Season 8 – A Glorious Parade of Disappointment

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Congratulations, Blizzard! I didn’t know it was possible to steer a season so aggressively into a wall, but here we are. Season 8 doesn’t feel like an update—it feels like a parody of what Diablo used to be. Let me guess: the theme is “Deception”? Well done, then. Belial himself would be proud. Because nothing about this season feels honest, rewarding, or remotely fun.

Loot? XP? Fun? MIA.
I’ve had better drop rates scratching lottery tickets. Three legendary runes by Paragon 200? Mythic Uniques? Urban legends, apparently. I’ve pulled more trash from torment bosses than out of level 10 chests. So why even bother when nothing worth using drops? Oh right—the XP curve. Also “reworked.” Translation: You level slower, get less for it, and have more time to admire our shop. Genius move.

Season Journey aka Bureaucracy from Hell.
The new Journey? A masterpiece in busywork. You used to pick tasks—now you do all of them, relevant or not. And the reward? A cache so bland it makes Whispers feel exciting. “Grats, you clicked all the boxes.” Hope you enjoy that gray transmog you’ll never use.

Boss mechanics: Belial just shows up, no one knows why.
Let’s take one of Diablo’s most iconic villains and throw him into a random Tormented Boss slot! No context, no build-up—just “Hi, I’m here. Good luck getting any loot.” Brilliant. Oh, and if you actually want to fight him? Gotta complete a bugged seasonal quest first. Assuming it even spawns. But hey, probably better for your mental health if you don’t.

The Berserk Event – False Hype, True Cashgrab.
This was supposed to be a celebration. What we got was a glorified cash shop update. 2,800 Platinum for a set that includes one weapon, no SFX, no VFX, no anything—except the price. But wait! You can earn some cosmetics with the new Behelit currency—if you enjoy manually looting invisible, unmarked items that don’t even show on your map. No auto-pickup. Not even a minimap ping. And of course, they only drop in areas where you can loot, meaning no Helltide chests or other high-activity content. Amazing design, truly.

Battle Pass = Reliquary = Monetization Overload.
What used to be a 1,000 Platinum pass with 666 refunded now costs up to 2,800—for less. You get 200 back. A confusing UI, multiple “relics” you now have to manage, and nothing feels rewarding. It’s not a progression system. It’s a spreadsheet. And guess what? Bugs take weeks to fix, but monetization issues get hotfixed overnight. Funny how that works.

And the shop sets… AI-designed leftovers?
Some of these armor sets look like they were cobbled together by a fantasy-name generator and a blender. Generic, lifeless, interchangeable junk—for premium prices. At this point, base transmog gear looks better than most shop cosmetics. You want iconic? Go play D2R.

Bottom line:
Season 8 isn’t progression. It’s a professionally produced letdown. Loot is absent, XP is a slog, rewards are meaningless, and everything screams: “Pay or quit.” If this is your vision of a Live Service game, I wish you luck—but don’t count on me being there to see it.

Can’t wait for Season 9 to be recycled straight from a mobile game. That’d be the most honest move yet.

Disappointed veteran, logging out.

#MakeDiabloGreatAgain

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I agree with your sentiments about S8…I’m just not having fun like I have in past seasons. I don’t feel invested in leveling my 5 characters and pushing them into the higher tiers this season.

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We’re into season 8; it’s over one year since D4 Launch and still no notable new end game content. D4 might just die before next DLC.

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Another thing I can’t really bend my head around is why someone thought it was a good idea to put WHITE ELIXIRS in the late game reputation and small seasonal chests. That’s just taking the p!ss. I had to purge those from my inventory all the time, until I paid more attention to the loot exploding from them and not pick them up.

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I agree—this season has a bit too much greedy new content. It looks like even more is coming next season, as if they’re trying to turn the game into a cash machine like Diablo Immortal was, full of pay-to-win mechanics.

That would be a big mistake, since Diablo 4 has a majority of true Diablo fans. Also, I think the approach to cash-grab mechanics differs in some regions—many Asian players seem more accustomed to these no-brain monetization systems, like those marbles machines, the Pachinko machines. Some business folks at Blizzard are probably paying close attention to that behavior. :smile:

Too bad—it’ll just lead to trash games. Still, that’s how it seems, but I won’t be totally sure until I see how seasons 9 and 10 unfold.

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Game is just feels so unrewarding to play at the moment - loot is trash.

Today I was averaging 2 runes every 3 boss kills, and the only legendary one o got was from a world boss.

lost count of how many bosses i have killed on T4 with only 1 GA item dropping at a time - and no mythic anywhere - which is what the streamers wanted 9just like they wanted slower leveling) - so they can produce their videos.

there is just no point playing once the season journey is done - and this last event is less then enthralling!

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TLDR -

  • I don’t like having to farm for loot in a game about farming loot so I can farm loot better
  • I don’t like this seasons rewards so it’s just bad
  • I don’t like that the 3rd of the 4 Lesser evils showed up to the party after being released from Malthael’s defeat in D3 taking years to resurrect
  • I don’t like that you have to pay for skins. And I don’t like that you have to manually pick up tokens which pertains to the lore from the anime they are from
  • I have issues with more mtx
  • More issues with mtx and I can’t get past D2/R’s magically frozen meta that hasn’t had anything new to do since D2R’s grand charm patch.

Bottom Line - Lazy veteran doesn’t like new games and doesn’t like there being non-power related things available to buy.

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The 2 year anniversary for Diablo IV in only a few weeks away. Given the clown show we’ve seen so far this season I predict they’ll celebrate with some $49.99 recycled skins, a week (almost typed weak) of Mother’s Blessing that will introduce a game crashing bug and take 3 days to fix, and a free two-handed Axe transmog that can only be claimed by classes that can’t actually use it.

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This is a bad take on valid criticism

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Now take your thoughts and imagine how bad Eternal is currently…really no reason to login.

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I literally bought the more expensive expansion package for more platinum, because I was counting on that platinum to buy the battle pass, to earn platinum from future battle passes, to be able to buy more future battle passes with it. With this decreased return in platinum, I feel misled… ever heard of “bait and switch?”

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I agree 6 seasons of power in different form … the power of gregory is nice it game my sorc an insane power spike … other then that … got to torment 2 and was very disappopinted when I saw the even been cash grab … the invoker skin from warcraft was better than this … berserk armor could have more wolf / fox like theme to it and be darker or have a hue of reddish black energy seeping out of it … but no it was done with what look like money grabbing at over 9000 …

About AI and generating the image … I got a picture generated by chat gpt and it look better for the $ got eye that pulse like a berserker and blood seeping of the armor because his armor keep his body together but doesn’t prevent bleeding. took me less than 15 minutes to get something that look better than the armor in the shop … at least put the effect on the armor to make it worth the cash !

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This is a bad take on a valid summary of a lazily written review grasping for an echo chamber that is the forums.

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I mean look at the expansion all that it added was a lackluster zone with lackluster dungeons/strongholds. a raid no one participates in (because its not soloable in a game played mostly by solo players) and a class that was broken from the start. at the crisp price of 40$ all of these things should have been added in seasonal patches like we were promised. instead they fleece us with shop items that are overpriced and rarely get sales with no way of farming the currency in game outside of a battlepass you have to pay for. The one good change making a free option that gives 200 plat unfortunately poisoned by the changes to the battlepass itself. D4 isnt a game to them anymore… its a money sink.

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Oh dear, you seem to have confused Blizzard for a non-profit company. I’m sorry to hear that.

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And you seem to think they can continue to make a profit by dumping on as many of their customers as possible.

A small, vocal minority screamed for “no shared boss farming”. A small, vocal minority screamed for “slower leveling”. So they listened to those groups (though I suspect the Venn diagram is basically a circle) and now we’re seeing people walk away from the season in droves. Of the 10 members in my former clan only 1 is still playing after a week. That kind of retention rate is not healthy for a game less than 2 years old in a week old season.

Hell of a way to run a for profit business. It’s eventually going to blow up in their faces and then all of us will lose Diablo completely.

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Are we? You got data on this?

Sounds like a seasonal experience to me. Spike and drop per usual.

There’s far worse out there. Doesn’t excuse it but just like other arpgs with mtx, they gotta make that bread some how.

Hell some of Poe1’s fits are more expensive, but because their company started as a small fry in the arpg pond, they get that “oh its okay, they need to make money” pass. But because Blizzard is big ole Blizzard that charged an upfront cost that is worth pennies in comparison to the hours players put into it, they’re the bad guy.

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Threads like these aren’t really indicative of how the community as a whole feels about D4…

Reasons being are:

  1. The people that are enjoying the game are playing it… not posting cry threads on the forums

  2. The people like me who are at work generally take a peek at the forums every so often… before going home and playing D4

I’ve only been here for S6-S8… and yeah… Blizz ain’t perfect… but S8 is definitely more entertaining than S6 or S7.

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hopefully

20 chars for this abomination