they’re few in numbers and you’ll never please them anyway, best to ignore them
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Hardcore… do you mean mode wise? Why? They’d have more understanding of the game than others.
Hardcore as in dedicated players? You mean… people that keep the game alive… for this long?
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You have backed this by so many logical reasons, observations, and even personal opinions, theres no way you are posting this out of sheer ignorance, or flat out trolling. /s
Keep up the quality posts.
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Yes because they should totally listen to the whiny self-entitled retail WoW crowd that think they’re entitled to everything right? Yeah… that worked out so great for D3 right?
Blizzard learned their lesson with D3 and retail WoW players can go back to their abomination of a game. I’m so tired of this same demographic infesting every Blizzard game and thinking everyone should roll out the red carpet for them and everything should be catered to them.
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If you are talking about the masochistic super hardcore people who want to take 3 years to hit max level and find a single upgrade in that time, then yes.
But if you are talking about the people who actually play these games and will be here long after everyone else has left, not a great idea.
Not saying they should listen to everything, but I think far more terrible ideas come from the casuals and the people who have no idea how thing work.
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3 years for a single upgrade? Man, I played Everquest for like 9 years and even I think thats masochistic lol.
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The HC crowd have the best understanding of the items, gameplay and enemies. That would be stupid to ignore the most vetted community.
I’m more concerned when developers make wholesale changes to a game based on spreadsheet balancing and not listening to the feedback of its player base, hardcore and casual alike. To truly grow your player base you have to give a little to both.
oh right I forgot to add they have undeserved egos too
Which usually means they’ll find any way to survive and overcome content no matter what’s thrown at them
Of course they will. but does that mean they are gonna sit there and just take it? I’d look at forums, and see how much feedback is still being submitted by those “Hardcore players”.
Its the “Hardcore” players that keep the games alive.
yeah good point, they can ignore them cause they’ll keep playing anyway. no need to cater to a tiny minority.
From what I’ve seen, games tend to perform better when the hardcore crowd is ignored.
A fun good game for casuals naturally breeds people to want to become hardcore onto it, games that primarily target the hardcore audience tend to die extremely quickly.
So… the people… that have done the most… should be ignored? The dude literally wants the people who has done the most, and kept the game alive… to be silenced.
Man thats like having a Teacher who teaches Math, say that the history teacher will be teaching you math.
But sure. lets listen to all the casuals thats just new to Diablo franchise. whine and complain with all the entitlements, and ruin the game. Sounds great!
your analogy sucks. and there’s that ego again
That is how life generally works, the gaming industry is no exception.
In a few months or even years while you spent $70 for this game or even more, this game will get cheaper, the bugs will be ironed out, more incentives will be given with a cheaper price tag, all the DLCs this game will produce will be bundled up together and it will be cheaper than the $70 you bought it at.
The “hardcore” the people who were the foundations for this game will be pushed aside to accomodate the casuals who only had an inkling of interest, the price will drop, DLCs will get bundled together, all the bugs and content that you spend months/years waiting that vastly improve the game will arrive neatly in a tight little package for the casual audience in a heavy discount.
And what did you the hardcore audience get out of it for your loyalty and buying the game early, suffering through huge server issues, frequent bugs, buying the game and all the DLCs at a premium?
You’re ignored.
Welcome to life, lots to learn.
Sounds like someone really hates permadeath in games.
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Ahh hi kroni. still not got that proof i asked for? Nope… bugger off.
ALWAYS! especially when sinking 400 some hours into a HC character. haha. 95% Exclusive HC mode player… well before d4. I’m not sure about d4 yet since online only… and… lag spikes can hit hard.
we need a new word. Hardcore as in ‘dying and it’s over’ and Hardcore as in ‘not casual’ can be confusing when both fits
It’s not only that. Originally hardcore referred to hardcore techno but then punk bands wanted piece of cake too and named extreme style of punk music hardcore.
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