It is such a shame

Am I the only one that wishes Diablo 3 would still be supported with new themes, expansions, and overall growth?
I do have to say every season I jump on and play for a few weeks and have a blast doing it. But just knowing that they no longer care and are just recycling is kind of depressing.

Maybe if enough of us are heard that will change, but I’m not holding my breath. :frowning:

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Honestly, I feel D3 ended on a high note. Anything they try doing now would be done half-assed as their focus is on D4. I’d rather have the feeling of wanting more than the disappointment that would leave a bad taste in my mouth. I’d actually prefer more that they completely stop supporting the game at all. Cut the live service aspect out and let modders breathe some life into it again.

Doesn’t matter. Scroll down, there are hundreds of threads asking for more content: Xpacs, DLCs, new themes, etc. D3 has no MTX, so Blizz doesn’t care.

Immoral has people paying money for more power. D4 has people paying $5, $10, $100 for shiny cosmetic pixels. As long as people are dumping money into this, that is where Blizz’s attention will be. If you can convince Blizz that adding a cash shop to D3 where players will be willing to dump paychecks into it, then they may reconsider more D3 development.

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Well, that’s just…   “immoral”.  

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They are focused on its successors. D3 only exists as a cheap, in-place mechanism to advertise the money makers D:I and D4. It is automated other than a few minutes to update it for the next recycled season. We can wish all we want. Some refuse to understand what “no longer being developed” means.

In time we should get D3R but only when it can be monetized as we are seeing with its successors. Future clown show in the works.

If video game magazines didn’t make a big fuss out of data farmed implications of MTX in Diablo 3 back in 2015, perhaps we would have a cosmetic shop in regions out of China right now. Regarding that, we would also have a second serving of an expansion pack, which is canceled all these years ago to become Rise of the Necromancer DLC. Who knows?

As far as I can see, game is balanced to a degree at the moment and anyone can play any build they wish. In case your build can not perform as expected, despite covering all aspects required (damage, toughness etc.), then that means you ignored different proc coefficients of specific skill runes to utilize Area Damage% and Stricken stacks, else some other mechanic buried in the game such as crowd control resistance. Just experiment around and you would be surprised.

Game is more than a decade old, all fan demands have been met by some or another mean; there’s not much content to add. To address the main issue with Diablo 3, the reward and challenge provided by Greater Rifts, actually shadows over anything else. What kind of content can you add to this game? It ignored its own story line for the sake of emphasizing its combat system and it worked gloriously.
Players wanted a boost for Season start, we got Challenge Rifts; we got Followers overhauled with extra equipment slots for storing items; we got Nightmares for fast Augments. People complained about Torment 20-30 to be added for 5 years despite never hitting GR150 once themselves along that, then we got Visions of Enmity at the end.
What else can you add to this scene besides complaining about the already existing content? People still complain about stash space, Nightmares, Visions, Challenge Rifts, Set Dungeons and Altar.

Do you see a pattern? It doesn’t matter if it’s a technical limitation on developers’ part or people having wrong impressions on the challenge ahead to handicap themselves unknowingly; they will complain about anything new. And, going back to the first point I have made about changes; none of this content can beat or replace Greater Rifts in terms of challenge; neither it supposed to be.
What kind of content do you have in mind? New places on the game, means new tile sets; new monsters mean new mechanics to be considered and new animations. New cosmetics, require an incentive for paying extra shifts of the staff, because they always going to prioritize the money making over anything else.

Going back to main topic, Diablo 3 is a twelve year old game and it’s about to be thirteen this month with no monetization. A good half of you, play this game for over a decade as the only Blizzard title you have yet act like potential customers. At this point, if you want to enjoy this game for years to come, learn when to take a break and practice moderation because obviously you’ll get a burn out bad if you keep clinging at it.

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I wrote a post before about a system that would be incredibly fun to create! Let us fans create “Rift maps” that is, a map editor will be released for the game, where we can only create the ones that already exist, but put together caves, bridges, rooms, corridors, statues houses, passages as we fans want. Monster pylons, bosses / loot will be fixed by Blizzard. Then Blizzard will choose the 20 best fan-made maps adding to map pool.

I know Jay Wilson was asked a few years ago about a map editor for the game and he replied “maybe patch future”

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And if the do a new Diablo I will not buy because of the GREED of Blizzard and Microsift. D3 could have been EPIC but GREED got the best of them along with the Lawsuits that their own employees levied on them. Never buy another one of their games.

So you just came here to bash on things and tell people to stop playing and supporting Blizzard titles? I am curious why you are spending time here at all if that is how you feel?

You must be new to the forums.

Welcome, I guess. LOL.

New to the game no, I guess i never got active on the forums after all these years :sweat_smile: But in general I know people love to complain for the sake of attention etc,

not for my armpit sweat

I’m enjoying anything because I’m good at about finding my own fun.