"Hey, I came inside your sister even though I promised to wear a condom and got her pregnant, and I'm not going to be responsible. I just wanted to be upfront about it, I'm just not ready for a kid." (Blizzards response in a real life scenario)
Basically they said they have trash developers and no innovation what so ever, and that this little blog post is supposed to make it all better. So saying you are incapable of living up to the expectations made by your betters is enough to allow you to keep your job... that's just great.
This game is truly dead now, with the post it might have well been the nail in the coffin. No prospects, no ideas, nothing fun or engaging. People were hoping that PvP would save the game, and kept playing with that hope at the center of their resolve... well that's gone now. I'd say "GG" Blizzard, but I'd be lying.
Flashback: it's May 2012 and geeks are coming in their pants over a new release. The D3 RMAH has attracted much interest and investment, the storyline is new albeit terrible and gamers around the world want to power through the content, get the best gear and claim a victory over the domions of hell.
Flashforward: it's December 2012 and the dwindling Nephalem numbers are all farming A3, have given up trying to get a quinfecta hellfire ring and are trying to sell their warez on the RMAH to no avail. There is nothing new about the game, even 'new' builds are sub-par, the mindless purging of inferno has become monotonous to say the least and the PvP pipeline has become something that the development team use to lure children into their oversized automobiles.
What in the way of new content would lure gamers back to D3?
Could D3 ever live up to its predecessors?
Why on earth would anyone give a sh*t about paragon 100?
People say the community is still thriving, but it really isnt. Its mostly stagnated and dead, just at a much larger degree than most games. A game can stagnate and die with 100k concurrent users, its just weird and rare. Nothing apart from admitting they were retarded and completely changing the game via an expensive (to cover the costs of completely rebuilding the game) expansion to make it Diablo 2.5 will save this game.
Edit: Further Clarification- The game is fine as is, it is easily a 7/10, and is well worth the 40 USD or however much it costs now. But Diablo 2 was worth its weight in gold, and easily could have sold copies for 200 USD and still be worth every penny. PvP will NOT add more end game content than Diablo 2 had, that statement is the most ignorant Ive seen in a while IMHO. Crafting ALONE in D2 was more end game content than this game has all together. Runes / other socketing ALONE is more content than D3 has altogether.
"Household botters", that is, your average everyday person that buys a bot, are NOT getting banned by blizzard. The only bots that are getting banned are the ones that farm GOLD only, because 1 person ends up maintaining 500+ and items would take too much "human interaction" to move. Blizzard is focusing on these "warehouse botters", they just cant be bothered with the small fries that are household botters. (which are the people that honestly you should be okay with, because they lower the prices on items by saturating the market with good ones) The warehouse botters are the bad ones, which constantly lower the price of gold and invalidate your time by making your overall investment worth less and less every day. The problem is, even after ignoring said household botters to focus on warehouse botters, blizzard is still EPICLY failing at catching them.
Edit- Also:
BOT BOTS EVERYWHERE, CANNED
CLICHE PEOPLE ORGANS RARE!
As a little hint, the vast majority of the items on the RMAH can be purchased cheaper for the GAH if you simply buy gold, then find the same or equivalent item on the latter.
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Basically they said they have trash developers and no innovation what so ever, and that this little blog post is supposed to make it all better. So saying you are incapable of living up to the expectations made by your betters is enough to allow you to keep your job... that's just great.
This game is truly dead now, with the post it might have well been the nail in the coffin. No prospects, no ideas, nothing fun or engaging. People were hoping that PvP would save the game, and kept playing with that hope at the center of their resolve... well that's gone now. I'd say "GG" Blizzard, but I'd be lying.
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People say the community is still thriving, but it really isnt. Its mostly stagnated and dead, just at a much larger degree than most games. A game can stagnate and die with 100k concurrent users, its just weird and rare. Nothing apart from admitting they were retarded and completely changing the game via an expensive (to cover the costs of completely rebuilding the game) expansion to make it Diablo 2.5 will save this game.
Edit: Further Clarification- The game is fine as is, it is easily a 7/10, and is well worth the 40 USD or however much it costs now. But Diablo 2 was worth its weight in gold, and easily could have sold copies for 200 USD and still be worth every penny. PvP will NOT add more end game content than Diablo 2 had, that statement is the most ignorant Ive seen in a while IMHO. Crafting ALONE in D2 was more end game content than this game has all together. Runes / other socketing ALONE is more content than D3 has altogether.
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Edit- Also:
BOT BOTS EVERYWHERE, CANNED
CLICHE PEOPLE ORGANS RARE!
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