Those hoping for a quick trip up the levels in
Blizzard’s Diablo 3 Seasons will be disappointed: the company has announced
yesterday that the controversial quests, which allowed players to collect vast
amounts of XP by barely doing anything, would be removed. The problems with the
said quests surfaced immediately after the launch of Seasons. When the first
level 70 characters turned up less than two hours after the launch, it became
obvious that the quests amounted to a major bug.
While the removal of the cheesy quests called “The
Matriarch’s Bones”, “The Jar of Souls”, “The Miser’s Will” and “A Miner’s Gold”
is certainly welcome news, the only question still on fans’ minds is: how come
it took so long when the problem was so obvious?
Accompanying the announcement concerning the removal
of the said “cheese” quests, there was a lengthy explanation from Blizzard, in
which they sought to re-assure players who had used the technique of abusing
the above said quests, that they wouldn’t be penalized and that no Conquest
credits or ranks would be lost on account of the hot fix on one hand. On the
other hand, they explained that the said quests would only be removed from the
bounty pool and not the game itself.
Furthermore, the quests will apparently be back for
bounties of future seasons, obviously in a tweaked format. They did not say
when the quests would be re-introduced to the bounty pool, but according to the
announcement, they may be re-added for Season 2.
Blizzard then went on to explain that the goal behind
the removal of the said quests was to encourage players to explore the content
and to try various other ways of forwarding their Seasonal Conquest.
The bottom line: with the right tweaks in place,
Season 2 promises to be more challenging and therefore much more engaging than
the Season 1 fiasco.
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