Will D4 recover from season 6? blizz please see what you have done

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Season 6 wasn’t a failure by any means but I think it moved in a direction that made things worse for the player base rather than better. I feel the dev team has fallen victim to trying to please the majority to the point they lost track of what their game is.

Before when leveling to level 100 you could get build defining unique items at early levels and often play a build you did not intend to play because of the unique you got at lower levels. That was really fun. A few patches ago blizzard went out of their way to make unique items drop more at lower levels. That all went away in season 6.

Now the game does not feel like it even starts until you are level 60 and in torment. The odds of getting a unique item while leveling is too low. Everyone rushes to 60 and targets farms what they need for the build they decided on before they made their character.

Season 7 introduced targeted mythic unique items with runes and while I feel that system is great by the time you get the mythics you wanted you have done all of the content over and over so many times that there is nothing new and all activities are just GRINDing. Dear god don’t make getting the mythics easier make more content to do after we get them.

When the player base asked blizzard for more endgame activities the only thing blizzard came up with was more grinding. They even converted blacksmith upgrade system into the beloved tempering grind. Talking a system that is in place and replacing it with a grind didn’t feel good to me.

Dear blizzard my request is give us end game content that challenges player skill and not our endurance to grind. Give us something to achieve that we can brag about. right now all your can brag about is lucky RNG OR your persistence in grinding.

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The only thing it did was gatekeep non-xpac players and promote dupers, swindlers, and scammers. I think you’re going to find few people that thought it was a better way.

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It was a better way for them not players. Mythics are already easier to get than a usable ancestral. If increasing drop rates means I get more GA to thorns on my sorcerer it ensures dupers and scammers are rampant in the game. This has gotten so bad for so long they are promoting it by inaction or benefitting from it.

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No, it didn’t.

I can’t tell you how many uniques I got on multiple characters that defined my builds. I got quite a few of them from spending obols, as a matter of fact. Especially uniques like Flamescar (a unique wand for sorcerers) and Razorplate, but other uniques were also dropping for me, which helped define my characters and what build direction they were going to go.

Sorry that your drop rate for uniques sucked, but that’s not the experience most players are having, I’d wager.

It’s called the Pit because anything above level 50 isn’t needed for the Season Journey. Meaning if you want to test yourself and the skill you have as a player, that’s where you do it.

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That is an out of season April fools joke, right? Season 6 that launched with a paud expansion was an adject failure. I haven’t seen players drop off that fast, that early in almost any game except overwatch 2.

Season 7 will be a worse version of season 2. Blizz just can’t help themselves by completing destroying their games.

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I can agree that Season 5 felt more complete than Season 6. Not necessarily due to the leveling phase, but in general. I wonder what the devs would do if Seasons werent a thing.

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Oh look, it’s you again.

Come to troll another thread have you?

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All the witchcraft stuff will be funner than the realm walker. Season 7 is hopefully funner than season 2 because the goal should be to exceed season 2 not just be on par. The more seasons that pass, the staler the game overall becomes. So they do need to add more every season. A daunting task you say? Oh well. Such is life. You do need to keep people interested for them to continue doing activities.

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The only thing what they can do with D4 is…there is no solution…game already collapse by bad management. They should slowly thing about Diablo 5 under new name and completely new design.
Do not think that they can repair it…it is impossible on this stage and with these developers.

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who cares if you dont get a unique in your first hour of playing…thats all that 1-60 leveling experience is. 1 hour.

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Most of the time i need 2 or three days to get to lvl 60. Im playing in :sloth: mode.
I get distracted from productive XP-farming a lot. When i see another player i run after her/him/it and say “hello/greetings”… i also sit down with small fluffy animals and tell them a story. Just what everyone else is doing. Dont you? :thinking:

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Sorry for kicking your small fluffy animals.

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our daily blizzard hater…

if even 0.3% of your doom announcements were true, not even the forum would be online anymore… :brain: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

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Facts aren’t a troll. Season 6 was absolutely terrible especially for an season with an expansion.

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Oh, I’m not denying that Season 6 was bad. I’ve said as much myself. It was by far the most boring season I’ve ever played through.

But Vessel of Hatred being an adject failure? That’s not a fact; that’s your opinion.
You’re claiming Season 7 is going to be a ‘worse version of Season 2’ which is impossible for you to claim right now because we haven’t played it.

And your ‘Blizzard can’t help themselves by completely destroying their games’ is complete hyperbole.

So one grain of truth in a mountain of camel crap.

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You can claim anything. In this case, we know the mechanics and we know the powers. There is sufficient evidence to back a claim that either Season is better.

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No it’s not.

Because seeing tooltips and raw numbers doesn’t give you information on how they will affect your ability to play your chosen class. You combine powers together, so you can’t know at this point how those combinations are going to work while you’re playing, whether they’re going to be cool from a visual/gameplay perspective or boring.

All you have are numbers.

That’s not nearly enough. This is a video game, not a spreadsheet.

Once Season 7 launches in a few days time. Then you’ll have that information. Then you can share your opinion on how the season feels ‘to you’. But it will be nothing more than that, your opinion. Not a fact.

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Companies love to flaunt around the “number of copies sold” when sales are good.
It reinforces the quality of the product for those yet to buy.
When they don’t do this, you can be assured the numbers did not meet expectations.

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VoH was an abject failure is a fact. Imagine having a brand new expansion so bad that it couldn’t draw viewership from almost any source.

Season 7 was on PTR and drew massive hatred, or at least a big slow breath of boredom from almost every source available…and they aren’t changing anything. Sorc, is basically non viable which is one of, if not the most played class.

Blizzard destroying their games isn’t hyperbole in the slightest. WoW is constantly being driven onto the ground, players quit and then the have to revert everything hiping players come back. Overwatch 2 was an absolute, complete disaster in every way possible, Warcraft 3 was basically one of gamings biggest F you to fans, Starcraft 2 was basically a fart in a sound proof room full of fans. D3 was absolute total trash for years before they finally decided to do something about it because stakeholders were pissed, and D4 is on its way out quickly.

You can be a fan of blizz all you want, but at some point you have to step back and just look at it and laugh. You must have drank too much of the breast milk.

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No it isn’t, it’s your opinion.

What evidence do you have that supports your ‘fact’ claim? Player count? There’s no official count outside of Steam, and that’s not accurate because D4 didn’t launch on Steam on Day 1. Most people are playing the game from the Battle.net client. Not to mention the game can be played for free on Game Pass.

Again, where’s the facts to back up this claim? Because I’m seeing nothing but hype for S7 outside of these forums, and even on these forums there’s more hype than negativity, with players really liking the buffs to Necromancer, Druid, and other classes that have minion-based abilities.

It absolutely is. WoW is going through a massive resurgence right now. Dragonflight and the current expansion, War Within, have both been well received, and there’s a lot of positivity building towards the next expansion, Midnight.

Not at all, again, it’s been steadily growing in population outside of Steam, but the losses on Steam have been overexaggerated by forum naysayers who like to double the loss figures hoping people won’t notice or call them out on their BS.

Another nugget of truth in a pile of camel crap, but hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

More inaccuracies here. Yes, Diablo 3 at launch was poorly received. However, when Reaper of Souls launched a year later (technically less than a year, but only by 1 month), it marked a massive improvement for the game and it only went up from there.

D4 was fixed even faster than D3 was. It took almost a year for Diablo 3 to be fixed in the eyes of the playerbase. D4 was fixed before Vessel of Hatred even launched, with the largest issues players had being addressed in early seasons, with the loot revamp being the next biggest thing that needed to be fixed, which was done in Season 5.

But what can I expect from someone who has literally admitted to not playing the game and only being on these forums to troll?

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