I know I’m not the first person to ask for this, but I wanted to lend my personal perspective on this issue. An old buddy of mine decided to try D2 again with beyond light. Awesome! I’m super excited to play with him again and introduce him to all the truly great improvements and killer new stuff added to the game (he left around Curse of Osiris).
I found myself talking to him about all this new stuff there is to do! The dreaming city! The blind well! Gambit! Strike weapons! New raids! And Dungeons! As a player who, like me, often struggled to find a welcoming fire team to take on old raids, the idea of what is essentially a three, two, or one player mini raid was super appealing to him.
Then it hit me.
The loot of almost all of these activities, from all of the expansions, that he would have to *pay money* to experience, has been sunset. The loot aspect of these pursuits has been effectively neutered.
Why on earth would I take him into the shattered throne when we can’t use any of the loot we get from that experience? Why bother with the pit of heresy when we couldn’t use any of the armor of weapons we could collect? Why explore the moon and it’s many horrors or the dreaming city and it’s many mysteries with the loot carrot at the end of this looter-shooter-stick has been effectively removed?
Again I know I’m not the first person to bring this up, I won’t be the last.
I *get* why Sunsetting is a thing. But please do not sunset gear from active, paid parts of the game. And especially not from endgame content like dungeons. They’re some of the best additions you’ve made to the game! And one of them is not in the game right now and the other two give you weapons and armor you can’t use. That’s a problem.
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