Stop being dense an quick to reply till you fully understand the comment your replying to.
If you can run FFA games an get nothing. Why would you? There’s a ploot option you’ll get every upgrade an drop that you can use that’s assigned to you that you want to pick up. It’s super easy. There’s one less game mechanic to worry about. You just dumbed down the game… so no competitive person would use FFA over Ploot in pug(random) games. So here lies the ultimate issue… we are creating a remaster… to as blizzard quoted " Classic gameplay—the same Diablo II you know and love, preserved. " An the ploot feature would destroy FFA from the game for anyone who is remotely competitive. They are not equal game modes one is easier. So they can’t coexist in a competitive environment. So you’ve forced everyone who wants to play competitively to use ploot… which is unfaithful to the remaster.
If that’s the case log on to d2, get in a 8man baal run an go loot everything off the boss, stream it ill tune it. It will humor me.
I don’t give a dam what happens in non ladder, it’s just a graveyard to me.
Well I would be running a private game for MFing. There is an old addage for D2. “Public games are for XP, private games are for MFing”. What this does is it allows people to come out of their private games and play publicly. Mathematically, the loot they get will be about equal to what they would be getting in their private game.
Those that already play FFA games for loot are not finding it to be fruitless. They already have the option to play a private game where they would get equal the amount of loot they’d get in a ploot game.
If they are not already playing private games for loot, ploot would not draw them from FFA.
Yet people choose FFA games for MFing, over private games. Ploot, mathematically, would only produce what you would get from a private game. If players are already not playing private games then a ploot mode would not take them from FFA. There is no increased incentive.
We all know why somebody would prefer FFA, and why that would be more fruitful for someone: scripting. And this fixes that.
Yeah who gives a crap about non ladder. Deal ploot can go there. (Not like its up to us).
But ladder is competitive and should be FFA
Those who gain a lot of loot from FFA public games are using scripts. There is no competition.
Ughhhhh this again. Fine no ploot ever. Because you guys will keep crying.
Scripts will be monitored and banned.
If this were actually the case then you wouldn’t see me arguing for ploot mode anymore. But it’s not the case and hasn’t been for decades. Expecting it to all of a sudden become the case is foolhardy. Ploot offers a passive fix that might be attractive to Blizzard. Proactivity certainly isn’t.
Scripting is a minority, it’s a cheat an it’s now bannable on bnet D2R. Cheats are not apart of the FFA/Ploot debate. it’s a separate issue. Nobody is pro cheats other then the few noobs who cheat.
That’s not true 8 players has more drops an mathematically even with a assign drop ratio of 0.125 it’s possible for 1 person in ploot games to get 80% of the drops out of 1,000,000,000 drops.
I am starting to think there are some of these players in here that who use bots and pickit scripts in D2 and want the same unfair advantage for their non-competition in public multiplayer games for D2R. If 90% of the online servers are bots (stated by the D2 streamer Ginger Gaming Mentor) in the current state of D2, then why would you be against an optional personal loot system (other than being one of the ones who are botting/using pickit scripts to gain this unfair advantage) that would prevent those programs from stealing loot from legitimate players in these public multiplayer games. A personal loot system is how they fixed that issue of stealing loot with pickit scripts and bots in D3 and since it’s only an option in D2R you can choose to just use FFA.
Rhykker is right and I also think a time allocated personal loot option would be a great feature to help fix this issue. Additionally, World of Warcraft retail and especially classic currently have the biggest botting issue in an MMO and they are paid subscription based and on the same Battle dot net as D2R, so how will bots in D2R be “greatly” diminished?
No I’m just faster than you. Probably all that crying you do makes you miss the loot
So FFA is harder with out cheats… we know this, hence why ploot an FFA can’t coexist I’ve been telling you this for 20min now. Ploot is to easy compared to FFA an they can never coexist in a competitive game cause one is easier then the other.
Rhykker is a hypocrite… in one sentence he says D2 is a masterpiece an compares it to the Mona Lisa an says anyone painting a hat on the Mona Lisa is going to ruin the masterpiece… an then he follows it up an says he wants to change the core loot design on D2 which he just called a masterpiece… so apparently he does want to paint a hat on the Mona Lisa lmfao.
Yeah I’m starting to think that way myself. It is big business.
You can preserve the Mona Lisa and make alternate versions. These are not mutually exclusive as shown. In D2R, you can preserve a strict remaster and make a modern realm with more options.
No random tweets. Simply, a link to the 4 tweet pairs from Rod on the subject in reverse chronological order so that forum members can read them for themselves instead of having someone else interpret what they mean.
https://imgur.com/a/inJzSpW
Well, in utility, it is cheats that win that competition. Thus it is not a real competition. Unless you count competing scripts to be a worthy dynamic of the game.
This needs to be fixed, and this is the best way to fix it, passively. It does not change the meta or economy. It’s a great idea.
That’s not how it works. 
You would be destroyed in the art community good thing you’re a gamer. You’re trolling with this comment if you think the Louvre would post any of those alterations on there walls. Nice try though.
Got it so your basically saying, you want to destroy D2… an make it more like D3 cause you don’t want to hold Blizzard accountable an actually make them fix the real issues. Good to know.
Why does the suggestion of a fantastic passive fix mean I think it’s ok blizzard doesn’t do much, proactively, about scripts? Is this all you have left?
Do you think not supporting a passive fix is somehow holding blizzard accountable? Lol