IN THE BEGINNING, seasons we're created so that we could have fun (We could have new content/items and have some competitive aspect to it (leaderboards, bragging rights etc.)
NOW, we have nothing. We have no leaderboards, no rewards (other than cosmetics) etc.
MODERN SEASONS now serve a different role. The new role of the seasons and why the modern seasons are quarterly, are to show the shareholders POSITIVE player retention and POSITIVE player numbers.
ON TOP OF THAT, add a paid battle pass to the equation and you get positive player retention, positive player numbers AND POSITIVE INCOME.

All done to please the shareholders, not the player base. (this is why the game's got a 3.4 user score on Metacritic , it's because Blizzard's interests are the shareholders)

-SHAKOGATE WAS AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THE ETERNAL REALM!
They could of easily taken back those ''142 shakos'' with no problem (''142'' players would of been mad at them vs having hundreds of thousands of mad players.)
The only logical answer as to why they handled shakogate the way that they did, is so that the eternal realm would feel tainted and unbalanced so players would rationalize a new start on seasons.

-THIS SEASON'S NERFS ARE TO KILL THE ETERNAL REALM!
They know that if they nerf and give a huge kick in the nuts to 90% of the char builds on the eternal realm, the average players will play their characters and realize that they need to remake or respec entire builds. This is done so that the players
can say to themselves ''oh well, if I need to start over might as well start over on the seasonal realm right?'' since their character now sucks dick and will most likely NEED the malignant gems in order to flourish in end-game content.
This is why, we get to play the patch 2 days before the actual season start.

The reason why we received an eternal realm killing patch at the very beginning of the game, is to make 90% of us leave and go play in the seasons.
Having the majority of the players switch to seasons will ''show'' the shareholders that it's profitable.

HMmm, just spitballin here

This post was edited by TheRealGates on Jul 19 2023 07:02pm

Of you considered you can barely speak english

I've heard one of the reasons eternal sucks is because they were trying to balance around the new gems, malignant items, and those don't exist on Eternal. So if most everything was given a net nerf due to balance around an item that doesn't exist eternal realms are going to be like hard mode.

play ladder.... bring items back to external realm and buff external chars..... repeat.

or sit in external realm and cry by urself.

instructions unclear, logged in on ladder slasher

Yep, not even bothering to log to season.

The funniest part is how they tried to put blame on players that they use optimal affixes on gear and mechanics which dumb devs implemented by themselves and not tested before game release.

Devs did that last minute nerf hammer on purpose, to not leave players enough time to backlash before season start and let storm calm down with players arguing with each others. Even info and builds site owners had no time to complain, they just needed to adapt to situation to squeeze something from the season start traffic.

The nerf is the only way they could make this whatever shite seasonal add any interesting and by interesting i mean only way for players to counter nerfs with dull worms socket fillers.

This is neoblizzard, stole from players 50% of most builds power (defensive and offensive, cutting lacking variety even further) with pseudo balance excuse and then giving small % of whats been stolen as the wormeat balls xD

Except those "spicy" Malignant Heart "gems" don't come with you @ seasons end.
They vanish.