Because Blizzard doesn’t want you to use a better UI than the one they have created for the user. The better UI increases the efficiency of the player which lowers player engagement and time in game. Also, Blizzard could be working on UI upgrades themselves and they want to be able to call it “content”.
4 Likes
One can learn that by running the dungeons over and over a few dozen times, which is the normal gameplay here. I can still remember everything about almost all the WoW dungeons I ran and I haven’t played WoW in five years now just because I ran them over and over and over and over.
Diablo 4 is a single player game. It has a single player campaign, outside of world bosses that appear every six hours, everything you do in game is centered around a single player experience. There is absolutely no need to engage or care about “the player economy”. There isn’t a single form of content or level you cannot reach without trading, and the vast, crushing majority of people never engage with trading.
4 Likes
relying on a bevy of external tools due to shortcomings with systems in the game really does highlight the less than release candidate quality of Diablo 4
3 Likes
I don’t think anyone is relying on them. They’re just choosing to use them.
For starters, it’s a multiplayer game and second, if I was speed-running doom then yes I would care if others were using mods to make it easier for them.
Simple, a guy (or group of guys) came up with something that implements much requested QOL features that people have been asking for a while and it makes BLIZZ (ya know, the small budget indie development company) look even more incompetent.
We can’t have that! People with passion putting in more effort than the developers!
3 Likes
I don’t know why people have a hard time understanding this but here you go anyway.
https://youtu.be/EowMBX0Uwf8?t=48
Activision/M$ doesnt care about their player’s tho
Maybe if the UI dint suck balls, people wouldnt take the risk with a 3rd party app.
Still in beta
4 Likes
if the law says don’t steal or you go to jail. you just dont steal or risk going to jail…
you either abide or not. but asking why is pointless heh
1 Like
Isn’t this a pve game? Why do you care if other players have more convenience?
3 Likes
When the only metric daddy activision cares about in monthly active users, it’s obvious why so many QOL improvement are missing. They are going to piece meal them out slowly over time to string players along, like loot filters, aspect names, a searchable inventory, and not having to look at 5 different menus to find something. When a 3rd party does it all at once, it angers daddy.
3 Likes
It’s honestly kind of absurd Blizzard never allows anything that improves Diablo games considering WoW is able to be modded to hell.
I see it the other way around. Frustrating UI design and game systems drive players away. It does not help retention rates. Blizzard fixing the QoL issues would retain players. Period. It would not make the game “finish” faster to have good maps, item sort filters, etc, it would just make it a lot more user friendly while playing.
They built an entire sandbox to make WoW UI addons in using API data Blizzard provides. Those exist within that, and only thing. So Blizz controls the limits of what players can do with the UI there.
Sadly, they said they would never again do that for another game. I don’t know all the reasons why, or if they will ever change their mind, but that is what they said during D3 when players asked about it.
2 Likes
I highly doubt people get banned for Overwolf (it’s a major company that has a vested interest in maintaining some kind of decent relationship with Blizzard as they own curse now), but Thud and overwolf overlays are entirely different.
Thud reads D4’s memory, not sure if it also modifies/injects anything.
Overwolf is an entirely separate process that has no direct interaction with D4. It doesn’t read or modify memory or interact with the game’s process at all. It does use OCR style tech to scan the screen, which some bots I think do now too, but it doesn’t ever interact with the game, it just moves its map as you move I believe (I haven’t used either).
Plenty of software is tolerated. There is an invisible line that you can’t cross. Judging from the website it crossed several lines that would make it an unfair advantage over players that do not use it.
-
Showing dropped items on the map creates an unfair advantage over those that don’t use the software. Why? If you miss a legendary it shows up in your stash, but any other item is gone if missed.
-
Showing class icons under players would give an unfair advantage in PVP. Why? Because without that icon, you may not immediately know what class you’re up against purely by visibility. You may not even know there is another player on the screen if there are mobs around you, just as you may not know where that specific player blinks to in the same situation or with multiple players on screen. The advantage gained in hardcore PVP would be massive.
-
Showing mobs on the map gives an unfair advantage over those that don’t use the software. Why? Because it allows you to find them easier which either leads to faster exp gain or allows you to avoid them which would be a larger advantage in hardcore.
-
I’m unsure if it shows players on the map, but the two above paragraphs apply doubly if it does.
There may be other options that cross the line, but these are just what I can gather from the menu shown in the image on their website.
1 Like
I just think the reaction to TurboHud is wrong. I agreed to the TOS and im going to adhere to it. But seriously… if people are modding in Quality of Life? Maybe uhh… consider adding it?
Just a thought…
3 Likes
No it doesn’t the information is already there.
Clearly they have no control over the future development of Diablo 4. They allow game breaking bugs to stay in the game. They still refuse to acknowledge they ruined the integrity of the game by leaving 142 bugged items in the game. They also refuse to fix class’s that are clearly broken beyond belief but they were johnny on the spot to nerf barbarians into the ground 2 days after release but one of the devs put out a public statement they were not doing balance changes at release.
1 bold face lie after another from this company.
1 Like
there was quite a bit of drama about that overwolf thing a long time ago. didnt follow through with it, surprised to hear it’s a big thing now heh
1 Like