Re: D3 on May 15th!
Went through most of the topic and i figured i'll give some input on my own.
I've got back into D2 like 4-5 months ago, and i'm enjoying it a lot. Mostly thanks to the community here on d2inc. Whish i could play with some peeps here, gues ill make a wowlike aplication and see where that gets me.
About d3..
Tbh, saying anything about that game now is premature. Yes, there's a beta out, rather limited i would say, it gave people a blink into the games mechanics and what not, but u can't say the game sucks or its great, gota play it trough, gota chew it for a couple of months, the whole game. Graphic wise it looks awesome, but the better the graphic, the harder it is for the machine to digest the thing, so for me that's a big factor. I have a laptop, not gona go into details, i would say it would run it, but with all the things that will go on while u slash your way trough the acts, if it slows down, I wont be able to enjoy it, but thats just me. Imagine if there was frenzy in d3 and u would move around at the speed of a bullet how your machine would feel. What i'm trying to say, and this is my stance, is that games tend to suck mainly cuz the developers push the graphics to the edge. Idk..guess its just my taste, but from what i saw from beta, the characters move slower then a snail.
Real money AH: i dont realy want to go into details on this one. I understand blizzards move, they had no control over this in d2, now they got monopoly over the market, thats a good thing, it's more secure. Other than that, screw the whole thing. Poeple gona sell everything , including their sisters panties for a w.e rune or unique item tehy desire.
Online gameplay and them watching you: yeah thats right, they want to know when you play their product so tehy can keep an eye on you, the whole battlenet launched with sc2 was aimed at this. One of the reasons i'm hesitating to buy it, what i enjoy the most about d2, is that i can play without internet, whenever i want, not when they let me, cuz we all know the servers gonna be under a lot of pressure, patches and what not, making gameplay a bad experience, like wow all over again for me..bleh..
Cheats: i saw a comment that said that blizzard handled cheaters ina good way in wow. What a joke, blizzard was cattering cheaters in wow, they banned the chars not the accounts, they kept cheating up cuz it ment revenue for them. How come, that after 6 years of wow, and all that "effort" there were hundreds of bots and cheaters running rampart over all the servers. Please...dont kid yourself, blizzard loves cheaters, the two goes hand in hand.
Will i buy it? - no, not for now, i want to see the reaction from the sheeple and get a glimpse of the feedback before i dive in, if i ever dive in
Think this is it...maybe if the topic evolves ill give more input.