• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
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    Doesn’t matter the reviews or review bombing to Blizzard. The fact remains that no matter how actually shitty the game is Blizzard is making record profits off of the game.

    That’s all Blizzard looks at these days. Is it making them money? And the answer is an abundant yes. So for whatever hate there is, the fact that players are still handing them fistfuls of cash indicates full success to them.

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      If they’re making record profits why did they decide to come to steam?

      I think their player numbers have dropped and they’re trying to boost them.

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        I’ve been mostly out of the loop for overwatch but my guess is so that can have even more recorder profits

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            They’re gonna do the profitiest profit that anyone has ever profited

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              I liked the part where Bobby Kotick said “its profiting time” and then profited all over the place

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          Steam takes 30%. If they thought they could drive people to their standalone launcher they would be doing that

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            I don’t think that is correct; Steam usually takes 30%, but I thought some of the larger publishers negotiated different (secret) rates.

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        It seems most likely to me that it’s prep for the rest of the Microsoft deal so they can claim to regulators they aren’t using their ever-growing control to choke out other platforms. Same reason they’re making those promises about Call of Duty on Switch.

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      I guess this could be a glass half full kind of situation.

      But they also are not making as much money as they could have if they delivered on a good game. Even if they got only 5% of steam, that is still 95% of steam that didn’t buy it.

      Sure, you can make the argument that they still got into a new market. However, if your product was scientifically engineered to appeal to the most demographics, then only 5% of that market is concerning.

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      Review bombing doesn’t actually help anyone, it just makes people question the validity of user reviews in general.

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      While I completely understand the hc gamer community hating the game, I personally, as a 37 yo working person, have had co-op and solo fun for over 200h with a few friends.

      For me, that’s well worth the price of the game. And no I won’t be buying any passes and I won’t even finish season 1 because there’s nothing really that new there, but objectively D4 was a good fucking game, especially for couch co-op lovers.

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      That’s all any publicly traded company looks at because that’s all that actually matters for them