Complaints, gripes, kvetches...

[Xanthippe]

Loot drops always 5 to 10 levels below your character level so that you have to sell it on the AH and buy stuff on the AH.

Funny, this stopped for me right around Act 3 Nightmare. I get all kinds of stuff I can use now (just starting Act 1 of Hell.)

I've played my monk to 60 and thru the end of Hell. The beginning of Hell was tough for me, because I had to upgrade everything from the AH. The drops gods were unkind until Act 3 or so. Since I bought all my stash slots and have been upgrading crafting, I've been constantly broke. So, I'd play Act I until I started getting oneshot by elites, then buy a piece of gear. I'd get a little further, go do some achievements, buy a piece of gear. (Doing achievements is also known as farming but not as boring).

My WD is 53, and at the beginning of Hell. I need to upgrade her gear as well, but decided to level a monk first because I was tired of dying so much. My WD rushed thru Normal and Nightmare with a monk, and was undergeared, and underleveled (I would find gear I couldn't wear).

I outfitted my monk with Exp% gear, and mostly soloed, grouped a little. My WD was often grouped, with no Exp% gear. I don't think I found a single piece of gear that I could not wear on monk due to level. Monk never had trouble with levels; WD did.

There are so many side events that give xp that I'm sure there's a great deal of variation in different people's experiences of leveling and gear (not to mention exp% gear).

I've found a few very very cool items that I can use. One is an awesome yellow level 23 ring that I found that my monk still wears. Another is a 20something helmet that is max in everything that I'm hanging onto for no reason; I'm sure I'll use it on an alt.

99% of what I find is junk, but it was in D2 also as I recall. I also hit a wall in D2, as I recall, often, because I had to farm so I could continue since I only played single player games, and I got bored.  I am a fan of the Auction House in theory, although not a fan of the current implementation with the bugs and so on.

[Trippy]

If you want single player, play old games or ones without a multiplayer mode (Good luck finding those in a few years.)  I can't think of a decent Sp game from the last 5 years that wasn't ruined by multiplayer facet somehow.

You don't get around much, do you?  I know this is hyperbole, but it's absolutely absurd.  Most single player games with multiplayer have had it simply tacked on.  Completely ignorable.  I find it hard to bitch about multiplayer I don't ever play.  

On the flip side, I'm somewhat glad ME3 cajoled me into their multiplayer, so I could get a different shitty ending.  Lots of fun and decently done for a hacked on horde mode.

ME3's horde mode wasn't hacked on, it was something they were planning on for quite a while. They were even working on a ME FPS cooperative multiplayer game after ME2 before cancelling that and folding that work into ME3.

[Rasix]

Ahh, so that's why it doesn't suck.  I usually just ignore multiplayer modes in single player games.  I needed that damn readiness, however.

Btw, you didn't do any of the DLC on your save game you gave me.   

[Trippy]

I know, I didn't want to go through all the EA rigamarole just to purchase the ME2 DLC.

 

[calapine]

Well, the game just broke on me.

When trying to log on to american servers I receive a "Diablo will be updated and restart" message, despite the client being up to date. European servers work fine.
A quick check on offical forums confirms this is a region problem.

I thought the deal with Blizzard games is one buys runs-on-a-toaster-graphic-fidelity and Metzen'ed story, but they make up for it in polish and quality?

Edit:
I have been prowling the forums and here is a fix, if anyone experiences the same issue:

1. Go to
C:\ProgramData\Battle.net\Agent\agent.db for Windows 7 or
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Battle.net\Agent\agent.db for Windows XP

2. Search Agent.DB, open in Wordpad and do a search for enGB.patch

3. Change URL addresses with enGB to:

http://enUS.patch.battle.net:1119/patch

You have to do this 3-4 times.

[FieryBalrog]

Well, the game just broke on me.

When trying to log on to american servers I receive a "Diablo will be updated and restart" message, despite the client being up to date. European servers work fine.
A quick check on offical forums confirms this is a region problem.

I thought the deal with Blizzard games is one buys runs-on-a-toaster-graphic-fidelity and Metzen'ed story, but they make up for it in polish and quality?

Welcome to WoW launch 2.0

I really like this game, but there are SO many launch issues, and a huge part of that is because they didn't beta test it properly. Should have done an NDA'd locked down beta if they were that worried about spoilers. The reason Starcraft 2 had a comparably fantastic launch is because they beta tested the shit out of multiplayer for 5 months.

[Malakili]

I really like this game, but there are SO many launch issues, and a huge part of that is because they didn't beta test it properly. Should have done an NDA'd locked down beta if they were that worried about spoilers. The reason Starcraft 2 had a comparably fantastic launch is because they beta tested the shit out of multiplayer for 5 months.

This is definitely true, the SC2 multiplayer beta was really extensive.  Although the huge majority of the changes that went in weren't technical, but balance related.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Beta_Patch_Notes#StarCraft_II_Beta_.E2.80.93_Patch_1_.28version_0.3.0.14093.29

[Rokal]

I really like this game, but there are SO many launch issues, and a huge part of that is because they didn't beta test it properly. Should have done an NDA'd locked down beta if they were that worried about spoilers. The reason Starcraft 2 had a comparably fantastic launch is because they beta tested the shit out of multiplayer for 5 months.

I doubt spoilers were a big part of it. Two reasons they did not allow a beta test of the entire game:

-hubris
-short campaign

General consensus seems to be that the game isn't as sticky as Diablo 2 whether due to time or design decisions. I doubt they were eager to have a couple million potential customers burn themselves out on the campaign before the game even launched.

[Ingmar]

General consensus seems to be that the game isn't as sticky as Diablo 2 whether due to time or design decisions.

If you say so. That's not what I'm taking away from the discussions on it here (or friends I know who are playing.)

[Rokal]

That's the impression I get from here. "Good game, but it's not hooking me like D2".

[Sjofn]

I didn't finish D2 once. I have rolled through D3's normal three times and nightmare once (working on a second time) and starting on hell. <shrug>

[kildorn]

Yeah, the game has pretty much destroyed my office's evenings. I don't know what game F13 is playing, but I'm glad Blizzard fucked up and shipped me the version of D3 I have!

[Abelian75]

They posted that 1.9% of characters (not players) have reached Inferno.  Also that players have an average of 3 characters each.  While you can't derive the number of players who have reached Inferno from that, around 4% doesn't seem unlikely, which is a fuckload of people to have played through your game a minimum of three times.

[kildorn]

An average of 3 characters?

Christ, I need to get medication for my altitis.

[Fabricated]

I am unironically more interested in drunk-raiding on SWTOR tonight with some goons than I am in playing D3.

[Phildo]

That's fine, since we apparently can't play D3 right now anyway.

[Paelos]

Yeah, the game has pretty much destroyed my office's evenings. I don't know what game F13 is playing, but I'm glad Blizzard fucked up and shipped me the version of D3 I have!

Don't worry, the populace generally likes the game and is playing it a ton. Forum noise is normal. I also happen to love it and I'm playing it daily.

If people are still upset a few months from now after patch 1.1? Different story.

[calapine]

I realise that is yesterdays yesteryears news for everyone but me, but the pictures really astound me. The art direction is so different. Considering this is a 2005 snapshot of an unfinished game I fail to see how it could have been worse compared to what we are actually playing right now.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/05/28/the-diablo-iii-that-never-was/ Old Diablo 3 snapshots

[naum]

My big complaint ATM:

[Soulflame]

Seriously, what the fuck is this fucking shit.  I want to play D3 right about now.

[Paelos]

I will absolutely fault them for this shit. If you're going to make your game internet only to work, it has to fucking work. Server shit on their end is unacceptable in primetime hours.

[ezrast]

Especially on a Tuesday. Like, you guys just had an 8 hour (!) maintenance window to make sure your shit was working. Which it did for 2 hours or so.

[Selby]

Players will now automatically join General chat when logging in

Oh fuck that.  Seriously?  I hate other people and don't want to sit in a chatroom with them.

[Sjofn]

Yeah, I do Not Approve of that change for sure. Plus all the server bullshit, of course.

[ezrast]

I'm innnnnnnnnn.

[Soulflame]

Oh right.  The forced join to the Barrens General chat.  I'm hoping there's a way to set that to off, because that is something I want no part of at all.

[Jeff Kelly]

Forgot that weekly maintenance was on, tried to log in. Had to force quit game because it hung itself trying to log into servers that weren't there. Doesn't even give you notice (like "servers are down because we shut them off ourselves") just gets stuck at he "authentication" bullet point and doesn't react to "cancel".

They did test that shit before they went live didn't they?

I won't even go into the fact that I can't play a single player campaign because servers are down for maintenance.

[Rokal]

Oh right.  The forced join to the Barrens General chat.  I'm hoping there's a way to set that to off, because that is something I want no part of at all.

/leave 1

Unfortunately seems like you have to do it every time you log in.

[Paelos]

Wow. What in the hell made them think THAT was a good decision?

That'll be reversed in a few days.

[calapine]

That'll be reversed in a few days.

I really hope they do. I am getting too old for this.

[Malakili]

Wow. What in the hell made them think THAT was a good decision?

That'll be reversed in a few days.

I recall them saying chat rooms were going to be in, but the problem is that they did these awful chat box style chat for D3.  In D2 I'd often go into chat rooms to talk to people/trade/etc but GOING to the chat room was a separate thing to do in between games, and I didn't get spammed by that chat room when I entered a game.  I don't even mind it auto sticking me in a chat room in the menus all that much, but once I am in a game, it should disappear unless I ask for it.

Also, given the way public games can be joined, the game feels a lot more alive than SC2.  Many SC2 players have complained that the game feels very lonely because the chat rooms are so poorly implemented and there is no way to really interact with the playerbase.  My guess is that is something they wanted to avoid in Diablo 3, but this isn't necessary.

[Jeff Kelly]

Well the national rating boards will have a field day if the Diablo guys add all of the chat features after launch. In WoW the parental control features (that also manage the interactions with others) meant the difference between NC 17 and PG (or their EU game counterparts) and everything it entails (including less regulations regarding sales and advertising)

I also thought that they'd remember the shitstorms "general" created for WoW. Well, reinventing the wheel also means to repeat all of the mistakes, apparently.

[Miasma]

How does general chat even work, it's not like they could put 100,000 people online in Tristram in the same channel, does it just randomly dump you with a hundred strangers you will automatically hate and never see again?

[Rokal]

How does general chat even work, it's not like they could put 100,000 people online in Tristram in the same channel, does it just randomly dump you with a hundred strangers you will automatically hate and never see again?

See? We told you it was an online game and that there was a reason for all the login problems and downtime! The anonymous bigoted assholes talking on your screen are just proof.

[apocrypha]

I had the same problem as you with the patching Calapine. Was something to do with confusion over US & EU versions. Ended up having to uninstall and reinstall, which luckily only took about 30 mins.

For a laugh, here's the patch notes according to the launcher:

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