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Check out Path of Exile 2 -- it's the spiritual successor to Diablo 2. And it's freemium

It's a great game, but if you are concerned about Freedom in Hong Kong, Grinding Gear Games is owned by Tencent, so you are still sending money to support an authoritarian regime that is still finishing up their latest installment of ethnic cleansing and re-education camps.

I had no idea. Looks like I won’t be playing PoE 2. Thanks.

This is anecdotal but I have memories of people freely bashing the USA in POE chat rooms, while I got a warning for making comments about China.

So is Funcom, Riot, Epic, Miniclip... They're harder to avoid than Nestle...

No they’re very easy to avoid. Just don’t play games by ten cent owned companies. There are a lot of companies out there and a lot of games - more than you or I could conceivably have time to play.

And almost none of them is any good. I like story heavy games and can tolerate some pretty bad art and graphics for a good story. Unfortunately most games these days seem to be terrible on both counts.

Tencent has its fingers in lots of companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Foreign_gaming_investm...

Good to know, thanks. Definitely do not want to support communism or the CCP.

Path of Exile 2 is still in development, you probably meant Path of Exile? By the way, they just released a new free expansion so it's a great time to check the game out. It's considered by many as the greatest ARPG.

Hades is a better Diablo than any of the Diablo games imo. I feel like it's the perfection of the mechanics that diablo's dungeon runs were supposed to be.

Hades definitely has more interesting game mechanics, but it's more of a Roguelike ARPG than a classic ARPG.

I also find its enemy design and atmosphere lacking in consistency and quality. It just doesn't have the dark, dangerous, and foreboding feel that Diablo 1 and 2 have mastered.

Totally agree. Both Hades and Diablo are great, but the gameplay and art are considerably different between the two.

Yes, i agree but then again i still feel it nailed down what the addictive parts of diablo were and put them into a far better game and context. That's why I maintain it's a better Diablo than any diablo or POE.

I’d recommend Grim Dawn over PoE personally.

Nice, thanks! It looks good!

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