No.
Brashen wroteI finally managed to play roughly half an hour before being booted.
Half an hour, is not playing the game. At that stage, I'd expect more whining on the installer level than on the first couple of quests.

Your issues with the servers aren't that unfortunate, we've all witnessing them and Blizzard has already been bashed to oblivion about it.
No.
As emphatic as that may seem, might I point out that I actually stated I played four hours. You misinterpreted my first half hour of the game as my only foray into Diablo 3.
Brashen wroteMy main gripe with the game is 2 fold. One the always online codswallop THAT IS DRM. Two that fact that it looks like WOW and Barney had sex, produced Siamese twins, and subsequently mashed them together to reveal the howdidodi land that is Diablo 3. The myriad of problems that stem from a game that took near 12 years to make is appalling.
First and foremost, It's world of warcraft that has taken from diablo and not the other way around. Have you played Diablo 2? Changing a game from its original theme, content and style is basically changing the entire game and that is not what the Diablo fans are looking for.

Are you a Diablo fan? Perhaps this game is not for you?
But I see the problem here. Too many apologists in our midst, too many people willing to bend over for blizzard while paying them to do so.
You're not paying a monthly fee, you're paying a one time fee to get a game, similar to how you pay any other company for a game that if i may say, most can be completed in little under 5 hours. I urge you to actually complete the game in "Normal" mode which is pretty much Hack'n'Slash your way blindly in that time.
Sure.It's an undeniable fact that you will have fun, for the first 2 weeks or so. But when that first elation and hype riddled fantasies die away and your left with the grueling and nagging feeling: " Is this it?"
Most, are on the same boat. They complete normal boat and assume 'Is this it?'. You and them are completely mistaken, the game as you've probably seen me write before, does not start until mid nightmare mode. In terms of fun, this is quite relative don't you think? The Diablo theme is all about gear grinding, as much as Blizzard fails to admit it, it is.
You might try to put up some implausible defense about hacks and why the game needs to be always online. But I implore you to open those pretty baby blues and see...hacks have been cropping up everywhere on Diablo 3 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149008757
What you linked is totally irrelevant to why the game is online. The issues described in the topic you linked occur in World of Warcraft as well. It's a user problem, when it's a blizzard problem it gets fixed. Being online,

- Latency : I'm on the lowest possible connection in Lebanon and It's not an issue to me.
- Server issues : I've already mentioned this, yes, it's a shame.
- Being on the road/airplane : Read a book.
- Not having an internet connection : Don't buy a 50$ game, get an internet connection.

On the positive side:

- Control of the online community of diablo gamers : Battle.net consolidates these gamers and gives them an easy way to play together, find games, join games, trade items and so on. Yes, it is about making money for them, what company doesn't want to benefit from their games to the extreme? They're taking a 15% cut off of trades through AH.

- Cheats/Game Hacks remain on the 'custom' servers : You will never see a hacked item online. People will not be one shotting Diablo on inferno and so on.

There are many advantages, most of which skipped my mind at the moment.
You might also try to explain why the graphics look decades old and is if I'm strolling through the flighty woodlands of a Winnie the Poo book. "MAN THAT'S BLIZZARD'S STYLE YOU DUMB ASS" Ohhhhhhooooo, just because their biggest franchise set a style that allows them to prance about with the idiom "Oh it still looks good it doesn't age ...you know because it's cartoony" doesn't justify having all the rest of it's I.P.s look like it. It's sheer laziness and money mongering on their part. Why bother hiring people who know how to emulate the Gothic Style of the first two games when we have a legion of WoW artists at our disposal. Have you seen any other major developer do such an idiotic move, to completely restylise a game just to maintain homogeneity throughout their I.P.s. Utter crud I say.
Diablo 3 looks exactly how I expect it to be, I find the graphics rather nice. I grew sick of the 'colors' in world of warcraft, now THAT'S 'cartoony'.

Wouldn't you say that the fun factor and the taste in graphics is rather relative? Or do you want to impose on me what kind of graphics I should like?

On the negative side, my system is very powerful and I wish the game could've taken advantage of the hardware components I have to the extreme. Or at least allow me to make the choice.
But most of you suffer from the consumer version of the Stockholm Syndrome or some version or other of consumer guilt for buying such a shoddy game.
I've already exhausted the price I paid for this game, so i don't feel much guilt about it, despite how I feel. I presume for most, it's the same thing.
What's worse you trick yourself into believing that your enjoying the game and that it's God's gift to man. What a sad state you've all come to. And it's truly a shame really.
Why are you so keen on downing this game for those that are actually enjoying it? Are you seriously saying that everyone is delusional just because it's a Blizzard game?

I'm not going to impose or enforce a game on you. I enjoy it and that's all that matters. I've been partnering up with a 'Monk' friend of mine and doing hard content, having to do quite a bit of theory-crafting before hand in terms of identifying the skills synergy to overcome some random hard Elite packs with absolutely devastating mix of assigned abilities, only to end up changing it all over again because it failed and we wiped dozens of times.

'This' makes the game fun for me. I'm not looking for endless content that I can face-roll my way through.
kk anyone having latency spikes to 2000 ms ?
xterm wroteI'm not going to impose or enforce a game on you. I enjoy it and that's all that matters. I've been partnering up with a 'Monk' friend of mine and doing hard content, having to do quite a bit of theory-crafting before hand in terms of identifying the skills synergy to overcome some random hard Elite packs with absolutely devastating mix of assigned abilities, only to end up changing it all over again because it failed and we wiped dozens of times.

'This' makes the game fun for me. I'm not looking for endless content that I can face-roll my way through.
I wish i had a play buddy on D3, would be much more interesting i am sure :S Till then, my wizzard shall single handedly stand in the face of those infernal abominations and rid the realms of darkness. - and hopefuly shack up with that sexy Eireena the enchantress- :p


@ romel Its usualy 300-400 to me, but i don feel much lag, just occasionaly
CE is selling for 200$+ on ebay... no second batch will be released it was a limited release as far as i know.
About the arguing towards the graphics, when i saw the gameplay videos before release i was disappointed but when i got my hands on the game, upon installing, i got a message saying my pc doesn't have the requirements and i was afraid of that, i didn't even think this pc will run those graphics even. When i went ingame, i was actually surprised, RPG that look way more realistic instead of looking like an animated fantasy, i simply don't enjoy, feel free to take a look at dungeon siege 3, game was looking great on the previous releases until they ruined the graphics at the last game and i'm glad diablo3 didn't take that step, i'm running the game now on high quality despite the game telling me that i have low requirements, my fps drops to 30 at lowest and i'm fine with that, the did such a good job on the graphics that even crappy pc's such as mine can run the game smoothly and keeping the fantasy looking style of an old school rpg.

About the latency, it's mostly normal between 200-300, i am spiking a lot lately, but i think i have some problems from my end, a few days ago i even had a latency of less then 100ms but it occurred once around 4am in the morning, i still hope the latency will be improved, i know lebanon has a crappy internet but since the upgrade in lebanon i haven't reached 300ms latency on any game, i even play league of legends on NA servers on a stable 220ms and 70ms on EU servers.
peekaie wrote.
peekaie!

Your post was very important, please bring it back (Albeit removing the storyline part).
xterm wrote
peekaie wrote.
peekaie!

Your post was very important, please bring it back (Albeit removing the storyline part).
Ok now I MUST know what it was about...
guys, how much bandwidth does it take? is it similar to playing online? or it just checks every half an hour or so to see if you're connected to the server?
Nemesis-301 wroteguys, how much bandwidth does it take? is it similar to playing online? or it just checks every half an hour or so to see if you're connected to the server?
it's live..just like any other online game.
hey guys i have one question. who ever got diablo 3 and is playing it i just need to know the internet speed you have and whether the game lags for you. thanks
@lebanasian: well for most what i ve read on this forum , the guys on ogera dsl got no problem, the do play at the border limit of 150-200ms.

My diablo3: virgin dude lied , no new diablo games today, said for sure on wednesday...... So what else is new.
neonsun wrote@lebanasian: well for most what i ve read on this forum , the guys on ogera dsl got no problem, the do play at the border limit of 150-200ms.

My diablo3: virgin dude lied , no new diablo games today, said for sure on wednesday...... So what else is new.
they said on the 25th for me, don't you dare get the collectors edition :P ITS MINE! @.@
.... Take it take it....
I m not into collector editions
But dont get your hopes up , i m not expecting them to make good on their date promises.
Tsssss tsssss

( friday is a holiday , you sure they said 25th ... The "dude" said not before next week :$ )
the guy from downtown said in 1-2 days on sunday, the dude at citymall said this week 2 times, then said 25th and now you're saying they said next week, grr!
i left my number with them anyway, he said he'll call me when available (at least i hope he does)
Just came in to say that Diablo III became the fastest-selling PC game ever.3.5 million in first 24 hours to make a total of 6.3 million in 1 week. PC gaming is dead /s
Just In reply to Xterms' post:

Links you guys should probably read before buying this crud fest of a "game":

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/5743-You-Should-Be-Mad-at-Diablo-IIIs-Always-Online-DRM

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/05/23/blizzard-tries-to-reassure-hack-victims-results-vary/

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/05/22/hacknslash-fic-on-diablo-iii-difficulty-and-dumbness/

Also pay no heed to review scores as they are arbitrary and locked hand in hand with Publisher and Developer advertisement money.