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It's very easy.

5% of people are happy with Diablo III and are in-game and playing.

95% of people are unhappy with Diablo III and are here at the forums and complaining.

FIXED that for you.

There are at least a dozen other threads for that stuff.

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I wonder when people will bring New World Order conspiracy into this 1.0.3 changes.

Jay is right, to some extent. I read a lot of rose-tinted D2 nostalgia posts heralding the virtues of 12 hour meph grind sessions which turn right around and attack D3 for being a grind. What amuses me most of all is that some of those same posters think the biggest chore of D2 (being forced to have a dozen alts of the same character class just to experience every build) was another one of those bygone virtues lost on the latest title.

Neither argument really makes sense alone, but together they're a gem of true hypocritical rants.

Go into a coma for a few months and now the world is upside down, diablo 3 forum complaints rain from the sky, and I haven't even installed the game yet!

Would anyone like to give me the cliff-notes here?

Lemme see if I can channel my inner republican a moment...

OK! Protesting is stupid. Anyone with enough free time to protest is a useless hippie and a drain on society. That goes double to anyone who's parents have money, because those kids didn't EARN anything! Of course, people shouldn't be taxed for being successful and therefor their offspring are almost guaranteed to be a generation of spoiled, useless, rotten hippie filth, BUT THAT IS WHY WE HAVE POLICE AND JAIL!

Laws are written to be followed. Even very banal laws like "don't loiter," are absolutely keystone to the conduct of a smooth society. What's more, I am sick and tired of every hippie and his hackey-sack taking pot-shot jokes at police and other law enforcement! Everyone knows that once a man puts on the uniform he immediately becomes inscrutably honest, up-right, and deserving of the benefit in EVERY doubt. Sure, there may be some bad apple policemen who've shot and killed innocent youngsters in the housing projects of our cities, but that is a SMALL price to pay for the safety and well-being of our middle-class suburban neighborhoods!

Finally, I've had it up to HERE with poor people. SERIOUSLY, I HAVE HAD IT! They claim to be "disabled veterans," or people "born into low-income families with little or no access to secondary education." Well guess what scumbags? I was born into a HARD-SCRABBLE lower-middle-class household where we only had ONE CAR! Can you believe that?! We were so poor, my family had to no buy a second car just to send me to college! When my father-in-law gave me a six-figure job, it wasn't because I was related to him. It was because I was the best goddamn vice-president of middle-management financial analysis advisory secretary around! Nepotism is a joke because it never really happens. Just like there is no such thing as luck. Only the strong survive and I am living proof of that. After all. I'm relatively successful and I think that I'm strong. Therefor, anyone who isn't successful is naturally weak and probably not worth helping.

God bless America, a christian nation that was definitely not founded by deists. A place where, hopefully soon, the right to vote will again be limited to those who own property, or perhaps shares in blue-chip stocks. I have to get back to the O'Riley factor. He's going to call that smug little liberal juden John Stewart a traitor bound for hell. I need to record it for our Sunday school class.

It is and always will be a woman's right to choose, regardless of the politics.

The most conservative pro-life family in the town I grew up (the "Boss Hog," types) in had three daughters, all of whom were known to have had abortions. It was not something they talked about, and they were against it in public, but the fact of life is that the mother decides whether or not the time is right to raise a child and unlike in the wild we don't have the option of seeing how it goes and killing it in early childhood if it turns out to be impractical.

Abortions are going to happen, whether pro-lifers like it or not. They have to realize this and take the steps necessary to keep the mothers safe from back-alley operations that would seriously endanger their health: that is, to not criminalize abortion and not attempt to strategically sap funding from all planned parenthood clinics (they have attempted to do both in recent years).

I can't condemn the pro-lifers for caring (or pretending to care, I can't really tell) about life in general, but I have zero respect for someone who decides the life of the mother is less important than that of an under-developed fetus, or that a struggling low-income family should be forced to raise a child with severe birth defects just because it would be morally reprehensible to terminate the pregnancy. This is the kind of talk that gets a lot of pro-life advocates labeled pro-execution/war/death. The fact that many of them are also war-hawks and in favor of state execution is another reason.

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programmers and website designers make about as much as teachers <_<

Should have got that liberal arts degree.

~tenured

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The masses are too easily controlled.

Incorrect, the masses just don't give a shit.

I can tell you exactly why TIME didn't run that cover in the US. It's because they wouldn't have sold as many copies due to the mainstream ideology being "Huh? Oh, that's not in America. Who cares?"

The side-effect of being bombarded by FOX-style news media isn't necessarily conservatism, but it is certainly willful ignorance. Anything about another culture that can't be condensed into the type-cast worldview is ignored because ~liberalmediabias~ heh.

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Do you think that it is pretty accurate to categorize humans as some sort of virus or bacterial disease? It seems more and more that we are too harmful to our host and either we will kill it, and die, or it will kill us.

We certainly have the ability to destroy our "host," environment, but not the planet itself and rest-assured that even if we nuked the planet into a smoking husk there would be a plethora new life-forms around in a million years or less.

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morning sickness.

uh oh

I see what you did there.

@Dae
Tips for better mornings:
-Stay hydrated all day (esp before you sleep and after you wake up)
-Don't eat and immediately go to sleep, give yourself at least a couple hours to digest
-Get more sleep
-Refrain from drug and alcohol use shortly before bed

Okay so I've been patrolling youtube videos, forums, and the game itself and a common theme is that people like to say that Diablo 3 is a very disappointing game and that the expectations it had were undeserved and all that usual nonsense.

What?

Diablo 3 is a very good game. First off, the gameplay is extremely well done. Just because it takes aspects of WoW, which is arguably the greatest multiplayer game ever made (coming from a guy who does not like WoW), does not make it a bad game. Just because the map is in the corner and not covering the whole fucking screen does not make it bad. The enemies are very enjoyable and the skills you have are also extremely fun and awesome. Like I finally decided to get a Wizard to Inferno and I realized how much freedom I had compared to all the other Diablo games.

I think that over the course of twelve years of waiting for this game, hardcore fans (don't worry I did this too) made their own Diablo 3 in their head and were very sad to not see their own ideas in the game. I think the story was extremely awesome. Yes I agree that Diablo's taunts were a bit cheesy and Magdha could have been a bit better done, but seriously, who cares? Maghda was a very interesting character and gave Belial a better name. I honestly just wished we could have faught against Imperius -___-

The music is also very good in the game.


The gameplay is very solid, the lore is awesome, and questing/multiplayer is very cool. I don't know why people hate on it so much, but like the old saying goes, haters gonna hate.

Diablo 3 = 9/10

I think that this is a solution looking for a problem more than anything.

The last thing we need is for players to feel as if they need to go get a 50+ kill streak before they kill that rare/champion. We need as few breaks in gameplay as possible. People would farm the shit out of Leoric's Manor even more than they currently do because it's a pretty easy 30+ kill streak and usually 1, sometimes 2, rare/champion packs.

I think you'll probably hear from Blizzard's lawyers at some point, that's what I think.

Yet still on the forums complaining :/

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@ LDVvinci

Nice job ignoring his entire point AGAIN. An analogy has to be a relative comparisons and those analogies were horrible ones. He was right.

If you want to make an analogy to a job in the real world, how about this. You can come to work for me. I need you to work 50+ hours a week. At the end of the week, I'll sign a check to you. It may or may not have any value. You should want to work for the extremely rare chance that it could be a large check. In short, there is no guarantee to any reward for your effort becuase that would make you an entittled dbag.

That is more the feeling this forum is trying to impose on anyone who prefers the reward systems of the previous titles in this series. But no, you'll slippery slope that into "I want free purples for logging in".

Speaking of absolutely fucking terrible analogies...

Are you rolling a god damn dice to decide his paycheck? Is the job sitting on your ass watching TV? What if you're doing a job you expected to pay to do in the first place, and now you've actually made money from it?

Seriously, stop trying to give others shit for something and then do a piss-poor job of yourself.

You two can +1 eachother and circle-jerk to until your heart's content, but you're still sounding like entitled brats. There's no slippery slope here (so stop using it, because you sound ridiculous). He very clearly stated he DOES want rewards at an expected point in time (whatever his subjective idea of "reasonable" is), which is exactly what this series has never offered. He's already made money for fuck's sake, but that's not enough "reward." He wants more. Entitlement. Gratification. Get a dictionary, both of you.

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People farmed for hundreds of hours in Diablo 2 to get the best gear in the game, don't kid yourself.

"People" farmed? "Don't kid yourself"? He just talked about what he liked to do in D2, and here you come and try to tell him what "people" do? Damn, I thought he was "people"...Damn, I thought I was "people". Because, and this may come as a shock to you, I liked to use completed low level sets and uniques on alts. But I guess we're not "people". Must be some kind of alien or something. Go troll some other thread.

My god man, you are really dense. Let me re-quote the post I was responding to, with the part related to your semantics rant bolded for emphasis.

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grats on the lucky drops, but in all honesty... we should be seeing a shit load more legendaries and sets... Remember legendary is the new name for uniques so they aren't meant to be so bloody rare that you find shit all of them... They also need to be powerful if they are to be of legendary status.

Don't get me started on how crap the items are in D3 atm. All the rage is about the items sucking so bad with nothing to find bar stupid rares since the sets and legendaries have crappy stats(most). You should not be playing for 320 hours to find 1 or 2 fucking set pieces in a diablo game PERIOD...

Go play a game of Diablo 2 classic or LOD play through to act 5 hell and tell me how many uniques and sets you find now compare that to Diablo 3... You see where everyone is coming from? Don't say you can't compare a 10yr old game to a new release, this should have been done a long long time ago. When you release a sequel it is generally a lot better than the predecessor.

I'm gonna stop here cause man it just isn't a diablo game atm...

The implication here was that because legendary items (even low level ones) aren't dropping like candy from a pinata, this game sucks balls and is actually no longer a Diablo series title. I mean, there's no embellishment there. We'll ignore the warped reality that an item denoted as "legendary" is to be of amazing power always (because something of "legend" is clearly always immortal, all-powerful, etc, and never has anything to do with lore alone /sarcasm), including the very basis for the game we're playing which would indicate that will never be, nor has ever been the case.

It must really suck to see everything in black and white, eh? But hey, those previous posts where you use ad-hominem to respond to someone really makes you the epitome of an upstanding poster around here, right? Enough to warrant your dismissal of others as a troll because they made you look stupid.

-Edit: Indication of sarcasm for the brain-dead.

Why

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Is it not enought that people are quitting Diablo 3 in packs due to the lack endgame content, troubleing itemization and rubberbanding every other minute , they also ban the few remaining ones.

I really wish we had an option to hand out negative reputation to posts like these.

Why do you think this is a bad post ?

1. There isn't a lack of end-game content -- you're just not satisfied with what there is. That tends to happen when you spend 200+ hours on a game. Diablo 2 was a similar situation for the first year, at least.

2. Itemization is fine at this point in the game. Not every item is supposed to be fantastic. Expansions and content updates will improve it further. This is something that most people fail to realize about Diablo 2 -- It was a very different game at launch, so comparing itemization between the two isn't very useful (I realize you didn't directly compare it to anything, but it's pretty much accepted that everyone's complaints about D3 are inspired by their love of Diablo 2).

3. We have no proof that they've banned anyone for any illegitimate reasons. The Linux complainers were apparently cheating/botting. The OP in this thread may be the same -- he's certainly not going to admit it. Perhaps his account has been compromised. He may be telling the truth, but automatically assuming that his complaint is 100% legitimate is silly considering that no other ban complaints have been confirmed as legitimate. In other words, you'd be a fool to trust every random "I got banned for nothing!" post. It's also foolish to suggest that players are leaving the game in droves. D3 has an active, large player base and this will continue for a long time.

In short, I thought your post was bad because you're complaining about end-game content, which will be improved upon as the game progresses (just like Diablo 2), you're complaining about itemization, which will be improved upon as the game progresses (just like Diablo 2), and you're complaining about false bans when there's no legitimate reason to suspect that any such bans have taken place. You're also spreading the misconception that the game is rapidly dying. It's not.

I have no issue with your rubberbanding complaint, but the rest of your post was awful. That's why I want the ability to neg rep it.

My opinion: if you don't like the idea of getting items without any work, even though you do work by getting gold to trade for it, then don't use the auction house. What other people do should have no effect on your enjoyment of the game. Just because you may or may not like the auction house, that shouldn't mean it should be removed. Now, if you say "Well, it's there, so I have to use it." No. Just, no. It's called willpower. Drugs are available around every corner. Does that mean you have to buy them? No. [/rant]