Nice blue post with a fake but plausable excuse to not overlap with D4. The REAL reason why is that blizzard doesnt want red soul shards from the darkening of tristram event to exist at the beginning of a season with backlash if they take it away. Seriously blizzard, why not let us have the chance to use the red soul shard at the beginning of a season for once to experience crazy cd reduction during the leveling process. Instead, the darkening of tristam event always starts mid to late season where leveling has grinded to a halt and the red soul shard has 0 impact. Way to keep killing the fun blizzard.
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Red soul shard is really useless, but ok…
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You’re really going to complain because you don’t get to use a gem for about 2 hours out of an entire season? I mean, leveling is at most a 2-hour proposition. If missing something that’s only fun for 2-hours ruins your season, then I don’t know what to tell you.
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the real reason? complicated situation. From the beginning, they should have announced it in 31 and held season 33 until this Sunday. Don’t say one thing and then say another
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No, the real reason is to maximize the number of players on Diablo 4.
No need to look far…
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Do you really think this is a good way to make people want to play D4?
I know Blibli is far from perfect, but stupid to that point, no.
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I really really dislike this delay. I was really looking forward to blasting tomorrow in D3
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Um, no. If this were the case, they would have done this last January when S30 started in the middle of January. D3 season is being delayed so people will play D4 season longer and Blizz hopes they spend more money. Simple as that.
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they´re butthurt. this move is definitely gaslighting. butthurt for poor reception to their incompetent diablo snore efforts and getting their asses handed to them by marvel =) and mainly it´s about pumping up numbers for their latest product. done divorcing completely now from this f***ing shell.
and another reason is it´s so hot right now for the champagne marxists to dump on gamers.
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It’s an obvious cash grab and They just want you to log into d4 and buy some microtranactions.
I don’t think they realize this has backfired and will only make people LESS likely to spend money on their obvious cash grab.
Beware of forum troll killerprice spamming garbage over every thread and trying to dismiss legitimate criticism.
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Actually, the real reason is the S34 theme has the D3 playerbase excited and looking forward to it. Meanwhile, S7 over at D4 is falling flat very quickly. So quickly that in the first few days they are scrambling to control the losses. They need the statistics to be in their favor. Much easier to delay than compete. They should embarrassed by what they released.
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Real reason?
They need Joe who used to manage the D3 season startup script but he was moved to the D4 team and is on duty there in case something is borked in D4 season. Only a week later can he be bothered to press the season start button for D3.
We had this for a while. Its highly inefficient to play all levels to grab the shard, especially with the alter addition. Pretty sure its not a factor in their delay as much as it is with fixing peoples seasonal gear not getting mailed or the overlap of D4 season start.
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The red soul shard does break the game on Rathma though, and ofcourse on MANY other builds relying on CDR and cost reduction.
Monk lod wol would be absolutely insane with the shard, it cant be That much broken right from the start.
Wiz archons would go pew pew…
And whatever else builds with cap crimson automagically gained 80% damage and toughness, etc etc
I would also add it to game only late season.
This game is already too easy, it should not be more broken than it already is.
Like there is a reason why altar got nerfed… but it should be nerfed further imo, i would remove half of the ““QoL”” things from it and nerf the rest by half
To be honest, it looks like Bli$$ard just wanted to force people either to play D4, or to watch streamers playing D4 for another week. Playing or watching others play exposes people to cosmetics in shop, and other paid content (VoH, battlepass), so the more and longer people play or watch, the higher chance for money to be earned by Bli$$.
D3 is a nice game to hit on first 2-3 weekends of new season, and I’m sure that will drain players out of D4’s season 7. Not to mention there’s no evidence on official forum or even reddit of the “player feedback” requiring to postpone S34 launch. Oh, and there’s now a free week of playing D4 of course.
All of those result in quite a good indicator of why D3’s S34 was postponed: the money. Everything else is just a smoke screen, in my opinion.
ps. Also, yesterday suddenly appeared, in one of the videos of a main youtubers of this genre, an opinion that D4 is a very good game for casuals. It almost sounded like a commercial. Suspiciously enough, it appeared just now, back to back with almost Bli$$'s desperate try to keep players in D4. But again, my opinion only.
Edit: grammar.
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