This game will take 1-2 years to fix period!

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With all of the problems in the late game(notice I said late game), are going to take 1-2 years before this is in a state to be playable for any real length of time. I have 3 level 100 characters and so far the problems are the same regardless of the class. Of coarse there are the shills and Blizz defenders who will surely post right after this and most likely without even reading it but the fact is no matter how much they don’t wanna believe it(because they saved up their money and put all their eggs in one basket when they bought this game and now they have nothing else to play), is it is true.

  • The scaling system was the worst idea in this game. Blizzard was told this with DI and they ignored it.
  • The lack of end game content is astonishing, how did they screw up literally the most important part of the game?
  • A social game with MMO aspects with absolutely no social abilities or methods to communicate(I hope the genius responsible for this was fired).
  • Loot that is meaningful up until maybe level 70 after that the really poor design of the loot system starts to show and the endless wave of useless stats or stats that don’t work(resistances).
  • The only items worth finding are on a lottery basis which borders insanity(doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results).
  • Mob density that makes the game feel almost empty at times.
  • World bosses that are so weak that can be soloed.
  • Mounts - WTF these are just horrible.
  • Spell effects are bland and boring and most times you cant even see what on the ground hurting you.
  • Yay they added XP and Ports to NM dungeons which should have been there DAY 1 and expect a pat on the back.
  • Features that have been in D3/D2 and game improvements that are just non-existent in D4.
  • The Season content that includes 1 new boss and a reskin of the same dungeons and mobs to get more gems is considered major content.

There is a lot more that I can add to this list but to be honest I just don’t feel like it. The fact is creativity and innovation is completely lacking in this game. I wanted more then anything for this game to wow me but alas it never happened with the exception of one cinematic. Everything is so bland and downright boring after 70.

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I agree. It will take a good while for things to change drastically. Hopefully they don’t fight it and actually embrace the change.

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This game is so miserable that it would take much longer than that. I think they are purposefully holding back content so they can add it very slowly over the course of 20 seasons… what else are they gonna do … ?!

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It’s clear that this game was either rushed, designed to be a minimally viable product sold quickly, or all these choices were deliberate.

You can’t have global chat because Blizzard is just too woke for that kind of thing now. People might read things that hurt their feelings, and we can’t have that in a mature video game.

It’s also very clear to me that they didn’t really care about the endgame at all. It’s more about selling to the casuals, who likely would never even make it past level 70 regardless. It’s like they went out of their way to create a boring, soulless, and bland game. Which really just feels bad because, graphically and through the sound, the game engine is such a good foundation to build a great APRG out of.

When exactly did work begin on Season 1? Is this all we can really expect going forward for Seasonal content, or was this really just because they didn’t have time?

Could it be possible they wanted to open with a bland, low-effort Season 1 to just see what they could get away with without the community throwing backlash? One of those we’ll open with a lackluster Season 1, and if they don’t bite our heads off, we can have Season 2 be just as low-effort.

The sad part is that this Season will not move the base Diablo game forward. It’s a throwaway season, with the only real content the game gains being a measly six unique items and only seven aspect powers.

The biggest bummer, though, is that there is no loot chase from 70 to 100. There just isn’t a point in playing beyond that if you can’t continue your progression. If there were a way for even off-meta builds to continue to build power through items, they would be able to power their way through the higher-tier nightmare dungeons.

Oh, let’s not forget that resistances just don’t work at all in the endgame. Like, how is that even a thing? They truly did not care or even test the end-game content.

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yawn.

/01234567890 20 char

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It would take a couple years to fix if the developers understood the problems. But they not only don’t understand the problems, they are going the opposite direction of fixing them already. I don’t think this game will ever be fixed unless management is completely replaced. Nothing against those guys, they’re just not equipped to run an ARPG. I’m sure there are plenty of things they are very good at in development, but this is not one of them.

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Why does Blizzard insist on putting World of Warcraft designers on Diablo projects? Bring in people with a real passion for ARPG. If you make a good game, people will throw money at you.

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Ya, but even worse.

This game will take 1-2 years to fix in the hands of people who have good design principles, and that means hiring a team of people with good design principles.

Look at the fixes they’ve decided to make, and not make.

1-2 years of putting lipstick on this pig is going to give us a really scary looking pig, and that’s about it.

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Exactly and I dont understand why they don’t see this. After the last big 3 from Blizz/Act MW2/Dragonflight/D4 I will never pre-order another game ever. I have lost faith in this company which is really sad. I build my first computer for Warcraft 2 and Starcraft then got into Diablo. I wouldn’t be anywhere near what I am with computers if it wasn’t for Blizzard. They are not the same. :frowning:

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Scaling is fine.

More end game then POE and D3 had on release X10

Most people have POE chat off. Its just people talking about themselves and gold spammers… Dont miss it

Im still getting upgrades on my 85 sorc

There will always be chase items… This not aMMO like wow and not like the baby game of d3 where they give you a free set. Grind or dont play that is your choice,

Mob denisty will be chnged in 4 days

Only a few builds can solo them

Munts are fine your just spaming the run speed in the wrong places.

POE spells are boring hence why they have a store where you buy better ones. Rightgous Fire normal look you can barely see, Buy the mtx and It glows like a beacon

Not all of us are lazy bastards and need to be ported around an open world map.

First seasons of all the games I played were more balance then anything else.

What you dont like doesnt make something true. Nopt all about you never will be.

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If you believe this why are you here? You think your whining will make them dev faster lol?

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So just like D3 then?

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But here you sit on a forum of a game you hate. Their not going to reverse dir so wouldnt that just mean you should let go. I know its hard but its the sane thing to do,

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For it to be playable? It’s plenty playable now.

Sorry you can’t spend 8 hours a day for the next few years on a single game since that seems to be what you want, but that is not promised.

As I said.

Ah yes. Anyone who disagrees with you is a shill, got it, conspiracy nut.

You haz 3 lvl 100 characters so you know everything and every opinion you have about the game is “the right one” and the only one that matters.

And I do have plenty of other things to play…such as Final Fantasy 16, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, new Trails game just released, Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming in August or I can play through early access again.

Diablo 3 had it long before DI. But it gets tiring to see this again and again since prior to release, and almost none of you ever can explain what makes level scaling bad.

The only thing I’ve seen is that people can’t go to lower level areas and annihilate them trivially for some fun, but this isn’t true, you can do it as soon as you hit 51. Seems like this complaint built up steam during the betas and people just keep repeating it because it’s popular, without giving it further thought.

There’s multiple things to do in the endgame. I’m not against more being added, but if they add more and people are just going to still say “there’s no endgame (because I don’t consider X endgame)”, what’s the point of trying to appease that segment?

“Absolutely no social abilities or methods to communicate”…assuming ‘not’ was meant to be ‘no’, you seem like a true genius /s

Chat exists. Have you tried pressing the hotkey or clicking on the chat window?

They should add a groupfinder, sure, but saying there are no methods of communication in the same sentence as sarcastically calling the dev a genius for doing so, real genius you are. See what I did there?

Almost all build-worthy loot is under lvl 70 required in D2.

Technically d3 is the same in that regard, but lvl 70 is the lvl cap, though paragon lvls (which has a theoretical cap of 20000) continue after that. D3 loot scaling is similar to d4, where an item’s affixes will be higher if it drops when your char is a higher level. And paragon levels don’t increase the strength of the gear you get.

That’s the kind of game this is. D2 and D3 were loot lotteries as well.

I haven’t had a problem with mob density at all. Perhaps because I have good movement speed from my boots and teleport (I play sorc)

This isn’t WoW. Bosses are supposed to be soloable. Enemy toughness scales with the number of players.

Yeah, could use a boost. I’d like them to benefit from movement speed as well.

Are you referring to the necromancer skill? They said it was a bug and being fixed. Haven’t had any issue seeing enemies other than when grouping with someone with that skill.

Ok…I don’t think they have a TARDIS, so maybe it’s a good thing to have it now rather than never? Would you prefer it not be mentioned in the patch notes since you say they “expect a pat on the back”?

Which ones?

It seems like you would consider anything to be a reskin. What would be ‘new’ or ‘major’ content to you?

Remember, this will be on a 4 seasons/year schedule. I.e. don’t expect every season to be on the level of additions like Lord of Destruction or Reaper of Souls.

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No, I don’t think it will be. Too much D3 design philosophies in it. Too much turn over at blizzard company with designers, to the point that they didn’t even know what people didn’t like about D3 and assumed everyone loved it and just copied all the bad D3 ideas into D4.

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LOL You seriously believe there will be 4 seasons a year?!? Did you eat glue as a child? 2 to 3 TOPS and 3 is if your are super lucky. Obviously you don’t know much about Diablo seasons therefore I assume you don’t know much about the game. The fact that you would actually believe that shows clearly you didn’t play them. Glad you found the one typo for me. Did you actually have anything intelligent to say in that entire post or just enjoy being the corporate shill?

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It’s looking more and more likely that I will be just playing PoE and preparing for PoE2/4.0
Like many I was excited about the game, the slices we got was almost a dream come true. Once the whole veil was finally lifted, it revealed a shallow, hollow husk of what make an ARPG great. The team doesn’t seem focused on making good on the Diablo legacy, instead they stay quiet and waiting for seasons to save a broken game.

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This post really moved me.

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we can hope for a loot 2.0 patch but that wont come before expantion arives i guess
if at all

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There is an update coming on the 18th but I am not putting a lot of faith in it!