By all accounts from the YouTubers who played in the special Bungie preview, the new cdirector of the game is a huge Diablo fan and that could be a problem.
Diablo 4 is notorious for grinding with very little reward especially with the seasons having to continuously level up new characters only to have them disappear at the end of the season.
Diablo 4 failed because the desk failed to understand the basic principle that the players want to be able to play the game and be able to acquire everything in the game even if it is a little bit of work to get it not to have certain items that only a select few can get or to grind out an entire season for a new character only to have him disappear at the end of the next season.
There's some reports that you're going to level up your armor or weapons and then they're going to go away or go back down in level at the end of a season you have to do it all over again. If that is true nobody's going to want to stick around for that this is not the Diablo for community. The destiny Community even the ones -blam!- love to grind aren't going to tolerate that kind of b*******.
And there's also a lot of talk about grinding being the new thing they're trying to bring grinding back. Some grinding is okay but after over a decade of having a game where I've dedicated more time playing it than my actual full-time job I can tell you that I'm tired of grinding. I don't mind doing the dungeon a few times trying to get weapons I don't mind doing the raid a few times to get patterns but I don't want to have to play the game 500 times on the same activity for a 1% chance to get the gun that I want. If you bring back a heavy grind into the game I'm out and there's a lot of people that are going to feel the same way.
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I am not playing this game to grind endlessly. I dont mind a little grind early in the season to set the stage to be able to plateau and play the season how I want. But, if its grinding 95% of a season, then I get a week or two to play the activities I want, Im out! This was how I felt a couple years ago when I wasnt raiding or doing many dungeons, and had very limited pinnacle sources. By the time I got my pinnacle grind done, and reached the point that I was at a level to run GM's, the season was basically over. I have a job, I dont need one in the game. I want to play the game for fun, and not to grind constantly to get bad RNG loot all season hoping for the drop that I want, and the roll that I want on it. I am getting too old to spend the limited time that I have to play on activities designed solely to slow you down. At least with crafting, we knew that we were making progress towards achieving our goal in getting the weapon we wanted unlocked and able to be used. And, it didnt take up vault space at the same time. I have been playing the least amount of time that I have in a while looking for drops now that crafting is removed, I just dont care about the loot anymore because I dont have space to put it. To make me care about RNG loot, I need space to put it without needing to delete weapons that I cannot reacquire.