Thoughts on Diablo III?

[GrayingGamer]

, but everything that drops is garbage.

No... nearly everything that drops is garbage, but there is the rare item that is actually quite good. You either use it or sell it, and if you sell it, you should have the money to buy a similarly useful item for your character.

 

[Rub'Rum]

Except by the time you log into the auction house, there has already been 200% inflation.

Hyperbole, but still, I never found anything I managed to sell enough to buy myself equivalent to what I had found.

 

[Dell19]

Its worth noting that after the last patch the prices for quite good items (i.e. good enough for act I and act II) went down a lot in my experience.

 

[Rashiminos]

i wish they had more gold sinks in this game to prevent inflation. something as simple as auction items being bind on pickup would remove gold from the game.

This only works to the extent that bound items reduce gold farming, which is to say it doesn't. Prices rise where they can because there is more gold to go around on the things that can be bought. A sink would remove money..

in hardcore, the economy is much more reasonable and the highest priced items are 10 mill or so, because people die, and poof goes all the items. or, they could set an artificial cap on the maximum buyout for any given item.

Player deaths inhibit gold creation and item demand. If players die less, this is subject to change.

those prices this could be coupled with preventing the selling of gear on the RMAH and only allow the selling/buying of gold for USD. this consolidates all the items into just the gold auction house, and makes it much easier to control the economy.

As long as the RMAH remains profitable, this is unlikely to happen. (This issue was also present in D2, fwiw)

how many nerds would be willing to shell out cash for gold, i'm not sure. definitely a fascinating social experiment

Quite a few, if notorious D2 sites are anything to go by...

It blows my mind that they thought this kind of crap was acceptable in a game that has both 1.) Hardcore permadeath mode and 2.) Monsters that one shot you on the highest difficulty level. If the hitbox issue is really as bad as I've heard it feels like playing Hardcore Inferno would basically just be rolling the dice each time, not good when permadeath is the result of rolling snake eyes.

This isn't a hitbox issue per se. It's a lag issue... particularly if your latency is north of what would be acceptable for competitive FPS(hooter) gameplay. Server side, the monster really is that close to you, and that's what matters.



Edit: Another darkness complaint on the last page? THERE ARE ACTUALLY PLACES IN THE GAME WHERE MY SCREEN MIGHT AS WELL BE A QUARTER OF ITS SIZE DUE LACK OF ANY VISIBILITY EXCEPT FOR A CENTER OVAL
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[Disgustipated]

So it looks like Diablo 3 has claimed it's first victim.

Man (I use that term loosely) dies after playing 40 hours straight.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/07/18/video-gamer-dies-after-playing-40-hours-straight/

I haven't played the game myself in ages. I'm a little burned out on it right now. I thought it would have more longevity than Diablo 2, but it doesn't appear so. Bugs that prevent me from playing the other classes (which weren't as fun as Diablo 2 classes) doesn't help things.

 

[Rub'Rum]

So Jay Wilson, lead designer for D3, along with several devs for D3, got caught strongly insulting David Brevik (the guy behind D1 and D2, from now defunct Blizzard North), after Brevik, in an interview, politely explained why he didn't quite enjoy D3. The insults happened on a D3 dev's Facebook, and his D3 dev team friends, including Wilson, insulted the guy. I can't even post the screenshots here as it contains strong language.

And now today, the thing is spreading like wildfire and somehow, (should we assume it's a coincidence?), they release their "Paragon Levels" content that will be in the next patch (it's pretty much the biggest news about the game in a while)... Right, not trying to change the subject at all are we.

It's a complete disgrace. Complete. Disgrace. What a Jersey Shore attitude. I can cope with accidentally releasing flawed games and all, but acting like you know what's fun and telling people off, when you put their name, like hypocrites, in the credit to thank them for creating the franchise. No.

 

[Double A]

 

[Disgustipated]

Like they have room to talk. I don't know anyone still playing D3. Initially I thought it might have more longevity than D2 because I got my character to a higher level than any of my D2 characters, but I haven't touched the game in a long time, and most likely won't touch it. Point is, I don't think they have room to trash D1 and D2.

D3 may make more money (due to the auction house thing), but the game is dead it seems. In 1 year there will probably be more people playing D2 than D3.

 

[Luckymoose]

D2 > D3 for all eternity.

 

[Rub'Rum]

I think the main loss for me at this point is how we lost that sense of gritty random exploration for a linear path of stupidity.

 

[Maniacal]

The announcement you have all been waiting for... Diablo 3 for PS3 and PS4!

 

[Rub'Rum]

They said they would do that over a year ago.

 

[Double A]

They also said Diablo 3 wouldn't suck.

 

[Rub'Rum]

I had no doubt they would at least succeed in one of those two things.

 

[Matthew.]

Well that explains why they refused to fix the terrible UI... it needed to be crap for consoles.

Also glad they used PC players as long-term beta testers and let them fill up the RMAH with cheap crap. I imagine the plan is to charge 60 dollars for the base game, and then have essentially a "free to play model" tacked on to a game that isn't free to play.

Hope they make money off of it, 'cause I know there are a ton of old-school PC gamers that have long given up on Blizzard and won't be giving them any cash for any new releases.

 

[Thrawn]

heh, I can pretty much bet that most who say that will buy whatever blizzards next game is. Whenever a D3 expansion comes out it's pretty much guaranteed to sell well because A) Blizzard, and B) Diablo.

 

[Matthew.]

Unfortunately it is true, hence why EA is still in business

I won't be one of them. It isn't just D3; I've lost interest shortly after WoW: BC. SC2 multi is ok, since it is essentially just copy/paste of the original, but the campaign was fairly meh.

Actually the only reason I got D3 was only for the name and reputation of the originals, and I knew I was going to be disappointed. When following the progress of the game, the dev team mentioned several "flaws" of D2. It just so happens their list of "flaws" were many of the reasons I enjoyed D2. I guess I'm just not part of their target market anymore.

 

[Double A]

I love how companies that were small 10-20 years ago and founded to take business away from the big and evil companies are now big and evil themselves, and indie devs try to take business away from them.

It's a vicious cycle. Good thing Valve isn't big on cycles.

 

[Matthew.]

Sounds a lot like governments

*Revolution* Stick it to the man!

*becomes evil tyrannical dictator shortly after coup*

 

[Rub'Rum]

heh, I can pretty much bet that most who say that will buy whatever blizzards next game is. Whenever a D3 expansion comes out it's pretty much guaranteed to sell well because A) Blizzard, and B) Diablo.

No, I'm done. I was an avid Diablo 1 and 2 player, I actually liked World of Warcraft back in its heydays. I also played Warcraft 1 and 2 and Starcraft quite a bunch. I was doubtful of many features that were announced before Diablo 3 was released, but if you go back in this thread I was certainly one of the people who gave them the benefit of the doubt and the "wait and see" approach, because they had success in every of their games I had played in the past, including Lost Vikings, Rock and Roll Racing and Blackthorn from way back, three of my favorite SNES games I didn't even realize were from Blizzard when their PC games came out. I had been waiting for Diablo 3 for over 10 years, and it actually made me reconnect with old friends with whom I used to play Diablo 2, people I hadn't talked to in 5 over years. Yeah, my attitude was of doubt and, let's wait and see, Blizzard might pull it off to my taste. But the game turned out so disappointing compared to all the history I had with the company (as you just read) that they've killed it for me. Especially when considering the fact that it failed EXACTLY where everyone told them it would fail, and they thought they were so much better at knowing better than the fans of 15 years. I'm not going through that cycle again. If an expansion comes out, it'll have to have incredible reviews for me to even consider it ("Completely fixes everything and more!"), and if I do, it probably will be on sale, considering that I already feel like Diablo 3 was a scam.