i try to view it from an Occam's Razor perspective:

chris and jonathan grew up playing diablo religiously and loved magic the gathering (cool rpg elements there too)

while Rod's background in arpgs was was never in his wheelhouse: https://i.gyazo.com/91af10aa8feef44257ee636f88f5832c.png

the whole diversity hire issue probably doesn't help either. to be fair to the d4 team, i do believe they are more than capable of programming and implementing advanced arpg features. all stems from the top -> down, sadly

this is not gonna change in a few years, or "get better" as some other people say on here too. they have core game design philosophies that are just incompatible with the majority of the arpg playerbase. unless they get new leadership, i suppose it could

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Aug 30 2023 07:42pm

To the 11 people that voted D1 feel free to PM me so we can discuss without being warned, f****** p***** ** ***t.

Probably people born around the year 2000 tbh can’t see anyone that played it back in the day being capable to think it’s the worst, some low IQ mfers

Yea, Probably just low IQ, should we blame people for that

Study shows 50% diablo 4 player base collect stamps by IGN

D3 is super trash
D4 is just kinda trash

Tbh:

Diablo 3 was pretry much okay when it was released and just went into trash.

Diablo 4 started as trash and is now Giga trash

I’ll agree with you on D3, vanilla was much better than ROS

I do enjoy D4 enough to still play 2-3 hours a night after work. I gave up D3 like 2 days after ROS came out
D4 has tons of room for improvement but I enjoy the core gameplay
Also played D4 since the 4 day pre-release and i never felt the game change as much as people said it did. When the game went from a 8.5 to a 3.3 metacritic score overnight. I never understood that
(I know those numbers of the metacritic score aren’t exactly right I know they’re close tho)

This post was edited by godxsherps on Aug 31 2023 01:43pm

I defended Diablo 4 for a week or so, but after noticing the extend of the content I felt like a fool.

I couldn't believe that they copied "the Witcher" 2010 concept where you run doing quests and get exp from them.

Since 2010 games like Dark Souls, Demon Souls, Bloodborne, put to shame quest games so I expected D4 to be greater than even soul games.

This is a tragedy that after the COVID-19 depression and loneliness we are gifted with a dead game. There's probably better times to come. It cannot get any worse.

This post was edited by KDACardano on Sep 1 2023 07:17am