Subj : Diablo 4 general manager says we want world bosses to be challeng
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Nov 08 2023 12:45:05

Diablo 4 general manager says we want world bosses to be challenging, but the 
focus is on making the game fun

Date:
Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:20:51 +0000

Description:
Rod Fergusson told TRG that the team has to consider all players when setting 
the difficulty of world bosses, not just "outliers".

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The general manager for the Diablo series, Rod Fergusson, has admitted that 
setting the difficulty of world bosses in Diablo 4 is a tricky thing to 
balance as the developers have to consider all of their players, not just 
outliers. 

In an interview at BlizzCon 2023, TRG asked Fergusson if the difficulty of 
world bosses (enormous multiplayer boss fights against the likes of Ashava 
and Wandering Death) is something that the team is looking to change, to 
which he said that theres an evolving thinking around the matter, since they 
dont want to stop the more casual players from having fun. 

One of the things you're gonna have to be careful of is that if you have 
outliers, and you do everything based on your outliers, and the people who 
are just trying to play the game are kind of punished for that. [...] And 
they're like, But I'm just trying to play every night, you know, I get an 
hour a night when my kids are asleep. It's a tricky thing to balance, he 
explained. 

He added that we want world bosses to be challenging, acknowledging that some 
hardcore streamers are able to kill them very quickly. However, he added that 
some people finding them easy is something that the developers have to allow 
for the sake of the wider playerbase. 

Because we want our focus to be on making the game fun, more than making the 
game balanced, it means that we have to allow for those types of moments to 
happen, he continued. We get this sort of situation where we go like, Oh, do 
we nerf Ball Lightning to make world bosses be the thing we have in our head? 
Or do we let people have fun with the [Sorcerer]? And right now, the decision 
is [to] let people have fun with the [Sorcerer]. 

Elsewhere in the interview, we also asked Fergusson if mini pets will ever be 
added to Diablo 4 , to which he replied, Were a never say never team. 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/consoles-pc/diablo-4-general-manager-says-we-
want-world-bosses-to-be-challenging-but-the-focus-is-on-making-the-game-fun


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