Well, as a HUGE FAN of Diablo Franchise, that played D3 insanely from 2012 to 2019
I have to ask, whats the formula to keep players interested in your game ?
Is this "Season something theme"with New color event area (cough) helltide with dif color pallete, again and again ?
When we gonna have SOMETHING ? to enjoy ? people dont need different runes with new (cough) witch doctor powers and gems with new mixes and run through colored season themed event area to improve event NPC xp for the same rewards table again and again every season.
Stop it, be creative. Season 4 ( The one you changed ITEMIZATION to a new formula) was one of the best and one of players most enjoyed, and didnt even have a “THEME”.
Stop remaking these area themes, with same things every season. Be creative. The most different juice in this season was the chance to Swap builds in the Loadout, everything else is the just same.
You need to revamp your game, stop giving TONS of legendaries every single run, every single dungeon I have to salvage cause in 30seconds (LITERALLY 30 seconds) I have my inventory FULL of trash items to salvage. I am not even talking about doin those stupid bosses at Tier IV, Duriel and his friends that you have to drop every kill the 6 Uniques u looted in the ground so you can keep killin him 50x more without goin to town every 3 runs.
Just, get better in this game difficulty, reward system, loot rate and endgame replayability. Got bored of this season (like the 3 last) in 5 days.
Maybe season 7’s theme was just a step in the right direction. If season 8 is just season of werewolves or frankensteins I don’t know if that will cut it. Sure plenty of people will still play but plenty of others will think why bother? You can’t afford that. You need EVERYONE TO WANT TO BOTHER. Because after a time the people who play every season are going to start becoming the “why bother” people. We’ve seen it with other games. We are seeing it with Diablo. It will only get worse. It should be your primary concern.
We do all want to see a 2nd expansion. And the others you have planned.
If mediocrity is the end goal the end result will be far worse. Aim for greatness and you will at least be good.
You need more than 1 “meta” build per class per season. BUILD DIVERSITY FOR ALL CLASSES. If that’s hard work oh darn! “What build are we playing this season guys? Oh, that sucks. I don’t like that build. I wanna play x build I like x build. Guess I’ll wait till next season to see if they buff my precious x build.”
Saying balance is hard is 1 thing, when you put ABSOLUTELY ZERO effort into making anything but 1 thing strong that is not even ATTEMPTING balance. ATTEMPT BALANCE. As hard as you may fail, ATTEMPT IT!!
You do need more than the pit as a reason for anyone to give a crap about getting stronger. Everyone’s character reaches a point where everything but the pit becomes trivial and you can do the activities with your eyes closed. There are points closer to paragon 300 where you realize any power gains you accumulate will be miniscule so why bother continuing? Your pit level is maxed at the moment. You have no other reason to gain power.
The Diablo series never had truly randomly generated dungeons. They’re generated using seeds just like Minecraft worlds. In Diablo 1, the seed even determines what loot you’ll get.
It’s how a Diablo 1 speed runner was caught cheating because his dungeon layout and loot acquired didn’t match any seed that can be generated normally by the game.
I didnt said it have, played insanely on first 2 - 3 years cause it was “new” to me, and had difficulty and use market to have and look for endgame itens was fun.
In the last year I only played cause group play was fun to grind Leaderboards, had a lot of fun with friends.
but surely it lacked a lot of endgame, Leaderboards was the unique thing that “kept” interest for some by years.
after 7 seasons its clear → casual gaming, new season, get everything in few days, repeat every 3 months
they had time to do so, and well… first season was a joke, then after 7 seasons we can also clearly say, they have NO idea how to make a season content engaging, rewarding and fun in a different way than just give everything to everyone in matter of seconds.
och man i remember Joe S. in one of interviews once the game was announced that legies wont be raining from the sky like in d3, we wont have multipliers like in d3
but i agree… they have to hire someone to just wake them up… or maybe its to late… i mean, we allready gave them like… 100 chances since d3?
You bro, got the whole point that I had about actual state of Diablo.
They had like all the chances and experimentations with d3, and they just KEEP making all the same errors again and again.
And as you first stated, the focus maybe is just the casual player and that we can get every season and build in few days to get bored fast and wait 3 more months.
To be honest after VoH I’m not excited for them to put out another expansion for this game. Another build up to mephisto? Or an actual fight this time who knows lol
How is it free? Base game is charged and expansions are charged if you want to play. Free would be like poe pay if you want to. Game was released as live service and sold that way people paid for this so called content
The expansion definitely wasn’t “much” considering we paid for it. Which is why I don’t think it should take them very long to shell another one out. It would benefit them for the next one to promise more content than VOH. The paladin/crusader on it’s own will generate hype but it its hopefully a BIGGER expansion in every aspect.
Waiting over a year to see even 1 prime evil is causing some impatience. By the time every expansion is out I’m sure it will be cool to have all the evils as bosses. And whatever other features were added in by then.
Yea it will be cool to have the primes back to fight but what’s going to be the total cost of a game they decided to release in stages instead of all at once to milk money from people is my point. I’m glad live service and micro transactions are dying.
I see one more expansion to add paladin/crusader and later a dlc to finish the story. Seasons only from then on until they decide to release the next one. After that maintenance mode/recycled seasons like the previous games.
No formula no nothing…there is no point coz ppl only care for skins and buy tham…you can see they are selling portals for 20 euro…and all streamer simps and streamers ruin game…i have seen one streamer that have said game is to slow for farm and everybody started to say yes,he said to send it to blizzard and whole f… chat started to send that to customer support…when ppl stop buying skins and stop suporting streamers that play 10+ h a day mybe we will see change…
Why is everyone in such a hurry to 1-shot farm prime evils until our eyes bleed? Prime evils will be a joke, if they get in the game before Blizzard learns how to make a fight.
