Excellent.
I just want my crusader/paladin.
I stopped playing D4 before S1 even began after I seen how bad it was to farm and figured there would be 45 seasons in a year just to force us to level 85,000,000,000 times and keep us hooked.Not exactly fun and exciting gameplay.Hopefully they tell us the game will be more engaging than spamming 4 buttons 38,000,000,000,000,000 times until our fingers bleed.
It's likely 2 things:
my main problems with the game, although I havent played in the last few seasons now so some of these might have been addressed:1) game feels like its not rewarding at all if you dont get the battle pass and most of the good cosmetics are tied to the shop and they cost way more than they're worth. A practice that imho is not acceptable for a game that is not free to play2) spells and abilities feel too same-y between seasons and theres simply not enough to change things up between seasons from a gameplay/rotation perspective.3) graphics of the game are incredibly muted and boring, nothing jumps at you. Ik this was a complaint from ppl in d3 era about how colorful the game was but honestly I think they went too far in the other direction with d4. U can achieve dark fantasy aesthetics with saturated colors that are not just different shades of brown, red or grey, look at elden ring, poe1/2, etc. Most of the cosmetics they add (even the ones from the shop) look very boring and uninspired.4) game needs to reward players for playing. Reward the player for playing the content with cosmetics that actually look good and are sought after. Dont keep everything thats interesting locked in the shop5) battlepasses you purchase should stay with you regardless of the season, if i didnt have enough time to finish my s1 bp, i shouldnt just lose the remaining rewards. Stop the fomo. look at marvel rivals bp practices and how successful they are6) cost of items in the shop. theres no way you can convince me a simple pet is worth $20+. Or price of transmogs when they are only usable by one class in a game designed such that you are motivated to play different classes every season. There's no other way to say it but the pricing is simply just stupid. ESPECIALLY when the game is not f2p and the only valuable rewards you do obtain come from the premium bp.If i'm being honest I dont really think they can redeem themselves with D4 as they've dug their hole too deep, people still love the IP but many of us have given up on this game. Poe 1 (and even 2) or Last Epoch are just more fun to play and as a player I feel more respected there. It feels like Blizzard doesnt really care about the players anymore and all they do is give us empty promises to keep up playing just a little bit longer while they pump out 25$ pets into the shop. So yeah, it feels like all they seem to care about is finding new ways to milk us. I mean look wowhead's diablo4 section, many of the articles are just about new shop cosmetics that Blizzard adds. It genuinely just feels like a betrayal of trust.Still, I do hope they manage to turn it around for the better. D4 has very strong competitors now in the ARPG field and there needs to be a MASSIVE shift in mindset and priorities. I am looking forward to see what they're cooking but I'm also not holding my breath for it.
We all know it's just a Ryyker or Wudijo event
Yeah whatever. Blizzard has been consistently erasing any goodwill they have created with early D4 seasons.
Gonna ask another $60 for things that should have been in the base game a long time ago, so much hype
Monk!
All the good stuff is in the shop. There is literally no reason to log in and play the game when in order to get a good piece of armor you have to swipe your credit card.And we are talking about a full priced game, not a free chinese mobile game. Full price game+predatory battle pass+predatory in game shop. Yeah no, this is not an ARPG, this is a chinese mAcrotransactions store simulator.Soulless corporate cashgrab.
Games so bad all they can do is shovelware $70 paid xpac into this dumpster fire to try and please shareholders.
Temper your expectations. These are all people who are part of the Diablo partner program. They have signed contracts with Blizzard saying what they can or cannot do. Blizzard owns them. Blizzard can force them to do or not do things that they want. Blizzard can, for example, tell them that they have to promote a secret update/meeting as if it's mind-blowing and going to totally change the game, whether or not that's actually the case behind the scenes. Looks like we'll all find out within a couple months, as I don't think that the D4 devs want the player base to be too hyped up about this without a reveal anytime soon. So I'm sure in the next month-ish there will be a public revealing of some or all of this information. Probably when they announce the season 10 PTR stuff, which is still a little ways off but not that far off. Just remember that Diablo partners are corporate shills. You have to bend the knee to Big Daddy corporation if you want to be in the partner program. And it's the fact that these people have to bend the knee to get into the program that makes me very skeptical of anything they post related to Diablo 4. Especially secret meetings and stuff like that.For all we know, it's more damage on Tuesdays type of crap, and these content creators just got to see season 10 early, and it's a letdown just like season 8 and season 9. Or it's some system that sounds cool, like escalating nightmare dungeons, but then when we actually see how it works in practice, it's a massive disappointment, there's no challenge, and the rewards aren't even that good. Like I said, temper your expectations, because this development team has a knack for hyping stuff up or at least getting their Diablo partners to hype stuff up, and then said stuff turns out to be nothing like how it sounded in the beginning. Escalating nightmare dungeons? That sounds amazing. Sign me up right away. Oh wait, hold on, I played three of them in a row and they are boring and useless.Basically, don't hold your breath for the game to suddenly transform into how you want it to be. It's still Diablo. 4. It's still this pathetic development team. They can't do almost anything right, so again, don't get your hopes up this time either. They've fooled us 1,500+ times, if we still believe them then it's shame on us.
