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Originally Posted by Phogg
If you read through a number of the two star reviews, you find the lack of broad skill trees which made replay value a hallmark of the first two games is also dissapointing people who expected this to be a bigger, better reitteration of the meme.
The internet connection requirement might be fixable with a patch, but the strait jacketed character advancement pretty much insures that this lackluster offering will kill the franchise.
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Yeah, there are
some reviews that actually discuss the game. The point is that the aggregated score is skewed with people frustrated by what is hopefully only a temporary issue. How useful will that review be six months from now when access is no longer a problem?
Don't want to sidetrack the thread, but... I'm no ARPGer, though I do make an exception for the Diablo franchise. DI It was the first ARPG I played and was a blast, especially LAN play. It was always more action than RPG but if the (reliable) reviews I hear are true, its only getting worse. Sigh. I will probably wait till its a bit cheaper and then give it a shot.
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Originally Posted by Fluribus
My opinion is that book reviews on Amazon are product reviews, not simply literary reviews. Is this item worth your money? That includes all parts of the product experience (excluding extrinsic things like shipping).
If a book is blank, I'll return it assuming that it was a rare problem and replace it rather than give it a bad review. If all copies are blank the product deserves bad reviews.
If a game won't run, who cares how beautiful the art design was?
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I agree with what you up to a point. The log-in problem is temporary though, blank pages are not, and hopefully will not be an issue a few days or weeks from now when demand isn't quite so high. The game is the game, review that (if you can), not the fact that you cannot connect to the servers. Not defending Blizzard, my view on this was in the first post.