It appears a lot of people want updates. Those who are still stuck in the last century will not like the results.
The main comment that he made that I disagreed with is that about 20% were D2 purists. It seems like it is less than 6% of respondents (i.e. 6% wanted bigger stash size and 8% wanted to be able to reopen the cow level).
His intellectual flaw is 2-fold.
- Ignoring these lower percentages that cap how many respondents were “true D2 purists”.
- Thinking that if 20% of people do not want X and 20% of people do not want Y., then it is the same people who do not want X and Y.
The survey results were very interesting. The point is the results from survey and not Rhykker.
It appears that most players want updates and some on this forum will not be happy with the numbers.
Correct. Also, the most controversial thing was personal loot where Rhykker correctly stated that roughly half wanted a personal loot option while 2/5 wanted FFA only.
He also discussed Blizzard’s own survey and that other significant changes may (or may not) be on the way as Blizzard is keeping their promise to listen to player feedback. They can ignore it, but at least they explicitly asked.
Have the results from that one been posted?
This is the first thread to my knowledge dedicated to discussing Rhykker’s video that was released earlier today. As such, it does not meet Blizzard’s definition of spam; however, false flagging does violate Blizzard’s forum code of conduct.
The link to Blizzard’s forum code of conduct is below:
How meny people took the survey? Thats who was polled? Was it old d2 player this survey don’t really give u the real picture. All u can really say is x a mount out of people that took this survey want this and x amout don’t want that. It does not give. The biger picture.
I just want to play the game
If changes are coming, start out where the original left off for the first ladder or two.
More than 4,300 respondents where 99% self-reported to be D2 players
Respondents on reddit. The poll was “advertised” on reddit, on the D2R forum, d2jsp, and on Rhykker’s youtube video a couple of weeks ago plus other places I assume.
Correct. It has selection and sampling bias and issues in relation to self-reporting. Even with the acknowledged limitations, it gives a qualitative glimpse into what thousands of D2 players think/want in D2R.
It does give a glimpse of the larger picture. The current America D2R forum I think to date has less than 4,000 who have voiced their opinion.
Nope and “never” will. To my knowledge, Blizzard does not release their survey results.
I was not sure TYVM for the heads up. The more data Blizzard receives the better.
- “The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few.”
The most I can see Blizzard doing is saying that they surveyed player feedback and that many/majority/almost all (some vague language) wanted change X that they decided to do.
This gives them cover from the bows and arrows if a small fraction disagrees with implementation of a popular feature.
He finished off very well. People who really supported diablo 2 are not active in these forums. My first post in blizz forums was just a week or 2 ago because of d2r so he’s correct.
Keep diablo unmodded. Keep diablo great.
Diablo 2 will stagnate without changes, these types of games have always flourished with new updates with items/monsters/areas. There is a reason mods overtook regular Diablo 2 over a decade ago.
Also good chunk of people also didn’t like the huge changes 1.10 brought, it completely changed their game and from back then most of my buddies all quit fairly soon into 1.10. So not everyone likes the current 1.14 version of Diablo 2 and would like change or at the least options.
The idea that D2 will become stagnant without change is easily disproven by the fact that its still a popular game to this day.
Oooh please. „Stuck in the last century“
How corny. It is a remaster at first.
In 2021, is it the original D2 that is primarily responsible or is it modded D2 (e.g. Path of Diablo, Median XL, Project Diablo 2, PlugY) that have changed that have helped keep D2 alive?
Is it not both?
And D2 is still not stagnant as the base game.
Mods are still supported and actually will have expanded power in D2:R.
If you think it would be remotely as popular today without mods and all the changes and options they brought you’re detached from reality.
i think they should release the game with minimal changes. few quality of life changes and graphics/sound. after that add additional updates for a while but slowly so you dont change the game to fast and just mess everything up. not everything has to be there at release.