Why I'm Done With Diablo 4

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As a Lifelong Diablo fan, the latest iteration of the franchise no longer appeals to me and here’s why:

  1. Too many foundational changes EVERY season. This indicates that the game has yet to define its identity.
  2. Class balance is a joke and the spiritborn sets an unrealistic expectation. No class will ever be as powerful as the spiritborn in S6.
  3. The Aspect system is a lazy way to farm power.
  4. Tempering is not a rewarding system and RNG in its worst form simply rolling not to brick an item.
  5. Too much loot. The more loot you get, the less meaningful drops are.
  6. 90% of Uniques are useless and are not exciting to find. Some useless uniques are fine but theres just way too much crap.
  7. Endgame is dull. Upgrading glyphs and doing the same repetitive Hordes and Pit runs to upgrade glyphs and masterwork gear gets old fast.
  8. Masterworking is another lazy power progression system. Number go up power progression doesnt change builds and isn’t worth the time invested.
  9. When you finally complete your build and max out everything, it feels empty to know the only thing to do after that is more Pit runs.
  10. Runewords? Hardley game changing or difficult to acquire.
  11. Greater Affixes, yet another lazy number go up system.
  12. Last but not least, Itemization. The path Diablo 4 has taken and the direction ahead does not show rewarding power progression with items
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ok brah see you next patch

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You forgot non existent economy
And bugs that never fixed
And crap design bosses. Where lilith is crappiest

Average korean low effort game experience.

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Yes, very much so.

Personally, I just found the game to be an empty shallow grind-loop with no end-game. I could almost put up with the grind-loop if you got rewarded with meaningful loot but you don’t. It’s all set up so you farm your life away on pretty much nothing and this is supposed to be fun?

I’m amazed people still play, I really am. I guess some people are easily pleased. The tragedy of that is companies don’t even need to try anymore. They are can literally put out poor games and people will still play, and this has become the norm. You just need some marketing hype and a few youtubers telling you the game’s great and that’s enough to keep things moving.

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and too much pink. but you weebskizos don´t care?

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You are not wrong :smiley:
game is dull and boring and lazy …

There are no proper leaderboard so i have no interest in playing that much.
On release day i managed to did all story farm paragon 183 tempered and masterwork most of my gear to max…
And i didn’t find any reason to play because there is nothing to chase

For me this game lacks competitive side
D3 had it and i enjoyed pushing for leaderboard every season with different classes

But hey we at least get new COSMETICS in shop all the time so we can spend MONEY :smiley:
i still have 4600 diablo shop money and i didn’t buy anything with them cause most of the shop cosmetics are garbage :smiley:

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Its not an airfield where you have to announce your departure

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Yes it’s NOT but who are you to tell people that they can’t speak about their frustration with a game on these forums
as these forums are called GENERAL DISCUSSION

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And do you think anyone cares??

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You obviously care enough to be in here expressing your frustrations bud…

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I just dont understand why there are winers complaining about the game, do something else than play d4 BUD.

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Guy bought a game, paid money, has an opinion, voiced said opinion and so what’s it to you?

Using your own logic maybe you should just go do something other than reply?

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I don’t understand thread hoppers such as yourself that have nothing better to do than go from thread to thread to complain about others complaining, but here we are.
You provide 0 arguments in a what’s being discussed, going around just bashing people. I know it’s the internet, but you’re calling people out on having nothing better to do while you yourself are actually worse.
Bud.

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Wow agree 100% with everything.

Just realized Masterworking for example… definately true. Increase affixes by 5% ? Pointless… what does this achieve? Oh you bump up difficulty scaling and monsters have 5% more HP. Another stupid idea from D3 or something.

I would add something in the list:

  • No early game, no mid game. What was a nice leveling flow in launch → S2 or 3 became a rush to the end game and endless useless grind…
  • Leveling is too fast… partly due to the game only focusing on end game stuff. That means no one wants to spend more than 1 hour in the leveling process making it yet another Blizz game where they pretty much drop the journey to the end game for sake of lazy people who have no patience to play the game for a couple days for leveling. Still they quit the season after couple weeks because they rushed to the end and things got boring.

Actually they want you to participate to every season and buy the battle pass. They don’t really care if you play the season for very long time.

They probably rent server capacity for season start just enough to take the load… that’s why you see a lot of lagging and stuff on season start and after couple weeks everything works better. After a month they release server capacity to save money :slight_smile:

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Well, the shallow-grind loop that is Seasons is just laughable as a piece of meaningful content. The things that Blizzard come up with to save money and maximise profits at the cost of actual fun is beyond funny and yet because of the power nostalgia and legacy have on people they keep coming back.

Just to add, I believe blizzard’s current model is to create an excellent presentation, lure everyone in, spam the customers with monetization options (that actually undermine the game itself!), this brings in a vast amount of profits short-term. Then jazz it all up every few months with a Season i.e. you get to do it all again.

There are many problems, but here’s the one’s I struggle with.

a). The game is not that much fun to begin with (outside of the campaign, which was ok) - but end game is … nothing. What you have to do and what you actually gain at end game is borderline self-harm.

b). They have broken the game’s formula for profit. The loot/sets you can buy for real money should be in the game and in the game ONLY. There, then, is a reason to play. But no the best looking stuff in the game you can only buy. I mean what does that say?

c). Solely profit driven. I feel the company don’t really care whether you play, or not, it’s whether you spend. They don’t seem to care about the quality of the product, as long as they manage to rake in more off the back of the presentation (cinematics, hype, etc) and vanity items then that’s a result. It’s just business, right? Besides, if you have a monopoly on this then who is going to stop you? That’s the position they were in. Like EA have in the sports world. But go look at the ratings for FIFA, you’ll see a clear drop every year in review ratings where now it’s on the floor and yet EA still pump it out every year - new lick of paint over the same old thing and boom, profit.

It’s disgusting to think this has infiltrated the core of the gaming industry. Pure greed. These large companies needs competition. Blizzard need POE to do well to wake them up because they gotten fat and lazy and it really need’s to stop before they destroy everything positive about the brand.

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POE2 is a free game and has much lower treshold of entry. You don’t have to buy early access, just wait for the game to come out. There will be 12 classes with 3 ascendancies each (which effectively sums up to 36 classes and gives you countless possibilities of character building) and endgame is so massive that you will never run out of things to do.

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Doesn’t anyone care that the entire market is flooded with dupes and the economy is broken from the first days of each season?

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Funny how they can’t fix these issues (or at least deter players from doing it) in a game with a $70 price point.

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After trying PoE2 nobody is coming back next patch mate, literally noone

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You wish haha dont speak for every one please