D3 Dev's Lessons Learned - How Relevant to PoE?

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tienbasse wrote:

Just the fact that developpers think that we should finally be grateful to pay 1500 fusings for a 6-link 3 years after proposing this game is just a big slap in the face. 99% of builds need at least one 6-link to fully bloom, yet, you may never get one even though you gather the right gear with the right uniques. And this is just one example of how wrong things are, and how the game is currently stuck into a dead end.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

Not what I would have said. Players (still) like difficulty; workers like efficiency.

So what this means, if you really think about it, is that Blizzard has realized a huge portion of their playerbase is more obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses - or, at least, more obsessive in general - than they are interested in the actual hack & slash part of the game. They're not having fun, they're fucking working.

And of course they are. If they wanted better action gameplay they'd play Dark Souls instead.

So then these workers get all these digital wages, and when they try to yardstick them they find themselves competing against The Economy, a mass collective no one man could ever hope to match. They feel an utter meaninglessness of their impact upon the game world in a far more profound way than poor old Marius could have ever imagined.

In any case, the D3 team finally realized this and responded accordingly, obliterating the yardstick, going as autopilot and loot-spewing as possible while really hitting that "endgame for everyone" pillar hard.

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