I for one stopped playing due to server issues but checking in past couple of days to see if it’s fixed. When I played upon release people would join my lobbies instantly and past 2 days no one joined at all.
Are people just grinding in hell mode now or something?
There’s a weird issue where sometimes it will only show very few games, but then you restart the game client and suddenly it populates with many more games. I have no idea why this is, but it is.
And another possible reason is that people buying D2R expecting the same experience from 20 years ago, but then realizing that they are now grown up people, have real life and responsibilities, and D2R just doesn’t hook them as much as 20 years ago. D2 was the best 20 years ago but it hardly stands out in today’s gaming world
none of my friends are playing, and frankly i dont think the remake is anywhere near as good as the original.
It lost over HALF of its population exact numbers are not known coz bots have been on the rise …
but it prob lost somewhere more like 80% of its players or such maybe not as high but its high.
I think it’s a combination of several things.
I’m sure there was drop off due to players reaching a point where they feel they were done with the game. Also many players are likely at the point of farming so baal games or private mf games are likely the most played currently. Once they launch ladder there will likely be an uptick in players again.
that and D2LoD was over-rated over-hyped
yeah classic
but over-hyped/over-rated peeps tend to think that means the game is bad … it didnt age well most if not all other ARPGS are better then this game well MOST are lets put it like that
Torch light grim dawn so on so forth just to name a few then we got the bigger boys like Path of exiles which is just clearly surperior to LoD / This game.
classic becouse for its time this was top notch
Fallout 2 is a classic and still a realy fun / great game for its genra (just becouse a game is an rpg dosnt mean they all need to be group into the same genra) and there are a number of old school games which are still great / fun sure may not of age that well but not nearly as badly as LoD
System shock is an old school horror rpg thats pretty good / fun yeah its old so it has older problems and such
long story short (2 late) there are older games that are classics and still good, LoD is a classic but wasnt that good / as good as peeps claim / remeber it to be.
The game population has barely changed… People are still actively playing. You saw more people at the beginning when everyone was starting with a blank slate and had nowhere to go but up.
Now everyone’s settled in, MF geared and know how already or know better now to play solo games for MF runs, Baal and Chaos runs for EXP, “rush me plz” games to charge Hell Hellforge for the run etc.
This is how Diablo 2 has always been.
There’s no paradigm shift like everyone wants to impress upon their peers to try and make it seem like Blizzard somehow royally screwed up or what have you.
We also need to consider that server segregation is taking place to reduce regional server stress, so you’ll see less people on your node than others. This is temporary and will be changed in coming patches.
Blizzard would be the only ones to be able to tell you how much the player has shrunk but almost certainly has shrunk we are 2 months out from launch ladder resets historically have had player drops 1-3 months after launch and on top of that plenty of people played for the experience of trying out a game they have heard people talk about for years.
Also if you look at variety streamers most of them have finished beating hell and moved on i am sure some non streamers also played just to “beat” the game.
that said it’s always hard to tell with d2 how many people are playing because playing together is discouraged by game mechanics as well as the hacking that is seemingly ignored by blizzard. The boters haven’t started running a ton of public games yet either so that will change the perception of activity as well.
do you have a source for this claim?
Idk if they have a source but it is a fact that sometimes there’s very few games but restarting the client and suddenly there’s lots of games. Seems like some sort of server splitting is going on. Though I guess it could be some sort of game/lobby bug. I’m not expert on these matters, just reporting my experience.
yeah i feel like it has to do with either firewall issues or ping as other games have had both be reasons why people couldn’t see all games, i remember when i first upgraded to dsl and got a router the firewall blocked me from joining a lot of d2 and seeing a lot of wc3 games until i used a guide on blizzard old forums to white flag the games and do some port forwarding
i more wanted to know the source of the part saying it was temporary and will be changed.
(the game list stuff have been going on since day 1 if you are to believe the forums)
I took a long break from the game while playing New World, but when I’ve played a little bit recently the few times I bothered to check the lobby, it had the same issues it had when the game first came out for me (actually more now given the state of chat spam). The list often shows a bunch of games that are 1-2 hours old at the top. Clicking on a game to see how long its been up is painfully slow to load the details of the game. It’s just not reasonable given how many old games you’ll have to click on before you find one that’s actually worth joining. What very few baal run games that ever show up are usually old, sometimes 2-3+ games older than what the current number might be if you’re desperate enough to start just guessing game name/number combos and find that that run actually is still going on.
Even if people are playing the game, they may not be able to find any fresh public games because of how terrible the public game browser is. It’s the worst game browser I’ve ever seen. Zero ability to filter or sort by time or search by name. Back when I played in the early 2000s on oldschool bnet, the game list often contained old games and had no decent filtering options, but it at least frequently updated and did have newer games in the list as well. The D2R version seems significantly worse to me unless there just aren’t that many games for it to show and most of them are 1-2 hours old. It’s borderline entirely worthless for finding fresh games.
I’ve looked at some discords for the game, but they really have very little going on in terms of public game runs being advertised as well. I think the problem is a combination of a terrible UI on top of a fairly small playerbase.
i think there’s also a weird issue with a lot of players going back and doing free normal and nm rushes. i know when i’m done mfing and ready to call it a night i’ll check norm and nm to see if there are rush games and help them out.
if people are getting rushed all the time there’s gonna be even less games around.
i basically quit online just recently and will resume all rest of my playing in solo offline
torch light - maybe, never gave it a real chance - one day maybe i will
grim dawn - nah, too convoluted
poe - hell nah
Thats personal biased arguement speaking im talking professionaly in which case 100% and you cant argue against it professionaly speaking…
wait, what? this kind of logic is why we can’t have nice things.
The game was good at the time and is good now, but if we compare it to any ARPG of today then it has several obsolete and/or annoying mechanics.
With this I’m not saying that the game should change. It’s just that we are no longer 12 or 15 years old.
My free time is not the same.
In this case I can say that nostalgia won me over.
But instead of asking for absurd changes I prefer to go to games that already have such changes (Grim Dawn is one of them).
My arguement was based in PROFESSIONAL Arguement, Said arguements being used against me where BIASED and thus cant be used.
Professionaly speaking Path of exiles is better then D2LoD
same with the others
now is D2 LoD Bad? Nooo not my statement / arguement
till peeps learn what it means / takes to be professional … good lucky even attemping an arguement.
arpgs aren’t a profession but even if you were to use them as one i would venture to say people have made more money on diablo over the years than path of exile.