First of all, I’m not a new player, nor a casual one. I’ve been playing d2 since 2005, I played offline via tcp with my friends, batle net too, lots of mods, and when I heard that diablo 2 would be re-released in, I bought d2 again for PC and Nintendo Switch.
But as a huge fan of d2, and an offline player, I have to admit that the game’s online experience currently sucks.
The community in general is extremely toxic, the pursuit of multiplayer games is stressful, old players no longer have enough life to farm items. In the middle of 2022-2023, a game, where to get every certain item/equipment/rune requires several hours of games, it’s almost as if diablo were a job, it’s meaningless.
Diablo 2 needs the PX option.
Diablo 2 is easy, you can clear the three modes with weak equipment, ubers depending on the character can even be faced, but when you get all the end-game equipment, the game becomes extremely easy, Px would make the game more challenger. Facing uber tristam in P8 would be extremely challenging.
OBS: PX will not cause items to drop from the sky, but everyone will get more efficient runs. Booters or dsjp will end as people will now get their gear themselves without having to give up their lives.
The majority asking for it, and same 2-4 people spamming every topic. It’s hilarious. Hopefully next Season better drop rates, exp, and a difficulty scale!
Don’t worry OP, majority that wants it are hardcore old-school D2 players and Blizzard knows it. Only very few 5% no-lifers don’t want it (because they exploit and hope to make money from it). Most normal people already quit the game and Blizzard will see when the player retention is so bad that the game does not even sell on 75% discount.
Ignore the toxic no-lifers who tell you to play something else, they should play OG D2 in all it’s no-life glory braindead grind.
He’s speaking for the very vast majority, as seen in here, Reddit, and everywhere. Keep denying it like you deny the Earth is round - won’t change facts.
You put this very simply and well. Got to the points that matter.
Thanks for sharing. Ignore the haters. They are proponents of RMT/d2jsp/multiboxing/botting and they will stop at nothing to attack this perspective because it threatens their way of life/abuse.
Ask for this on reddit too and discord. Explain to those that dont understand why its needed. We cannot let cheaters convince hearts and minds of legit players to reject p8. Its a sad sight to see legit players rejecting the idea bc they falsely were talked into belief it will suddenly make bnet less social. (News flasg it will have opposite effect as players return to a mode worth playing with eachother rather than SSF/hardcore/other games.
Stop with this childish rhetoric. At least make some effort and present some evidence to support your claims. It is beyond cringe and pathetic.
/P8 is not needed on Battlenet and will never come. The game did fine without it for more than 2 decades.
In every post referring to enabling px online, there are always people criticizing it in a toxic way and they are always the same.
Diablo 2 is anti social, there is no community, the most that exists is trade or a group of friends playing the same game, but never together because the diablo 2 loot system is anti social.
In all these 17 years of playing diablo 2, offline, online, mods, I’ve made a lot of friends online and in real life, I can definitely say that diablo 2 is 90% played alone, even when in an MFSplit room or when certain people reach lvl 99 with the help of others *.
Streamers reaching level 99 in no time with the help of servant people, where they provide and collect all items for them.
Why do you keep accusing many who disagrees with you as an alt of someone else?
Have you considered the possibility that many unique forum members post replies to you since what you claim is factually wrong?
You most likely are correct that p8 will not come to online in D2R. I would argue that D2R can evolve to do better than “fine”. Since split mf games exist online, optional p8 online to me is a simple QoL improvement just like optional auto-gold pickup in D2R.
I have been saying this since forever. Diablo games are almost always played solo. Common sense is lost against exploiters because they are biased - they want to protect their items for RMT.
Seriously dude, what would you miss if px existed online? Why do you freak out so much on topics like this?
Px would be optional when creating rooms, it would be just another QoL for D2R. If you don’t want it, just ignore it and use the normal P1.
The PVP will be more balanced and with more people, as they will now be able to obtain items and reach lvl 99, without having to abandon their life to play.
Trade will be more of the same, there will be more supply and demand, especially on the ladder.
You will be able to continue playing with your friends.
Tell me for real, what would you miss? What reasons do you have for not wanting px for other people?
The argument that I saw on the forum that shall not be named is that px would lead to more D2R items in the trade economy and D2R items would lose fg value.
px will ruin the online multiplayer experience (this doesn’t exist because either the people in the room are doing mfsplit, or they are in the same area fighting over xp and loot)
px will make the game easier (where will this make the game easier? to farm on p3/p5/p7 you need a good strategy/character/equipment/preparation)
px will make people play solo ( everyone plays solo, the opposite is only when they want help to pass some level / mfsplit / xp leech / ruin games of others, diablo 2 in general is anti-social)
They are just exploiters and RMTers/or other “currency” traders worrying about the in-game items losing their “value”. If they trade in-game in a legit and fair way, they won’t lose any value.
I have been saying this since forever:
(Feel free to put a like in OP and post your opinion in-topic too).
And people have been doing it even before the game’s release. Actually, people been asking for it, better drop rates/ exp since OG D2, and Blizzard North did listen to them multiple times.
I had a long reply drafted up, but you cut to the chase and I agree.
If you have a character geared up to play P8… you don’t need more/better gear, so, if that’s your “objective”… when you don’t even need it… hmmm… $$$.
The real problem is, characters that can be built so OP as to be able to farm P8.
That needs dialed waayyy back.