I disagree. You underestimate how many people want this game to be more hardcore. I would totally confidently say that the diablo playerbase (even right this second right now) is like 80% hardcore players because those are the kind of players that isometric RPGs attract. Look at PoE. That game is widely successful and it’s hard as heck. (I don’t want to hear anyone bragging saying it’s not hard because it is. Unless you’re just going to poe trade buying all your gear which is lame and remniscent of d3 auction house). Isometric action RPGs are hard. That’s what makes it fun. Thats why these games have such high replayability. Hard games are more fun to replay.
Look at dark souls. That game’s replayability is insane, people will play that game forever and keep making new characters. This includes bloodborne, nioh, and sekiro. Then obviously look how people are still grinding ladder in D2.
Casual games have no replayability because theyre easy to begin with, and once you play through it once theres no reason to play it again. Casual games generally dont have many ways to play the game, you mostly did everything on the first playthrough, and it’s just boring.
Like Skyrim. The only people playing that game are people who are using mods to spice it up because the base game is so boring. It’s not fun when theres zero learning curve. Morrowind was amazing because the game didn’t tell you everything. The information was there to learn in the game, you just had to look for it and experience it. And more than likely your first character is always garbage. So you make a new character and use what you learned on the last character.
Then morrowind had a bajillion ways to play with so many weapon types and skills. What did skyrim have? Dagger, swordmaceaxe, big swordmaceaxe, and bow. I put three into one word because there was no difference.
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