“but the thing about a Diablo game is that those overpowered moments that when you feel like you’re cheating or that you feel like you fooled the development team by taking advantage of some exploit, it can feel really, really fun.”
My personal view and answer to that is:
No, I don’t want to use an exploit and gain achievement by cheating you imbeciles!
I don’t think we fooled developers and they can’t fool me either. The ONLY reason he says that is becuz developers are unable to balance the builds even close to reasonable gap for all builds so that people don’t have to play the very same build to be able to finish some end game content.
So when Blizz “choses” which exploit is OK they call it “fun” but other exploits will be fix immediately LMAO!!! For this one I am not sure if he is fooling himself OR the players. Oh and as a reminder, streamers are exception. They can use exploits all they want. That is also OK.
4 releases, 20 years of experience in this category and still we get pathetic justifications like that.
Yeah we let you cheat and have fun because EVERYBODY wants to play those builds
How I understand what he said is that they don’t want to change game rules mid-season. Which is kind of fair for people who invested their time into a given build. Why should they be suddenly roadblocked and punished for mistakes of the dev team?
I haven’t played HotA or BL this season, but this was my choice and I’m fine with people who did.
Rod is definitely the worst spoke person for D4. Talks about cookies during live streams, goes off on tangents, talks about things he has no clue about just to keep the conversation going and is one of those people who loves to hear himself talk. He’d sell you expired br***t milk and call it unicorn lotion. Every time I hear him talk I picture a used car salesman trying to sell me a lemon. Lemon meaning a car in horrible condition that won’t run past the two miles you get it out of the lot, for those that don’t know.
Yeah but even the original developers havnt been able to really recreate the success from what they done in the past. Remember hellgate London? I bought a lifetime subscription and stuido went bankrupt lol
Diablo 3 players finds a bug or exploit
Diablo 3 Developers: “It’s working as intended”
Diablo 4 players finds a bug or exploit
Diablo 4 Developers: “Just let em have fun, we’ll deal with it later”
This is just blizzard being lazy and not wanting to spend anymore time and effort into fixing something lol. I remember in D3 we had a season where we killed mobs to gain stacks and every min or so we released a powerful elemental attack and the damage was based on the stacks, and someone found a bug where we could keep and pass the stacks back and forth infinitely in Greater Rifts. Blizzard was like “oh its working as intended” LOL.
Fun is when a game has actually good gameplay. When you’re making a game where your bosses are boring because there’s only a tiny math window where the math lines up where the fight is fun, and your end game mode is literally just another dungeon but you had to use crazy scaling to put a layer of lipstick on the game balance, you’re kinda losing hard.
I’m playing Darktide right now and it’s blowing me away how tight the gameplay is, while AoZ literally felt like a joke about min max culture and caving in to streamers.
I hope they wake up a bit with S3 and realize that embracing min maxing and exploiting is not a good way to develop good gameplay.
