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[Mista]

Blizzard’s co-founder Allen Adham said while speaking with EDGE in their January 2020 issue (issue 340)

“PvP is something we’ve been thinking about and working on since the very first Diablo. It’s something that’s been a long time coming – you’ll have to go back to Diablo II to find it. We’re in the middle of prototyping some really interesting approaches to player versus player – and we’re just about to lock them in.”

Diablo 4 – Blizzard Is “In the Middle of Prototyping Really Interesting Approaches to PvP”

gamingbolt.com

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Hopefully it allows one player to kill the other.

Guessing they're dancing with Souls-like mechanics where a bloodstain summons an "elite" based on a human player who died on that spot.

 

[Lanrutcon]

There's only one way this works and that's by making completely separate systems for PVE and PVP.

WoW bashed itself to pieces trying to solve this problem before realising you can't have the same rules for both.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

They're working on a new approach called PvW, player versus wallet. Whoever buys more loot boxes wins.

 

[LazyParrot]

I like that he implicitly admits in that quote that PvP in D3 was utter shit. If that's what well over a decade of "thinking about PvP" leads to, then I'd prefer them to do a lot less of it.

 

[Ravix]

Sounds like newspeak for pay to win mechanics.

 

[Fuz]

How come every single thing they say sounds like "we're gonna fuck up things in ways you never imagined"?

 

[ToughestSoul]

Diablo 2? Player guild halls finally coming? /s

 

[Fake]

Diablo 3 had an awful PvP. Lets hope don't look the same.

 

[eot]

Diablo 2's PvP system had its issues, especially with hackers, but that kind of open world PvP is something else. Doing low level, unassuming characters, to PK people in public games. Playing as anti-PK in hardcore sewer runs. Good times.

 

[FranXico]

Can't wait for those awesome threat generation mechanics that will push for more microtransactions!

 

[ThatStupidLion]

the prototype is Chinese police vs. Taiwanese citizens

 

[Plague Doctor]

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Seriously don't click this unless you want to be spoiled on how it will be really interesting.

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The fuck is wrong with you?! Don't you want something to surprise you in your jaded existence? Only click if you want to be spoiled.

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It's tied to microtransactions.