I know the "Diablo 3 is crap" threads are getting old, and i am very well aware of my own hypocrisy complaining about this game - while at the same time PLAYING.
(Ask a psychologist WHY i am playing, because, in all honesty, i can't answer you that!)
Basically, i am playing this game since release, many, many hours...but i am more than ready to "quit" realizing what this game really is and what "sort" of players it is intended for:
* 4 days after that lackluster 1.04 patch (which DID improve some things, make no mistake) - i see players boasting their RMAH bought gear on the blizzard forum. See wizards with 160k DPS and complete sets of new legendaries, eg. Skorn, Chantollo etc. - with some people having indeed spent $3000 (that is three thousand) dollars to be able to farm Act 3/4.
Single items, like the new legendaries might easily cost you $150-$250.
I never intend to buy one single item from the RMAH, and ever since release, chances are still more or less ZERO to get one single piece of updates from actually playing the game. Ever since i am playing this game, there was not ONE single loot drop which is an update.
* You can do some easy math: How high are the chances that you, in a reasonable time (weeks, months?)..would get a useable, full set of legendaries with the "right" stats?
Seeing that the game is essentially running hours and hours to get the worst crap loot, over and over, even with 5NV and plenty of MF, i don't see any chance to get good gear without spending real money on the RMAH.
Then..related, which makes you think what would be the purpose of playing the game in the first place if one were to gear up their characters in the RMAH? Just running around in circles, the same levels, over and over..with your RMAH gear (bought from daddy's CC)? Why?
The game is lacking what i miss from MMOs since it only incorporates negatives (bad economy etc.), botting, bad players etc. wanting to be carried etc, from the MMO aspect of it MINUS any and all of the good aspects.
There is no real player interaction (for example healers which could support another class with their skills like in WoW).....classes are "streamlined" in a sense that in D3 each class has the same mechanics. For example, a DH and WIZ are "basically" the same thing with minor changes (INT exchanged vs. DEX) and different spells - but the underlying mechanics are really often the same.
While it is lacking ALL the good components of MMORPgs, no surprise, it also does not have the positives of a single-player game!
The only challenge in the game is in fact the literal "unobtainability" of good gear and the increased difficulties in Act3/Act4...the concept being that now mob HP/dmg are significantly increased while the player's damage is nerfed - which is the actual "challenge".
Fights (for me as wiz) consist of always the same strat of more or less the same monsters, with minor changes - but mainly kiting and running, hoping not to get hit. There is no variety in any way.
I have heard that GW2 is coming now and it MIGHT be a new, better MMORPg compared to WoW etc. (which still needs to be seen) - but in all honesty, even just by reading the previews of GW2 one thing is clear:
A) Spend one time $60 for a game with a true MMORP experience, good character customization, user socialization and interaction - PVP, "PVE", events
as compared to Diablo 3
B) Playing the same cr@p from a top down perspective, over and over, where people buy their "skills" on the RMAH..and spend endlessly grinding cr@p loot over and over in the very same levels in an extremely shallow game which only purpose is to grind endlessly..similar as to people buying lottery tickets each week with basically zero chance to win the promised "first price"..which (according to math) will of course never occur
D3 will never be "fixed", and there is no NEED for fixin' because the "real" fix is to play another game - and i realize this now after realizing what an abomination this game really is.
It's time for a new game with depth, challenges, rewards - nothing of that when you play D3. Admit it, people! Why are you still playing?