Sorry, no TLDR.
I’d like to try to show you, (some of) the newcomers who have just come here in the last months, why the reactions of us, veterans, when reading some of what you write.
Put Ploot. Add LGTBIQ+ elements. Allow host to kick players. Nerf Baal runs. Remove enigma.
Dudes, this is D2(+LoD). The point is bringing back the classic experience. Doing that kills the classic experience. You can prefer different things. That’s legit. Even some of your ideas could make the game better, but the point is not a better game, it’s getting back this game. An important part of this is the nostalgia component, and you can’t understand it. Also, many things you think that are good changes have big consequences you don’t have the experience and knowledge enough in order to evaluate (no, removing Enigma is not that easy, it won’t bring more diversity, will just make everyone run a Sorc).
This was the Blizzard response to people asking to play this game again on 27 inch monitors, modern OSs (the ones with Windows Smartscreen), and without having to issue a slash command in order to talk with a friend.
Some of us have been here forever asking for a successor to D2, battling the intruders who came with D3 treating us like intruders ourselves (LOL) who have been here forever, and finally, after 20 years, when we’re finally about to get the game that we’ve been dreaming about for 2 decades, people who suddenly came out of nowhere and will also leave as fast as they came, starts putting themselves first.
You really have no idea how infuriating, childish, and egoist is acting that way. You have no idea what’s waiting 20 years. 2 f*ing decades until you get something that you can only get through a specific company and only if having luck enough of several planets aligning, just to get hit by a stampede of people who didn’t care. And, to add salt to the wound, being this the second time in a row this happens, cause something similar happened with D3.
I say childish because of looking at a game you don’t care about, that you know that’s not what you want, buying it, and pretending to transform it in a different thing. Do you buy a motorbike and complain because it doesn’t have 4 wheels?
I say egoist because there were people who was here way before you. Blizzard targeted them (us) specifically. The goal of the project is very clear and it’s the answer to those people asking for it for ages. Lets face It, you will be soon back to your Call of Duty or whatever flavour of the month is out there. Pretending to take the game from us when we finally had it at the reach of our hands is cruel and heartbreaking. Why not going out and looking for the million videogames out there instead of trying to ruin this one. Seriously, why do you feel in the need of annoy us? Why do you enjoy making other people upset?
And I say infuriating because you all will vanish as fast as you came, and we’re the ones who will stay here to “enjoy” the wreckage that you will leave behind. How to answer to someone that says “I’ve paid the game like you, so I have the same rights to give my feedback, and we’re more”. Something like foreigner medieval age armies kicking you from your ancestral home.
All I ask you for is a little respect, put on our feet, be aware where you are, who are you talking to and what we have been to go through until getting here. Wait for release, check the game, try to enjoy it, and if you feel you’re having fun with it, congratulations and be welcome to our community.
Thanks for reading.
EDIT: phone correction trolling.