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patrick47018

I'm ready!
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pills161

Am I the only one who thinks achievements and virtual e-penis size battles are lame for games? It seems like anymore you will have a half decent game and instead of adding REAL content (you know, like maps, items, new play mods etc...) you just get achievements/competitions? They aren't a bonus to the game they just keep better track of what you're already doing. Does anyone REALLY care about how further in the game another player has reached? about who was the first person to hit lvl 70 in hardcore because they play every minute of every day and I don't?
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rantoc

Wish Blizzard spent the time doing truly Randomized Instances rather than the same static ones over and over but i guess the consoles limited hardware crippled that possibility for the PC that have the hardware to do it in the blink of an eye.

Its pure BS that they came up with the idea to release for consoles afterwards, the whole design stinks of dumped down (no offence, the input options as well as the hardware on the consoles are limiting) console design.

Consoler's go ahead and vote it down the post if you like, know the truth can hurt when not viewed objectively.

My 2 cents!

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balister

Sounds like Blizzard is hurting due to Path of Exile being a better Diablo than Diablo 3 and mimicking what PoE has been doing since it started.
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ShadyHamster

Sounds like Blizzard is hurting due to Path of Exile being a better Diablo than Diablo 3 and mimicking what PoE has been doing since it started.

My thoughts exactly.
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LORD_ORION

Or you could just go Path of Exile, the game they stole all these ideas form.
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agnickolov

They introduced this play mode in Diablo II in 2003 IIRC and that's about the time I stopped caring about that game. In fact, it drove me away so hard I never even bought Diablo III... (Though to be honest, the always-online requirements was a big no-no for me this time and probably the deciding factor.)
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fkr

Am I the only one who thinks achievements and virtual e-penis size battles are lame for games? It seems like anymore you will have a half decent game and instead of adding REAL content (you know, like maps, items, new play mods etc...) you just get achievements/competitions? They aren't a bonus to the game they just keep better track of what you're already doing. Does anyone REALLY care about how further in the game another player has reached? about who was the first person to hit lvl 70 in hardcore because they play every minute of every day and I don't?

first of all i upvoted you (you know you like the upvotes).

but games are always about progress. if we really look at games it is about accomplishing some sort of goal. these accomplishments really do not mean anything but there is something to be said for just finding some goal in an activity that you already enjoy and meeting that goal.

for example i casually play on kongregate (at 1440p and CF 7950's) and I do take some weird sense of pleasure in seeing that I have a higher player lvl than others. I will a times play games I do not really care about just for the 10xp. why? because I am human and we like to compare ourselves to others.
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a490920

so they are trying to make this into another wow??no wonder they set up the auction thing.
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Merry_Blind

Path of Exile does it better.
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