A few ideas of how to save D3

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I am only lvl 54 and in Act1 of Hell, but I already can't see myself playing past killing D on Inferno, whenever that happens, except maybe PVP.

... and, this is a big if... Blizzard doesn't add anything more to the game in the next 12 months... See http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/0...cromancer/ Diablo II saw many additions and changes in it's time, and I wouldn't expect less for DIII.

There is no more incentive. No reason to item hunt, since you can just AH it. No more leveling, since you will be lvl 60.

I'm not sure I really even know the limits of what legendary items are available. My oldest char is nearing the end of Normal, and I'm looking forward to the challenge of Nightmare.

Also, b/c of the repetitive nature of hardcoded quests, I can not see myself rolling another toon.

I rolled one of each class right away, knowing I'd want to get a sense for playing each type. It wasn't because I wanted to do the quests multiple times. More important to replay-ability are the randomness of the dungeon events, champion packs, and rare (and beyond) loot drops. It would be cool if the quests forked in a myriad of directions, but then that would be a different game.

A good game is replay-able because the game play is different each time, even when the parameters and rules stay the same. Why is chess still popular?

Diablo 2 had a much higher level cap right off the bat, and it was close to impossible to reach it. In fact it took 2 teams to level their characters to max level pre-LOD. Once you reach 60 here, you're done.

As far as rolling that many toons at the same time:

1. That's not for everyone
2. GL doing these same quests over and over... and over.


Chess is popular because you can have infinite or almost infinite combinations, depending on the players and the openings they choose. Even in chess however, at a high enough level btw, you only have a few ways that a game can branch out and then only after 30+ moves. However.....

....D3 is all the same for all classes. If there is no streamlined questing system, you can choose to get to the end though many different means. However, with the questing system in D3, you have to do everything in the same order for every quest and difficulty.

Also, the almost complete randomness of D1 and D2 is not nearly as random in D3. This is also a major problem.
This is not WOW light, this is Diablo, but the designers seem to not understand that there is a difference between the two franchises. This game looks like it's been designed by WOW guys, not Diablo guys.

Time will tell, of course.

However D2 never had the same kind of negativity related to it. Just look at the number of "dissapointing game" posts on the official forums. Not annoyed at a particular feature or lack of it, but the whole game.