Diablo 4 daily events spark live service concerns for the Blizzard RPG
A Diablo 4 closed beta announced for November says it will focus on the endgame experience as developer Blizzard aims to hone its next title to go toe-to-toe with the best RPG games on PC. However, fans are taking exception to a certain event type, saying they fear the introduction of ‘daily quests’ and more timed live-service elements that make the game feel too much like a chore – despite the long tail of past entries as proven by the successful recent launch of Diablo 3 season 27.
In a post titled, “Please keep ‘Dailies’ the hell away from Diablo 4,” user Ulmaguest lays out their concerns – many of which have since been echoed by other members of the subreddit responding in the comments. In particular, they are taking exception to an event described in the Diablo 4 endgame beta preview post called Whispers of the Dead. Blizzard says that players can earn Grim Favors by completing tasks associated with these Whispers, and adds that “The types of Whispers a player sees on their map rotate frequently, with new ones becoming available throughout the day for you to track.”
Players express their concerns that this sounds like it could introduce a daily aspect to the endgame grind, where you might be encouraged to log in every day to make sure that you don’t miss out on getting enough Grim Favors to turn in at the Tree of Whispers “for a bevy of loot and experience.” Ulmaguest says that they find the idea of logging in every day out of a sense of obligation “sounds tedious and lame, like a chore; like work, right?”
Another user, Jcorb, adds that their main issue with daily content is that “it feels like the moment you complete that content, then everything beyond that ‘daily’ content is comparatively less valuable,” meaning
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