A few ideas of how to save D3

[Kevin]

Ok. Ask yourself this. What are you going to do once you hit lvl 60 and once you beat Inferno (if you ever do that is).

Now, lemme ask you this. What did you do when you beat Baal, or when you beat Diablo pre-LOD in D2?

Just to chime in. When I beat Hell/Diablo or Hell/Baal in D2 I played another character. The game was over, I could handle all the content it had (because I didn't rush to those bosses I progressed in the order the game was built). I rarely had a toon higher than late 70's because of this. Sure I did some cow runs just for giggles, I did some loot farming on toons that had beaten the content (Pindle, more Baal kills), but generally the game was done. Unless I had friends that wanted to romp on higher level stuff because they were farming for a new build or something or I was doing that, the big toons were generally done.

In this game I expect to try a different build (set of skills) and see if I can beat the content with that style on the big toon. I'll probably keep playing capped toons just for the fun of the champ packs too.

If I get all the classes to 60 and beat Inferno Diablo (without skipping stuff) then I might stop playing the game but by then I would expect I would have put in thousands of hours of game play and really that's enough.

Of course since at least half of my 10 toons are hardcore I'll also likely be bringing a replacement toon up (though I haven't had to do that yet, though I'm only in early Act I Hell right now)

I don't need a game to be longer than that. Mass Effect got about 120 hours of play time for me and that was going through the whole game at least 3 times (and if I get ME 3 there is a good chance it will get more because I might just play 1-2-3 with a new character). It was well worth the money. Diablo 3 has already gotten like 50 hours and will get hundreds more. It will likely get about as much as D2 actually which was also in the thousands but did get old, especially since single player D2 could become a snore in a hurry, even on my first play through, and I have not run into that with D3 yet. It might not get as much time as D1 did.

I might do some PvP in D3 as well, because well I can change my skills around for it, something you couldn't do in D1 and D2 which I approached as the PvM games they were built to be and it wasn't worth my time for most PvP, especially random since I was likely going up against someone with duped/hacked gear. D3 solves that problem so far as well.