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My views on pvp in the Diablo worldSource
Eviljebus821
Diablo-Source recently interviewd the D3 Lead Technical Artist, Julian Love, and got this line from him "Just the overview, we like PVP we recognize that it wasn't treated very well in the previous games and we would like to do something to make it better for Diablo 3. What that will be is not something that we can talk about right now."
My opinion is this:
Don't do it. Just ignore pvp. The Diablo world has never had pvp as a focus and everyone loves it anyway. The thing is, Diablo has great game play but the real meat of the game is the loot. This means that fundamentally the pvp will be about who has better gear. That's not fun for anyone.
I've seen how Blizzard handled WoW pvp. I played WoW pvp for many years... long enough to know that if you add pvp rewards then players will demand balance. That means pve nerfs, pvp nerfs, pvp buffs that result in a character being overpowered, then nerfs into the ground until they are underpowered, and that offsets the balance of other classes, and the cycle goes on and on. All it will do is frustrate everyone.
Pvp just has no place in a simple-to-play, loot-fest ARPG. If you want to pvp imo go play AoC or guild wars.
I know I'll get some serious flames for this post because some players don't see how pvp will ruin the game, but that's fine. I have my opinion and you can have yours.
Blizzard, please learn from the mistakes of WoW and from the successes of D2 and don't waste valuable development time on pvp.
My opinion is this:
Don't do it. Just ignore pvp. The Diablo world has never had pvp as a focus and everyone loves it anyway. The thing is, Diablo has great game play but the real meat of the game is the loot. This means that fundamentally the pvp will be about who has better gear. That's not fun for anyone.
I've seen how Blizzard handled WoW pvp. I played WoW pvp for many years... long enough to know that if you add pvp rewards then players will demand balance. That means pve nerfs, pvp nerfs, pvp buffs that result in a character being overpowered, then nerfs into the ground until they are underpowered, and that offsets the balance of other classes, and the cycle goes on and on. All it will do is frustrate everyone.
Pvp just has no place in a simple-to-play, loot-fest ARPG. If you want to pvp imo go play AoC or guild wars.
I know I'll get some serious flames for this post because some players don't see how pvp will ruin the game, but that's fine. I have my opinion and you can have yours.
Blizzard, please learn from the mistakes of WoW and from the successes of D2 and don't waste valuable development time on pvp.
[ Post edited by Eviljebus821 ]
BashiokBlue Poster
You took "treating PvP better" as "providing progression-based rewards for PvP", and that's really just too specific a leap to make.
