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I'll play through the story in detail 3 times. Normal, nightmare, and hell. After that, all PvP and anything I can do to improve my PvP. I will cry tears of joy when I see an organized competitive PvP scene in D3.

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This is the reason why they make the game more "dumbed" down. .

I need to correct you on this point.

The game isn't dumbed down. They are removing elements that don't make sense, aren't fun, and are just stupid. They are replacing them with entertaining game mechanics. Honestly, every experienced player in D2 placed stats relatively the same. Theres no real point for it. "BUT I WANT TO CUSTOMIZE". They are opening up customization elsewhere.

I smell someone who knows nothing about game design.

1) Graphics should be the last thing on a developers mind.
2) Lower requirements means broader audience.
3) Higher graphics require exponential more work on lighting, shading, texturing, etc.
4) This game you linked to is using the unreal engine. They didn't really implement any of the graphical effects.
5) All game graphics are made at the highest resolution. If you looked at all the models at blizzard in their raw form they probably have 1,00,000 vertices. They lower the quality for performance.
6) Any graphically advanced game that was not fun to play was talked about for maybe 2 months. People make jokes about "But can it run Crysis" for the type of computer to play that game.
7) The game is isometric. so you never really look at the model up close. This means they can dial down the number of vertices in their models.
8) The game has a unique shading style that doesn't require cinematic quality models.
9) The higher the graphics, the better the animation have to be. If your animations are not on par with the graphical quality, the game look like shit. Pixel art games only need a few frames in their animation. Cinematic quality games need EXTREMELY fluid animations. If it doesn't it look like puppets.

GAH, it bothers me when people judge a game based on graphics.
My graphics are the least important to me. Things I look for in a game:
0) Gameplay
1) Art style
2) Music/sound effects
3) Story

If the game has these 4 and multiplayer. I shed a tear.

P.S. OP doesn't understand what an gaming engine really is.

MF is stupid. If you want to compete with everyone else to find good items, why do you have to create an entirely new character with a specific set of items to find good gear. I would much rather play with a character I enjoy and kill monsters I find fun rather then just doing boring runs with a class I do not enjoy or gear i waisted my money on.

Blizzard is smart and knows to make the most profit, the must appeal to a very large audience. They will make the system requirements relatively low for when the game comes out so most people can play it. Same way they did World of WarCraft.

Those are just demos, we have no idea how the game will play out.

BlizzCon 2010 they will announce a release date for 2011 or 2012... Hopefully 2011 or this game is going to turn into duke nukem forever.

How Rare items lost all worth in LOD and every character had the same gear along with skills from other classes.

Neat idea, it would also slowly remove all the dupes in the game and settle the economy for non ladder characters.

Rep'd for that idea... Thats excellent, it has all the elements of a ranged/nature character with animal pets but its unique. Its not the typical cookie cutter hunter like most other games. Just like how i feel about the monk. Now the character doesn't need to be exactly like a native american guy but something along those lines.

No corpse running, but some penalties that really make you want to avoid dieing.

Although i would like to see 5 people because I can guarantee that I will want to play with more than just 3 other friends, 4 people is only for coop play. To keep the game feeling epic with the nice effects and with the increased amount of monsters on the field this keeps things visually distinguishable and also reduces lag. Maybe in PvP there will be 8vs8.

While there is a high chance the 5th character will be ranged, this statement doesn't really point us in any direction. I don't know about you but a lot of people thought that Diablo 3 would include a Holy class. I surely did not expect a class as epic as the Monk.

Money sinks and features that are economy focused will only be worked on at the last stretch of game development. The will have very few things implemented right now since they are mostly working on content. Not until the game is fleshed out will they know what they need to add. To get an idea, look at some decent money sinks in Diablo 2 and World of WarCraft.

The only thing that gold dropping did was lag peoples games.