How Blizzard tricked us again
Note: This article is
going to contain some spoilers. You have
been warned.
Since the day it was released, I have played quite a bit of
Diablo 3. Not as much as some people
have, I am sure, but more then many people I do know. I have found the Whimseyshire, fought a bunch
of crazy creatures, seen the game through to the end, played through nightmare
mode, and a bunch of other stuff. After
all the time I have spent on the game, I have come to a couple of
conclusions. Are these conclusions
unique to me, probably not. But I am
gonna vent about them anyway. So let's
start this fun downhill slide shall we?
It has been ten years since the release of Diablo 2, and over
the last ten years Blizzard has done lots of great things. World of Warcraft for instance, as well as a
bunch of other stuff. A lot of these
games were amazing. World of Warcraft
captured my mind for years, as well as the minds of many of my friends. As W.O.W. Continued however, it began to drop
off. The first expansion led to a
reinvigoration of many of my gamer friends desire to play. Wrath of the Lich King did the same. But Cataclysm held most of us for 2 months,
and that was it. So naturally you would
assume that perhaps it was because they were focusing in on their next great
big hit, Diablo 3.
You would be wrong.
The formula of Diablo is the same, which is good. The graphics were better, sure, but in a game
like this, it doesn't really matter. The
detail is so lost with your view, there really wasn't a lot of point. Sure, it looks better, but lots of people played
Diablo 2 up until Diablo 3 launched, and would probably keep doing so. So really, who cares. I actually reinstalled Diablo 2 just to get a
taste of what the old game had to offer.
And I found I enjoyed it so much more then I did when I tried to play it
only 2 years ago. And one of those
reasons was that I found a piece to a set
within the first hour of playing.
I have put tons of hours into Diablo 3, and not a single recipe has
dropped yet. What's more, my second play
through on Nightmare actually uncovered LESS yellows from bosses then my first
play through. In fact, I only got a
yellow from Diablo himself. I played
back through some of the levels to get some experience, and before I started on
that path, I dropped some series magic Item find gear and gems onto my monk. I found even less blue items. I know, this is really just me bitching, but
Diablo is a loot centric game, and not getting loot, especially the awesome
stuff, really sucks. I was about to give
up when I saw a yellow popped out of one of the near by monsters I had just
killed. So I started fighting my way
through the horde and suddenly....
...Disconnected. Just
like that, the first yellow I had found in a couple of hours was lost to
me. Just because my internet had a hick
up. And just like that, it was
gone. Thanks forced online
connection. Which I sort of understood,
what with piracy and online cash auction and PVP and WAITAGOODGODDAMMNMINUTE!!! When that
happened, they had still failed to launch the cash auction house or PVP. Which means the online connection required
only helped versus piracy. Which I
didn't do. Nor have I ever pirated a
video game before. And I never
will. But thankfully Blizzard wants to
make sure I never will, be not allowing me to play offline, even by
myself. But in the grand scheme of
things, this is really the least of all offenses in my eyes. I mean it's not like I am dropping gold into
a system that only occasionally rewards me with something I could really
use. Not like I am using oodles of
goodies I have collected from all of the various items I have salvaged in game
in hopes of uncovering something to help me compensate for the fact that the
random treasures dropped from the creatures I have been fighting fail to be of
any benefit to me.
OH WAIT I AM! Yup, the
blacksmith in Diablo 3, the guy you have
been paying to learn more things, fails to ever produce something of use for
me, sucks. I actually drop a stupid
amount of resources into this moron of a artisan. I feel in hind sight I would be better off
dropping 50,000 gold pieces in the suction house for something I didn't find myself . At least I would have all my salvaged
materials left. Not that they help me in
any other way or anything.
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