You‘re not wrong but on the other hand blizz needs 5 months to rework resistances so don’t get your hopes up lol

for real 2025?

wish it were next year

disagree. there is no hope
game is a cluster fuck just like D3
you can polish a turd but in the end its still a turd

i dont know

mr. hankey is pretty cool

They made a boring overworld and underworld (dungeons) because of the monetization. That's half the problem. It's like they've forgotten all the lessons learned about grid based level design and the ability to randomize the levels increasing replayability.

Itemization is the other half.

The game has so many problems it will take expansion levels of pruning and reshaping to get it into a workable, highly replayable state. The current iteration has next to none unless you're easily entertained. It doesn't even include the thrill of an item hunt because the design is so bad.

They probably should have figured out the game first and then monetization beyond box price. Instead they built a game around monetization in the foundation. Chasing the open world trend because it's a selling point now in certain games doesn't seem to have worked out. It might work in Zelda, but uh Diablo needs level randomization. It might have been fine if they could have at least nailed dungeons and have the over world be static. They didn't nail either though. We saw in a recent interview the kind of airheads in charge of dungeon and quest design. The company doesn't even hire people who are passionate about their work. They might be passionate about an agenda but that's it. Then again blizz supposedly has some of the worst pay in the industry so it makes sense all the experts in their field are gone.

Unfortunately this is going to continue because too many people preordered which led to record sales again. That combined with fake reviews (game journo sellouts) suckered a lot of players into purchasing. We'll be stuck in an endless loop of this franchise with bad games. Sure they make a lot of money at launch because the fandom is filled with simps, just like apple or any company with a cult following, and they've reinforced their own beliefs they're on the right track with initial sales.

This post was edited by BlakeXeal on Jul 30 2023 02:22am

this is the problem with blizzard irvine. level design is not something they are concerned about. really the only thing i think they are concerned about is how to make loot feel addicting. they look at diablo and thats all they think it is and dont understand anything else. they need to get the fundamentals right like great level design, micro and macro and that goes hand in hand with good quests. have great gameplay and art. anything after d2 has not improved in these areas but have only regressed to something much worse. some how a game that features an open plane and a few buildings and fences has better level design then 3 and 4. this is the number one thing they should of improved on diablo 2 and they still get that wrong. the only thing that they care about is "EPIC LOOT xD" and some how a complete downgrade from diablo 2. they are actually clueless

POE sucks lol

Lol D3 made them a lot of mooney so they follow the same style n give it more polished D3 make more money from their targeted audiences, not D2R top G giga chad audiences

Lmao