Going by that blog post, it’s clear that they don’t yet know which direction Diablo 4 is going. This is not a bad thing since they made it clear they want to create the game with the community in mind. However, this situation reminds me a ton of early D3 posts by Jay Wilson.
The demos ended up looking nothing like the final game. Which is fine I guess, except that the D3 demos were more impressive than the end result.
There seems to be no clear direction for items, skills, systems, PVE, PVP, nothing. Basic and major systems which we should have answers to are up in the air, particularly the question of whether or not D4 will have infinite scaling. If it does, I’m not interested at all.
Blizzard is considering infinite systems which makes me think that not only have they never opened up Diablo 2, but that they are using Diablo 3 as a base.
No human is going to log into D4 30 years from now to check on their infinitely-scaling Paragon-esque +001% power level increase.
Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 did just fine without infinite power systems, because those games had solid itemization systems as a backbone. The core of Diablo is an interesting loot hunt with variety and open-ended Stat options, not a Paragon system.
You cannot control an infinite system. D3 devs thought they could control Paragon too until XP metas came up and people ended up speed farming way higher GR’s than was ever intended with builds that the devs never even dreamed were possible.
Now we have Paragon 12,000’s in Diablo 3 as a result of infinite systems. Eventually we will have Paragon 20,000, then 30,000. Because it’s limitless and the devs lost control.
News flash: At Paragon 12,000+ it doesn’t even matter how perfect the gear someone wearing is because the ludicrous power inflation bypasses stat limits on Items and you have no control over it since scales over time… forever.
Infinite systems infinitely provide power out of nowhere independent of gear limitations. So gear becomes 100% irrelevant, which is not really a Diablo game, it’s just a clicker game with numbers in the Trillions, Quadrillions, Quintillions, and so on.
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