Diablo III game director steps down

1. For those who are ignorant, game directors always move on to new projects. Jay may or may not have moved on due to being forced down, but how many people here actually think that game directors stick to one game forever? Frankly, I'm surprised he was the D3 director for this long after release.

2. The way D3 turned out does not fall squarely on Jay's shoulders. If Steven Spielberg directs a movie which is supposed to be a Tim Burton movie, which resulted in the movie not looking like a Tim Burton movie....who do we blame? Steven Spielberg? Or the damn studio which decided not to let Tim Burton direct the movie? Are we forgetting that Blizzard laid off the entire Blizzard North division? The entire D3 team was essentially the WoW team. Jay is an RTS director. What we have now as Diablo III could have been the best that team and director could have done to come as close to the original two Diablos. You want the original Diablo, you need the original creators. Blizzard laid off those guys. Blizzard is more to blame than Jay for how D3 turned out.

RMAH = Fail. The game was based off the RMAH and therefore turned into a joke. Blizzard was too worried about how easy items would be to find, because it would cost them money.
Also...
Graphics, and Graphics Engine = Crap. The graphics just don't do it for me. They are just painted crap. Look decent at first glance, but as you play it just gets old to look at. Should've just went detailed with the game and introduced a game that pushed technical limits instead of trying to allow every single person to play it from day one.

Story = Crap. I mean seriously? Who wrote this story? You might as well not even included any type of story at all. Diablo 2 story was way better. This story was WOW'ed.

Diablo 3 = WOW'ed. The dumbed down game mechanics are evident here across the board. We don't want people to be not satisfied with their character so we won't have skill points or do anything that made Diablo 2 fun. Every character is same, and its brilliant when consider Blizzard's RMAH is the only way you can possibly be different (with gear involved).

Diablo 3 = biggest let down of all time. Hands down.

I can't believe how many ppl are just so fking blind to the massive list of D3's failings.
Seems ppl will take whatever is thrown at them, I can't believe all the defending they do.
D3 "REMOVED/KILLED-OFF" CORE elements that made Diablo what it is... it is applauded for it... simply cause its got physics and shinny graphics.
If D2 was remade in greater image: Graphics and scale everything properly to changes(Like the maps), got more content and balancing(remove the God'ness that all the Runewords bring) then D2 would smite D3 into a pile of ash.

Its as sickening as hearing ppl saying removing guns won't impact gun violence.

I guess you shouldn't expect much from sheep... they rather just keep eating the grass no matter what its covered in.

I honestly don't understand all the hate for Jay Wilson. I think he did a fine job, but you just can't please everybody. They address one complaint and three more pop up.

One complaint I'm seeing a lot is that the AH plays too prominent of a role. Admittedly, when the game was first released, it was nearly impossible to finish Inferno without gearing up in the AH. I myself did no AHing until Act III Hell. But for one, Blizzard made very clear that it was a conscious design decision that Inferno would be impossible for people to beat without loot hunting for months (at a minimum). They wanted to extend the life of the game by making it difficult, but people complained that it was too hard. Secondly, the game became much easier after the first few major patches, meaning that if you want to ignore the AH completely and still finish the game, you can. Of course, now people are complaining that the game is too easy! Either way, there are now Monster Power levels, so you can play on any difficulty you want.

But really, I'm not quite sure why people have such vitriolic hate for the AH in the first place. Most games of this type have really crappy economies where money quickly became useless. D2 was a prime example... gold just wasn't worth anything. The AH simply gives you a worthwhile place to spend your hard-earned money. And again, if for some reason you don't want to use the AH, then... well, don't use it. Duh. No one's forcing you. See previous paragraph.

Besides, drop rates are another thing that have improved greatly with patches. Legendary drop rates have been at least doubled. Speaking for myself, I generally find a legendary every couple of hours or so. And the new paragon levels system gives you better magic find the more you play, so at least if you don't find anything great on a particular play session, at least you've improved your odds for next time.

I also don't understand why so many people are down on the lack of skill trees and attribute points. Attribute points that you could freely spend were just inane, because there was really only one good way to distribute them. And as for skill points, I again don't see the value of the old system. The best way was always to concentrate points into a very few skills to make them as strong as could be, meaning you had fewer fun abilities to use, and with no respec, you had to go through the tedious process of leveling a whole other character just to try something new. With this system you always get six abilities and can experiment as much as you want. What exactly is lost here, other than a misguided sense of "permanence"? (Again, you could always just choose to never change your abilities around. I won't stop you!)

Anyway, I could go on, but I get tired of defending this game against people who seem to totally irrationally hate it. D3 isn't bad just because it didn't slavishly defer to the design decisions of D2. IMO, the changes made from D2 to D3 are mostly good ones.

Who's next? Greg Ghostcrawler i hope: )

@moistsandwich actually Diablo 3 model is wow clone so if they move him to wow it wo't be So much difference hehe,

i hope he rot in hell!

Too late though, that incompetent loser should've stepped back before ruining the franchise.

I don't even care who takes over the role of game designer for it, because there has been irreparable damage done to it which only a complete redesign and code rewrite could correct.

Whatever Jay "all talk, no substance" Wilson touches next, I'll be making sure to stay the **** away from it, as far as I possibly can.

about time!

He owes us an apology. Diablo 3 was a disaster.

@HammerStrike11 I think it's more about reaching out and expanding to a different market. Yeah, people who already have gaming PCs see it as a little redundant, but there are a large number of potential customers out there who don't. Besides, I think the modular computing is actually pretty cool. They are really compact, quiet, and only run on a fraction of the power. They claim that their high-end model is built for high-end gaming. The verdict on that isn't out yet, but I'm cautiously optimistic. And hey, if Steam is backing them, they must have at least something going for them.

My biggest problem was I never got any loot that was good. I do mean never, not just didn't find enough, through 2 difficulty levels. Whatever I got I had to buy on the auction house for crazy amounts of gold. By far the most useful loot drop was gold. The bigger problem is players wont see this until they've dropped 40 plus hours into it. This was not the case in Diablo and Diablo 2. A loot driven game with no useful loot is just not fun.

Thanks for ruining my favorite childhood franchise and memories a** hole.

Hm, so, one of the idiots behind the travesty that is Diablo III is (mostly) out of the picture. This is possibly a first step for Blizzard to improve back to the way it was. I really liked them until this whole mess, I know they weren't so popular with a lot of people beforehand but I enjoyed playing WoW and StarCraft. If they can get back to it, I might come back.

D3 far better then broken bot filled, hacker infested, duped items everywhere, cookie cutter builds (zeal pally, blizz sorc, trap sin, else Druid) that you had to have perfect in very stat with no diversity, selling an item took ages on trade channels unless you use d2jsp where you had to use fg. Every build used same items Hdins had to have enig hoto hoz aarch shako. Every run was the same Andy or meph or Baal with piddle skin.I doubt most people here actually played d2 for a long time..... Just jumping on the bandwagon that d3 is so bad. D3 can be better but d2 was way more broken then d3 is..... No reason to even try to say it wasn't go install it and see for yourself.

**** THAT LOSER! by Jay Wilson

Still haven't bought this game, but hopefully now someone will step up and bring it into a form I'll consider worth the purchase.

Good riddance. Took long enough to realize his utter failure.

Maybe Blizzard should get those guys who made Torchlight II, you know, the project developers for Diablo I and Diablo II. Torchlight II is what Diablo III should have been and it's like 30 dollars cheaper.

Thanks for putting the RMAH in D3 and letting me make fat stacks. Go ahead and implement it in Titan too ok thanks.

Here's a challenge to Blizzard: if you really want the game to be better, remove the auction house entirely!

If only this game did NOT have an auction house.... The AH pretty much cheapened the core of the Diablo experience which is loot finding.

Oh cool, now maybe the new guy can make it good again.