Some thoughts on Diablo 3 and this forum

[Puckineh]

Re: Some thoughts on Diablo 3 and this forum

Somthing happens, your computer crashes, you just lost all your charcter and hard work, while if you play on b net you reinstall diablo, jump on b net and all your charecters are there.

or lets say i stop playing for a few months (the game is 10 years old it happens) i come back to bnet to start playing again and oh no my account was closed due to inactivity

i wonder if you still have your first poorly made characters in classic 10 years ago.. I do and still get to take them out into the moor looking for that godly rare classic was so good for .. not to mention stashes from years of playing (all legit findings unlike stuff traded for on bnet)

 

[captain]

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I played SP for a good long time before i hit Bnet. I will admit the the learning curve for many players on Bnet is much sharper. It took me a "long" time figure the in and outs of the game as a SP. But i liked to play buy the rules, it keeps the game real. I will say this "I loved knocking the H3ll out of Baal with a good group in hell"!!

 

[sreda]

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I've been reading posts on this forum for a while now, and felt I wanted to put across a different point of view.

Most posters here seem to have played mainly on battle.net before this, but I think that the majority of people who bought diablo II probably did not do this. People who do not like online play often do not like online forums, and so their views are not really defended here.

I do not like playing the game with people I do not know, and many friends I've spoken to feel the same way. Random player-killing, intense competition for item drops and a very steep learning curve in PVP do not make battle.net appeal to new players much either.

I played Diablo II firstly as a singleplayer game. For those who played on battle.net only, getting items on singleplayer was incredibly difficult and this made the game extremely hard. I finished Hell difficulty wearing chain gloves and chain boots, having never seen an Amn rune. I'm sick of reading comments about how players can finish all three difficulties in a day, or about how the game is too easy, or about how some items in Diablo III should be as rare as Zod runes from D2. These do not reflect the experience of a massive chunk of the player base.

After playing singleplayer for a while, I spent a lot more time playing LAN games with my brothers. We would only play when all three of us could play together, we would design characters that complemented each other, we would share items out so that whoever needed them most got them. We even split items so that one character carried runes, one gems, one spare potions, etc. For me Diablo was never a competitive game, and I feel many comments here about what Diablo was about are again ignoring a large chunk of the playerbase. Multiplayer to me was always about co-operation, fighting over equipment with allies is something I'm glad is removed.

Feel I've rambled quite a lot now, thanks and well done if you're still reading. Rant over.

Well of course the forum doesn't represent the whole population. That's always how it's been. But what we do know is, the forum tends to attract to the more serious and dedicated gamers, thus giving weight to some of the threads and such posted here. Blizzard reads these forums, the forums are for those who want to be more than just a player in a game. If you truly loved Diablo II and III, you'd go out of your way to learn as much about it, or be surrounded by it as much as possible. The forum is the best place to do that, and better yet you'll find more people like yourself.

So all in all, though the forum may not represent the majority of the players, there are enough people on it to give a pretty good visualization of the actual D3 and D2 community. Hence why Blizzard uses forums for feedback.

 

[krzysztof]

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To preface, I really enjoy single-player and all my characters on single-player are completely legit, some with some really nice items that would even battle.net players drool.

However, and this is being completely honest, I used to play battle.net occasionally because I like how easy it was to get everything! Was having full elite gear hard to get on a character in D2 battle.net? No. Was it pretty cool for what it was? Yeah, it was pretty cool to be teleporting around in an Enigma that I would NEVER even remotely come close to seeing on single-player.

I feel like both game modes have their uses. Single-player is for a more pure "as intended" experience and multiplayer is a more experimental "easier" option.

Both can be fun.

 

[Thrakhath]

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To me lan play for is a thing of the past, now that the internet is in mostly everyhome, and you can play with your friends and more people easily all the time with an option they give you. This to me is a lot more convenient, i dont have to pick up pack my pc up, cary it over to a friends basement, squeeze in a room with 8 other people, instead i can sit in my on home, in my own seat and can jump right on and play. You still can have your friends over, but not forced to only be able to play with them when there 4 feet away from you.

One copy of Diablo II let me play with my brothers for about £35, as we could all play using one CD. Playing Diablo III with them over battle.net will require three purchases of the game, and cost more like £100. Buying a game three times for one family may be many things, but it is definitely not convenient.