Jeg synes denne posten på US forum oppsummerer mine følelser av D3 så langt. Det skinner for mye igjennom at det handler om penger, og ikke spilleglede.
Not an MMO!
Okay you want online only for DRM, whatever, doesn't make this an MMO, I personally didn't care since I played D2 100% online.
Who cares if people attack fast, who cares if people want to kill pots for an hour instead of monsters, who cares if people want to farm chests and racks, who cares if people want to be able to mow through mobs with epic gear after farming for 100 hours like D2, who cares if I want to wear a cracked sash and short sword after playing this game 1000 hours and try to kill diablo over a 20 minute period without instantly dieing to some "enrage timer".
People play games to have fun, for an ARPG that means starting as a little level 1 weakling and eventually becoming a god that owns everything with epic gear that they find in a reasonable amount of time.
Want to know how to make an ARPG? See Diablo 2, there must be at least a couple people on your dev team who still understand what made D2 great.
Farm bosses? Who cares, people are having fun.
Farm chests? Who cares, people are having fun.
Farm huge amounts of demons? Who cares, people are having fun.
Nerf this, nerf that, "fix" this, "fix" that. Enrage timers, nerf loot, useless legendaries, forced quests, forced acts, forced force forced, slow attacks, slow runspeed, slow slow, nerf nerf, boring, frustrating, wasted time, NOT FUN.
Go back to step 1 in the dev process:
Was Diablo 2 fun or not fun because of awesome overpowered loot? fun
Was Diablo 2 fun or not fun because people could do/farm whatever they wanted? fun
Was Diablo 2 fun or not fun because people felt satisfied with loot drops farming in a variety of ways? fun
Was Diablo 2 fun or not fun for open PvP? fun
Was Diablo 2 fun or not fun because you could "break the game" and carry an 8 person game feeling like a god? fun
Look at D3, everything that was fun is no longer here.
5% IAS <yawn>, 10% movespeed <yawn>, 3% Knockback <yawn>, 10% reduced crowd control <yawn>, 50% enhanced damage <yawn>.
30% IAS <I'm on speed!>, 30% movespeed <oh man look at me go!>, 25%-100% knockback <lol zombies can't touch me!>, Cannot be Frozen <lol orb sorcs>, 250% enhanced damage <it's like drugs but it's loot!> I'm having so much fun becoming strong!
I just filled the screen with lightning, I just ran to blood raven in 20 seconds, I just owned hordes of hell's mobs, I just tanked baal with 7 other people, I just.. I just.. I just.. had so much fun.
Did the loss of the Worldstone make everything and everyone weak?
Diablo R.I.P.