Finally !!! After endless months of killing the same animals over and over again, after many infidels have given up over time, after so many have cursed Blizard for making such an addictive RPG but without PvP and even after some doubts the existence of such a in player versus player, after all this is: Finally PvP in Diablo 3. But not in the good sense of PvP.
When the Blizard apologized for failing to launch a PvP mode , mentioned that he would add duels in the next patch, I was thinking: better than nothing, we will always have something similar to what we had in Diablo 2, I mean, they supposedly already know how to do something as good as Diablo 2 so it is to be expected … But how I was mistaken.
To duel the players have to go and talk to the “Nek the Brawler”In New Tristram and he takes the player and his party to one of the 4 different combat areas. So far not bad, promising even. The matches will be FREE FOR ALL, that is, all against all, and will support up to 4 players. This is where the problems begin. First, only free for all, that is, if you want to fight between teams as you did in Diablo 2, you can't. Then it only supports up to 4 players, that is, since it is free for all, it is massive with at least 8 to 12 players inside, now only 4…
"Our intention is to provide players with a safe and optional zone where players can fight each other for the right to brag" said Wyatt Cheng on Battle.net "The game has no control over the outcome and there are no targets. We wanted to make the duel as simple as possible, so we created a minimalist system - we know that even without prizes and goals some players just want to beat each other up. "
It is interesting to see how much this looks like Team Deathmatch which was created by the Blizard team and was allegedly rejected by the board for "not being at the level the company expected." In other words, they apologize for not tying PvP at the time they promised to pitch when we bought the game and soon after they launch something very similar to what they rejected, only worse. Yes worse because having in mind the videos that were showing us what would be the PvP, at least we had the chance to form teams and we had a win count ...
Wyatt Cheng also said "Some of the games will favor one side, and do not expect the battles to be necessarily balanced. But this is ok because dueling the focus on Diablo 3 is more about beating others and pointing the names"
Here Blizard clearly forgets that for someone to be beating everyone else, it means that all the others are being beaten. And that would not be anything out of the ordinary if the competition were fair. Many players will win simply because they are using the right character while all others will lose because their favorite character was built in such a way that they have no chance against the others. This could still be a bit understated if there were teams, a weak character in 1vs1 might be fantastic to support 2vs2 or 3vs3, just like in Diablo 2.
Despite the defects, this mode seems fun enough to be played in a relaxed way and not much for a few hours. Blizard has already made it clear that although this is in fact a pvp mode it will not be Diablo 3's pvp mode. This mode is being created from the beginning and has no release date yet which makes many players afraid that this Duel mode is an attempt to entertain players with a lower quality mode while it takes several months to launch what players are entitled to or trying to take players who have not yet bought the game because they are waiting for pvp to do so. Whatever Blizard's intention is, the truth is that this against is a double-edged sword that can either relaunch the game or throw it down.
