Daidraco
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Rogue-like advancement is one of the few ways I can see seasons actually mattering to people. You do Season 1 and your account gets a permanent +2% life steal and Necromancer blood skills have the option of a corrupted graphics etc. Knowing Blizzard, we'd eventually end up with 3000% life steal, 3000% damage, 8 billion thorns, etc. etc. As they try to make every single season THE MUST DO SEASON - but under non-retard conditions, it would do just fine as long as you can go back and do the old seasons with little grief.There's an entire genre of new roguelikes with persistent bonuses gained between characters, with Hades probably being the best.
This IS the right design space to explore, they just did nothing with it. Having different codex powers available to earn each season would help, but afaik they don't carry over
PoE gets away with it by having the seasonal content give new items and big bonuses... the hearts do seem promising.
Im doing season 1 cause I paid for it. But nothing about what Ive seen makes me actively want to play it longer than I have to. Really annoyed that "this" is what they came up with for the season.
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