game design by spreadsheet. They don’t play test at all, it’s all numbers in boxes for formulas make spreadsheet turn green.
I love that everyone is blaming one group of players or another for their bad feedback being heard (despite historically them ignoring all player feedback) when in fact they slipped and admitted the only feedback that matters is corporate’s spreadsheets-
In one of the early D4 campfire chats they had a class balance dev on and he admitted he was scared to change numbers on skills and items because he never knows what the knock-on effect is going to be.
He admitted they’re guessing and don’t fully understand their own systems.