A few ideas of how to save D3

[Mavfin]

The game can be whatever I want it to be.

That's exactly it.

If you only play by the "Inferno is everything and I can't hold back my buddies, so I have to buy gear", then well, you've already made your choice and you'll have to live with that. Or if the loot isn't 'enough incentive'. That's something brought about by WoW, imo. Didn't belong in D2, and doesn't belong in D3, unless you want it to.

Just don't post the conclusions from your own choices/attitudes as 'fact', as some here are so fond of doing.

Edit: Or as I said to someone else: Just because you play with a raft of assumptions, don't assume I play with the same ones.