What went wrong with Diablo 3?

>>384023162
nu blizzard went wrong

>>384023162
cartoonish grafix and atmosphere
simplified (laughably so) skill trees
no grid based inventory
no player driven economy

>>384023162

Removing all difficulty in the game in favour of killspeed meta.

>>384023162
D3 already won

Its so successful they don't have to give away content for free just to trick people into playing it.

And i mean that literally no one plays path of exile anymore except for a couple streamer who have a cult following that would follow them any game they played anyway.

>>384023573
Doesn't that also apply to POE?

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>>384023162
It was made.

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>>384023162
nu blizzard made it

>>384023573
That is exactly the case with PoE after I came back this league. Playing since beta and seems like many of the previous scary encounters were nerfed to only tickle you.

>>384023162
poe is shit but d3 isn't any better.

>>384023934

It's worse with Diablo 3. At least you have a chance to die in the post Alt-F4 warriors meta. Diablo 3 is so easy that end game challenges involve those fucking set dungeons.

>>384023162
The most succinct explanation:
D3 is what you get when you put a WoW dev in charge.

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>>384023742
>d3 800 users on plebbit
>poe 3000 users on plebbit

>>384024120
untrue, all the wow devs are gone so after d3 was done its devs were dumped on wow which is why everything has twenty layers of rng now.

>>384023162
Activision went wrong

how many new skills were added in the new poe expansion?

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>>384024381
more than 30

Azmodan did nothing wrong.

>>384023162
They tried to make a game that was addicting instead of making a fun game.

>What went wrong with Diablo 3?
It's a Blizzard game. I stopped giving my money to them after all the shit they pulled with always-online DRM.

>>384023162
its actually pretty good by now with the expansion and loot 2.0 etc.
if it was released like this it wouldve been a hit

>>384024237
>reddit is purity test for good games
Holy shit. You are literally everything wrong with the world.

>>384023518

Almost all of that is wrong. The only one you're correct on is player-driven economy. All the other real problems with the game are gameplay related.

The largest problem with the game is that the endgame has no content. Sure, I can play really high torment GR's, but what's the fucking point when I've experienced basically everything they have to offer in lower difficulties. Ubers only require T1, and give a shitty ring and amulet as benefits. Ubers should be unlocked through high level Greater Rifts, and become much more difficult, with a reward as good as a hellfire torch.

The move away from the online system that D2 had was a mistake. Not being able to choose games from a list, or something similar, made it so nobody plays the game together, or they only play with friends. No trading really hurts this as well.

The skill system is interesting, but needs heavier investment costs.

No PVP is a sin. The game has fucking nothing to keep you playing once you hit 70 and get a set/ancient legendaries in a couple days.

>>384024237
D3 is the 4th best selling PC game ever

>>384023518
there was a player driven economy and it was the worst thing in the game. you never used any loot you got because trading it in and buying items from chinese was way more profitable. the game was boring. there is a grid based inventory and the skill trees arent that different from d2

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>>384024698
I'm sure that had nothing to do with the success of previous games in the franchise, anon.

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>>384024338
/Thread

>>384024698
and a month after release it lost 99% of its playerbase, your point being?

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>>384024606
yeah i got 1 monk to max lv and sold the game so i didnt try any post game stuff

>>384024871

I'm actually pretty sure that the majority of people who played D3 had never touched a previous game in the series. The fact that a lot of women played D3 is somewhat a confirmation of this.

>>384024897
not true and the console release with the expansion and 2 years worth of updates packaged in sold really well too

>>384024737
>arent that different than d2
the game fucking levels your character up for you bro and hands out runes instead of skill points. no custamizational depth unless you consider remapping your powers to diff keys.
bitch please.

>>384024237
You were disputing the point that the game was so successful they don't have to give shit away for free. I provided evidence that the game was extremely successful. Sorry if this is too complicated for your tiny Amerilard brain

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>>384025221
>And i mean that literally no one plays path of exile anymore

>>384024871
Blizzard made it. They could have filled the cases of the physical copes copies of the game with anthrax and it would have still sold like hotcakes

>>384025343
Its 30 day average is 9000 players, so yeah nobody plays it

>>384025182
do you even know what elective mode is? there's endless combinations

>>384023162
when they shit on the diablo 2 dev i knew they had no idea what the fuck they were doing

>>384023162
>""""""""""acts""""""""""

>>384025551
The game has been breaking record player numbers with every new league by at least 30% of the last league, and the last league was in march. Everyone's preparing for 3.0 next month.
Also almost nobody plays the game on steam because of the way it handles updates, and rather use the standalone client.

>>384026071
>h-here's why you're wrong

Pathetic. Americans are just pathetic

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Never played POE, is it too late to start?

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>>384026187
>h-here's why you're wrong
that's how discussion works

>>384026273
the character system seems interesting but the core gameplay loop and combat get boring fast

>>384023162
DRM always online BS.

That's why I never bought it.

>>384026273
>is it too late to start this game that has been growing massively with no sign of stopping?
no, but wait until 3.0 is out in early august

>>384026312
You cited """statistics""" without actually giving them

>>384026273
With the new expansion coming "Blizzard soon" I don't see why not. The beta is definitely more newbie friendly.

>>384026408
you can see them on the steamcharts site you looked up to bring up the 9000 number stupid faggot

Nothing. It was the same clickfest trash as every other PC hack and slash. Diablo 2 fans are just too stupid to realize that.

>>384026495
You said there are many more players on the standalone client

Prove it tubby

PoE would be good if I didn't have to rely on drop RNG to get fucking abilities of all things.

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>>384026883
ok
>Following the release of version 2.6.0 for Path of Exile, Grinding Gear Games have recorded its most successful content launch, with a 40% player increase upon the last content update for their competitive action RPG. According to figures released by Grinding Gear Games, Path of Exile achieved a peak player count of 112,800 on the release of 2.6.0, with it reaching third of Steam’s list of active games.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/path-of-exile/path-of-exile-player-growth-version-260

>The Diablo-inspired action RPG has been one of Steam’s most played games for years, but on December 4, Path of Exile broke its previous all-time peak player record by bringing in an impressive 46,733 concurrent players in a single hour. And in doing so, the Breach update also helped PoE reach its highest ranking ever on Steam coming in at #5.
>The previous highest peak for PoE was back in March 2016 when the game’s fourth major expansion, Ascendancy, brought in 36,913 players during its launch week. So when comparing the two record-setting peaks, Breach’s launch has crushed Ascendancy with a 21% increase in players — an impressive number, especially considering the age of the game.
http://www.githyp.com/path-of-exile-reaches-its-highest-concurrent-player-count-ever-on-steam/

literally dead

>>384027064
That's why there are vendors for skill gems

>>384023162
>a bunch of garbage more damage support gems
>rehashed acts 1 to 4 into acts 6 to 9
>pantheon giving insignificant and meaningless bonuses

While D3 is complete fucking diarrhea, the redditor behind the OP needs to stop gagging on Chris Wilson's cock so much.

>>384027064
so you haven't played it since 2014?

>>384027403
But they don't stock all the gems possible, or if they do, it's on a timed rotation.

>>384026883
https://www.pcgamesn.com/path-of-exile/fall-of-oriath-path-of-exile-legacy-league
> had one million active players in December and saw a 44% increase in total playtime relative to 2015
Poe hade more than 1 million unique players in December, and numbers will be even higher with 3.0.0 release

>>384023162
Blizzard isn't even the same dev. The second they got bought by Activision they became something else.

>>384027389
Thanks for sharing more Steam stats with me. I want numbers on the standalone client you are basing your claim on, tubby

>>384027517
normal vendors stock gems based on your class, while the act 4 ghost vendor stocks every gem in the game

>>384027517
The only ones that you can't buy are Enlighten/Enhance/Empower and Added Chaos Damage, the rest you can buy from Siosa after completing the corresponding quests.

>>384027612
They're there in the article, my mentally deficient friend. I know reading can be difficult but you have to power through it.

>>384024237
>plebbit
>still using it for measurement
makes you think

>>384027774
link me to the blizzard database so I can see their player numbers

>>384026071
wait, why should I use the standalone client? what's wrong with the steam update?

>>384027626
>>384027693
>Have to play the game pretty extensively to get the abilities you want

I just don't understand why they couldn't have made ability trees a thing instead of this gem shit.

>>384023162
Wait, is the PoE expansion out now?

>>384023162
Torchlight 2 is better than both.

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>>384024528
Tell me all about PoE's offline mode.

>>384027886
>extensively
Jesus Christ i wonder why i even bothered responding.

>>384023162
PoE's shit

Wow, ten acts of a shitty story, great job

>>384027869
it redownloads and rearranges every game file, resulting in 30 minute patching times and requiring 20GB of disk space even for a 5MB update

>>384027747
The numbers given on the git site are roughly identical to Steam Charts so either nobody uses the standalone client or they are giving the Steam numbers. And I don't give a shit about "unique players" for a free game since that's going to count people who tried the game for 5 mins because it's free.

So nice try Americunt but you have no argument. Enjoy getting killed by a nigger Mr. 53%

>>384028021
>Three acts
>Not extensive

>>384028072
weird. it isn't doing that for me

>>384028112
not him but kill yourself

>>384027886
shouldn't you be playing overwatch or pubg right about now, boy?

>>384028183
not him but not an argument

>>384028112
>2 hours
>extensive

>>384028228
yeah, you show him gurl

>>384024338
>he thinks Activision is the source of modern Blizzard's problems.
>he doesn't realize Mike Morhaime is perfectly capable of fucking his own company up.
At the end of the day anon, it was Mikey that put that fuccboi Ion Hazzikostas in charge, not Bobby Kotick.

>>384028183
>Several hours of gameplay with you having little to no control over your abilities
>"That's fine, kys!"

>>384028138
Nigga it is doing that. You just haven't noticed. The game stores files in a .gpk format and steam doesn't know how to unpack that shit so it creates an entire new file instead of updating the old one.
The standalone just updates the old file.

>>384023770
Killspeed meta yes, difficulty no. I think learning how to plan and fund a good build counts as difficulty. It's more like a puzzle in that sense; the gameplay itself is very basic. Killspeed meta is being toned down, too.

>>384027980
The only person in this thread that makes sense. Torchlight 3 when Runic?

>>384028303
What kind of a fucking speedrunner completes three acts in two hours? Unless they have shortened the acts considerably, you can barely kill Merveil in two hours.

>>384028403
it takes 10 hours on first playthrough, an hour on 2nd playthrough.
literally who the fuck complains that abilities unlock at the start of the game. get a life nerd.

>>384028429
how does it work if I don't even have 20gb free space? and it updates almost immediately and instantly, is my computer magic or something?

>>384027980
Torchlight 2 was absolute garbage compared to Torchlight.

>>384024606
>The largest problem with the game is that the endgame has no content.

No, the problem is that the game sucks fucking ass, from early game to end game. Off yourself, D3 apologist.

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>>384023162
They missed what made Diablo successful and failed to replicate it. And instead of listening to the fans, they made fun of them.

And then, they failed again to capture the essence of Diablo. If anything, Souls games captured it the best, because Diablo was all about exploration and double-edged multiplayer.

>>384028608
I guess you wouldn't notice if you're using a SSD. And the 20gb was an exaggeration, I need around 10 myself

>>384028541
Desu i kill Merveil in less than 40 minutes and that's while doing every sidequest cause i'm autistic like that.

>>384028748
Then they must have increased movement speed and shortened times to kill considerably.

>b-but muh sales

Yeah, riding on the massive hype and fame of D2. They had possibly the greatest wave to ride, and ride it they did, but then disappointed everyone. D4 will not have D3's wave to ride on, which is probably why D4 will never be made, as they realize it's just never gonna work.

Blizzard has not made a good game since WC3 TFT.

>>384023518
Agree on the skilltrees.

Granted, I only played D3 for the first month or so, and swore to not touch it ever again. Biggest sequel-disappointment since AoE3 and Red Alert 3.

Skilltrees in D2 had so much variety. Every character with 3 different skilltrees, and several possible builds in each one of them. Most skill giving bonuses to another one.

>>384024982
That's not what he implied though. It's the same with the new DOOM. It got hyped into oblivion but I bet a lot of those people that were hyped that "A NEW DOOM IS COMING" never played the original ones.

>>384028403
>little to no control
you stupid fuck every class has at least 30 abilities available even without using the act 4 ghost

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3's shit cartoony WoW graphics were a fucking insult. It was like going from the original Abe's Odyssey to that disgusting mess that was NewNTasty.

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>>384028541
>you can barely kill Merveil in two hours
I hope to God you're just jestin. Even my friend who has never played aRPGs before did merveil in 1 hour on his first playthrough.

>>384029192
And what if the abilities you want are not included in those 30?

>>384028005
>This game is missing a feature that was a staple of the series
>BUT POE
How insecure are you faggots?Besides,PoE relies on it's micro-transactions since it's free to play so it needs to be online.

>>384029356
then buy them for 1 alt from a player or play for those 2 hours and get them from the ghost

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>>384029401
>i-it's okay when someone other than Blizzard does it

>>384026273
game is designed to be played like cookie clicker to be efficient enough not to waste your time while grinding/farming, but until you get to that point its very fun. Even then, you can enjoy it. I just burned out after putting in like 6k hours in 2 years or so. You shuold definitely play it if you liked diablo 2.

>>384029339
I played the game a few years ago, so maybe they have made it less slow paced, but I see no way someone could complete the first act in less than two hours due to the movement speed and the time it took to kill things (and the sidequests) back then.

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>>384029339
Not him, but of pure gameplay I can possibly see that. Not if you're stopping to listen to what NPCs say and reading skill gems and such. That's probably another hour or two right there early on.

>>384029605
You take the movement speed flask as your choice early on and only kill monsters when you need to refill it.

>>384029605
this guy plays casually. act 1 done in 24 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp6Wk95BOIY

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>>384029493
>Implying I give a shit about either PoE or nu-Blizzard
Is the stuttering a side-effect of being a sperg?

>>384029895
Then literally why would you post in this thread or make a post defending PoE

>>384029873
>Runs past enemies

Nice ARPG you have there.

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>>384023162
I can bet you all you want diablo 3 would be infinitely better if it didn't have any sort of limitation thanks to consoles.
>limited spells
>unable to change spells/skills mid-combat
>"cinematic feeling"
This game is a literal a lawnmower simulator.
I can also bet you that if maps didn't have 9001 gorillion monsters and was more tactical would be infinitely better.

This game is not a fucking diablo game, but an arcade game with Diablo slapped on it.
MASSACRE BONUS X1000 ENEMIES KILLED *gold and blood rains from the sky*
30 OBJECTS DESTROYED!!!! s 1 c K *movement speed increased for 69 seconds*
It's a fucking joke
PoE is trash

>>384029873
>Race practice

But that's basically speedrunning, you knob

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>>384024497

Damn. I got a skill to socket into her.

>>384030212
If you know that the skills you want become available later then you know enough to skip mobs that are not worth your time desu.

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D3 fucked up by having:
>hammy dialogue
>humor through the entire game
>all three followers are walking joke tellers and hammy as well
>cartoonish, exaggerated art style
>"You'll never defeat me!' saturday morning cartoon villains
>killed Cain off from a worthless butterfly woman
>online only
>too few classes
>no meaningful decisions to be made in the entire game
>you customize nothing but the color of your armor
>atmosphere of Diablo 1 and 2 are nowhere to be seen here
>Tyrael's voice changed and now he's a retard as well
>Diablo is a woman, literally nagging the player like some talkative bitch hag

They might as well do a reboot at this point. The complete change in tone from the previous games will always stain the series.

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>>384023162
D3 is objectively better than PoE.
PoE is a low-tier Diablo 2 clone. It takes everything good about Diablo 2 and copies it, and then takes everything BAD about D2 and multiplies it in some pathetic attempt to be the stereotypical "I like how this sucks!" shit that /v/ loves.

The fact of the matter is giant, useless, grids of 1% talents suck.

Spending points to get +1% more damage on an ability sucks. It's not compelling to spend 10 points to get 10-20% bonus damage. That's outdated garbage compared to spending one point to get new mechanics and interactions.

Lack of currency is just pointless tedium. It detracts from the game tremendously to force players to constantly barter useless orbs and shit. The SoJ system in D2 was hideously bad. To intentionally copy it and amp it up is hilariously stupid game design.

And, of course, the actual zones and gameplay and shit itself is years out of date. The game looks and plays like every other D2 clone ever.

D3 actually went and evolved as many of the old systems as possible, and created a far better game in the process. I can't stay interested in PoE beyond beating the new acts. Same for Grim Dawn. It's fun until you beat the story, then it's boring. Same for Torchlight 2.

Diablo 3, however, has the rifts and bounties and much greater build variety and many better customization options. According to the numbers, D3 characters are 80% more customizable than D2 characters. That is, they have more stat points to move around and more ability/rune combinations, creating 80% more options.

Not to mention D3 has constantly been shitting out free content patches for years. The Necro is the first thing they've charged for since RoS.

So to be clear, ALL of D3 has cost: Standard Edition + Reaper of Souls + Necromancer pack. And between each release multiple free updates have been pushed that changed the game.

Stop being contrarian faggots. You're not cool for bashing popular things.

>>384024897
None of that matters, his original point was that D3 was so insanely successful that it doesn't need to create more content to trick people into playing it/supporting it
If D3 really was the fourth best selling PC game of all time, then he's right

>>384024574
/v/ literally only likes Overwatch, MGS2, Ubisoft open world games and Souls games. Trying to start a thread about anything else other than the occasional Gothic thread is impossible

Dorf Fort and PI games like Vicky 2 are even hated here now

>>384030352
So your answer to the critique that skills are unlocked in an unintuitive and quite frankly nonsensical way is to play the game in an even more unintuitive way?

>>384030212
the early exp curve is designed with the player not full clearing in mind, the later levels require you to full clear if you don't want to grind.
would you rather have the low levels require you to grind?
>>384030296
>I see no way someone could complete the first act in less than two hours
>guy does it in 24 minutes and he's not even good
there's nothing stopping a random chub from doing it normally in 45-50 minutes even while clearing all the side quests

>>384030509
>that skills are unlocked in an unintuitive and quite frankly nonsensical way
>why are the better skill unlocked later REEEEEEEE

>>384030509
>So your answer to the critique that skills are unlocked in an unintuitive and quite frankly nonsensical way
they're unlocked by playing the fucking game
your critique is what's nonsensical

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>>384030368
More than half of that list is objectively wrong and could be proven so by spending 30 minutes in the fucking game.

Get a grip. What the fuck are you doing with your life that you have this laundry list of grievances towards this game without actually knowing anything about the damn thing? Why are you carrying all of this around in your head? What good does it do you? Don't you see that it degrades you, wastes your time, hurts your emotional state, and spreads disinformation like a plague of ignorance?

If you think the world would be a better place if everyone just knew the truth of things, you need to examine your own beliefs for truth and discard the ones that are not justified. If you do this shit over a videogame you MUST have all manner of ignorant strawmen built up in your mind about other topics that you carry around.

Get help.

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>>384030446
same as this guy tbqh

>>384030285
what's funny is that poe is releasing on xbox and it retained all its complexity and still plays smooth
blizzturd just didn't try at all

>>384030704
Why not have a skill tree system that allows you to choose which skills to unlock? You could still have unlock requirements, but at least the player could plan accordingly without needing to rely on out-of-game knowledge bases, and through good planning they could even unlock the more powerful skills earlier than "intended".

>>384030446
>>384030757
Is this a copy-pasta I'm not aware of? You can't be this wrong and also have reddit spacing without it being bait.

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>>384030446
I love this pasta

I'll admit I haven't played much of Path of Exile but im not a big fan of the gem system from a first impression. I feel it makes the classes all feel kind of samey. Like I said though only 3 hours in or so I could just be talking out of my ass.

>>384030757
Kill yourself, Blizzdrone.

>>384030924
Because its based on older style Diablo games, like Diablo 2. Ironically, you're exactly the same kind of person that they make fun of.

Your first character, almost always, will suck. You'll hit a wall. You'll do a bit of research and make a new character that will do well. Same shit happened in Diablo 2. You'll make a character with horrible skills, beat normal, maybe even nightmare, then hit the hell wall.

>>384030924
Because there's literally nothing wrong with the current system. What's your problem with it? That you need to be level X and then go to a vendor to buy it before you can use a skill?

>>384030446
>Diablo 3, however, has the rifts and bounties and much greater build variety and many better customization options.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. oh wait your serious. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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>>384030757
>>384030446
>reddit spacing
>defends blizzurd
what a surprise

>>384030909
>retained all its complexity
>less flask slots
>new support gems will forever be more damage multipliers
>new active skills will forever be simple channeling-like skills

It turns into a item grind fest in less than 2 hours. You can pick any character and just mash every skill hotkey when ever an enemy might be on screen and beat the whole game doing just that

>>384024497
I want to fuck him

>>384030924
>and through good planning they could even unlock the more powerful skills earlier than "intended".
Did people complain that you had to level a Sorceress to 24 (iirc) to get Blizzard too?

>>384030483
So his point is that blizzard doesn't want any more money, and therefore decided to let D3 die?
Do you believe that?

>>384031381
It was clearly shown by PoEfags earlier in this thread that PoE is much bigger on leddit so make up your mind

>>384030368
>humor through the entire game
The only humorous thing I remember was how much of an idiot Azmodan was, and that was unintentional.

>>384031452
>less flask slots
they have five now, check newest footage

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>>384031381
>reddit
>ignoring the rest
If you are not a bot you should rethink your life

>>384023162
>going beyond 5
Any classical drama has 5 acts.
Act =/= Chapter in a story.

>>384023162
Nothing, its literally the best game in the series and like the 8th best selling PC game of all time.

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>>384031561
>walk into tristram inn
>undead get up and you kill them
>barkeep says 'this is killing business'
>badum-tshh

I didn't say it was good humor. It was just mood ruining humor. Especially the followers who were always around to let you know nothing ithe game was to take itself seriously.

>>384031085
If you don't like it you're a casual

>>384031467
imo, concrete level requirements for abilities are bad design. Stat requirements or something that is not tied directly to time spent is better because it frees the player to experiment with builds much faster.

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if d3 is a good game, then it would be doing well and the receive a full expansion instead of a character dlc.

>>384028541
every poe act is like 45 minutes tops

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>What went wrong with Diablo 3?

It sold 30+ million copies and has an 88 on metacritic.

>tfw you played older games and realized blizzard was always shit.

Nox was better than diablo, dune was better than starcraft, everquest makes world of warcraft look like a eurotrash version of disney world. At least rock and roll racing and the lost vikings were good.

>>384032194
That's what Blizzard does best. They take a game and make their own version of it that's 10 times as accessible and has a huge budget.
The only time it failed is with HotS, probably because people who are interested in MMOBAs aren't going to abandon a game they sunk 100s of hours into.

>>384032610
but hots is doing good

>>384024871
how is that relevant at all? The question was which is more successful, not which is better.

>>384023162
right has too much content. I'd rather play left.

>>384033204
Not by Blizzard standards. I guess it's doing better than Smite but that's about it.

>>384033493
It seems to be doing better overtime, which must be weird for blizzard as usually things whittle down after a game's initial release or an expansion

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>>384030757
Lmao, "get a grip, what the fuck are you doing with your life, get help". You have no idea how much of a faggot you sound like do you? Anon made some legitimate points, now you just go and make yourself look like a teary-eyed bitch with no argument to back it up, complete with shitty pic.

>>384030446
This desu

>>384023162
I stopped playing after getting banned from chat for having a character name that translated to niggerhunter in dutch. Is this game worth finishing?

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>>384030446
This is pure autism. I haven't played PoE so I can't say whether D3 is better or not, but once you start talking about D3 being "80% more customizable" and preaching about free updates you have outed yourself as a total retard. First off, it does not have 80% more customization, as if you could even quantify that. Does D3 have rune words? Does it have jewels? Does it have any reason to use ANYTHING other than emeralds in your weapon? Does it have items that give you extra skills or skills from other classes? Does it have items with skill charges? No, it doesn't have any of this shit. The vast vast majority of items in D3 provide an incremental increase to damage/armor and possibly some worthless side effects that are triggered by an on-hit chance. For fucks sake, elements don't even work, status effects all do the same thing, gems are entirely worthless, there's only a few legendary gems that ANYONE even uses. The variety is purely aesthetic and artificial and only a casual retard would assert that this game has more variety. It doesn't. Not even fucking close.

Now, another retarded statement on your part is implying that D3 is somehow a good value or has plenty of content. Both of these statements are incorrect. D2 has a base game and an expansion, and is still be supported to this day with dozens of patches and content updates over the course of 15+ years. D3 has received sporadic updates over the course of 5 years and they are now at the point of charging you $15 for a fucking single character. Moreover, the end game consists of mindless running grifts, where the only "new content" is the promise of a slightly higher difficulty level with each new tier, as opposed to the end game of D2 which consisted of PvP, actual crafting, uber bosses and more.

You are retarded, your opinion is shit, and you should stop talking about things you don't know.

like the tool I am, I had to buy the necromancer dlc for 20 bucks (forgot only steam doesn't have tax, expected to pay 15$) and as I thought, it was a fucking waste of money, I didn't even finish the story with the necro, stopped at act 3

I checked once the new area in act 2 adventure mode and that's it, absolutely don't feel like touching D3 at all

I even took the time to sort my stash and yet stopped playing pretty abruptly

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>>384033204
>complain in support tickets about banning people from hero league for a year for saying "fuck" one time and about forcing the teammates of these banned players to mute their chat without the option to unmute
>get threatened with shutting down my account
>comply
>still get completely suspended for weeks the next day for no reason

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How can you fix shitty combat of either one-hit bags of meat or sponges in a game like diablo?

the process of going through a massive dungeon that is just recolored enemies that either spawn endlessly or sit there with tedious stuns or slows from a distance