Things did change, they somehow made the game more clunky, less build diversity/complexity, all sorc builds now are SUPER LINEAR when it’s already a brain dead game. The 5 bosses is like adding in 5 elites mobs in the world in term of content, combat. The game is a dumb 1 button game and they made it more dumb, they made all resources worse now when it was the biggest problem in the game fundamental design. In terms of longevity, ppl only reason to continue playing was trying new things/build which is bad in itself but now the builds are more dumb and linear. Basically all class builds now are STRAIGHT linear zero complexity and clunky as fk. Malignant hearts was thing that barely held the classes together (still boring) now they’re all more resource starve, all builds now are linear which defeats the point of all the affix/stats changes… in essence you’re force to play the season to not be annoyed (guessing the vampire stuff suppose to fill the void). It’s like the game literally designed by 1st grade child with zero understanding of math, science, game design etc. o_O when most engine & asset now can help any “non” artistic person make the most gorgeous graphics. Where did the find these people, if I was the CEO i would first fire the management/leads/oversight for not noticing BASIC! ideas in life not even talking about game design, economic, game theory, ecosystem etc. (things devs suppose to know). NA MATH, EDUCATION, ETHICS… D4 is the embodiment of this sad state of Humanity->USA->Industry->Blizzard. Regret that $100 and i don’t even regret spending on other crappy games i know are bad but this is another level of scummy, negligence, and incompetency. Basically they fix basic things that are expected to not happen in the first place but they somehow made fundamental failures worse than they already were o_O. The game is still fundamentally bad (yet they made worse). The content still is inexistent even with the “additional” content… HOLY! expansion is around the corner, if anyone buys that then they’re contributing to this society’s corrupt & incompetent behavior [even if somehow it happens to be good…doubt it - they have to remake the entire game TBH… too many fundamental problems not even talking about all the typical complaints on the forum, streamers, reviews etc. There’s fundamental problems in game design, scope, modern standard, complexity etc. that would be grounds for termination by my standard and i got a low standards]. Bottom line - It’s not mentally stimulating (lack complexity/builds/itemization, skill expression, activities) , not physically/mechanically/strategically challenging with a clunky,simple combat that’s in an overly zoomed in isometric view similar to mobile games. The game seems like it was 3 years behind in development and they release it 2 years in advance, even if it had 3 more years it doesn’t have the scope to be a good game fitting of a “AAA” title or the current genre’s standard. If someone ask me would i buy this game for $40 knowing the scope i would say no but by no means is it completely trash but it’s worth at best $30, but some $10-$30 games gives more satisfaction without any frustration like arcade style vampire survivors.
“fool me once shame on you, fool me twice…” you know the answer.