Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[Jester]

I just expect higher standards than a 1999 game.

This right here is the key. Player expectations rise quickly, and are benchmarked at whatever the last good game they played was. Developer skill rises slowly, if at all, and as costs increase, development cycles get shorter, and balance testing is reduced.

It only takes a very small delta between these variables to generate very large gaps in expectations over time.

-Jester