Hey folks! I added time stamps in the description like always; don’t know why YouTube isn’t turning them into chapters, but here they are again. Also, there’s an error at ~15minutes with a black screen because of some last-minute edits that I screwed up, sorry.

Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
02:05 Path of Exile
10:11 Diablo
16:16 Last Epoch
16:52 NVIDIA
19:54 Tencent

Bro, stop flooding my pie2 videos with your bullshit D4 commercials.

You are starting to look like a steampunk pickpocket class.

My favorite part of poe 2 is the trading

The fact that the US just now decides that tencent is a CCP outfit shows how incredibly incompetent our intel apparatus has become.

if they really thought people didn’t want remakes and remasters of older games they wouldn’t be trying to resell you your childhood, or the golden years, or your nostalgia.

Werent u a Diablo main guy? but hey a hop on the real game maker train while you can for content.

The problem isn’t the diablo 2 style drop rates in d4. The problem is the seasonal style gameplay where I know for a fact with those droprates I will NEVER see an uber with the limited amount of time that I play within a season.

They completely misunderstood D2…. Sure items and runes are ultra rare, BUT YOU COULD TRADE FOR THEM. how do they try and release a D2-like game, but not let us trade the rare items? Also, people liked the itemization and freedom in items

Im not seeing diablo 1 on gamepass 🤷‍♂️ is it coming out jan 14th like you said or did you get that info wrong? Im not even seeing it on the coming soon to gamepass section.

I feel like I’m getting priced out of playing games… my 2080 is becoming obsolete soooo quickly…

Now I definitely know poe2 is not the game for me. I had no idea what Rhyker was talking about re the maps etc. Still pretty much stuck on campaign after trying 5 builds. 😢

Says Diablo title but all POE..this a joke?

The loot is indeed horrible. I am level 72 and I’m still using gear from level 50 because I can’t find anything that’s better than what I currently have. That’s a problem now I’m starting to bog down and struggle killing monsters because I can’t find better gear or craft. Crafting is horrible And if you ever want to trade, you don’t want to use your exalted orbs because you need them to trade.

Fergusson is perfectly on the fucking point with his statement. D2 players like Llama have been playing a game for so long it’s simply nostalgia now. I remember playing D2 as a kid. It was a massive grind. There’s still plenty of items I’ve never gotten. I mean fuck, Tyrael’s Might is the rareist item not including runes, the BEST chances of getting it? Hell Baal, a 1 in 414861 chance. The next best? 1 in 1068141.

Chances of getting most items are in the hundreds of thousands. No one complained. But we’ve gotten to the point where gamers want items right this second. If they can’t find an item after a few hours of boss hunting, they are done.

Rod Fergusson is high. Playing Holy Grail OFFLINE is awesome, and it takes years, yes, but you can do it at your own pace, quite chill. You can watch netflix while doing 1k mephisto runs, or, if a streamer, you can just chill with your chat. that is what is appealing offline. For D2 online play… THEY HAVE TRADE. You can literally have a full BiS character (unless you are going for literally perfectly rolled items) within days of the launch of the new season. It has nothing to do with years of grinding, it has to do with the fun you have when you new ladder launches and everyone starts anew, or you are going for that 99, or you just want to have fun while gearing multiple characters for different purposes. Until you decide you are done, based on your own goals. It does not take years!

I don’t think devs understand that grinding isn’t the bad part. It’s mixing grinding with limited seasons. If the game is good and you put in areas that are close to impossible to finish, people will want to spend time in the game and they will want to try and tackle that content. If you can literally play D4 on a second monitor and the game is boring after 20 hours, noone wants to keep doing it.
I think Blizzard game devs forgot what it takes to make a good, fun game. Luckily PoE2 remembered.

It’s funny you say that I just seen a commercial of you saying Diablo is in his top form🤔

The Diablo franchise ended at 2 people. Give up the dream. The Devs are so dumb. The loots in the game is trash. Zero chase aspect.

Square space is amazing 😮🎉

I just started playing poe2 being a diablo player and Im enjoying it so far. So much stuff to learn though.

@Rhykker, use a second weapon set and weapon swap to despawn minions, then swap back to spawn them. The dog is the only issue which you can’t despawn. You can set your minion count per weapon set, so you can make your 2nd weapon have 0 minions spawning.

POE 2 is amazing for early access game , feels full game , end game 10/10 , lvling was fun and challenging , every class has so many possibiliies how to play them, Uniques feels uniques not like DIablo where everyu drop is unique =D , Microtrans are actually well made , intresting and fun. 140 Hours in at POE 2 , i dont see myself ever going back to Diablo arcade dumpster fire. i was big diablo fan but D2 /D3 was <3 , D4 is lifeless , hollow and boring. Story at D4 was excelent 10/10.

I cant fond the escape button on my ps5 controller 😜

from 15:06 your video is turning to black screen.

how are you still playing diablo 4?…… is blizzard paying you?

from all the ads ive seen you on i thought diablo was in its final form back better than ever?

D3 was live on EU for me the whole time, it did end on Asia and US servers though.

it’s funny that Rod Fergusson doesn’t really get the game. Talking about chase items that take years to get, but then misses the point that those items aren’t “that” great and is more of a collection item, and then in D4 he hides the single-most powerful items behind that chance and then is surprised why the playerbase said no

re: D3 There was miscommunication among the devs. But with the users, there is NO communication.

15:20 whats with the blank screen?

None of my friends play D2 or D2R. D3 and D4 are our games.

12:45 WoW Classic was not a success. It was the largest drop in subs in history.

Can’t wait for the druid

POE2 hell yeah!

Item Rarity doesnt cause more currency drops, it causes the existing drops to drop better

didnt i see you in a youtube ad talking about diablos final form… lol what a joke

Well I don’t use DLSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only thing I knew about Tencent was MOVIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ULTIMATE FORM 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I love how it really is a highlight when you finally get an item upgrade. I’m still rocking this lvl 4 belt at lvl 42 😂 it indeed is still viable

Remove seasons. Bring back ladder for people who want to race to level cap. Fixed.

This is what blizz gotta do
1. Just like marvel, cancel all d4 series
2. Fire all LGBTshit and hire game nerds
3. Dont try to listen to every single people’s opinion.
4.deep dive into d1 and d2

I was online doing a Greater Rift with a few buddies when the season ended all of a sudden. After that I still as of today can’t even play it or creat a new character in Diablo 3. It sucks at the moment hope it gets fixed.

Poe2 destroying diablo lol

Goddamn they are idiots… they want to sell more season passes so gotta make seasons last 3 months … and they think uber uniques should take 3 years ? the math dont add op ..

Make D4 for the current player base. That means don’t make it D2. Use what players liked from D2 & D3 plus add new stuff. D2 has a remake. People that want to play a D2-like can play D2. Forget about fixing stuff in D3. Not enough play it to justify the effort put into fixing the blunder. Don’t make that blunder again. Focus on D4. Make it fun and figure out how to make money off it after it is fun.

Yes, we are okay with the “long grind for the Unique or an Uber Unique in particular” when we can trade for items in an unrestricted economy (which is vital for a successful ARPG). Everyone would have been absolutely okay with the ultra rare items if we can say trade it for in-game currency. Where they messed up is this “account bound” crap they implemented in D3. News flash: we hate that crap.
It really sucks when (in D4) we have an uber drop we already have, but another person needs and we just have to crunch it down into dust and hope for others to drop. It rules when (in D2) that same scenario happens and I can go to a forum or create a game called “This item here FT” or “Unique name here 4 Lo” and engage with the community to barter and trade for the one I’m looking for. Forcing “account bound” item drops takes away from that community and restricts the economy in bad ways. I used to LOVE (as I would call it) “Wheeling and Dealing” or crushing things to find useful items to trade for other forms of currency (usually runes) to get that damn SOJ or Shako or CTA or whatever else I needed to complete my build. It was just more fun. Allowing unrestricted trade gives that “dopamine rush” we have all talked about far too often. Oh, I just found an Andarials Visage: I actually know somebody who needs it and can trade them for that Shako they found yesterday! Sweet! < Rush of Dopamine.

You should do a video on the poe2 hacking incident, seems pretty dramatic

thank you for your clarification of rod fergusson’s quote. at least with the seasonal model they have to make it easier to get those weapons. for the people who want the classic diablo 2 experience, play d2r! go d4!!!

Those weren’t diablo 2 players complaining it was the newer generations and their small attention span.

Again..?

You need to cover Elon Musk streaming POE 2 and pretending to be top ranked hardcore player. It’s cringe but hilarious.

The Diablo dev team seems out of touch with how seasons and ladders fundamentally change player goals. In seasons or ladders, players focus on maximizing levels and power (items) within the limited timeframe, not on completing “grail grinds” like in non-ladder or offline play. These are two completely different approaches: seasonal players aim for efficiency and progression under time pressure, while non-ladder or offline players focus on completionist objectives. The introduction of seasons and ladders has shifted the game’s dynamic, and the objectives are no longer comparable. How out of touch are they really?

Would be interesting to hear from someone more in the know. Yet I ponder if the rate of ‘new’ video cards being released may be a problem to the gaming industry.

As every V card requires testing, and that burden is expected to be on the game developer. We gripe when games perform poorly or crash we point the finger at the game instinctively.

Yet I wonder how much is just there being too many V cards to properly test on and cause game devs to selectively pick what they believe is the most popular versions.

d3 lol who plays that

Maybe you can stop affiliating yourself with them. Tired of seeing your D4 advertisement on my TV’s YT…

Its evident that the designers behind D4 have NO CLUE whatsoever what makes people still play D2 today. It was not the loot grind, it was the system it was built upon. Every affix and suffix mattered and where easily understandable. The system had cohesion and you could run any content in the game with a reasonal enough setup. But mostly, you could TRADE for the items you didn’t have. And, like some people pointed out here already, it was not about having the best loot, it was about the chase. There are items irrelevant to my build that I want to chase after just like collecting cards. Anyway, I quit D4 because it was getting too bloated.

Diablo 4 is in its ultimate form

Been playing mostly Solo Self Found, but with my GF. Ive had a buddy give us some items and maps, but no trading as of yet. (Was a little nervous after all the hacked accounts).

Also really looking forward to the huntress for javazon type builds. 🙂 It was one of the builds I only tried close to the end of my Diablo 2 plays, so I feel like it needed more love 😛

For PoE2 I am waiting for first or second reset to start playing and having first go.

Poe2 is in its core D2 like and thats why it will have huge success. Rod F. thinks his vision of now “open world arpg” is what arpg should be in future. Problem is that vision is dead because D4 failed in every other aspect. End-game missing. loot and itemization is horrible. Combat is same as D3 were, you ether do no damage or you do billions. No ingame trade or listings, no SSF non nothing. I feel for the true arpg gamers, there isnt much choice poe2 or LE was hope to bring something cool, what they did but too old game engine and out of date graphics by now.
DOnt get me wrong i dont hate D4, i played it since early beta access all seasons so far, but poe2 is here and content keeps coming until release. D4 is just too easy and too streamlined to invest time long term.

I’ve merged my D3 characters, so by the time the season came back, I was way stronger. Even if I didn’t have the cube or the paragons, the effects were still applied. So, I just got a new primal for GR70 and called it a day.

Make Frames Real Again

I was wondering why my D3 was still in season since I’m in SEA. Forgot my game was in the Americas region.

D3…. all this for à 2 weeks difference hahaha. People have to learn to let go.

why is d4 shown during d3 segment?

Rod is a moron. The reason you chased endlessly for things in d2 was because it didn’t have seasons. Why would you want to chase for “years” for an item when the game resets every couple months. They don’t understand basic concepts. It’s no wonder d4 is garbage.

I would actually pay more and also be way more excited for a Diablo 3 expansion over a Diablo 4.

Explaines allot about D4.

I gave up on poe 2, went back to d2 and d4

Its hilarious he says that and thats the exact reason why people are cureently playing PoE2, the irony 🤣

you want it in the season because it’s a season its only 3-4 months tops. that quote was them trying to gaslight you about live service games.

Funny thing about J. Allen Brack saying to WoW community:”You think you do, but you don’t.” was kinda right. Classic WoW didn’t feel like vanilla at all. People speedrunning the content, META being a huge thing(only dwarf priests were viable e.g.).

PoE2 1 Life Maps ruined the Engame for me.

It has never taken years to get those in D2 just because of the massive amount of bots which you guys had half-intentionally ignored.

I played ssf till tier10 maps then screw it I fixed my resistance with trading and the game became so much easier

The guy plays non-SSF and decides not to trade, then complains about how he’s falling behind and not getting the proper loot.
I bet you never played D2 or PoE and now just hopped on PoE2 just because your channel would die if along with D4. If we exclude the D4 graphics, even D3 was better, before they removed the real money AH which I used to do 1k$ / month and before they nerfed the game to the ground. When top rolled yellow item was better than any legendary, and when ppl couldn’t kill Diablo ot inferno difficulty, the game was quite decent.
And I know that you’d take that comment for “ah.. another hater” – nope, I’m not hating, I’m trying to help you realize how bad D4 actually is and how bad it is to be a shill for it. For God’s sake, the expansion is called Vessel of Hatred and we don’t even fight Mephisto.

Diablo 3? They still pushing seasons? Didn’t know that.

I haven’t started this Diablo 4 season. I’m not sure I will. I’m kinda burned out. The nerf and buff stuff is old. I don’t want to grind experience levels either.

Having a better time now I’m on maps 3+ feels that the drops are rolling toward the res we need to not be one shot death

D4 was made by ppl who doesnt care about games. No wonder it sucks

Is it too late to start playing Diablo 4? I’ve not played.
Should I get diablo 4 or Path of Exile 2

Why is there a GPU part in my ARPG video?

Trading doesnt belong in aRPGs period. Especially if the trading is outsourced on websites like tradie etc

I’ve been playing PoE2 since day one. I’m trying out all classes but just thru Act 2. I’ll say Item Rarity at this point is even worse than what it was in PoE1. Both PoE2 and D4 have a glaring Loot Issue….D4 has way too much while PoE2 has way too little….D4 needs a 50% reduction in drops while PoE2 needs at least a 30% increase…..

only idiot will buy 9070 xt if its price is more than $500.

Love that I just bought a 4090.

If Rod thinks they released D4 with D2 style drops hes factually incorrect nothing they did so far is D2 Like Poe 2 is D2 Like

Kinda funny all these players playing SSF and doing fine but people seem to think you need trade which is false

I havent played d4 since the summer, obsessed with poe 2

I’m using the same weapon since act 2 and am in act 2 cruel now

what loot filter do you use in POE2?

Not surprised POE2 is doing so well, unlike D4 it’s actually a finished game…sure it’s needing a little tweaking/polish but it’s actually done….as opposed to D4 which was pretty much in a beta state for it’s first year and is still a mess.

I dont get this complaint over hard/non-casual, grindy games. There are a shitton of games already catered towards casuals. Go play those, instead of trying to dumb down the few games that actually cater to hardcore gamers.

It would be cool if diablo 4 can incorporate new seasons into the game without a character restart to allow for hard grinding & bring back a Diablo 2 feel. This would give players the time they need to search for extremely rare uniques and bring back the excitement feeling when a rare item finally drops.

Diablo is so bad now a days that even the video got screwed lol been happily playing poe2 and everytime i look back i just ask myself, why did blizz became this? Rip

I went from a Crosstrek to a Genesis GV70. I like SUV & performance. I know it’s not the same price but Subaru would never make a 2.4 turbo Crosstrek. So… see ya Subaru.

In D2, the items were interesting so the Grail is enjoyable. In D4 the gear feels the same & it’s loot bombs of mostly junk. They listened to idiots wanting “modernizing” when they really meant mindless blasting, copy/paste builds “give me all the gear & shove me right into end game so i can play a different game” instead of players that know/respect the Diablo story & understand how an ARPG can last for 25+yrs. All good though, GGG loved D2 & now they’re showing how it’s done with PoE2.

Blizzard doesn’t want D 1 to have a bigger player count than D 4

OMG you didn’t have move speed on your boots for this long? Even 30 movement speed feels so slow – you are a true hero to be able to do that so long without 30 move speed looool

I can zoom out this much in the atlas…. i think its just a bug for you

D2 was made in a different Era of gaming, D2 came at a time where there was scheduling tv and zero streaming services, it was also a time where the gaming industry wasn’t mainstream to a degree like it is today…. look at evo from the 2000’s to now for example. D2 was a class of its own at the time where many other games were not in an abundance of so therefore ppl didnt mind the grind for their uber stuff. online gaming wasnt as big back than vs what it is today. and there is D2 Resurrect why make D4 the same? D4 just needed to focus on being on a more horror dark aesthetic like D1 and D2 cause D3 deviated from that and felt very colorful and no where near as grim. D4 needs to be stimulating and not to hard of a grind or ppl will move on they have tons of other games to attract their attention and other forms of entertainment like streaming platforms.

Players will complain about anything. They’ll complain that you gave them everything they asked for.

once again blizzard misses the mark. D2 was a grindy game because it was a forever game. I didn’t need to roll new toons every 3 months. The MTX pay for play and paid season passes to unlock progression assist and items are the bane of gaming and killed D4.

It’s nice to know that Rhykker is having the same problems us casual peasants are having in regards to upgrading gear. When the optimal solution to get the best gear is to leave the game and use a 3rd party website, something is wrong.

nice touch with music 😉

who the hell would play diablo 3 in 2025?
wtf brain dead

really weird they added short seasons to diablo 4 if their mindset was having a long term chase goal. people don’t want dogshit and that’s what you get when you put grind into a game you reset every 4 months. either make the grind fun and lasting and remove seasons, or make the game able to be 100%’d in a season without having to grind 8 hours a day

Lol d2 had over way more uniques and then set items too… Can’t do that with the newer games.

They have no idea how much people would like added stuff to d2.

I lived in CHina for a decade, I know people in the CCP, my fiancee is Chinese and trust me when I say, EVER SINGLE MAJOR COMPANY in China does what ever the CCP asks, if not, they will not have a company for much longer. So most comply with the CCP without a fight and the CCP are the MOST EVIL government on the planet, the CHinese people HATE the CCP and want democracy so bad it hurts their soul. Be careful of ANY chinese tech you use. Now, tencent us only used as a propogander tool, not an actual tacking or spying tool so not too much to fear there.

Except they didn’t make it D2 like, AT ALL. That’s the fucking problem with Rod’s comment, he’s clueless about D2 itemization and his quote shows that clear as day. The drop rates were NOT D2 style, and even if they were, it’s more than just drop rates, it’s the entire loot system and itemization that makes D2 satisfying. His logic is flawed because his premise is flawed.

I’m letting GGG cook POE2, it has a nice campaign feel but endgame is a little premature, its a contrast to what they’re saying. Played D4 campaign last year, dropped it, and picked it up again to replace POE2 for now, seems fine so far finishing renowns and getting ready for S7.

I still can’t believe that the developers didnt understand that a long grind doesnt mesh with a seasonal live service model. Its.. fucking obvious.

Nvidia has done these stupid claims before, you’ll get 8-12% increase max

D2R is basically an empty game. People these days have modified expectations and attention span.

The trading restriction is what you chose, it is the point of solo self. Comparing it to using trading is using an easymode imo. I base this comparing my time played versus others and their respective progress in endgame… i just hit it and plenty of folks are way in on the second or third character. In D4 vs D2 i cannot remember having to look at a million legendaries during the farm, progression is also beyond comparison. Hard to believe they actually played d2 stating that.

Billzard is no longer Blizzard, the people they hire do not produce good deliverables. Diablo as a series is dead untill Blizzard hires talent.

Mlbfb

This, what happened with D3, is one of the reason why I hate seasonal model in games.

12:05 just proves Fergusson’s incompetence. They did not launch D4 “that way” as he puts. In D2, you don’t NEED these “uber rare” items to make good builds or make builds work. They are just collected. In D4 however, they make these Uber items so rare unless you are farming at the highest level, and to farm at this high level it requires much more to make it there than it does on D2. D2 in its entirety (including the uber rares) is farmable with less rare gear. Whereas D4 is not farmable at the higher levels with lesser gear. it’s a very slow and boring grind up to the point of being able to do the “fun” content and by the time you get there, you’re burnt. IMO, D2 is fun all the way through because it has fun ways to gear at low levels with runewords and low level uniques. technically even lower level runewords and uniques can kill uber bosses with the right class and build in D2. So long story short, Rod is an idiot.

Frame gen works really well when the fps is already at a decent pace. Like if it’s 60fps raster then frame gen is probably going to be a great 200fps, but if it’s like 15 raster then frame gen is probably going to be an atrocious, blurry, mushy 60 fps. There simply is not enough data for the AI to give a smooth experience.

This is so bullshit, in d2 you could start with lore, get peasant crown and then upgrade to shako or other more rare and more expansive items, but shako is well rounded item for many classes and builds. There were only few items that gave a lot of power to the character that even the worst version of it was basically mandatory, one of them being Death’s Web. However in D4 you had a skill upgrade with legendaries which you can pick an item for but you still had items like tornado werewolf helmet which was basically the only viable build for some time (there was pulverize as well but bosses were a pain to fight, I don’t know if still are, didn’t bother to buy expansion). If a shako was an item in d2 that enabled the only viable build for that class then that class would be useless to play. They don’t have a slightest clue about how things worked and we can see a reflection of that in their game design.

I feel like Fergusson has demonstrated a gross lack of knowing jack shit about what makes Diablo 2 such a fantastic experience. There was NOTHING Diablo 2 in D4’s DNA in the first place.

With all the work the AI is doing generating fake frames, you’d think GPU prices would be cheaper.

Love your content Rhykker. Thank you so much for making this 🙂! But I almost always disagree with your opinions on POE2. Personally, I do not think the drops should be made easier, as it is supposed to be a real challenge in SSF and you can get to endgame just fine as it currently is.

Player did not change – i still love D2 – but D4 is just a bad game and they dont get it

Players did change over the years, although being shady and lying to your audience is not the way to go. Remember when they said that the cool skin would be mostly obtainable by doing end-game activities? Remember when they launched and you would consume your battle pass without any confirmations? These are little things that proved that blizzard was not coming back.

I can understand Rod point to an extent, because people have been used to have ”seasons” and people usually play 2-3 weeks at most and their season is done.

The reason why diablo 2 was successful in this regard imo, they had longer seasons, there wasn’t new content every 3 months. When Path of exile came in the picture, it kind of did set a new standard to a lot of ARPG players.

In the end, what killed Diablo 4 is the poor itemization and build diversity for me, It feels like a D3.5 more than anything else.

The type of player who works on the holy grail and the type of person who plays a d4 season are two vastly different players. D4 also had no content and we also couldn’t get Ubers because unlike in D2 there is no trading. Rod Fergusson really should not be the lead on a Diablo game. He doesn’t understand ARPGs or Diablo.

Release ‘The King in the North’ Expansion for D3 👍

Hopefully yall get used to the trading aspect of poe. Gotta either not care if your playing a meta build at a meta pace, or get to trading cuz trading is HUGE in poe 1 and im just assuming it will remain that way. I just play trade, but i only trade so much as i essentialy have given up and need an item to make a build function.

I’m taking a break until the patch. I’m disappointed with Monk, not a fan of the Quarterstaff at all. Love Ranger but hate Evasion as it currently is. Armor also feels bad. ES or nothing apparently. Lots of frustrating things in this version but I do like it. I love the slower pace so much!! LOVE the Dark Souls of ARPG!

Minions too far despawning is the stupidest thing developers can do to summoner classes.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one that absolutely HATES the trade website system.

When Rod Ferguson says that “Players complained”, it was unfortunately a small vocal minority that just wanted D4 to become D3. Those few won, and the whole vision for D4 was shattered. The game is just bland and boring, no depth, just endless greater rifts nonsense.
At this point, Blizzard truly has no idea how to make a good game, this is terrifying.

For me personally, I am very much enjoying PoE2, I think i would have liked PoE1 but i couldn’t get past the aesthetic, so I didn’t play it.

I’ll never understand why they don’t simply have different drop rates for self found and regular leagues where, obviously, self found has much, much higher drop rates. It wouldn’t impact anything, in self found you can’t trade anything and there’s no trading between self found and regular leagues so it would literally have zero impact on the economy. Is it because then “everyone would play SSF”? Well, not everyone and why is that a problem. I, personally, prefer SSF but right now it feels like I’m forced to play trade which I dislike. And, btw, if you have to bribe people to play trade then they aren’t playing trade league because they like it but because they have to.

What a load of cr^p. You dont need a tc87 item in d2 to defeat hell baal on p1-p3. In d4 you literally need an uber to do regular torment 4 on some classes. Not to even mention higher pits.

The whole problem with D4 is the same as with WoW: Blizzard trying to make a game for the minority that no-life it and the “pros”, while the majority of the player base want some fun and have limited time to play.

We didn’t have seasons back in the day d2 was a masterpiece back then.

I find the problem is endgame is strictly Hardcore mode… I don’t like HC, call me bad, sure, but I play to have fun. HC isn’t fun.

diablo 4 is nothing like diablo 2 . and we want d1 whit good graphics !

You said in your Diablo ad Diablo has hit it’s final form

wat we need back is auction house fron D3

It’s always good to get such a great content from you man, always greatly processed! Thanks!:)

struggling to do stuff…finding 0 upgrades, and then indeed bite the bullet and go trade, get OP, fly through things with no issues, for no loot, as its just gonna be crap anyways, is the worst game mechanic ever

i want offline mode for d4 i dont have the internet for it or path of exile 2

Item rarity is a joke. 185 on my sorc 0 divines also sorc level 88, my monk 85 rarity I’ve looked 4 monk level 87

13:40 odd editing choice. Talk about Diablo 3, show Diablo 4 combat.

2:15 they dont call it a restart patch, they clarify what a restartless patch from last week mean, rikker is misinforming here
5:33 you can notice he doesnt use a filter, so he is playing extremely slow and inefficient, trying to play as SSF, thats why he feels progression is slow when it is not

I play in standard and I never find divines. It literally took me 12 years (on and off) in POE1 for me to get a divine. I hit 200 hours in POE 2 yesterday, still no divine drops. So, standard is still just SSF for me since everything too expensive for me.

Diablo is drama………

The issue with uniques in D4 is nothing like D2. In D2 I can play any build I want but in D4 if I do not have that certain unique I literally cannot play that build. Rod Ferguson is a moron

that shit rod said is the most delusional thing i think i may have ever read

Just to be clear: Blizzard didn’t make Diablo 2 Resurrected…Another company with the love of old Blizzard North in mind that Blizzard acquired did, and then they slapped their brand on it…That being said, the thing that made D2’s drop rates bearable was *trading*, which no game since D2 has had. D3 had the two auction houses, and then nothing. D4 doesn’t have any meaningful trade scene. I think when people say Blizzard is just an indie company, to give them a break, it’s less of a meme and much closer to the truth for all the rookie mistakes they make…These current people making these games have no place in the gaming industry.

I stoped playing diablo because every time they updated the game or a new season came out they nerfed every peice of equipment I had .

so claiming people dont want an endless consuming game like diablo2 so then they made diablo4 the same way as diablo2? why did it take years for people to find ubers in diablo2? because of seasonal resets and the fact your character has no value or history… also diablo3 and diablo4 season starting within weeks of each other? wtf i guess they know the diablo3 players dont like diablo4

ive suspected item rarity might be working on a wonky math formula similar to diablo2. i think at some point they modified the formula so it didnt have a weird negative space where more magic find meant less magic find. But i recall there was a post from gfraizer about the equation and a forum discussion explain how with the math broke between a certain %. I dont recally the actual values but making up numbers as an example it worked until 250% but then any % after that actually resulted in less magic find until you hit the next break point which was like 380% or something.

something about how it was monster level factored into character level factored into magic find factored into what tier of item dropped or some nonsense. one of the factors in there just caused a weird calculation error where more = less. also one thing that always bothered me about diablo2 was due to the item drops being based off the monster level it means Diablo (originally) and then Baal were the only 2 monsters with a high enough level to drop better loot (and also grant exp) so there was a point where nothing gave exp but the end bosses and all loot from normal enemies was pointless. i liked diablo3s approach of everything is viable for the best drops… though this lead to the release build everything was too hard so you were better off finding a waypoint next to some barrels, smashing them, relog and farming them for loot since the game was so dependent on having a high dps weapon that you couldnt progress otherwise. so then diablo3 nerfed barrels.

D4 season 7 is exactly the same as season 3 just with a new coat of paint.

Hot take: Seasons are bad for any game. SImple as that. Gamers also have the attention span of a gnat sometimes.

Yeah poe2 core game play is great but i hate trading. Last epoch’s circle of fortune was fantastic and i wish other games would just copy it. As is, poe2 trading makes it so i will probably never push far into mapping.

i remember when diablo3 came out and i went months without an upgrade. then i finally found a really nice pair of boots (for me anyway) and then it was an issue of…. equip them? or i could sell them for $20 and buy a pizza. i went with the pizza (not that bnet balance could be used for that but it paid for wow time which means i didnt have to pay on CC)

Regarding D4. The long grind isn’t compatible with seasons that reset progression every 3 months. Facepalm!

Video card prices are insane these days. And you’re not even getting better tech anymore. Just updated software. I mean WTF. I’m still using faulty intel CPU that I’m expecting to die at any moment and an RTX 3060 and make do with that, cause my country’s too poor for this shite.

The problem with the loot in launch-time D4 was that they gave it D2 drop rates while still going for a seasonal model. It could’ve MAYBE worked if they only made the “eternal realm”, but as soon as you limit your timeline to seasons? Anything that takes you more than a week is not worth doing. That’s like working your ass off in a factory for a whole month only to donate your entire salary to a charity and starve yourself to death..

Yeah trading in PoE2 is NOT a big help that you might think it is. Price setting is PAINFULLY common.

What Rod Fergusson is neglecting to mention is the classic Diablo experience didn’t included 3 month long seasons. The low drop rates didn’t matter as much when you have a longer time to obtain them….

On the Diablo stuff, I’m gonna say it…. Players have been fed the “Have this shiny thing for doing almost nothing!” with many other games so now many have the “I want it now!” mindset because of this. I want the grind. I want a reason to play. I do not have D4. Someday I will get D4 for the story, but it’s not time to pull the trigger on the purchase.

Idk I wanted a Diablo 2 style game for the opposite reasons stated. You could grush or baal 5+ characters a ladder and gear them to end game gear by grinding elites and bosses and trading relatively easily. It took only a couple days to get a character to 80+ and maybe a week or so to get to the runewords. You didn’t need super min maxed gear to grind ubers as long as you knew what you were doing. Also, I don’t think they want to talk about how the people actually hunting Uber diablo were using third party tools and how big of a role clan services and d2jsp elevated the end game quality of life.

11:15 -> 11:50 so people went from

“With hard work and dedication you’ll eventually reach the top and succeed”

to what is now:

“I want Ubers, I want Drops, Drop me Ubers, Drop in my Season, and if you do not drop ubers immediately… we will hate march the game!”

Over the course of 20 years

I loved Diablo 2 but sometimes it felt like the list of lobbies were either not showing up correct or the game was starting to die off. I played that game for yeeeaars. At least seasons keep players engaged even if its only for a month while adding new content

sounds like a hermit when you dont want to fall behind yet dont want to trade. hmm. does that even make sense. why do u even feel the sense of feeling behind if u are just playing ssf?

POE2 early access complete and polished? ROFL

Tencent looks better now than before because we Europeans don’t have land disputes with China.

I think mechanically/gameplay wise something closer to diablo 2 might be good, I agree with fergusson though, hes not wrong, most players want a way to work towards their uber besides it having a 0.0001% random droprate. I dont know if you forgot but the only Uber that dropped on the release patch was in some korean screenshots, and 95% of streamers were hounding Blizzard to change it. Think most peoples current hate towards diablo is the fact that it doesnt feel good having a uber/ancesteral lootshower every time you open a fricking SeASon LoOtBag, Oh yea and the story just loves to take you out of any immersion you think you have with the new expansion. wE MuST AsK FOr HeLp, dude, its diablo not hold hands kindergarten ghostbusters.

This game is an absolute gem! Are there things that can be improved? Yes, but you cant say these guys didnt rolled out a well thought out game and for the most part, its freaking fun to play. I cant wait to see what they have in store for us.

PoE2 is terrible. So much cope coming from content creators. Sorry blizzard won’t bribe you

I’m unsubscribing because the videos feel too long-winded, and the content doesn’t justify the runtime. The thumbnail is misleading and comes across as clickbait, especially when the ‘drama’ isn’t even about Diablo 4 but a title a lot of people are no longer playing. The pacing could use improvement—there’s too much filler, like personal anecdotes, that distract from the core news stories. I also think the thumbnails are a bit overdone and could benefit from a cleaner, more professional look rather than this facepalm bait. I used to enjoy your content, but lately, it feels like style is taking priority over substance.

It just feels like a week has gone by and you need to make a video, so this is the video you made, regardless of whether the content was justified or not. And you’re guilty of hyping up a small controversy even though it affects very few people.

Did you mean issues in PTR?
I skipped a lot seasons tho but i’ve been active maybe +10 season now in a row. paragons are not supposed to transfer to new season char, thats the point. every season you start from zero, no levels, no stash, no nothing but in the end of every season you do transfer your gons(some % of it) to your normal char and you get the stash also to your normal chars, so everything else will tranfer but not seasonal stuff. Maybe I understood wrong what said because I dont have that good english but D3 community I have never heard anything of those issues what you said so maybe its very small % of players who had those or its just never popped up in general chat or forums. Only problem Ive seen in S33 is a huge lag spikes, almost daily but quick restart fixes that

Thank you. Please stop making trading a priority! I want to play a game where I can find and make everything I need. Im trashjng 99 percent of gear right now. Not enjoyable.

Oh wow, what a suprise, Blizzard yet again not understanding what players want lmao “People wanted the longer uber chase in D2″… well, yes, because they were not build mandatory and the progression and loot economy in the game felt much more rewarding to begin with. Totally different to D4 where progression and loot has been… rough. Obviously something like that factors in when we talk about players willing to have long grinds for something.

Did no one bother to actually look at Jims data, if you account for the Divine and Jeweller Orbs Rarity is exactly as powerful as people think it is.
The relative Exalt value (Using Currency Exchange on the 12/01) per run are:
1.55 Exalts with 0 IR
1.86 Exalts with 100 IR
4.72 Exalts with 750 IR
16.24 Exalts with 750 IR & ~130 Map Rarity
Google Sheet ID visualizing these values using his data: 1_yuvfY7DmXb-R_mkQZfVhVfaof0psE8HiUIwL4pHvtM (can’t link in a comment)

If people didnt really see an issue with tencent owning and creating games and content for the usa you are already brainwashed

The highlighted path idea is actually really brilliant. I didn’t think about that, but that would be huge. I am looking forward to a currency that allows you to reroll a map type. Some of those maps are horrific. I’ve got 177 hours into PoE 2 because it is the worst version it will ever be, and I do get frustrated and have to take breaks- but overall it’s simply a masterful game and if you understand that this is the worst it will be then you’ll come to the realization that this game is amazing.

AI and Frame Gen is the future, folks. That’s the just way it is- software is the future, not hardware. With that being said, I’ve been messing up for the last 2 years on my 4090 and I didn’t have frame gen set up properly- once I did, I’m now a big frame gen fan. With that being said, I’d eyeball the 5070 or the 5070ti. Those should be bangers.

Diablo drama is my favorite type of drama

I honestly forgot about d4 with all the other games haha

I promise, every time mr. Fergusson is saying something it is so ridiculous I can’t even belive it. How this man still have the office?? PoE2 slowly will crush D4

disadvantage in ssf. well welcome to a good game and not d4

Diablo 4… no thanks i’ll stick to PoE2, best regards.

Edit: And just to clarify people din’t get upset because they do not found their uber uniques, they got pissed because the streamers had HUGE increase on their chances to find them, the fact that there is not a decent trade system, well the list is vast, so just please don’t trow the blame on diablo 2 style, diablo 2 remaster is light years better than Diablo 4, if it wasn’t, there would not be people still playing it. The real problem of Diablo 4 wasn’t developed for us players, it is developed for Blizzard to squeeze money, they didn’t learn with Diablo Immortal so good luck with that, i,m out. Plus, Poe2 in early access have a a huge diference in content offered. Both PoE1 and 2 are superior to d4.

About Diablo 4, I just watched videos and discovered that the stats in D4 are fake, for example, 50%+ damage, is not 50% damage, it is an additive to a multiplier, 50% damage will in return give you a 0.5% damage increase on your base weapon damage, it will not add 50% to a so called 1000 base damage which should 1500, it ends up being 1050 damage. This type of math is geared to all of the mechanics in the game. It is why D4 is so pathetic and they need to normalize this visual issue and tell players what 50% damage or 500% damage actually means and how to implement it.

SSF is a self imposed challenge and PoE 2 is inherently more difficult than PoE 1.
i would never recommand it for a newer player

I hate how they completely ignore what we want, like Paladin class, Amazon, instead they give us Diablo without Diablo, Mephisto expansion, without Mephisto, rune words without rune words, they are shooting their own leg in so many ways 🙁

Man Rhykker i do feel for you, when you build your whole brand around a strong title and watch let down after let down start raining, Also tencent’s new game Delta force is probably why they got put on that list because they’ve taught me latency is basically a lie. I’m in NZ played with a friend in Central US and neither of us had latency issues. Is this great net code that somehow everyone else couldn’t do or just the truth that everyone else was hiding behind ms?

d4 uber drops – players haven’t changed in 20 years, new players have come along with tiktok brains and 0% attention span who cry a lot

Well SSF is like a challenge like way to play , working with what you get , while in trade you can just go full on rarity on good map clearer , get tons of currency and buy what ever item you need , i think at the end it all depends what you want and what you enjoy 🙂

The thing with D4 is that so many builds only are really viable with certain uniques and uber uniques. In D2 you can play a budget character that can do hell and start farming. Al long the way you’ll find upgrades for your build or other builds or you start trading for other stuff.

I can easily play a javazon with a lore helm, random magical or rare javelin and any belt for days till i have enough wealth to buy titans, shako and a razor belt if i didn’t find them myself. And even later on maybe buy a griffons eye.

17:47 DLSS 4 is not only available on RTX 50-series. Only Multi Frame Generation is.

Almost 1,5 month into poe 2 early access and people still find joy playing the game, i can see happines on your face when you talk about poe 2. if this isnt what defines poe 2 as best arpg then i dont know what is.

He forgets one very important thing: Diablo 2 was not made with battle pass and milking everything in cash shop.
I’m casual arpg player, I ditched D4 because it feels like a cash shop with arpg mini game. PoE 2 is fantastic, I only have around 100h in game and I play it when I want it, I don’t feel any presure for maximising my ingame time for some bullshit battle pass.

poe 2 is currently a mess. it has to be said

I remember a time when trading was among friends, IRL close friends to be precise. With online play, it didn’t take long to become a means to an end, just like any market. Problem is, GGG make their game depend on it, when it should be the other way around. And I hate it ! Only EHG really gets it.

Crafting poe 2 craft base junk it creaft base junk it
If u get lucky drop craft one with 2 good stats the exalt will 100% be bad too 😅
Ssf made me hate the game. Now im enjoying my time in trade league 😂

If i can’t get my uber in a season yes i am upset. Because here a crazy concept seasons end. This guy is clueless.

19:27 It’s the same bs again though. The 5070 could be the perfect consumer card if only it had 16gb of VRAM at least. The performance of the card is strong, AI or not, and people are very likely wanting to throw this card at QHD which it can easily handle (cause let’s be honest, anyone sitting at FHD does not “need” a 5070 to reach triple digit fps, other cards do this just fine, even my 3070 still does this just fine) – however, some games already start eating more than 12gb of VRAM in QHD. Nvidia apparently does this deliberately to sell you the upgrade to the 5070 Ti which is another couple hundred bucks, just to get 4 GB of vram…

Sir I mustache you a question

They think they made D4 like D2? Completely clueless. The players didn’t change. D4 is nothing like D2, and it was designed from the ground up to slow down player progression. Blizzard has no clue on how to make a good Diablo game. They like that their name is associated with the Diablo series, but Blizzard North was a separate, independent studio, and they moved on after the D2 expansion. Blizzard Entertainment has never made a good Diablo game because they have no idea why people liked the first two games. They were too concerned with making a live service game that they could heavily monetize.

Not to mention players were fine with it taking years because it took years, and those items were not build defining. You didn’t need them, you wanted them. With seasons wiping characters every few months it is a vastly different situation. It can’t take years to get something, and it is not as exciting when you do, because you’ll be moving on from them in a couple of months.

This milkweed diablo professor claiming diablo 4 is the greatest game now “its in trouble” lol Dude just put the frys in the bag sorry you cant make enough money streaming to support your pathetic life

I’ve been playing D3 S33 on an off over the holidays. Didn’t notice any changes at all when S33 ended and restarted, My Seasonal and SSF builds are all still working as expected, no losses, no changes, no hassle. I’m on console so I get access to the US servers. The mess-up was a non-event for me.

Breaches combined maps make it busted

POE2 needs to kill rarity and the run speed. Artificially nerfing those things for us to have to look for that stupid buff on gear, taking up slots sucks.

Nope, you’re having the chaos. Don’t even care. Oh man it feels go to not care anymore. Enjoy.

How do you know Tecent when no one else does? Stop this crap.

Just stop. All these friggin people on the internet, including Rykker now, are now scared of the internet.

Y’all asked for the interet…. Y’all wanted it. Y’all think you can just make a profession out of the internet.

Y’all should go outside and get a real job. Nuff said.

I dont like when people complain about trading being so strong in this game… The devs are heavily inspired by diablo 2 which was the same way.. If you didnt trade you were putting yourself at a handicap. Self imposed challenge…

after poe 2 ..Diablo 4 looks like ARCADE FLASH AND BOOM TRASH action RPG

tbh I took a break at like level 93 or something went to visit family for 2 weeks, I come back, and I cannot afford ANYTHING. I cant even begin to afford anything. feels to me like im just hard stuck again because the economy inflated so quickly.

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i love poe2 but i died in a juiced map with a divine on screen and was like, alright im done. Good story mode though

5070 for gamer is big W. for 3d artist im not so sure

7:00 you don’t have to zoom in first. You can just zoom out and it will still work. If your mouse has freewheel mode then use that to make it easier.

There is no diablo game after D2 LOD!

POE is the king of ARPG.

Streamers ruined gaming. Min maxed all of it. Nothing too explore. Thanks guys.

D for Drama. but to be honest. D4 will be good brain dead escape from PoE2

I really like poe 2 but having to hard reboot my pc cause of a crash, feels like the 90s again. 😢

You ever hear someone say “per se” in such a way that you KNOW they’re saying “per say” in their head?

My only issue with POE2 is already theres a lot less build variation thats actually viable, Were back to all playing the same builds again. Really offputting.

Dawg it’s EA. Of course ssf is worse

rhykker looks stoned

The idea that D2 had grind and that’s what made that game, and now players don’t want grind anymore, is completely nonsense .. that is focusing on something irrelevant. Grind, rarity is not the defining factor of anything. If the gameplay is nice, people will love the grind,; and when the gameplay is meh, removing grind/rarity does not make it better, and fact it never does no matter how good gameplay is.
Also D4 is like D2 ? that is a load of bull. D4 is like D3. They had the chance to make D4 different from D2 and D3 by the open world design that leaned towards and arpg-mmo, but then they fkd that up (chickened out), and went the D3 path. No D2 player wanted D4 to be repeat of D3, but that is what they got. Probably what happens in a company with no innovation and stale management.
Also D2R had the chance to fix some of the problems of D2 (look at how great PD2 is), but hardly anything has improved. I regret buying D2R even more than buying D4, what a waste of money.

Is rhykker a bald eagle?

Man. That really sucks for like, the 4 guys still playing diablo 3

did he just open a normal chest and the dodge roll? xD Thats not how you PoE

Blizzard just needs to stop.

This is bad takes all around. sorry.

What they missed about D2 and Uber uniques is that you can trade them. Making their entire point mute, if you play enough you can get any build in a D2 season.

i missed it when rhykker didnt farm engagement.

Think as soon as Poe 2 crashed and hardlocked my character so i had to start a new one to progress. I decided to leave it on the shelf for a year or two.

I liked playing D2 for the satisfaction of aoeing cows in the Secret Cow Level and seeing gold/green gear drop every once in a while. D4 just doesnt have that feel.

Someone still plays diablo 4 ????? seriously?????

So tencent is now the chinese Activision-Blizzard?

I got bored of Poe 2 pretty fast, hero siege is the way.

i agree 100 percent i just want to loot and getting upgrades on my character sucks ass and the trading is awful…
love the game but the looting is just not good

What does being anti rarity mean? Im confused about this term

What Fergusson is saying only shows how incompetent they are and why D4 is what it is. They should have taken the good stuff from (among others) D2, for example the loot system, but adjusted to modern (contemporary) gaming. Of course no one wants to grind as long as in D2, one of the reasons being live service with seasons 🙄 Of course gaming has changed over 20 years, no shit Sherlock.

Also, like others mention in the comments, it is not only about finding the holy grail items. The whole loot progression in D2 was much much better than D4 and it still is. So Fergusson’s story is pretty incomplete. It’s getting really pathetic at this point.

D4 Bad.

Just here to agree 100% yes to the “I want to feel like I’m not at a huge disadvantage by not trading”, I don’t want to just chase currency to give to someone else, I just want to play the game

Uber drop rate fro D4 at launch was no way equal to D2.. Ubers was not existent at all..

PoE 2 really needs an in-game trading system or auction house.

So far I think the loot in PoE2 is uninteresting and crafting not rewarding enough. I expected PoE2 to be more casual friendly on that aspect but the game is clearly made for people who play poe and nothing else. It’s an uninteresting slotmachine.

Yeah no quit the game cuz i aint tryna trade to get my shit.

Blizzard is dead and has been for a while

funny because they made the game NOTHING like diablo 2. “hey heres 5 items and a bunch of useless rares with useless stats, enjoy the long grind” diablo 2 i can grind and pick up blues/yellows/get runes, etc and still have a blast while hunting for something GG

Don’t be fooled by the 50 series. They rely solely on DLSS4 and AI frame gen. Hardware wise the 4090 is still miles better than the 5070. A good comparison is a non-DLSS game.

Are people still playing Diablo 3.5??

I played Diablo 1 for many years on both, PC and Playstation. I got into Ultima Online in late 1997 till 2004 when I started with WoW then went back and forth between the two games… During all that time, I skipped Diablo 2. Went ham on Diablo 3 every season and doing the same on Diablo 4. I feel like I really missed out on D2. Going back to play, wouldn’t interest me because I have played beyond that game. It’s like…. “Princess Bride” is a great movie, one of the best ever………. for those of us that saw it in the 80’s. Tried to get my kids to watch it, they were bored out of their minds. I wish I could go back and Play D2 and experience it. I feel left out.

“I prefer self found being an equally viable way to play the game” – Well, GGG have balanced the game around trade and they have explicitly said they dont balance for SSF & if you choose to play SSF its on you to deal with the added difficulty of gearing up. So this is a player issue, not a game issue

Your a d4 shill, I bet it hurts your feelings to talk poe2, no matter how hard you try to talk down about poe2 it will always own D4, get over it.. talking down in the dumps but still talking shit is a bad look, stick to the facts and not shill 😅

Rod should play some video games some time. They are fun.

Well, not D4… but other games.

IMO the additional context does not redeem the quote. This is the first I’m hearing of the comment at all and it’s just as damning as everything else Rod says. Dude doesn’t like or understand games. Why’s he in charge of them?

I’d like to see how many maps I’ve completed too, and what tier, just on the Atlas somewhere

I mean, yeah, tencent sucks.

Ill sell u gear if your on jsp for poe

I thought Diablo 4 was in the best state ever from your ad that’s playing everywhere

rod is so full of shit in other news the sky is blue and grass is green

I played POE1 cause im a Freemium type of gamer after the teaser blew-off and people started playing POE2 early access. Completed untill Act3 and realised the game feel wasnt there and uninstalled it. Boss fight wasnt really a boss fight and map area feels and challenges are like exaclty the same. I dont know if POE2 changes that and everything feels challenging?

In Diablo 2 you don’t need good gear to clear hell but you want good gear to round out your character. Besides runewords are the only thing that’s remotely important. I still after all these years haven’t gotten an enigma but I have a perfect grief on my barb so there is that

Who cares,really though who gives a shit about these game companies? You’re just gonna buy there garbage product be it from blizzard,GGG,any company. They don’t give a shit about you they care about your wallet and how empty they can make it and all of you just go in droves to get bled dry and then complain? You deserve to get robbed

Spend years chasing items on a 3 to 4 month seasonal game? Dude is literally living in another reality😂😂😂😂

poe2 a trading simulator lol lvl 75 i cant say i have gotten a good drop at all

Diablo 4 – Who wants to grind for an item when within 3 months a new season starts and it is all for nothing? The eternal realm is a rubbish. They need to just have 1 realm so that grinding for an item over extended periods of time is worth while and is usable and your characters aren’t worthless within 3 months. That way players can build up a fortune over time. I find it disheartening to start a new season when I know it is all for nothing anyway. If it was like a continuous ongoing season it would be worth investing into to find rare items.

I don’t believe it was due to players getting upset that they didn’t get their uber unique within the season, it was more about the gear progression gap between world tiers, in D2 I can farm meph for 3 days straight and have a very good chance to get a decent unique such as viper magi, titans, war travellers these items alone are still chase items when you move to hell, were as in d4 there isn’t a boss you can farm ( talking about release here ) to get unique its just farm dungeons and hope something good drops but it takes 8 – 15 mins to do a dungeon solo sometimes depending on build and gear. Also the shear power the items in d2 brought you was manageable, it curved with time and with experience you learned to use rare items more than unique’ s, it’s fast, powerful feeling playstyle through dense packs of monster in areas that you can get to easily and farm in 5 mins with appropriate builds, this kept it fun, where as with d4 you where just pulling the lever of the slot machine every 15 mins and nothing really happened, you where just left hoping that a decent lay out dungeon dropped to try again, it was boring, the loop cycle just wasn’t there, they apparently managed to fix itemization, added content but trying to adhere to d2 drop rates while slowing the game play down and reducing mob pack size and density just isn’t gonna work. To cap it off D4 has an identity issue so it doesn’t have acts like all the diablos before, the game doesn’t even have diablo in it, wtf are mounts doing in this game btw, I swear these where only added so they have another character model to slap a skin on and ask for 20 quid 🙁 , the size of towns omg!! you don’t need to put a stash next to every npc bring the damn npc’s closer together – poor town/npc hub design/layout, the damn skin store (got a spare kidney?), the battle pass or season pass or better yet the BS pass lol, can’t even pay once and continue cashing that back in to get next seasons no you need to buy one full price!! the size of all the zones, its trying to be an MMO, ARPG, open world exploration, while trying to play homage to what came before while also competing with modern arpg’s.

well thanks Blizzard giving more players to PoE 2

last epoch’s guild system is for solo self found / tradeing is amazing

If you are allowed to speak publicly about a franchise that is over 20 years old, you better know the fans. I could have told you 10 years ago that D4 is going to have cater to D3 AND D2 fans.

I’d be so embarrassed I would resign.

The problem wasn’t that the uber drops were bad in d4 it was a combination of all other gear being completely boring and zero imagination!

I DID want a slower, D2-style item grind in D4. I DIDN’T want that combined with 3-month seasons resetting everything (to encourage battle-pass purchases) right from launch.

15:00 Rhykker (or his editor) forgets to add the B-roll to the narration. Solid gold. 🤣

I was a sophomore in college when Diablo 1 came out and have put thousands and thousands of hours into Diablo over the years. I must be the only Diablo veteran who preferred Diablo 3 over Diablo 2.

Who wants to go YEARS before getting one single item they want?! Sounds like Blizzard internal marketing BS to me.

Nobody’s got time for that.

I actually want to play the damn game the way I want to and not wait for Random Number Jesus (RNG) to finally decide I get to play the way I want.

imagine thinking its the long chase of uniques that make the itemization good in d2. complete noob shit

Rod needs to realize that D2 wasn’t designed to have seasons and d4 was. If D4 didn’t have seasons that force you to start over then I don’t think everyone would have been that upset about drop rates.

Loosing interest in poe2 fast, nothing is at fault but just bad rng, im closing in on 500hours and 1 divine/1 greater jeweler orb and probably luckiest find was perfect jewelry. ZERO useful rares out of 1000’s (had to trade), now im to
the point were any upgrades are 1-2 divines a pop. I run like 30-40 maps a day and dont find shit and maybe 20exalts. My rng was like
this during the D2 entirety (20
years and nothing dropped above Ber) So looks like another game of running seasons(leagues) of “hoping” I get rich or good gear so I can enjoy the game fully.

Even with the problems D4 is way better then PoE2… Poe2 is just boring and to much tedious nonsense in it. The loot sucks I do like the bosses but they r pointless to farm.. D4 is just much more fun.

I don’t want to play the trade market. I want to play the game.

If Rod Ferguson doesnt know why a prolonged loot chase is good in D2 and bad in D4 then D4 is truly cooked. Further proof that diablo has people running it that fundamentally do not understand the genre or the players.

As a Diablo fan im really happy poe2 came out bc its the only true successor to D2. Blizz clearly learned nothing from the 10 years they spent on D3 and until the company shows us bigg changes i have 0 desire to return Poe 2 is just leagues beyond Diablo atm.

No Rhykker, Nvidia has show that they don’t understand what a unique period the Pandemic was and think they can keep that lunacy going forever. They’re cruising along at 100mph unwilling to heed the warnings about the brick wall on the horizon.

Why are we giving POE 2 a pass on gearing when we eviscerated the first iteration of D3 for trade dependent gearing?

In poe 2 I wish they had a way to highlight your skill tree path ahead of time. So u don’t have to feel lost. And know where to go next.

I feel like the oddball in my Diablo 4 group. I kept the Druid that I started the game with back at launch. Running a pet build with Pulverize as the main bonk was painful. To even clear the 1st capstone, I had to pair with a fellow Druid simply because they were high damage but needed meat shields. Oddly enough, my pets made GREAT meat shields to allow them to deal the damage.

QoL in POE2 is sorely needed for me to stick around once D4 S7 hits. There is no way to focus your progress, just random rng slams. Console performance is abysmal in even for EA . I’ve never seen so much screen tearing and I’ve played some real janky game preview games.

We are all suckers to buy the 5000 series. They call it performance when it is 4 fake frame per frame to achieve that. It’s not real performance. It is BS marketing. Also, why the F they lock DLSS4 to the new gen? To force you to buy the new gen 100%. nVidia markets based on FOMO. We get suckered over and over.

See this is my issue with PoE2 (which I tried for many many hours until I was bored by restrictive gem combos and combat) on screen we can see exciting combat gameplay that everyone cant wait to do and play. BUT, the path to that is dire , slow and tedious and for all people say “oh its a challenge unlike Diablo” what I see isn’t a challenge but screen wide effects and a player having fun. SO in the end PoE2 takes the whole game (atm that means playing it at least twice and then many hours in endgame) while the much malined Diablo, does it from the get go more or less.

It’s bad enough they can’t write anything more compelling for their story.

Will never understand why ggg refuse to implement a trading system, they could even 10x the loot drops, so ssf is not such a slog, then trading could have a 10x tax added to it, so it’s more fair.
Or just split the league in half like hardcore and ssf, so if you don’t like trading you get the higher rates, but if you do play trade, you get lower rates, and can trade for what you want.

I’m a nontrade players just because that’s just how I’ve always been in online games.. Never care much for taking part in the economy and a lot of games allow you to play without needing to.

So I haven’t traded in PoE2 and man… crafting just sucks. I have legit junked mostly every piece I’ve crafted… finding replacement for my mid gear is hard. But it’s not the worst thing… I’m still more exciting for more weapon/skill lines. That will beef up the game a lot.

Juicing the map what is the meaning of this terminology?

Gearing in both poe games is basically impossible without trading. I really think that’s where Last Epoch shines. The factions and the crafting are really a step above other games.

Rod Ferguson “it takes years to finish a holy grail”.. Im a casual player and my first holy grail I got in 1500 hours! I played on D2 LOD.. Rod buddy, you have no idea except what you get told.

Thank you for the Poe 2 content.

I also hope they just have our generated maps downloaded to our profile document so it wouldn’t always keeps on spinning every time we open the Map

This all comes down to the basic flaw of seasonal gameplay. Time. (relating to the d4 thing)

Regarding the Diablo 2 part. Diablo 2 had trading between players and the game did not have seasonal content requiring a new character to be made every few months. They didn’t recreate the original environment which would of made sense for the drops being extremely rare. Instead you’re supposed to collect gear that can take years to drop when you’ll be resetting in matter of months?

wait wait did he just say Diablo 3 lastest season?

SSF isn’t that bad in POE2, builds vary a lot though

In the same boat with the movement speed, currently feeling starved of it.
Large maps would be more fun if we had a way to move around more smoothly, maybe a dash / slide that lack the defensive quality of dodge roll.
Something we can combine together with other movement skills, so that there is skill expression when using them.
Movement speed feels like it ought to be baked in to equipping a pair of boots, or the modifier needs a higher likelihood of rolling.

give me the non-seasonal long grind any day.. happy to min/max over years instead of weeks

The reason people complain about drop rates in d4 is because everything resets every 3 months. If you reset everything every 3 months people will not want multiyear grinds.

Diablo cant catch a break lol

Completely wrong about players changing in the last twenty years it’s devs not knowing wtf they are doing with item progression. Outside of things like enigma in D2 items where not “build defining” in most cases the more rare items like soj’s bul kathos ect ect where just good or decent items stat wise that could enhance a build. Items in d3/d4 ARE what makes your build viable without half of them and the changes they give the build just straight up doesn’t work.

@rhykker The fact that you can craft Uber uniques is the reason I left D4 for PoE 2 and still play D2R. How are they mythic if you can craft them? The slower pace and the meticulous way of thinking about what you are doing, is so much more appealing. I feel it’s a case of the 80/20 rule. 20% of players making 80% of the noise ruining the experience for everyone.

Druide

I played D1 and D2 back in the day and I still to this day cannot reason how someone would want that drop rate experience. I had a hard time with that back then and sure as hell do not want it now.

this is EXACTLY why I will be going back to D4… the need to have to trade. Sorry devs but for me that is not the game I want to play.

SSF, that should be 100 MF as your base. Let us play without the sacrifice of power since by playing SSF, we are sacrificing power already.

Listen: I was really onboard and enthusiastic for D4. My expectations were huge for this title, figuring the leaders of the dev team would analyze the current word wide state of popular competitive ARPGs and they would come up with something truly excellent, and i really believed this. My expectations were dashed. But my biggest disappointment was when they started listening to the loudest whiners about how difficult it was to get uber uniques. I really hate when a game company does not stand by their original design decisions. And blizzard folded like a cheap tent. And the result was a slushy, ridiculously easy experience that went against all the original design assumptions, and the game ended up being just a shitty remake of Diablo 3, which was also a huge failure in regards to a successor to Diablo2. Both games are fine on their own, but with the diablo title, they needed to be much much more. And they weren’t. D4 is a failure in my eyes. Total failure. I hope they announce something cool on Jan 16, like… are we going to get any other end game activity than Pit???>?? fug sakes.

map tap map tap! what do we want? map taps! XD

Trading should be just like any other vender. It’s not like you are disincentivised by being forced to guess value and maybe get scammed, or have to “Not play the game” to go trade. It should be just a delayed sell, and then you set a preferred value, and it will decrement until it’s sold. And people buying the Item should have to sacrifice an item of the same Item level and type in order to buy.

D2 is a cool old-school game and it makes sense it won’t work for modern gaming scenario. What I most liked about it is also, sometimes, what I mostly dislike about it: getting the gear takes forever if you are not that experienced. While in D4 I feel like I can make decent stuff rather quick and still get the super nice unique items

m8 = mate

This video is funny considering I had to block Blizzard D4 ads featuring Rhykker 😂😂😂

@rhykker your moustache is looking really good lately dude

Hi yes I really want to confirm that I don’t want Diablo 4 to be like Diablo 2. I want my modern games to be modern. This comment will be unpopular.

D4 is a trash heap of a game.

Marvel rivals out here breaking player numbers and delivering a far better overwatch experience than overwatch ever did but Rhykker won’t even mention it…

Path to Trading Site 😂

Honestly in regards to ssf gearing issues we need for example IL gear that’s higher to not craft lower tiers or atleast make it less likely I’m so tired of everything I craft have t1 physical damage and I’ve spent about 1000 ex on gear at this stage

do not believe the lies they were 100% right about wow classic, wow classic is dead as shit and the only thing keeping it afloat are content creators doing their own little challenges for it.

PoE 2 needs a full restart. I don’t know what they were doing for the past two years, but it’s obvious they don’t know what they were doing, what type of game is it? Is it for PoE elitists, or for new players, it’s not built for either. I’ve stopped playing PoE2, it’s not fun, I’ve been burned too many times by GGG’s incompetence, I had hoped they’d have learned something in 11 years. I was wrong. And Nvidia is lying about it’s specs, the 5070 is not that good, sadly.

If all games supported frame generation i still wouldn’t want it. Seeing the real data should be the goal, AI is a stopgap. Whomever realizes this before nvidia should take the gaming market.

Oh the D3 bug affected the 3 people playing Diablo 3? k, soooo horrible.

I want real power and not frame generation.

5070 strong as 4090 is a bullshit
frame gen is a scam

GGG is owned by tencent. Bad look for ggg. I wish they would ban me.

Frame gen is TRASH. Nvidia is trying to ruin graphics

Why is people mad about trading in PoE2? When PoE2 isn’t the first game that did it? Just play SSF and you’ll play without trading, bam done. Stop making it hard for yourself, enjoy, have fun, and leave.

Bored of diablo 4. Bored of poe 2, back to lost arc

just play poe 2

drama 🎭 😅

I have 2 friends who are constantly CRAFTING crazy items from normal drops. Not too hard to find your own gear if you spend the time and are lucky with crafting up items.

They need to fix map level drops. Should not have to buy any maps off of others while the maps you find are up to 10 levels below the map you are running.

Because bliztard is all about being inclusive. Everyone is a winner everyone gets a prize. Congrats, you’re the best at the “game” you beat it and got everything you wanted, wowww 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Omg… fuck Diablo man. The game is a shell of itself. It’s time to let gooooo

This is a POE-like game it seems 😈 😈 😈 😈

Also if you’re going to buy a new video card, aim for before, say, January 21st.

The biggest difference between classic D2 and D4, is that D2 you could make a good build without needing the absolute best gear. D4 was supposed to be less gear dependent, but it hasn’t really worked out that way.

I’m less upset about low uber drops as I am about smashing my face against the wall trying to get one of those “build defining” drops; the stuff that makes a fundamental skill actually work in a cool way.

11:23 now.. kids are toddlers and soon those toddlers will be babies…. we don’t have the same genetics of player anymore. Woke freaking kids… just like real life, they can’t get what they want, they cry.

Please remove the friggin chore grind for bosses. The material grinds are annoying and boring. Even in d2, we didnt grind for materials to farm for uniques. Cmon.

POE 2 BAD OWNED BY TENCENT.

US gov doing something good for once. They cant keep milking us for 600 bucks for cosmetic pack each league

There isn’t one single uber in D2 that took as long as launch D4 to get.

As lover of D2, The game resonated with me not because of the long chase of the uber uniques but because the game play and story line was rich, The exploration was better and more of a discovery type of game where if you dont check every nook and cranny then you would miss out, The bosses and creep would hti different where it made it challenging and the skill tree was not refundable and all selections were final therefor making it an important aspect of what you choose.

Rhyker indirectly points out a problem with modern ARPGs. Rod Fergeson is right in his comment. If you were to take all D4 players that comment fits for the majority. I’d imagine it doesn’t for content creators. They’ll say the opposite mainly because their life is centered around grinding games. This is huge as developers are looking to content creators on how to balance or change their games. But there is a huge disparity between content creators and the millions that purchase a game.