They will talk about it like D2: "I can't believe I wasted so much time clicking or that I believed there was depth in the game"But that's only if the nostalgia has had time to fade. If not the feelings will be more about who we did things with and what was going on in our lives. Rest assured with so many copies sold and players it is a part of our culture and a shared exeperience. Maybe the greater number of asshats in the game and publicly visible will cause things to fade more quickly.But for those of a certain age, D3 is part of growing up, coming of age. Just like D2. It will never be for…

There are 2 kinds of players, those having fun and those lost souls complaining on the forums about how they can't have any fun because they are forced to optimize everything but fun or suffer a fate worse than death in being one of the casual players who ruins the game.This was a rare forum visit from someone having fun.Kudos.

Offhand I can think of a few explanations for this thread:Someone is off their medicationsSomeone is on new medicationsSomeone is mixing medicationsMushroomsGames with Google TranslationsI find the level of surrealism somewhat forced, and the entertainment value not as great as it could be. A noble but disappointing effort. 4/10.

Given the longevity of D2, and the sales of D3 and D3/RoS, the China market and microtransactions there, the value of the franchise is easily into the hundreds of millions if not single digit billions.That Blizzard is not doing much with it in the areas of your concern at the moment is immaterial.If you are looking for a buyer I don't think it would be one that fits your definition of an independent, you're looking for a player that can drop hundreds of millions into the purchase, and successfully monetize the brand over several years to profit.

Work. Conference calls, spreadsheets, and designs.Making a few notes for side projects, probably going to roll my own lightweight workflow framework and a management API and GUI for it. Along with a rules engine that can eliminate some drudgery in one of my current systems. Got a few spreadsheet modules that could be handy, but the time to write and debug them is while long term savings doesn't fit into my schedule. Especially if I keep wasting time on the Internet.

Always online down time, a lack of enforcement of ToS, and a premium pricing? No. Not even with the entertaining community forums.

LOLWay back someone was rabid about the GR globes.I suspect this is a "do re mi... do re mi... Where's fa? Fa, cue!I love it for the meta.

The problem is 1 player completes a task and is rewarded for it versus 4 players being rewarded for 1 player completing a task.Bounties have always needed a must be present. I've just given up on stating the obvious. Bounties have been broken from their first appearance. Rather than fix them they reduced rift costs and increased rift drops. Steer folks away, then entice them back and suddenly all that brokeness is in the spotlight again.Sadly, while Blizz may be an order of magnitune better than players at system level thought and design, they are still an order of magnitude short.

Grok this, the low end is bounded, the high end is not.