Turn off the monthly fee till you got back to working on the game. So do what square did when final fantasy was sucking. Like yea we get it there was inner turmoil with the lawsuit. 9 months of no updates for people paying a monthly fee then insulting them for expecting their money to have been funding content updates. The treatment of the wow fanbase during shadowlands was pretty bad. I'm not in the beta so maybe that's not how it's playing out right now.

That's the idea as far as I can tell, anyway. I prefer the incremental procress where you're looking for the right combo of gear and paragon to achieve a particular build and gradually work your way up the difficulty ladder. So the people who are saying it's boring it's like ok, should we go back to D3 where you get one item or complete a set that jumps you 10 tiers of difficulty cause now you're doing 20k% more damage? Pass. They've said that they want to take some of the power away from items and move it to your actual character partly in reaction to D3 and just how ridiculous some of those items became. I saw a comment from someone who said their theory as to why they haven't talked much about itemization is that the system, on it's own, probably seems lackluster and that it really only makes sense when you pair it with the other systems in the game, especially the paragon boards. If I could, I would love to design a skill tree for summons specifically, add more variety and different styles. It restricts greater build diversity by locking you into a dependence on this style. The core of this issue is the builder/spender style of play.

Curses don't feel good with them and corpse explosion just feels like corpse explosion. It also doesn't help that minions are not a meatshield at all and you can't focus their target so they are a detriment. I would love to see a whole tree just for summons, with a variety of different things I can do for my summoner. There's little to no nodes on the skill tree that compliment summoners, it's not like we have skill tree pages with different types of specializations we are on a little pathway and it feels like a more restrictive version of Diablo 3's skill system with less flexibility to experiment with builds. The paragon boards for summoner are all boring. I got to level 72 before I got too bored and couldn't bring myself to play. So I ask you, did elden ring not spoonfeeding information on gear, such as attack speed, status procs etc, have a seeming impact on its popularity, did you see mass complaints about that aspect of the game, because all I saw was dozens of game of the year nominations. Oh i got +10 faster cast rate, that looks nice (but in reality it make no difference at all because i didnt reach a new breakpoint) Not having that information inside the client is such a terrible design. Having to google breakpoints for D2 is also one of the worst parts of the game. Diablo 3 completely lost its way in that and decided everyone just has to use a simple system, and D4 looks the same.

The point is like Elden ring, you can give complex itemization and game systems while also having a surface level that's accessible for everyone. This is why at the very least, d4 needed an arcade version for people who find reading and maths in games a chore, and an RPG version. These games are literally born out of dungeons and dragons and you are complaining that you have to do a 2 minute long Google search to better understand the game. So yeah you for 10fcr, Google it, gain some knowledge. Theory crafting in games is hugely popular, a vocal minority of gamers complaining that everything isn't spoonfed to them isn't a reason to completely dumb down the game.Įlden ring just did 17m copies, I've got 200 hours in it and I don't know wtf is going on with half the game, the stats, but it did amazing.Įlden ring doesn't tell you how much arcane effects bleed procs by, there isn't green or red text telling you if a new item is better or worse than your old item, and people loved it.

Yet it's still a hugely popular game, despite some newer gamers saying how annoying aspects of the itemization is d2r performed hugely well.

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