Diablo 3 Wizard Disclosure: I purchased the CE
-Updated Disclosure: I purchased the CE
from Amazon but they botched the delivery so I had to source it from my
local Gamestop instead.
The Original Release of Diablo 3 in 2012 was Blizzard's first major blunder in a history of sterling game releases.
While the gameplay was fun and exciting and the game looked great and had a great story, the driving factor behind these games is a sense of progression and continually being rewarded for playing on harder difficulties. The introduction of the Auction House ensured that you would always find better items on the auction house than you could in game. In game loot that dropped had a very small chance of even having stats useful for your character and an even smaller chance to be better than what you already possessed.
I spent hours continually clicking the refresh button on the auction house listings, looking for an under-priced item that I could resell at a profit so I could buy an item I could use, instead of actually playing the game. After a few weeks of "playing" the auction house I pretty much had the best items in the game with the nearly best stats possible making the actual exorcise of playing the game pointless.
Fast-Forward to 2014 and Loot "2.0" and Reaper of Souls.
Blizzard Has taken Everything that was good about Diablo 3 and discarded the rest. Items now drop with a much higher chance of being useful to the character you're playing than before and there are much better chances to get one of the improved legendary items.
The Original Release of Diablo 3 in 2012 was Blizzard's first major blunder in a history of sterling game releases.
While the gameplay was fun and exciting and the game looked great and had a great story, the driving factor behind these games is a sense of progression and continually being rewarded for playing on harder difficulties. The introduction of the Auction House ensured that you would always find better items on the auction house than you could in game. In game loot that dropped had a very small chance of even having stats useful for your character and an even smaller chance to be better than what you already possessed.
I spent hours continually clicking the refresh button on the auction house listings, looking for an under-priced item that I could resell at a profit so I could buy an item I could use, instead of actually playing the game. After a few weeks of "playing" the auction house I pretty much had the best items in the game with the nearly best stats possible making the actual exorcise of playing the game pointless.
Fast-Forward to 2014 and Loot "2.0" and Reaper of Souls.
Blizzard Has taken Everything that was good about Diablo 3 and discarded the rest. Items now drop with a much higher chance of being useful to the character you're playing than before and there are much better chances to get one of the improved legendary items.
Diablo 3 Wizard Disclosure: I purchased the CE
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