If its annoying people, feels OP in context and forcing people to use it to 'compete' then its a case of 'nerfing', but I can't see how that matters in a more Single Player/Co-operative experience. If one is dominant - it stops people using the other choices - so you need to decide is that Gun 'detrimental' to the experience, too OP, or is that delivering the Experience people want and therefore need to 'buff' the other weapons to add more options. Nerfing guns in an FPS changes how it feels and plays. To bring more variety of builds/classes, it makes sense to give the players more 'options' without taking away from the Experience.

However, it seems like 'balancing' is making things people enjoy using 'worse' than things they don't like using to make them 'use' those instead of 'buffing' the stuff people don't use to make it more 'competitive'. If something is particularly OP, I can understand bringing it 'down' a bit. They say they 'Know' its not fun and turns a 'great' experience into a tedious 'grind' yet still went ahead with making changes. Adam Fletcher, who works in community management at Blizzard, simply mentioned that 'we don't plan on doing a patch like this ever again'. What is clear is that Blizzard wants to avoid another situation like this. However, none of the big complaints were addressed in a recent hotfix, so fans could be waiting a while to see how Blizzard tackles the situation in the future. Part of that is ensuring that the various class options feel like they've got a place in the meta experience - that kind of goes to some of the changes made in 1.1.'īuffs are planned for the the Sorcerer and Barbarian classes in a future patch, along with what we'd expect to be a laundry list of other changes.

'I know that we've talked on stream before about our intentions for Diablo 4 being about choice. We know it is bad, we know it is not fun and it's something that we ourselves know - that it's not the greatest play experience for players out there.' 'We want to acknowledge everyone's feedback in regards to reducing player power.

Why wouldn't blizzard create diablo 4