Why Do Players Frequently Feel Dissatisfied With The Game Performance And Changes In Diablo 4 Season 9?

Today I want to talk to you about the past two seasons of Diablo 4. Season 8 ended some time ago, and then Season 9: Sins of the Horadrim was launched.

To be honest, the player experience last season was really bad. The whole season was particularly rushed, and the game was full of strange bugs. Many functions were missing. There were all kinds of problems while playing, and the experience plummeted. The Reliquary battle pass system in last season was full of complaints and was criticized by players.

The official seemed to want to end Season 8 quickly so that everyone could focus on Season 9. However, judging from the feedback after the end of Season 9 PTR, players were not as enthusiastic about the new season as the developers expected.

This is not surprising. Season 9 is not a complete failure. It also brought some content worth looking forward to.

Not only has a series of new Diablo 4 Uniques and mechanics been introduced to strengthen your character, but it has also had a certain impact on the core game outside of the seasonal servers, but the overall feeling is always a bit boring.

This is also the problem that loyal players of Diablo 4 have been complaining about for a long time. Since the birth of the seasonal mechanism, players have been looking forward to something new and interesting, but after waiting for a long time, it is still the same old routine.

Frequent Bugs In The Core Mechanism

In my opinion, the official is conveying a concept of this is the new normal in the seasonal content.

Most of Diablo 4 seasonal mechanisms are redesigns of the energy acquisition mechanism in the previous game, solving a part of the game that needs improvement, and then there is nothing else.

Take Reliquaries, which completely changed the work of battle passes. Players complained that it is not as valuable as the old system and greatly reduced player participation, but the official seemed to ignore the opinions of the players and kept it.

On social forums, the core complaints were raised again, and fans and players were full of fire because this system is too similar to the system that everyone disliked in Season 8.

Although Diablo 4 Season 9 has only been online for a few weeks, some problems can already be seen. For example, the drop rate of Arcana, the third (and most powerful) material for crafting Horadric Spells in the new season, seems to be problematic.

Many players who have been playing since the season was launched have only obtained two or three Arcana so far. Although the official is quickly addressing this problem, it is really wrong to have such an important part of the core mechanism of the new season fail.

There are also headaches for players in the season quest line, and many people are stuck on the Wisdom’s Chosen quest line and can’t continue playing. Even more outrageous is that old problems such as lag at the beginning of the season, which everyone thought had been solved, returned in Season 9 and ruined the game experience for players.

Unnecessary Changes

What is even more incomprehensible is that the official always makes some changes that players don’t ask for at all, and most of these changes are not accepted by everyone.

For example, once the developer did not specifically inform the game before the release, and then enlarged the font of the in-game chat text.

The key is that the font size cannot be changed yet, and the text size can only be adjusted game-wide, but this will cause item text and many other user interface elements to become messy, which is simply a mess.

All this really feels like a return to the worst time of Diablo 4 last year, when the core season mechanism broke down on the first day and inexplicable changes appeared frequently.

Players’ gaming experience has been seriously disrupted, and even some well-known community creators have come out to complain about their dissatisfaction and bluntly stated that they don’t want to play this season at all.

Although the official has not yet directly responded to the main complaints of players, from all indications, the developer is at least aware of the negative sentiment surrounding the game, and one of the responsible persons stated that “big plans” are being made behind the scenes.

As usual, there will be some changes in Diablo 4 Season 9 in the next few weeks, and the mid-season patch will also solve other problems. But to be honest, it’s hard for players to get excited about these changes because everyone knows that these minor changes are not enough to change the overall direction of the game service.

We can only hope that the content the developer team is producing is large and meaningful enough to truly bring positive changes to the game and get Diablo 4 back on track, otherwise it will be really difficult to retain the hearts of players.