 | This game is dying, sort it before it's too late!(1) | Category: GeneralAugust-6-2014 5:58 AM PDT (8 years ago)  |
| Sorry for the wall of text. I needed to get this off my chest. This game has been slowly dying and it's fundamental reasons need to be addressed if there's any hope of returning it from the brink. Boredom. People are both bored (at the staleness of the current meta game) and frustrated at the seemingly endless fight against RNG. Rift -> rift -> rift -> rift -> rift Get more shards from normal farming Rift -> rift -> rift -> rift -> rift Endlessly hoping for the drops they need/want while watching other people in their clan getting those drops and salvaging them because they don't need them. But this thread isn't about trading, there's plenty of other threads out there concerning that such as:- http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/11324622699 (not necessarily my seed, but everyone's thoughts around it). We need an alternative way to perhaps guarantee the drops we need like some uber quest that gives us a choice of the legendaries we want from a pre-determined list. Normal farming shouldn't be the most efficient way of getting level 70 items (like RoRG) Means should justify an end. There is hope coming in 2.1 but I'm not sure it'll be enough if implemented as is. Greater rifts are fundamentally flawed. You can't create a leaderboard based on random mobs in random dungeons. It's like sending 10 runners on 10 different routes with varying distances and awarding whoever comes back first the winner. It doesn't make sense. It might do to a degree, but it's nowhere near definitive. The way the PTR is being managed by Blizzard I think is also poor. It's a test bed used by millions of people around the world to gather feedback. But it's too inefficient currently. There needs to be a patch released every two weeks (cyclically alongside weekly maintenance), but it's too late in coming. People get bored fast. The current schedule of releasing PTR patches is lacklustre and unfocused. The project management need to be pushing to get the product out if the door for testing on a regular basis to get the feedback, to make the changes they need. Change the damn skills more frequently!!! Take a given two week period, and say to the community. Right. This next phase will be monk. Here's the changes were testing, go away and tell us what you think. To coin a phrase..."the trains leaving the station when it's due, we'll get in what we can". So what if something gets tweaked, and becomes OP on the PTR? Reign in back the following iteration. Allow the player base to accept that the pendulum swings above and beyond before it finally settles. At least then they've had a say in it. Currently some classes are out-performing others - by far, and this is unacceptable. players like me who play all classes are less bothered by it because we play whatever class we enjoy at that time. But those (for example) devout monks who only at one if the weaker class are quite hard done by. And why do they need to be? To summarise, please Blizzard, look Long and hard at the game. Where it's come from, and where it's going - perhaps as important - how fast it's getting there. Provide us REGULAR iterations for testing so you can get the feedback you want, and roll patches out faster. Boredom is a killer. Quash it before it's too late. Thanks for reading. ************************************ Arbeia MVP t: @ArbeiaMVP | ||
 | This game is dying, sort it before it's too late!(250) | August-19-2014 2:19 AM PDT (8 years ago) |
There are 3 kind of gamers: 1. True fans, who played this game since beginning, like me and always will play this game no matter does it have ah or not, or ladders or not, or competition or not, trading or not. 2. Players who demand changes all the time and still some day they propably leave and never come back. 3. Players who try game and never just like it no matter the future patches and additions. What kind of player you are? Im 1 and i always will be 1. I have liked the direction the game is going but whatever direction it will be in future, i always be here. Love you Blizzard <3<3<3 Together forever <3<3<3 I don't think it is as simple as that though... I mean it is human nature to categorise people into groups for better or worse, but there will always be people who do not really fit into any particular category. As Buki mentioned above, it is possible to be a true fan and still provide constructive criticism :-) I am amazed that this topic hasn't earned a single blue post yet... Just because a thread doesn't have a blue post in it doesn't mean that we have not been reading it. There is a lot of solid feedback in this thread for sure, both positive and negative, and there are also a number of people using the thread to vent their frustrations, but I have been reading every single post and I've taken quite a few notes along the way :-) | ||
