The storyline development is awful but it's not killing the game for me. It's almost like they decided at some point not to take it seriously. It exists in my mind as a general backdrop to lend some sense of purpose to all the mindless slaughter of hellspawn (which is quite good, imo). Lets face it, we don't really need a reason to kill demon stuffs anyway I suppose, most people were going to join the carnage regardless of what the reason was. D3 is a good game wrapped in poor storytelling, I'm assuming they hope people won't care.
Lyrailis wrote:
Anyways, back to Diablo 3...
Yay for downtime with no prior warning. Meh. I was logged on, and having fun with the game when "SERVER is shutting down in 4 min LOL LOL LOL" with no warning other than 4min. Then, I wait 10-15min to see if its restarts and its "Oh, we've been having trouble with 'Retrieving Hero List' ... we're trying to fix it." ... and it took them 20+ minutes to post even That.
I was willing to write off the first couple of days as just a jittery launch, but this is getting sad. The auction house is darn near unusable at peak hours. You find a great item you're exited to get, and click buyout, only to get an error message, and then again, and then again. Then you click on a different almost-as-good piece to get the same thing, and again, and again, and... "oh wait this click is getting though!" Wait... wait... wait... *time out*
. Click again, wait.... wait... wait... *that item is no longer available*
.
FINE!
You give up and switch to waste some time on some character you don't really want new gear for atm. When your new character appears it's all "hey look the auction house button is greyed out now..."
. You log in and start playing again. Ahhh mindless zombie death, loving it... so good... *error switching characters* and poof you're back at the login screen!