[June 22, 2023] Metro UK: Diablo 4 players angry at being forced to create new characters for seasonal battle pass
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At this point, we don't know any specifics about what will come with the seasons, so hopefully we'll learn that soon.
We don't really know, but in Diablo 3 most of the seasonal mechanics didn't carry over to the normal servers.
In some instances, special weapons that used seasonal mechanics would actually disappear from your inventory and you'd have to go grab a new one real fast haha.
Again, we don't really know if the seasonal mechanics for D4 will be anything like the ones we saw in the nearly 40 seasons of Diablo 3.
If anything we know they are aiming for much bigger content this time around
I think this is a really good video that talks about why they do seasonal resets as someone that used to hate the idea of them. Like a few of us in here have said - just give it a shot! You might really dig it.
View: https://youtu.be/T-bY78tttgM
View: https://youtu.be/T-bY78tttgM
There's like 5 classes, and from what little I've seen each class has like 4-5 different good builds.
Some are frustrated about making new characters, I'm just excited. It lets me want to do new experiences on new seasons to get even more out of the whole package, really. Then again, I'm playing slowly and am only lv30 in Act 1, so :p
Some are frustrated about making new characters, I'm just excited. It lets me want to do new experiences on new seasons to get even more out of the whole package, really. Then again, I'm playing slowly and am only lv30 in Act 1, so :p
I really hope they actually add a ton of season changes to help with the 60-100 grind. Some kind of endgame to look forward to besides Uber Lillith is needed but if the 60-100 grind is the same none of my friend group will come back for it. It's depressing how little variation there is in nightmare dungeons. Adding hard version of the story bosses at the end of them would even be ok instead of the same recycled nightmare dungeon bosses. But the big issue is the nightmare grind just for 1 endgame content, uber lillith.
Hoping Blizzard has something up their sleeve for season 1
Hoping Blizzard has something up their sleeve for season 1
There's absolutely no way the majority of "veteran" players are "furious" about this. This is how seasons in this series have worked for decades at this point, lol.
Yeah it's mostly just the very vocal minority of casual players that jumped in because it was the latest thing.
Everyone I know in real life and online are pumped for the season and are desperately wanting the balance patch notes so they can cement their seasonal build.
The only mmorpgs i play are gta and destiny and its nice how much the community has pushed bungie from traditional loops like this. Im assuming this isnt ideal btw. If players like this then id love to hear it.
Most of the people complaining didn't even know seasonal resets were a thing. They've never experienced it and just pre-judged it. Like that blogger... not even willing to consider that his position just didn't make sense to veterans of the series.
And comparing this game to non-arpgs is just silly.
And comparing this game to non-arpgs is just silly.
I found 50-60 kinda painful. I'm not sure I have the grind in me anymore.
Got no issue with having to make a new character. It just ain't for me. Will see how season 1 goes though
Got no issue with having to make a new character. It just ain't for me. Will see how season 1 goes though
First, this isn't a MMO, it's an ARPG. Second, the majority of people who enjoy the ARPG genre like seasonal resets. The entire genre revolves around building characters, maximizing their power, and then trying something new.
So its a good mechanic then. I still dont know how i feel about sunsetting going away or whether it was positive for the game.
Nothing is sunset either. Seasonal characters are moved to the permanent "Eternal" realm (server) after a season ends. So they're still available to play for people that want to do so even after the season ends. The original purpose of seasons in Diablo 2 was to totally reset the in game economy every few months, and also reset the competitive ladder. Eventually it also became an excuse for people to try new classes and builds as new Ladder resets happened.
The only characters that get removed are Hardcore characters when they die, but that's the entire point of Hardcore.
The majority of players of the biggest/most sucessful APRG's that exist (Diablo 2+3, path of exile) specifically want, and fully expect, this exact style of seasonal gameplay/progression.
How about the time sink? Is it easy to manage this? I ignored this in diablo 3.
unless youre doing races or aiming for leaderboards, these games are not competitive. the time sink is "playing the game". you put a goal for a season (reach/beat a certain boss, take a certain build to endgame, farm a certain item) and you do it for as long as you have fun. and then a new season/league with new items, skills, content will come up and you try something new. theres only any pressure if you put one onto yourself
I have over a thousand hours in the series. I love the system.
It gives me a good reason to try new classes and new builds. It helps me take new approaches to the game and keeps the game fresh. Each season feels like a new start.
The majority of the playerbase loves it. Thats why they keep doing it.