A high price, but you should pay it gladly

If this was some obscure bug that was stumbled upon out of bad luck, then it'd be understandable if GGG would be unwilling to infringe on the integrity of hardcore for it.

But a bug like carrion queens doing an absurd amount of damage after being altered? That definitely, unquestionably, should have been found before deployment. Any changes at all to monsters should be rigorously tested because buggy monsters leads to unaccountable deaths.

Someones head is gonna roll. This glitch has caused some serious damage, for all sorts of reasons. Someone really messed this one up.

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maxkardinal wrote:

And this game will turn into faceless piece of shit. It already loosing its face piece by piece.

So you and the game will then have something in common, I should be happy for you I guess. :)

Thread title is a quote from a good movie

Thread OP is a sad, angry little rant with no justification.

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Septile wrote:

If this was some obscure bug that was stumbled upon out of bad luck, then it'd be understandable if GGG would be unwilling to infringe on the integrity of hardcore for it.

But a bug like carrion queens doing an absurd amount of damage after being altered? That definitely, unquestionably, should have been found before deployment. Any changes at all to monsters should be rigorously tested because buggy monsters leads to unaccountable deaths.

Random mobs and bosses gets overtuned after patches all the time. It's becoming the norm sadly. I always stay out of maps for a day or so after a new patch and listen for feedback. If ppl dies during the story to this, then that is just a rough situation to have to deal with all around.

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In my opinion, people who actually have principles and actually try to lead their lives by them understand that reality is complex. Sometimes you get multiple conflicting principles and you have to "sort it out". Life doesn't fit so neatly into the tidy little cubby holes we make when we say statements like, "Hardcore characters will never be restored."

If they introduced a bug that, for whatever reasons, insta-gibbed every hardcore character upon login I'm wondering if OP would still hold by his "principled stand".

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Ishmael_Euler wrote:

If it affected you, there's two things you could do: If you agree, play your resotred character. If you don't, delete your restored character.

If you were not affected, why the heck would you care?

The reason why folks care even if they were not affected by this is because many of us have see companies/devs over the years that have made stands and policies only to back track/change their policies.

This is a free to play game where the devs have stated they will never go down the pay to win policy in their cash shop. Many many many players have thrown several millions of dollars at the company based on this stance. What is to say that in 6 months or 2 years down the line the devs say fuck it and change their stance on that.

We have taken everything GGG has said at face value and have to have trust and believe what they say to be true. But there seems to be a pattern forming over the last month of GGG going back on what they have stated and their stance on certain things that is becoming concerning to quite a few folks.

Is this the beginning of a tinfoil hat conspiracy or the first step onto the old adage of a slippery slope. If so where does GGG go from here. Pay for convenience in the cash shop? Some folks already feel that stash tabs falls into the pay for convenience, how will folks react to them selling a portal gem in the cash shop? Or a pair of boots with zero sockets,but 25% run speed because the starting run speed is to slow for some people. How many new players quit because they run out out of portal scrolls or get pissed off because they feel like they are running through mud? Would GGG feel as if these items did not cross the line of pay to win as long as they disabled buying them in the races?

Hopefully this gives you another way of looking at this issue from a different perspective.

i feel actually bad for OP and i will pray for him tonight.
on the other hand i'm always happy if i encounter such people as it makes me realize how lucky i am to be a sane, normal guy without mental problems :)