OP so you are totally againt it, and wanna inform people that such things exist. You did even pay some cheater to show you that its is real. Yet you didnt fucking record it so you can show it to us, not to mention Blizzard?
The fuck? You call that 'investigation journalism skills'? If you're not lying, then you did poor and amateur job.
first 100 hours were fun, then its hours and hours of endless farming with tons of trash and no rewards
Someone didn't play Diablo 2... Titan's Quest... Torchlight... Diablo... Darkspore... or any other game in the ARPG genre it seems.
The drops will generally be piss-poor. I've now offically found my FIRST 1000+ DPS weapon in Inferno, like 2hrs ago. I've been in Inferno since the 2nd week. Go back and play Diablo 2, and tell me how "great" the drops are in comparison. Don't go with "what you remember". Go back and play it NOW, and compare. You will be shocked.
Diablo 2 was interesting because it wasn't the process of: Is it ilvl 63?
If no, trash it....it's 100% worthless
If yes, it's got a 99% chance of being worthless
You could get unique gauntlets with crap armor that's for a lvl 20 something and wear them all the way through the game because items were actually interesting and based off of worth...not item level.
I'd probably play the shit out of this game if they brought the level cap up to 99 and made it take a while to get to the top.
Hell, add an incremental experience boost per completed act. +33% after act 1, 66% after act 2, 100% after act 3. Double experience through all of act 4. The buff remains even if you leave game, but disappears if you change quests. You get more experience with more people in the game. It would promote co-op which would reduce server strain by having less games and you'd be coerced into actually playing through THE WHOLE GAME, instead of picking and choosing your 5 NV elites and act boss to kill over and over. The exact design philosophy Blizzard has been parroting since Day 1. Lock item levels and PVP at 60, but still give the stat boosts beyond till 99.
There, done. Blizz send me a check. I fixed one of your biggest problems.
when players say they beat inferno and there is nothing left to do i presume they never played D2. My character completed D2 hell and i went on farming mephisto and occasional baal for a whole year. Diablo is all about getting stuff to equip or sell, if you dont get excited about IDing a rare hoping it turns out great, diablo is not your game.
See, this is what I don't get. People make claims like "you never played X" or "Y isn't your thing" based on their opinion of this sequel. I played D2 out the ass and I enjoyed the grind/farm of that game.
The grind/farm of D3 is distinctively not fun to me. There are dozens of reasons for this that I could list off, but you won't bother reading them and they've been said 100000000 times by other displeased players. It's a completely different game, regardless of it's title or subject matter.
Ok so no one saw that diablo is off of the NEW RELEASES AND NOT FROM THE TOP 10 LIST, GO TO THE OVERALL LIST, NOT THE TOP 10 NEW RELEASE LSIT AND U WILL SEE. God ppl can be so fucking dumb
Diablo is in 3 on the top rated and in 7 in the overall on gamespot and yeah it is of the NEW RELEASE TOP 10 LIST
Yeah, people can't read. D3 is no longer a 'new release'. WoW is still #9 on that overall list, too.
Not that Gamespot means a whole lot, but, yeah, what you posted made me laugh when I checked it.
See, I like to reference the Xfire website. If you look at the playtime graphs of D3 and WoW, you find D3's playtime steadily (and at times sharply) decreasing and WoW's playtime steadily increasing since D3's release.
Blizzard will do anything to the game to prolong the economic health of the RMAH. They are a business with an obligation to their shareholders to increase their profit as much as possible. To believe that any other "balance" adjustments to do with loot are motivated by anything else would be naive.
They will always try to do what is most fun for the game, but the bottom line is and always will be:RMAH > fun
My point is that they worried about something that doesn't mean as much as the game being fully functional on release. Did they use beta to see if people liked the game or to see if the game worked as close to "functional" as possible? I know that optimally, both should be achieved or should at least be the goal, but were either of them even near achieved?
What part of the game isn't functional? Out of the box, the game works. It may not be what people were hoping for, but from a functionality standpoint, it seems just fine. Being a Software Test Engineer, things like this peak my interests.
Not peak, pique. Your interests are piqued by things like that.
Not trying to be a dick, I just felt the need to enlighten you.
So he bought the CE for the wings and the statue. He still plays on the key and all he did was wreck up the case around an obsolete CD, a big dumb box, and a bunch of pseudo-magazines that would just collect dust in the corner for all time.....for an artistic way of showing his displeasure. I find the Cain part to be very clever. Anyways, the statue is still intact and the rest would be worth absolutely nothing to me, so I can easily see others feeling the same.
peasofme - the only info you have to support your post is anecdotal at best. As I stated above, the posts you see on fansites are an insignificant percentage of the total buyers. This tiny group are "upset" and "quitting in droves". Before you start talking about the majority of owners of the game, you should have some hard data to back it up.
With the amount of expectation I think we are allowed to complain.
lol
So, wait, because you made up something in your MIND instead of looking at the utter droves of released information/footage/etc before the game was launched you now have the right to complain that the game does not match what you imagined?
My view is read up on anything that costs me my hard earned money, You decided to learn the hard way. Enjoy your blizzard bucks, get a few months of wow and the new SC expansion when it comes out.
So MY money, is not MY money to spend on whatever i like, and that is okay with you?
I actually thought the whole "lets make a deal with paypal" was so you could withdraw to them. But ofc, i havent been playing WOW the last 8 years like most of you, that knows blizzard rules in and out.
So you come here to complain about your ignorance, then throw insults at people who are just affirming that fact?
And no, it's not your money. If you noticed, you never made any money. You made blizz bucks.
Nothing in the history of Blizzard, ever, has been anything like this RMAH. Playing 8 years of WoW would only sharpen their tongue to bash idiots and trolls. Guess which category you fall under?
To qualify that one step further towards something remotely resembling a true statement...Most players that dislike D3 are veteran D2 players who wanted to play 10+ years worth of refined and patched D2 with updated graphics, got something different and are now miffed.
Pretty much. I admit that I fall mostly into that category. The fundamental playstyle difference is a huge change from previous games and I just do not enjoy the new direction at all. They turned Diablo 3 into a mutant offspring of an ARPG and an MMO.
Diablo 2: Kill things easy. Trading was mostly small scale, so you were more apt to grind for your own gear. Drop rates were balanced higher because of the small scale of trade. If you wanted an Oculus, you had to find it (which wasn't unreasonable to think) or make an effort to trade for one. You farmed for items to use.
Diablo 3: Kill things very hard. Trading is so large scale, that it's hard to argue that it's not the most prominent part of the entire game. With that instant availability of items, drop rates are balanced very low so as not to flood the market any more than it already is. If you want a uh....what's a good legendary?....you buy it off the AH. You farm items for gold.
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You haven't the foggiest clue what Journalism is.
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The irony is strong with this one.
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Diablo 2 was interesting because it wasn't the process of: Is it ilvl 63?
If no, trash it....it's 100% worthless
If yes, it's got a 99% chance of being worthless
You could get unique gauntlets with crap armor that's for a lvl 20 something and wear them all the way through the game because items were actually interesting and based off of worth...not item level.
Just my two cents on your items idea.
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Steadily increasing since May 16th. lol
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Hell, add an incremental experience boost per completed act. +33% after act 1, 66% after act 2, 100% after act 3. Double experience through all of act 4. The buff remains even if you leave game, but disappears if you change quests. You get more experience with more people in the game. It would promote co-op which would reduce server strain by having less games and you'd be coerced into actually playing through THE WHOLE GAME, instead of picking and choosing your 5 NV elites and act boss to kill over and over. The exact design philosophy Blizzard has been parroting since Day 1. Lock item levels and PVP at 60, but still give the stat boosts beyond till 99.
There, done. Blizz send me a check. I fixed one of your biggest problems.
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See, this is what I don't get. People make claims like "you never played X" or "Y isn't your thing" based on their opinion of this sequel. I played D2 out the ass and I enjoyed the grind/farm of that game.
The grind/farm of D3 is distinctively not fun to me. There are dozens of reasons for this that I could list off, but you won't bother reading them and they've been said 100000000 times by other displeased players. It's a completely different game, regardless of it's title or subject matter.
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See, I like to reference the Xfire website. If you look at the playtime graphs of D3 and WoW, you find D3's playtime steadily (and at times sharply) decreasing and WoW's playtime steadily increasing since D3's release.
xfire.com/games/d3
xfire.com/games/wow
Thems are data points fool!
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They will always try to do what is most fun for the game, but the bottom line is and always will be: RMAH > fun
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Not peak, pique. Your interests are piqued by things like that.
Not trying to be a dick, I just felt the need to enlighten you.
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Though I haven't logged on D3 in like 3 weeks, so I guess that's moot.
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http://beta.xfire.com/games/d3
Look at the graph.
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So you come here to complain about your ignorance, then throw insults at people who are just affirming that fact?
And no, it's not your money. If you noticed, you never made any money. You made blizz bucks.
Nothing in the history of Blizzard, ever, has been anything like this RMAH. Playing 8 years of WoW would only sharpen their tongue to bash idiots and trolls. Guess which category you fall under?
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Pretty much. I admit that I fall mostly into that category. The fundamental playstyle difference is a huge change from previous games and I just do not enjoy the new direction at all. They turned Diablo 3 into a mutant offspring of an ARPG and an MMO.
Diablo 2: Kill things easy. Trading was mostly small scale, so you were more apt to grind for your own gear. Drop rates were balanced higher because of the small scale of trade. If you wanted an Oculus, you had to find it (which wasn't unreasonable to think) or make an effort to trade for one. You farmed for items to use.
Diablo 3: Kill things very hard. Trading is so large scale, that it's hard to argue that it's not the most prominent part of the entire game. With that instant availability of items, drop rates are balanced very low so as not to flood the market any more than it already is. If you want a uh....what's a good legendary?....you buy it off the AH. You farm items for gold.