One part of the community of Diablo 4 is complaining about the game while others continue to have fun with it. A player reports on Reddit why he is still not bored even after 1,000 hours and what others seem to be doing wrong.
Some are whining about Diablo 4, find the endgame too boring, had nothing to do after a few weeks. Season 2 was highly praised, described as the “definition of fun”, but there was also criticism. The endgame content was too hard and had to be adjusted. And Season 3 was first criticized, then it became a hit.
On Reddit, the user “yxalitis” explains on February 4 why he is still not bored with Diablo 4 after 1,000 hours – while others are. He advises players: If you don’t want to do something because you find it boring, then just don’t do it.
On February 6, “Lunar Awakening” starts in Diablo 4. An event that offers a bit of variety in the game and provides an XP bonus:
“The only purpose of a video game is entertainment”
Why is he still having fun? Even after 1,000 hours in Diablo 4, “yxalitis” still has no boredom and continues to enjoy the content. This is primarily because he forces himself to do nothing. People who do 500 runs at Uber-Duriel to farm specific uniques would complain about how boring it is.
He says: Just don’t do that. He only does what he feels like in Diablo 4 until he no longer feels like it. When he reads that there’s nothing to do, he can only say: really? On some days he does dungeons to level up the seneschal and to get glyph XP. On other days he goes into the helltide. And when he has enough materials, he and his clan-mates take down the bosses.
And when I no longer feel like playing after all that, I stop, and I don’t feel like it’s a fault of the game.
I love the core gameplay of Diablo 4, all the activities mentioned above can be summarized as: “Kill demons”. Not: “Get Uber-Uniques” or “Farm mats” or “Level up glyphs”, those are side effects, consequences of how you kill monsters.
If killing monsters is not the main reason you play, then you will eventually get bored with the game.
The only purpose of a video game is entertainment. I don’t watch TV shows that I find boring, I don’t play games that I find boring, and I certainly don’t play a game for hundreds of hours just to tell everyone that it’s “boring”.
“yxalitis” on Reddit
“A quick way to ruin the fun”
What does the community say about it? Some agree with him and still have fun with the content after many hours in Diablo 4. Others disagree and believe that you are “forced” to do certain content to progress.
We summarize a few comments from the Reddit post:
- “Once you reach [level] 100, the activities are definitely limited and they need to add more. I think the leaderboards will help with that. But even now you still have 4 other classes to grind.” – keegsahart
- “I agree, I’m still having a blast with D4 and have logged quite a few hours. I have three level 100 characters, […] and there’s no sign of me stopping. […] I believe many people treat D4 like a job, they find a meta build online and grind for hours […] then they play the exact same skill loops over and over until their brain melts… That’s a pretty quick way to ruin the fun.” – Invictus-87
- “I don’t completely agree with you. It’s not that people choose specific content. They are somewhat forced to do certain content if they want to make specific progress with their character. If you want […] to reroll affixes, you need forgotten souls. To obtain them, you MUST do helltides. If you want to level up glyphs, which is an important part of your endgame progress, you MUST do nightmare dungeons or vaults. If you want uniques, you MUST farm bosses, and to farm bosses, you MUST do […] specific activities.” – jMS_44
A change to the helltides at least makes it easier to farm loot and materials for summoning a boss. The rate at which helltides appear has been increased, and certain chests now visually differ from others.
This makes it significantly easier for players to target the chests, whereas previously external websites were needed for this. The change has been positively received: Small change makes it easier to find the best loot in Diablo 4
