In my opinion, it's an OK game with a TERRIBLE business model.
I've gotten used to DRM, to be required to authenticate my game every time I start it, but Diablo III takes this to a longer longer bearable level for me.
Being forced to play on a server for every single minute I want to play the campaign in single player, no save game option, no way to have my characters on my own bloody hard drive?
Having to cope with disconnects, server downtimes and the release day fail, when just wanting to play single player? Unacceptable.
I was aware of the online requirement, but I thought I had a choice like I had in Starcraft II (where I could still play offline, create my own savegames and not suffer from Blizzards server troubles). So my copy of D3 went back to Amazon, because I simply do not want to support this.
The game itself is another step down from D2. No character customization, no stat point distribution, no skill trees. I already missed the spellbooks from D1, but THIS? The gameplay is VERY repetitive, mostly a hectical clickfest with a VERY low difficulty level in single player and no motivation to do the chore a second time in a higher difficulty (Yeah, I played all 4 acts once while waiting for my key to be deleted
). I actually like the graphics though, the item collector's drive is back and the controls are really VERY good (apart from a terrible hotkey system). If one likes a hectical clickfest better than a stratetic game with RPG elements... it's not for me, though.
Oh, and the little bit of a story they have takes predictability to a new all-time height
All in all a very mixed bag, which I can very well live without, just to send a message to Blizzard about their business practises.
I've gotten used to DRM, to be required to authenticate my game every time I start it, but Diablo III takes this to a longer longer bearable level for me.
Being forced to play on a server for every single minute I want to play the campaign in single player, no save game option, no way to have my characters on my own bloody hard drive?
Having to cope with disconnects, server downtimes and the release day fail, when just wanting to play single player? Unacceptable.
I was aware of the online requirement, but I thought I had a choice like I had in Starcraft II (where I could still play offline, create my own savegames and not suffer from Blizzards server troubles). So my copy of D3 went back to Amazon, because I simply do not want to support this.
The game itself is another step down from D2. No character customization, no stat point distribution, no skill trees. I already missed the spellbooks from D1, but THIS? The gameplay is VERY repetitive, mostly a hectical clickfest with a VERY low difficulty level in single player and no motivation to do the chore a second time in a higher difficulty (Yeah, I played all 4 acts once while waiting for my key to be deleted
). I actually like the graphics though, the item collector's drive is back and the controls are really VERY good (apart from a terrible hotkey system). If one likes a hectical clickfest better than a stratetic game with RPG elements... it's not for me, though.Oh, and the little bit of a story they have takes predictability to a new all-time height
All in all a very mixed bag, which I can very well live without, just to send a message to Blizzard about their business practises.
With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince...
With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. ...
and still keep the frog you started with.