It's difficult to tell if this is a troll or if you're seriously spinning conspiracy theory.
It's adorable that you think there is the support staff on their team to be monitoring such things, let alone acting on them. You purchased the game, they already got their money from you; there is absolutely zero benefit to them getting you to continue to playing the game after that point. It's not as if you are generating additional revenue for them after that point.
RNG is RNG, you could have received a legendary drop on your first kill or could have gone multiple hundreds of thousands without seeing one.
People don't want it to look like D2 from a graphics perspective, they want it to look like Diablo 2 from an aesthetics perspective. The game had a real gothic/dark horror vibe to it, which is what the original Diablo really nailed.
At no point in playing Diablo 3 over the years did I feel a chill or a sense of impending dread; that is what I'm hoping they are able to capture again.
Yeah, I would totally believe some nobody twitter account (@Flafnyr) that goes by the handle "Brizzard". Given that their capability to spell is about as good as OP's, it's likely just them spreading misinformation.
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The game died way before they announced another diablo game. Also, WoW is how old? Yeah.. that's irrelevant. Diablo 3 is basically a trash game and after D2R comes out and then D4, nobody is ever going to even mention D3 again.
Agreed with this, the game died due to stagnation. You look at games like Path of Exile, Lost Ark, Grim Dawn or Last Epoch - those games are all doing something new or adding new features. All D3 does is add new Torment levels and add new multipliers to sets. Sure, they release a couple new sets every season but the game hasn't innovated in any way since the introduction of Greater Rifts.
but i played 16000 hours already and im bored of pushing
I kinda liked this game at first, but the fun ended with introduction of Necromancers, then the Grind game began
Pray D4 will be any better, but it won't.
People think they want options, but even diablo 3 has too many options and builds, rendering the game unpleasant as hell for random and even for long time players like myself who went casual now...
Seems like you should probably stop playing and go find a new game to play. It's clear reading your little rant that you don't like the game anymore and you are here to what... share that toxicity with others?
Also, LOL at thinking Diablo has "too many options and builds". The game has many options but not most of which matter: there are at most 3 viable builds per class. This game is horribly simplistic, which is why the game can't be played for more than one or two weeks after a season starts.
Go back to POE to do 99999 maps to get one level Kappa
Both of those sentences are what are wrong with gaming communities: 'iF yOu DoNt LiKe It JuSt QuIt". It's okay to have a differing opinion from other players in the community, or to question if the current state of the game is what is best for it. Diablo 3 is kind of stuck in a vacuum right now until Diablo 4 happens, it's clear that the amount of development time associated with the game is incredibly minimal and outside of extreme cases they aren't listening to player feedback.
Your last sentence may have been valid if you didn't add "Kappa" at the end like some twitch chat mongoloid. What you seem to lack understanding of is that POE is not about hitting level 100, it's about ridiculous build diversity, experimentation and having fun playing the way that you want to; which Diablo currently suffers from in their 1-3 valid play styles per class. I play/have played all of the ARPG's because I love the genre: D1/D2/D3, Torchlight1/2/3, PoE, Marvel Heroes, Wolcen and others that have come and gone over the years.
To the original question:
I don't think the stat grind is fun, but it enables some players to do things that are more fun for them: push higher rifts. I rarely go more than about 1k paragons in a season, which is not remotely high; but that's where my overall interest in the game hits its peak. I personally enjoyed it more when there were 100 paragon levels, because it felt like there was a goal to be attained. Now it's just grinding x more paragon levels until I do enough damage or have enough survivability to progress one rift higher, but for what purpose?
I feel like the end-game is missing flavor of some sort, it should not just be "grind paragon to progress 1 rift higher" to what... go up a leaderboard rank? There's only a subset of people that actually care about that and since the leaderboards are not true solo, 2-man, 3-man and 4-man leader rankings it's less fun for those whose goal that is since you can gain paragon levels dramatically faster running in a 4-man group and then dominate the solo leaderboards with it. I get it; anyone can do that but many solo or 2-man players enjoy playing in those styles.
Dude blizzard has explained nothing team working quote : Blizzard says that they are not currently working on Warcraft 4. They are, however, working on the remastered version of Warcraft 3, which is called Warcraft 3: Reforged ( Blizzcon 2018 ) . . Warcraft IV required actually 1 new team development . Classic team members have just explained cannot work on other games except classic games because small team of developmentand and sometimes need to kidnapped designers from other team develpment. Gently Stop to believe to Flyers Donkeys. Warcraft 4 doesn't exist right now. RTS required years to develop and for now nothing team working on WCIV ........... And i want rember you , Director creative The Witcher and Cyberpunk from 1 year work for Blizzard , unofficiale project can be easily spin-off diablo. And some olds jobs posting Unofficial Project quote 6 moths ago : required passion for 3d person game -Action games . sorry you fail No RTS Passio required
Also Blizzard has explicitly said they do not have any plans to remaster or -make Diablo 2.
When did they say that? Do you have an actual source that quotes them somewhere? Because the only major quotes I've seen are from David Brevik:
"I can say from a technical standpoint that it's going to be extremely difficult. That you will not be able to capture it exactly the way it was," original Diablo creator David Brevik said in a 2018 IGN interview. "The number one reason is because of the shape of the screen. Because the screens back then were 800x600 and largely square, and now they're not, they're 16:9 and 16:10, we did a lot of tricks."
Even in this years Activision earnings call Bobby "give me your money" Kotick said:
"At Activision we have seen great results from remastering some of these beloved games over the last couple of years. They are obviously having a big impact on our bottom line and a real impact there, but I'd say what's really important is that it's reaffirming the enduring nature of these franchises for us. We think there's a lot of IP in there the fans are going to want to experience again. So now what I'd say stay tuned for some future announcements."
It's a pretty fun experience in a full group, seeing multiple rings spawn and sometimes overlap - you can get some serious benefit from them. Aside from that, it's the usual season: grind nephalem rifts/bounties and greater rifts. For me, it's harder to motivate myself to endlessly farm hoping that the one upgrade I need will drop so that I can accomplish 1-3 higher levels of greater rifts.
D3 is alive and kicking again nevertheless all the people who tried to bury it.
Nobody tried to bury the game, that's some seriously paranoid shit - Blizzard was doing a pretty great job of that on their own by going into a developmental freeze and then announcing a mobile game to a predominantly PC gaming market at last years Blizzcon. I think from the uproar that Immortal caused, it should be obvious that nobody wants Diablo to fail/die; there are a ton of passionate ARPG players out there and the more ARPG's that exist, the better. Competition breeds creativity.
On topic: It is my hope that if they don't announce a Diablo 4 this Blizzcon that they announce some sort of expansion or revamp on the same scale as what Reaper of Souls and Loot 2.0 was for the game. No, I am not saying that they should streamline the game even more and I am not saying that I necessarily endorse the Loot 2.0 system, but they need to shake up the current state of the game by:
Allowing for more build diversity
Putting something else in the game to do that isn't just Bounties, Nephalem Rifts and Greater Rifts
Revamp the entire crafting system
I think in some ways, Blizzard's quality of life is amazing: a pet to go pick up your gold, picking up all nearby resources of the same type when you click on one (to avoid RSI), objective pointers on the map... but they need to come up with more engaging or enabling content, which is why I believe that 2.6.4 did so well in comparison to the seasons proceeding it. D3 is currently stuck in this rut where classes have 1-3 total viable builds at most and they have completely invalidated most other sets/legendaries in the game.
Where did I quoted YOU, LTR? My response is to Excalibur. Learn to read, dude.
I never said you were quoting me, dumb dumb. I simply quoted the ridiculousness of 'trust me, I'm random person with probably made up expertise - I know better than you'.
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It's difficult to tell if this is a troll or if you're seriously spinning conspiracy theory.
It's adorable that you think there is the support staff on their team to be monitoring such things, let alone acting on them. You purchased the game, they already got their money from you; there is absolutely zero benefit to them getting you to continue to playing the game after that point. It's not as if you are generating additional revenue for them after that point.
RNG is RNG, you could have received a legendary drop on your first kill or could have gone multiple hundreds of thousands without seeing one.
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You necro'ed a year old post to say that? What a real value add.
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That's called "Hardcore" mode.
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People don't want it to look like D2 from a graphics perspective, they want it to look like Diablo 2 from an aesthetics perspective. The game had a real gothic/dark horror vibe to it, which is what the original Diablo really nailed.
At no point in playing Diablo 3 over the years did I feel a chill or a sense of impending dread; that is what I'm hoping they are able to capture again.
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Yeah, I would totally believe some nobody twitter account (@Flafnyr) that goes by the handle "Brizzard". Given that their capability to spell is about as good as OP's, it's likely just them spreading misinformation.
So much dumb in so few words.
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I really like these! Can you do Imperius or angel-form Tyrael?
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Seems like you should probably stop playing and go find a new game to play. It's clear reading your little rant that you don't like the game anymore and you are here to what... share that toxicity with others?
Also, LOL at thinking Diablo has "too many options and builds". The game has many options but not most of which matter: there are at most 3 viable builds per class. This game is horribly simplistic, which is why the game can't be played for more than one or two weeks after a season starts.
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Both of those sentences are what are wrong with gaming communities: 'iF yOu DoNt LiKe It JuSt QuIt". It's okay to have a differing opinion from other players in the community, or to question if the current state of the game is what is best for it. Diablo 3 is kind of stuck in a vacuum right now until Diablo 4 happens, it's clear that the amount of development time associated with the game is incredibly minimal and outside of extreme cases they aren't listening to player feedback.
Your last sentence may have been valid if you didn't add "Kappa" at the end like some twitch chat mongoloid. What you seem to lack understanding of is that POE is not about hitting level 100, it's about ridiculous build diversity, experimentation and having fun playing the way that you want to; which Diablo currently suffers from in their 1-3 valid play styles per class. I play/have played all of the ARPG's because I love the genre: D1/D2/D3, Torchlight1/2/3, PoE, Marvel Heroes, Wolcen and others that have come and gone over the years.
To the original question:
I don't think the stat grind is fun, but it enables some players to do things that are more fun for them: push higher rifts. I rarely go more than about 1k paragons in a season, which is not remotely high; but that's where my overall interest in the game hits its peak. I personally enjoyed it more when there were 100 paragon levels, because it felt like there was a goal to be attained. Now it's just grinding x more paragon levels until I do enough damage or have enough survivability to progress one rift higher, but for what purpose?
I feel like the end-game is missing flavor of some sort, it should not just be "grind paragon to progress 1 rift higher" to what... go up a leaderboard rank? There's only a subset of people that actually care about that and since the leaderboards are not true solo, 2-man, 3-man and 4-man leader rankings it's less fun for those whose goal that is since you can gain paragon levels dramatically faster running in a 4-man group and then dominate the solo leaderboards with it. I get it; anyone can do that but many solo or 2-man players enjoy playing in those styles.
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What makes you think that? Historically, the PTR's have almost always gone live around 5pm.
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What are you even trying to say?
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I assume that includes expansions, yeah?
WoW's next expansion, Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, D2 Remastered... and what else? A Hearthstone expansion?
When did they say that? Do you have an actual source that quotes them somewhere? Because the only major quotes I've seen are from David Brevik:
"I can say from a technical standpoint that it's going to be extremely difficult. That you will not be able to capture it exactly the way it was," original Diablo creator David Brevik said in a 2018 IGN interview. "The number one reason is because of the shape of the screen. Because the screens back then were 800x600 and largely square, and now they're not, they're 16:9 and 16:10, we did a lot of tricks."
Even in this years Activision earnings call Bobby "give me your money" Kotick said:
"At Activision we have seen great results from remastering some of these beloved games over the last couple of years. They are obviously having a big impact on our bottom line and a real impact there, but I'd say what's really important is that it's reaffirming the enduring nature of these franchises for us. We think there's a lot of IP in there the fans are going to want to experience again. So now what I'd say stay tuned for some future announcements."
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It's a pretty fun experience in a full group, seeing multiple rings spawn and sometimes overlap - you can get some serious benefit from them. Aside from that, it's the usual season: grind nephalem rifts/bounties and greater rifts. For me, it's harder to motivate myself to endlessly farm hoping that the one upgrade I need will drop so that I can accomplish 1-3 higher levels of greater rifts.
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Nobody tried to bury the game, that's some seriously paranoid shit - Blizzard was doing a pretty great job of that on their own by going into a developmental freeze and then announcing a mobile game to a predominantly PC gaming market at last years Blizzcon. I think from the uproar that Immortal caused, it should be obvious that nobody wants Diablo to fail/die; there are a ton of passionate ARPG players out there and the more ARPG's that exist, the better. Competition breeds creativity.
On topic: It is my hope that if they don't announce a Diablo 4 this Blizzcon that they announce some sort of expansion or revamp on the same scale as what Reaper of Souls and Loot 2.0 was for the game. No, I am not saying that they should streamline the game even more and I am not saying that I necessarily endorse the Loot 2.0 system, but they need to shake up the current state of the game by:
I think in some ways, Blizzard's quality of life is amazing: a pet to go pick up your gold, picking up all nearby resources of the same type when you click on one (to avoid RSI), objective pointers on the map... but they need to come up with more engaging or enabling content, which is why I believe that 2.6.4 did so well in comparison to the seasons proceeding it. D3 is currently stuck in this rut where classes have 1-3 total viable builds at most and they have completely invalidated most other sets/legendaries in the game.
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I never said you were quoting me, dumb dumb. I simply quoted the ridiculousness of 'trust me, I'm random person with probably made up expertise - I know better than you'.
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It won't. Blizz has been done with D3 for a while now.