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Bagstone did a intresting thread about this. His first post is what i think will happen and hope for :

http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/215855-season-7-end-october-14-season-8-start-october-21

I wouldn't be surprised if we see patch 2.5 with something interesting at Blizzcon and then a PTR one week after Blizzcon, for a 2 month testing period (Season 8-9 transition end of January). But of course could also be completely unrelated, and more likely this is just another sign that Diablo 3 is going into "long-term maintenance" mode and although small features might still come every now and then, development of the Diablo franchise is moving on to something else.

But of course could also be completely unrelated, and more likely this is just another sign that Diablo 3 is going into "long-term maintenance" mode and although small features might still come every now and then, development of the Diablo franchise is moving on to something else.

Lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U

Whether Blizzard does D4 or lets Diablo lie fallow for a few years while working on D4 or whether they never do another Diablo IP, they'll keep the servers up, and they'll keep changing seasons.

Why? Because Blizzard wisely values customer loyalty. There is a reason that you still see patches to D2 and SC and WC years after they were released.

They will also work on new content, whether or not it is Diablo content, but they will expend a small, reasonable, amount of resources keeping their old customers happy.

I imagine the sun rising is an indicator to some folks that something big is coming at Blizzcon.

I guess if the game is going into maintenance and there is going to be no new content, you may as well do 2 month seasons instead of 3 month seasons. Paragon grinding for 2 months sounds way better than paragon grinding for 3 months. Lets face it, anyone who isn't paragon grinding is probably doing 2 week or less seasons anyway.

Make the new tier of gear only drop at T13, or GR60 or higher. Give smore farming to look forward to in the endgame. Make the new items as rare as Star Metal Kukri, Furnace, and other rare legendaries used to be.

Give the late game something more to look forward to than +5 mainstat.

It's not surprising HC is dying. The game as a whole is dying, and Hardcore is a smaller community than SC, so HC was likely to be the first to feel it.

Let's face it, Blizzard's solution to the mess of Vanilla was to create an endless grind of Paragons, and an endless series of GRs. It's a recipe for player burnout, and now that Blizzard isn't making big changes season to season, and there isn't anything new and exciting, there just isn't much reason to play.

My advice is to skip a season or two, and check out other ARPGs like Grim Dawn and Path of Exile. At least the developers are still making new content for those games. One advantage of playing Hardcore in Grim Dawn is that like Diablo 2, the game can be played solo on your computer, which takes out all Desync and Lag deaths from network and server issues.

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But that would likely require a major change in monster mechanics, game play, CC abilities, healing, etc. Essentially, the game would have to become more MMO like.

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I agree with the whole idea of 'the higher the difficulty, the better the loot'.
Would be so nice to grind it out, starting at normal, going all the way to whatever they might call it in D4

Anyone who is expecting much other than D2 HD anytime soon is bound to be disappointed.

Funny how there is no announcement of new stuff at Gamescom when most of the D3 news this year was developers leaving the D3 team.

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I just have a response, having talked indirectly to Wyatt through BigDaddyDen, you sir seem to be over exaggerating the comments they gave, because I tried to confirm all of this with others I know that were there, and nobody agrees with what you said or has the faintest idea it ever happened.

Maybe they are all wrong, Rhykker, BigDaddyDen, Leviathon, Neinball, etc.... and missed this, but I simply cannot believe any of this to be true.

Do you have photos or something to prove this, because it is beyond belief to me atm.

Thanks!

Im over exaggerating? Are you kidding? I was there, these were the exact responses I got. Because im not a youtuber that wants your views I am lying?

Stop being a sheep to Blizzard. You can see that I was there at my twitter @RealMuscleGamer

Also no one agrees with me? Any real DIABLO fan is extremely disappointed with the showing Diablo got..

I use to be a very big diablo streamer but work took over.

I joined 4 days before Blizzcon started, but have lurked for 5 years. Does that make me a troll too?

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In summary, it is a TON OF NEW THINGS, and clearly a lot of stuff they still do not want to share coming to us in the near future and different intervals next year.

This game was really good, and it will be taking another step forward.

1 - Having a crafting mats tab instead of storing them in stash is awesome.

2 - The fill feature for the Cube is awesome.

3 - Constantly adding new zones with some lore is really nice!

4 - Challenge Rifts are going to be a fun competitive option to get bounty mats. They are also a means to have fun with friends, yet compete on leaderboards. Level, paragon, gear, etc.... None of it matters. But most importantly, they are going to take a snapshot build from the community, and that is the build we all play in the challenge rift, really really sweet idea!

5 - Necromancer is going to be AWESOME!!!!!

6 - Seasons on console is also really nice!!!

7 - The 6 new legendary items being added in 2.4.3 are going to be really fun and open up other build options!

8 - We get the 2.4.3 anniversary patch on PTR this coming Tuesday.

9 - When asked if they have "anything planned moving forward with story, etc..." had a huge smile and said "we cannot dive into that much"

10 - MANY NEW CLASSES, saying "we certainly have many NEW classes to add to the game, not only with the potential of bringing back old classes such as Druid and Amazon, but also unique classes not in the Diablo universe!

11 - Bottom line, they are clearly putting a ton of work into this game, proving it is FAR FROM MAINT MODE.

In summary, it was a whole bunch of who cares that we won't get for about 8 months.

For those who don't get why people are complaining about the announcements so far clearly you are both not very smart and aren't a big Diablo player specially Diablo 3 because...anyone can tell you that unless the next coming patch which 2.4.3? Are you fucking serious? If it's not loaded with balancing and tweaking as this game still seriously needs it to make the rest of the sets worth half a fuck an and the whole LoN concept a thing, this game is done even more so. Everyone's basically played any build they wanted to by now which are builds they offer, yes, they offer which is another major core issue with this game that being sets buff specific skills only so it's the devs laying out your play style for you. But everyone's done what they wanted to for the most part so....adding new shit to this fixes nothing, necro , new area, a temporary Diablo 1 thing is meaningless and hypes nothing being that it's going to be dropped into a game that's filled with drab gameplay which as I said has nothing left to really explore or satisfy your curiosity and a horribly boring end game. Until at least the rest of the sets are viable, the "return" they're hoping for will leave them knowing they fucked up aside from hearing from us over the last two seasons voicing or frustrations. Fuck endless paragon grind for mainstat only, fuck no caps on grs you never feel like you're doing good enough, fuck getting to level 70 so fast, they might as well start you there and your set in a few hours at most so all that's left is to find those other few pieces of gear which you have to have in order to do 20billion damage per hit and you find the first weekend of a new season. There's next to no rng or excitement to hunt for anything in this game. The entire core anticipation of an Arpg barely exists in this game. It's basically an Arpg for kids. There we go..Diablo 3 is the hack and slash overhead view Arpg whatever you wanna call it...for kids, spread it around.

Even the necromancer won't be able to revive such a dead game.

blizzard can go ... themselves.

more little announcements Wyatt Chang already said on the Demo stream that the Necro was the big thing they had anything else is little so dont expect Xpac or D4 or anything.

In the next announcement they announce that the necromancer have been scrapped because of the negativity on forums