“There will never be Altar in NS because you only have to do the whole thing once and get rewards forever.” that is the ENTIRE POINT of non-season.
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Since we haven’t got an answer from the team we can only guess. There may be any reason or no reason at all.
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Funny that this topic is still being discussed today…
They didn’t even bother to come up with fake vague reason. They just didn’t care.
And I truly believe it was developed for NS but somewhere along the way it was decided to be disabled. Prob as simple as changing one or two FALSE to TRUE.
The other portals (I forget what they’re called right now) didn’t make it to NS either. What’s the excuse there?
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To be honest, there really is no reason not to have them in non-season.
People that enjoy playing seasons will still play seasons.
Having these features in both sides honestly is a win-win. Those that want to just play in the regular game can do so as well.
Not going to affect interest or traffic in a negative way. If anything it will probably end up being very positive all around.
I can’t think of a logical argument as to why they shouldn’t add those to the non-seasonal side of the game.
But they won’t. But it would be helpful to know why they so.
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It could be a strategic business decision. They want us to stay in the Diablo franchise (and use the launcher with all the advertisements) but not too much in D3 because D4 is where the money is.
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The only logical reason is because it’s “complete and never touch again” while someone there decided that repeating it every season so it’s more of an activity than a patch balance. That’s logical, but not necessarily in the agenda of everyone’s mind. If Blizzard told me that’s why, I would understand the logic but still not agree with the reasoning.
But even that is counter intuitive. I would imagine they would rather people play D4 and keep spending like idiots there.
You would think they would want people to “complete and never touch again” the old game so hopefully they move on to the new one. Want new Diablo content and a supported game? Gotta play the new one that’s been specifically designed for the live service treadmill crap
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Which is why I mentioned it’s logical but some will think not reasonable.
Everyone will have their reasoning or rationale why a change should or shouldn’t happen.
I think they should include it but….
Let me correct you
I can think of a financial argument as to why they shouldn’t add those to the non-seasonal side of the game.
I understand the strategy of Microsoft/Blizzard/MicroBli (or whatever you want to call them) is a business, so looking for profits.
But hey, it’s a shame not to see certain things (Visions.Altar) in the non-season.
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Never, I can’t see it happening which was the reason why i stopped playing d3, You gain all that paragon on seasons just for it to goto waste on ns as everything got nerfed to the ground
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Unfortunately, the MBA’s in charge have no idea how to make a profit. They can only milk a company’s legacy for so long.
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Honestly, there isn’t any profit either way. Its not like enabling it in non seasonal is going to make them more money or less money. It may keep the game slightly more active, but that’s going to be it.
From their perspective, more activity is more potential buyers of other things on the platform.
But that’s me.
My point is, there is no real logical or reasonable reason for it not being there. Even financially it doesn’t make much sense.
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Not much makes sense btw lol
Have they gave male sorc in D4 male gear yet? Probably not unless you’re really lucky!
Have they made all legendary gear mods available in the menu thingy yet or you still have to find certain pieces of gear still? Doubt it!
Are cellars all the same still? Probably!
Do you still find a level 100+ butcher when you are level 9? Most likely!
Do treasure goblins sometimes still drop nothing? sarcastic voice “i bet they doooo” (the one the only treasure goblin)
Is there still a turd on the stairs in town? I think there is hehe.
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So, it’s more work for Blizzard to balance nonseason around the altar. Work they’re not willing to do.
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No work needed. They didn’t bother to balance seasons around the altar, so why waste time balancing non-season?
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Not to mention they had already nerfed many of the altar offerings from the season it started with.
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The point is they didn’t need to balance the altar for seasons as carefully because they are temporary.
What is? The Altar? No. Seasons? No.
Seasons have been going on now for a decade.
The Altar has only been around for a few Seasons, but the “tuning” of it has been the same for the last two seasons. The season it debuted as the theme, it was more powerful.
That all said, there is nothing that needs to be done other than drop it into the non-season side.
Sure it will push the GR clear ability up 2-4 levels (maybe), but big deal. It still won’t be as strong as the seasonal buffs and content push the game GR clears…
So again. What possible logical reason would they have for not adding it at this point?
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I mean, the fact no-one’s working on the game any more is a pretty good one.
They can’t even spare the resources to fix the Nayr’s exploit that’s been widely used this season. A CM probably had to beg a lot of managers just to get the Switch challenge rifts fixed up.
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The point is they never balanced the game around the Altar. They balanced it around one Seasonal Theme, Shards. This is evident where the balance for S30 with Shards was fairly decent, then with S31 and a different theme, the balance is way out of whack. The balance is going to stay way out of whack until Shards rotates back through as a Theme.
As far as nonseason, balance was bad before the big balance patch. After it, the balance only got worse since non-season was balanced around something it was never going to get. Saying that adding the Altar to nonseason will screw up the balance is just nonsense.
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