Un-PKable

[JustAGuy]

I totally agree with you. That's why I actually only ever play in private games. There's good fun to be had when playing with friends only (especially those friends you know in real-life), but those poor souls without a real-life friend to share Diablo with are left out in the cold when it comes to getting the benefits of more players in a game (drops, difficulty, Diablo Clone). The aforementioned switches and voting systems would offer at least a tiny bit of solace to those incapable of playing in private games.

Blizzard just seems to have a hard-on for allowing that PK type of PvP. If they did disallow hostility in games by a switch, a chunk of people would stop playing Diablo all together. But, when you think about the people that would would leave, is that really such a bad thing? I have a hunch that some of the development team that worked on Diablo 2 were that type of player...

I don't know if I would have made some of the design decisions that they made with regards to PvP if I were designing Diablo 2, but then again, I don't develop games. I develop commercial software that people won't ever have anywhere near this amount passion for. With that said, the PvP decisions aside, Blizzard must have done something right, eh?