I guess it really just feels like an odd choice to me.
Maybe it’s bad for bots!
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It’s an obvious exploit to anyone that plays the game. This is just one big cover up to try and save face. Not punishing for it doesn’t make it any less of an exploit.
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It’s not an exploit if the developers decide it’s okay for players to do it. They patched the parts they thought were a problem and left in what they thought was fine.
They’ve had no qualms about killing exploits and punishing those who used them in the past, so there is no need for them to “save face” here. They saw some interactions with the season theme as bad and took them out, and saw some as good and left them in, that’s all.
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That’s not all, but that’s the story they are selling. Believe it if you want. It’s a lazy PR cover-up.
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I did notice however, there might be a slight buff to seasonal theme for solo players. It was actually killing stuff yesterday. Before the patch it hardly even scratch the mobs of monsters.
Guess someone at Blizzard attended the Bethesda School of explaining away unintended consequences as ‘features, not bugs.’
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As each season, the bug is different.
Since players never know what will come before the season. These changes make PTR test a joke.
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Silly me, players choose what is an exploit or not. I guess then I can say that all set bonuses are exploits, all legendary powers are exploits. After all we are the ones that determine exploits. We are the ones that determine the rules of the game right. We have more authority than the developers of the game right.
Heck it would be true even if you made a video game. You would no longer get to say what is an exploit in your own game. Any game feature that the players want to call an exploit would be one because you would lose the right to do so since it would be your game.
Now do you see what I am saying. Blizz has the right and they are the final authority as far as what is an exploit in their games and what isn’t. Regardless of whether we like it and agree or not. They are the ones that make all of the rules whether or not we agree with them or not. Those are facts not beliefs.
Games are made in such a way it would be hard to put in all information that is deemed intended outcomes of a particular patch. We do have to recognize that fact that at the end of the day, regardless of how we look at it, they have the right to call something an exploit or not.
Letting players be the ones to say what is an exploit or not is not a good idea. Then features that are truly intended would become exploits. Nothing would be safe to use and the game couldn’t be played without using some sort of player determined exploit.
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Just curious, did you type that out with a straight face or are you trying to rile people up?
De-syncing and shared stacks that dont reset to zero every time the seasonal theme is triggered were never mentioned in patch / pre-season notes so its absolutely hilarious to pretend that mechanics is intended.
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@lightstorm, I do know that there are many things in many games including this one that have never been mentioned in the patch notes that were intended changes. I have seen it in this game’s history as well as other games. So numerous that I can’t remember them nor intend to.
Plus I am trying to show others that if Blizz doesn’t call it an exploit that is their right to do. Otherwise like I said I could call everything in the game an exploit, why, because that would be my right and I would have the final say just like everyone else.
Even though players would post their comments to Blizz as to what they think is a possible exploit. But if Blizz doesn’t want to call it one because it is an intended affect that wasn’t mentioned, happens due to people not being perfect. Then that is their right, heck they even done it with their other games like WoW.
At the end of the day Blizz is the one that makes the rules of D3. It is their right to determine what is and what is not an exploit. Sure we have the right to voice our concerns and offer feedback. But the final say as far as exploits goes is with Blizz and Blizz alone.
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Blizzard: This is working as intended.
Stevie Wonder: You sure, cuz I can clearly see it’s an expolit.
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Groups can trigger seasonal theme multiple times within seconds while Solo has it occur every 90 seconds.
“Working as intended”… Sure~ lol…
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season exploits?? lol yeah there is a lot of problems in here
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of course it’s an exploit. don’t be fooled … the players do have an opinion and are not DUMP!
there are more than clever minds here. There is also a clever man (Gasnick) with a high IQ here. He has structured and clearly described all the problems and made very good suggestions … top topics!
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“seasonal theme for solo players” doesn’t matter. in groups every solo player was extremely overtaken. you can’t catch up anymore. for me it is lvl 121 with 1300 para. So far everything has been cleared in 1st try and now the damage is simply missing and theme helps like a damp fart. really…
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Hey guys stop crying…This idea of this theme is so great that it should be considered by every other triple AAA game now. Have an example. Play call of duty… But instead of focusing on skill , weapons, team strategies, map awareness, perks, experience, etc we could all go with basic pistols and have “something falls from the sky” and kills the enemy team…
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I think it would be a fine seasonal theme for an 8 year old CoD game, putting basic pistols in a new light. It’s not you have to play that game mode if you don’t like it too.
This not a game of any more. It is a contest to see if you can be the leader-board King. Everybody is talking about Exploit. All the games that I play in, these will not work. I might be wrong but don’t you have to work as a team for them to work. There really isn’t any team work any more in the game.
You will always have those 1 or 2 plays that race as fast they can through a GR. In most games about 50% of the time you might have 3 people doing team work. So for these to work you need team work that you don’t have any more.
Like Grimcruel I play the game the same way. The game should be fun. We really don’t have that any more. Blizzard and the Mindless have turn the game into a leader-board contest!!!
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That depends on whether your entire life revolves around seasonal D3 or not.
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I think their major fault is “they put a major ‘bug fix’ into a live server and cause these exploit issues”. This kind of seasonal buff may need a longer ptr test period than they expected.