About the world, about how far Blizzard is with developing d4 and some new ingame/gameplay scenes would be my favourites!
Of course, some news around the class-specialisation and the skilltree would be very interresting too for me.
But arround monster familys and their art progression it would be okay for me to hear nothing about it and find it out later, when i play it.
okay, its interresting too, because i hope they make it rly dark and horror to scare us just by sawing it.
PoE 2 and Last Epoch are contenders, Lost Ark is not an ARPG in the modern definition by any stretch. People who do not enjoy traditional MMOs and are also expecting a more multiplayer-enabling ARPG experience will HATE Lost Ark. Just want to put that out there. It’s still going to be free to try, so if you don’t mind potentially wasting a few hours of your limited lifespan, theres no reason to give it a try anyways, unless what I described is enough for you to know for sure.
The freezing issue is now over a year old. Could you confirm if you guys have any intention of ever fixing it or do you just expect players to put up with their heroes dying and/or playing with a completely silent client?
Yes, that would be great. They could however keep this stuff for Blizzcon to surprise us in a more vibrant way. We’ll see, with D2R and DI releasing this year, it will be all D4 next year. 2022 is the year for Diablo 4 indeed.
I don’t know about anybody else…But I haven’t frozen, crashed, or lagged out once during PTR. Not sure why that’s the case. S22 and S23 has been a nightmare for me, I could literally get froze-up or crash 10 times a day.
I know there are bugs they have left in game for years, mostly due to them being rare and hard to pin down. Performance bugs though they usually try to fix if they can. This is no exception. Nobody logically wants the game to be freezing and crashing.
However, they have learned from backlash not to say something is “fixed” until it is fixed for certain. Hopefully the PTR testing shows improvement and they can put the bug to bed.
I wasn’t not doubting that you might know they’re doing something. I was asking how us lowly greys would know, seeing as how the blues are running radio silent, as usual.
Improved communications generally doesn’t include not updating your customers for months on end about a problem that’s been outstanding for over a year.
Understandable, but it’d still go a long way imo, if they leave a simple “We’re aware of the problem and are working on fixing it”. Having nothing but silence gives implication for some folks that Blizzard is either unaware of the issue and/or they’re ignoring it.
I have learned to take “improved communications” with a sack of salt. The cycle (to me), looks like the CMs get hyped and want to change things, but then get shut down and told not to talk about nearly anything. CMs get frustrated by it too. There are a ton of topic that would seem like they would be fine to talk about - like “hey we are working on this bug - here is the current status”. Even without an ETA (so they can’t be accused of being late), it is nice to know it is in queue.
As I have said before, the only things they seem to be able to freely talk about are:
Things that have already been publicly released to Live
Asking for player clarifications as they are collecting feedback on the PTR boards
Personal community related chat about games, chars, food, hobbies, etc.
Nearly anything else has to be approved
I have had long convos with CMs in D3 and WoW about this - it starts with “Why don’t you just explain how X tech issue works and why they can change Y in game right now?”. Answer - we want to but MGT won’t let us. It makes little sense to me. Example I am thinking of off the top of my head is the day night cycle for Oceanic servers in WoW.
Customers do not care which part of the organisation is preventing the communication from happening. They only care that the communication is not happening. They get especially annoyed when this happens after the company regularly and earnestly profess that, after every major screw-up, they promise to be better at it.
I’m genuinely at a point where I no longer listen to what Blizzard say they’ll do and only take notice of what they actually do, because they’re long on promises and short on delivery, and have been getting worse at it for a number of years now.
That’s different to how I viewed them years ago, and the reason for my change in attitude to them is entirely their fault. A few years ago, I would have been ready and eager with a credit card to pre-order D4 as soon as that was possible. These days, I’ll never pre-order one of their games, and I’m perfectly willing to wait a couple of weeks after release to see some non-NDA-restricted reviews to see if I’ll even bother with it.
It still does it on PTR and until we know they are trying fixes with decent communication, why would we play it to test? I loaded PTR it did it 10 minutes later and I rage quit, without COMMINICATION that they have released another attempt at fix I wont be able to report back as wasting my time on d3 is over!
And why no blue post to confirm what you are saying is correct? I smell something from the toilet!
Do not know who is in charge of fixing stuff but it is not happening. Some clans and their leaders are stuck and nobody is answering our requests to either disband the Clan or kick the leader out of the clans. They did it in the EU as some clan leaders have mentioned but no responses in the US. Just a wait and see attitude. Keep watching our clans shrivel up as members leave and nobody seems to care. I’m really frustrated since I’ve played this game since the beginning and feel some priority should still be given to D3. Shame on your guys…
DarkAngel#14456 & TLO clan Hope someone eventually will help…
