Diablo 3, is literally 80% time spent, 19% RnG for loot drops, 1% skill.
In the end it's a 2-3 buttons game and I completely agree with you. Thank god it's not as complex as a MMO... I played in a world top 10 guild too(Conspiracy/Lotto) and was ranked dozens of times #1 wowprogress but I still can't believe that I could stay over 12-14 hours a day in front of a computer to make that happen.
The RNG is more than time spent IMO , I've seen people with 1/4 of my time played that have calamity/furnace/perfect rolled TF.
Agree, it is more like 90% RnG, 19% time spent and 1% skill.
IMO it sould be more like 50% skill, 25% RnG, 25% time spent.
Also, to those of you who say that it is "a miracle that blizzard continues to make patches and fix things when they are not making any money on this game" you are totally wrong. Blizzard is still making tons of money off of this game and will continue to do so as long as they work on it and work on patches.
If blizzard stopped working on this game right now, they would lose TONS of money, fist off many people would be left very irritated with blizzard for leaving the game such as it is and would probably not buy future blizzard products.
As long as blizzard continues to make updates/expansions/patches people will come back and play the game, new members join each day and many of them from friends who recommend it to them. Every single bit of work they do on this game makes more people come and play it, and recommend it to friends. If Blizzard releases new content for it and keeps its current player base those current players will tell their friends what they are playing and thus get more membes.
Blizzard just released RoS for console.... they are definitely making loads of money off of that.
So saying that blizzard fixing the game and releasing new content and fixing the current game is totally selfless and a gift to us, then you have a misinformed opinion.
Ok, so I'm pretty irritated at blizzard right now, and I posted this originally on the Bnet general forums and within 15 minutes the thread had been deleted and my account suspended for 7 days. They said " the previous post was removed due to the fact that it offered no constructive feedback which could help bring benefit to the game and/or the community." And in my opinion that is total BS, so I'll post here what I said because apparently Blizzard does not want people to hear it.
Blizzard needs to start implementing and fixing the many problems in this game very soon or they will lose many of their more experienced and loyal player base. The only reason that I am still playing this game is because of 1 friend (all the rest have already left) and because of the fact that I played Diablo and Diablo 2 and remember the way that Blizzard used to make games. If blizzard does not start to fix many of their issues this will no longer be enough of a reason for me and many other experienced players to continue playing this game.
I started playing D3V the day it was released and I did have a lot of fun, but there were many bugs and balance issues, this however was not a problem because I do understand that with a new game things like this take a bit of time to fix. Blizzard promised to balance things and release new content, well they did and things were still not balanced, the new content was lackluster and buggy, but thats still ok, its a newish game and blance takes time..... this has gone on since the release of D3V and me and many of the other top players are getting tired of this and are seriously considering quitting for good.
Patch 2.1 saw a lot of new content and new things to do, but once again there are SOOO many bugs and balance issues. The patch has gone on long enough for blizzard to know what needs to be fixed and to fix it. Yet they will not do this for quite a while (this is the way it has always been). For example, shortly after RoS came out, blizzard introduced a bug that caused the FS fetishes to replace the FA fetishes and thus caused the pet WD to not do well, well it took Blizzard till now to fix it, and now that they have blizzard has screwed up the pet health so much that Pet WDs cant even play in GRIfts. How is it that when there is a EXP exploit (like last week) blizzard can fix that overnight but something like this takes them months? Dont try to tell me that it "takes time" or that it is "difficult to implement" because I have done a lot of programming and I know exactly how easy and fast this is to fix!
Blizzard on countless occasions has promised us more build and gear diversity and yet in 2.1 there are less build and gear options then in 1.8! Seriously many of blizzards most loyal customers (Friends and I have played almost every blizzard game that has come out) are going to leave if blizzard does not start to follow through with what they promises. I have played from the release of D3V till now simply on the hopes that they will deliver what they promise, but this will not go on for much longer (especially after they banned my account because I posted this simply because they did not like it).
TLDR: Blizzard if you keep on promising us things and never delivering you will lose some of you best players and supporters.
Anyway, that is what I posted and it really pisses me off that it was removed and I had my account suspended. I have supported blizzard forever, I have been an active member on their forums supplying constructive feedback and support since D3 came out, and just because they do not like honesty they ban me??!?!??! Seriously??
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IMO it sould be more like 50% skill, 25% RnG, 25% time spent.
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If blizzard stopped working on this game right now, they would lose TONS of money, fist off many people would be left very irritated with blizzard for leaving the game such as it is and would probably not buy future blizzard products.
As long as blizzard continues to make updates/expansions/patches people will come back and play the game, new members join each day and many of them from friends who recommend it to them. Every single bit of work they do on this game makes more people come and play it, and recommend it to friends. If Blizzard releases new content for it and keeps its current player base those current players will tell their friends what they are playing and thus get more membes.
Blizzard just released RoS for console.... they are definitely making loads of money off of that.
So saying that blizzard fixing the game and releasing new content and fixing the current game is totally selfless and a gift to us, then you have a misinformed opinion.
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Blizzard needs to start implementing and fixing the many problems in this game very soon or they will lose many of their more experienced and loyal player base. The only reason that I am still playing this game is because of 1 friend (all the rest have already left) and because of the fact that I played Diablo and Diablo 2 and remember the way that Blizzard used to make games. If blizzard does not start to fix many of their issues this will no longer be enough of a reason for me and many other experienced players to continue playing this game.
I started playing D3V the day it was released and I did have a lot of fun, but there were many bugs and balance issues, this however was not a problem because I do understand that with a new game things like this take a bit of time to fix. Blizzard promised to balance things and release new content, well they did and things were still not balanced, the new content was lackluster and buggy, but thats still ok, its a newish game and blance takes time..... this has gone on since the release of D3V and me and many of the other top players are getting tired of this and are seriously considering quitting for good.
Patch 2.1 saw a lot of new content and new things to do, but once again there are SOOO many bugs and balance issues. The patch has gone on long enough for blizzard to know what needs to be fixed and to fix it. Yet they will not do this for quite a while (this is the way it has always been). For example, shortly after RoS came out, blizzard introduced a bug that caused the FS fetishes to replace the FA fetishes and thus caused the pet WD to not do well, well it took Blizzard till now to fix it, and now that they have blizzard has screwed up the pet health so much that Pet WDs cant even play in GRIfts. How is it that when there is a EXP exploit (like last week) blizzard can fix that overnight but something like this takes them months? Dont try to tell me that it "takes time" or that it is "difficult to implement" because I have done a lot of programming and I know exactly how easy and fast this is to fix!
Blizzard on countless occasions has promised us more build and gear diversity and yet in 2.1 there are less build and gear options then in 1.8! Seriously many of blizzards most loyal customers (Friends and I have played almost every blizzard game that has come out) are going to leave if blizzard does not start to follow through with what they promises. I have played from the release of D3V till now simply on the hopes that they will deliver what they promise, but this will not go on for much longer (especially after they banned my account because I posted this simply because they did not like it).
TLDR: Blizzard if you keep on promising us things and never delivering you will lose some of you best players and supporters.
Anyway, that is what I posted and it really pisses me off that it was removed and I had my account suspended. I have supported blizzard forever, I have been an active member on their forums supplying constructive feedback and support since D3 came out, and just because they do not like honesty they ban me??!?!??! Seriously??