Spong: David Brevik is the President and COO of Gazillion Entertainment - currently developing free-to-play action MMO, Marvel Heroes. He previously found fame working on Diablo and Diablo 2 at Blizzard North studios.
Ken writes: "We ask Diablo co-creator David Brevik about the challenges faced by Diablo 4 today, and if he likes Diablo 2 Resurrected's preservation."
why do you make it so evident you never even touched or looked at D4. The mobile game is a reskin of 3. There is still plenty you can trash the game for tho, but that will require you into knowing what the game actually is.
If anything the "skin" of the game, aka the visuals is about the only redeeming part of the fkn game.
1. Don't lock seasons. Let people switch between them and experience the content at their leisure.
2. Stop locking appearance items behind paywalls. You've even made it so you can't unlock as much as before, making it apparent you don't care about giving the content to people, just forcing them to pay for it. Do you think people care about working through new content if they're not going to get anything out of it unless they give your money? The store is littered with money only cosmetics, keep the seasonal stuff obtainable without money.
3. Make every build viable. This game is a big cookie cutter reliant game and you haven't grasped the idea that people want power fantasies and not limitations. But then you expect them to keep rolling up new characters? Make it make sense.
Diablo creator David Brevik discusses whether ARPGs are inherently live-service games or not two decades after their release.
Im no developer, but believe its possible to make a game like diablo 4 and not have it be live service.
VideoGamer sits down with Diablo creator David Brevik to discuss his storied career from the 1980s to the modern year.
