An open letter to casuals asking to dumb down the game or make rare items more common

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Cyndershade wrote:

I agree with you for the most part, I do however wish that the cost of entry on mildly interesting builds was slightly lower for maps around the t10 area. I think a lot of people who don't have a ton of time to sink into leagues kind of get the shaft in terms of being able to enjoy the experience - while the people who have tons of time obliterate all the content available to them and hit the, "now what" side of the game which I've hit a few times now myself.

I believe that there's a comfortable middle-ground here somewhere in terms difficulty scaling. I think that more accepting low and middle difficulty areas are definitely a start - if you were able to do higher content with less quality gear you'd have more to do before it was time to complain you couldn't get anything done. Add some higher difficulty top-tier content for streamers to really work for so we don't have level 100's in hardcore in 3 days every league like we do now, a lot of this game's balance is built around 1% of the player-base.

That's just my two cents, I've been playing this game forever and I've seen it harder and less hard, items used to drop less and be less useful. I do feel like it's gotten to the point where just about every unique is valueless unless it's a shav's or something, unique validity and scaling needs a serious makeover as well. What am I supposed to do with all these wanderlust's man?

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Baugoti wrote:

Personally for someone who is married / works/ goes out ect. I don't think anything should change.

Here is my thinking:

You see someone like Ziz who plays 20+ hours a day for a few days straight. Awesome.. good for him he is able to dedicate that time. You see him get his 2nd.. or 3rd 6 link in that time period.

He has almost 3 full days of /played time.

Now for someone that cannot dedicate that amount of time per day will reach 3 days of /played time in say 2 weeks, maybe more. It is still the same 3 days played time, and most likely you will be in the same boat as he is with the same amount of time invested. Maybe further as prices tend to be cheaper as the leagues go on.

My feeling is that some people see streamers and you-tubers doing end game content and think "that looks cool... why can't I do that!" without taking in the actual amount of play time into account. It's not like they are playing 3 hours a day and just get all the luck in the world.

Maybe something can be done with the drops, but in doing so those same "Hardcore" players will just do the content faster than before.. and if you make the game more difficult but the items easier to get... they will still reach end game long before anyone else cause they put in the time sooner... but still the same play time to reach that same goal.

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Pinchyskree wrote:

Now we just need the sister thread:

An open letter to no lifers asking to over complicate the game or make it take more time to progress to give a false sense of real life achievement

And funnily enough, your logic works both ways.
Casuals want to make game easier, so they feel they achieved something (false sense of real life achievement), because they can't simply play the game. They need to WIN. And if anyone ever has more wealth/higher level, they will feel inferior (inferiority complex taken from their real life, as one might assume) and cry about it on the forums.
And when they are confronted with the arguments, they will go with standard at least I have a life/get a life.
I sense a projection here btw, but hey, who am to judge? :V

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JohnNamikaze wrote:

That movie had so much potential...........