Hot Take: Need to stop focusing on loot and instead fix things that actually need your attention!

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Runavargr#8786 wrote:

So this might be an unpopular opinion but seeing so many posts/fixes about loot and monster difficulty should, in my opinion, be less a priority than the actual performance of the game.

Game performance at the moment is absolutely horrendous and definitely at an all time low especially since last patch. I want to preface that I play on a fairly decent setup (4070 super, 64g ram, ryzen 7 7700x), not the best by any means but still a really decent setup. I also have an Xbox series x that my wife plays her account on as well as a host of friend and family that play console as well primarily series x but some on series s.

This current league we all have experienced so many bugs and especially on console where many of the bugs have actually made the game literally unplayable. On my pc the game will occasionally crash, and frequently do something I’m calling instance reset. I’ll experience a huge burst of lag followed my my character freezing (like if the game was about to crash) but then the screen will go black reload and I’ll be in the same map/instance but my mini map will be reset, which is really wired. This happens so much especially on maps with high density within smaller rooms and sulfuric caverns.. gameplay with others also a bit wild as one hour we will be great no lag even with a full party button the next hour everyone is rubber banding. These are only a few of my personal
Issues though the one happens so frequently now it’s actually annoying especially when I’m lvl 97 pushing very juiced maps trying to get more xp, the issues have caused a number of deaths.

Okay let’s talk console now as again I prefaced I have a lot of friends and family that play Xbox. At this point in time 90% of all my console friends and my wife included have stopped playing because the league is virtually unplayable most the time. Watching my wife play she will VERY frequently have to force quit the game as her screen completely breaks down and will do one of the following three things; the screen will pixilate and become a myriad of rainbow colors, the screen will go completely grey/tan (this is most common occurrence, or the screen will start flashing while going through a combination of the other two effects. All three of those happen while completely obscuring everything else isn’t he screen except for item, vendor, or portal labels. On top of this game crashes are still fairly common and lag issues are even more so. Rubber-banding is also bad and yes we have done network tests to make sure the problem isn’t on our end.There are also a host of other smaller bugs but these issues with the screen wigging out is an actual problem that is happening on all console especially series s that cause the game to become literally unplayable and often requiring a hard reset. The infamous loading bug is also still a major issue on console as well

I do know that this is an early access game and bugs should be expected but I’m all seriousness I’m starting to wonder if GGG is focusing on the right priorities when they come out with these patches. What good is fixing or adding a small amount of loot drops of people can’t even play the game and beat the things that drop said loot. So many people have now left the game in record time for things like LE or D4 and while I fully believe the loot/crafting system plays a huge role in that. I would like to believe the performance issues are the main culprit. As one of my buddies the other day said “man I love this game so much but with how bad these bugs are and how many times I get stuck in a loading screen I just can’t do it anymore”.

At this point i think ggg should just take the L for the current league and instead of updating loot etc put their resources into drastically improving and optimizing game performance first so they have a more solid base to stand on.