You're making an ARPG in 2025, but you're stuck in 1999

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Xenus_Paradox#7530 wrote:

https://activeplayer.io/diablo-3/

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toxiitea#5772 wrote:

I didn't know they asked you personally about how you felt about inventory management lol. sure dude, you're 100% dishonest and not trying to better the game was my point. cheers.

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cowmoo275#3095 wrote:

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toxiitea#5772 wrote:

I didn't know they asked you personally about how you felt about inventory management lol. sure dude, you're 100% dishonest and not trying to better the game was my point. cheers.

Right back at you. Not once has anyone asked YOU for your personal opinion. Yet you still posted 21 pages of your special brand of....feedback. Seriously man, grow up.

And now I'm dishonest again....wherever the heck that came from. Lay on the personal attacks!

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alhazred70#2994 wrote:

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toxiitea#5772 wrote:

interject into a conversation when you joined this thread by interjecting LMAO. I don't know how you could be any more dishonest tbh. Anyways I won't engage you anymore but my point is don't you think people want to see a better game?? not whatever you're doing in every thread. (like posting webster definitions??????)

cheers dude, maybe you should try playing this game you defend in current state.

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cowmoo275#3095 wrote:

hehehe gotta love it. Every post like its a freaking template.....total lack of reading comprehension and context. Just pick my posts out of thin air and ignore why I posted it or what came before it.

Because why should context matter at all in a discussion? It's far easier to just claim "you're a liar!" than to use our brains.

You've derailed this entire argument to go on a personal vendetta against me because....from what I can tell.....I post on the forums too much for you? And you REFUSE to read into the whole conversation or even understand the posts you quote.

I post enough of them, you have to understand at least ONE of them eventually.

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Mouser#2899 wrote:

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alhazred70#2994 wrote:

Now lets hear your idea of a great game that doesn't have friction, where everything is effortless and unearned, light weight and easy.

(I can actually think of one, but its a massive edge case)

Super Meat Boy - all you have to do is clear the levels.
Cuphead - all you have to do is kill the bosses.

If the game is challenging, it doesn't need unnecessary friction to slow the player down. Of course some friction is good, we're talking about how much and what kind.

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Blasphemous84#2190 wrote:

Why are we still identifying items? If you're going to smother my screen with loot, at least let me mouse over each piece to see if it's even worth picking up. The hooded one / Doryani will identify my entire inventory in one click, but why? Just get rid of this.

Why do we have so much loot dropping, but such a small inventory? Who wants to leave every map 1-3 times just to sift through loot? Inventory management is not a feature. It's just obnoxious and boring.

Speaking of loot, why is the loot so bad? In the 200+ hours I've put into the game so far, I can count on one hand the number of good rares I've seen drop. Every piece of gear is just a shit base that needs "crafting", but crafting is really just a nice way of saying RNG orb slamming. It's awful. Your company is called Grinding Gear Games, but there's no exciting gear to be had. It's just orbs. You should call yourselves Grinding Orb Games.

Why are there 500 uniques in the game that are absolutely awful, and ~5 that are game breakingly amazing (but impossible to find)? When I see a unique drop I should be excited. Instead I'm just left with another shit drop I have to carry back to some NPC to disenchant. Why even have these?

Why are tier 1 to 10 waystones still dropping in my tier 15+ maps? This is a perfect example of the flawed game design that plagues PoE. You make obsolete maps drop in high tier content for literally no reason, and then you expect players to "solve" this by wasting atlas passive tree points on garbage "waystone chance to drop a higher tier" nodes. Just stop already.

Why are mana costs so high? Do you expect everyone to use Inspiration and/or spam mana potions constantly? The combat in the game is great, but having to use a potion every 5-10 seconds is boring. Sure we can put mana leech / regen on multiple pieces of gear and/or waste precious passive points on similar fixes, but why? If the mana costs weren't so insane in the first place, this wouldn't be necessary.

Why are attribute requirements so high? Does my Witch really need 100+ STR? Does my Ranger really need 100+ INT? Some gems require 13+ of an attribute just to go from one rank to another. This is just silly. I can only imagine how bad it is playing SSF with these insane attribute requirements. At least in trade we can just go buy whatever we need (because let's face it, there's no gear dropping).

Why are maps so big?
Why do I have to backtrack so much?
Why do runes / catalysts / distilled emotions only stack to 10?
Why does a single crossbow take up 1/4 of my inventory?
Why do I roll fucking light radius or accuracy rating every time I exalt something?
Why is movement speed not implicit on every pair of boots if every pair of boots is totally worthless without it?
Why are charm slots not implicit on belts? Higher level belt = more charm slots. Easy.
Why is there no auction house?
Why can't I just buy something immediately from someone on the trade site? You're actively encouraging price fixers.

I could go on and on. GGG, you seem highly capable of making a great game, you just need to get out of your own way and make the game more fun. Everything doesn't need to be annoying as fuck all the time. It's perfectly OK to add some quality of life to your game. People might even feel compelled to play it longer.