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[D4] Gauntlet delayed again for unkown duration (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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IMO Season 3 is a step back. I finally managed to get the Tempest Roar at around 85 for my Druid and there is literally no Endgame.... A week ago i've completted all season milestones and didn't uninstal the game because of the lunar event. An event from 6. till 20 feb... i finished the event in an hour. Blizzard has so many resources and still manage to fail. Gauntlet was going to be the silver lining of this season for me and they still cant bring it online.

I regreted the purchase of D4 at season1, s2 kinda gave hope but the last 2 weeks, nah i'm done.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, that balance of progression in D3 didn't come until Reaper of Souls. Should they have learned from it? Yeah. But D4 is honestly in a better place than D3 was at launch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Technically correct, but why was D3 such shit at launch? Because they designed around a doomed premise - the RMAH.

I think they haven’t learned much since then about how to design a fun and engaging arpg. For a company which pretty much invented the genre, this is incredibly tragic. F.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh absolutely. D3 launch is a profoundly low bar to overcome--and I don't think anyone sincerely expected an improvement over the last season of D3--but I honestly would have expected more of the hard-learned lessons to remain learned. It feels like the franchise is amnesiac, and in terms of institutional memory and company turnover, it quite literally is. And that's a shame.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

technically yes but it feels like D3 had more to offer. Maybe i'm wrong and it's the nostalgia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

D3 at launch had no endgame at all, much like D2. It was just farm bosses in the campaign until you got better gear to move to the next difficulty, rinse and repeat. Now, it did take longer because the game was balanced around the auction house. You were incredibly unlikely to find gear that would carry you into the next difficulty, so buying gear was generally the strategy to get you to the next difficulty. Then you could sell the gear you farmed there. It wasn't really an issue on Normal/Nightmare, but it was on Hell/Inferno.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Sounds like more endgame than D4 has... And diablo was always a grind game, same as PoE or Warframe. But with D4 you just crash into a wall at full velocity when your build is good. Nightmare 100 dungeons are no problem. The only "fun" part was when butcher and the son of malphas decided to team up. Uber Lilith is a spit in the face but that's it. There is literally nothing to grind for.... And that's my problem. It's no fun to min/max when you don't have anything to try it on