I have played since the first season. The game went through many changes, but none as innovative or fun as this current team.
You have only been around for a bit, and have given us lots of new content and ideas. You breathed new life into a game that was old and tired. Not every idea worked as intended, but you gave us more in the last couple of years than the teams before you did combined.
Thanks! (oh and better late than never on SSF!)
Totally agree.
The current dev team really turned things around in the last few years, seasonal themes became really good and even the base game has been enhanced with new content.
I really hope that their Intention is another big rebalancing for S30, with the equal paragon S29 data, then they’d really send it off with a bang!
My understanding it this is the last season. They will go to maintenance mode and just run a random season from the past every so often. The team will be moved. (I could be wrong) but that’s what Raxx and Wudjio said.
Yes the last season, but not last patch.
We know that altar will become permanent after S29 and potentially there could be final balance changes in that patch as well
I am just not expecting anything earth-shattering after this season. (so best we enjoy it!)
You say that, then a season rolls around with the permanent Altar of Rites and Ethereals.
There are plenty of combinations they could do.
Yes they can do many things with past seasonal themes. My point was that D3 is not going to have a development team anymore. They are retiring it and putting it in maintenance mode. They will choose a previous seasonal theme and use it for the next season each time. Nothing new.
D3 turned into a great game in the last 2 years. Before that, I thought it was a good game but after a certain point I felt that there was nothing to do except paragon climb and I didn’t want to do that.
The changes that I thought that leveled the playing field against group players and improved quality of life made the game so much better.
full follower gear and Emenate
I could get extra keys with Cains and I didn’t have to wear Nemesis. That means I could equip Aughilds for higher pushes.
Armory
I can store my speed build and my solo push build
Primals and Primordial Ashes
most of my build needed one perfect item like Nilfur boots with 800% - this just eliminated hundreds of hours of farming and hoping RNG would go my way
New sets
Love GoD, Typhon. Mundunugu is my favorite set.
Set leaderboards
It gave me a reason to solo push all set WD in Non-Season. Motivated me to push my favorite fun sets even if they got nerfed (like GoD). It also let me check to see what LoD or LoN builds players were using in different classes.
Changes to Aughilds, Crimsons, Cains and Guardian set
Those crafted sets are now must haves.
Set reworks
Nat’s redesign, Tal’s redesign, Trag’ouls redesign, Arachyr redesign - so much more fun now
Orek’s Dream and new GR maps
They have been so wonderful for pushing
Altar of Rites
I don’t care for the massive power creep. However, the quality of life nodes are amazing.
SSF
If they add this a permanent feature to non-season, I’ll buy another copy (since I’m out of character slots) and I’ll spend another 10 years regearing every build from every class from scratch again.
When you start to list all this team has done…it’s truly amazing. (D4 needs a team like that)
All of the new zones we received for free, as well as the Darkening of Tristram.
Cheers to the D3 staff!
yeah thanks to all, the game 11 years later is still fun
Thank you for the kind words. Hope everyone has fun in Season 29 and beyond!
You are a hero. I’m hearing you’re the guy thinking of all the cool ideas that have been implemented. Did you do terror zones to in D2R??? Absolute win.
Certainly will, especially if you throw in another rebalancing round for the seasons beyond, based on the S29 pushing data.
It’s incredible what you made out of this game in the last few years!
We have a fantastic team of design, engineering, art, QA, and many others that come together to bring content to Diablo III.
Clearly. Well let them know they are the best D3 and D2R has ever had. Please keep it up. Hope you get the entire franchise soon.
Hoping the SSF mode pans out well for D3… I’m looking forward to participating. My hope is, if all goes well, maybe, possibly, hopefully it can be brought to D2:R as well. 
Can you make Static Charge Monk viable again before you all leave? That was a fun build.
I’d be happy to pay a monthly subscription if the current team kept working on D3.