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.