It can't be saved because there is something missing from the game, the MMO part of it. Ever since they started dumbing MMO down and removing the multiplayer from them, they took it too far.

They were probably mainly working on the RMT shop for 3 years. I did not buy the game and I encourage others not to support this type of behavior if you like games.

Go ahead and buy this game if you want all your single player / co-op games to force you to play online without LAN play (did you enjoy the servers being down?). Go ahead and buy it if you enjoy developers adjusting drop rates to encourage you to purchase items for a real money cash shop.

I say boycott greedy game companies such as these till they come back down to earth with more customer friendly money models. Buy Torchlight 2 and say no to Diablo 3.

I choose not to purchase Diablo 3 due to the fact there is no game offline. Diablo 2 and 1 are still around and playable after how many years? This will not be the case with part 3. The servers will be offline and you will be left with a worthless DVD. I think it is hard to justify paying $60 for that.

Friends and I enjoyed years back forming a LAN party and playing Diablo 2 all night. We actually did this not too long ago again for old time sake. It was a blast. I a sorry to say, this won't be possible with part 3. I will save my money for a hack n' slash co-op game that allows offline play. My money will be spent on Torchlight 2.

Originally posted by Suzie_Ford

Originally posted by AdamTM

Originally posted by Suzie_Ford

In the best interests of the game, it would be nice if any 'alternative ending' type DLC would be offered to customers for free. But, even if it's not, I'll buy it because I am THAT dissatisfied with the lack of closure and the lack of even a minute chance of a happy ending for Shepard. A 10-20 purchase price would be OK with me for the gigantic number of hours and replays that the series has brought to me over the years.

Thank you for proving my point and continuing to make this industry a worse place Suzie.

At some point its time for us gamers to admit to ourselves that we will buy anything to get our fix, even if the cocaine is cut with flour and costs twice as much as last week.

In your opinion it's bad but not everyone necessarily feels that way. That's the beauty of differing opinions.

We all have ways that we want to spend our money. For those who don't give a rip about the 'tragic' ending or who are satisfied with the way it all played out, there's no reason to buy the alternate ending DLC. According to a vast majority of gaming websites, we who are unhappy are disaffected whiners anyway and a sizeable minority so Bioware won't make much anyway, right? ;)

Call me wrong all you wish. Doesn't make me believe it. I want my Shepard to have a chance at the happy life that she's lived through impossible odds for 7 years or so to attain for the universe.

We the gamers cause games to be released buggy, with less content than in the past, and over priced. We tell the companies with our wallets. I personally don't appreciate being ripped off. I prefer to get entire games and a fair price. I didn't purchase Mass Effect 3 and any other game that that gets bad reviews for being released buggy, containing item shops, or downloadable content with release of a game.

I would rather give my money to companies that instead of spending developer time on downloadable content before the game has even been released, spends their time on the game itself. Same goes for item shops. I will not purchase Diablo 3. They had time to get the item shop working yet not get all promised features in? No thank you. You only hurt youself by not being wise with your money.

Originally posted by Xstyles

Another WoW expansion ?? How can this garbage continue to survive this long?

Not a fan of what WoW has become with item shops and what not but why would it be dead? Everquest has sucked since Shadows of Luclin and it is still in business after 18 expansions and almost 13 years later.

Originally posted by eddieg50

  the same people who hate this are the same ones who hate SWTOR, they have no patience for story or cut scenes or voice overs, they skip over everything and then say " hey what happened the game was'nt very long"

Watching a movie isn't gaming. If you cut out the movies and there isn't much game, THEN something is wrong.

Originally posted by Meerkat93

Originally posted by Bunks

boycott EA

Concidering ME3 already sold over a million copies, and the fact that EA Controls the FIFA, MADDEN and NHL games. I don't think a boycott would work at all.

Why is it always the people that just joined the site always defending greedy behavior? Not accusing but looks very much like a paid person to reduce the concern over this corporate greed.

Originally posted by dubyahite
For the seven millionth time I've posted this on these boards:

the first instance is heavy on cutscenes. The rest ARE NOT. They have a convo before you go in andaybe one or two very short ones inside, if that.

THIS IS ONLY AN ISSUE IN THE FIRST FLASHPOINT. GET PAST THAT AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT.

Have you played WoW? Do you realize the attention spans of people in these games after they are only there for an item? No one is going to wait for one second for those new people to watch those short cut scenes you are speaking of.

Who wants to wait for the millionth time for the new person in a dungeon to watch through the cinematics? Not I, why would this be in a MMO? Good idea for a single player game where your time is your time and bad idea for a MMO... period.

This a flaw but probably will not be noticed very often due to the fact this game mainly will play like a single player game with a online multiplayer option .. which I won't pay monthlly for.

To all of you that say EQ doesn't take skill I bet not one of you could make it to lvl 60 on a certain server I will not mention the name of right now. Good lord, the children complained about the original WoW untill they made it mind numbingly boring to play and it was casual to begin with.

I won't be paying money for this garbage. Diablo is about the option to LAN and NOT cash shops! I will give Torchlight II my money instead.

Community was better, that is what I think it will come down for most that played games before WoW. Actually WoW's wasn't completely horribly untill expansions were released. All the people with out an attention span and the unsocial were weeded out in the original game when it came to raiding.

I hope it does fail OR the MMORPG genre IS going to be crap. I read it's super casual garbage with the amount of content should be a single player game with a free multiplayer option online.

Everyone that buys this game and games like them that are greedy money grabs can thank themselves for this trend. Vote with your wallet people. I will be doing so, I don't buy garbage like this. Blizzard is on my don't buy list now unless they change their greedy ways. Torchlight 2 will be better and have fair pricing. Please support companies that deserve it.

= Bad

Purchase a single player game with online options but required to be online

Auction House in game using real life money

Originally posted by Gdemami

 

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Originally posted by xpowderx

 

CCP no longer cares about its player base,its true!

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And it was only proven how good it is. Irrational, silly, childish reaction to game changes...good that CCP does not "listen" to them, now this immature crowd will move to Perpetuum...

I feel sorry for Avatar Creations... They will enjoy some new subs but it won't help the game to move much further, imo.

Voting with your money is the ONLY way to tell a company you don't like what they are doing. If you think other wise then you are only fooling yourself. These players seem quite smarter than the knuckleheads that play WoW who will continue to be milked while features and items that should be included with the sub is being charged extra for.

I expect the same with Diablo 3 with the anouncement of a real life auction house. The morons will buy it and give up their voice to have games without the garbage. You know what would happen if these money grabs failed? That's right, they would dissappear. Support Torchlight 2 and other game companies that have some dignity.

I don't mind a new approach as long as it is still tough in dungeons to succeed. I would hope you could still fail or even more so now if everyone is not playing smart by crowd control and using abilities to reduce damage. It has to be better than WoWs garbage face plowing through dungeons now.

Thanks for the responses. I am a little weary about playing another boring game like WoW since they ruined dungeons with the AOE fest. It sounds like there is more to it in this game though. I will probably pick the game up and see what I think.

Thanks for your response, do others agree with this assessment or have anything to add? Thanks!

Below are some questions I hope some people could answer for me that have played this game to help with my decision to purchase this game.

1. Is there a virtual item shop in this P2P game?

2. How is instancing used in the world?

3. How is travel handled?

4. Are dungeons an AOE fest or is there strategy such as crowd control?

Thank you.

Originally posted by Karnage69

This read was awesome. It captured the soul of Everquest back in its hay-day. Thank you Adam.

 

In other news, I will sadly decline playing this new revival, as I do not agree with any expansion post Scars of Velious. If the server was locked at Kunark/Velious, I would gladly re-sub. But with every expansion eventually being unlocked, I find myself wanting to vomit.

 

Good luck to those who play, I will go back to Project 99.

The best kept secret in the MMO world at the moment. SOE's "try" at a classic type server is laughable. Some of us know where a gem lies between the easy garbage and virtual malls.