Ok mom

If you have no care for dwindling player count then when it gets too low it gets switched off, and that’s that no more d2

Stop complaining about people complaining

I feel like most people who complain about difficulty are people who bot walk all over the place…

Meh I dislike the "difficulty" not because its hard but mostly because its tedious. Just take a look at GM vanguard alerts they are an absolute joke but enemies are just ridiculously tanky that it just becomes boring to do. I think the game started going wrong when around 3.0 subclasses came out and it just became worse as we were just trying to stack as many DR and damage buffs as possible. So unless you are always rocking DR boosts in endgame now you can get taken out very easily while when you do have them you are basically unkillable but at the much higher end so are the enemies basically. Its not a surprise the most popular armor set bonuses are ones that just give you more DR. You compare this to D1 and even in the highest end content you could at least take a few hits before going down mostly because the enemy density was a lot less and managing enemies with just shooting was much easier and fun. Now you don't manage anything and just spam whatever instant nuke ability you have that clears the room. I think most people that complain about the game being too hard atp usually are complaining about timers or just modifiers that make the game more tedious than engaging. Sort of a problem with challenge customisation is that its mostly "how do I make this activity the least annoying as possible."

This should be common sense for most but Bungie has coddled the community ever since they made endgame optional with allowing players to even get to max level without doing endgame content. Now people can get to max level alone but they HAVE to do endgame level activities to get there. That's how it SHOULD be. How it should have been from the start. Now the coddled players are leaving and the focus away from raids and dungeons, etc are making hardcore players leave. We need something like Pantheon back. There's a reason that Godslayer is the most acquired raid title in the game and people met their limits in it and were fine with it. It was highly successful. On top of that, you don't even have to do the hardest of the hard activities. From what I'm personally seeing from the portal, you can do semi hard stuff for little reward bumps and chill. You won't level up as fast if you do it this way, as it should be, but you can chill and play while getting worthwhile rewards at your own pace and level.

[quote]Sorry if you’re just a casual player but it’s either you play the game like there is no tomorrow snd grind, or don’t play at all.[/quote] People can also play for… fun? I’m a casual player and I’m fine getting tier 3s in Expert and tier 4s in Master. To me, the tiered rewards and difficulty options are great - not saying they can’t be improved, but I think they’re solid concepts to build on. I agree that the hardest content and hardest modifiers should offer the best rewards, but maybe there are still things that could be tweaked (eg. option to remove timers in exchange for lowering drop rates of the best loot)? I’m confused by some of the complaints about difficulty, but I think it’s generally better when players can choose how they want to play.

I'm a casual, I spend money on the story and cosmetics; I also go between games, I also don't need everything each season. I'm lucky, I don't play games all the time, but when I do, I have a select few I will constantly and consistently play.

well that's the plague of the W agenda virus after c-19

Games to easy ,all streamers an top% players are always streaming d2 wearing all blues on endgame and never once crutch on the broken meta for dps or cheeses that get nerfed a week later ,so many legit all blue run vids that I cannot find unless they are by estorick( da goat) ,salta was pretty chill when he said he doesn't do all blue runs on endgame anymore though because it just wasn't worth it anymore, I do wonder if after he answered my question he sat an thought to himself why was it worth it before compared to how it isnt now