Judging by the post rate in this thread now compared to June, I'd say most of us have moved on to something less boring now after realising the amount of commitment required to progress. I know I haven't touched the game for two weeks now, having stalled completely in Act 1 of Inferno.
And it's all because Blizzard wanted a cash cow in the AH/RMAH, making drop rates so low so as not to flood the economy and thus keep prices high. It's a real shame as underneath it's a fun game, but when it becomes such a grindfest, there are too many other fun games out there to persist.
I'm not dissing the game as such, it's the infra-structure Blizzard created around it that killed the fun, which is a real shame.
more likely that now that the games initial period has passed the amount of whiners has now diminished in the thread, if you look back across the posts and seperated the useful posts from the moans im sure you would see half the number of pages.
Im still enjoying D3, but then again i havent rushed through it, had to buy millions of gold worth of gear and then grind for weeks on end to get a single +5 stat increase on a slot.
The people who got burned out in the early period, still got their moneys worth if they look at the number of hours spent for the cost of the game compared to others.
This game will always polarize the audience, some bought it expecting D2 which was never gonna happen, others (myself included) totally underestimated how much the AH would dominate the game.
Why grind for any gear when you can instantly get massively better gear for your level for a stupid price on the AH. Only at inferno levels does gear prices get beyond the casual gamers.
Thats the games biggest flaw. The very essent of the game (the loot) became more about what you could find listed on the AH rather than what would drop from the next mob. It became a game of luck on the AH rather than luck with drops.
Ive played the game slowly (only have one level 60 atm progressing through Act2 inferno, and have loved every minute of it. Now im starting to hit that wall where i really cant progress without spending millions on new gear or hoping for that lucky drop, when your a player who has about 300k gold to your name those upgrades just wont happen without the grind, so ill prob just start a new toon and enjoy a different playstyle.
Got the game with my WOW annual pass and its more than made that worth my while, maybe if the people who had positive things to say had a voice as loud as the people whining then some people on the fence about buying the game may have a better opinion of it but thats a discussion for another day
