Jesus christ, 7 million characters is not 7 million players. Also don't expect people to play 16 hours a day to reach 100 within a week.The people in the comments here.... yikes.
The core game is fun but I barely interact with the seasonal mechanic, they need to make those malignant mobs spawn every 10 min not every 2 hours.
Season is out for a week and doomsayers be like game is dying because so few are 100 at this point. just lul...
My biggest issue with D4 is they made it into the slowest ARPG i've ever seen, everything is slow.Running around town for 30 mins just to go back and forth from vendersHorse is the most clunky thing in recent memory Stupid objective based dungeons, also unskippable rooms where mobs dont even drop loot, running in circles on repeat, what happened to just slaughtering enemies.Leveling is super slow, but i guess since there is a max amount of paragon you can get instead of the infinite system they had in D3.Grinding mats is a chore, they added sooo many affixs on gear its near impossible to roll good stats, you get 3 rolls before you run out of mats. They secretly nerfed drop rate of mats, specifically veiled crystals. Before season i never had that issue now i can keep em.They gave us a patch buffing sorc and barb but all they did was take C and D tier skills and make them B and C. Nothing to push them into the top. D3 had so many betters features, if this was the first game in the franchise i could support the "it just came out" theory, but they had so many successful things from D3 they could have brought and just didn't, They SLOWED it all down. Next POE league here i come.
sadly i felt no motivation to reach lvl 100 with the preseason character stopping at around 87. I hit that milestone with lvl 15 on the second character overall and first in season 1. Something is missing for me. Exploring the waystones again and navigating the cities isnt it. I dread the renown stuff. And i should do this because i get a season only borrowed power system? Cosmetics i only see when i play that exact class and want to keep logging in? I thought i might do one class per season.. but then all the unlocks do not feel rewarding inside the season and after
What's missing is stuff to do. The campaign ends before you get halfway to 100, and then it's just grinding the same 4 things ad nauseam. Helltides, Legion Events, World Boss, Nightmare dungeons till you puke. (I didn't mention Whispers cause no ones grinding that crap)
ima level 84 rn and i dunno really how do ppl die from malignants or Vashran what is really an issue that the Butcher gets unbreakable shield 24/7 and makes you vulnerable
Cut that down to like maybe 1-2 million players max across PC/Xbox/PS/Switch because you need mules with how small stash size is and people like to play multiple classes and don't level one character past 80.
Personal reasons not keep playing :Terrible character appearances Terrible skill design (Ex: basic skills, most people don't use them)Terrible talent tree designTerrible class characteristics (Ex: shout shout shout ; imbuement imbuement imbuement )andthey never test anything , just like WOW.