I think the late 90s and 2000’s sheen is coming off of Blizzard. They are no longer the premiere gaming company they once were.
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Tried it. Pretty much like a drug dealer. They try to get you hooked on a relatively fun gameplay loop where microtransactions don’t seem that necessary and then bam, exactly what @Shrike said.
^^ This comment from Blizzard just shows how completely out of touch they are.
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I am totally convinced that they have an AI working your odds as you play. For example: in the game you need special thingies to up your chance of a legendary drop, item or gem. After running dungeons for a while you notice that they are very very rare, unless you use the special thingies but not fool proof. In my one session I was doing the story quests and in there you have to fight some NPCs in the safe zone city and one of those NPCs dropped a legendary item for me.
Now usually I would take this as an indication of how gloriously random the drops are but… I started thinking, when last did I use one of those special thingies, it was almost a day before and I have been going dry on them and not using them in dungeons. That made this drop suspicious.
Made me wonder if there is an AI that monitors usage of premium items and if changes the drop chances based on algorithmic criteria on how much you use those items. We all know that casinos use the same rigged systems to milk your brain chemicals.
I am NOT happy where this is going to take gaming in the future.
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I was wondering if this would be the case. Thanks for confirming. I’ll uninstall and re-install D3 rather.
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All that train DLC isn’t looking too bad now.
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I know it’s irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but Blizzard have really upset players so much in the way they’ve handled this. It’s been review bombed to the point that the PC version now has the lowest metacritic user score ever: 0.2. The 0.5 score on the mobile side is not much to cheer about either.
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They’ve sunk to a new low.
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This is why they do things like this… gamers just can’t help themselves. Despite all the negativity, the bad PR, the grumpy public discourse, $100 million in mobile revenue in just two months. 
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And this is why I havent even installed it.
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Just like that COD2 boycott lol. It never worked out.
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