Blizzard admits Diablo III's end-game is lacking

[garyopa]

They want to fix it... eventually.



Blizzard's community manager admitted that there's not enough content in Diablo III, but also that they plan to bring more for the endgame.

Blizzard's community manager 'Bashiok', has apologized to players because he says "there is quite frankly not enough content in Diablo III to keep them entertained".

However, its in their plans to provide more content for the endgame.

Here's his statement:

"We recognize that the item hunt is just not enough for a long-term sustainable end-game," wrote Bashiok. "There are still tons of people playing every day and week, and playing a lot, but eventually they’re going to run out of stuff to do (if they haven’t already). Killing enemies and finding items is a lot of fun, and we think we have a lot of the systems surrounding that right, or at least on the right path with a few corrections and tweaks."

"But honestly Diablo III is not World of Warcraft," he said. "We aren’t going to be able to pump out tons of new systems and content every couple months. There needs to be something else that keeps people engaged, and we know it’s not there right now."

"We’re working toward 1.0.4, which we’re really trying to pack with as many fixes and changes we can to help you guys out (and we’ll have a bunch of articles posted with all the details as we get closer), and we’re of course working on 1.1 with PvP arenas. I think both those patches will do a lot to give people things to do, and get them excited about playing, but they’re not going to be a real end-game solution, at least not what we would expect out of a proper end-game. We have some ideas for progression systems, but honestly it’s a huge feature if we want to try to do it right, and not something we could envision being possible until well after 1.1 which it itself still a ways out."

"Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose, but we believed pre-release that the item hunt would be far more sustainable, and would work to be a proper end-game for quite a while. That didn’t turn out to be true, and we recognize that."

Surprisingly honest words from Blizzard...

So, what are your thoughts about this? Do you think an Expansion would be the best choice at this point?

NEWS SOURCE: Blizzard admits there's not enough content in Diablo 3 (via) GameRanx

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!

[WoIverine]

Give us gamepad support too! I will buy it as soon as that's added!

[JonathanD]

Give us gamepad support too! I will buy it as soon as that's added!

It's coming out for the PS3 from what I understand.

About the article Diablo III feels like Diablo 1.5 more then a 3 to me. They need to add socketed white stuff runes and runewords back in and some more gems would be nice also some rare and unique jewels would be nice.... and crafting and and and....

Just hurry up with the expansion and bring it at least in line with Diablo 2 LOD then ADD to it Blizzard!!! if you need some one with a crap ton of crazy idea's you can sort through and pick out the ones you like just send me a PM lol

Expansion idea off the top of my head, the Witch didn't die, the black soul stone was not destroyed.... However on its way down during planet fall it did break up in the separate evils... and people find them starting the whole process over again of trying to find a way to stop the planet from being hell's new playground!

[simian raticus]

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