Blizzard har vejet Rift Trials og fundet dem for lette. Derfor bliver disse fjernet fra Diablo III snarest muligt. Rift Trials er en wave-baseret Realm, hvor du kan få fingre i Greater Rift Keystones ved at pløje dig igennem bølge efter bølge af fjender. Men spillerbasen har længe været utilfredse med Rift Trials. Og det har Blizzard tilsyneladende også, har det nu vist sig.
The Trials are not good. We don't like them. I don't like them. I would hesitate to say I hate Trials... - Wyatt Cheng, Blizzard.
Senior Technical Game Designer Wyatt Cheng snakkede netop om Rift Trials til en twitch-transmiteret Westmarch Workshop, der er blevet transskriberet på reddit. Her gjorde han det meget, meget klart, at Rift Trials' ikke havde en fremtid i Diablo III. Faktisk har Blizzard allerede fjernet disse i deres interne Diablo III-testbuilds.
I think it's part of the natural iteration process. It solved a problem that we had before. And, I don't want to defend Trials; I'm not going to defend Trials. I think that it is the latest in a sequence of events... and Trials will be getting removed from the game. I can't tell you when. I can tell you that we already don't have Trials in our internal builds. We've been playing around with it and testing it, and we are committed to removing them. - Wyatt Cheng, Blizzard.
Det er dog ikke lige til at fjerne Rift Trials. Rift Trials tjente et formål, og når du bliver fjernet, kommer der selvfølgelig en masse følgevirkninger. Disse er Blizzard lige nu ved at teste og ordne, således spilbalancen forbliver, som den skal være.
But there were some problems that came up. I don't want to go into all the details that we have because it'll sound like I'm defending the Trials system, I just hope that people can respect that we are working on it. Johnny Ebert, he is hard at work. He's working with Roger, the Gameplay Engineer, to remove Trials.
And some of the problems that we've had, just scratching the surface, is what does legendary gem upgrading look like if we don't have Trials? What happens is-- so, in the very first version where we took Trials out, we'd say "well, how do I decide what grift to do?" and it's like, well, what if we just let you pick? Just like, crazy crazy idea, what if there was just this arbitrary-- or what if it was based on your personal best, that gets mentioned a lot, too. - Wyatt Cheng, Blizzard.
Blizzards hold arbejder hårdt på at få Rift Trials ud og erstattet det system med et andet og forhåbentlig bedre system. Wyatt Cheng beder dog spillerbasen om, ikke at være helt så utålmodige, da Blizzard tilsyneladende får virkelig mange henvendelser på nettet disse Rift Trials.
We've gutted Trials internally, we're working on it, there were some issues, it had a bunch of downstream effects, and we are still working on it. But we recognize that people are not happy with them. Asking for them to be removed isn't going to make it happen any faster. I wish it could! If I could make it happen faster I would say everyone should talk about it all the time, but, you know what, everyone talks about it all the time already, and unfortunately it just doesn't speed up how fast we can get them out. - Wyatt Cheng, Blizzard.
En dato er derfor endnu ikke på bordet. Blizzard er om nogen kendt for at nørde deres spilsystemer i én uendelighed, så alt spiller perfekt, når indholdet rammer spillerne. Undertegnede har faktisk ikke spillet særlig meget Rift Trials, så jeg har ikke nogen veldefineret holdning til dem. Men hvad synes du? Should the stay or should they go?
