Out of Pod Experience

First a rant about Diablo

I took a week off of this game to go play Diablo 3; let's just say you would appreciate CCP a lot more right now if you took the time to play Blizzard's latest game. Seriously, just do a google search for "Diablo 3 Error 37" or "Diablo 3 Hacked." There are so many bugs and security concerns with the game right now it's not even worth playing. Blizzard's response? Nothing, just ignoring players for the most part. Oh, they do try to push blame for the security problems onto players, but then professional game reviewers (from PCGamer, etc) also had their accounts compromised; these are people who play games for a living and have never had any other security issues with other online games . Something is obviously off, but Bliz is just keeping their mouths shut and continuing to blame players.

Not too mention they completely watered down gameplay and ruined the Diablo franchise storyline. The game was even released WITHOUT PvP, and only a promise to patch it in "hopefully" by the end of 2012. It took Blizzard 12 years to make that game, and it really is a huge disappointment to anyone who played D2. It's literally the first video game I have wanted to return in years. It's that bad, and the worst part is they don't acknowledge fan feedback, because most feedback comes from 13 year old WoW players who can't form anything logical to say.

Now onto why CCP is awesome

I logged into EVE for the first time since D3 came out last night and downloaded the new patch. Sure I can see why some people are complaining (took me 2 minutes to realize the item hangar\ship hangar buttons are combined), but honestly the game is just fine. At least you can log in and play it, unlike Diablo 3. At least you don't have to worry about random security issues of people compromising your account, like Diablo 3. At least CCP doesn't try to blame you for everything, unlike D3. I have been watching player-rage threads popping up, and I have also witnessed CCP coming out swiftly to acknolwedge player feedback while promising revisions to the current new content.. At least CCP didn't take 12 years to make one game that completely ***** on a franchise you have fond memories of.

So come on people, stop raging and proudly display your hardons for CCP. At least if you're quitting, can I have your stuff?

You describe why I refuse to give Blizzard any more of my money.

It's not the same company who made Warcraft, D2 or the original WoW. They're a clone of EA now where what they release is to meet a bottom line.

One of my biggest draws to EVE was watching the fanfest videos and seeing how the developers are involved in the community. Arenanet seem to be taking cues from CCP and are doing similar with Guild Wars 2. Hence, I have it pre-ordered and am waiting patiently for it's launch.

I did not get SC2 or D3 because blizzard has lost touch with it's players. If CCP ever loses touch with us, I will leave this game also.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the average coherence of a post made by a Blizzard backer. Not even going to bother to respond. The Battle.net community changed for the worse when WoW was released

So what you're saying is by not sucking as badly as Blizzard, CCP is therefore excellent?

I disagree. Excellence is not relative.

Confirming that Diablo 3 is a bad game. First play through was great. After that, its boring as hell.

If you loved everything about Diablo 2, you are gonna hate Diablo 3. It's just a bad game. Why do I need to be online to play a singleplayer game? Thats just stupid.

You're very correct, but it does make me appreciate CCP a lot more

Meh. Diablo 1 was the best in the series anyway.

ROFL. I have to wait more than 7 days for one EvE ticket, and while WOW is relatively bug-free (never lost loot or items as an example), it does happen in EvE, and even if you proove CCP's mistake, they don't care at all.

Don't want to say that EvE is not a brilliant game though.

when they were about to release D3 I reinstalled D2 and reminded myself why I wasn't going to buy D3

I had been getting disconnected from d3 at least once every five minutes alongside the error. It was fairly consistent, and it would continue without any period of time where I could stay logged in for more than those few minutes.

Blizzard told me that the problem would correct itself if I joined the spammy in-game general channel and not to leave it or else my connection problems would return.

I scratched my head, wondering how in the world this could possibly make it so that I could remain connected.

I then logged in and joined general channel, which immediately greeted me with non stop spam from other players, as well as gold seller adverts.

I was then able to remain connected without a single disconnect.... Well until I forgot to join general chat again upon logging in the following day.

......I'm still very confused over it all.