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[Ploid 3.0]

Any endearment I still had for the game after I tried 1.04 died after I realized I could selling everything in my bag to NPC, and still not really miss anything.

I too was a WD that had to go LoH and leech tank build. No way was I going to bother with the micro of kiting.

You know what got me to quit the game? It wasn't the loot, or the lack of viable skills, or stupidly over-tuned mobs seeming put in place to get you to use the AH. It was the Enrage timers.

I don't even know what they were thinking on that one. Yes I know it got removed, but shows how disconnected to the series they were.

This reminded me about the DH vault to avoid getting smacked not working thing. Like monsters having an advantage on hitting you because of your enlarged hit box or the elites being able to make your life a living inferno with their amazing abilities rolls. I pity the elite that somehow rolled missile dampening aura. I'm laughing at them just thinking about it. That ability must be set to 0.1% chance or something.

Anyway, it was said that Blizzard didn't want people dodging attacks to avoid getting hit. Part of the armor checks, get to the AH initiative yadda yadda yadda. People pointed out that they have been training us to avoid attacks all this time, pointing out boss fights where you had to move. This game was a lot of mess.

 

[SnakeswithLasers]

D3 helps me understand why they never released Starcraft Ghost.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

This kinda reminds me of Romney's trip to the UK. All blizzard had to do was make D2 HD+, smile, then wave but they go and poke the bee's nest.

Bliz should make D2 with D3's engine. I would buy it since I never played D2. Allow that Median XL mod to work with it because I hear good things about it.

 

[Perkel]

from diabloincgamers forum:

This kinda reminds me of Romney's trip to the UK. All blizzard had to do was make D2 HD+, smile, then wave but they go and poke the bee's nest.

Bliz should make D2 with D3's engine. I would buy it since I never played D2. Allow that Median XL mod to work with it because I hear good things about it.

Laz (medianXL guy) works for GGG on Path of Exile now (designing mostly uniques)

 

[spirity]

I feel bad for the guy. Diablo 3 wasn't a perfect game by any means, but it was still very good - and they've made some excellent steps forward since release. Despite his mistakes both in game design and in comments afterward, some of the rage directed toward him crosses a line IMO. It's quite uncomfortable to read. I wish him the best moving forward and hope he can find a good spot in a more 'behind the scenes' type role.

I think its fine people are being critical of him on the official boards and gaming forums and the like. He made mistakes, he said some stuff he shouldn't have said, he deserves a backlash in those places.

But when people post shit on your twitter account too, well.. putting myself in his shoes, it would feel like there's no escaping it. That's not a feeling I'd like to have, that my family would look at my twitter and see people calling me all manner of things and wonder why. That's crossing the line for sure.

 

[SteveWinwood]

D3 helps me understand why they never released Starcraft Ghost.

Starcraft Ghost makes me confused on how Diablo 3 was ever released.

 

[.la1n]

Starcraft Ghost makes me confused on how Diablo 3 was ever released.

Or look at this way, if Diablo 3 was released imagine what kind of shape Ghost must have been in order to get canned...*shudder*

 

[SnakeswithLasers]

I think its fine people are being critical of him on the official boards and gaming forums and the like. He made mistakes, he said some stuff he shouldn't have said, he deserves a backlash in those places.

But when people post shit on your twitter account too, well.. putting myself in his shoes, it would feel like there's no escaping it. That's not a feeling I'd like to have, that my family would look at my twitter and see people calling me all manner of things and wonder why. That's crossing the line for sure.

Some of the ad hominem is awful. I totally agree. The "fuck that loser" stuff, in my opinion, is relevant though.

That said, those who dismiss all criticism of the game due to some people crossing the line and then lumping all of the negative together is unfair to those of us with legitimate complaints with paying for an alpha/beta and the fact that D3 has essentially ruined the name and credibility that "Blizzard" has built up to us over the last 15 years.

 

[Last Hearth]

The fundamental failure of D3 game design is the AH and RMAH.

For people like me, and I'd say that's most people who like D2, the fun is not in buying a piece of gear, it's in FINDING a piece of gear. That's the old Skinner Box mentality that acts as the hook.

Instead, they designed the game around playing the game as grinding for gold so you can go on the AH to buy the gear your need.

This is why I can't see it being fixed, because they aren't getting rid of the AHs.

 

[SteveWinwood]

Some of the ad hominem is awful. I totally agree. The "fuck that loser" stuff, in my opinion, is relevant though.

That said, those who dismiss all criticism of the game due to some people crossing the line and then lumping all of the negative together is unfair to those of us with legitimate complaints with paying for an alpha/beta and the fact that D3 has essentially ruined the name and credibility that "Blizzard" has built up to us over the last 15 years.

Woah that's not fair to put that all on diablo 3's shoulders...

Starcraft 2's handling deserves at least a bit of a share in the downfall of Blizzards good name.

 

[KarmaCow]

Woah that's not fair to put that all on diablo 3's shoulders...

Starcraft 2's handling deserves at least a bit of a share in the downfall of Blizzards good name.

Hasn't Starcraft 2 been well received? The lack of LAN aside, it seemed like most of the problems were with Battle.net 2.0 than the game itself.

 

[Zzoram]

I pretty much stopped playing D3 after the first month and I probably won't buy the expansions either unless they do something to add way more fun to the game.

 

[Zzoram]

Hasn't Starcraft 2 been well received? The lack of LAN aside, it seemed like most of the problems were with Battle.net 2.0 than the game itself.

Battle.net 2.0 still having less functionality than Battle.net from 10 years ago is what bothers everyone. They said they were going to give us a new and improved Battle.net then gave us a worse version and seem hellbent on not even bringing it up to parity with the old version. The new Battle.net added no new features other than achievements and match history with starting build orders (that you can't hide, fucking over people who practice for tournaments by requiring them to buy smurfs to hide their strategies), both of which are generally hated or pointless "features".

Starcraft 2 is still a much, much better game than Diablo 3.

 

[antitrop]

D3 helps me understand why they never released Starcraft Ghost.

Blizzard didn't make StarCraft: Ghost, though. It went through 2 third-party devs before being cancelled.

Hasn't Starcraft 2 been well received? The lack of LAN aside, it seemed like most of the problems were with Battle.net 2.0 than the game itself.

The only significant issue most people have with StarCraft II outside of Battle.net is that the single-player campaign has a shitty plot. That's really about it.

Comes with the territory when Chris Metzen is writing, though. See: Diablo III.

 

[Into]

There are things in Diablo 3 that are second to none, the animation, sound and mechanics are fantastic. Which is most likely why its so frustrating to see the itemization and overall customization of your character be so poorly done.

We will likely never know what role Jay Wilson really had in the development of this game, or how many decisions were dictated by him and not his superiors. But it is clear that the game was troubled for a while

He really did himself no favors with the things he had to say about Diablo 2, the whole Facebook fiasco, the "double it!" comment and the many times he said what was fun and what was not fun.

I hope the expansion will be used to overhaul the itemization, it does not and should not be Diablo 2, but it should be interesting to farm items and build a character, right now its just not interesting at all in my opinion.

I guess Dustin Bowder did a really good job on SC2 in comparison, since the only complaint people have of him is his love of putting rocks on maps. Most of the complaints SC2 had were targeted towards the main writer of the story, Chris Metzen.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

I did 2 Act 3 runs this weekend (Friday and today) and I got one legendary (Gladiator gauntlets. I know, right?) and about 2 items I didn't delete right away. Still thinking about if they are worth selling. One is a 3 slot body with 400 life regen, 100 vit, other stats are bleh (30ish element resist, forgot which). I gained 900k by picking up gold and npc selling the bad rares though. If I do 8 more runs I can probably edge out 4.5 - 5mil total.

I watch tv while farming, it's the only game I have where I can do that pretty much. GW2 and Tera require a lot of aiming and I could die. Farming is boring in d3, especially when you don't get anything interesting. I have a lot of MF on my follower, and I'm at 31 paragon + whatever monster level I pick. With 5 NV I'm usually at 300mf. I've been hoping I'd strike it very lucky in this game for a while. One day I'll get that 100mil item and pimp all my classes out. Then wake up.

I might try to gear up my wizard to see if it kill faster than acid rain nuking witch doctor. I can see Archon doing that. Mass confusion/+20% extra dmg taken on heavy hitting elites is a bit nice though.

Edit: For old times.
http://youtu.be/Nrli-by8oOU

 

[Shining Sunshine]

Blizzard didn't make StarCraft: Ghost, though. It went through 2 third-party devs before being cancelled.

Games made with outsource third-party doesn't mean the publisher had nothing to do with it.

 

[KKRT00]

Hasn't Starcraft 2 been well received? The lack of LAN aside, it seemed like most of the problems were with Battle.net 2.0 than the game itself.

Yeah, but it was Starcraft 1 HD basically which was sad for me [12+ years without improvements in formula], but at least they havent screwed it up.