Nothing in there says they tried personal loot and it didn’t feel good. Seems like you just made that up.
It says they’re committed to keeping their changes limited in scope. One can reasonably argue that personal loot as an option you don’t have to use is limited in scope. Especially if designed to function like PoE’s option where loot drops aren’t calculated differently, it just assigns the drop to a nearby player.
Otherwise they admit to making changes. They’ve announced changes.
No they definitely tried adding it since every modern arpg has it. It didn’t make the cut.
It is striking that Ferguson used that term and did not care to keep things true to a purist viewpoint.
It was the least popular change in the reddit survey so I think you’re wrong on that one.
OK, where’s the frigging evidence?
Wait, what? According to who? Your ‘source’ was bunk so.
It being popular or not has nothing to do with it being a limited scope change or not.
Or that you’re making claims with no evidence.
Do you mean that the option for personal loot had 49% support while FFA only had 39%.
If you are going to develop games based on crappy internet polls, you’re doing it wrong. If they are going to ruin a classic because of an Internet poll, they are doing it wrong, and it will fail like WCIII: Reforged.
Luckily, Blizzard is conducting their own survey.
Personal loot seems very much like a minor QoL.
Heck, auto gold pickup seems like a bigger issue than personal loot tbh.
Indeed.
It doesn’t sound limited in scope if it’s such a big issue for some people. And it is. You’re changing how the loot system works.
You guys are putting way to much faith into that crappy little survey.
Again if they don’t have the sense to know how to handle one of the greatest ARPG’s they ever made, to the point that they need to “poll the crowd” to make changes, they are in the wrong business.
Read the article again. They tested a bunch of changes and scrapped most of them. Personal loot was one of them.
Guess who brought it up? They were simply correcting him.
It’s not. D2 is not a world boss killing or raid with 25 people game. You can make your own room for whatever preference you like.
I agree. It’s called single player.
The article has not a single word about loot system or how it works.
Your claim still stands on zero evidence.
This is the internet. People will make a big issue out of anything and everything. It has no real bearing on what the scope of the change is.
and if they don’t like it they have an option to not change how the loot system works and the existence of the option wont impact their gameplay.
You should probably take a second look at that article. There is literally zero mentions of the words personal or loot in it.
It mentions they tried a few changes and didn’t like it. It does not say they tried personal loot and didn’t like it.
You’re just assuming that.
No. People’s passion is independent of the size of the change. This is a minor change where only one extra roll is needed mathematically. Blizzard knows how to code personal drops already.
The article made it clear this was a strict and faithful remaster, and even seemingly small changes had ripple effects.