Game popularity dropped quickly

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I wonder if its a normal path for a game like Diablo 4 that is suppose to have a long life to lose popularity so quickly.
Looking at the available data we can see of the Twitch platform from the
twitchtracker.c0m/games/515024
Diablo 4 had 590 000 active viewer on release June 2 and today July 15, 6 weeks later the game has 12 000 viewer.
So it is expected to have a drop in Viewer over time but to see such a sharp drop in popularity on Twitch is a good indicator of the popularity of the game overall.
It seems the Dev team has changed a lot over the years at Blizzard and the current Dev team doesnt see what people liked about the Diablo game.

On a personal note Diablo 2 remains on of my most fun experience in the Diablo series, even diablo 2 Resurected i had a lot more fun than Diablo 4.

Please add unique and set item like in diablo 2 to diablo 4
Remove level scalling, it make the game be a constant struggle which is not fun
Too many sidequest giving pointless crap that we end up selling to vendor, in diablo 2 there was few quest but they gave skill point, mercenary, more life, etc actual usefull stuff.
Mercenary were fun to have and level up
Trading was a very fun aspect of the game where we could try to complete set of item
Runes were fun to make runeword and try make better gear.

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Its not weird that people stopped watching. There is nothing new to view once a streamer reaches tier4. Would you watch someone reset a dungeon and running them over and over ?

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The same reason they watch any game or streamer for hours on end doing variations of the same thing in any game. While D4 dungeons are a monotonous mediocrity, it’s more or less all the same for most games.

People watch people play minecraft for hours while they are digging a pit.

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Sounds like you want to play Diablo 2 and not Diablo 4.

You know you can just do that, right? No need to come to the forums and demand the devs make the game more like Diablo 2 for the millionth time.

It really isn’t.

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According to your simplistic reasoning D2 should be a dead game.

D4 16.3K views.
D2 65 views.

See how easy that was.

In reality twitch views do not indicate anything. Only Blizzard knows how many people play Diablo 4.

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Diablo is visually stunning, but it falls short in terms of RPG elements and has the most underwhelming itemization I’ve encountered among modern ARPG games. That is the reason of failure.

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Humans have the attention span of goldfish. News at 11.
This just in: A game with seasonal content has a dip in players before a new season releases.

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