IF, and that's a big if, we get an expansion, it'll be at LEAST two years from now out, probably more.
There's no way they'd release a whole new class by itself if an expansion was anywhere in sight, and the necro is at least 8 months away. They also are using the wording "character pack", which of course means there will be more.
I'm near certain there will never be another expansion for D3. We'll get something like a character pack once a year, with maybe a new zone and some sort of vanity item with it.
And considering there hasn't been anything close to a whisper about changing and fixing ANY of the fundamental problems most of us have been bringing up for years, this all doesn't bode well.
If that's all that's left of the future of this game, I think I'm out. Hopefully I'm wrong though, but history has repeated itself too many times with this game.
And all this being said, expansion is an outdated word anyways.
A DLC pack is the exact same thing, but more modern. A DLC pack is typically lesser variations of content, offered more frequently. Instead of doing an expansion 2 years later, you will typically see 3-4 DLC's in that time.
Fundamental issues are subjective, and the ones that people on this website talk about, typically balance of current sets, etc.... they have in fact addressed this as something they are always looking at when able. They are adding DX11 64 bit via the next patch, which opens up floodgates of potential changes as performance will not be as much of a concern given DX11 64 bit can handle much more.
The bottom line is that when you have Frank Pearce talk about the future of Diablo 3 and the franchise as a whole, MAJOR THINGS ARE COMING. Frank is a massive center piece within Blizzard, as a cofounder of the company, and the fact he talked about D3 in the opening ceremony is being far overlooked.
It's being overlooked because it didn't have any actual CONTENT. We got nothing concrete.
While I agree that fundamental issues are subjective, you didn't actually provide any substance to back up your claim that the issues are being addressed. All you brought up was that sets are being balanced relative to each other... which isn't actually on the list of core issues at all. I've already typed out my thoughts on all the issues many times, so I won't again here. However, those issues have NOT been addressed, at all.
IF, and that's a big if, we get an expansion, it'll be at LEAST two years from now out, probably more.
There's no way they'd release a whole new class by itself if an expansion was anywhere in sight, and the necro is at least 8 months away. They also are using the wording "character pack", which of course means there will be more.
I'm near certain there will never be another expansion for D3. We'll get something like a character pack once a year, with maybe a new zone and some sort of vanity item with it.
And considering there hasn't been anything close to a whisper about changing and fixing ANY of the fundamental problems most of us have been bringing up for years, this all doesn't bode well.
If that's all that's left of the future of this game, I think I'm out. Hopefully I'm wrong though, but history has repeated itself too many times with this game.
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While I agree that fundamental issues are subjective, you didn't actually provide any substance to back up your claim that the issues are being addressed. All you brought up was that sets are being balanced relative to each other... which isn't actually on the list of core issues at all. I've already typed out my thoughts on all the issues many times, so I won't again here. However, those issues have NOT been addressed, at all.
IF, and that's a big if, we get an expansion, it'll be at LEAST two years from now out, probably more.
There's no way they'd release a whole new class by itself if an expansion was anywhere in sight, and the necro is at least 8 months away. They also are using the wording "character pack", which of course means there will be more.
I'm near certain there will never be another expansion for D3. We'll get something like a character pack once a year, with maybe a new zone and some sort of vanity item with it.
And considering there hasn't been anything close to a whisper about changing and fixing ANY of the fundamental problems most of us have been bringing up for years, this all doesn't bode well.
If that's all that's left of the future of this game, I think I'm out. Hopefully I'm wrong though, but history has repeated itself too many times with this game.