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Ok first im going to start with things that kind of annoyed me about the multiplayer and diablo2 itself and then i will list my solutions on those problems along with other ideas. Finally I will top it off with my impressions on diablo 3 thus far. *warning: this post might get a little OT so i give you permission to skip it*

Dislikes
-*mainly applies to online* first and foremost, repetition was the biggest downside to the diablo franchise. Now yes I do realize its a hack and slash game and therefore you will be doing a lot of it (hacking and slashing) however thats not exactly what im talking about. My pet peeve with the diablo games is when you beat it online you then start it over again on the next difficulty. In the beginning when the game still has its novelty and your new to the lore it may be fun however it gets boring FAST. Also you are restricted from being able to view games in a lower difficulty then you. I don't find the inability to join random games of lower difficulty hinder some to the game play but rather limiting. Say im in hell and id like to slay some cows and im not doing it for items or experience but mainly because i like the sounds of cows dieing beneath my blows and there are no games up in hell. I also cannot make cows because i unfortunately forgot to spare the cow kings feeble life and am now bared from opening a portal onto their soil. Without the ability to scan night mare and normal for any games im forced to do something else, wait or leave diablo and come back later.

- *multiplayer only* Second on my list WAS the loot system. The reason why i hated it was well, i could never get any loot :(. Fortunately im pretty sure i read somewhere that in diablo3 each player will get his own boss drop. Very good if done right, very bad if not.
(explained later)

- The last thing *because my list is already getting long :P* are cheaters of all kind. This includes but is not limited to; item spammers, item buyers, dupers, hackers, bug rushers, scammers and map hackers. They all kinda suck.


suggestions & ideas
- For the first dislike I suggest breaking the story up. (requires a longer story but i dont think anyone would complain about that ^_^) What I mean by this is that you take the whole story and split it into 3 parts the first part IS the game in normal then you beat normal and you move on to the second part of the game which is in nightmare and so on basically to get rid of repedativeness and at same time allows the difficulty of the game to scale with the progression of the story. Mind you it will most likely not happen like that but it would defiantly be awesome. Oh and then they would be forced to let you see normal and nm games :P.

- The reason why the second issue may become horrifically bad is when you are faced with the possibility of a full game of players in a clan farming bosses and collectively massing their drops and even worse just general economic catastrophe. On the other hand it can also be done very well. I believe this can be achieved by greatly lowering the amount of drops you get per person and making the more rare items even harder to find. The reason why items need to be alot more rare in this situation then in d2 (and many would argue they arn't rare enough in d2) is because bosses could be downed much faster with a group of 8 then singularily therefore more drop chances. Everything is pretty much obvious, problem and solution and i have faith that if each player does get a seperate drop from bosses that blizzard will accuretly take measures to assure it doesn't mess up the game.

- I don't really have any advice on how to solve the problem, my advice is however is to do what ever is needed to be done to solve this problem.

Impression of Diablo3
My first impression is that this game is looking to be a nice addition to the diablo franchise. I do however worry about the health globe system and other things but I have confidence in blizzards ability to make awsome games.

-EnragedMaNg