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Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? (kbin.melroy.org)
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Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago.

And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they've made that online-only as well. Like, I know I'm always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can't afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can't do that with online-only games because it's like being gated away from something you bought.

So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I love the story of Final Fantasy XIV, but it can easily categorize as "One of the most expensive singleplayer games of all time". On top of buying the expansions, you'll need to pay for each month you play; and unless someone's really speedrunning, that will start to add up. Worse, for a first timer setting up their account, their website and payment system is really stuck in 1998, making giving them money an obtuse task. And, while the story has its great moments and excellent side content, a depressing amount of it is extensive polite dialog with just simple quests where you move to a location and right-click on someone. I've finished Dawntrail, and am glad I experienced it, but I can't blame anyone who sees it all as beyond them.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: Someone can play up through Stormblood without having to buy anything.

But, yeah, I agree. I don't really want to think about how much I've spent on this one game over the last 12 years. But roughly spitballing:

  • ARR, Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, Dawntrail...I'll say that's 6 x $40 (not accurate since I bought special editions for some and moved from PS3 to Pc so that's an extra cost there, too): $240
  • $13/m for 11 years (I've played ARR since launch but there have been some times where I turned off my sub for a little bit so I'll just knock off 12 months): 13 x 12 x 11 = $1,716
  • Various Mogstation purchases, roughly $40?
  • Total for me with this napkin math: $1,996

Woof. But, I do love the game and spent all weekend playing it just now. So there's worse things to spend money on.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago

This expac broke me. Played for a decade. Decent ranked tank. The new raids are more of the same and PF has no healers. Tried to play Sage to balance it out and no one could make it work.

The game lost touch with what made it great. It's no longer innovative. The story is ass. It's just a whale hunter.