Because they're hoping name recognition is enough for people to buy.
They're releasing a game literally in alpha for 60 dollars holy crap.
It needed it 5 years ago
Tone deaf announcement. Well deserved. Love the main series devs, don't get me wrong. But yikes.
Give this team time and money and you'll have them paying for themselves in due time.
Will be looking forward to their new entries.
What once was may never be again, and it is all the worse for having been so. The Creator we need right now.
How bout nahhhh
Wouldn't that logic apply to literally every fighting game then? Returning characters, stages, music.. hmm?
Nah, actually the entire community is joint on this one on the forums. The community is livid and they can probably sell this to the cellphone gaming crowd, but there were 10-13 million possible core fans who would probably buy an entirely new PC Diablo experience. Pretty deaf response as far as company moves go.
I wouldn't want to be making this decision. Best case scenario you get out of making this decision by saying they're both really good for completely different reasons. But God damn, could never on the spot say which.
Having played most of the day's major MMOs you CAN find refuge from the cesspool online. There are guilds, regular folk, and good people online 10x more than that one asshole screaming his rhetoric in all caps. Do not give in or give ground by making a space for them.
I game online but 76 is a different breed as far as online experience. I can't say that on a server with a few dozen folks, if one or two were how you described I wouldn't do the same. But if you ...
Yeah definitely agree.
Absolutely agree
Smokehouse is extremely triggered by this story makes me chuckle.
You have no idea how sad it makes me to write this shit... Er.....
Shepherd.
To be honest.. not even bioware is nailing story based games anymore so idk what y'all talking about.. walk before you can run
Was gonna post this
This is actually really generous on EAs part they could've taken everything away with legal action smh