Judging from the actual reviews, the 1-star-reviewers sound a little less enraged than the defending 'fanboy' 5-star counter movement! Those are the ones happily sharing their experience that they only had to wait two and a half hours (from midnight CET) before they could play.
Sometimes, finding something to be so shitty that you have to speak up seems to be the more mature thing to do.
Really only 2.5 hours?
I'd have depleated the battery in my Battle.net authenticator by that time. And then I'd be locked out by not being able to use the authenticator. LOL.
Well, Comrade Mortis isn't going to get the game for another month or so, so I have very little reason to get it until she does. And then, we're probably going to do a monk/wizard team and destroy everything.
and couldn't bring myself to get past the spiders. I'll have to get back to that. All other enemies are fine. But not those damn spiders with their super fast attacks and poison and sneaking up behind me...
In actually related news, 1 star reviews on Amazon.de are now up to 970 and will probably pass the 1000 mark after another weekend with dire server problems for the single players.
Well it wasn't pretty. Everyone wanted to play on sunday and the servers were down from 1pm to 9 pm.
Also achievement progress made hours before the servers were down was reset but only in the achievements and not in game. That means I cannot get some of the lore based achievements (these require books I cannot pickup again because they are written in my Journal but aren't counted in the achievement that is related to them) and had to redo a main quest because the game is to stupid to notice I already solved it.
I personally approve of everything that makes "always online" mechanics in single player games a complete nightmare for the developers. But the customers have been screwed more than enough here.
Diablo 3 is now the fastest selling PC game of all time.
Yeah, I read that. A damn shame, as it signals the industry that they can do pretty much anything to their customers and still get their money.
I have hopes that Ubisoft slowly comes to its senses ("Rayman Origins", although not the best port, had no DRM at all), but I really wish Blizzard and EA would finally feel the anger of the customers FINANCIALLY. The industry moves into that direction any further and I'll be stuck playing browser and possibly Kickstarter games for the rest of my life.
If the rumors are true, Sony's next console will have the ULTIMATE copy protection (cloud gaming, no kidding)... and their customers are even more screwed than any PC gamer before.
I have hopes that Ubisoft slowly comes to its senses
There are people buying D3 after boykotting UbiSoft for their DRM because they wouldn't want to miss playing the best game of the decade. (As if this abomination would even get close to being the best game of the decade. Definitely not in the unpolished state it is in right now.)
I think the big problem with Diablo 3 is the fact that Diablo 2 has become such a long time high valued game that people don't adjust to Diablo 3 well enough. Then again everyones PC could play Diablo 2 these days while Diablo 3 is notch higher on the gaming PC ladder.
I've been playing Diablo 3 on a day to day basis since the release date and only had like 2 days that i got some lag and diconnections, okay sometimes it takes a while to log in during peak hours, but I can live with that while other nag-a-lots can't. As for the rest, the story does continue, people are just upset about the
Tyreal being mortal now
thing.
And as for the real money AH... if you don't like it don't use it, it can be that simple... the gold AH still exists so play, gather gold and buy stuff that way.
I'm not a Blizzard Fanboy or anything seeing as i'm practically the only poor shlob defending the game, but I can see why they choose an always online system this time around... Diablo 2 has been hacked on so many levels from mods, to serial number hacks that they aren't taking that risk anymore. The simplest way of making a game unhackable (or very hard to hack) is securing a continueous link to the master server. So people who whine about that only have to thank all the hackers out there who made Blizzard take that road in the first place.
Well, maybe. The bad reviews on Amazon.de haven't cooled off yet, after three weeks. We're at 2,642 one-star reviews right now (thrice the amount of Amazon.com). That IS a very bad sign for the overall quality, as you'd expect more players to find their fun with this game as time progresses (and servers are more stable... or aren't they???).
Yeah, I don't even remotely care about Diablo, but I still thought PC users are getting the raw end of the deal with this. Not cool, Blizzard. Not. Cool.
They also get better drops so they don't need the auction house.
I cannot really speak about the loot on the PC right now even though I played through Nightmare Mode last month and thinking that it is okay now. I'd have to start over from scratch to really talk about that. The game was overall quite okay (note that I didn't write good) in Nightmare mode once I turned off dialogues and decided to ignore the horrible story they try to force on you 3 times before "the actual game starts for a character".
And pitchforks are already out. D3 got so many "biggest disappointment of 2012"-awards for a reason.
Well, Diablo II didn't really have much of a story either. The fun was in the co-op, coming up with broken ways of recombining loot, skills, stats and other people to get through the game without dying. Like Comrade Mortis and I totally destroyed the game with our Paladin/Necromancer combo of goodness.
Well, Diablo II didn't really have much of a story either.
I am not complaining that D3 has too little story. I'm complaining it has too much. And the player get's annoyed by it constantly. Ways blocked until some dialogue finishes, constant main dialogue overlays over the screen stopping me from selling stuff under those boxes etc.
It was bad the first time around. On repeated playthroughs it just gets annoying.
Yeah, at least you could skip through all the dialogue in Diablo II subsequent times around. Though I always liked the prince dude in the second act talk about how he "saved" all the concubines out of the good of his heart. And I'm like... yeah. Saved. Just because he's a nice guy.
Of course, they all got murdered by demons so... yeah.
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Judging from the actual reviews, the 1-star-reviewers sound a little less enraged than the defending 'fanboy' 5-star counter movement! Those are the ones happily sharing their experience that they only had to wait two and a half hours (from midnight CET) before they could play.
Sometimes, finding something to be so shitty that you have to speak up seems to be the more mature thing to do.
(from DeviantArt)
Really only 2.5 hours?
I'd have depleated the battery in my Battle.net authenticator by that time. And then I'd be locked out by not being able to use the authenticator. LOL.
Unfortunately not in the beta right now.:(
I wish I could play that one offline right now.
Grimrock! I was playing as
I was too busy letting out startled yelps and falling down pits to really worry about the why or the how of the ending.
Whhh... Grimrock has a plot?? That's news to me.
In actually related news, 1 star reviews on Amazon.de are now up to 970 and will probably pass the 1000 mark after another weekend with dire server problems for the single players.
Also achievement progress made hours before the servers were down was reset but only in the achievements and not in game. That means I cannot get some of the lore based achievements (these require books I cannot pickup again because they are written in my Journal but aren't counted in the achievement that is related to them) and had to redo a main quest because the game is to stupid to notice I already solved it.
Hope you got your closure now!
Mediocre game with some great moments though. And the DRM sucks of course. Especially on a sunday afternoon. I even had to search for something else to do on a sunday afternoon in spring.
Yeah, I read that. A damn shame, as it signals the industry that they can do pretty much anything to their customers and still get their money.
I have hopes that Ubisoft slowly comes to its senses ("Rayman Origins", although not the best port, had no DRM at all), but I really wish Blizzard and EA would finally feel the anger of the customers FINANCIALLY. The industry moves into that direction any further and I'll be stuck playing browser and possibly Kickstarter games for the rest of my life.
If the rumors are true, Sony's next console will have the ULTIMATE copy protection (cloud gaming, no kidding)... and their customers are even more screwed than any PC gamer before.
There are people buying D3 after boykotting UbiSoft for their DRM because they wouldn't want to miss playing the best game of the decade. (As if this abomination would even get close to being the best game of the decade. Definitely not in the unpolished state it is in right now.)
I'm just throwing that out there.
Um...
I'm still not getting Diablo 3. Even for morbid curiousity.
I've been playing Diablo 3 on a day to day basis since the release date and only had like 2 days that i got some lag and diconnections, okay sometimes it takes a while to log in during peak hours, but I can live with that while other nag-a-lots can't. As for the rest, the story does continue, people are just upset about the
And as for the real money AH... if you don't like it don't use it, it can be that simple... the gold AH still exists so play, gather gold and buy stuff that way.
I'm not a Blizzard Fanboy or anything seeing as i'm practically the only poor shlob defending the game, but I can see why they choose an always online system this time around... Diablo 2 has been hacked on so many levels from mods, to serial number hacks that they aren't taking that risk anymore. The simplest way of making a game unhackable (or very hard to hack) is securing a continueous link to the master server. So people who whine about that only have to thank all the hackers out there who made Blizzard take that road in the first place.
...guess what the PS3 gets?
Pitchforks, anyone?
They also get better drops so they don't need the auction house.
I cannot really speak about the loot on the PC right now even though I played through Nightmare Mode last month and thinking that it is okay now. I'd have to start over from scratch to really talk about that. The game was overall quite okay (note that I didn't write good) in Nightmare mode once I turned off dialogues and decided to ignore the horrible story they try to force on you 3 times before "the actual game starts for a character".
And pitchforks are already out. D3 got so many "biggest disappointment of 2012"-awards for a reason.
It seems a lot harder to do that in Diablo III.
I am not complaining that D3 has too little story. I'm complaining it has too much. And the player get's annoyed by it constantly. Ways blocked until some dialogue finishes, constant main dialogue overlays over the screen stopping me from selling stuff under those boxes etc.
It was bad the first time around. On repeated playthroughs it just gets annoying.
Of course, they all got murdered by demons so... yeah.