I came here from Diablo 3!!! [Please post here if you did as well!]

I guess I should thank Gay Wilson for his mess up. If D3 wasn't a total failure of greed I would have never come across this gem of a game. I was originally on board for TL2 but needed distraction in the mean time. POE seem to be getting a lot of honorable mentions in the D3 forums.

This game is quickly becoming my main game to play and have TL2 become the off-time filler (cause lets face it, this game is dependent on an internet connection and if there is a time where i am stuck offline I wil at least have one game to try out in the ARPG dept.

Anyway love POE. Best use expenditure of 10 bucks ever. It there are others waiting anxiously for a beta key, I would suggest just forking up the 10 sicne you already paid 60 for a retail beta D3.

It's a real shame that this thread exists. It's an even greater shame that a lot of people utter the phrase "PoE is what Diablo 3 should have been!" How could Blizzard - a company whose games I used to love - fail so spectacularly?
Warcraft 2 was my first ever multiplayer game, Diablo kept me farming for a King's Sword of Haste for God knows how long, Starcraft + Brood War made me really appreciate the RTS genre, and Diablo 2 was just too awesome...
And now? More and more people leave D3 behind, waiting for Torchlight 2, Guild Wars 2 or playing PoE (hopefully the latter ;-)). I still hope that Blizzard will rewrite the game, emphasizing on its strengths and ironing out its flaws, but I wouldn't bet anything on it anymore. I wouldn't even bet on an add-on being released.
Enough ranting for today, but these thoughts make me really sad :-(

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Fartfinder wrote:

If D3 wasn't a total failure of greed I would have never come across this gem of a game.

Unlike many others, I don't think D3 is centered around the auction houses. I think they just made the first three difficulties far to easy for experienced players (maybe to appeal to casual gamers?) - and then they completely botched the endgame.
I think it all went down somewhat like this: They were behind schedule ans wanted to release before the competitors did. So they cooked up inferno without thoroughly testing it for long-term motivation and balance. Thus, they created a game without any long-term motivation except for they most die-hard players. But EXACTLY THAT was the magic of Diablo 2 IMHO: Long-term motivation for hundreds of hours.

I played PoE first, then played d3, was very disappointed, and have come back to PoE :D

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gingervitis wrote:

I played PoE first, then played d3, was very disappointed, and have come back to PoE :D

Same here! haha

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Thyrandor wrote:

So they cooked up inferno without thoroughly testing it for long-term motivation and balance.

Of course they didn't. Some internal testers may have played Inferno and thought: "Wow, it's so hard I can't even reach act 3... well, might be alright for the core players!"
No beta player has ever seen even the second half of act I in NORMAL mode. How could they have tested the rest of the game properly? Thousands of players will always give you better feedback (especially concerning long-term motivation and balancing) than a small group of internal ones.

So, that's what D3 is in now basically: Open Beta with all acts available. It might get better over time, but some flaws are so major and of conceptional nature, I fear D3 will never be the game so many people want(ed) it to be.

i was here before D3 to fil lthe waiting time and see what this small companay of GGG is producing and i thought it is very well. than came D3, first weeks were amazing, best gameplay and still better as PoE i think, but the rest in D3 is too bad anyway, so i come back now to see the new features been added to poe.
hope i can ignore the slow gameplay(play a hunter in D3 and a hunter in PoE and u will see what i mean)

cheers

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hope i can ignore the slow gameplay(play a hunter in D3 and a hunter in PoE and u will see what i mean)

This was a "setback" of sorts for me as well: Things took much more time to kill. However, I quickly adapted to this, now I liek it better than the fact-paced combat of D3 ;-)

came here from diablo 3 which sucked very bad.
hoping to get key soon to see if this game is better