Ok.. well it's good to see a few of you have the same dilemma as me when it comes to choosing one or the other,
a lot of you say you will play both but i really cant do that personally i like to put everything into one game when it comes to this hack n' slash genera then someone mention d2 hacking.
So i think we should bring this into the debate, Hacking in d2 ruined the game, it basically killed online play for me, I'm not sure if they cleaned up battle net but i quit after it became a hack fest. The new battle net will be mostly hack proof i imagine which leads me to next question.
How long will it be before people bring out trainers for PoE after release, being a free game how will they stop this? i hope the dev's are able to combat this or will it just go down the same hack fest road d2 did. I haven't been able to find anything on the forums about this i guess it's still early days but nether the less this will have a big impact on my decision.
To answer original question and this one:
So I would choose PoE, even if it is still under construction, maybe will try D3 free server. Why?
Because it depends on what is it you want. If you want really catchy, nice, perfect, easy, and solid game, maybe you should go for D3. If you want some of that D2 feeling, hoarding, thinking, dying from forgetting about your flask, free to play game, choose PoE. Just because everything late I play(FPS, RPG, etc etc), I play on high difficulty, and after dying 100-200 times, there is just nothing to challenge, and for me, feeling, challenge, and story is more important that everything else. About trainers and so on. Even if this game is free to play, judging on what was at open beta, path that devs are taking, and that there will be microtransactions for non-power things, like expanding inventory, which I will definitely use, means that this game will be supported, not abandoned by creators, and so it is logical that they will take care of anything that is crushing economy of a game.
Easy? See this is why I hate some of you people who apparently choose POE over D3, you don't actually know anything about D3. D3 will be a very very tough game, you'd know that if you actually followed it's developments. Also you say story is one of the most important aspects to you, and you still choose POE?
This seems very contradicting.
And your hatred is readily apparent. Don't you have a D3 forum somewhere, full of people you don't hate, in which to hang out? =^[.]^=
personally I will play PoE over D3. Blizzard is huge. GGG is small. This means GGG will listen to their fan base and wont go off on tangents that have nothing to do with the game in the first place ie. WoW.
What I am trying to say is when you play a game that has a good following and a company who wants to please their fan base you have something real good there.
