Blizzard gain a flash of insight?

[Jester]

I feel this deserves its own thread because it's probably the single most cogent, honest admission I've seen that as it is right now, D3 isn't everything it should be. Will they manage to fix it eventually? Who knows. That they're realising that no, it's really not working out too well as-is, at least is a start.

I guess I'm a little lost. Have our expectations changed?

The only difference between where D3 is and where D1 was, in terms of the "endgame carrot" mechanic, is that D1 and D2 had a higher exp. cap, and D3 doesn't. Other than that, it's exactly the same - go down, kill stuff, get loot, come back up. Why is this more or less satisfying than a laz run? Or a mephisto run? You can already beat all the content, and variant play is now, as it was then, a choice you have to enforce on yourself.

One can argue that this just never was a very satisfying mechanic. (I would.) But it's basically the same mechanic it was going back to the beginning of the series, no?

-Jester