You’re basically punishing all players because a few people hate it that others can play more time.
Just make it a mode with a proper leaderboard and leave the rest of us alone.
I’m not thrilled that you brought over from D4 some of the most annoying monster affixes, but the Paragon cap just kills the season for me, and I have never cared about the leaderboards, and very rarely placed in the top 1000 of a set leaderboard (the PS4 leaderboards have been filled with modded items for years anyway).
It is not punishing all players. It id giving players a more level playing field relative to paragon. Those who play more will still have an advantage in gear, augments, legendary gems.
This is for one season. One can still grind paragon in non-season.
Your paragons are not going anywhere. Appears game still gonna keep record as shown in the screenshot at the blog. They just need a power gauge to determine how far of a compensation needed for embedding Altar in the main game. They might decide to keep paragon ceiling with Altar in only Solo self-found mode or not. If their test and feedback turn out to be positive they will embed this to whole game, if not, then Altar power will vary between Solo only and regular modes.
Read between the lines. No need to complain about everything without even playing it. To add, it is no use to complain about things right now. Before you give them a try first, they usually tend to not take armchair developers serious; yes they can see if you played the PTR or not.
1000% agree. Make it it’s own little checkbox. Done deal. Let the rest of us grind smol number go up to have fun. Hell, actually remove the leaderboards from the uncapped. That’d be completely fine with me!
One of the many reasons I choose to skip D4, a hard cap on player progression. Paragon makes the loot grind more bearable since you cannot target farming specific items at least you gain something that is not RNG dependent.
With that being said, I don’t mind skipping a season, please do not carry this idea over to non-season or other seasons.
Making it an additional game mode is a great idea.
For some people, their playtime will decrease while increase for others.
Consider someone who in the past has 1,500 paragon in season. They know that it is hard for them to be competitive versus an 8k paragon player due to the significant difference in main stat. Now they would be willing to play more to push leaderboards.
This is not relevant to an argument about whether there is a cap or not on paragon point allocation in seasons.
This should be fixed if possible.
In the past, I suggested keeping the normal leaderbiard while adding a capped leaderboard. I am not adverse to a separate game mode. As an experiment, I am ok with how they envision this season. It is a temporary thing.
I am confused by what you want as proof. Are you are arguing that a player who averages 1k oaragon will now quit sooner since the allocation cap is 800?
You might imagine that they would play more since now they are not competing against a 6k+ player with >25,000 difference in main stat due to paragon.