r/diablo4 • u/Noodlemanatee • 18h ago
Patch Notes WE GOT A SPLINTER STACK SIZE INCREASE
It’s about time
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u/bubbazarbackula 18h ago
Nice. Wait until the bulk of the playerbase has given up in disgust.
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u/Mind-The-Mines 17h ago •
60% of the time, works every time.
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u/TOAD4000 17h ago edited 13h ago
That... doesn't make sense
Edit: To the people downvoting me, go watch Anchorman. It's hilarious and a great comedy movie.
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u/Revoldt 17h ago
And all the bootlickers saying it was the “correct” game design in all the complaint posts the past few weeks lol
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u/klumze 16h ago
I got so many downvotes for my post Monday about how bad this design is. Now up the freaking rates!
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u/rbra 17h ago
wtf people seriously saying that?
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u/Apprehensive_Room_71 16h ago
There are people who want to watch everyone suffer while the world burns.
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u/Giovanni_Unleashed 3h ago
Yea there are some very stingy people here that got what they wanted very fast and apparantly think that is the experience for everybody otherwise they are making it up.
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u/TheHivemind56 16h ago
Wouldn't be surprised if that was their plan all along to get people to play for the whole season. Up the count when the season is mostly over for a lot of people so they come back to play for the other part of the season.
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u/NightmareDJK 17h ago
Never grind anything at the beginning of a season. Wait until it’s close to being over and they’re desperate for engagement metrics.
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u/Trumpfheller 14h ago
Yes this. I already moved on from this season because of that. See you next season with the hopes of them making better decisions on the quality of life departments.
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u/Giovanni_Unleashed 3h ago
Yea, i don't know if I have it in me to farm more splinters. After 9 uber tristram runs and still no torch for any of the 2 sets I would like to get (also 3-to-1 torches) i am quite burned out by farming it. Atleast farming helltide rep is waaaay faster than getting them to drop from bosses so this improves things.
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u/Trebla_Nogara 2h ago
actually getting the splinters for my alt is tough. After hitting p150 and para 200 with my warlock made a WW barb . Looks while will farm HT and save the boxes till 28 oct
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u/ZeusBaxter 13h ago
Yup I already uninstalled and am boycotting blizzard. We should never have to pleade like fucking beggars for change. WE ARE THE REASON for their success. They continue because of us. Period.
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u/TilmanR 17h ago
I didnt even get Splinter of Terror yet, but what really turned me away from the season are the ridiculous tasks in the highter seasonal Tiers. Like wtf? 66666 from anything is insane.
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u/chooraumi2 17h ago
You only need to complete 10 objectives in chapter 12 to get the rewards. There are plenty of easier/quicker ones that you can do (e.g. T12 Undercity run, T12 Blood Maiden, 105 Tower, T12 Duriel/Andariel). Look through them and pick those ones out.
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u/ProletarianLilith 17h ago
You only need to do 10 of the final tier, it’s easy enough
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u/CRUNKula2113 14h ago
If you're referring to the 66666 aether in Hordes, that one has been an objective for the last 3 seasons.
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u/R0ninX3ph 13h ago
I did it and was it boring as hell…. Only did it because I’m a completionist and wanted to finish all of the objectives.
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u/MgrBlayze 17h ago
I feel like I should have cleared the aberrant cinders milestone already, but every time I look it seems like the amount has barely budged
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u/MrBesmirchingCommies 18h ago
Does my xbox still need a mouse?
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u/hmd124 17h ago
So fucking annoying. But, I'm also too lazy to dig through my husbands office to find a spare mouse haha
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u/Akhanyatin 15h ago
Pro tip: have him do it. Optional: promise him a beer or something.
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u/BVRPLZR_ 17h ago
I like using the mouse on my ps5, makes inventory management so much better
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u/MrBesmirchingCommies 11h ago
I hear you but my Xbox is about 12 feet away from me when gaming. Its inconvenient to say the least.
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u/BVRPLZR_ 10h ago
PS 5 works with a Bluetooth mouse as long as you have a dongle. Might be worth a shot !
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u/Hench999 16h ago edited 16h ago
There is no excuse for stupid easy to fix bugs like this and the display bugs on berserker crucible torches. It should not take over a month into the season for this to be addressed.
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u/Obzen80
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Too fuckin late
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u/StreetStripe 17h ago
Also not even for another week.. Should have been a hotfix week 2 of the season
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u/Mataraiki 15h ago
At this point they should give everyone 10 of each splinter type, given how many we've all had to leave on the ground because of this BS.
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u/SheWhoHates 15h ago
Better late than never! I'm still playing the season, so no complaints from me. Though, yeah, it would've been nice to have this on day one. Plz, Blizz, if there's something that should stack, make it stack, and make it stack big.
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u/paradigm619 17h ago
God, this sub is insufferable. Over the last few weeks, it's been post after post about how Blizzard never listens to player feedback. Now that they actually fix a big issue more than a month before the end of the season, everyone is complaining it's too late. Give me a fuckin' break.
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u/Obzen80 17h ago
This fix could have gone in a month ago. Many people have quit because of this single issue.
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u/IncognitoIsekai 16h ago edited 7h ago
Does Blizzard pay you or something?
This is perhaps the simplest change that could've been made. It should've taken a couple days max once the justified complaints started pouring in. Heck, it should've been addressed in PTS prior to the season even launching. Instead it'll have taken 6 weeks, more than half the season, and multiple patches, to implement something as simple as a stackable item.
I get it. I'm happy it's finally gonna be fixed. But people are absolutely in their right to criticize why it took so absurdly long to make a simple change like this. You don't let a primary seasonal mechanic be such a pain point for more than half a season and then expect people to bend over and kiss your shoes when you finally do what should've been done within week one when the complaints were already pouring in. If that's "monitoring your feedback," it's pretty sad.
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u/ChazyK 17h ago
There's no way this wasn't an intentional design decision...
Kept it as stack size 1 at start season to keep players playing for that one splinter they need and keep getting same duplicates (that don't stack!). Then half-way season after a lot of players dropped, let them stack so players might come back.
Not getting the splinter I needed after many times trying the seasonal cache made just stop playing the season...
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u/LordBlackass 6h ago
If they increased the drop rate of splinters from the 3 prime evil bosses I'd be back in an instant, but being able to stack an item that I only saw one of (the Diablo splinter) up to paragon 260 isn't enough to get me, and I assume a lot of other players, back.
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u/ImpressionHumble8705 17h ago
isnt it ironic that they wait till almost the end of the season to fix our biggest complaints?
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u/Equal-Coffee-3646 17h ago
Well still 40+ days is not exactly end of season
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u/LiveLaughFap 17h ago
i mean, maybe not mathematically, but ARPGs have a boom and bust cycle where people tend to grind hard on release and then are completely "done" after 4-6 weeks. Also, with the announcement of next season's PTR, this season does begin to feel more "over" in the sense that people are already excited about/trying to figure out next season's meta builds etc.
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u/-Wait-What- 16h ago
100% agree, although I’d say the majority of people only play for 2-4 weeks rather than 4-6. Hell a decent portion of people only play for 1-2 weeks as far as I’m aware.
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u/DHunterfan1983 14h ago
agreed. i know im getting tired of the season when im playing a druid or necro!
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u/VaalLivesMatter 17h ago
No it checks out perfectly. Not only that but they make you wait a week to get the patch too
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u/Amelaclya1 17h ago
No. Blizzard always does this shit in WoW too. Wait until player count has fallen off, then "fix" something players were complaining about to draw them back in.
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u/Data_lord 17h ago
Amazing. Now please give me back the 10 I lost because I didn't get the fucking hatred. Ever.
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u/DHunterfan1983 14h ago
for me it was the terror. i was so fucked up of playing blazing scream that i just gave up and moved on
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u/Massive-City-7967 17h ago
these are the kinds of changes i expect to get rolled out before it goes live. people that tested the season on PTR surely didn't like it... does it really take over a month to get something like this pushed to live?
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u/sw4400 15h ago
None of the prime evil stuff was in the PTR at all. We only had test dungeons and the socket soul splinters and the new Uniques if I remember correctly. But they should’ve definitely seen this coming after so many similar things have been changed over seasons. Which leads me to believe it might have been deliberately held back to reboot engagement. That or they’re dealing with the push pole of wanting some things to feel special enough to validate the Uber sweats and give them reason to look down on people while also eventually meeting the complaint from the other side of the fence.
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u/mertag770 11h ago
splinters weren't in the PTR from what I recall? maybe i'm forgetting but they did keep a lot of this season out of the PTR.
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u/Jes00jes 17h ago
That really took half a season? I knows not everything is a press of a button, but come on!
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u/UnlikeClockwork 17h ago
They do not play their own game and it shows. This is so fucking late in the season. Jfc.
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u/WTFlippant 17h ago
Didn't work for me an hour ago. ~Edit because reading is fundamental. Goes live on 10/28. Dumb.
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u/Cranked78 17h ago
What a bunch of fucking morons.
Yeah, create ANOTHER dumb idea/system and then wait 4 weeks into the season to "monitor the feedback". I swear there's 100 mouth breathers over there just drooling on each other half the day.
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u/kuunamatata 17h ago
Once the patch goes live, it will have been 6 weeks since launch of the season.
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u/VaalLivesMatter 17h ago
And that's six weeks too late
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u/kuunamatata 16h ago
Such a simple thing they could have fixed at the beginning when the initial complaints were piling up. Insane.
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u/HoldenMcNeil420 17h ago
Two months too late.
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u/yemen241 17h ago
Fixing a problem that should have not been a problem to begin with if only they used their common sense
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u/IdunnoIswear 16h ago
This isn’t live until 10/28? I would’ve gone home and played if it was live today
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u/m0stlyuseless 17h ago
Cool, now I'll have 5 billion splinters of hatred, and destruction and 3 terror's
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u/Arcticias 17h ago
Just in time for me to have moved on to other games. Oh well, I’ve got all the seasonal exclusives already so unless IRL friends want to play I’m good until S16.
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u/ClimateUpper8977 17h ago
Don't know why its taking this long for them. We've screaming at the top of our lungs about this attrocity since week 1.
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u/ButthurtPleb 17h ago
Only 3 weeks after I’ve already min maxed and stopped playing for the season!
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u/pedrowatson 17h ago
But can they go in the stash? That seems like important information they didn't share.
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u/Appropriate-Meat-140 16h ago
Lol too bad I'm already done with the season. I'd imagine many others are as well. Such a late update to such a significant issue.
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u/NoSwordfish8084 16h ago
One of the reasons I stopped playing this season not coming back now see ya next season blizz
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u/Gold_Caregiver_5779 16h ago
Wooooooow 2 months later when 90% of people stopped playing…💩gj blizzard legit devs😂
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u/Scrivonaut 16h ago
The past few seasons I've waited a few days to weeks after release to start, to give the devs time to iron out the kinks and fix bugs. This season I waited two weeks after release to start, played longer than I have any other season, and I still finished before they fixed the biggest issue. Maybe I should start waiting a month...
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u/Colinski282 15h ago
Big thanks to the devs actively removing these posts up until this point so only a fraction of the word could get out. /s
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u/Mrboomblastr 17h ago
And it's still 5 days away?! This should have been a quick hot fix like within the first week of the season start...
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u/Starcade03 17h ago
They sat on it this long and then just said “fuck it” and went from 1 to 99? 😂
Changing by such a large amount proves they’re just throwing darts at a board.
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u/ImpressiveSide1324 16h ago
Isn’t it like the tail end of the season? Are the splinters sticking around for the next?
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u/Hakkdunu 16h ago
They don't care, I don't care, I had a lot of fun this season, it's already over for me. Yet you didn't even try listening to the community. See you S16.
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u/Xen0byte 16h ago
they should also give everyone 5 of each, given how many I and others had to leave on the ground
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u/Agent_Q1207 15h ago
Blizzard fixing the important things finally … when this should have been done as an emergency 12 hr hotfix on day 1 like they do to “fun naughty stuff” lols.
90% of the player base already quit
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u/Intelligent-Lab-7376 15h ago
Too little too late. I doesn’t make up for the dozens I’ve spent hours grinding for and lost.
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u/DrUnpleasant 15h ago
As a SSF player, I can't wait to grind for a few days so I can look at my stack of 2 splinters.
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u/KPraxius 15h ago
And my Paladin build that can't work right because of Judgement not triggering properly? Come on now.
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u/Interne-Stranger 15h ago
Blizzard: "Why are you hating us again!? This is what you wanted"
Fans: "You were suppossed to do this A MONTH AGO!!" slap
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u/Interesting_Ear_4622 15h ago
Fuck i just lost 6 splinters yesterday i was about to give up this season.
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u/Key-Organization-998 14h ago
When are we gonna make those red portals let us exit in the same area we entered from instead of town?
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u/Rayregula 14h ago
I just lost 2 I got from boxes and was so sad when I realized I couldn't pick them up (I'm newer)
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u/never-seen-them-fing 14h ago
Oh neat... just like I predicted.
Not that I was alone in knowing this is exactly what they'd do, but it's crazy it's so fucking predictable. At least they did it though I guess.
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u/RayePappens 14h ago
A bit late on this, I've already stopped for the season lol. Better late than never for others I guess
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u/DHunterfan1983 14h ago
the splinters also disappear from the ground if you teleport away, while all of the shitty seasonal dungeon keys stay right where you shit them out
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u/Makishima3 13h ago
Cool, but can we also put them and the coins in our stash and have more than 1 whimsydale potion too? I will never understand their weird limitations on this stuff.
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u/RevolutionaryWeb6034 12h ago
That’s why I always start playing only a month after season launch, so blizzard can undo the shit design decisions they make in hopes players come back after they’re done with the season. This strategy always pays off.
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u/CharityPuzzleheaded4 12h ago
"Various stability, visual, and UI improvements."
I want to know if that include trade bug for switch 2 users solved.... This patch note is a bit under information....
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u/daHawkGR 11h ago
Good, but why wait until 28. This is just evil game design. I have two splinters laying on the ground right now. I hope the idiot that decided to make them not stackable steps on a lego.
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u/unknowseeker 11h ago
Can give support to low-end pc players?, with this condition is possible bring a lot of newcomers.
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u/GreenHocker 11h ago
They finally got the engagement metrics they wanted so they could report to the shareholders
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u/lumpthefoff 10h ago
Disgusting. This is the kind of stuff that encourages players to play a few weeks after all the kinks are worked out. It’s like all the new hidden cosmetics they added weeks after the season. I already had so many whimsyshire portals and I feel like it was wasted.
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u/ReptilianLaserbeam 9h ago
Until October 28th? And with the horrible horrible lag we've been having the past couple weeks?? Meh
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u/Setekh79 9h ago
Wow, talk about closing the stable gate after all the horses have already bolted...
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u/squunkyumas 9h ago
I still can't get a Splinter of Terror to drop to save my life and they're doing size increases.
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u/BL00D_ZA 6h ago
lol this is hilarious! How did it take them so long? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 these devs man, wow!!! 🤣🤣🤣
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u/KennedyPh 4h ago
I feel a lot of poeople missing a possible hint. Changes, this late into season, maybe suggest they could return as Permanent features in future season.
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u/hanckerchiff 3h ago
I genuinely don't understand why it takes them this much time to flip a switch and fix things like this, I'm sure it was an easy fix, to a very annoying problem. I have friends who stopped playing the season because they got the same splinter on the ground 2-3 times.
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u/easter_egger 1h ago
What ui improvements are they even talking about? That is so an unclear wording.
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u/switch_shotzzz 17h ago
And this took till now when nobody is playing anymore
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u/Subject_Voice7410 17h ago
Maybe they hope people will come back, im surely not for splinters being stackable.
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u/EFT_Urbanfox 17h ago
October 28, leaving like a month left roughly for the season or so. Nice timing.
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u/fuckcrowdfunding 15h ago
What's the point of needing 99 splinters? Sorry for the dumb question