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Some thoughts on Diablo 3 and this forum
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.
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.