07-12-2012, 09:34 AM
My theory is that no Blizzard employee has played a toon from 1-60 in a year or more. If they even still play at all when not working on Titan, I'm sure they just debug up a character of whatever class and level they want, with 99 billion gold, insert it wherever they want to play, decked out in whatever gear they want. This is why stuff that's obvious to the player base as tedious falls on deaf ears. I've been watching their forums and they listen to complaints on the AH/RMAH, but all the gameplay related complaints about balance or repairs or difficulty are all met with "we don't think this is an issue." Which in some cases, some of it might not be, but I don't think the player base, whingy as they are there, are wrong about every single thing, and I would think some of these issues would be obvious if the devs played the game the way we do.
Finally satisfied that this, in fact, a game in the Diablo series.