Diablo 5 announced - coming out in 2029

I feel it's a 0% chance they'll go in the d2-2 direction now that they've invested so much into d2r. It probably wouldn't make commercial sense for them to have two games serving such a similar audience. So i don't have much hope

I was shocked at how little I cared about this announcement, but it makes sense.

I was mega hyped for D3, skeptical for D4, and I guess this is a natural progression.

The only thing I can say is when/if you give feedback, make sure it's specific, actionable, and detailed. It might feel good to say "D3/4 bad", but from the presentation I feel they're actively trying to win back the D2 crowd. So...let them try. What do you want to see, or not see? If you've given D3 or 4 a try, what do you think works or doesn't? If nothing else, if D2 was made today, what modernizations (because we know it will be a modern game) would you want and why? D4 failed to win back D2 players in part because the players said "it's too much like D3" and left, pushing the playerbase and the game in that direction. We all want the franchise to be successful - you're here, after all - so just please don't give up on the game while it's still in development.

Fully disagree with this. It's their job to make a game that attracts whichever crowd they want to attract.

I will trust them as game designers to be able to make the game they want to make, and if that doesn't seem appealing to me, then I'll assume it's not for me. They shouldn't need to (or want to) crowdsource the game design, that's what they're supposed to be good at. Games don't fail because they don't get specific enough feedback from players.

That doesn't mean I'm shutting out the possibility that this game will be awesome, but there's a reason players give a muted reaction. Ball's on their court.

Xenozfan2 wrote: 1 hour ago

The only thing I can say is when/if you give feedback, make sure it's specific, actionable, and detailed. It might feel good to say "D3/4 bad", but from the presentation I feel they're actively trying to win back the D2 crowd. So...let them try. What do you want to see, or not see? If you've given D3 or 4 a try, what do you think works or doesn't? If nothing else, if D2 was made today, what modernizations (because we know it will be a modern game) would you want and why? D4 failed to win back D2 players in part because the players said "it's too much like D3" and left, pushing the playerbase and the game in that direction. We all want the franchise to be successful - you're here, after all - so just please don't give up on the game while it's still in development.