Diablo III Mid-Season Nerf [Sep 04, 2014, 10:34 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Those still hoping to compete in the first Diablo III season
just took an arrow to the knee (oops, wrong RPG), as
Blizzard
announces they are hotfixing out the bounties that allowed some players to
race up the seasonal leaderboard. In spite of extensive beta testing, it
apparently came as a surprise that some bounties were providing more experience
than they wanted, so they've broken out the nerf hammer mid-season, giving up on
keeping a level playing field, saying: "While we won't be removing any Conquest
credit or ranking from players who chose to use this particular technique, we
will be making changes to these bounties for future Seasons." Here's word on the
changes:
One of our ongoing goals for Diablo III (and Seasons in particular) is to promote diversity in play styles and encourage a variety of experience whenever possible. In line with this goal, and as a direct result of your feedback from Season 1, we're in the process of implementing a series of hotfixes that will temporarily disable the following events as eligible bounties:
- The Matriarch's Bones
- The Jar of Souls
- The Miser's Will
- A Miner's Gold
This change will apply to both Seasonal and non-Seasonal games. Additionally, please note that these hotfixes will only remove the above events from the active bounty pool, not the game itself. The events can still spawn in-game and will provide rewards as normal.
We don't have an ETA at this time for when these events will be re-added to the bounty pool, but are working to have them available for Season 2.
PHJF wrote on Sep 4, 2014, 10:41:
I'd not played for a couple months waiting for 2.1.0, but after this shit, I'm completely done with D3. Having a game that doesn't "begin" until level 70 is monumentally fucking stupid, the worst of a laundry list of horrible design decisions carried over from fucking MMO Design 101.
Working as intended. Blizzard knows, EVERYONE knows, that Diablo 1 , and D2, (and D3 supposed to) were and are, better games than World of Warcraft. Since the very inception of D3, it is clear as a glaciers' 1000ft colon, that Blizzard does not want people playing Diablo 3, instead of paying to play World of Warcraft,
this is the sole reason for the countless Nerfs, it is the Anti-Fun agency riding high, getting people back to sustain the WOW cash money bag marquee, until there is really nothing left to do for Blizzard, except to finally one day, give in. which they won't. The successor to WOW is brewing, it should come alongside Half Life 3.
/I know how corporations work.
I will have zero remorse to all the Devs and CEO's in charge up there responsible for the heartache that D3 brought to its franchise, to disenchant us all, once they get into their deathbeds. Zero Fucks to be given then, as now. Thank you for Pissing all over our Diablo 3, you douchebags. spineless. absolutely disgusting.
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