no YouTube promotion anymore, even ambassadors are doing nothing but complaining
No streamer is running crests or buying packs live anymore because it’s a waste of money. If anything you have every single YouTube streamer saying don’t buy orbs or packs.
there’s nothing to do for end gamers after Monday at noon.
You’ve created caps for everything that are so easily and efficiently done now for rewards that are no longer even beneficial to end game players. Gear levels capped. Need 1k gem power per noticeable upgrade(1 gem rank). Zero grinds. Market is dead, literally nothing to do.
no gamble. Buying orbs and running ceases now your odds of even breaking even vs. just buying orbs to plat is about 10% at best. No one started playing this game for orb to plat conversions, and you’re doing literally nothing to fix this by selling 10 crests and 1 gem chest for $50.
no one is playing outside of a peak 1-2 hour window on Mondays and Thursdays. The rest of the time there’s almost no community anymore during the majority of the week because no one is playing because they have nothing to do.
community pages are shutting down, Reddit is almost to a standstill with Diablo immortal posts because of people quitting and nothing but negative stuff to post.
Are yall even paying attention, or is it time for us to just call it a day?
Many players didn’t appreciate the community and the game. There were a lot of bots, and everyone wanted to progress quickly by spending millions of dollars to be the best and strongest in a computer game, which ruins the experience for many other players. The game’s support team is not to blame for what is happening; it’s the community itself (in my personal opinion). People rush through the game and then complain.
The recent Marketplace changes, whereby you can only buy the cheapest of any item, has led to rampant undercutting to the point where, on the server I play on, rank 1 tourmalines, rubies, citrines and topazes have pages and pages of them at the minimum price of 100 plat. Aquamarines seem to fluctuate between 130-150 plat, and sapphires between 150-200 plat. Prior to these changes, as a F2P player, I was at least able to earn small amounts of plat each week by selling non-legendary gems. That income source has been decimated. I have a Rank 4 BSJ. To get that to Rank 5, I’d need 7 spares and 250 gem power. The plat cost for that currently would be over 450,000 plat. Due to the changes, this means getting one gem rank would likely take me over a year. Entirely due to the changes made by the devs.
I made a suggestion in the thread below to lower the gem ranking for progressive updates to rank 4. While the idea was great based on a market that was consistent, that consistency has all but disappeared.
The current market is now heralding in a potential end of game for the endgame.
I additionally started a thread in the first week of observing this beginning to propagate, a thread which I cannot find, that clearly stated this change was a huge mistake and people would undercut to the point it was no longer worth selling anything. As stated directly above me by Meteorblade, the prices are so low, it is almost not worth selling anything, and progress is becoming slower and more difficult.
Anyone could be forgiven for thinking that the owners have become so greedy knowing this would happen so people would only buy. If so, how’s that working out for you? More server merges due to people leaving recently, and more to come for the identical reason? This is on you NetEASE / Blizzard.
Look at the figures for Guppys+Minnows+F2P versus whales. The whales if this is all who are left, will be 30% maximum of your current player population.
If you do not give incentive, people will stop playing and as for your cash model, they will stop buying.
Everyone knows why such measures were implemented with the Marketplace. The game’s support team is trying to prevent all types of fraud, and I commend their efforts. If they reduce the drop rate of normal gems so that they don’t drop everywhere when you’re in a 4/4 party, their value might increase.
There is no argument from anyone with preventing fraud. You do know they got around this and that’s why the prices have become so low? Do not believe me, there are threads everywhere on how and why on Reddit and other places. The fraud is worse now and they still have not stopped the bot auto-purchasing, in fact, it’s worse.