You are entitled to your opinion, but I spend 99.9% of my time playing in game, not the AH and I have 78 million sitting on my character right now, not bought for real money.
Just because you are doing that doesn't mean you are being effective. Also, at very high gear levels the % of time spent on AH goes down by a lot, but it does stay high enough to be a real annoyance, and most importantly most players quit long before they reach the point where the % of time they need to spend on the AH starts to go down.
You have a really strange definition of "effective". I would argue that if a player is having fun playing the game then they're playing way more effectively than someone who spends all day camping the AH for deals and hating every minute of it. In 1.0.5 you won't need to do that at all to beat Inferno, gearing up for high monster power levels will be a purely optional activity.
D2 was a mess at the start. Just as many server problems as D3, and just as many game design flaws. The only difference is that people weren't holding it to the same standards.
Everytime i check the forums i see couple of *new* topics named like "this game is dead. reasons inside". Basically, they are all the same, but their repetitiveness should mean something...
Yeah, it means that people on the internet are short-sighted and overly dramatic. Did D3 have a disappointing start? Absolutely. But with 1.0.5 the large majority of the game's problems have been fixed. And we're still pre-1.1 which is really the game's first big content patch.
In the absolute worst case scenario, I'm very optimistic about where this game will be with its first expansion. By then the haters will have forgotten how mad they are and be ready to give it another chance. Everybody forgets how much of what we know and love about D2 came in with patches and LoD, far later in its release cycle than this.
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What do you expect? Interest will always go downhill after release for every game that isn't WoW.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Starcraft%202&date=1%2F2010%2012m&cmpt=q
You have a really strange definition of "effective". I would argue that if a player is having fun playing the game then they're playing way more effectively than someone who spends all day camping the AH for deals and hating every minute of it. In 1.0.5 you won't need to do that at all to beat Inferno, gearing up for high monster power levels will be a purely optional activity.
Yeah, it means that people on the internet are short-sighted and overly dramatic. Did D3 have a disappointing start? Absolutely. But with 1.0.5 the large majority of the game's problems have been fixed. And we're still pre-1.1 which is really the game's first big content patch.
In the absolute worst case scenario, I'm very optimistic about where this game will be with its first expansion. By then the haters will have forgotten how mad they are and be ready to give it another chance. Everybody forgets how much of what we know and love about D2 came in with patches and LoD, far later in its release cycle than this.