Rift Trials to be Removed From Diablo III

"We don't like them. I don't like them," says Blizzard's Wyatt Cheng.

Blizzard has revealed that it has started the process of removing Rift Trials from Diablo III.

Rift Trials are composed of a mini-game in which players fight waves of enemies for increasing rewards –– the longer players survive, the better the Greater Rift key they receive, which grants access to higher-level rifts (endgame content with better rewards). But according to Wyatt Cheng, Blizzard senior technical game designer, nobody likes the tedious rift trials.

"The Trials are not good," he said during a Twitch broadcast, which Reddit user jmdbcool transcribed. "We don't like them. I don't like them." Cheng said the rift trials were a necessary part of Diablo III's evolution, but that their time is nearing its end.

"It solved a problem that we had before," he said. "And, I don't want to defend Trials. I'm not going to defend Trials. I think that it is the latest in a sequence of events... and Trials will be getting removed from the game. I can't tell you when. I can tell you that we already don't have Trials in our internal builds. We've been playing around with it and testing it, and we are committed to removing them."