Tanakh said:
Saw it earlier on Steam today and was tempted, but I'll go with Diablo III. Why? Because of the always online, because I don't see it as DRM but as an anticheat system and i want my drops to mean something.
Just my opinion though.
Save for the Always-Online (of which I wholeheartedly disagree with you on, but that's beside the point), I'm almost tempted to agree with you on the drops. However, the way Blizzard has this whole thing set up, your drops really
won't matter.
You see, because of the Auction House, Blizzard tracks the popularity and average sell price for any and all items, and gauging how much people want certain items. As such, if they so choose (as they've talked about in previous interviews), they reserve the right to "adjust" the natural drop rates of items in game.
What does this mean? It means that, should an item become very popular, Blizzard can and probably will decrease the drop rate of that item; making that item more rare thereby increasing demand and value.
So in a sense, your drops in Diablo 3 don't mean a damn thing in the end as Blizzard effectively has total control over what stuff you get and when/where you get it. Thus all but negating any randomness to their so called "random drops".
As for the anti-cheat aspect of the always on, you're right. It
may keep some people from cheating. But, does it really matter? Diablo 3 isn't shipping with it's PvP mode. In fact, it won't be available for quite some time. Ergo, what's the point of having a robust anti-cheat feature if it doesn't really matter if someone's cheating?
Oh right...because if people were "cheating" to get items, and then sold them, Blizzard couldn't legally make money off of those transactions.
Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm an avid fan of the Diablo series, with 2 being one of my favorites among my favorite games "ever", but I really can't bring myself to give a damn about Diablo 3; or even Blizzard for that matter. I really do not like what they've become since merging with Activision. They're at a point now wherein they are not only telling us when we can play our games but
HOW we're supposed to play them. That's just bullshit.
O.T.
Can't wait for Torchlight 2. Pre-order is already in place for a four-pack. Soon as it launches I'm having four friends drop by so we can LAN that thing. Should be an exquisite night of pizza, beer, and old-school ARPG adventure and loot.
(as a side note, anyone who's a fan of Diablo 2 should be more interested in Torchlight 2 because Runic, makers of Torchlight, were the original team that made Diablo 2 over at Blizzard. After waiting years for Blizzard to finally green-light Diablo 3, and after dealing with the BS Blizzard was becoming, they split from Blizzard to form Runic.)
