D2 required a master trainer to know what worked well. If you actually played the game solo the combinations were near impossible to ken.
A coworker back in Warcraft days was a genuine mathematician and loved coding. He wrote code to determine the very best and most efficient way to build the game. Made for boring once I knew the secret build sequence. Trounce any normal human in 30 to 60 seconds, every time. Made playing at cafe’s a riot as people screamed about the incoming rush. lol
I really wish this was the case but you’d be surprised by how many older people actually watch and follow streamers that are significantly younger than them and how many still try to be hip and cool. It’s kinda sad really.
20 years ago the demand for games were completely different.
we have much more, good, games today so you cant compare this.
in 1996 i played Wing Commander on an Amiga 500 with maybe 8fps. i played it twice.
today nobody would play it and everybody would make videos and reddit post about it.
back then nobody cared because we could play mf Wing Commander on an Amiga 500.
Today players whine about the loading times of Bloodborne and Anthem.
20 years ago nobody cared.
Honestly games today mostly suck. AAA companies get it right sometimes but bring me back to the NES and SNES days for consoles, and the 90’s-2000’s for PC gaming.