Diablo III Already Under $10?

They are probably scrambling to get rid of that horred game. Buy Torchlight 2 instead. I bought both unfrotunately. Jay Wilson is now my most despised game developer.
 
this is the front page news section? hm thought maybe i made it into hot deals on accident...
 
It was a sale of a whole bunch of PC games, skyrim, bf3 and starcraft 2 included. They probably don't want to stock pc games anymore, or need the shelf space temporarily.

The regular price is still 59.99, and the 10 is very hard to get because it's OOS everywhere.
 
given that Diablo 3 was supposed to be the next big thing, and it turned out to be the great big flop of the 21st century, its fair to say that *a lot* of people are upset for paying 60 bucks for a game in its alpha state.
 
It certainly appears as if they are maybe getting ready to purge PC games most of their AAA titles are at $10 ... D3, SC2, BF3, Assassin's Creed, Rage, Skyrim, many others ... could be a nice way to stock up on physical copies for Christmas stocking stuffers :)
 
as soon as I heard rumblings of "dont get yer expectations up" and physically playing the demo...I knew it was a money grab
 
Diablo 3 could have been a fun game. Sadly, greed clouded their eyes and the game is tuned that you are FORCED to spend real money in the real auction house to advance.

I personally dumped about $40 - $60 dollars of real money into the Auction House to be able to continue to play but soon found out I needed to spend even more money.

That's when I deleted the game off my PC.
 
they already made a killing off the pre-ordering suckers, so they can afford to sell these at $10.

takehome lesson: don't preorder shit! unless you really like being a guinea pig.
 
SixFootDuo said:
Diablo 3 could have been a fun game. Sadly, greed clouded their eyes and the game is tuned that you are FORCED to spend real money in the real auction house to advance.

I personally dumped about $40 - $60 dollars of real money into the Auction House to be able to continue to play but soon found out I needed to spend even more money.

That's when I deleted the game off my PC.
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pretty silly. There are tons of us who made more than our money spent on the game...before quitting the awful thing. I'm surprised to hear that anyone's reason for quitting is that they think they have to spend real money to advance.
 
I had fun leveling up to playing Inferno.

Then inferno made the game super lame. You CAN'T kill a fucking thing in Act 2+. You have to buy stuff from the AH to make a dent in the end game.

Not how I want to spend my time. Should have made it an MMOARPG Not a AOMG (Always Online Money Grab).
 
Front page?
You guys feel burned, as well?
What a sad state the game is in now....

Hey Jay Wilson, what's up now?
"Fuck that Loser"

But read between the lines. Perhaps this is an attempt to get the game into more hands, more hands=more auction house purchasing=more money for Blizzard. Those "game developers" have learned nothing.
 
D3 will eventually be free. Its only a matter of time. The RMAH will make them even richer.
 
No surprise here.

Torchlight II is better in almost every aspect... doesn't treat it's customers like excrement... and the multiplayer actually, gasp, WORKS!
 
Any mention of a Blizzard games comes with a slurry of shitstorms. Yet you all went out and bought it anyways knowing full well what was wrong with it.
 
Blizzard officially died when Activision touched it, as far as I'm concerned.
 
RooK said:
given that Diablo 3 was supposed to be the next big thing, and it turned out to be the great big flop of the 21st century, its fair to say that *a lot* of people are upset for paying 60 bucks for a game in its alpha state.
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Yep. I'm one of them. The things is though that even with all the bugs ironed out it's just not a good game. Who the hell decided that the rarest items in the game would be less powerful than regular items that drop everywhere? (That would be the dickwad known as Jay). The story is mediocre at best, and they've dumbed down the gameplay and interface to the point where it's just boring.

I pre-ordered it and it managed to stay on my hard drive for 6 weeks before I uninstallled it. I will not be buying any addons without a massively compelling reason to do so.

$10 is still overpriced.
 
And don't even get me started on the RMAH. D3 was already in its death throes but that was the fucking epic spear in the heart that killed it. I hope ActiBlizzard learns that gamers won't tolerate blatant examples of outright money-grubbing like the RMAH.
 
I called in, and the local one was already sold out, and given how quickly the representative replied, I could tell that they were getting that question a lot. No Starcraft 2, either :(
 
I actually enjoy D3, the wife and I play it all the time. Is it a great game? No, but I think it's pretty good. I have no interest in sinking more money into the game (it was overpriced to begin with), so if playing inferno means you need to spend more money I'm out. There's still some life in the game for me, but after playing GuildWars 2 and Torchlight 2, probably not much more. But saying the game was complete shit is a bit much IMHO.
 
I stopped playing this game cause the dev's already have their heads completely up their fucking asses and don't know what they are doing

Months and months of nerfs, now suddenly buffing the absolute fuck out of demon hunters, the highest DPS class in the game. This makes no fucking sense.
 
I played a decent amount of D3, and leveling to max level was fine.

After that tho, no PVP, no ladder... nothing to keep me playing. Game should of been longer.
 
Good, hopefully a bunch more people start playing so they can buy my shit, lol.
 
It looks like it already sold out online though. Hopefully they get more in stock and keep the price for any of those who were interested in playing.

$10 is about what it's worth at this stage. I did have fun playing it for a few weeks. However it didn't have the replay-ability for me that the 1st two Diablo games had. D3 had very cool monsters to fight, nice graphics (as long as you didn't zoom in to make the Japanese Anime style apparent), but crappy story line. At least they did release a patch that reduces the amount of useless banter that your hireling engages in.

Now that last two Diablo games received unbelievable support and patches for many years after release. I'm hoping that they do so with D3 so that they fix it and make it as fun as previous Diablo games.
 
Guys I have no idea what D3 is all about and haven't played D2 but I'm looking at Wikipedia and D3 has an 88/100 score on MetaCritic. So are you guys complaining about the gameplay or are you complaining about having to pay to advance in the game?

I have no horse in this race, just want to know where you guys are coming from.
 
i think they are compaining about good drops being so rare because the drop rate for them is crazy low. Practically the only way to advance after a certain point is to pay real money or spend more time then it takes to gear up in wow.
 
Bought Diablo 3. Played it for about two weeks annnnd....got bored with it to the point of not picking it up again. Yes, the drops for even half decent blue gear let alone something actually rare/unique is a joke. I spent the time and effort to try and hunt down half decent gear and all I got was a solid leveled Witch Doctor with crap blue gear.

Well played Blizzard. I hope the cash I plunked down on the collector's edition (because I'm a sucker for artwork and soundtracks) was worth me not wanting to find out just how horrible Heart of the Swarm is going to turn out.
 
XacTactX said:
Guys I have no idea what D3 is all about and haven't played D2 but I'm looking at Wikipedia and D3 has an 88/100 score on MetaCritic. So are you guys complaining about the gameplay or are you complaining about having to pay to advance in the game?

I have no horse in this race, just want to know where you guys are coming from.
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88/100 on metacritic seems about right.

to put it simply people love to bitch and troll.

The game isn't perfect and attempts to make additional money off the auction house. I passed the game on inferno pre 1.0.3 before they made the game easier without using the auction house. Its because of the inventory system that people can continue to play past a few hundred hours. The extreme rarity and stat variation is a blessing and curse. On the plus side I passed this game with 30k DPS without using the auction house. Now 600 hours later I'm at 140k DPS. I had a blast gearing up to 140k........Games like TL2 give you all the gear you'll ever need with little effort which is good in its own way but removes the desire to continue playing after one play through.

to put it simply people love to bitch and troll.
 
I got tired of all the changes they have been implementing ever since the game was launched. Not that I think they are all bad, but they should have made up their mind before launching it. Now it just feels like we're participating in a beta program.

And it gets tiring running through the same map over and over again.
 
stevedave said:
88/100 on metacritic seems about right.

to put it simply people love to bitch and troll.
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That may be, but the user score is only 3.7 on more than 7000 votes. Amazon shows more than 1500 voting one star and Newegg has 106 votes for one egg.

I put a little more weight in user ratings than critic ratings. I never bought the game, and as it stands, I don't plan to.
 
XacTactX said:
Guys I have no idea what D3 is all about and haven't played D2 but I'm looking at Wikipedia and D3 has an 88/100 score on MetaCritic. So are you guys complaining about the gameplay or are you complaining about having to pay to advance in the game?

I have no horse in this race, just want to know where you guys are coming from.
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Ahh yes, the game reviews. The reviewers that didn't play the game on infernfo difficulty, played before blizzard started nerfing gold and item drops, before blizzard started nerfing abilities, before blizzard launched the RMAH, before blizzard shutdown the gold commodity AH for weeks(couldn't get rid of gems, pages, etc. or buy any if you needed them), before the gold farmers started farming(which is why blizzard began nerfing drop rates for gold and items) and began spamming chat, before blizzard started nerfing effectiveness of stats on items, before people had realized that the legendary items were actually not barely on par with some blue items(and with weapons a lot of blues were better) and were way outclassed by yellows, before blizzard had let the community wait for months on a pvp patch(4+ months later and it still doesn't exist, wtf?), before running into impossible champion mob combinations on inferno difficulty like illusion + invulnerable minions + fast(on an already fast mob type) + vampiric while having a rage timer and a 75% HP buff per player in the game with mob damage also scaling to guaranteed 1 shot kills(both of those were fixed in recent patches).

I could keep going about why the game reviews all released within a week or two of the launch of the game were mostly great, but the point is that they wouldn't have included the obvious issues that didn't arise until later difficulties, patches, or blizzard failing to come through on promises(seriously, no pvp yet?). There's a reason everyone thought the game was great for the first 2-3 weeks, but by 2 months in most people quit when they had played D1 and D2 for months or years. Blizzard made a crappy game and they've been trying to bandaid it back together since.
 
People love to bitch and troll? Is this your way of validating that your opinion is better than ours and thus, D3 is ok and our opinions don't matter? Shag off.

I had fun with the game and I didn't rush through. But to continue at the harder levels, you die, die and die. It's tuned in favor off the auction house. When I played, all the really good gear was mucho gold. Gold I didn't have, even after farming for many hours.

What my friends and I ended up having to do was add credit ( real money ) to buy gear to advance into the next to the last level, nightmare I think it was.

If you think we wanted to spend even more money, you are wrong. If you think we were lazy and didn't want to farm gold, again, you are wrong. D3 basically put a lot of people into this corner of having to spend money to continue to play. Nearly every negitive review out there mentioned this very fact. So no, it's not just my friends, myself or a handful of people that don't know how to play. We do know how to play, point blank.

it's pretty clear why the game is getting a lot of bad feedback and almost from the start.
 
I put ~300hrs into this game, hoping it would get good, it didn't.

Hell, I MADE about $200 from RMAH sales, I don't care.

I just wanted to play Diablo 3, and have fun.

Instead I'm burned out, only played TL2 a couple dozen hours (despite it being infinitely better), been watching more TV and being apprehensive about any new game releases.

This shit is killing the industry.
 
lilbabycat said:
I put ~300hrs into this game, hoping it would get good, it didn't.

Hell, I MADE about $200 from RMAH sales, I don't care.

I just wanted to play Diablo 3, and have fun.

Instead I'm burned out, only played TL2 a couple dozen hours (despite it being infinitely better), been watching more TV and being apprehensive about any new game releases.

This shit is killing the industry.
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So you got 300 hours of entertainment from a game that cost $60 ... how high is the bar on entertainment becoming :) ... assuming you went to bargain shows at the movies ($5) you would spend $750 for 300 hours ... you would need 20 DVD season sets for equivalent time ($800+ assuming $40 per set) ... I have only put 100 hours or so in D3 before I moved on to other things but I thought I got my monies worth at least (and I might try again one of these days ... just too many things competing for my limited free time ;) )
 
kbrickley said:
So you got 300 hours of entertainment from a game that cost $60 ... how high is the bar on entertainment becoming :) ... assuming you went to bargain shows at the movies ($5) you would spend $750 for 300 hours ... you would need 20 DVD season sets for equivalent time ($800+ assuming $40 per set) ... I have only put 100 hours or so in D3 before I moved on to other things but I thought I got my monies worth at least (and I might try again one of these days ... just too many things competing for my limited free time ;) )
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The problem with that line of thinking is you're assuming 300 hours is 300 FUN hours... if you spent 290 of those hours grinding for equipment/gold/experience then that's an awfully poor deal.
 
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