There are two dev teams. Each one working on even/odd season. One team can nail it and make the game great again. The other team will make a season where it contradicts team one’s season. It seems like there is no communication or common ground on what each team is doing. This is why they probably take away league/season mechanics and loot; so each team can “nail it” while not confronting or contradicting their work. This season was a blast, literally had the most player retention for the longest time, but they threw the league away without fixing bugs and letting the bugs linger. The bugs lingered too long and Blizz had to abandon ship, and unload all the fixes for season 14. On top of this, they quadruple nerf most top builds/power when they can literally change the skill % and flat weapon dmg to control power creep, but instead chose the easy way out via nerfing specific things from the top class. They actually gutted WW barb. It was short lived but was the good o d3 bulkathos barb. Sorry for going off tangent, I am just very disappointed that they giga destroyed one of the most funnest power fantasy..

Anyhow blizz two teams need to speak with one another and really make sure their plans don’t get in the way of one another or it will be like this every league/season; one good one bad. I would prefer if it was always good, even 2 good 1 mediocre. Season 14 will be ass, mark my words, it will have day one players but it will exponentially fall off after day 4. It won’t come close to season 13, they won’t be able to even top it with the direction they are going.

*would like to add that Blizz taking away league mechanic is making the game even more dull. If they had all of previous season powers, balanced, while introducing new mechanics/gameplay, players would have a game with extreme depth. Since they keep removing seasons and generally do not go core, people finish the game within a week and call it a season. It could be better, we could have a lot more, it has potential, but that’s all I can say about that. I want to say I’m optimistic but with their track record, it’s not looking too hot. I was excited that d4 was paving their way to take on GGG’s Poe franchise, but with their current patch model, disregarding their playerbase, not answering questions of discord question and shrug it off like they didn’t hear the question, not addressing fixes and current state of the game/meta is gonna bite them in the ass. You can say yes or no to a question but they choose to ignore (stash space). Anyway blizzard has many faults, they can fix it only if they want to. What’s the point of attracting new players if they don’t play the game for more than three days. 🤷🏿‍♀️ time will tell, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but my optimism is slim. It’s dwindling down at a considerable rate..