So instead of creating endgame they cut it lvl 100 race by 40%? And they think now we have kind of endgame because before all aspects we need we hit 100? What? Wtf

They added a bunch of bosses.. One with a chance of Uber Uniques dropping. Increased the Item Power to 920 with it scaling to your level at the end for higher chances of drop. A new story line for those who are into it. A bunch of changes to items and more coming on the 10th. A bunch more quality of life changes..

It’s not perfect, but at least it’s headed in the direction

But why cut the leveling time by 40% … ehhh

People complain.. a lot

Wow

Your questioning blizzard in 2023 October
They aren’t a good company.

because people are snowflakes.

But what's funny to me is people complain about the lack of endgame after hitting 100, but praise D2 (i loved D2 don't get me wrong) where endgame was spending weeks, 7hours a day, doing baalruns...??? ubers were easy af, the only thing we did was duel, with rules we chose among ourselves.

More than 75% of the game base isn't good enough to understand
and take advantage of the 40% ... it was never hard to hit 100 Anyways

Farming specific high end mats to open uber portal for duriel to farm uber uniques... sounds like a move towards end game.

because thats the only thing we needed

but i mean think about it, why do people play video games? what was it that made it fun? i mean sure you could play a bit in order to satisfy certain needs like testing yourself playing a shooter or creativity playing an rpg. but the moment gaming exploded was the moment player interaction was added. fair competition is fun, we are hardwired to like it as it brings status. cooperation is also fun, everyone likes spending time with friends. gaming had both basically a good game should give only good player interaction through cooperation and/or competition and everything else is secondary. d2 gave both, all while botting was rampant so we could focus on the fun aspect alone and no one actually did his own baalruns unless really bored

this is why new games suck. competition isnt fair ("skill based matchmaking" its called now), and even worse, it limits you. speech is also limited. everything is limited. so the fun is also limited! this is "solved" by adding artificial competition which actually only has the purpose of wasting your time as much as possible so you would spend as much as possible. you are tasked with chores you need to do (usually called "challenges" or "achievements"), which makes people focus on those, which in turn limits cooperation as well because you simply have to hurry to consoom before something new is implemented, and if at least one person is in it for fun, cooperation slows the entire team down also if you dont manage to do your chores in time, you will miss an important mtx or something else that triggers sunken cost. i could give an example with poe that went through all of these phases but the post is too long anyway and no one will read it

so tldr: player interaction brings fun and d2 had it

source: i have zero academic expertise in anything i talked about here
but i know im right

After 30 years of gaming across all sorts of platforms/consoles and gaming genres, it is as simple as this:

Grinding to achieve something, with the possibility of achieving at least one thing else. 40% less is crazy. It makes more sense to me to extend the lvl 100 race by 40% and add extra rare rewards along the way.

How many people here regularly make level 100 d2 chars?