I think you have no clue how will ladder look like without dupes and bots. I used to play in old times when bots werent so massively used. Runes were still duped and yet ladder season was like 1 year long it was just fine.
Bots will always exist you cant get rid of that, but as for duping least that can be fixed. True the economy will be unknown without dupes in how long it will take for things to be affordable.
If anything they could make the first season 5 months long and after that decide if it should be 1 month shorter or longer based on feedback.
The economy will still include bots, though much fewer in the initial release, but it will also include all regions. There will probably be more legit players in one realm, in the first two or three ladders, than the game has ever seen.
I’m 100% for 3 month ladders. If I only play 2-3 hours a day it will probably take about 1 month to completely gear out 1-2 characters. The key will be to play as much as you can on the weekend of the release to take advantage of the easy to find white items that people pay a lot for in the early stages.
4 months pls 3 too short
B - 6 Months , remain same!
4-6, not less not more
Doesn’t matter. Any length is fine.
Wtf higher drop rates?
I’m afraid three months will be too short so my vote goes to ‘B’.
Diablo II Lord of Destruction / Diablo II Classic should be immortalized, meaning, D2R offers the exact experience with updates graphics / minor QoL and also the 6 month ladder seasons.
There should be a separate ladder for D2R which will include more changes and future expansions. This separate ladder, its too early to tell how long a ladder should be without seeing what they add/change. I would say 3-6 months. Depends. If they make the game easier (higher drop rates, etc.) I would lean toward 3-4 month seasons. If drops remain ultra rare, then 6 months.
I think another important topic that isn’t be discussed: New Leaderboards with every season
Currently we have the level 99 leaderboard which caters to a certain audience.
I think there should be one or two more leaderboards catering to other types of players.
A trade style leaderboard and a solo self found kind of leaderboard. Either a an option to select SSF or some kind of item designed to be SSF, like it only drops while solo and you try and get the most by the end of the season.
A - 3 months and with season themes like any modern arpgs
I would like to see a Player Killer Leader board, based on how many players accounts you killed. So if 1 million accounts are made, you can reach #1 by killing 1 million players of each account…lol
SSF is just single player might as well just play that. I see no reason for SSF.
B
Without bots and dupes, 6 is perfect. Any less will absolutely not be enough for a lot of players.
Absolutely B, it needs to stay 6 months to give people the chance to hit 99 while having a full time job.