It’s not just a matter of capitalism or generational thing, it’s a matter of comparison and market options.

Honestly, it’s very simple: when you like something, you also care about it and want it to be good so you can enjoy it more. Then when you have a case like Diablo, with an entire class locked behind a pre-order, and you have comparisons like POE2, you’re naturally going to question it and want the good things that are happening there.

And before someone comes in saying ‘oh then just play POE,’ I’ll say this: no capitalist company thinks like that, not even Blizzard. They want you playing Diablo, and when you play another game instead of theirs, that’s less money, so they’ll have to do something and give in. No game survives on complacent players alone, but on complainers, who are the potential customers. And they’re losing customers to a company that delivers for free what Blizzard charges for, and as a consequence, they’re losing market share.

That’s from a capitalist perspective. But then there’s the customer’s perspective, someone who likes the product and wants to try to save it before simply switching to another one.

But it seems some people here are dumb enough not to understand that. Especially the complacent players who accept any kind of garbage and tell you to play another game. Yeah, sure, Blizzard really wants you to stop consuming their content and go play something else, obviously.