Diablo 4 has to fight again and again with the criticism that players get bored in the endgame. Now some fans of earlier parts explain that this could be due to the expectation: if you expect progress like Diablo 3, you’re in the wrong place.
This is the criticism of the endgame:
What players say: The topic keeps making the rounds on Reddit and other platforms. There, however, hardened fronts often meet, there are rarely any reasonably factual explanations of how the endgame is still fun for frequent players.
Another hint has now appeared in several threads from fans who have apparently been playing Diablo for much longer. There the players guess: don’t rush until level 100. That’s where the game ends, the endgame starts much earlier:
Too many people expect a Diablo 3 where you quickly max out and the endgame doesn’t really begin until then. It’s the complete opposite of what they’re doing in Diablo 4 now. Your character is nearly done at 75 and fully done at 100.
Diablo 4 should be treated more like Diablo 2. 99 was the maximum level there, it just couldn’t go any further. Then the character is finished and you can either polish up your build or do something else.
With Season 1, the gameplay should return, but there are still critics:
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“At some point your character is finished”
Even critics often agree that Diablo 4 is fun up to level 75 and only gets tough from there. But that is exactly the point, as some are now explaining: they had never played to the end in Diablo 2 and will not do so in Diablo 4 either.
The actual endgame starts at level 50. From here, a number of new possibilities open up that help to make the character “complete”:
Some users even think that this was simply an unfortunate choice of names. If level 50 had been the max level with 200 Paragon on top, that would have smothered most of the complaints – although it’s not really different now.
Other users think that this system is not a problem for them. When they’re done with one character, they move on to the next one or try out the different builds.
Blizzard itself keeps tweaking the endgame. The nightmare dungeons have already been completely overhauled and further mechanics are to be adjusted with patch 1.1.1. The patch will be released on August 8th.
There are also the Seasons every 3 months, in which players can explore new stories and mechanics with fresh characters. Over 7 million new characters were created in the first week of Season 1 alone.
The most recently announced changes were already well received, at least outside of Reddit:
Over 47,000 fans are watching how Blizzard makes Diablo 4 better, praising the changes live