Exactly, that was my thought as well. Maybe they intended it to be a fun little bonus, but they made the power gain from finding all the statues huge, so it suddenly became mandatory. The renown system, same deal, just tedious as hell. Then to only have the statues carry over into Season 1!? I already hate the idea of seasons, an unusual opinion, I know. But I love building up a character, playing them, starting new characters! But I don't want a character to feel irrelevant since it's not that season's character. So it basically makes old characters useless since they can't experience the latest content.

I'm shocked to say it, but I think Diablo 4 is a bad game masquerading as a good game. It has a ton of time padding laborious chores. The abilities are fun, but you have so few ability slots that you feel hyper limited. I never felt like I was growing in power due to all monsters leveling with you at all times. The stats on items are non-sensical, is +9 to all stats very impactful!? The stats on items made it just about impossible to weight one piece of gear vs another, no way to parse out damage and figure out which is actually helping more. The way I keep thinking about is this, synergy is when something is greater than the sum of its parts. Diablo 4 feels like anti-synergy, somehow, it's less than the sum of its parts.

I thought for sure D4 would be a game I'd be playing for months, but here we are.

That was my thought too, as I followed a guide, it really highlighted how I would have never found all of them no matter how long I searched. Some of those statues are very well hidden, like inside a small destroyed cabin that doesn't even look like you could enter it. But no, they're so well hidden you have to completely follow a guide and spend HOURS UPON HOURS doing so instead of having fun. What a garbage decision.

You can just find them in game as you play. It is pretty fun, but you probably won't have all of them yet. At least I'm only about 1/3 of the way.

The problem is locking rewards behind them that some players apparently feel like they absolutely need to play the game.

Awesome! I didn’t realise that was the case.

Thanks to everyone for clarifying.

Yeah, I read that the altars will still be revealed for future characters but unless I see one on the screen I probably won’t go out of my way to collect them again.

That’s the thing, I didn’t realise it applied to all characters, now I do though.

Thanks for the clarification!

It's just guess work at this point, but I imagine Blizz will copy across your progress at the point they create the new seasonal shard. I doubt it will be a two-way sync between the seasonal and eternal realms, but I'd love to be wrong!

X to doubt. Giving perpetual account based free stat boosts that are time gated is unlikely. It would mean anyone who didn't play this pre season would never be able to be top tier.