Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[Mavfin]

Over at Penny Arcade, Tycho made this post about Diablo 3. It seems to jibe with what I've been hearing from everyone playing it..

As with most online comments and reviews, the feedback you're seeing is HEAVILY biased toward the negative. I am not going to say that the game doesn't have it's issues, but it truly is a good game. There is more to the game than Inferno, which is all people talk about. Getting there is fun in and of itself and you will definitely get your money's worth.

Well, RTM, even here, we have two camps. One camp is incessantly negative, and have been since the beginning, when they couldn't farm Inferno the first week, and the other will post about problems, but not in a 'Blizz sux! This game is fail!' manner, and are otherwise too busy playing to bother posting very much. Or, to put it another way, one camp posts about barriers in the game, and others figure out how to get over/past them.

Yes, the game has issues, but, Zarathustra, it's very much worth it if you liked D2, imo. Just don't let all the negative Nancys bother you. Ask Chesspiece_face, or Frag about it for a contrasting opinion with realistic comments about what the issues are, vs "This game is just broken!" that you're getting from people. I think game news has fallen prey to the same things that TV news has: so much of it is on video now, and, guess what...good news doesn't make ratings/ad revenue as well as bad news does. And don't forget that it's 'cool' to bash on 'evil, greedy Blizzard' now, too.