They stopped releasing heroes in 2020 or something, then did nothing for a few years, but eventually started doing occasional balance patches, and now they’re apparently going to release at least two new characters. Servers have been up and running this whole time.

If anyone can deliver those insane profits on a consistent basis, I’m betting on Blizzard currently. Basically all of their major games are live service and print money. That probably still won’t fully save them from the next round of Microsoft layoffs, but they might no get hit as hard.

Just some minor notes, Dominion is just the name of the cinematic, the game doesn’t have an announced name yet (unless they’re calling it just Starcraft, which would be weird).

The Last Titan expansion wasn’t revealed for the first time here. I think during the last Blizzcon a few years ago, when the World Soul Saga was announced, they went through the three expansions, their names, some overall themes, so you might find a bit more info in those videos, if you’re interested.

For me, the 2030 release date (+eventual delays) lines up with Microsoft’s recent push/wish for more games in their big franchises a couple of months ago, so this is probably still in some kind of pre-production.

Diablo 4 will be six years old by the time this comes out (not including eventual delays), which seems like a decent time between major releases, and three years after the current expansion, which concluded the Mephisto story.

That’s why I said almost. I remember being pretty disappointed at the end, because the ties to the rest of the series got more prominent.

The biggest problem with the villains is the typical anime game trope of defeating them in the battle, but losing in the cutscene, constantly. This whole series just loves to blue ball you. You are constantly getting teased, never getting a payoff. Nothing you do matters.

Gotta chime in as a Trails hater, from time to time.

This is one of the worst games I’ve played, mainly because of the terrible story and worst written villains ever. I cannot understand why anyone would like this game. There is only one good game in the series, Trails from Zero, because it has almost nothing to do with the rest of the series (which is ruined in the sequel).

Combat is decent though.