When SSDs first were becoming mainstream and were kinda spendy, tons of R*editors spewed “it’s not important because it only affects loading time. I can wait for another 20 seconds” when games coming out would have hella microstutters, and the load times could count up to minutes per screen. Playing Bethesda games on a HDD was a nightmare, going in and out of houses!
I have a fast NVMe drive and some good SATA SSDs in my main machine, and there is only a couple second difference in loading between those. But I’d never run a program off’a HDD again.
I was soooooo excited for Diablo 3. I even loved it when it came out, as horrible difficult and grindy as it was. I would have kept loving it if they just expanded on that… but nope, they took out trading and economy, the things that made item drops feel exciting for me. Without any sense of value, loot was just… boring.
I didn’t touch Diablo 4 and it sounds like I made the correct decision.