Again, it’s not the same mechanic. One was mandatory and affected everyone, this is optional and will affect 0.1% of players at endgame.
Your statements are the same as “Most people already hate arena, why did they add a breach-like one? It’s the same mechanic.” just because both spawn mobs.
That would solve absolutely nothing. An item with “20% reduced speed” or “-100 health” is just as unusable and players would complain just as much as it having an “Unusable” tag.
Yes, we can. We have PoE to show us that. Vaal orbs drop like candy and the vast majority of players still don’t use them, except maybe for corrupting maps.
Only streamers and the top players actually use them regularly.
Again, you’re comparing apples and oranges. It’s like saying that it’s dumb to add a new skill when we already have a skill that kills mobs and it’s the same thing.
A mechanic that negatively affects everyone during their early and mid progress by bricking their T2 blue item is massively different from a mechanic that negatively affects 0.1% of players by bricking their endgame legendary item.
It’s honestly baffling that you can’t see the difference.
The most interesting conversation about the upcoming chaos system is in a poorly worded satire/hyperbole post create in defense of EHG dev’s sanity.
lol, I don’t have the imagination to make this stuff up.
I think their attempt at a chaos mechanic is wrong because it’s ball-less. “let’s just put a bunch of mostly ‘meh’ stuff and a few good/horrible effects with super low outcomes”.
Instead, go full on chaos;
item continuously morphs into different thing
item is cursed has some good/bad and, you need to apply chaos again to remove it, but do you really want to?
item changes you. like a werewolf ring. or maybe it’s a chicken ring. Lol, i get the graphic workload for this would be large, but I think it would be funny.
Just straight up say; we’re introducing this chaos mechanic, very weird things are going to happen, use at your own risk. … there is an achievement. If you really hate it, at least we tried.
I think the chaos items issue is trying too hard to be Poe,
Corruption in Poe is an interesting mechanic but hardly game changing……corrupting item is more exception than m[norm in my thousand hours of Poe, as results are usually meh, even if you hit the jackpot, and mostly for the min|maxed like add one additional rank to a support gem. Sure the are some beefy one and double corrupted items but odds are so slim they are for min|maxer mostly,
Bask in the days, I would buy items in big quantity and spent an hour or something to hope to hit jackpot on corruption, then sell the,m, to get net profit….but this is not something your average players do…and I think EHG need to catered to wider audience. The super “Hardcore” are probably preferring Poe or poe2 already.
Diablo 4 copy the concept, but dial it to 11, and you can get very bogus affixes, and rarely break an item. the result is one of the highest retention rate in an arpg at 24 days before losing 50% players,. By comparison, Poe 2 half life is 11 days, and EHG is….5 days (base on stream chart)
As I said many times, not just to EHG, but wolcen team back in the days (for their poor man Poe passive tree), if you want to copy something, make it better, or have unique take……EHG does neither……
People who never liked a game using their time and effort to spew pointelss cringy posts like this is beyond me, honestly. Just go enjoy whatever game you enjoy.
The last paragraph is so toxic and disgusting, it actually makes me sad.
I’m sitting here wondering why you want these guys to shut down when in the last 3 days or so you’ve made like 10 different topics for suggestions/feedback to the game. Do you want to shut them down or do you want them to cater to your every suggestion, I’m very confused.
What a stupid fucking topic… this game has a lot of stuff to work on but it is probably the 2nd best game in this genre right now. Poe is 1st then this game then poe2… Diablo 4 is for 10 year olds as it has nothing in it. Atleast this game has some complexity to it… all in all it’s a 6.8/10. D4 would be a 4/10…
Every game has issues… people are still bitchin about D2.
I love LE and wish them success… is it perfect, no. But we all got our damn moneys worth so just move on if you aren’t happy and stop the hate.
As for them not listening… they listen the most out of all the games …. They just can’t do everything.
I do think they need to put a big push and really knock S5 out of the park or the game will be lacking compared to others.
But for now I’m happy with S4 and congratulate them on releasing it.
I checked the steam chart. It has about 42K players season peak, which will be considered very successful for most small studio…
The issue is, EHG is no longer a small studio, and according to themselves, they are not financially viable….and that was when their numbers were much higher….like 70k and 120k peak.
I hate to say this, but they need to find a way for the team to sustain a game with maybe 30-40k peak players and shorten the season.
Or they need to dump the live service model , and focus on making good dlc and expansion, and probably still need to trim cost….
I know this probably means cut the team size, which will unfortunate, but it beats closing the entire studio.
Unless something drastic happened, factoring more arpg are (or already) entering market like titanfall 2 and dragonkin etc, I cannot see how LE the peak numbers will jumped to 80k or whatever number they need to be sustainable, at current trajectory.
All is not lost, it’s still (bar not high) one of the better tier 2 arpg, after the diablos and poes, but they need changes to be sustainable.
Diablo 4 is a much better polished game, plays much smoother and the gameplay is generally more enjoyable. The only advatage LE has is the supposedly more complicated leveling system but considering how little build diversity is found at higher levels this really isn’t anything to write home about.
