@buccomatic Nerfed. I'm really starting to hate that term. People find a strategy that works way too well, the company weakens it to make the game harder, and those people complain. Then, you have the people who complain the game is too easy, and stop playing. Why is it that I'm happy with what they gave me?
Do I plan on using the RMAH? Only unless I need one stinking piece of some set item, and I can buy that piece for less than 5 bucks. Otherwise, won't bother. Let others with money to burn use it. The RMAH (which, by the way, hasn't even gone into freaking practice yet because of all the delays, and which isn't much different than buying things illegally from dupers in D2) really is a non-issue. You can still, to my knowledge, sell and buy items with in-game gold, so it matters not at all.
As for the other ridiculous complaints people have had (lack of customization of stat points [useless], unlocking skills [saves a hell of a lot of time], etc.), it's really getting draining now...
You're right that game manufacturers should absolutely reassess their business practices, because most gamers are smart enough to see through cheesy gimmicks to the real profit underneath, I will give you credit for that. But I'm sorry, I'm enjoying the game and refuse to let non-issues and streamlined interface keep me from having a good time with a good rpg series.
Let the elitists cry and moan and get refunds. Just less lag on the servers so I can play more.
@feliscele Interesting you say that. I'm happy I bought a PS3 a few months ago so I don't only have to play glitchy PC games that get file errors and don't have the right drivers and blah blah blah, ;-) Then again, D3 is worth it. Glad I bought my cousin's laptop recently, plays D3 surprisingly well.
@markvons That's a shame. I preordered to get mine on launch day, was away for two weeks on my honeymoon, I've been back for almost two weeks and I haven't been kicked off for days. They've since released patches and the lag has really been pretty minor, and I'm on a laptop that isn't even state-of-the-art, so...
Sorry your impatience made you get a refund. Too bad...
An interesting thought here...is there any chance that people expecting D3 to come out burned themselves out on D2 so much that they thought D3 was going to be pretty much exactly the same? Honestly, just looking back at some of the annoying things in D2, I'm really thankful D3 is the way it is. Examples:
People say they think picking up gray and white items in D3 is a pain in the ass because they aren't worth anything and it forces you to portal back to town. Yet, in D2, a white polearm or longbow could take up 8 of only 40 spaces! Minus 4 if you carry 2 tomes at all times, and then take away charms, extra potions. Two polearms and you're done. Meanwhile, in D3, gems cost money to combine, stash costs money to extend, artisans cost money to train. Sure, gray and white items aren't worth much, but it adds up, so it's worth it to pick up EVERYTHING! That's been my mantra since D1 came out when I was in high school, and I've carried with me for just about every similar rpg I've played!
People hate the "lack of customization," because they want to try making their own builds, but if you want to reach the hardest parts of the game, there's almost no way with a "unique" build. Even sticking to predetermined focused builds in strategy guides on the net, you're still going to have trouble. In D3, they made the game easy at first, but if I'm meeting heavy resistance as a level 30 Wizard and I'm almost to Act 4, I can't imagine how bad Inferno is.
People say they hate the story and they think it's weak. First off, once you beat the story in D1 (weak if only for how thin it was) and D2 , no one really thinks about it anymore! Second, in 12 stinking years, both D1 and D2 only had ONE expansion pack each, and I'd be willing to bet there are a lot of people who didn't even bother with D1 Hellfire. I can practically guarantee, if for no other reason than all the complaining, that D3 will easily have at least a few expansion packs, DLC, something to give the whole thing a richer, deeper experience.
So please...stop all the whining, stop all the moaning, and just enjoy. I've been playing Diablo for as long as you guys all have, and all it seems to me like Blizzard's done is streamline a crapload of time-consuming nonsense so you can focus on what's really important: killing bad guys, grabbing treasure, picking new equipment, and trying out new skill combinations. In D2, they just added the respec system, but even that, you only get one per difficulty. You do it 3 times per character, and if you get it wrong, you still need to start all over.
Ultimately, Blizzard has eliminated the need to constantly power level brand new characters over and over, and instead, gives you a reason to stick with it if you're having trouble on harder difficulties.
@Chris_theViking So wait...you're complaining about Blizzard nerfing everything (which, if I understand silly internet terminology, it means making things weaker or easier?), and yet then you complain when they throw vortex elites at you that can freeze you, an aspect that makes it hard? Seems like you took a long time contradicting yourself. And for the record, what made D1 and D2 addicting is the unpredictability, loot, building characters, etc. I rarely played with others and I was addicted to those games for those reasons. I'm almost to Act 4 with a level 30 wizard in D3, and I'm meeting pretty heavy resistance and dying a fair amount. Half of those deaths I blame on my laptop and/or the servers lagging (I've been lagging during moments where people in the General chat channel were saying the same thing, so it can't be just me), however the other times, I was simply just careless and just didn't have a set strategy worked out. Call me a sucky player. I find everything well-balanced so far.
@Bassemannen Seriously? How long did the D2 storyline take you to get through? And I'm not counting LOD's extra Act, I'm talking straight up D2 Acts 1-4? Longer than 10 hours? If so, couldn't be by much, and even so, you do the same exact thing in D2. Normal, Nightmare and Hell. I'm sorry, but I'm failing to see any real difference aside from a streamlined interface that empowers a player to not just book to the internet to look up builds because they can't make one work, but they put all the tools to progress in your hands, and say "okay...see if you can get through all this." You think every D2 player goes from Normal to Nightmare to Hell? Some play through Normal and stop. Yup, it's the truth.
@StankyTubeSocks Seriously, you're going to go into that much of a tirade about the Auction House? Exactly how does that differ from people going on ebay and paying real money to folks there to buy some ridiculously rare set? Those same people with money to burn, that you're claiming will benefit from D3's RMAH, are now and/or have been all this time, benefitting from doing the same thing in D2 for quite a long time, so honestly, what's the difference? So Blizzard makes a few extra dollars and gives fans a LEGIT way to trade items for cash, as opposed to finding strangers on ebay and Craigslist who can scam people. Really, the only issue I have so far with D3 is the requirement to be online. It's caused me to kicked off a lot, and it even caused me to miss out on a lore book after I finished a key story mission, so that kinda sucked. But all in all, I don't know what people expected. Mobs of enemies, tons of loot, interesting twists to the timeline/storyline. I'd love to see a full-on written construct of what a person's ideal D3 would've been, and then shove in their face why it's either completely unreasonable or downright unfair to ask for.
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