Holy shit, how did I completely forget about the RM auction house.

D3 would have been fine if they didn't make everything no drop outside of group and remove auction house, even if it wasn't for $$. They removed the trading aspect of the game which for people such as myself is half the fun. Wilson and Pardo made terrible business decisions whether they want to believe it or not. They wanted something different and have to live with the criticism.

PoE is where it's at.

For console fans: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/vi...ge/1#p15926484

LOL. Notice how all the changes are just handing out a bunch of goodies. Like massive set buffs and primal item handouts. All the coding changes seem to mostly entail adding some zeros.

But we are led to believe this is "one of multiple projects" that has been in the works for awhile. Bullshit. They have egg all over their face after the convention and now they are covering up with this handjob patch for the d3 playerbase.

"Blizzard" is no longer Blizzard. That's why their games suck and have that cheesy made for TV style. Time to move on.

I liked diablo 1, but it was a game with flaws. I liked the expansion. The gothic horror was intriguing, i still remember the first time i encountered the butcher and he was like: ah, fresh meat. And i was like, oh f***. I liked that it had a pool of quests for each 'act?', so each playthrough wasn't the same. I didn't like that the rogue was arguably the best class for the game, but needless to say i only played the rogue.

I liked diablo2, but to me it was sort of 1 step forwards, 1 step back. I liked the open world, i really loved the cutscenes. Each one was a case of: and then things got worse. Even the ending to the expansion was like that, you're too late so you have to destroy the worldstone instead of save it. But then they introduced the linear path of quests, so that you would always played the same game every time with minor changes to the landscape.

I didn't like diablo 3, i'll go into that in a second. But the first thing that really teed me off? I played at launch, and i was lagging badly in single player mode. I know companies love their drm these days, but making it online only for single player? And then the f***er lags? So i stopped playing for a few months. After that, i noticed the cartoony graphics that reminded me of wow, and not in a good way. After that, as someone else said the theme seemed to change from gothic horror to generic fantasy. The cutscenes were moments of success for the most part, not moments of what fresh hell is this. This is the first diablo game where i didn't bother with the expansion. I never even entertained the idea of spending real money to buy gear.

I don't like the idea of having to replay the same game multiple times just to get to the end. The idea that the game starts on your third-fourth playthrough. I finished my second playthrough a couple months ago, and that was my second playthrough since... when? i can't even remember when this came out. 2012ish from drunken hazy memory.

That video of the guy asking at blizzcon if this was an out of season april fools joke was savage, but justified imo. I won't be buying diablo 4 until its been out for a while and i've read some good reviews. But storywise, where do they go from here?

I would've liked to have moved on a decade ago when Crysis signaled an end to an era.

personally d3 was such a departure from d1 and d2, i could care less anymore. I dont owe blizzard anything and they dont owe me anything.

I do wish another gaming company would make a good ole hack and slash, but make it difficult like everquest.

Exanima has come close to that, but still has a lot of development to come.

Definitely, and the "don't you guys have pho0oOo0nes?" will go down with Activision/Blizzard/EA/etc's attempts to put AAA titles onto mobile devices with cash shop/RMT incentives.

Lets not forget the C&C Rivals attempt - not often you'd get EA to actually mark a youtube video as "unlisted".