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No Leaderboards Until Season 3 of Diablo 4
Diablo IV
Posted
2023/05/10 at 2:29 PM
by
silec
Blizzard announced during their
May Developer Update Livestream
that there will be no leaderboards in Diablo 4 until Season 3.
Diablo 4 Developer Update - Liveblog Summary
During the
March Diablo 4 Group Interview
we have learned that leaderboards connected to competitive activities will be added post-launch to Diablo 4.
Diablo IV Group Interview Unveils New Information - Future of Diablo III, Leaderboards, Seasons
If you have played Diablo II: Resurrected and Diablo 3, you will be familiar with leaderboards for various activities, which are an integral part of those games. Blizzard recognizes the popularity of this feature and plans to bring leaderboards to Diablo 4 with Season 3.
Leaderboards in Diablo II: Resurrected (left) and Diablo 3 (right).
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Comment by
Nikeisha
on 2023-05-15T07:24:36-05:00
leaderboards for what? convincing someone you accomplished something in an rng set up game? Going to put it on your resume? Nope just something for people to be toxic about. If you play a game to be on a leaderboard where you don't get anything for being on there, and that game is rng'ed to all *!@#, then you're basically an idiot.
Oh come on, if it was pure RNG you wouldn't see the same names at the top every season.
RNG plays a huge part at the start of a season, sure, but by the end it's basically down to determination and skill. I am a very casual player due to work/family, and even I end up with a couple of primals relevant to my spec with only a week or so of cumulative play each season. If I could put in the hours that many of these guys can then I'd have full relevant (and probably perfectly rolled) primals. Once you have the full primal set then it basically boils down to skill, especially with people like Wudijo and Raxx playing in hardcore. Dude pulled off a solo world boss kill in veteran HC due to knowing the game, items and classes inside and out. Sure. they are lucky in that Diablo is essentially their job and so they can put in the extended hours, but you really can't deny that the players at the top of the leaderboard are there due to skill.
Personally, I couldn't care less about leaderboards so I ignore them completely. They may as well not exist as far as I'm concerned. I play for myself (generally SSF with split bounties because they suck) whilst watching Raxx and Wudijo rock the game on twitch. I have never even looked at the leaderboards and seriously don't care where I fall on them, but some people enjoy them, and some communities utilise them for more wholesome community driven/charity events. They can drive people to experiment with new builds that the rest of us can then enjoy to blast through things at our own pace - a theorycrafter notices someone new at the top of the boards and takes a look at their build/gear then incorporates it in to the guides the rest of us rely on. Lets face it, they also make it a whole lot easier to spot the exploiters and the bots.
Just don't click on the leaderboard tab and then the leaderboards won't exist for you - simple. It works for me. The only toxicity I have ever seen in D3 is on the forums, which are, quite frankly, an utter cesspit. Leaderboards aren't the main issue behind the toxicity on the forums though, it's keyboard warriors and trolls who will whine about absolutely anything. Take away the leaderboards as a source of whining and they'll simply switch to something else.
TL;DR...
Stay away from the forums and don't click on the leaderboards and the 'problem' completely disappears. Diablo becomes a stress-free zone where you can unwind at the end of a long day by killing monsters.
Comment by
Nikeisha
on 2023-05-15T07:35:06-05:00
Diablo 3 didn't have a leader board on launch, it got leaderboards 2 years later during patch 2.1.
Yeah, people seem to forget (or not know) how little D3 had at launch, along with how rough it was back then... the novelty and thrill soon wore off and gave way to borderline rage at some of the issues (RMAH and PvP being the biggies). The game was an entirely different beast to what it is now.
That may be part of it I guess, the newer players who weren't around at D3 launch are expecting everything to run as smoothly as D3 does currently, along with being handed gear on a plate - the forums are fairly indicative of this currently. D3 grew and developed slowly over time, that initial period was great in it's own way - the story/graphics were awesome and it took effort to achieve things, you had to work your way up. I loved the start of D3, and I also love D3 as it is now, but there's no denying they may as well be 2 entirely different games.
I'm looking forward to the slower start of D4 and watching the game evolve.
Comment by
Adradia
on 2024-01-18T02:40:45-06:00
that aged like milk
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