Love Starcraft/Brood War
Love Diablo 2
Like Diablo 1
Like Starcraft 2 (although bnet 2.0 is trash)
Like Warcraft 3 pre DotA (dota killed war3's custom map scene)
Neutral to Warcraft 1 (bad A.I. by today's standards, great game for its time though)
Dislike Warcraft 2 (I don't see how anyone thinks this game is better than C+C and Red Alert, two games that came out around the same time. War 2's story is great though).
Got bored of WoW about 5 months after the beta ended (The beta was the best era of the game).
Diablo 3 looks very.....meh to me. I dont see it with staying power like diablo 2 tbh. Gamers for the most part move on after something stops being the "hot topic", especially in the era where game releases are treated like a major event and how people now have social media to conveniently talk about the game with their friends. See: how few of people play skyrim now that its been 6 months.
The RMAH is a key component to the game, and if people stop playing the game after 2 or 3 months....screws over the people who have to use it, and screws over blizzard's bottom line.
People compare Diablo 3 to WoW a lot, and there is many comparisons to be made to WoW. But in terms of community staying power, I think it will be more like Starcraft 2 in the sense that once the game becomes about 3 to 5 months old, there will be fairly large exodus to whatever big game comes out next.
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Pride. Passion. Excellence. Metal_DK
Currently playing: Sengoku Rance, Starcraft II