Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[Archon_Wing]

This kind of tampering with the meta-game is destructive.

Throughout gaming history, gamers have always been able to bend games in creative ways to finish it in ways never forseen with developers. It develops longevity, and you can just find one of the thousands of speedrun videos on Youtube that show players beating games in ways never imagined before. Thus, good gameplay is simply not forseeable and shouldn't be tampered with. That's why it's better to have slower, more subtle changes and let people discover things, allowing the meta-game to evolve.

Take Brood War. If you select 11 mutalisks in conjuction with an overlord, there is a strange game mechanic bug that causes the mutalisks to stack together, temporarily creating a potential death ball of damage. There's no way in hell that was intended design, and in today's climate such a thing would be quickly removed. But it wasn't and we enjoyed watching Koreans perform entire strategies and feats around this odd quirk.

I'm not saying bugs shouldn't be fixed. They should be. But sometimes things add flavor and interest to the game totally by accident. It might just be that Starcraft wasn't intended to be the massive fan favorite pinnacle of balance and esports-- but by chance it happened. Don't try to twist this-- by limiting options, you restrict gameplay and make it more boring and shallow when you try to enforce what you assume is the "correct" way. Millions of players figuring out strategies is going to collectively outperform the minds of even the best developing teams.

But the worst part of this is that Blizzard is seemingly deciding what is fun, and that, I think is not an attitude that should be had, especially, when they just don't know all the implications. Like I've said, if they were able to play their own game effectively, then they wouldn't have these problems. But it's obvious they just don't know how inferno gameplay works. The user base knows better, so they'd be wise to consider that and their internal stats and testing.