Blizzard gain a flash of insight?

[Nystul]

The item hunt was fun in D2, but what they are forgetting is that you still were able to progress your character while you were item hunting. I never did bother to get a character up to cap in D2 because I didn't hit it naturally during the playthroughs. In D3, you're capped and done with a character before you even finish hell difficulty. That's going to kill a lot of the drive to continue playing after 60. PvP may help alleviate that for some, but definitely not for me. Plus, I'm still looking at PvP in D3 similarly to how they kept telling people there would be player housing in WoW.

Your approach to games actually seems like fun to me. I never understood the appeal of "grinding", "farming", etc. Repeating a fun area every now and then, sure. But trying to max levels or doing loot runs day after day? To me these are things for when your ego is tied up in that character or maybe you are trying to make money selling items or something. Whatever it is, it's not why I played Diablo.