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[Mavfin]

Blizzard needs to take a lesson from both of them for D3.

Well I was actually surprised when I heard this is happening.

http://tech2.in.com/news/playstation-3/p...use/844892

While I think the removal of the more contentious 'features' is great, I do think that it's still a shame that bliz didn't think of doing this for the PC version, the first time around.

Would be great if bliz would work those changes into the PC version, but personally I'm not holding my breath on that one.

I can see why some wouldn't care for always-online, if you didn't have a great internet connection. Of course, it's harder to just download a pirated version for a console, too. I have a 50 ping all the time, so always-online doesn't bother me. I bought the game knowing it would be so. I have had zero lag deaths. YMMV. If you know your internet is bad or unstable, you probably shouldn't have bought the game, and reserved your ire for your ISP, not Blizzard, who never hid what they were doing.

Of course, I figure anyone who bought D3 and was surprised by always-online, or knew it was there, but knew they'd hate it...and still bought the game probably should have thought about that a bit more. It's one thing if it's a late-added surprise, quite another if it's been talked about for more than a year before release.

As far as the auction houses, I don't see removing a feature from the game when it's *completely optional.* Nothing and no one forces you to use either AH, same as trading in D2. I never traded a thing in D2 and had fun with it for years. If people buy up the latest and greatest suit of gear from the AH for their character, and then bitch that they don't get any drops...that's on them, imo. I've not bought a thing on the RMAH, nor will I. Doesn't impact my play one bit. Items on there that I don't have don't bother me. People complain that they run out of things to do...yet they buy up things to speed up the pace of play?