Last Epoch could be new home for Diablo 4 players after content drought - Dexerto
Last Epoch could be new home for Diablo 4 players after content drought - Dexerto
Many Diablo 4 content creators have left the Blizzard franchise, with some moving on to Diablo's rival Last Epoch and enjoying the change.
Looks interesting, but I gotta be honest: when I click on the Steam page and the first thing I see is a cash shop to buy "Epoch Points" for this early access game? That's an instant turn-off for me. I'm sure it's not as predatory as what Blizzard did with D4's monetization, but I don't want it in my games, period.
What's predatory about Diablo 4's monetization? Seems pretty standard skins and cosmetics stuff. And the battle pass.
But it's not like you get better gear or anything, right?
It certainly has been for me. Picked it up a couple of weeks into Diablo 4's first season launch, after remembering that I had heard some folks on Lemmy talking about it during D4's open-beta.
Zero regrets on picking it up, feels like I'm actually having fun along the way whereas in Diablo 4 I kept wondering where the fun was at (and that said "fun" was always just a few paragon points away so I could unlock a node that would end up being inconsequential).
I've primarily played mage (and it actually feels like a mage unlike D4's so called sorcerer class...) so while I can't personally speak on the other classes, a friend of mine has done a lot of experimenting with the other classes and they have nothing to say but good things about the various classes.
It is worth noting that Last Epoch is still technically in beta, and does have some bugs every now and then. But they are targeting their 1.0 release before the end of this year. I'm not normally one who picks up early access games, this one certainly is a nice exception though.
Looks like a nice ARPG, but it seems to integrate an "always online" bullshit requirement, can someone who actually has it confirm or rectify ?
