Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:09 this Thursday (GMT):

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.

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

I always find it amusing that Diablo is now on Steam (yes, I know it's
been on Steam since the start). I guess BlizzNet just wasn't getting
the traction ActiMicroBliz needed to pay the bills.

I'm surprised they didn't throw Denuvo on top to really make a sh*tshow
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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> 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.

Nonstop, yes. ;P

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

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I always find it amusing that Diablo is now on Steam (yes, I know it's
been on Steam since the start). I guess BlizzNet just wasn't getting
the traction ActiMicroBliz needed to pay the bills.

I find BlizActiSoft flows better. :)

But to misquote Shakespeare "A porta potty by any other name still
stinks." Really doesn't matter what we call them.

Xocyll

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On 22/08/2024 16:20, Justisaur 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.

Very much agree, why make a demo available as time limited and the Steam
page doesn't even seem to mention that it's just the demo. Who am I
kidding it's to 'encourage' people to download it and the end up buying
the game.

BS seems rather apt here.

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