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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FREE 5 day trial of Diablo IV Steam
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:45:26 -0700
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On 8/22/2024 10:09 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:20:40 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/22/2024 8:17 AM, Justisaur wrote:
>>> Diablo 4 is Free to try for 5 days!  Like a free weekend but longer.
>>> Also 40% off if you buy when it ends.
>>>
>>> https://store.steampowered.com/app/2344520/Diablo_IV/
>>>
>>> Possibly long enough to finish the game?
>>>
>>> DLing now myself.
> 
> 
>> Dog Gamit!  They got me.  It's just the demo to level 20 that's always
>> been available.  What a bunch of BS.
 >
> The combination of it being all-at-once an Activision game, a
> Microsoft game, a 'live-service' game, a Diablo game AND a
> time-limited trial were already enough to keep me from playing it.


Sadly I started the demo as I'd already downloaded it.  Unfortunately 
I'm also enjoying it so far.

It doesn't seem to save except at points it doesn't tell you when, I 
think you keep all your stuff, but it doesn't seem to keep all quest 
progress, which I find annoying.  Being live online only I can't just 
leave it open either as it force logs you out.

The other thing that's bugging me a little is the 'events' that are 
trials that only exist for a short amount of time, which I know is to 
prey upon FoMO.

I tried Druid up to 13th, because I wanted to see a new class.  I just 
started Necromancer because that was my favorite from 2, which I like a 
lot better so far.  It occurs to me I could just go play 2 again for 
Necromancer though.  The visuals and story great, and the character 
customization is nice though.

I don't know what it is about Diablo that draws me in that other clones 
(mostly) don't.

I'm going to try to resist actually buying it, but I'll probably play 
the heck out of the demo (although with a level max of 20 that doesn't 
look like it'll be very long even if I try all the characters.)  If it 
didn't have all that MTX shit tacked on, and just had a nice offline 
single-player or especially split-screen play mode where you could 
actually save the game I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

> 
> That they time-limited a DEMO is just icing on the cake. ;-)

Yeah I don't get that. Apparently the demo is only time limited on 
Steam, not if you got it through them.  Which is yet more asshattery by 
them.  Though it's still limited to level 20 (of something like 150+ 
post leveling progress.)

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-Justisaur

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