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DLing, looks interesting.... will be playing free characters.

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And this is why I'm shocked Diablo 3 still does not have Ladder. Ladder is a primary factor in why people still to this day, myself included, play Diablo 2. Some players like to maintain their gear and strive for complete perfection, others like me like the freshness and challenge of Ladder. If they would hurry up and do this the whole saturation argument dies in one fell swoop

I am also a bit amazed why they didn't come up with a ladder mode like in Diablo 2 yet. It would solve so many problems.

I also don't understand why they don't add duels like in Diablo 2. They said it's because they want to evolve the game further until PvP fits into it, but if I remember correctly, the Diablo 2 devs never had the intention to make a PvP game and they also never really balanced around it, but still it was the main reason for a lot of people to actually play the game for years, including me. They just gave players the opportunity to duel and they build their own rules and PvP communities around it.

The reason why I even bring PvP into this discussion is simple. Collecting loot in Diablo 3 is just for the sake of farming more efficiently, actually quite pointless to gear up at all because there is no real motivation to have the perfect character. PvP on the other hand motivated players to gather a lot of gear and different gear sets to be prepared for a lot of PvP situations. And this also required a trading community because you just can't find everything by yourself, but instead you have doubles or unwanted items others need.

This and the ladder mode made players play Diablo 2 for so long. In RoS there will be nothing to achieve again. All those features they added are basically nothing but more loot sources, but there still is no playground to make use of all that gear. So once everybody has beaten the content, boredom will come up again and we are in the same situation as we are now.