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FaCE_1
Canada6185 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Sermokala
United States14210 Posts
On October 28 2023 01:57 Elmonti wrote: Today I received an email from Blizzard inviting me to try the game this weekend for free. Between this and the almost permanent 25% discount on Blizzard/Steam 3 months after the launch (which I have never ever seen in any previous Blizzard game), they must be REALLY starving for active players... It'll probably be f2p when the first expansion comes out, and lock the seasonal content behind the paywall. I got the same email and will try it out. its only to level 20 but I'm sure thats enough. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46438 Posts
"Take a moment to look back at what the community accomplished together in Diablo® IV’s first season. Annihilation of the widespread malignancy gave rise to an impressive 581,926 Level 100 characters" Assuming that statistic is accurate: Over half a million level 100 characters in a single season (not even including the many level 100 characters before season 1 came out), not to mention the millions more that were anywhere from a low level to level 99. It seems that D4 is far from dead. | ||
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Turbovolver
Australia2450 Posts
On October 31 2023 08:37 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Today's Blizzard e-mail about season 1 ending included the following: "Take a moment to look back at what the community accomplished together in Diablo® IV’s first season. Annihilation of the widespread malignancy gave rise to an impressive 581,926 Level 100 characters" Assuming that statistic is accurate: Over half a million level 100 characters in a single season (not even including the many level 100 characters before season 1 came out), not to mention the millions more that were anywhere from a low level to level 99. It seems that D4 is far from dead. Yeah it's funny, if anything I'm a bit of a hater on this game just because I disagree with a lot of the design choices but all the times I tried to google player numbers, I got a bunch of opinion pieces and YouTube videos proclaiming it dead, and then actual stats websites telling a very different story... | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46438 Posts
On October 31 2023 09:38 Turbovolver wrote: Yeah it's funny, if anything I'm a bit of a hater on this game just because I disagree with a lot of the design choices but all the times I tried to google player numbers, I got a bunch of opinion pieces and YouTube videos proclaiming it dead, and then actual stats websites telling a very different story... Yeah, I don't know how accurate any of these statistics are, but sources say things like over 5 million active players https://activeplayer.io/diablo-4/#:~:text=There are about 324,636 players,of day and other factors. and 1-1.5 million daily users https://mmo-population.com/r/diablo4 | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
That number should shoot up in season 2. It looks like people are enjoying it more and my ultra casual brother is already level 70. I'm going to start playing in a few weeks, I think. Also, don't people need to own the game before leaving a Steam review? Did a lot of people really buy the game a second time just to leave a negative review there? | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46438 Posts
On November 01 2023 23:50 andrewlt wrote: That's actually pretty impressive. I took a bit of a break and didn't hit level 100 on my Eternal season char until some time in September. Of course, some crazy people had multiple level 100 chars, but it's still an impressive number nonetheless. I heard nothing but bad things about season 1. That number should shoot up in season 2. It looks like people are enjoying it more and my ultra casual brother is already level 70. I'm going to start playing in a few weeks, I think. Also, don't people need to own the game before leaving a Steam review? Did a lot of people really buy the game a second time just to leave a negative review there? Yes and Maybe. (Or maybe their first time buying D4 was on Steam.) | ||
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sertas
Sweden890 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46438 Posts
On November 02 2023 03:30 sertas wrote: I always hate the number of accounts or number of daily players or whatever, it's always just so hard to tell what it even means. You want to compare it to dota 2 or cs2 or whatever that has concurrent players, like cs2 is obviously way bigger game, does that have 20 million daily players? I don't know, because I look at concurrent 900k and that's the only metric people universally understand, not this arbitray "10 million accounts" , "30 million monthly logins" etc. What's difficult to understand about a statement like "an average of about a million people played game X every day, this past month"? Obviously, knowing which average is useful (mean vs. median vs. mode), and knowing how many minutes/hours the average playtime is, would be helpful too, but I don't think the statement is completely devoid of useful information. | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On November 02 2023 00:02 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Yes and Maybe. (Or maybe their first time buying D4 was on Steam.) I am finding the latter hard to believe. That's why I asked. The game had a lot of negative reviews very quickly after release on Steam. It released to coincide with season 2, which seems to be well regarded so far. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46438 Posts
On November 02 2023 04:41 andrewlt wrote: I am finding the latter hard to believe. That's why I asked. The game had a lot of negative reviews very quickly after release on Steam. It released to coincide with season 2, which seems to be well regarded so far. I definitely agree with you. | ||
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Miragee
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On November 02 2023 04:41 andrewlt wrote: I am finding the latter hard to believe. That's why I asked. The game had a lot of negative reviews very quickly after release on Steam. It released to coincide with season 2, which seems to be well regarded so far. Can you add the game to Steam with a product key if you already own it (I don't)? | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46438 Posts
On November 02 2023 06:51 Miragee wrote: Can you add the game to Steam with a product key if you already own it (I don't)? I don't think so. For example, my original Battle.net Diablo 4 game doesn't mean I have the Steam version of the game too. They're completely different accounts. | ||
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Miragee
8707 Posts
On November 02 2023 07:04 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: I don't think so. For example, my original Battle.net Diablo 4 game doesn't mean I have the Steam version of the game too. They're completely different accounts. Ok, interesting. I added quite a few games to Steam that work standalone as well (from CD or download) so I thought it might be the the same for D4. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On November 02 2023 06:51 Miragee wrote: Can you add the game to Steam with a product key if you already own it (I don't)? The product key is a separate thing typically for gifts or review copies. You can see if the person used a product key or bought from steam in the top right of the review. It will show a steam icon if they purchased through steam or a key if they used a product activation key. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7406 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46438 Posts
On November 02 2023 18:37 Harris1st wrote: If you are salty enough you can just buy the game on steam, leave a review then give the game back. Unless the review function is coupled to a minimum playtime? I don't know if there's a minimum playtime required before being eligible to leave a Steam review, but if there is a minimum playtime, it's definitely not longer than 1 hour. (I've had people leave Steam reviews for my video game after playing only 1 hour.) Anyone who's salty enough to commit to the pay -> review -> refund scheme probably wouldn't have a problem idling or clicking around for at most 1 hour. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7406 Posts
On November 02 2023 19:57 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: I don't know if there's a minimum playtime required before being eligible to leave a Steam review, but if there is a minimum playtime, it's definitely not longer than 1 hour. (I've had people leave Steam reviews for my video game after playing only 1 hour.) Anyone who's salty enough to commit to the pay -> review -> refund scheme probably wouldn't have a problem idling or clicking around for at most 1 hour. Makes me wonder why they don't have this kind of review protection. Just make it 10 hours played before leaving a review. This would solve a lot of review bombing cases. Whats the name of your game? | ||
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