Pas de récupération automatique des objets au sol
Comme on s'en doutait déjà, Blizzard n'a pas l'intention, malgré la demande de certains joueurs, de proposer la récupération automatique des objets au sol à la manière de ce que l'on connaît déjà pour l'or. Bashiok nous détaille d'ailleurs les raisons dans ce message. En résumé, le Community Manager explique qu'il faut que le joueur ait le choix de prendre les objets qu'ils souhaitent et pas les autres. Au début du jeu, il est probable que la plupart des joueurs récupéreront tout ce qui leur passera sous les yeux, mais à haut niveau, les choses vont changer et de nombreux joueurs délaisseront certains types d'objets. De plus, Diablo étant un jeu très axé sur l'action de cliquer, cliquer et cliquer à tout va, il faut que cela continue.
Bon, après, on peut tout à fait imaginer une option de récupérer automatique des objets, ce qui laisserait le choix aux joueurs de faire ce qu'ils souhaitent. Mais Blizzard ne veut peut-être pas se lancer dans d'innombrables options "On/Off" différentes.
This is one of those user experience issues where some players really want convenience, and we have to sort of fight back against that for the betterment of the experience and enjoyment of the game.
It potentially sounds ridiculous. Of course convenience means you're able to have more fun, right? Actually it can seriously degrade even short term enjoyment of a game.
We maintain that the act of clicking to pick up items is important for a few reasons. It obviously allows you to pick and choose what you actually want to pick up, and that's actually an important player choice. And it happens a lot. You could argue that you want to pick up everything! For gold this is true, there's never a reason not to pick up gold, but for items the reality is that in the long term it's pretty unlikely that you're always going to want to pick up every item that drops. In fact I'd personally guarantee it. And for all of the convenience options we have, all of the streamlining, making the game easy to approach (but difficult to master), and all that junk, the fact remains that Diablo is about clicking, clicking, clicking. It works. It has always worked, and we know that it's integral to the formula of why it does.
In my personal outlook, it's a situation where - and this is potentially getting into the psychology of games a little - your direct interaction with the game, where upon completion of a goal (killing demons) you're presented a reward (phat lewt) it's important that you're involved in actually receiving the reward. Hitting a button to vacuum it all up devalues that system, and ultimately the enjoyment of the game.
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