"We are proud to announce a feature nobody wanted or will ever use to Rock Band 4. As you can see, 95% of our trailer shows other stuff, because this looks kind of terrible in game. But please enjoy us talk about a song that is most famous for being in our rival's game, Guitar Hero III."
Speak for yourself. I'm genuinely excited for this. Comments like this make me wonder if there is some form of cosmic quota for snarkiness that everyone on the internet has to abide by.
Remember when we were all "What's Blizzard gonna do after WoW? They're never gonna make that much cash again."
Oh, how naive we were.
I wonder how much this game will earn them. It's kind of a weird business model, a 60 dollar arena shooter in a time where free arena shooters like TF2 exist. People will either back out of it because of the price tag or just buy the standard price of a game. There's not really a way to earn them that extra cash that keeps flowing in after a while. It's a nice looking game but the game modes look too much like TF2 and I doubt it will be enough to convince people to buy it over other games of its genre.
Since there's also no Daily objectives (although this might change, if they're smart) or level progression that leads to neat unlocks or something to look forward too I wonder if it has any staying power, much like Battlefront.
Just remember, none of that stuff existed in HoTS early on, either. Talent Trees, Skills, Abilities, Leveling Up; these were all different during Alpha/Beta. I would be quite surprised if Blizzard doesn't add some sort of leveling system, maybe to just superficially add weight to progression. With it being at $60/$40, though, I doubt we'll see abilities locked behind levels, though. Maybe a similar system where skin/mount color variants require a specific hero level, etc.
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