Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[smegged]

I've been thinking about Inferno difficulty and I wonder if the biggest mistake that Blizzard made with it was giving it all the best drops/new loot.

Inferno was supposed to be the "ultimate challenge" mode. It was supposed to be the thing that you did when you "completed" the game. But players seem to be taking it as the logical progression for their characters. After all, your character can get more powerful by progressing through Inferno through the items that drop there.

By doing this Blizzard have basically said "Inferno difficulty is not optional, if you want the most powerful characters".

To me, it sounds like it would have been much easier to balance, and much more fitting with the concept of Inferno being optional, if the item drops throughout Inferno were identical to those in Hell act 4 (with the chances of good items being higher perhaps). This way Blizzard could have balanced this "optional" difficulty properly and more easily, while ensuring that the MF run kiddies could still have their fun in hell difficulty.

Alas, I fear this was an opportunity wasted.