I'm absolutely ashamed this game even has the Diablo name attached to it. I'm not even going to talk about all the absurd plot segments and annoying in-game cutscenes.

The primary driving force that makes me want to uninstall this game and never look at it again is that it is designed so that playing by yourself to get your own drops of gear has been very intentionally made next to impossible. It is as bad as trying to hunt rare and epic drops off world enemies in World of Warcraft, or trying to hunt those uber 1/14000+ drops in Phantasy Star Online. Furthermore, as you progress to Nightmare mode and up, the items enemies drop begin dropping further and further below your own current level! It gets to where even if you do get a good drop, its stats are atrocious regardless. On top of that, the stats that can go on it are so completely randomized you will 90% of the time get useless stats that serve no purpose for your class, making the item even more useless. Also, crappy blue items are generally better than RARE or LEGENDARY ITEMS. In fact, legendary items are by far worse than most blue and rare items. What. The. Fuck? Oh, did I mention that magic find does almost nothing in this game? You also can't get good drops off bosses unless you're in Inferno Difficulty, kill 5 elite packs to get the special 'Nephalem Valor' buff up to 5x, and even then you will still get terrible drops, which have only been made even worse. They also just increased repair costs by 500%, reduced the gold you get out of items like jars, pots, and dead bodies, and made it so said things never drop anything besides gold anymore.

You are only able to get anywhere yourself in Hell difficulty by using the auction house since enemy drops become so sub-par you literally cannot kill some champion packs even using your super abilities. This means you get no sense of achievement, and don't get to have any fun hunting your own items, ever! I wish I had known from the beginning to just stack Gold Find so I could farm the Auction House boss who is clearly the real endgame content. With the new repair costs gold will be so hard to come by people will be driven to the Real Money Auction House since farming for gold has been severely damaged, which was Blizzard's intent all along. I felt less punished playing Battle of The Immortals, a free to play Korean MMO, and that is horrifyingly bad to realize. I think I'd rather put money into their Cash Shop over the Real Money Auction House, too.

And I'm not even done complaining yet.

There are no longer skill trees, attribute points, or easily swapping out skills. There's a stupid action bar which is not even able to really be customized unless you discover the ability to put any skill type in any slot hidden in a little checkbox with other mundane options. They have also introduced stupid skills with very long cooldowns that are basically mandatory to kill many champion packs. Long gone are the days you didn't need to have anything like that, but many, many elements of Diablo 3 are taken directly from World of Warcraft, another Blizzard game I have permanently broken up with. The level cap is 60, and you have to be at it to even begin inferno content. Level caps of 60 suuuure sound familiar don't they? The mercenaries in this game are utter trash. They couldn't kill something unless they were to hit it for like 10-30 minutes! You also have even less fun gearing them than you did in Diablo 2, and the bonuses they give you are really, really lackluster. They have also put enrage timers on bosses and even champion packs. This is again pulled directly from WoW to ensure your gold is dropped into the now 500% larger repair bills.

I just...I don't even want to yell about this bullshit anymore. I want the 60$ back I paid for my digital copy, and the 60$ that went into a physical copy I wanted my roommate to install so he could play with me I never even opened. This game is so bad it makes me almost physically ill, and since I was casually playing it it took me a while to start to realize the scam this game is and the building dissent on the forums.

The Diablo franchise ended with the Lord of Destruction expansion for Diablo 2, and even after all these years I am still, even now, enjoying that. So if anyone ever wants to play an IP connect game of that please let me know. It may help me forget all the hours of my time I wasted on Diablo 3 only to have years of pent up excitement and anticipation spat on and ground underfoot by the current Blizzard executives.

Edit- okay I have to get out one last complaint that is too major to skip: Remember how you could put on magic find and get yourself a near full slot filling of uniques and rares and set pieces in Diablo 2 even before hitting level 30? You can't even do that in Diablo 3 before 60 without spending an astronomical fortune. And even at 60 you still won't be hunting them up yourself. The diversity of legendaries and set pieces in Diablo 3 is a mere pittance of what you could find for about every single level requirement in Diablo 2!