I admire your perseverance, always trying to point out the positive aspects. I did that for a looooooong time. I went from super casual (D3V, never really got to MP10 farming status and not even close to paragon 100) to competitive (several high leaderboard spots in the first 3 eras) to semi-casual again (played only one weekend in the past 5 seasons, with the exception of S5 IIRC). I think it's not too much to ask that the game should still be exciting after ~35 hours played, but that was my approximate playtime in 4 of the past 5 seasons.Quote from Demonmonger»
I still find it funny that the only people with an issue are the ones who have 2,000 hours in the game.
At some point things become stale, it is not the fault of the game, if anything, it is the fault of your addiction.
They cannot give you 100% of everything that is behind the scenes, but if you learn to read the language, they gave a lot of hints. But you have to be able to understand implied theory, start educating yourselves!
Also, as someone who reads a lot on the forums and tries to grasp the community's perspective from all sides (not just the top players or the casuals, but sort of both) I can tell you that there are people annoyed/disappointed in every range. I know people who still play 500h+ every season, but that's just a handful. I know people who play only a few hours, not even until Conqueror, and even more people who don't play at all. Their complaints are always very similar: there's nothing to gain but paragon. For a non-hoarder the stash tab is meaningless, and the cosmetic rewards or achievements are just not enough.
Diablo is a loot-based game. Remember the Blizzcon video where past Diablo developers were just providing brief statements or single words about what makes the Diablo universe? Multiple of them shouted "loot". But in Diablo 3 right now, loot is meaningless. It is given to your for free at the start of each season. With Challenge Rifts, you will play with fixed items (not even your loot) and you will not even get loot (besides the reward if you make it into the top of a leaderboard, which is obviously only an option for a very small number of people). I'm a Diablo Fan, but Diablo 3 is moving into a direction which is, in my opinion, betraying its origin. It's not about "me having played thousands of hours". It's simply about the developers making changes that are wrong.
And I can tell you from looking at the statistics of Diablofans views, Reddit views, counters on my Diablo tools like the Journey tracker, and most importantly by just looking at the leaderboards (on some of them you get ranked with a GR40ish) that I'm not the only one. If in a game with 30 million sold copies only a few thousand are still playing at all, I think it's fair and just to discuss how to improve the situation.
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I wonder who on the team came up with this brilliant idea. Obviously not the person writing community responses or they would've realized this is SOLELY power creep for power creep's sake and nothing else which is directly what whoever wrote that community response said the team was trying to avoid. I guess "we" in that case meant "everyone, but the chode that gets to decide what's in the game".
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you can definitely tell who the trolls are by their join dates.
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I don't have to make a better game. Grim Dawn and Path of Exile are already there. I just love the diablo franchise and have put in my fair share of time into the game since launch.
For a company like blizzard to not put in the time for one of their keystone franchises is just... really sad to me. Whereas PoE gets major content updates incredibly frequently for a f2p game, diablo and its players get... very very little. It's not about entitlement, it's just an expectation for the biggest videogame company to actually pay attention to a playerbase that has been there for decades.
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My response to this thread was obviously tongue in cheek. I'm trying to downplay my own expectations as much as possible to either a) not be so entirely disappointed by whatever potential asinine decision blizz has up their sleeve regarding this IP or
be absolutely delighted at whatever interesting and no doubt fully focused upon prospect blizz has looming over the horizon.
Either way, I won't hold my breath.
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You've played this game for 7000 hours. that's 291 days. how old are you? what kind of lifestyle do you live where you can play a game for almost a quarter of it's lifespan (diablo 3 came out in may 2012) and instead of dropping it when it gets bad, just ram your face into it the entire time all the while complaining. You're one of the sheep dude. Just take a break.
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i'd lock the thread tbh
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right now you have no elemental dmg on your gear. that's a CRAP ton of dps you're missing out on (like... frickin' 500k). healing vapors smoke screen if you don't want to die as much. you should be using bane of trapped, enforcer, and bane of the powerful as your legendary gems.
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