Diablo 4 is about to be released – part 3 started terribly at the time because Blizzard made a big mistake

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With the release of Diablo 3, Blizzard made a big mistake that they had to correct years later.

The release of Diablo 4 is only a few weeks away and Blizzard President Mike Ybarra has even announced the exact time for the release of the action RPG.

After the open beta received a lot of praise, but also harsh criticism, the question arises: How well will the release of Diablo 4 go?

We remember the release of the predecessor, Diablo 3, and look at a big mistake that Blizzard made at the time. An error, the absence of which can ensure that Diablo 4 starts much better.

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Auction House muddied Diablo’s core gameplay

What was that mistake? When Diablo 3 was released in May 2012, it featured an auction house. In this auction house you could buy and sell found items for the in-game currency “gold” or for real money. Blizzard itself pocketed some of the money paid in transactions between players.

The problem with the auction house, however, was that the goal of a Diablo player is usually to farm better and better gear. The principle of the auction house accordingly contradicted the core gameplay of Diablo – fighting monsters and collecting loot:

  • You didn’t have to spend days running dungeons to find a specific piece of gear. You could just buy him.
  • After that, you did the endgame content a few more times and then the game was out of breath.
  • You no longer had a goal that you wanted to achieve because you couldn’t find any loot that was better than the equipment you bought.

    • This is also described by the Reddit user skylights1 in a comment from 4 years ago:

    The ‘real money auction house’ turned ‘Vanilla Diablo 3’ into an auction house simulator with an ARPG side game. It was no longer a game you played for hours to get better and complete more and more difficult content. Instead, it became a game of collecting the best loot and then auctioning it off on the auction house. If you were lucky, you could earn enough money on the auction house to get your money back for the game and then buy a better game.

    skylights1 via Reddit Players quit Diablo 3 after spending money on the auction house

    What are Diablo players saying about the auction house? How apt the description of skylights1 was can be seen in the stories of different players. For example, Reddit user SeiriusPolaris wrote a year ago that three of his friends stopped playing Diablo 3 after buying gear from the auction house (via Reddit). Another user says on Reddit:

    I had a friend jump in and spend $100 on gold and items to go from a level 1 barbarian to level 60 in a matter of hours with everything he could ever want… We walked a few things, he still has played about 2 days and said he didn’t see any point in playing anymore.

    About 1.5 years after the release of Diablo 3, Blizzard realized that the auction house was not a good idea and announced that it would be shut down. In March 2014, almost 2 years after the release of Diablo 3, the auction house was closed.

    With Diablo 4, Blizzard wants to return to the core gameplay of the game, avoiding old mistakes and focusing on defeating monsters and collecting loot.

    Therefore, despite the shared world, Diablo 4 should not feel like an MMO in which players need healers or tanks in their ranks to defeat a boss. It should again be about farming the best equipment and dishing out massive amounts of damage in the best damage dealer style.

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