Diablo III is for real

[Xbizkitl]

Things, that piss you off?

You know the perfect solution for that, right? Just don't buy the damn game, when it's finally released!

I'm sorry, but this is just ridiculous. It sounds like people demand some lawful right to impose their view on the game's designers. If you don't like it don't buy it! Easy as that.

Sheesh.

The problem with such arguments as this is that you're not sure whether to rebut them, because understanding the rebuttal takes at least as much sense as not making such a silly straw-man proposition in the first place.

And an argument without logical teeth is just a flame. But you know that old adage about arguing on the Internet...

Look, liking a game isn't a binary, all-or-none proposition. Yes, if Diablo III isn't up to many people's high specifications, they will still buy the game. But, to put it succinctly, the changing art direction affects my consumer surplus. The margin at which the game doesn't satisfy (collectively) its users is always important, and if the right appeal isn't struck (to balance those who like the direction and those who don't), some small amount of people will not purchase the game.

It's OK to disagree with me, I have no problem with that, let your voice be heard. But to criticize those with objections because they have objections? Nothing gets me angrier, what a lazy fan community we would be.

And those with the Pollyanna-ish view that Blizzard has done no wrong in the past, has not delivered insipid recreations of past projects need only look at the first iteration of the Starcraft alpha, which Wikipedia rightly described as "Warcraft in Space":