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Go, hit him with the intro.

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Hello.

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They won't have heard that at all.

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I know, I was squeezing it out.

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Welcome to What's the Buttons episode 48.

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Is that right?

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Yeah, yeah, it's great.

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I'm back, sorry, things happen, I don't appear, it happens, Steph fills in, which is a fantastic replacement.

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To be fair, we weren't here last week either, so we're both back.

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Well yeah, you've got that really good episode about animals and stuff.

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That was a good episode.

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We might do Patreon free trials.

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Yeah, yeah, well.

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We could do Patreon free trials now, so we might do that so you suckers can go, oh yeah, that's really good, we can reel you in.

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Well that was the idea, because there's so many fucking Patreon episodes that you can get access to for £5 a month from www.patreon.com forward slash Walter Buttons.

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We figured there would be a couple decent ones that we can just release to the masses every now and then without getting the actual patrons butt hurt.

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And that was one of them.

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It was a very good episode.

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Probably the worst episode we've ever done is much better content on Patreon.

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It was great.

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Yeah, but we don't want them to tell them that's the best one.

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No, that's not the best one.

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That's the lowest bar there is.

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It's the worst one.

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It only gets better from there.

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So I'm back, yeah, I've been busy, thanks Steph for filling in, I hope you're enjoying Tears of the Kingdom, and I hope Mini Egg has returned.

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It has, she's completely restarted, great.

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She loves it.

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I enjoy Tears of the Kingdom.

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Have you finished it yet? She keeps asking me if you finished it.

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We have some things to talk about in Tears of the Kingdom.

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So I thought I finished it, but I didn't.

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So I thought I was on the final boss.

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So I did that and it was like, ah.

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Is there going to be a spoiler or what?

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No, no, that weren't the final boss.

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So now what I thought was the end or going to be the end wasn't the end.

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And then there was like, oh, if you just go in, I thought, oh, this is going to be the final boss.

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And I got there, it was like, no, no, no, if you just go and do this, I was like, okay, this is going to be the final boss.

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So I know you need to go and do these more for these four more things.

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And I was like, okay, I'm running out of time here before Diablo.

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So I've done one of them four things and now, unfortunately, Tears of the Kingdom is getting backburnered now.

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Is it?

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Yeah, well, Diablo, I will talk about that.

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But yeah, I must say Tears of the Kingdom is.

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It's good, isn't it?

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Yes, good. But there's a caveat.

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My caveat is I told you probably via voice note.

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So the receipts are there.

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I was going in with an open mind with the weapon durability.

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Yes, indeed. That's even on the podcast.

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Yeah, okay. Well, paper trail after 70 hours.

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I am here to confirm.

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I fucking hate it still.

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It's fucking shit.

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I fucking despise weapon durability.

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It sucks ball bags.

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I get it.

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I get it's the premise of the game.

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The weapons break.

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Yada yada. I get it.

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Just make them repairable.

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Make it so you have to scavenge to repair items so you don't lose them because I'm not being funny.

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This isn't a spoiler because it's happened in Breath of the Wild 2.

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The Master Sword, the ultimate sword, the best sword in the history of the universe.

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Why is that breaking?

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Or running out of power, I should say.

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It's so annoying.

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We was at a wedding last night and one of the guys there, Jack, he's a big Zelda fan.

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And he was literally standing at the bar and we were talking about it, me, him and Steph.

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And he was saying that when he got the Master Sword, he didn't realize that it had not a durability but an energy type thing.

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And he said I was just swinging that motherfucker around and then it went blop.

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And he was like, no.

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He started screaming.

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It doesn't make any sense why there's a durability on that.

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That should be... you put the effort in to fucking get it.

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That should be...

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Well, the thing with the Master Sword is, right, and I think this is how it should work.

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So the base damage is like 30, which is quite good to be fair for like any weapons.

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But you can combine weapons to make them more powerful.

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You can do that with the Master Sword as well.

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So if you've got something that's like 50 damage...

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Oh, you can bang something on the Master Sword?

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Yeah, but it doesn't connect to it so it just absorbs the power of it.

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You know what I mean?

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So then obviously say it's 30 base, which it is, and then you put... you absorb something with 50 so now it's 80.

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Then you can use that.

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If you want to do that, then yeah, it runs out of power.

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But if you don't infuse it, it should just be unbreakable, in my opinion.

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Because 30 is alright.

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It's not game breaking.

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When you get to where I'm at in the game, like 30 is like average.

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You know what I mean?

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It's nothing special.

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You just leave it and only be breakable if you want it to fuse it.

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So that if you fuse it, yeah.

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Because having the ultimate weapon in the Zelda universe run out of energy is just stupid.

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Without being able to repair it.

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You have to wait 10 minutes or 15 minutes.

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It comes back, but yeah, you go on the menu and there's like a countdown.

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And you're just like, it's the Master Sword, man.

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I will say that getting the Master Sword in this game was probably the coolest time you ever get the Master Sword in any game.

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I won't obviously go into it.

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But obviously you get the Master Sword in every game.

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Or most games.

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But yeah, they're always cool when you get it.

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But this one really, in Breath of the Wild you go through the forest.

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That's normally where they are.

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But yeah, what I loved about it was I didn't Google nothing.

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So I stayed away from all spoilers.

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Everything was like organic.

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And when I, because I'd done all the four temples.

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So I knew I could go and fight the boss.

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But I was like, well, I don't want to fight the boss without the Master Sword.

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Because you have to really.

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It's just the way it goes.

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It's like, where the fuck is this Master Sword, man?

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So I went to the forest where it was in the last one.

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Or where I thought it was.

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And there was like a big electric storm over it.

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And I couldn't get in there.

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It wouldn't let me in the forest.

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I was like, what the fuck am I supposed to do?

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So I won't tell you how you find it or anything like that.

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But yeah, there is a way to find it.

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And I followed the path, so to speak.

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Went through a number of things.

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And yeah, then I got it.

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And I was so gassed.

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And all the time, because I hadn't looked into it, I was like, please, please, please don't break.

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That's all I wanted.

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Just please don't break.

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Please don't run out of energy.

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Please don't be like Breath of the Wild.

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So I was just running around hitting as many things as I could with it.

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And then that dreaded message came up saying the Master Sword's running low on energy.

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And I was like fucking twacked.

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I smacked something else.

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And it went pshh.

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I was like, it's just so annoying.

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But if you take that out of the game, the weapon durability thing, or keep it in, but just make weapons repairable,

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I think it might be one of the best games I've ever played.

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But it really, really annoys me so much that I couldn't give it like the highest mark.

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There's, I don't see.

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Obviously, they do it because they want people to experience different weapons and blah, blah, blah.

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I'm with you on this.

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I'm going to be able to repair shit as well.

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If in World of Warcraft, I couldn't repair my fucking weapons, I'd be fuming because you put in a lot of effort to get hold of them.

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But make it so that there's, say, like specific zones or specific areas where you can repair items.

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So you can't just repair them on the go.

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You have to go back to a certain place to repair them.

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Because then that way, you won't be able to just travel with the same weapons and then be set for the rest of the game.

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Because you can't repair on the go.

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You always have to go back to certain places.

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I don't understand why that can't be a thing.

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That's what I was saying last time, and you just shouted me down about it.

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Well, I've grown up a lot since then.

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Well, listen, the thing is, right, and this is why I think it's a problem.

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Because the gameplay loop, there's many different gameplay loops, right?

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But one of the main gameplay loops is, you know, you see a camp, you go clear it, and there's a reward.

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There's a chest in there.

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But nine times out of ten, the reward in the chest is a weapon.

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Well, I've spent the equivalent of that weapon clearing a fucking camp.

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Just give me that weapon.

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Just give me another weapon of similar value or less or slightly better for return.

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I'm just like, well, if that weapon is not better than the weapon I've used to clear this camp...

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Then this was pointless.

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It's just pointless. Exactly my point.

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So it's just like, then it just kind of, you just think, well, I don't want to go and do that camp or destroy that or find out what that is, because I don't want to use my weapons.

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I don't want to waste these weapons.

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And like you say, I see the point and I get it and I don't mind it.

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I don't mind the weapons breaking as long as, like you say, I could go, right, I need four bokoblin guts and a linos horn, and then I can go and repair the sword.

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Cool. On my way back, I'll go and repair that and then I can use that again. That's fine.

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But the weapons break so quickly, like everything breaks so quickly.

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There's only a few weapons that have a bit more durability.

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And the annoying thing is I never dupe, I never glitch, I never do anything like that.

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So many people have been doing that. It's crazy.

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But there's a dupe glitch for the master sword that you can make it unbreakable.

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Just the base 30 unbreakable. But that was before they patched it.

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Nice.

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So if I'd done that, because even in the new updates, it's still there. People still got it.

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So if I'd done that before the update, I could have had, and that would have made my experience so much better.

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Nevertheless, I think it's a fantastic game. My concern now is I don't think I'll ever finish it.

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Because you're stuck with Diablo.

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Well, yeah, just because it's one of them games, I think if I go back to it, it won't suck me in like it has.

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The story on this has been really good. The story on Breath of the Wild, I can't remember it.

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This one, the story has been actually fucking really good and I've actually followed it and it's been sick.

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But yeah.

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I think you'll be back to finishing it in two weeks when Diablo's dead.

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I don't think so.

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I think so.

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You know a little, Jon Snow. I think you're very wrong.

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But no, it's a very good game. I enjoy it a great deal.

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But that weapon durability, man, really drags my enjoyment down, unfortunately.

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I think there's a lot of people in the same boat. I think you ain't the only one that gets annoyed by that.

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Oh, I know. It nearly stopped me from buying it just because I hated it so much in Breath of the Wild.

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But I thought maybe they've iterated a bit with the fusing mechanic.

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There's different armour, isn't there?

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So has that got durability?

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No, no.

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Why does that make sense?

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Only weapons, bows and shields.

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So weapons and shields get done in for using them and bows.

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But when you get hit by enemies, there's no durability on your armour.

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No durability.

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So you can't even say that it's a realism type of thing because if it was, then your armour would be broken as well.

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It would be hunting and gathering for armour as well.

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I'd say it's very fixable and I get the gameplay mechanic of it and I agree with it.

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I do think it is a good way of, you know, because it does make you scavenge and forage for things.

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But I just feel like there's a point where, alright, have every weapon break. Not the Master Sword. Not the Master Sword.

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You can't do that. It should be like the pinnacle of weaponry.

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Because I'm just like, what's the fucking point in using it then?

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Yeah, yeah.

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It's just going to fucking cool down and it's very frustrating.

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But yeah, it's a fantastic game.

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Hopefully they build upon it and change that at some point in the next game or something.

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Or just play with it a little bit because I know there's a lot of people, there's a lot of Reddit posts and things.

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And YouTube videos of why I'll never buy it or play it because it ruins the experience.

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And I do think it dampens it. I really do.

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It's very frustrating.

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The combat's probably the weakest part of the game anyway.

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The rest of it's fantastic.

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The combat's just swing, swing and I think there's not really much to it.

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But still a very good game. Top tier.

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But yeah, I guess Diablo.

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Are we going to talk about Diablo?

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Can do.

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Can do, yeah.

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So I got in from work and the missus and the kids were out.

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And I thought, well, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

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So I'll jump on this quickly. For the pod, obviously.

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I saw that you was online and then I got briefly angry because I was like, he's supposed to be fucking coming here for a pod.

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And I was like, I guarantee he's doing it for the pod.

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100%.

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So I was like, I won't say anything.

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I much prefer playing games in the evening when I've got my headphones on.

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I'm settled. Especially new games because I get right in the zone.

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I get up closer in a bean bag. I'm like, here we go.

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I thought, well, I've got an opportunity here to get some done.

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So I've got something to talk about.

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So I've got more than saying talk about.

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Oh, it's so good.

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The cinematic at the opening.

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I was gas.

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Cinematics.

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Oh my God.

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I was so gassed.

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Had you played any of the beta?

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I played the beta but I skipped it all.

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I was like, I don't care.

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I skipped it all straight away.

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I played the beta and then they did like a server stress.

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Server slam, wasn't it?

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Yeah. And I jumped on that as well.

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So a lot of the intros and things like that.

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I've seen that it is fucking is cool, man.

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It is very cool.

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So I, I've done the intro.

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Uh, two things I wanted to ask you.

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I see the quiz.

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You shall say, right?

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There's five classes.

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Can you guess what class I picked?

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I reckon so.

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Go rogue.

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Nope.

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Barbarian.

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Barbarian.

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Yep.

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Second thing I'll give you three guesses.

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I don't think you're going to get it, but you should get it.

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I don't think you will in three guesses.

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What did I call him?

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What did you call the rogue?

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Oh, sorry.

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The barbarian.

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My big bastard barbarian with a top knot and shaved side heads.

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He looks hard.

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Ragnar.

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Yeah.

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You got it.

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I shouldn't have said that.

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He said shaved.

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I shouldn't have said that part.

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Yeah.

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Ragnar.

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Big Ragnar.

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That's very cool.

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But the, so I'm part of, um, obviously my guild has a discord and a lot of them are

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playing Diablo at the moment.

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A lot of people in that discord slating it off.

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Hell of a lot of people are.

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What Diablo?

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The barbarian?

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Diablo.

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Why?

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Um, cause they're very meta, aren't they?

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They're, they're, they don't just play the game for the fun of it.

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They want to be the best of the best.

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So then you start looking into the builds and all of that.

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I've seen a lot of stuff with the druid being really like shit early on in the game, which

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I found when I played the betas, I was like, yeah, this guy ain't, ain't as fun as I was

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hoping.

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Um, but I feel like opinions based on that for a game that technically hasn't released

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yet for the masses.

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You're not even in the season yet.

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Um, is a bit, is a bit early on to be slating it.

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Um, but obviously you've already had a, had a hands on experience of it early doors.

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I take all of that with a complete pinch of salt because this Diablo is unlike any other

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Diablo because it's a live service Diablo, which is completely different.

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All the other ones have not been live service.

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This is battle pass.

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This is seasonal content.

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This is four expansions and a year, and this is completely different.

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So the, everything's going to be changing constantly.

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So I don't think you could ever put a definitive review out for a game of live service.

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Like it's like saying world of warcraft, you stick a review on it now, but it's not going

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to be the same in five years.

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It'd be different next week.

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Exactly.

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I don't think you can go, ah, it's not great at the moment, but it could get better.

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It could get worse.

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You don't know what you have with, with games like this is streamers so heavily influenced

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the early days of games like this, especially games like Diablo.

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Um, people like Osmond gold will love asthma.

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Gold.

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Yeah.

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He's obviously so many videos of him.

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Obviously he's barbarian and he's, he's using a whirlwind build.

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Um, and that's what everyone else will be using.

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And if he says that a certain build shit, then that build is shit and no one will use

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it.

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Um, they, they heavily influenced games like this.

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Um, so I think people fall into the trap of not actually trying and testing stuff out.

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They just see that something is apparently shit and then go, oh, well that's what happened.

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I'm not going to use that.

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It's interesting that their opinions that you've seen, because I've seen the complete

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counter opposite from what you've, what you've said.

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These are PC games though.

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A lot of them are just cunts.

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Yeah.

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From YouTubers and podcasts and that and people that have played all the Diablo's and stuff.

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They're really excited.

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Obviously there's the odd person I've seen that is just, ah, this sucks or this sucks,

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but most people have been really positive on build variety, how different, how easy

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it is to switch builds.

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So you're not locked in and stuff.

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If you don't want to, one of my favorite features, which is going to change the game for me personally

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is being able to skip the campaign just by pressing a button on other characters because

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that always stops me from playing other characters.

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I don't want to do that shit again.

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100%.

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There's, ah, there's that really shit missing mission that I hated.

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I don't ever want to do that again.

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They, um, the previous expansion of world warcraft shadow lands, they had us, it was

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called a renowned system where it was like a, like a reputation with different faction

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kind of shit.

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And they locked it into, was it fly, they locked it into the progression of the entire

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story and it put people off because you were forced to grind out these different things.

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Whereas in dragon flight, it means absolutely fucking nothing.

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You can do it if you want.

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I've done it in one character.

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My main character now, I haven't even fucking touched it because I don't need to do it.

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And that makes people want to play a hell of a lot more and move around and, and diversify

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with characters for that exact reason.

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Like you just said, it puts you off.

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If you decide that, ah, I want to stop playing this character that I put a hundred hours

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in and make a new character, but you've then got to go through all the bullshit that you've

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already done with that character, it's annoying.

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So if you have the ability to just go like just from a developer point of view, if you

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understand that a lot of people don't want to do that again, because they already know

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the story, there's no benefit for it.

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They know the rewards that you get from it, which are usually of no value anyway, because

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that's the whole point of end game content.

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So yeah, no, it's good to hear that you don't have to fuck around with campaigns or multiple

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different characters if you don't want to.

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I'm gassed because yeah, there's loads of characters I want to try and I will because

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I haven't got to do all that and I can just jump straight essentially to like the beginning

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of end game, but not really there.

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Yeah.

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And that's what you want.

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Yeah.

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That's what I want.

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I want to get, cause the end game is what everyone wants to do.

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Whilst the story is actually quite interesting, I'm enjoying what I've seen.

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Yeah, but you only want to experience it once.

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Yeah, I only want to experience it once and once I'm done with it and I'm content, I will

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move on and try other things out, which I would never do.

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Even in Destiny, it's a bit egregious, like, cause I didn't really want to play any other

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character.

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I switched to Titan and I've always been a hunter, but I had to do so much boring shit

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again.

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Now they introduced in Lightful, the latest expansion that there's a campaign to give,

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but it costs silver, which you have to buy.

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You have to pay for it.

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So it's like a tenner.

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Yeah.

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And I was just like, do that for the whole thing.

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So cause you have to unlock all the fragments, all the shards, like for this class abilities.

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And I get it keeps more people playing it because you have to play it for longer to

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do it.

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But then there's people like me that won't do it because they don't want to do it.

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Yeah.

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But if you gave me the skip option, I'd play the game more.

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That kind of gatekeeping is, it's quite harmful if you do it longterm, if you consistently

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make it that way so that, oh, you can only do a certain amount of stuff a week and then,

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and then you got to wait, wait until this month or until this point in the year until

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you can do this and that and that it becomes very annoying flip side of it.

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If you have none of that, people are just going to rinse, rinse stuff in a week that

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should have taken six months.

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It's just how it works.

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But I normally find that if you don't force people to play, they will play even more than

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if you were forcing them to play.

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Exactly what I'm saying.

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Exactly.

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That's why I feel it's kind of productive.

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If we get the elite triads that will want to max every character out with everything,

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cool.

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I haven't got, I haven't got 12, 14 hours a day.

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It removes, it removes your FOMO.

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If I give you a campaign that's 10 chapters long and I tell you that you cannot access

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the end game until you've done these 10 chapters, but these 10 chapters will take you six weeks

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to do, it's, it's going to be annoying and you're going to want to rinse them because

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you aren't going to want to miss out on them.

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If I turn around to you and said, there's 10 chapters here that you can do.

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You can just skip these and go straight to the end game.

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But I'd suggest to do the 10 chapters.

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You might dip your toes in, you might love doing it, but you ain't going to feel pressured

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to do it.

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You might just go straight to end game, but you'll be more interested in doing all of

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it because you're not forced to do it.

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Exactly.

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So I'll be playing a majority of the characters.

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I'll probably, next I'll probably want to go Necromancer.

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I think I'll always go Rogue.

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I normally wouldn't pick the barbarian and I'll tell you my only reason for doing it

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this reason, this time is because I want, I think Diablo four, I'm going to say it.

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I think it's going to be one of them forever games.

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I think it's going to be one of them.

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I can drop out for a month and jump back in.

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Whereas Destiny is different in terms of when, when you go back to Destiny, it's fucking

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well over.

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Listeners remember this when he talked about fucking light for, we said the exact same

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words and how, when's the last time this man's even touched?

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I always go back to Destiny, but my point being that when I go back to Destiny, I am

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overwhelmed.

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I've put a ridiculous amount of hours into Destiny.

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I've platinumed it.

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I've done all the bollocks, but when I go back, they change so many fundamental things

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that it's overwhelming.

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If you're not keeping up with everything, there's Diablo.

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It's also casual friendly.

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If you want to just go on and just whack some, some fucking things for a bit of loot, you

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can.

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Um, and that has been the majority of people's opinions is it's one of them.

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It is a forever game.

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It's one of them.

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You can just jump on and, and you just won't really need to learn much more than you already

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know.

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And if you do just stick it on world tier one and just have away with it.

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But uh, there's something so satisfying about that.

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That's what I'm discovering with Diablo, which I knew anyway, to a degree with destiny and

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that, but I am just a loop goblin.

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I just like whacking things.

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See shiny stuff come out, pick it up and go, is that better?

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Yeah.

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Lovely.

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And then that dopamine rush straight away.

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Bang.

474
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Then you've got, you know, I've played it for what an hour, an hour and a half, the amount

475
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:31,360
of times that screen shined with leveling up new weapon, little titles fucking popping

476
00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:32,360
up.

477
00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:34,280
You know, you've done this challenge that you don't even know you're doing.

478
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:35,280
Here's a title.

479
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,880
I'm just them little dopamine rush.

480
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:37,880
Yes.

481
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:38,880
Yes.

482
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:39,880
More, more, more.

483
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:40,880
That is what I want.

484
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,440
I'm getting new swords.

485
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:43,440
I'm getting new clubs.

486
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:44,480
I'm getting new axes.

487
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:45,480
I'm getting fucking titles.

488
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:50,960
And my favorite thing, I don't know why I have everything that I can get.

489
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:55,040
Titles are the number one thing that I just love collecting.

490
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,120
Any title I can get hold of.

491
00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,000
I want it because I just think they're so fucking cool.

492
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000
There's only one thing.

493
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,000
All right.

494
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,360
This put me off a Diablo, not put me off, but it's made me skeptical about how it's

495
00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:06,360
going to work out.

496
00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:11,440
And it's the seasonal content because they've never done it before.

497
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,440
Like they did, but I don't think not in this.

498
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,920
They've never had battle passes and stuff like that.

499
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:21,400
So I was reading up about it and apparently they did a bit of this in Diablo three because

500
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:27,780
I want, I wanted to know how the, um, how the story expansions work.

501
00:23:27,780 --> 00:23:30,240
So in destiny you get new seasons.

502
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,080
So you just carry on with your character.

503
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,080
You get new stories.

504
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:34,080
You go and interact with it.

505
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,080
You do this, that and the other.

506
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,560
This is, I'm going to read this because this, you might, you'll make more sense.

507
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:40,560
It's a blizzard game.

508
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:41,840
So you should make more sense of this.

509
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,640
I am the expert on this pod when it comes to exactly.

510
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,440
So that's why I need you.

511
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,440
Gfinity Diablo four seasons roadmap.

512
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:50,840
Everything we know so far.

513
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,120
So the wait for Diablo four is finally over.

514
00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:55,440
There's a lot to be excited about.

515
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,080
One of the key things that many have been asking about is seasons and if Diablo four

516
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,080
will have them.

517
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,240
Thankfully we have a high level Diablo four seasons roadmap that Blizzard has given to

518
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,320
us.

519
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,440
Seasons have been a model that many games have used in the past to add new content to

520
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,760
the game as well as a regimented way to implement balance changes as well.

521
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:17,320
Diablo two was one of the first to implement a seasons as we know it today.

522
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:21,320
And as time passed, this model was iterated onto what we know it to be.

523
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,160
Diablo four seasons roadmap.

524
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,680
In a Diablo four quarterly update, the developers have given us a high level overview about

525
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,040
seasons in Diablo four and what we can expect in each season.

526
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:37,840
There'll be up to four seasons each year, each with new content that players will experience

527
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,000
right from the get go.

528
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,360
Seasons in Diablo four, and this is a bit that I'm not sure I like and you might be

529
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:47,320
able to, you know, alleviate my fears on this.

530
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:52,560
Seasons in Diablo four will function as a clean slate with a full wipe of the playing

531
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,040
field.

532
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,200
Players will pick a new class and play through the game acquiring new items to power up the

533
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,640
new character.

534
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,040
This full wipe is a way for the team to implement new content to the game, including new quest

535
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:08,760
lines and challenges that set the stage and theme of the new season.

536
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:15,320
The seasonal wipe is also, this is written terribly, the seasonal wipe is also allows

537
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:19,320
the team to implement any changes or additions to the game to maintain the balance and the

538
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,080
overall meta of builds or bring quality of life features to improve player experiences.

539
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:31,120
After a season concludes, characters in that season will be retired to the eternal realm

540
00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:36,480
where players can keep leveling and building out those characters, but without any of the

541
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,520
benefits of any current seasonal content.

542
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,200
Does that make any sense to you?

543
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:47,560
No, wait, wait, read the wiping bit again, the first bit.

544
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,160
Seasons in Diablo four will function as a clean slate with a full wipe of the playing

545
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,160
field.

546
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,360
Players will pick a new class and play through the game, acquiring new items to power up

547
00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:57,360
the new character.

548
00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:02,160
This full wipe is a way for the team to implement new content to the game, including new quest

549
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,720
lines and challenges that set the stage and theme of the new season.

550
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,640
The seasonal wipe also allows the team to implement any changes or additions to the

551
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,440
game to maintain the balance and the overall meta of builds or bring quality of life features

552
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,800
to improve player experiences.

553
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:20,760
After a season concludes, characters in that season will be retired to the eternal realm

554
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,920
where players can keep leveling and building out those characters, but without any of the

555
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,680
benefits of any current seasonal content.

556
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,880
So the season must be optional to participate in?

557
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:32,880
I guess so.

558
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:33,880
This is what I don't understand.

559
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,080
But I don't understand how that works.

560
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,480
Because what is the season then?

561
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:38,480
I don't know.

562
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,160
I don't get that.

563
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,100
So this is how I thought it would have been.

564
00:26:43,100 --> 00:26:44,760
So you have seasons on WoW.

565
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,080
You have Mythic plus seasons and PvP seasons.

566
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:53,440
And all it means is that there's a different rotation of Mythic plus dungeons and different,

567
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,800
they call them affixes, which is just like, yeah.

568
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:56,800
Affixes are in this too.

569
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:57,800
Yeah.

570
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:03,640
So it might be like for this week, every boss gets 30% extra health or shit like that.

571
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,560
And you have a rank.

572
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,280
You have a ranking system within that season.

573
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,480
It's called a Mythic plus rating.

574
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:17,580
And you always get an achievement if you get over 2000, you get a mountain or that shit.

575
00:27:17,580 --> 00:27:19,560
And that's what everyone aims for.

576
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:25,080
And then every, I think it's like three months or something like that, it resets.

577
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,360
And then there's a new season.

578
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:29,320
And then they do a different rotation of dungeons.

579
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:30,320
But that's all that happens.

580
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,480
That is how you get different gear and shit like that.

581
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:39,560
But the actual character that you're playing doesn't get reset or wiped because it's a

582
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,500
character that you're playing.

583
00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:44,020
So I don't understand what that means.

584
00:27:44,020 --> 00:27:48,000
So essentially what, because I looked at it a little bit when I got here on Reddit about

585
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,840
it, cause I was like, what the fuck does that mean?

586
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:50,840
I don't, yeah, I don't get it.

587
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:57,000
So essentially what I gathered from what people are saying is that when a season comes out,

588
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:02,280
you can pick a, you pick a new class, play through with that.

589
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,280
Then once the season's over, that character will go into like the pool of characters you

590
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:11,240
have and you can carry on playing with that character that you've leveled.

591
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,120
But it won't be like in the, I don't know.

592
00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:16,800
Yeah, but what are the, what are the seasonal benefits though?

593
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:17,800
I don't know.

594
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:18,800
I don't get it.

595
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:19,800
There is more to read.

596
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,560
So, okay, you carry on.

597
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,200
In addition to new content and seasonal wipes, there's going to be a couple of mainstay features

598
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,200
in each season.

599
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,520
First is going to be the season journey.

600
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,880
This is a returning feature from Diablo three where players will have a separate objective

601
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,600
track to complete aside from the main story quests.

602
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:44,480
Blizzard has stated that the season journeys, this go around poorly, man, the season journeys,

603
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,520
this go around will be much more challenging than Diablo threes and we'll have a new pinnacle

604
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,680
difficulty challenge each season.

605
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,600
The second mainstay feature of each season will be the battle pass.

606
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,160
Fucking yada, yada, yada.

607
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:59,000
But I, yeah, I don't, I don't know how it works.

608
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,800
I don't get, I don't understand that.

609
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,840
Cause that, that to me sounds fucking awful.

610
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,460
So you put a load of time and effort into a character for an entire season.

611
00:29:08,460 --> 00:29:12,120
And then when it's the next season, you can't use that character anymore.

612
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,720
You have to make a brand new character.

613
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:14,720
You can use the character.

614
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:15,720
Yeah.

615
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,240
But you won't be able to use it for the next season though.

616
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,480
That's, but yeah, they're quarterly though.

617
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,600
So it's not like, it's not a monthly thing or anything.

618
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:23,600
Yeah.

619
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:24,800
But that's still not fair.

620
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,200
How imagine, imagine you're playing destiny.

621
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,760
I know this is why I don't like the idea of it.

622
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:39,280
And you have to, so you put, um, four months into a character for, for bungee to turn around

623
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,120
to you and then go, right, you've either got to archive this character or we're going to

624
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,640
fucking wipe it.

625
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,320
You've got to start again.

626
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:53,640
This is what will make it acceptable for me is say, say the new season comes out, right.

627
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:58,320
And I pick barbarian and run the season with that barbarian.

628
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:03,600
All the stuff that I've collected, can I transfer into a chest so my other character can carry

629
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,600
on?

630
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:05,600
Almost definitely not.

631
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:06,960
Well that's then it's not worth it.

632
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:07,960
What's the point?

633
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:08,960
Of course it's not worth it.

634
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,760
There must be more to that because that just sounds fucking game breaking to me.

635
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:19,480
To have an MMO where the whole point of it and the end game content is to have a character

636
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:27,440
that you spend time, love and effort into it to then have it wiped clean.

637
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,760
And then you start all over forcibly starting all over again.

638
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:32,760
To me, it doesn't sound right.

639
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:37,560
I think we're reading, we're, we're reading it wrong because there's no way I haven't

640
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,280
heard anything about that.

641
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,840
I feel like if that was a thing, how we're talking about it, we would hear uproar about

642
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,520
it because it sounds fucking balmy to me.

643
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,360
Yeah, that's what I don't understand.

644
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,360
This is what, this is why it scares me.

645
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,280
It's like Google Diablo 4 wiping characters.

646
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,640
But you're just going to read the same thing that I've, I've read.

647
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,760
I think I don't, I think it is just the way it is.

648
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,680
As part of reset players will pick a new class and play through the game.

649
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,600
You know, it is a different thing.

650
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:06,600
Roadmap, blah, blah, blah.

651
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:07,600
Recent quarter, I'll do a different show.

652
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,040
As part of reset players will pick a new class, play through the game, acquiring new items

653
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,280
to power up their character.

654
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:18,400
This means that the progress made in previous seasons will not carry over, providing a fresh

655
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:19,960
start for everyone.

656
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,280
This approach will allow players to experiment with different classes and play styles, making

657
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,880
each season a unique experience.

658
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,640
Seasonal wipe is a way of, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

659
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:30,640
Here we go.

660
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:31,640
I'm on the Blizzard forums.

661
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:32,640
Yeah, you tell me.

662
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:33,640
So this is where it was.

663
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:38,840
So they said, someone said, could you explain to me how the concepts of open world MMO and

664
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,280
the season pass that resets the character every three months can be combined?

665
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:46,240
I don't understand how it makes sense to have a persistent world in constant evolution,

666
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,600
but having to start from scratch every time to enjoy new content and items.

667
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,600
This seems to go against the concept of persistence that Diablo 4 promises.

668
00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:00,520
I played for more than 180 hours, I powered up my character to the maximum and now with

669
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:06,240
the release of the season pass, I should start over with a new character to participate.

670
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:07,240
I concur.

671
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:12,280
Personally, I consider this experience truly detrimental and if confirmed, I will request

672
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:13,280
a refund.

673
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:17,800
Someone's first person to respond.

674
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,080
Then go get a refund.

675
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,400
It doesn't reset your character, but gives you seasonal rewards for doing a fresh one.

676
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,920
You won't have to play through the whole story again, as it seems, won't need to do stuff

677
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,760
like the collectible status statues again.

678
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,040
The share open world has nothing to do with how a season system works.

679
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,240
Why do you think it's different with Diablo 4 than Diablo 3?

680
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,240
Blah, blah, blah.

681
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,720
He's just talking shit.

682
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,240
Why did you pre-order if you're not fully committed to the purchase and never fucking

683
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:47,240
know?

684
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,040
And no one in the beta both got a what?

685
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,200
They were blah.

686
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,040
Is anyone on here not going to be a cunt?

687
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,400
Typical fucking Blizzard forum, man.

688
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,800
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

689
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,920
They're not explaining what it is.

690
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:07,520
We can hypothesize that Diablo 4 in terms of game.

691
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:08,520
Oh, fucking hell.

692
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:09,520
He's not even talking about it.

693
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:10,520
What does it say?

694
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,020
Instead of being able to enjoy it with my character by simply scaling the stats, they

695
00:33:14,020 --> 00:33:18,080
tell me, hey, nice, but you need to start over from scratch to try out this new content

696
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,080
and mechanics.

697
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:24,400
It's as if in Guild Wars 2 every seasonal free mini expansion, I have to start over

698
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,160
from scratch and do everything again.

699
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,120
The experience offered by Diablo 4 are highly comparable to Skyrim and Guild Wars 2, but

700
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,840
as in, wow, with content patches here, blah, blah, blah, blah.

701
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,640
Whatever I just played.

702
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:37,640
The fuck did I just pay?

703
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,640
What did I just pay for?

704
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,280
Sorry, excuse me.

705
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,280
Google Play.

706
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:49,600
What did I just buy with Google Play for 60 quid?

707
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:55,280
What the fuck did I just pay for?

708
00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:00,200
I don't understand what I've just paid for, you know.

709
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,840
You have you found anything Google wise?

710
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:03,840
I'm reading it.

711
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,320
I'm just trying to make sense of it, man.

712
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,320
It's just that doesn't I don't get it.

713
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,520
It was fucking Duolingo.

714
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,200
You little cunts.

715
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:14,200
What the fuck?

716
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,200
What?

717
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:16,200
The language learning thing.

718
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,200
Are you mad?

719
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,200
Are you mad?

720
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:19,200
Have you just bought a year pass?

721
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:20,200
What the fuck's that?

722
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,200
No, I downloaded Duolingo.

723
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,280
I'm going to have to sort this out.

724
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:25,320
Which is free.

725
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:26,320
Which is free.

726
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,440
I use it to learn Spanish.

727
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,000
I'm learning Hungarian.

728
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Congrats.

729
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:37,440
And they give me a week's worth or two weeks worth of the free trial shit.

730
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,800
And I went, all right, well, the two weeks is up.

731
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,680
And rather than reminding me, they've just fucking renewed it for 60 quid.

732
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,680
What the fuck?

733
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:48,680
What?

734
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,880
Can I have that back, please?

735
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:52,880
I want that back.

736
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,480
Well, how do I do this?

737
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:55,480
What?

738
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,240
Why don't you pause the pod?

739
00:34:57,240 --> 00:34:58,480
Yes, I'm going to have to.

740
00:34:58,480 --> 00:34:59,480
Sorry, ladies and gentlemen.

741
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:00,480
This is a monetary problem.

742
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:01,480
Give us a minute.

743
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,480
Ladies and gentlemen, I do apologize.

744
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:05,480
I'm back.

745
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:06,480
We're back.

746
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,480
Just Duolingo has robbed me.

747
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,800
So I can even that ain't free.

748
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:13,800
It's crazy, isn't it?

749
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:19,160
Even if I want to learn Hungarian, that ain't fucking I've got to spend the big bucks.

750
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:24,040
But this little break that we had has so we could lie here and say that we went on like

751
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,080
a two hour break.

752
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:32,160
It's now the following day, but it has allowed us to gain a little bit more insight into

753
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,760
this season bullshit with Diablo.

754
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,080
I'm hoping Ash is going to have some answers for me while I eat my biscuit.

755
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,360
It's not actually the following day.

756
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,360
It's literally been 10 minutes.

757
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:44,540
Strange man.

758
00:35:44,540 --> 00:35:52,840
So basically what I can gather is you've got you got a base game.

759
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:58,880
So what they're saying is from all the sources that I've just read that when the new season

760
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,560
comes out, there'll be new stuff.

761
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:02,560
You create a new character.

762
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,680
You go and do that.

763
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,920
You do whatever you level him up.

764
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:06,920
You max him out.

765
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,920
You get all your gear, whatever you do.

766
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:13,280
Then at the end of the season, that character just gets transferred back into base game

767
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:14,280
stuff.

768
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,880
So you can.

769
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:21,720
So essentially say there's new items, there's a fucking new helmet for a barbarian or whatever.

770
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:26,160
You can go and get that with a new character and then transfer it to your other barbarian

771
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,360
in the main game stuff.

772
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:33,440
The reason it's not that bad in this, I guess, is there's in your in the vanilla game, essentially

773
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,520
there's like world bosses and there's PVP and stuff like that.

774
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:42,720
So maybe just really want something to go and use in PVP so you can go and do the seasonal

775
00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:43,720
content for it.

776
00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:48,040
So personally for me, I'd rather just have one character, two characters, three characters

777
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,240
that I level and play.

778
00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:50,240
It sounds annoying.

779
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:51,240
Yeah, that's what I mean.

780
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:52,800
I don't like starting new characters.

781
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:53,800
I don't.

782
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,320
So what you do, you've got about 40.

783
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:57,960
Yeah, but I only play one.

784
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,880
I got a main and that's all I play.

785
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:06,720
So what you're saying is with every season, there'll be new gear and things like that.

786
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:15,480
And new quests to experience and so it will force me to create a new character.

787
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,360
That character, say I've already.

788
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:18,360
You don't have to.

789
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,280
If you just don't want to do the season, you can just play normal.

790
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:25,600
But if they've got some cool shit in there, some decent shit or some meta shit.

791
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:30,640
So if you want to see new content, you have to make a new character to experience it.

792
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:35,280
And then when that season is done, all the stuff that you've got on that character, you

793
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:40,760
can transfer it to one of your, to say your main character.

794
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,280
But that main character will never be able to experience any of the new content that's

795
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:48,480
in the season because you have to make a new character to participate in the season.

796
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:49,960
That sounds fucking awful.

797
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,320
Yeah, don't sound great.

798
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,760
That doesn't sound good at all.

799
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,360
Why would that be a thing?

800
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:59,200
Why would you not just have a character that you can main and then that can participate

801
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,440
in every single fucking season there is?

802
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,480
Why would that not make sense?

803
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,040
Why would people be okay with that as well?

804
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,960
I don't want to be forced to have to play a new character every fucking three months,

805
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,960
three, four months.

806
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,720
I don't want to have to do that.

807
00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:20,680
So and surely, surely that's going to get quite boring because let's say the only class

808
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,520
that you like playing in Diablo four is a barbarian.

809
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,800
So you main a barbarian, season one comes out.

810
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,280
You then play season one with that barbarian that you've made having a fantastic time.

811
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,540
Season two now comes out or season one's ended.

812
00:38:36,540 --> 00:38:40,920
You've now had to put that barbarian on the back burner back into the normal world.

813
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,400
Season two's now come out.

814
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,040
You can't bring your barbarian back into season two.

815
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,160
So what do you do?

816
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,640
The only class you like playing is barbarian.

817
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,000
So you make another barbarian.

818
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:56,880
So you now have to go from the base level up to max level in this season.

819
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:02,620
So replaying a class that you already play, learning all the spells, doing the same fucking

820
00:39:02,620 --> 00:39:05,840
talent build because that's what you like playing to get gear.

821
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:06,840
Okay, cool.

822
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,960
So you've now got some cool gear.

823
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:13,600
Now do you keep it with that barbarian or do you put it with the new barbarian?

824
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,960
Well no, you're going to put it with your main barbarian.

825
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,140
So now season two's over.

826
00:39:17,140 --> 00:39:18,320
Now season three's come out.

827
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:19,320
What are you going to do?

828
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,680
You've got to make another barbarian, get more gear with that barbarian that's now got

829
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,140
to go to your fucking season one, your first season barbarian.

830
00:39:26,140 --> 00:39:28,480
It just sounds like a system that's just, just.

831
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,520
It doesn't sound right.

832
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:37,920
And the whole, if you play other classes, so you play barbarian season one and then

833
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,560
in season two you're doing a necromancer.

834
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:41,560
Okay.

835
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:46,120
Well you're not going to be getting the same gear for the drop in for the necromancer as

836
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,560
you are for the barbarian.

837
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,320
So you've now done season two as a necromancer.

838
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,840
Well there's nothing that you can transfer over from that to your barbarian.

839
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,020
So you've now got two characters that are pointless in playing.

840
00:39:58,020 --> 00:40:01,000
And then you make a third character for season three.

841
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:09,960
I just, they have that surely they have to make the characters viable outside of seasons.

842
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:15,000
Otherwise there's absolutely no point in having a main character outside of a season because

843
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,720
it won't be able to do anything.

844
00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:18,320
I don't like the sound of it at all.

845
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:19,320
Yeah.

846
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:20,320
Sounds a bit shit.

847
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:21,320
I'll read this Reddit post.

848
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:22,320
This is what I was reading earlier.

849
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,280
Can someone explain how seasons will work?

850
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,840
Got some crisps as well.

851
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:27,840
Great.

852
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,440
I think more people want to hear on it.

853
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:30,560
Bacon rushes.

854
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:35,880
As a completely new player to the Diablo franchise, can someone please clarify what seasons mean?

855
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,200
Do we get to keep our progress, levels, loot, et cetera?

856
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,080
Or is it wiped every season?

857
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:41,520
What happens if we miss a season?

858
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:45,720
Are we forever behind?

859
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:48,920
When a new season starts, you get the option to create a seasonal character.

860
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:54,280
Nothing from your non-season characters or previous season characters, items, gold, levels,

861
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,660
et cetera, will carry over to your new seasonal character.

862
00:40:57,660 --> 00:41:00,040
It is essentially a fresh new start.

863
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:04,800
When the season ends, the character you played during the season will then be made into a

864
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:10,240
non-seasonal character where you can choose to keep it forever.

865
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:15,960
Seasons usually have a special affix or seasonal theme to help keep it fresh.

866
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:23,000
Also, if you miss a season, you die in real life.

867
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,080
I'll just carry on reading some more of the comments while you're eating the crisps.

868
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,120
This guy has the right info.

869
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,080
No one wants to hear that up against your mouth.

870
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,240
You're chewing crisps into the mic.

871
00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:35,560
This guy has the right info.

872
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:40,400
Literally, all of it is 100% correct, even the last statement.

873
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,920
Diablo 4 team also stated they're going to make sure each season feels fresh and different,

874
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,400
so I'm hoping they do more than just a special affix.

875
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,080
Is there anything carrying over?

876
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,760
At least your leaderboard ranked from the season before.

877
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:59,080
I kind of hate games where I grind and the month everything is gone without proof.

878
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,200
At least your leaderboard ranked from the season before.

879
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:02,200
What is the point?

880
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:03,200
I hate games where I grind.

881
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:04,520
He's just copying his comment.

882
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:05,520
It's not gone.

883
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,280
It just gets moved to non-seasonal world where you can play forever.

884
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:13,200
If you don't like the idea to start over, just keep playing your first character outside

885
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:14,880
of the season.

886
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,040
They replied with, is that viable?

887
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,680
Is it a thing that's commonly done?

888
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:23,480
I'd also personally like to improve one character over time and not keep starting over again

889
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,560
considering I don't have that much time on my hands.

890
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,240
They replied, yes, it is completely fine to do.

891
00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:33,440
Plenty of people do just that, but you can only do so much on that one character and

892
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,200
you'll probably end up making a new seasonal character later on down the road once you

893
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,360
feel up for it.

894
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:40,360
That isn't fair.

895
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,080
That's not fair.

896
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:46,800
You should never be forced to create another character.

897
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:55,480
What they're saying is in order to be completely viable and to be ahead of everyone or be level

898
00:42:55,480 --> 00:43:00,840
with everyone, you have to keep participating in seasons.

899
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:06,400
In Diablo 3, you get permanent cosmetics from the seasons like pets, portrait frames, transmog

900
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,880
items, and more stash space.

901
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:15,720
Unless we're thinking of it as this might help us better understand.

902
00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:16,720
Guess what?

903
00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:17,720
I've got an email from Duolingo.

904
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:22,440
I've never got an email from Duolingo in my life.

905
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:23,440
Carry on, sorry.

906
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,880
What if it's like Expeditions or No Man's Sky?

907
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,240
Yeah, probably, but I don't even enjoy that.

908
00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,560
But yeah, that is what it is.

909
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:37,320
So you do the Expedition, you create a new character, you do these set things, and then

910
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,920
all the rewards you get since you can transfer back.

911
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:45,920
So it says here, someone's commented, in Diablo 3 you had 30 days to transfer your seasonal

912
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:50,320
equipment slash stash to your non-seasonal characters stash.

913
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,600
So that would make sense.

914
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,400
Yeah, so therefore I would understand it like that.

915
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:01,320
So you have a season come out, it's all cosmetic based.

916
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:05,400
So any of these cosmetics you have to do the season to get hold of them, and then you can

917
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,120
transfer them over to your main character.

918
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,240
Your main character is actually the one that's doing all the end game content.

919
00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:15,880
But this is how you get specific cosmetics and things like that.

920
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:21,040
If they throw gear into it that has actual attributes and things like that, then it's

921
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:22,040
fucking annoying.

922
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:23,040
Yeah.

923
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:29,880
If it's just cosmetic, if it's seasons that are cosmetic like a battle pass, then yeah,

924
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:30,880
that's fine.

925
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:31,880
That makes sense.

926
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:32,880
It's still annoying.

927
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,520
I'll keep reading down the post so you can keep adding your information and making me

928
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:36,760
feel better about it.

929
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,400
Go for it.

930
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:43,260
So you can still keep playing your non-seasonal character and get higher in the ladder.

931
00:44:43,260 --> 00:44:45,920
Is there a reason not to do that?

932
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:50,500
Your non-seasonal character will go to non-seasonal ladder.

933
00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:54,360
You can always grind him out more and PVP and whatever.

934
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,880
The new seasons will have rewards though.

935
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:02,160
Generally cosmetics or pets and mounts, maybe titles and borders if they exist again.

936
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:03,600
This is obviously two months ago.

937
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,560
They also said they will be trying to implement new features possibly into each season to

938
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,760
keep it fresher than ever before.

939
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:14,520
Yes, I understood that seasons have different new things, but I'm kind of the guy who loves

940
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,040
to progress on one character.

941
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:20,440
That's why I asked if I can keep playing the same one all the time.

942
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:25,440
I've never really played Diablo, but isn't Paragon level at endless grind, so I could

943
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,440
keep grinding that on one character.

944
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,120
They reply with yes.

945
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:34,080
Once a season ends, your character was just moved into the general non-season pool, keeps

946
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,600
all their stuff still playable, et cetera.

947
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:41,660
You have a record of how far you progress during the season, but there's just no season

948
00:45:41,660 --> 00:45:43,720
rewards for non-season characters.

949
00:45:43,720 --> 00:45:48,480
You have the option of continuing to play the same character or starting a new one in

950
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:53,600
the new season or both.

951
00:45:53,600 --> 00:46:00,040
You can participate in the season if you want to get the seasonal locked stuff, cosmetics

952
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,040
and stuff like that.

953
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,520
If you don't want it, then you just carry on with your main character and do the end

954
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,920
game content and continue with that.

955
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:13,840
What I understand this now to be is that any character that's participating in the season

956
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,640
is not participating in end game content.

957
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,580
It will not progress normal characters through end game content.

958
00:46:21,580 --> 00:46:25,480
It's just for cosmetics and things like that.

959
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:26,960
I still don't like it.

960
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,920
I don't like that.

961
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,400
You have to make a new character, get to grips with that one and then fucking do it all over

962
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:37,240
again and I feel that would get very, very, very boring because the easiest route is if

963
00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:43,120
you're maining a barbarian and you wanted to participate in the season to make it easier

964
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:47,600
on yourself, you're going to go with a barbarian because you know the class inside out, but

965
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,040
you can only do that so many times until it gets fucking boring.

966
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,160
You go, right, let me make another barbarian and do this all over again.

967
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,280
I don't like the sound of that at all.

968
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,200
The reasoning for restarts in ARPGs is quite simple.

969
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,400
The end game would be boring without them.

970
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,640
As the whole cycle of gearing your character is designed to be done through repeating the

971
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:11,280
same or similar enough content over and over again, there is very little to be gained after

972
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:12,280
a certain amount of time.

973
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,600
Now you might think, well this just sounds like Raiding in WoW.

974
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:20,200
During a six month season in WoW, assuming you've fully cleared a raid instance every

975
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:24,120
week you get about 25 weeks worth of boss kills.

976
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:30,760
Depending on raid size that is about 200 to 300 boss kills, 8 to 12 bosses in instance.

977
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,520
That amount of farming happens in ARPGs in a matter of days.

978
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:38,360
Well if we would only count kills in a matter of minutes.

979
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:39,920
Someone commented this.

980
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,680
I am also the one character kind of person that does not like to restart every now and

981
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:44,680
then.

982
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,680
I also think that seasons should not force new characters.

983
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:48,680
So yeah, I just.

984
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,480
It seems like a very poor move.

985
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:51,720
Yeah, I don't know.

986
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:53,560
I don't get it.

987
00:47:53,560 --> 00:48:06,120
You Diablo has not got the the diversification in characters to.

988
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,480
To back that cut that idea of that kind of gameplay.

989
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,560
They haven't even got fucking monks in this.

990
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:13,560
There's no monks.

991
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,200
So what have you got?

992
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,040
You got you got barbarians.

993
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:19,400
You got rogues.

994
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:20,400
You got sorcerers.

995
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:21,400
You got necromancers.

996
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,040
You got druids.

997
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:24,040
That's it.

998
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,640
So you haven't got monks and you haven't got barbs or bards.

999
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:29,640
Sorry.

1000
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:35,040
So you've only got a pool of five classes to choose from.

1001
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:41,080
And if those classes have a meta within their talents to a point where some builds are just

1002
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:48,180
no point playing as there is already, then that squishes it down even more.

1003
00:48:48,180 --> 00:48:53,640
So you're then throwing out various different seasons every year, forcing people to create

1004
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:59,240
a new character with very little pool to choose from.

1005
00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:01,520
It's going to get boring very quick.

1006
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:02,520
They would.

1007
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:07,640
You'd have to heavily rely on the content that they're putting in those seasons to be

1008
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:08,640
fun to play.

1009
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:13,200
You saw I mean, they're saying new dungeons, new quest lines, all of that type of shit

1010
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:14,200
with every season.

1011
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:19,080
Will they best be fucking good if you're forcing people to restart the game just to take part

1012
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:20,080
in it?

1013
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:24,400
Because if they're not good, no one's going to fucking do it and then it's going to flop.

1014
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:25,400
I'm scared.

1015
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:26,400
I don't understand, man.

1016
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:27,400
What do you mean?

1017
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:28,400
I just don't get it.

1018
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:29,400
I'll read it.

1019
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:30,400
You don't understand it?

1020
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,400
This is the last one I'm reading.

1021
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:33,400
Okay.

1022
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:38,080
Someone said, are you saying if I get an amazing unique to drop or something quite prestigious,

1023
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:39,640
I only keep it for a season.

1024
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,280
I don't understand how that works.

1025
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,360
That personally would ruin the thrill of getting an item.

1026
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,120
Someone said, not really.

1027
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:47,120
No.

1028
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,920
When the game starts, everyone can only create non-seasonal characters.

1029
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:50,920
Correct.

1030
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,400
So there's no season at the moment.

1031
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,960
Non-seasonal characters will exist forever and keep all items slash gold slash experience

1032
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,240
everything for the life of the game.

1033
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:02,240
Then the first season will start.

1034
00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:06,080
Your non-seasonal character cannot enter the season mode.

1035
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:10,560
However, you can continue to use your non-seasonal character in non-seasonal mode for as long

1036
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:11,560
as you wish.

1037
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:16,640
And many people do only if you'd like to try the season, then you'll have to create a new

1038
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,040
seasonal character.

1039
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:23,560
And this character cannot brackets for now interact with your non-seasonal character.

1040
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:28,160
You can think of it as they are on two different servers.

1041
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,920
The new seasonal character will start from scratch.

1042
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:36,120
Zero gear, zero experience right from the beginning of the game.

1043
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,040
Brackets level playing field for all people wanting to play the season.

1044
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:44,040
Let's say you level up your seasonal character and do get an amazing unique drop or something

1045
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,540
quite prestigious.

1046
00:50:45,540 --> 00:50:48,720
You can use it on your seasonal character as much as you'd like.

1047
00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:55,920
However, you cannot trade it or move it to your other non-seasonal character brackets

1048
00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:00,040
for now until the season ends.

1049
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:05,000
When the season ends, you do not lose anything you gained using your seasonal character.

1050
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,800
The seasonal character and all the loot you got during the season is moved to your non-seasonal

1051
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,240
character area.

1052
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:15,200
You can think of this like a server merger.

1053
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:19,280
The seasonal character and that unique prestigious item still exist.

1054
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,480
They are just now non-seasonal like your other character.

1055
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:27,120
Now you can move items between the two characters because they are both non-seasonal.

1056
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,880
Then the second season starts.

1057
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,120
And the process is exactly the same.

1058
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,520
You can ignore it and continue to play your two non-seasonal characters in non-season

1059
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:36,520
mode.

1060
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:41,520
If you'd like to try the season, then you can again create another new seasonal character.

1061
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:45,680
Start from 0 XP, 0 items and experience this second season.

1062
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,800
And this character and all their loot will get moved to your non-seasonal characters

1063
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:50,920
when the season is over.

1064
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:52,800
And on and on and on.

1065
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,000
Or at least that's how Diablo 3 seasons have worked.

1066
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,440
So I'm assuming Diablo 4s are based on the same concept.

1067
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,920
Personally, I really like the seasonal concept.

1068
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:06,180
I eventually get bored of the end game grind and it's fun to go through the process of

1069
00:52:06,180 --> 00:52:10,280
leveling up a new character searching for the right gear for them again.

1070
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:14,940
Plus it's within its own seasonal mode where everyone else is doing the same thing.

1071
00:52:14,940 --> 00:52:17,960
So it's almost like day one of the game again in a sense.

1072
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,620
Nothing you gain or find ever gets taken away or erased though.

1073
00:52:21,620 --> 00:52:25,640
Only shifted from seasonal character to non-seasonal character.

1074
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:30,360
So in that respect, it doesn't sound like the end of the world too much for me.

1075
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,040
If it is...

1076
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:33,040
Do you understand it?

1077
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:38,400
Yeah, I understand it and that is what I was understanding what he's just explained.

1078
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,680
But what I was getting scared of was say I created Barbarian.

1079
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:43,080
The Barbarian I've got now.

1080
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:44,280
New Barbarian comes out.

1081
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:45,760
I create him.

1082
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,720
Get all the seasonal content.

1083
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:50,360
Then that gets moved to original server.

1084
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:51,960
Let's just call it that.

1085
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,200
Then I can't transfer what I like too much.

1086
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,880
Because that Barbarian I've got now is going to be my main Barbarian.

1087
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:01,280
All these other ones will just be his, you know, brothers.

1088
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:02,280
Whatever.

1089
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,840
Anything I get I want to transfer to that one.

1090
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,320
That other Barbarian is just a loot hauler.

1091
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,720
Because he'll get deleted once he's transferred whatever I want to transfer.

1092
00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:14,400
There's no point having 12 Barbarians.

1093
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:24,480
So it sounds like to me, so there'll be specific season loot like cosmetics.

1094
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,640
Say I don't know, like fucking different helms and shit like that.

1095
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,480
And then pets and stuff like that.

1096
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:38,360
On your journey within that season to get to that seasonal gear, you might pick up other,

1097
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,800
well you obviously will pick up other gear because you're starting the game again.

1098
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:47,920
And to me it sounds like, so say your main Barbarian, your non-seasonal Barbarian has

1099
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:48,920
a...

1100
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:50,520
Let's just call him Ragnar.

1101
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:54,000
Ragnar has a certain kind of two-handed sword.

1102
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:59,040
Well when you make another, when you make a seasonal character, you might by the time

1103
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:04,800
you're finished with that season have picked up a better two-handed sword.

1104
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:11,120
So you at the end of that season will be able to transfer that better weapon that you've

1105
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:16,560
picked up on your seasonal Barbarian and send it to your main Barbarian, Ragnar.

1106
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:21,160
Thus meaning that Ragnar is still relevant in terms of gear because any gear that you've

1107
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:25,800
earned on your seasonal character that is better than what Ragnar's got, you can give

1108
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,200
it to Ragnar at the end of the season.

1109
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,320
It makes sense.

1110
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:36,040
At the same time though, how in the fuck are you supposed to balance?

1111
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,460
What's the point in having a main character then?

1112
00:54:38,460 --> 00:54:43,720
Because if you're constantly playing seasons, why would you be playing your other character?

1113
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:45,000
This is what I mean, that's what I don't understand.

1114
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,800
I don't like it.

1115
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,880
Because how does the end game work then outside of a season?

1116
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:54,080
So is the stuff that I'm going to get outside of a season better than the stuff that I would

1117
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,000
get within a season?

1118
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,360
Obviously it would be the same loophole.

1119
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,160
I can only imagine that the stuff that...

1120
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:08,760
So it's the exact same game put next to each other, except this one's seasonal and this

1121
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:10,300
one isn't seasonal.

1122
00:55:10,300 --> 00:55:17,760
This one has specific cosmetics, but the gear and loot within it is exactly the same as

1123
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:19,920
this that isn't seasonal.

1124
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:21,640
Yeah, you're still with me?

1125
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,240
Can't do you.

1126
00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:25,600
So seasonal, non-seasonal.

1127
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:30,240
The only difference between the two is that seasonal has different cosmetics.

1128
00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:31,720
Just think of it like that.

1129
00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:34,600
Gear wise, weapons, armour, exactly the same.

1130
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:35,760
You can get the exact same shit.

1131
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:40,160
It's just this one's got different cosmetics in it that you can only get in here.

1132
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:47,520
So what I'm saying is how much time have these people got on their hands if they're maining

1133
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:52,360
a non-seasonal character, doing end game content with that, which is going to take a while

1134
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,200
to build up the gear and stuff like that.

1135
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:59,160
You then want a cool looking mount that's in the season.

1136
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:05,960
You have to start the game over again and God knows how far you have to get before you

1137
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,960
can get access to that mount.

1138
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:12,800
So you've now taken time away from your main character to get a fucking mount.

1139
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:16,720
Maybe by the end of that season is when you finally get that mount and then the next season

1140
00:56:16,720 --> 00:56:17,720
rolls round.

1141
00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:19,400
There's even more shit that you want, but hold up.

1142
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:23,000
You haven't had time to play your main character because you've been fucking around in a season

1143
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:27,200
playing a character that means fucking nothing because you're going to delete it after.

1144
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:28,200
It doesn't sound fun.

1145
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:29,200
No, that's what I mean.

1146
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:30,200
It just feels like a throwaway characters.

1147
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:35,200
That doesn't sound good.

1148
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:42,420
To me, the developers are forcing you to play different characters and it should never be

1149
00:56:42,420 --> 00:56:43,640
forced to play.

1150
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:48,560
If you have to force people to play different characters and to play different builds, then

1151
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:53,360
you fucked up as a developer because you've made different characters and different builds

1152
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,040
not fun.

1153
00:56:55,040 --> 00:57:02,200
If you have to force people to adventure into different realms of that, that's a developer

1154
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:03,680
issue.

1155
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:08,580
Maybe that's not the case, but I don't want to have to be forced every single fucking

1156
00:57:08,580 --> 00:57:14,200
season, which bearing in mind you're paying for every season that you're paying for to

1157
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:21,680
have to make a brand new character start all over again, rather than just being able to

1158
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:22,680
do it on your current character.

1159
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,040
I don't know if you are paying for it.

1160
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,120
I'm not sure how that works because there's a battle pass in there as well.

1161
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,720
How many fucking cosmetics are going to be in this fucking game?

1162
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:32,160
That's what I'm saying.

1163
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,000
You have to make it viable.

1164
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:38,920
This whole system of having that season, the different quests in it, the different dungeons

1165
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:42,480
are in it, the different cosmetics that are in it have to be decent.

1166
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,800
Otherwise, what is the fucking point?

1167
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:51,600
I cannot for the life of me understand why you cannot just have end game characters,

1168
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:55,400
your main characters dipping into that season.

1169
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:56,840
Why does it need to be separate?

1170
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:58,720
It's an even playing field.

1171
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:03,240
Well, it's an even playing field anyway.

1172
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:08,120
If your end game content is an even playing field, you get out as much as you put in.

1173
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:12,000
If you're playing fucking 80 hours a week worth of end game content, you're going to

1174
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,320
be better than the person that's playing fucking 20.

1175
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:15,320
That's just how it works.

1176
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,080
It's never going to be fully even.

1177
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:20,760
The evenness of it is having that.

1178
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:23,280
If you put more hours into this, you're going to get more out of it.

1179
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:24,640
That is even playing field.

1180
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:26,840
If you put in less hours, you're going to get less.

1181
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:27,840
That's exactly how it works.

1182
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,680
That's how fucking life works.

1183
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:33,120
So this clean slate is fair for everyone.

1184
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:35,200
Why is that a thing for seasons?

1185
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:36,200
Why is that a thing?

1186
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,920
It would be fair for everyone if you just let them play their main character in the

1187
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:41,000
season.

1188
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:42,520
It doesn't sound good.

1189
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:47,080
All these people on fucking on the forums that are wanking themselves off over to it,

1190
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:50,800
they sound fucking boring because it just sounds shit to me.

1191
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:55,480
If every single mythic season on World of Warcraft, I had to delete a character, I had

1192
00:58:55,480 --> 00:59:01,920
to make a brand new character and level it from fucking one to 70 every single time before

1193
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:06,780
I can participate in the end game content again to get these cosmetics, I wouldn't fucking

1194
00:59:06,780 --> 00:59:09,880
play it because it's so long.

1195
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,480
It's not necessarily end game, it's just seasonal.

1196
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:15,880
So it might just be a case of do this throughout the season.

1197
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:19,080
It doesn't necessarily have to be end game to do it.

1198
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:24,200
I thought the end game was you get the stuff you want, you get the weapons you want, you

1199
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:29,680
get the gear that you want and then you can socket it or you can get min max everything

1200
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:33,080
basically and then you've got the paragon points and all this stuff.

1201
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:36,000
But what I don't understand is when are you going to have the time to do that if you've

1202
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:39,180
got to spend X amount of time leveling a whole new character?

1203
00:59:39,180 --> 00:59:41,200
We don't know how long the seasons last.

1204
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:42,200
Three months.

1205
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:43,720
Sorry, we don't know how long it takes to get to.

1206
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:44,720
So if...

1207
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:46,800
That's what I mean, but I don't want to start a new character.

1208
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:48,840
Say you have a list of content on here.

1209
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:54,840
Say every season there's four new dungeons, there's 10 different quests and then there's

1210
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:58,960
20 different cosmetic items.

1211
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:02,920
So is that something that I can get done in a week or is that something that's going to

1212
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,000
take the full three months for me to do?

1213
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:08,560
Because if that's something that you can get done in a week, then yeah, that makes sense

1214
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:12,120
because you can just quickly hop in and make a new character, get that shit done.

1215
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:13,920
Boom, I'm done with that season.

1216
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:15,360
I can carry on with my main character.

1217
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:20,120
But if it's going to take three months, then there's no point in having a main character

1218
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:22,480
because you're never going to have time to fucking play it.

1219
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:28,280
Also, if I can get the whole season done in a week, do I have to wait for that season

1220
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:32,160
to be over before I can transfer all of my stuff from that seasonal character to my normal

1221
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:35,940
character or am I able to do that instantly?

1222
01:00:35,940 --> 01:00:38,840
Because by the sounds of it, I've got to wait until the end of the season for that character

1223
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:45,000
to become a non-seasonal character, which again, so you might have some really cool

1224
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:50,240
gear on your seasonal barbarian that your non-seasonal barbarian hasn't got, but you've

1225
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:55,280
now got to wait three months before you can get it on your non-seasonal barbarian, which

1226
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:59,880
by that point, if you're playing, spending three months worth of game time on your non-seasonal

1227
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:05,080
barbarian, the stuff on your seasonal barbarian is going to be out of date and obsolete.

1228
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:07,040
I don't get it.

1229
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:10,480
I don't understand what that is.

1230
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:11,480
Why would you do this, Blizzard?

1231
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:12,480
What's the point?

1232
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:13,480
It's weird, isn't it?

1233
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:14,480
It doesn't make sense.

1234
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:15,480
You can't just...

1235
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,360
Where's the clarification on that?

1236
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:18,360
I don't understand.

1237
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:21,000
And then, so they were talking about PVP as well.

1238
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:22,000
There's a PVP zone.

1239
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:23,960
I can't remember what it's called.

1240
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:25,760
And it sounds like a lawless land.

1241
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:29,240
In other words, it's completely not a fair playing field.

1242
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,200
They've even come out and said that they have made it so that it isn't fair.

1243
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:41,880
So you can have a team of four people just ganking one person constantly with no detrimental

1244
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:42,880
effects.

1245
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:43,880
You can just keep fucking people up.

1246
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:49,240
It's exactly what real life PVP would be like.

1247
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:51,120
That I can understand.

1248
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:54,200
But this seasonal bullshit, this sounds weird.

1249
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:55,200
I don't like that.

1250
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:56,200
Yeah, I don't like it.

1251
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:57,200
Well, there you go.

1252
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:58,200
I don't like the idea.

1253
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:02,400
I'll put it back to Destiny.

1254
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,400
We've got to experience it firsthand and see what it's like.

1255
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:05,600
We both bought the fucking game.

1256
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:08,200
Obviously, you can play it four days earlier than I can.

1257
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:09,200
I'm not...

1258
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:12,520
Well, if I was going to spend the big bucks, I can't anymore because Duolingo has just

1259
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:17,200
fucking rinsed me for 60 quid.

1260
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:18,200
If...

1261
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,560
I don't know.

1262
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:23,880
You can't have a game as big as Diablo 4 and have a system like that and have that system

1263
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:24,880
be shit.

1264
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:26,480
Because there's a lot riding on this.

1265
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,680
It must be good, but I just don't understand it.

1266
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:31,920
I don't get how that works.

1267
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:36,320
But obviously, the season's not out and it won't be out for a while.

1268
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:40,360
We won't know how it works for however long.

1269
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:44,520
But I'm a bit dubious about it.

1270
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:45,520
Correct.

1271
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:49,440
I'm going to go and be sad in the toilet and we...

1272
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:50,440
Okay.

1273
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:51,440
We're done now anyway.

1274
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:52,440
Look in the mirror and reflect on my decision.

1275
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:53,440
We're done.

1276
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:54,440
We're fucking off.

1277
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:55,440
We're going to go and do our Patreon episode.

1278
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:56,440
The good shit.

1279
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:57,440
Sorry for hearing.

1280
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:58,440
That must be annoying.

1281
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:05,320
That whole episode is just us saying seasonal content, new characters over and over again.

1282
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:08,080
Me getting confused and then you saying the same thing over and over again.

1283
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,400
I can't figure it out and the people listening probably won't be able to fucking figure it

1284
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:12,400
out.

1285
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:16,520
If you know what the fuck it means, then please get hold of us and tell us because I can't

1286
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:17,520
fucking...

1287
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:18,520
I can't work it out.

1288
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:19,520
I want to see it in live action.

1289
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:20,520
We'll work it out.

1290
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:21,520
We'll work it out.

1291
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:22,520
But that was us.

1292
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:23,520
See you later.

1293
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:24,520
Uro.