Blizzard Messed Up With The Diablo IV Patch, But It Is What It Is

Last week, the first season of Diablo IVthat of the Evil Ones, and the result was a catastrophic patch with which Blizzard nerfed to all grades and, without confiding in anyone, he decided that what used to cost an hour of play, now update It would last until three or four, with consequent anger from the players. Now those in Irvine have apologized, but this way.

Periodically, Blizzard’s game development teams release videos in which They talk about how it’s going in the evolution of their franchises and try to explain the decisions they make on key issues in headlines like Monitor 2 and of course, Diablo IV

. Now, in the latest of these editions, things got worse because no one believed the excuses given by those responsible for the saga.

One of lime and one of sand

That’s more or less what Blizzard did, for one thing admit that indeed, they understood that the patch was controversial and that most players of Diablo IV but, on the other hand, they have come to say that “it is so”. It won’t happen again, but the intention of it nerve it was intended to slow down the rate at which characters progress through the game. That is, to have more time before losing interest and not touching it for a long time.

In summary, the development team recognizes that is aware of the many negative comments it has generated the season patch and admitted that the goal was to slow down the progress of “content killer” players. But of course, it had the opposite effect since, according to what they confessed, the ultimate goal was to “make the game more fun for [todos] the users”.

Adam Fletcher, who is the community manager, He came to say about the patch that “we know it’s bad. We know it’s not fun… We also want to talk about what specifically we were trying to achieve with it and what changes players ended up seeing. […] and then we also want to talk about how we never plan to release a patch like this again.” Come on, total disaster.

The flashback

“Last resort, what we are trying to do is make the game more fun

for gamers […] They’re the ones at the center of everything we do, and if players can’t believe that as the game evolves, the game will become more fun, we’re not achieving our goals.” And it’s clear that, almost a week later, no one can be completely happy.

Although they claim that the path they want to follow is the one that started with this seasonal patch, the truth is that there is a update already on the way, which is considered a patch Per Blizzard, i.e. emergency, in which the Legendary aspects of Sorcerers and Barbarians have been changed, they have added an additional reserve tab and an increase in the elixir stack which will reach up to 99. Few changes as far as they have spoiled and which, for now, continues with the community on the warpath.