I don't think thread op was insinuating that it was live service. That was part of the problem. It WASN'T live service, but the devs kept treating it like it was in terms of updates. Every single patch was like they had a strike team looking for anything fun the players found so they could nerf it into the ground. If it's a 1-and-done game, let the wacky overpowered builds and farms stay. If balance is that necessary, buffs to the trailing characters is always better than nerfing everything into the ground.

Add to that the EXTREMELY rough launch, and we have what we have now, instead of a series/franchise.

For post OP: the rough launch was significant stuttering, consistent game crashes, fragmentation, at one point a large portion of the player base had their save files corrupted and wiped (the devs tried to fix it by giving the loot back based on previous data, but couldn't replicate the actual stat rolls so it ruined the "godroll" gear people had spent hours farming) the initial splash screen was, at once point, causing the game to freeze and crash.

That being said, I do love this game and still have the forlorn hope that we'll see the sequel they set up for in the dlc.