Pair that with activisions insatiable greed and you have a recipe for disaster. You have inexperienced devs who will cater and bend the knee to every monetization related demand from corporate because for them, blizzard’s name still holds weight and will still look good on a resume in about a year. They are just tools and don’t have the freedom to implement their creative vision into the game and they know this. Blizzard devs just do the job(poorly) and cash checks. So we should stop bashing them with hopes that they’ll turn a new leaf and start making games instead of money grabs. That ship has long sailed. It sucks that your beloved ip’s are in the hands of the devil but that’s our reality, just be glad we are all privileged to have these problems.
Oh and btw I’m saying all this in light of recent revelations by our fav dev team about why we are having some of the worst performance issues to plague a triple A studio with billions at their disposal. Really speaks to how much good talent Bobby and his cronies ran off over the years.
Now that Microsoft has taken over maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel for blizzard, i guess we’ll just have to see…
Oh and remember folks…it’s Bobby’s world and we’re just living in it.
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No I think it’s worse. I think they are scammers. They know exactly what they are doing.
This game is a RIP OFF.
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malding isnt good for your health, you should log in and have fun, its a great season.
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Yeah… too many coincidences for Blizzard to merely be incompetent.
- Why do so many changes slow the game down?
- Why do massive nerfs occur right before season start?
- Why does season start have borrowed power that can bring classes back to pre-nerf levels?
Edit: After their latest reveal of the “barb buffs” I honestly can’t help but believe that…
Blizzard devs are utterly incompetent when it comes to class balance
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A lot of gaming dev vets left the company, I’m pretty sure that Blizzard not only have lots of incompetent devs, they also lack creative/talented devs.
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It felt great up until world tier 4.
I’m not sure if you are aware but they nerfed levels 0-50 since season start without telling us.
Before season I planned a route to maximize exp by keeping monsters 5 levels above me. They needed that by making the whole world scale to your level. No more “level 25+ areas” for example.
That’s one sentiment I don’t share cuz I don’t see the point in min max’ing your leveling, I don’t care if other people do tho
The point is to create goals and pursue those goals. I find diablo games more fun when they are goal oriented. My goal was to level quickly.
When I first started when the game was released, obviously I didn’t have that goal. But I’ve experienced the game fully with a character up to 100. And I tell you now, it was easier to level to 100 with that character because the rate I gained exp was different.
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Hell, one of them is bashing them as much as the rest of us for all this.
Good ol Mark…
I really wish he was still with the company and in a position of power.
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what are you talking about?
blizzard hear you, so:
next patch, they will NERF all class over and over again, because “players kill things so fast”
especially BARB and SORC will get nerf again, like reduce armor -50% and remove ice nova vulnerable.
they will make helltide chest cost 400 cyl to open
they will make you receive 35% less EXP because “progression is too fast”
they hear you!
It holds a different kind of weight now than it did 15+ years ago. It holds weight more like concrete shoes now for anything they make.
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Good luck with microsoft being the first in the entire humanity creating the first program system that had so many issues that people needed to download new patches each time, because it was so bugged that they make the worst escenario for programs and gaming thanks to Bill G. They have so much bad karma, that people started to buy maqintosh when they started to do the same as windows xxxxxx, selling computers with bugged systems or even burned computers due they were not paying the price for good materials. Being buggy is the norm now. Now we have blizz that had so many issues with monetization greedy thanks to acti, and with the biggest company (microsoft and windows) in the world selling fraudulent program systems that they doesn´t even worked since the begining of the pc´s after msdos.
But hey, is money making. Everyone is happy because they have xbox. If you think this would be solved with microsoft, you are wrong, this only goes worse.
This incompetence is about what one can expect from a company that actively fomented, encouraged, and participated in workplace bullying and harassment of all kinds (sexual, racial, etc.), union busting, and general corporate douchebaggery. Just the sheer level of stupidity to nerf everything into the ground, a few days before the first damn season drops, only to then try and ‘make nice’ by adding some crappy buffs back to everyone after the fact (still not patched, 2 weeks after this monumentally idiotic design choice).
And they had the temerity to try and rationalize their decisions and explain their completely illogical ‘thinking’ behind said choices.
This is not Blizzard. Blizzard died in 2008. This is the copse of Blizzard that Activision and now Microsoft feed on. Quite a few gamers including those on these very forums have never played a Blizzard game.
go watch “World of Warcraft - Pandora’s Box” on YT about Bliz -
very nice history of why they are horrible
Hatred people on this forum 
becasue they have to.
Devs are not the top dogs thus they listen to their owners (the higher ups) and those owners need toi listen to their shareholders/investors (so they push for monetization methods).
it sucks but it is how business is sadly.
Real issue is rushing games that are not finished (not a AVB issue it affects most AAA devs now-a-days).
please let me know, because it would be gratifying to see this happen, who is this and where are they bashing?