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It's significantly improved, but D3 lost almost the entire PC ARPG market to Path of Exile, which had its initial release around the same time. Blizzard also failed to come up with any ongoing monetization of D3 after removing the auction house, whereas my understanding is that Path of Exile is essentially printing money.

> Diablo 3 got bad press mostly because of its auction house

But it was all balanced and designed around that auction house, so it still impact the whole game, even after a bunch of patches.

It's not a game true to the diablo franchise. released under any name it would've been a great game, but it didn't stay true to what made diablo diablo.

This is exactly why I hate it so much. We didn't get Diablo 3, we got some other game with Diablo branding.

As someone who never played Diablo 1 & 2, I feel that too. I saw people play Diablo 2 and it felt awesome. Playing through Diablo 3 to the end felt... like something was missing.

And how many of the people working on it do you think were in a position to change that?