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Haha what? Don't you mean you have to living underneath a rock to overplay this game to the point of hating it? Sorry bud, try again

It's a known fact? Decent? -____- You can hate on it as much as you want, but your thesis kind of sucks without some supporting arguments.

He's probably referring to all the cut out material such as the mystic, death scenes, and no initial PvP etc... A lot of people live in a dream world of LoD 1.10 where everything was duped and easy to obtain OP gear that face rolled an easy game and expected the same experience.

Inferno was then announced they promised it was hard and only the elite could complete it, now everyone complains that it isn't as farmable as it should be. Inferno obviously wasn't tested and the "end game content" does not allow very much flexibility in character builds. Most of these fixes will come out in future patches but people expect it from release even though no Blizzard game has been perfect from day 1 in over 15 years.

Itemization is terrible and the problem is this game purely revolves around items, again this should be addressed. The carrot on the stick incentive is bad because uniques dropped like candy (whether they were godly or not) in D2 and in D3 legendaries suck the big one (again fix in future patch). The itemization approach for D3 has made all low level uniques and sets useless which makes me sad.

Most people didn't know about 3rd party sites and now the fact the AH has made it a common practice people have "gear progressed" quickly and are wondering why farming has become useless. Overall farming in D2 also took forever but again most people are used to the LoD days of rune-words. People also don't realize that trade channels are now a simple click on the AH.

Economy and inflation are an issue but they were in D2 as well, the only saving grace was a ladder. In D3 the economy check is hardcore mode, beyond that there is nothing else.

People expected a fully finished game that compared to a product of multiple years of patches, fixes, and an expansion. D2 vanilla vs. D3 vanilla = D3 wins easy. The most butthurt people are PvPer’s / greifers and I agree that since there is no PvP at the moment there is a lot less to do at “end game”. Griefing will never happen in this get over it and move on (yay). It’s hard to tell where PvP will go, arena’s is an okay approach but player dictation of PvP rules is always most exciting.

Since there is no mindless grinding to out-level content people again don’t know what else to do. Leveling may have been “trivial” but it’s a tangible aspect for people to feel like they are progressing. It also seems a lot of players are WoW players and have no idea what the Diablo series is about. People also seem to have the idea of WTF game dying but every Diablo has a massive decrease in activity considering 90% of sales are usually casuals. Every patch and or content update always brings people back; there is no dying (just temporary inactiveness).

Random maps are terrible; the game is missing some old nostalgic sounds, the socket system is simplistic and boring, cow level (ponies) is just plain sad, and overall I think the music is not as good. Over the game has improved on so many aspects but people are negative and bitch. Many of us are guilty of nostalgic aspects no game will influence you more than when you were kid/teenager (influential age) compared to be a rational adult who has experienced many things. A lot of people are also burnt out of 2 weeks to 2 months of 600+ hours of doing the same thing... and your surprised?

TL;DR

A lot of people wanted Diablo 2.5; this isn’t it (thank god). Blizzard never puts out a finished product from release and they drastically improve the game over time. Usually to the point of being an epic game, every release has been like this. People forget things over time, it will be fine.

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The atmosphere is a lot more daunting. If anything, they could have made it more grand and "end-times".

And Diablo 2 had NO end game. They're gonna release PvP, and that was always a given. Inferno has kept PLENTY of people busy enough, with Ghom kicking all of our asses at some point.

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Diablo 3 is a very good game...

...NOT

Elaborate?

I don't think I need to elaborate, unless you've been living under a rock for the past 2 months. Either way, it's a known fact that this game is far from very good. I will be generous and call it... decent. Decent for a supposed AAA

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Diablo 3 is a very good game...

...NOT

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You feel bad for Sandusky? You're as sick as he is.

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This event deserves an "end of act" movie cinematic, blizzard should patch this, but defiantly too late now

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However, I feel very bad for Sandusky. Like I said before, his sexual fantasy was the power of the younger age. He probably felt very ashamed of this himself, but he couldn't control himself, as sexual desire is one of the most powerful feelings a human can feel. He isn't a raging lunatic. Much like foot fetishism or other strange fetishes, these are feelings that he can't control.

I don't know, even if one had such a desire, some morals/ethics should stop you. But I say this while wondering how the riots happened here in Vancouver last year... if I had been there in the crowd, at some point I would be like "hmm this has gone a little bit far maybe we shouldn't break into stores"... yet tons of university students etc were doing it.

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He's a regular man who unfortunately recieves sexual gratification through young boys. It's not an illness, its a sexual preference that society deems horrible. Of course, society functions better when old men don't take advantage through younger men but that's who he is. He denies it because he himself does not want to accept since it's easier for him when he doesn't. At his age, the mental stress would kill him. Just look what happened to Paterno.

It's a sad story

No, you're wrong. Raping young boys is not classified as a "sexual preference", its classified as "completely fucking vile".

Raping isn't about sex, its about power. He married his wife, who is a woman. His sexual preference is women, not little boys. Don't describe something like this by trying to minimize what it actually is. I hope this guy stays alive so he can be gang raped on a daily basis.

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You raise an interesting point. I mean, whether he's a regular guy or not, that's difficult to ascertain because then we delve into semantics and societal norms and what he consider to be good and bad. Usually in cases like this though, the perps aren't just driven by lust, but also by power. And it is also very arguable whether prepubescent boys or girls have a full understanding of sex to be able to consent to it. I'd say they don't. I think you'd probably agree they don't either, so at what point must we say, well that's just his sexual preference and at what point is he a predator who gets off on manipulation and overpowering someone.

Obviously there are certain sexual preferences that really can't be accommodated by society, and that's largely ones where the participants aren't in total consent with each other. I would argue that a prepubescent boy cannot possibly consent to the fullest because they either do not fully understand, or they are too vulnerable not to be coerced into it.

I mean, yeah it's a sad story for the victims. But otherwise I just get pissed off at the audacity of this man to go on denying it. It's an affront to all his victims that he's basically calling them all liars. And if it was just one person he called a liar, then that deserves a further look into it, but that he could actually state that all of them are liars....it blows me away. I also get angry at the coverup. How these top level administrators didn't call the cops immediately and at some point basically enabled Sandusky the environment to groom his victims.