Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to some false conclusions in several different ways. It is a form of selection bias
Blizzard catering to the purists would be falling for the survival bias. The game survived for long and only purists were left to play in the end.
Instead of catering to a small portion of what’s left, why not focus on the aspects of the game that made the majority left during all those years
Most likely went through all content and got done with it
Don’t focus your energy on what was left but rather focus your energy on keeping what skipped
“This sieve is the best I only use it! I get 5pounds of big gold nuggets every days with it” meanwhile 25pounds of smaller ones pass through it
It’s another thread that fails to take the Diablo franchise as a whole and thinks D2 is a new game that will get support for another 10 years.
D2 is a 20 year old game, it’s a finished game and it doesn’t need to be brought up to the standards of a modern game. That’s what D4 is for, you want the modern game it will be out soon, just relax.
every game has a lifecycle and at the end only the hardcore fans are left while the masses move on. some tourists earlier than later.
D2 is remarkable as it was able to hold this core community for such a long time. If it had been dead 10 years ago blizzard probably wouldnt have thought to remaster it so in a way, the purists that kept that game allive are a big reason that this remaster is happening in the first place. noone will remaster D3 in 2032.
what people like you are proposing is to change the very things that in combination held this core community for such a long time and even set the game on the map in terms of a worthwhile target for a remaster. You are trying to kill in aggregate the very things that made this game worth remastering in the first place.
The diehard fans community you are talking about are exactly those who went extra miles to create mods based on the core game they love so passionately
Don’t fall for the survival bias thinking that because only purists left on bnet that it was only purists that played the game, there were thousands upon thousands playing mods, keeping D2 above water
Your ideas do not fit into vanilla D2. Just because people don’t agree with you doesn’t make everone a purist. There are good ideas for changes out there, but yours are not.
The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose, the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk but the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it’s time to go shopping for a saddle.
Well… the changists “ask for stuff” and the purists cry against it
You got the babies switched up
Indeed, purists fail to see that with D4 delay, D2R is just a vehicule of marketing for Diablo 4, they use it’s Nostalgic Fame to bring back people into the Diablo franchise after the failure that is D3 and get new audience
With D4 3 years away, there is no way Blizzard allow this playerbase growth go to waste without trying to invest in new content for D2R so that a maximum of playerbase is left to be exposed to D4 promotion and hype
Define purists for me as you did for Survivorship bias. If I want some changes to qol but have the game still be faithful to the original, am I considered a purist?
For an instance, if someone is liberal, I can’t say that the person has radical left wing political view. It’s the same principal.
Is the small portion based on your definition of purists? I really don’t think it’s “small” and in fact it could just as well be the opposite. If you got the source or the numbers, prove it.
“Squeaky wheel gets the grease” unfortunately, and Blizz may make the mistake of listening to them.
The loudest group isn’t always the most important. We have a very vocal minority who don’t want changes but this minority is absolutely dwarfed by the overwhelming people (a) outside of these forums (b) old timers who quit because things got stale (c) new players
