Diablo 3 - Released!

[Chameleon]

Originally Posted by Kardiophylax

Word from bluesnews.com is that the RMAH is live in the Americas and people are selling items for $1.50 to $5.00 (before fees) for the most part. Amazing how many people will pay to win, thus eliminating one of the most important aspects of the genre (in my opinion).

Hopefully some of you manage to make your money back off of AH sales.

I've seen reports of people selling stuff for over $200 already, and one guy on ebay sold something for over $700.

[Mindray]

Originally Posted by Renevent

Well I've just run the Butcher for like the 15th time and still haven't found crap...really annoying. Think I am going to take a break from the game for a while...at least until the next patch or something.

Try Warden with full NV, it drops better gear for me, minimum 3 rares with 108MF. Also Elites and Goblins drop far better loot then Butcher for me, you just have to find them.

They plan to nerf boss drops to only 1 guaranteed drop with full NV stack, and give more drops to elite packs, rares, so the people stop boss runs and explore more. I think bosses are easy and predictable, when you learn all their AI patterns..while elite packs are far superior in terms of behaviour and harder to put down in most cases, where you fight not only one at a time.

Now, imagine how would it be if elite powers were given to goblins and bosses...crazy.

[Renevent]

Originally Posted by Mindray

Try Warden with full NV, it drops better gear for me, minimum 3 rares with 108MF. Also Elites and Goblins drop far better loot then Butcher for me, you just have to find them.

They plan to nerf boss drops to only 1 guaranteed drop with full NV stack, and give more drops to elite packs, rares, so the people stop boss runs and explore more. I think bosses are easy and predictable, when you learn all their AI patterns..while elite packs are far superior in terms of behaviour and harder to put down in most cases, where you fight not only one at a time.

Now, imagine how would it be if elite powers were given to goblins and bosses...crazy.

Not bad advice or anything (good actually), however that kinda is what I am doing. Normally would hit cemetery and other spots to get my full NV buff then run the 4 dungeons floors prior to the Butcher...including the warden. I am totally not exaggerating when I say I haven't found anything of use

I'm sure others are of course, but my opinion is they have set the drop rates so low that while some folks will eventually find some great items, a lot of people (ME!) aren't finding jack shit.

[yerkyerk]

Diablo 3 on metacritic: 88/100 critic score, 4.0/10.0 user score.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo-iii

Indubitably, a big part of the low user score is due to the online connectivity and Blizzard's failure to handle Day 1 (more like Week1+2) traffic (as is normal with such a big discrepancy between critic and user scores), but it also shows why critics are unreliable when games with longevity are concerned. Critics don't plan on playing the game more than once (on the lowest difficulty), if they even manage to come so far.

Despite its strengths, D3 has been a huge disappointment for me - and I'm sure that also goes for a significant number of other players who value longevity in a game. It's not just the few % of haters you always get with such big releases. I'm definitely having more fun with Borderlands now than I've had with Diablo 3. Well, on the plus side, D3 has gotten me playing other loot-em-ups again.

[Shoganai]

You also have to take anything that has user voting with a grain of salt. Someone who feels cheated or is upset is more likely to run to a site like that to post a bad review than someone who is happily playing the game.

[yerkyerk]

If that would be the case, than all games on that site would suffer from low user scores. They don't. In my experience, my personal score for games on that site comes a lot closer to that of the user score than the critic score. I find it interesting when there's a huge discrepancy though.

Usually, there's only a small discrepancy between user and critic score. If there's not, something strange is going on. Crappy online connectivity being no doubt one of them, but the disappointment people have in the game is also reflected in the user score.

[Shoganai]

It is my experience that most often the most vocal group is one that is upset about something. Rarely is it the group pleased with something.

Think of it this way... when was the last time you saw a "protest" celebrating good work or a good politician? People gathering to be happy about something? D3 is a lightning rod right now, especially because of the internet buzzword of the year "DRM" 4/10? Do you honestly and truly believe that if you were to poll each and every person playing the game that it would score 4/10?

[Renevent]

I think these are more times than not the result of a small minority bombing these sites to make a point.

[Shoganai]

That's just it. I'm sure if we checked the site we'd see a lot of 1/10 scores. Does the game truly deserve a 1/10 though? That's why the general public doesn't make good game reviewers :P Impartiality is generally not their strong point.

[yerkyerk]

Originally Posted by Shoganai

That's just it. I'm sure if we checked the site we'd see a lot of 1/10 scores. Does the game truly deserve a 1/10 though? That's why the general public doesn't make good game reviewers :P Impartiality is generally not their strong point.

As said before, for that to be true, it would be the reflection of all games. All games would have a bad user score. They don't. Sure, there's a lot of 1/10 scores. There's a lot of 10/10 scores as well - as is the case with other games. There's just more 1/10 than 10/10 scores.