They've definitely snatched defeat from the jaws of victory when it comes to D2. I'm absolutely dumbfounded at how a company fresh off of a wildly successful looter / shooter game chose to make a sequel completely devoid of any meaningful high level end game loot to be obtained through the raid and Trials. I hate to call anyone a dumbass, but what dumbass thought that a hard mode raid that doesn't increase level, and only drops reskinned normal mode rewards with no discernible advantage would be well received by the community? Who is going to run the hard mode raid every week with the only newly obtainable rewards being emblems and cosmetic items?