did say they were “admittedly biased” with the promotion of their own title, yet they do strike up some interesting points. Diablo III just came out of a public beta over the weekend and while most of the gaming community is still punch-drunk over the gameplay, the fact remains that the free-to-play MMO has been slowly building steam over the last few years.
Via Diablo’s global director of community Adam Fletcher, Blizzard is introducing new measures to improve the quality of season launches in the future. Across both Diablo 4 and the aging Diablo 3, fans of Blizzard’s games should all benefit.
If they didn't let the cellphone guy touch the 3rd one in first place, they wouldn't have to dance around like clowns trying to make money.
We've been asking for less "boring" seasons... "boring"... not "buggy"... same ol' rehashed content just a different color is not working.
Who says a dud game can't have a video game comeback?
Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky have to be up there. We're lucky and cursed, equally, to have games that can be updated now. For folks old enough to remember the Sega/SNES into PS1 and even 2 eras, if a game came out that was half baked (*cough*Angel of Darkness*cough*) that was it, no redemption. At the same time, having the option for updates shouldn't be an excuse for half assing games.
I remember when the Nintendo Seal of Approval meant something.
All those games had to release without bugs.
Diablo III still works on modern PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and remains hugely playable a decade after initial release.
