Blizzard Announces Paragon Levels for Diablo III Endgame

[n3ard3ath]

[citation][nom]reviewer889[/nom]Not sure if you're calling me a fan-boy. I'm stating their mistakes. 2 to 6 are just things they were well aware of when releasing. Totally intentional, not a good move but still not a mistake.[/citation]

No, I'm just saying Fanboys are or were so much in love with Blizzard, that 2 to 6 were still acceptable, if not good to them. While 1 is so over the top stupid, that now everyone is realising how Blizzard is arrogant. Yeah it's a lot about money, but it's more than that. It's about being so self important, that they now feel they can dictate whatever crap they want to gamers.

 

[Prey]

I think in addition to the level cap, there isn't any real reward for leveling up. While new runes become available, they're not better, at least with D2 there ended up being a synergy bonus for older skills.

I think one thing to remember too was the original D2 was short, while it was good and the level cap was higher the game content. When people think of Diablo2, the think of the game and the expansion, if there is a long expansion for this game, it could be good. I just wish you got more for leveling instead of find a build that may work at character level 45 and basically go looting..

 

[n3ard3ath]

What I can forcast now is Blizzard patching the hell out of this this game with "goodies", while maintening the RMHA up, with the crappy item drop till they realize they have no choice to increase the item drop, do it, still keeping the RMHA though. After that all Fanboys will love Blizzard again, and still fall for their next big crap.

 

[RealBeast]

My first impression upon reading the release notes was that the AH will become even worse, with inflation over the already crazy pricing for anything with ANY worthwhile attributes, other than the MF stuff which should drop over time as it becomes useless with the Paragon thing and the MF limit.

 

[bystander]

[citation][nom]n3ard3ath[/nom]No, I'm just saying Fanboys are or were so much in love with Blizzard, that 2 to 6 were still acceptable, if not good to them. While 1 is so over the top stupid, that now everyone is realising how Blizzard is arrogant. Yeah it's a lot about money, but it's more than that. It's about being so self important, that they now feel they can dictate whatever crap they want to gamers.[/citation]
I believe the truth is closer to something else entirely. While they did make some mistakes, or perhaps a lot mistakes (I agree here). The mistakes aren't in the normal through hell levels. The mistakes are all about the end game, something almost no other game has, except MMO's.

The game would still be considered a good game if you weren't a former Diablo 2 fanboy. People are pissed for the lack of long term replayability. If you play through the game and finish Hell only, you get more from this game than most any other game out there. However, if they didn't make so many mistakes, especially what they presented as an end game, they could have had a huge hit, instead they have a good game with limited replayability.

 

[spartanmk2]

In the words of Zoltan Kulle: "How Imaginative."

 

[bystander]

[citation][nom]Realbeast[/nom]My first impression upon reading the release notes was that the AH will become even worse, with inflation over the already crazy pricing for anything with ANY worthwhile attributes, other than the MF stuff which should drop over time as it becomes useless with the Paragon thing and the MF limit.[/citation]
This is all about relativity. As time passes, the AH has gotten a LOT, TONS cheaper for items with the same stats they had a month ago, and a month prior was the same.

The reason so many feel as you do, is that what is considered good is always getting better as more and more items enter the game environment. To upgrade takes better and better items. This leads you to feel like the AH is getting more and more expensive, when it's pretty much the same as it always has been, with equal stat items continuing to drop in price over time.

 

[witcherx]

THIS VIDEO SUMS UP THE NEW PATCH IN 12 SECS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1uGqS2zrH0

 

[audi911]

Guys, what needs to be understood is that Blizzard is a company. They took 10 years to make this game. They put out a game that by graphical standards was already dated. There was no IMMENSE innovation to this game.
They made a game that they knew people were going to buy simply because Diablo 2 was a success.
In knowing that the created a RMAH which they knew before selling the game would give them so much extra money without doing any work.

They didn't make this game for the players they made it as a cash cow to bank on the success of D2.
They knew no matter how terrible the game was people would buy it. They don't care if you play it or not they care if you bought it. It's completely irrelevant to them if you play 3000 hours or 3. You paid for the product.

So in the end the moral of the story is

The company with the even deeper pockets won because you paid them for a product that sucked and they don't care

And the users loose out on their $50 and have a paper weight they might install once every 6 months just because they feel bad they bought it.

And what's worse is people will still buy Blizzard games (like Diablo 4 in another 10 years) in hopes that they will make amends for their mistake.

They know this, they aren't stupid. Blizzard is not frustrated at their mistake I can guarantee you.

 

[w0_od]

as audi911 points out, if you bought the game, you supported them. There is no point ranting or raving about it as a demo and beta was well publicized on its features and gameplay. I did not buy it as i did not think it was worth the time or effort , plus the whole online requirement and RMAH smacked of money gouging.

all this complaining has to stop, you can only make a difference if you vote with what really matters to Blizzard and that is your wallet. Buy torchlight 2 or Path of the Exile or whatever. And FFS do not buy d4 or any other Blizzard product until they actually produce something worth playing.

all this is pointless tho as the majority of gamers are not that discerning or smart enough to realize they are being gouged.

 

[audi911]

w0_od many users feel cheated though and these are the only places where they can voice their thoughts.

I think that's where the core of the raving comes from, people who can only voice their opinions and frustrations here because obviously voicing them to Blizzard won't make a difference because the company as a whole doesn't care about the end user experience. They just care that you bought the product.

 

[bystander]

[citation][nom]audi911[/nom]w0_od many users feel cheated though and these are the only places where they can voice their thoughts. I think that's where the core of the raving comes from, people who can only voice their opinions and frustrations here because obviously voicing them to Blizzard won't make a difference because the company as a whole doesn't care about the end user experience. They just care that you bought the product.[/citation]
They obviously care about the product, or they wouldn't be trying to improve it. That said, they made some poor choices at the start, and it'll be a tough fix now.

And yeah, a lot of people feel cheated, as they thought they were buying an infinite game of replayability. It's still not a bad game if you are not expecting perfection. If forget about finding a game worth 1000's of hours of play, and compare it to what you normally find, it's actually very good, and a very good bargain, price wise, as most $50-$60 games are only worth 20-40 hours of your time. Only those who truly disliked the game, and not just upset that they didn't get another Diablo 2 with endless replay value, are not getting their monies worth compared to most games.