This hasn’t been the longest that I went in between taking a break from playing Diablo III (longest was well over half-an-year). It’s just that it’s becoming a more common occurrence with each patch. Season 2 was a recent exception where it was the longest amount of time that I played the game in a long while.
The more in-depth reasons for that was posted several times in this Battle.net forum topic regarding a question asked about why many of the games achievements were removed during Season 3. I was planning on making a post about this but might as well do it now since it is related to this break (I’ll just link my actual forum replies for the time being).
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=4#67
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=4#69
Then I posted a response distilling the issues I personally have with being able to play the game for long periods of time.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=11#215
My opinion on seasonal exclusive items being eventually made available via micro transactions and if their removal was due to that.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=13#254
Countering the concern trolls who don’t bother reading the replies in the topic.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=14#279
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=19#362
Achievements aren’t exactly black and white when it comes to casual versus non-casual players.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=17#332
End of my S3 journey.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=19#367
The power creep with the games design is already affecting achievements.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=19#376
The co-op aspect.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=20#382
It’s not about re-doing achievements (again, countering the whole “it’s repetitive” argument).
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725?page=20#397
As for Season 4/patch 2.3, I do plan to give it a go since the Seasonal Journey system represents a compromise to the above (it still lacks the lore book conquests though which really gave meaning to playing the campaign again). And as of this post, I’m going to resume playing non-seasonal for a bit before patch 2.3 is deployed in order to convert my rift fragments to trial keys (so those will convert to the generic greater rift keys) as well as transfer fiery brimstones off my other accounts (since those convert to forgotten souls).
