Remove players x entirely. Problem solved.
Honestly single player with pX is a ton of fun. Was skeptical but I got over my “its a waste of time cause it’s not online” mentality and tried it out while we wait for ladder. Seeing which derp builds could go the distance. Got to hell with an Inferno Sorc. woo!
It’s even better now with the shared stash as you can gear up other offline characters.
Ouch. It’s kinda dead!
Actually, remove /players x and introduce Inferno mode with 8 torment tiers. That would be awesome!
Back then there were full games! Also D2 didn’t come out until 2000. I was there on launch! Before that we were playing D1 also in full games.
So, let’s get the full games back?
Rather than make changes that discourage multiplayer.
There are many things they could do to encourage more multiplayer games. (Including improving how the game join list functions)
That would not remove the legitimate “antisocial feature” that the current community is experience. People would still rush other players game and still gain the advantage unless you remove the benefit completely without being close. The amount of open games forced to recreate with a password is absurd, MF’er rushing ahead of newly created LvL Act1 Hell games is getting ridiculous. With p8, players would only play together if they really want to play together and not this mess of randoms every where that dont want to play together. Creating games with password wont fix this, since you cant just create/join random games and play together with new players, without having to actively seek them out on Discord, Forums or what not.
So not having it in is far more anti social than actually adding the feature, because that would mean group play is group play for the sake of group play and nothing else.
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I like the idea of online players X. I want to have the option to play with other people and trade but still be able to farm effectively.
At present I don’t play with other people because I’m still farming for items I need. I’m paranoid of seeing some ultra rare item I need drop and get scooped up by someone who is just faster than me just so they can sell it. I’d be so sad. So are they really encouraging group play that much? I guess it just depends on your outlook. Maybe I’m just bad at sharing…
I honestly don’t see the difference between online non-ladder solo play and offline single player. In my mind they’re exactly the same thing. Sure, disable the players X command during ladder play or when there’s another player in your game but otherwise who really cares?
Are the people against the players X command going online gonna be upset that someone can farm at a higher players count? They don’t affect your game. Maybe they won’t have to buy your stuff because they can farm it themselves a little easier now. But maybe they weren’t gonna trade with you in the first place because they can’t afford it. I know I can’t.
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This is just another reason to not play the ladder
People with bad gear should not be farming higher player count, it kills eficiency
Besides, agreed with everything
I only ever played ladder in Project Diablo 2 but I think the reasons people play ladder are different than playing single player or just playing online. So I’m not super concerned about that.
It’s probably important to reiterate at this point that at no time has the development team expressed an interest or intent to give the players X command to online play. I just wanted to weigh in. Ya know, in case it helps them change their mind. Also, for anyone who doesn’t like the idea, just because it’s there doesn’t mean you have to use it.
Yeah, there are not enough players. That’s why I just play single player now.
Non-ladder is going to be very dead soon. It’s time to give us /players x command on non-ladder.
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Its not proof of that. Its proof of lobby being broken. Its already fixed on ptr.