I agree with him on every single point. This is absurd, after this much time including a paid expansion (which yes I do regret buying now at least at full price) many core problems remain and the game is feeling more and more like Diablo Immortal instead of D2.
while i agree with a lot of it, many of his points exist because they made changes based on feedback from the community. i donāt like a lot of it either, but here we are
Yeah, I definitely remember everyone clamouring for the same exact season re-skinned for the 7th season in a row. I definitely also remember people saying āhey blizzard, can you add a timer to literally everything, itās not annoying enough as isā.
Makes sense. As a streamer he wants a game thatās good for streamers.
Of course, whatās good for streamers isnāt that great for most players.
As far as Iām concerned heās one of if not THE single handedly most responsible individual for the gameās failure
Didnāt bother to ārealizeā the game not even for a one single second, it was all about conveniences and efficiency and āraceā to him (every single damn second)
And not only that but after devs gave him exactly what he wanted on a silver platter he left to play LE
No offense but no matter what I canāt have respect for him and his āfeedbackā tbh
thatās a gross oversimplification. they have tried a lot of stuff. like season of the construct. while cool it didnāt do well. their best recieved seasons have been ones with powers. i really hope they take more risks going forward.
Yup, they usually want a long term grind and super low drop rates and stupid crap like that. Easy to ask for that when you have an army of simps lined up to give you money and items and group with you on demand.
In my mind, while they have tried some new stuff, the problem is all of it is put on top of a very poor base. The ideas donāt do well because of the game itself, not because of the ideas.
Yeah.
Iāll try the game again when loot isnāt completely boring to me. Until then, I just check in here and elsewhere to track progress.
Kudos to all the folk who love the game as is and have a fun season.
Those streamers need the games to stay relevant. D4 is dong bad and that is not good for streamers either.
The best recieved season was a season without a season theme. Let that sink inā¦
sad but true. I hate this 
with passion and this ātimerā stuff does not fit the Franchise at all.
I think you give him to much power and blame. This game was done bad by blizzard and blizzard alone. They will not change the game for āRaxxā. No offense to him he achieved a lot of followers but those numbers are peanuts fore a playerbase of diuablo. If he had 50 millions subscribers, he has the power. But not with less then half a million.
Ok I watched the full video and agree with everything he said, but I am past the point of thinking the game can be about what Raxx and I seem to both love about ARPGs.
Itās all about the item hunt for me, and the chance to get a super rare and game changing drop like a ber and jah. Or the runes necessary to make an infinitity. I barely ever am able to do this in a season, but thatās okay. That just means Iām driven every new season to try and see if I can that season. The idea that I could get such dopamine is enough to motivate me.
But thatās just not going to happen here. So I believe they picked the lane that isnāt that. And thatās ok, so long as they can cultivate it properly. If they really are working on something major, then that is probably taking up a lot of development time ā which is going to leave the game that weāre playing in a bit of a limbo.
So Iām kind of in a wait and see mode. Diablo 4 is the worst ARPG right now, D3 beating it out too. But itās not so bad I wonāt play it.
Even though itās been a long time, I still consider this an Early Access game where they are working on its final iteration. Theyāll get there, I think. But itās not going to be an item drop dopamine game like I had wished.
The season of blood was a massive hit. so i disagree. If u were right they wouldnāt keep doing it.
That is the problem. Yes S2 powers have been recieved well.
Just like i enjoy to eat a Pizza. It becomes an issue when all i get to eat is pizza. The once great taste of the pizza will become less and less enjoyable and sooner or later turn to aversion.
Maybe blizz just like you though. āHey S2 powers where good, lets rinse and repeat foreverā
that is not a genius move, its very dumb.
while i donāt disagree they do it too much, it doesnāt support your point. donāt forget they have numbers we donāt. like player engagement
It took D3 2 years with some still fairly legendary devs to make it what it became. Either this team has what it takes to realize Diablos awesome potential, or they hurt/destroy the IP. If I were a MS higher up Iād make sure they have all the talent they need cause this IP is worth billions.
this would be true except for the fact that everyone feels the same way without him having to say anything, but way to deflect blame onto him instead of the devs
Just for the record: I deleted my original account because of S2
Conveniences galore and misses in every single way possible
It was THAT bad
Which brings the obvious point that:
And people āapplaudedā like devs did the best thing possibleā¦ First of all everyone with an ounce of analytical skills knew this wonāt be able to last long and secondly knew that it was terrible and the reason is simple:
That was the season when I also spoke about total lack of balance between skills cause a skill I put every single point into was doing less than a skill I just used to make monsters vulnerable (yes, lvl16 Death Blow was doing less damage than lvl8 Upheaval)
I meanā¦ NO, S2 was the worst thing that happened to the game, devs ālearnedā the wrong lessons (that cost them a lot more long-term)
Luckily S7 was supposed to be S2 2.0 that backfired hard so weāre kinda back on track but Iām afraid it may be a bit late tbh
When having representation also have responsibility to do it the right way too, canāt just ānibbleā willy nilly how everything is āslowā and āinefficientā and has to be more efficient andā¦ yeah, he was a ārepresentativeā of the community, has to do a better job at doing so
AT LEAST take a bit of look at another point of view
they donāt, though. for example his first point is about chase items. how many times have you heard people complain about the difficulty of obtaining them? since season 0?
I wouldnāt put the blame on one individual streamer or content creator, but as a group, yeah, they did play a part in some of the mess we have.
My biggest complaint (although a minor one, it still irks me) is the constant drumbeat of āSpeed! Speed! Speed! Rush, rush, rush! Hurry, hurry, hurry!ā. There was one brief shining moment a few seasons back, over a year or so, where the mounts were actually working pretty well - they turned smooth, they started moving when you clicked mouse button, werenāt getting hung up on rocks and twigs, etcā¦ For about a week. Then came the cries of āBut I still canāt spur my mount in town! Whaaa!ā Well, now we can spur our mounts in town, but in the overworld they went back to being .
I donāt use the mounts anymore - get some movement bonuses from tempering, enchanting and aspects, I outrun a horse. Yay!
The only people responsible are those at Blizzard. And they have been responsible since after the beta (when people could start giving them feedback).