Game has huge flaws, developers making bizarre choices

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HopTortoise wrote:

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RogueMage wrote:

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HopTortoise wrote:

I had to google around to find it. No truthful statements regarding this was posted on the forum.

"It's for light radius builds" is, in fact, a lie. It is for no such thing. As you can read above, the new affixes were specifically put in to make rare items shittier and more watered down.

OMG, what a bastard he did such a shitty thing to you. I'm going to tell all my friends on Facebook to unlike him all over again.

You mean he did a shitty thing to the game?

If so, I agree with you.

Light radius affix is the dumbest affix i've ever seen. The dev's do this a lot though, they take 2 steps forward one step back. This is partly why development has taken so long.

In general I believe the business model and success of the game rides on whither or not people play it for an extended amount of time. This requires making it more difficult to be satisfied so to speak. With your build and character. A good game makes you want to keep improving, building and playing.

To me the use of bad affix's is the same as using gold and item repair. You throw in time sinks that have no contribution to the game so players play longer. It used to be they were against this but it seems like, by adding bad affixes they are in support of this.

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coli wrote:

I think this is GGG's first real game, that would explain the bizarre decisions they've made so far.

By GGG's 3rd game, they might have a winner.

But as of right now, I'll stay away from their 2nd game. My time is more valuable than that.

In order for ggg to be profitable they'd need to develop their games slowly. My guess is the game is meant to be played for 10years and they are trying to make it so the game's progression matches that.

This way developing less games means less expense and more return from their investment. They are essentially going for a more profitable diablo 2 scenario, where diablo 2 was played for around 10 years in spite of bad graphics and a general lack of support from blizzard.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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PolarisOrbit wrote:

I would hope that as a developer you guys actually take the time to think about what kinds of solutions would be good answers to a problem rather than just blindly committing random community suggestions to code.

Yes, because they totally implement every suggestion from every player without a thought.

LOL.

Btw I actually did 'laugh out loud'. It was that funny. I even said some fun words at the screen, which I won't type because I'm a gentleman, if not a scholar.

I'd say you are neither, just a forum mod, though it sometimes becomes easy to forget.

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HopTortoise wrote:

Wow, as a new player who's been frustrated by how trade dependent this game is, seeing this legitimately made me angry.

I had a blast playing this game and leveling up my first character, but since hitting 60+ it seems the game has been nothing but frustrating experiences. Little did I know it's the developers purposefully trying to do this.

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In order for ggg to be profitable they'd need to develop their games slowly. My guess is the game is meant to be played for 10years and they are trying to make it so the game's progression matches that.

10 years cash machine planned ^^ Let's wait september !