Announcing Private Leagues

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ಥ_ಥ wrote:

I'm going to assume that 3.5.0 won't address the key core issues that have led me and quite a few of the people I used to play with to just give up on the game. They're issues that have endured for years without being addressed.

1. The ultra-end game is broken and unattainable in a league duration. It's not fun to spend a week building characters with friends just to find out that although they will push through even corrupt 8 mod t9 bosses, they will not only choke at t12+, but not even have the chance to actually improve further and overcome those bosses. Even the helpers in global end up just insta-dieing on those hardest of bosses. The only exception are those one or two specific broken unique item abusers that can exploit weird mechanics that end up getting patched out next league anyway.
7+ leagues of this exact same thing happening with well over 2 dozen builds all in that lvl 89-92 range, enough is enough. I won't play a game that's telling me every character I spent weeks to create was a complete waste of time.

2. The story and world of Wraeclast is not captivating or fun at all. I thought I'd finally get to immerse myself in a well written story when acts 5-10 came out, only to find out that GGG didn't bother to fully voice act the entire last two acts. A symptom of a bigger issue, the complete lack of interest in world building. No narration, no story oriented cutscenes, Bosses after Dominus only really exist as either a name drop or to show off some mechanics. The Beast ended up not only being just some entrails you trudge through, but the game even retcons itself as soon as you make it to act 5, and it changes to Kitava being the big threat. The overall story, sorry to say: sucks. There's no easy fix.

So between a game that every patch is more focused on the speed of grinding out levels than the quality of its story, and the ultimate disappointment that whatever build you work on will come up short in the end, what's the point?

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Ashriel wrote:

Apparently, Chris responded on the subreddit and confirmed they're not interested in making this anything but "pay-to-lose". In other words, any modifiers that would result in more luck, items, or fun, are out.

Are they so out of touch? No, it's the players who are wrong....

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Thajarin wrote:

People really seem to be upset about this, I'm not really sure why. If you don't want to play in the private league, don't. It really does seem that simple to me.