Well... I did it, i quit wow cold turkey

[shoju]

To expand on that (and this is my opinion Shoju may or may not share it, I just feel the need to expand), it was because there were some people that were posting in nearly every thread about D3 saying OMG DUMB GAME SUXXORS YOU JUST FANBOI TO LIKE!

Of course they tended to use more words, but that was what most of the posts they made boiled down to, and there was no discussion after awhile. Posts that had good criticism or points, and were generating valuable discussion, ended up with the above showing up. That is why it became an issue on the D3 boards, the pervasiveness and the fact that it was driving people from the boards or from posting. Discussion from people who did enjoy the game and were wanting to explore aspects of it, kept getting annoyed by people that were basically saying you're dumb and a blind fanboy oh and you're dumb and you're stupid oh and this game is awful and you're a fanboy and this game sucks and you're dumb and oh by the way did I mention this game sucks, hey you over there, did you know this game sucks.

I'm fully in agreement with you here, this is a single thread, you are topical, you aren't jumping into every WoW thread and saying OMG FANBOI DUMMY LIKE PANDA. HAHA IDOIT NEWB! (with more words of course because you have a grasp of the English language).

I just wanted to point out the huge degree of difference in what was happening in the various sub forums.

This is indeed something I agree with. I could even understand the whole "stop with the sour grapes" If I were even active in the Diablo III forums. I don't post there. I don't play the game.

Thanks GG. Like I said in this thread, my other post, and I've told the <Lurkers> Terenas crew. Don't let me leaving color your enjoyment of the game. If you still have fun with it, by all means play.

I don't think that the game is fundamentally broken. I think it might be on it's "Back nine" now, but if the back nine is as long as the front nine, you have a while.

I'm just not part of the target demographic, and it's pretty obvious.

The look of the Panda race
The Farmville style Tillers
The Plants VS Zombies Side jaunt
The Pokemon-esque Pet Battles
The "dumbing down" of tanking

They are trying to appeal to a younger, bigger, "wealthier" (look at the data, the younger demographic is definitely the cash cow), playerbase. I'm not part of that anymore. I'm married. I have kids. I know what I like, and what I don't like in game. Both stylistically, and difficulty wise, My vision for game that I want to play is no longer the same as the vision that Blizzard has for Warcraft. I'm ok with that. That doesn't mean that I don't have opinions, or want to express them. I can be ok with the fact that they are changing the game and critical of it at the same time.