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[Spyxos]

The studio is apparently already thinking about both, as a survey was leaked a few days ago in which selected players can vote on four different cost options. In some cases, almost brazen ideas came to light, which are currently causing the community to get extremely upset.

100 dollar add-on and Pay2Win?
The price categories available for selection in the survey are absurd in places. In total, participants could choose between four options, each priced differently. The choices were:

• 50 Dollar
• 70 Dollar
• 80 Dollar
• 100 Dollar

However, the offer to buy helpful gameplay benefits gets really wild. For example, one option includes earlier access to new unique items or legendary aspects and even more space in the chest. A feature that fans have actually been asking for as a free update since release.


With annual addons, I was actually thinking more of 20-30 dollar addons. But Blizz seems to want a lot more.

Content​	Option A​	Option B​	Option C​	Option D​
Price for the extension​	69,99 $​	49,99 $​	79,99 $​	99,99 $​
One cosmetic armor (without stats) Includes 6 variants - one for each class​		Hero skin (new class)​	Hero skin (new class)​	Hero skin for all classes​
A new mount that is not a horse. Could come with new features, such as cosmetic rewards for achievements.​		Unique mount that evolves.​	Unique mount.​	Unique mount armor​
Platinum that you will receive immediately on your account.​	2,000 (20 $ value)​	1,000 (10 $ value)​	3,000 (30 $ value)​
A fixed amount of platinum, that you get every season.​		1,000 (40 $ value)​	3,000 (120 $ value)​	2,000 (80 $ value)​
Cosmetic wings, with visual effects and animations.​	Wings​			Wings​
Access to the premium version of the Battle Pass.​	Accelerated Battle Pass for a whole year (4 seasons / 100 $ value)​	1 Premium Battle Pass (10 $ value)​	Premium Battle Pass for a whole year (4 seasons / 40 $ value)​
4 days early access to the game.​	4 days before​	4 days before​	​
NPC companion, who can call up your chest and pick up gold.​		1 season before launch​	1 season before launch​	​

A new look and new animations for the city portal.​		City portal skin​	City portal skin​
Advance access to a functional item. For example, a unique piece of piece of equipment or an aspect.​		Unique item​		Legendary item​
More space in the chest for your loot.​	A chest tab​	Two chest tabs​	Two chest tabs​
A copy of the Diablo 4 base game​	Diablo 4 included​	Diablo 4 included​

Translated Text from a German Gaming site

Diablo 4: Blizzard will wissen, ob 100 Dollar für ein Addon für euch okay wären

In einer geleakten Umfrage von Blizzard wird gefragt, welchen Preis man als Fan für das neue Addon zahlen würde und welche Inhalte drin stecken...

www.gamestar.de

 

[Spank_Magnet]

Make it 10 quid, still not going to buy it.

 

[Nemesisuuu]

 

[Dazraell]

 

[SEGAvangelist]

I'm guessing $100 would include the expansion, some kind of season pass with level skips, early access and a few preorder items. They'll find some way to make it equal the cost of the product, but that sticker shock would be pretty rough, IMO.

 

[Frexerik88]

The answer is yes, people are obviously okay with this.

 

[Beer Baelly]

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Blizzard you should

 

[Three]

MS/ABK added skins priced at $40 already so not surprising they're trying to push addons to $100. You can buy entire games for those prices. I guess 'addons' are how they charge for games and make up for the revenue now.

 

[Varteras]

Burn in hell. I say this fully aware of how appropriate it is.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Darkkahn]

You what?

 

[Trogdor1123]

Blizzard is in a sad place. Breaks your heart to see it as I had so many good memories with their games. Now days, not sure I’d want to play of them.

 

[Solidus_T]

ABK already asked $70 for MWIII which is just DLC. Of course they would roll out a potential $100 DLC for a game

 

[I'm nobody]

Could not get the £70 part of the game right
I quit after losing 50 hours on hardcore no death

 

[Ogbert]

Depressing what’s happened to that company.

Soulless shitberg these days.

Diablo 4 is fucking tragic.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

£30-40 tops and it needs to be a fully fledged expansion with new environments, new story and a new playable race. £70 and you can go kick some huge fucking rocks.

 

[Robb]

Blizzard wants to know if you'd be okay with 100 dollars for an add-on

 

[iHaunter]

Diablo IV had potential. Hate the people in charge of it.

 

[Dynasty8]

 

[Fake]

Everyone of you deserves every pit of this.

 

[PanzerCute]

You know you are getting f*** from behind when they have to use a spreadsheet to explain how their DLC pricing and structure work.

 

[ManaByte]

Uh WOW expansions have been doing this for YEARS.

 

[Schmendrick]

The option "go fuck yourselves" is missing

 

[MiguelItUp]

The fact that they don't know the answers themselves is pretty telling. "Hey, we COULD do it for this much, but how much are you willing to give us?"

 

[kubricks]

I don't even play your shit anymore.
The last thing I remotely care is D2R, even that I have already given up.

 

[GHG]

Uh WOW expansions have been doing this for YEARS.

And you're supportive of it?

 

[Chastten]

I enjoyed the game at launch and got my money's worth from it so no regrets.

I really can't understand people still playing it though

 

[Last Hearth]

The studio is apparently already thinking about both, as a survey was leaked a few days ago in which selected players can vote on four different cost options. In some cases, almost brazen ideas came to light, which are currently causing the community to get extremely upset.

100 dollar add-on and Pay2Win?
The price categories available for selection in the survey are absurd in places. In total, participants could choose between four options, each priced differently. The choices were:

• 50 Dollar
• 70 Dollar
• 80 Dollar
• 100 Dollar

However, the offer to buy helpful gameplay benefits gets really wild. For example, one option includes earlier access to new unique items or legendary aspects and even more space in the chest. A feature that fans have actually been asking for as a free update since release.


With annual addons, I was actually thinking more of 20-30 dollar addons. But Blizz seems to want a lot more.

Content​	Option A​	Option B​	Option C​	Option D​
Price for the extension​	69,99 $​	49,99 $​	79,99 $​	99,99 $​
One cosmetic armor (without stats) Includes 6 variants - one for each class​		Hero skin (new class)​	Hero skin (new class)​	Hero skin for all classes​
A new mount that is not a horse. Could come with new features, such as cosmetic rewards for achievements.​		Unique mount that evolves.​	Unique mount.​	Unique mount armor​
Platinum that you will receive immediately on your account.​	2,000 (20 $ value)​	1,000 (10 $ value)​	3,000 (30 $ value)​
A fixed amount of platinum, that you get every season.​		1,000 (40 $ value)​	3,000 (120 $ value)​	2,000 (80 $ value)​
Cosmetic wings, with visual effects and animations.​	Wings​			Wings​
Access to the premium version of the Battle Pass.​	Accelerated Battle Pass for a whole year (4 seasons / 100 $ value)​	1 Premium Battle Pass (10 $ value)​	Premium Battle Pass for a whole year (4 seasons / 40 $ value)​
4 days early access to the game.​	4 days before​	4 days before​	​
NPC companion, who can call up your chest and pick up gold.​		1 season before launch​	1 season before launch​	​

A new look and new animations for the city portal.​		City portal skin​	City portal skin​
Advance access to a functional item. For example, a unique piece of piece of equipment or an aspect.​		Unique item​		Legendary item​
More space in the chest for your loot.​	A chest tab​	Two chest tabs​	Two chest tabs​
A copy of the Diablo 4 base game​	Diablo 4 included​	Diablo 4 included​

Translated Text from a German Gaming site

Diablo 4: Blizzard will wissen, ob 100 Dollar für ein Addon für euch okay wären

In einer geleakten Umfrage von Blizzard wird gefragt, welchen Preis man als Fan für das neue Addon zahlen würde und welche Inhalte drin stecken...

www.gamestar.de

I’m okay with it, since I don’t own and will never play Diablo 4, the people who are willing to pay for this and Blizzard deserve each other.

 

[NonPhixion]

I mean it felt like Diablo: Immortal 2 since I played the beta.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Called it. All this was always their plan. QoL features habe been made shit by design.

 

[Krieger]

Blizzard's servers deserve to go up in flames. And I mean this literally, burn down you greedy fuckers. Burn Ubisoft down too for their ads bullshit.

 

[LazyParrot]

Is it just me, or is the $99.99 proposal actually the worst value out of all of them? Like, it doesn't include the base game, but somehow the one for $49.99 does?

 

[T4keD0wN]

The fact that we have reached the point where i cant tell if this is real or not disturbes me.

 

[quest]

Is it just me, or is the $99.99 proposal actually the worst value out of all of them? Like, it doesn't include the base game, but somehow the one for $49.99 does?

I found that strange. The only item i saw worth a damn to me was getting npc companion sooner. But im not paying extra for that. Give me base expansion for 29.99 or 39.99 usd. Don't care about skins or season pass.

 

[SHA]

Blizzard you should

Sugoku Tsuyoi

 

[Paltheos]

Beating a dead horse at this point - I'm done with Blizzard and have been for years. If you really need the extra money, just raise the retail prices of your games, cowards.

 

[GHG]

The fact that we have reached the point where i cant tell if this is real or not disturbes me.

It's real unfortunately.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Motherfucking leeches.

 

[coffinbirth]

ABK already asked $70 for MWIII which is just DLC. Of course they would roll out a potential $100 DLC for a game.

Do you honestly think that a full retail released CoD entry with a single player campaign, a full open world zombie mode, 12 core game modes in 16 multiplayer maps, with 12 more added through the seasons, and a complete overhaul to nearly all gameplay aspects is DLC...or are you just parroting some questionably motivated bullshit?

 

[ssringo]

I feel like I heard about this weeks ago. Regardless, my answer is the same.

Certainly not for Diablo 4.

 

[Solidus_T]

Do you honestly think that a full retail released CoD entry with a single player campaign, a full open world zombie mode, 12 core game modes in 16 multiplayer maps, with 12 more added through the seasons, and a complete overhaul to nearly all gameplay aspects is DLC...or are you just parroting some questionably motivated bullshit?

I'm unsure if you're a troll or you really think that the game is an entirely new, fresh game. The campaign is 4 hours max, and it consists of a handful of open world segments that are basically just DMZ maps - calling it a campaign is generous. The Zombies mode is mostly repurposed DMZ as well. The "12 core game modes in 16 multiplayer maps" have always existed - especially those maps, which are all MW2 2009 maps that got some graphical upgrades. The guns in this game are all repurposed models, including the attachments. This game features a lot of the bizarre CoD Vanguard attachments like the yellow dot, as well as from CoD Advanced Warfare.

On the contrary to your question which was actually loaded garbage, are you joking? - I ask because it was actually pretty funny.

 

[kvltus lvlzvs]

I am so glad I didnt purchase this game.

 

[coffinbirth]

I'm unsure if you're a troll or you really think that the game is an entirely new, fresh game. The campaign is 4 hours max, and it consists of a handful of open world segments that are basically just DMZ maps - calling it a campaign is generous. The Zombies mode is mostly repurposed DMZ as well. The "12 core game modes in 16 multiplayer maps" have always existed - especially those maps, which are all MW2 2009 maps that got some graphical upgrades. The guns in this game are all repurposed models, including the attachments. This game features a lot of the bizarre CoD Vanguard attachments like the yellow dot, as well as from CoD Advanced Warfare.

On the contrary to your question which was actually loaded garbage, are you joking? - I ask because it was actually pretty funny.

 

[havoc00]

 

[MacReady13]

Yet there are MANY who try to tell me that gaming today is better than it has ever been...

 

[SmokedMeat]

If it comes my way I’ll vote the most predatory option, and then uninstall the game.
If fans are asking for and willing to pay for early access to items in an ARPG, then they deserve to be bent over.

 

[tamago84]

literally disneying all their IPs

 

[splattered]

Did they get advice on this from Bungie? I've been buying the expensive yearly expansion from Destiny for years now... i would probably buy this. Dunno.

 

[Tajaz2426]

This is why I have quit gaming pretty much all together. I enjoy single player games with no store or options to spent real money on nothing, but all these companies squeezing every dollar and manipulating children to be future addicts and pay those prices for no digital value has just pretty much ruined gaming all together for me.