Friends don't buy friends world of warcraft
349680
This game is worse than heroin. I had a mistake once of giving my account to my nephew as a birthday gift. My sister doesnt speak with me anymore. The game is optimized to get you addicted. The main goal of the creators of the game is that you spend the maximum amount of time playing it. The size of the world for example is optimized so that you can run for the longest time from one side to the other without getting pissed and leaving the game. The game itself is an infinite grind without a goal. They just make any effort to keep you there without any particular long-term purpose.

What you get addicted to is dopamine - a little pleasure hormone that is broadcast around your brain when you receive a reward. This is to let your brain know that you did something good. In normal life you don't get rewarded so often because of real-life constraints. In wow you get rewarded little-by-little every time you kill a little or a big monster or play a player-versus-player game. So you get a little puff of dopamine every five minutes. Our brains are not ready to handle this. This is worse than heroin for them, because soon you discover that you cannot leave this little series of puffs. An addiction develops.

I played this game since 2005. I quit a few months ago and had horrible headaches for a few weeks. The same happened to several my friends. So if you are buying this "product" for someone its better be your enemy. I would NEVER recommend a parent to buy this game for his/her kid. In my opinion they should make this game illegal or put a tax on it like on tobacco or alcohol. At least the government should (and believe me will!) put a warning on this game about its addictive nature. At some point heroin was legal but eventually the law caught up with it.

EDIT: wowdetox is a volunteer-run website that contains 45k+ testimonials of ppl addicted to wow or those who successfully defeated the addiction. Read some before you buy.
1039469
Game is 10/10
Publisher is 0/10
Bioware created an amazing game.  The graphics could easily set the standard for MMORPGs, the audio was well orchestrated, the interface was fine starting out, and the content was what one could expect to be delivered on release.  It had a long shot before competing with WoW, but it could've grown like another Rift.  The game, however fell apart for reasons that I'm not exactly sure of, but I think it revolved around the development team not being honest with their latest patch.

This proves that EA yet again has scammed gamers.  I played Warhammer Online, which was developed by Mythic Entertainment, and published by EA.  EA pulled their support out of the game, left a skeleton crew, and milked it for all it was worth.  That ruined a great game for me.  They released this game through Bioware, and then they screwed it up after I had bought 6 months subscription time.  That's around $70-80 down the drain for me.  Then EA has the audacity to announce another MMO out of thin air, Secret World, and if I'm not mistaken, a remake of Warhammer Online to try to "bring it back".  I'm starting to see a pattern here.  EA releases an MMO, players buy it, then it gets abandoned and thousands if not millions of people are scammed out of their hard earned money.

It pains me to say it but avoid this game.  Avoid Secret World.  Avoid EA, period.  That company is nothing but a bunch of crooks.
1753395
Not a fan of subscription service games, especially where you continue to pay to do extra stuff. (Why I never got into world of Warcraft). I miss the stand alone Stronghold games, still play Crusade today.
1751500
I am not purchasing this game because of the requirements of Steam and Windows live.  I would recommend that all others follow this lead. There is no reason for gaming companies to require an internet connection to play. I buy single player games for play when I do not have a connection available. This new trend makes the game useless to me.  I also oppose the idea on principle.  Our only way of affecting what marketers do as consumers is by choosing how we spend our money.  I for one will not purchase Dawn of War 2 (a game I'm sure I would enjoy) retail to discourage this requirement in future games.
3947998
So sad. Can't play without purchasing Xbox live gold, and I won't let my kids play with strangers online. The marketing online and on the package does not emphasize this.
4012734
Blizzard just obliterated the game in its latest patch. Cutting haste values in half, increasing repair costs by 4x, removing loot and diminishing gold from environmental breakables, increasing loot drops but not making the level of the loot appropriate for the level of the encounter (nothing like killing an elite pack in inferno act 3 to get a level 52 item, with crappy affixes even), and decreasing the efficacy of magic find as a game mechanic - all in an effort to combat the botters and protect revenue from their real money auction house - while penalizing their core audience.  Avoid this game and hold out for Guild Wars 2.
1894585
Blizzard makes great games.

Blizzard knows how online games work, because they have had the number 1 MMO for almost a decade.  (World of Warcraft)

Blizzard's new Diablo 3 requires: (1) connection to their server; and (2) that IN ADDITION to your Blizzard Battlenet account, you also create an additional "Battletag"

I bought this directly from the Blizzard site and it downloaded fine.

In addition to the server issues others are experiencing (if your computer cannot connect to the server, then you cannot play your $60 game), here is what I am experiencing:

I bought, downloaded and launched the game.  It REQUIRES me to make a battletag.  The Blizzrd website where I do that is DOWN.

The Support website is DOWN.

Their telephone support phone number tells you that it's call queue is full, and then HANGS UP on you.

I spend $64 bucks and I can't play the game because THEY decided to require connection to their servers, and their servers are down.

Sorry Blizzard - I am going to request a refund as soon as your stupid Support website is back up.

I am NOT going to keep a game that easily could have been playable without constant connection.

I am a very busy guy and had a 3 hour window to play today, and that window is now SHUT.

Way to screw up, Blizzard.
3962736
Reading through some of the reviews on this game, all I seem to keep on reading is "no single player offline" and the auction house which everyone thinks is a scam for blizzard to make money.

1. Blizzard wants everything online to monitor whats going on in the game the problem with the diablo franchise, from what i can tell you in first person from diablo + diablo 2 experience is that the online scence had a huge cheating problem. The problem arose from people duplicating items and automated bots; so if the only way to fix that problem is for blizzard to monitor all services at once i'm all for it. What we saw in the past was blizzard having to take a stand on people cheating and people having their I.D's banned from online. (So I guess you'd rather just buy another copy of D3? lol)

2. The auction house, i don't know why everyone is complaining about blizzard taking a small fee. (which is only if your useing the "real" money feature/ if you don't want to have a small fee taken then use your in game gold people!). With blizzard taking there small fee it will help keep the service on diablo 3 up to par and will keep the content up to date and new material comming for a longer period.

3. The game overall is beautiful, and yes there was a few errors with the opening launch of the game; but everything has been running smooth since. I for one am just happy they actually made another one I've been waiting 10+ years for it.
443034
I used to be a Blizzard fan, cause they really care about gamers and created multiple wonderful titles.

I have huge anticipation of SC2, and bought on launch.

But to my horror!

No LAN game!
Need to login online to play single player game!
No chat in battle net!

WTF? Since when Blizzard turns to a blood sucker, trying to suck out our hard earn money, by selling 1/3 of the game with less features, with essentially the same game engine.

Please don't buy this one, honestly!
3333736
Completely broke, won't work on my setup.  How did such an inferior product ever reach the market?  Blizzard is really going to suffer due to this release, gamers will no longer trust this company.  Cancel your WoW account now!
2930113
I was terribly upset with the idea of online play. I always thought that Warcraft had that down. Why not leave it to the pros. I enjoy role playing with my friends; however, let's face it, the people that play this may not be the people I want to hang out with. That's just one of the many quarrels I have with this particular version of the game. Some of the other are too many of the rules that were good about 3.5 have changed. Over all, it's terrible; everything that was good about 3.0 has changed, and I believe that this big, steaming, heaping, nutty brown pile deserves to be flushed. I give it an overrated ONE out of FIVE. But bear in mind I can't give it a zero; unfortunately, Amazon won't let me.  .000001/5

P.S. I'm going to play Warcraft.
3494145
I made the mistake of believing that no matter what Amazon would have the lowest price.  And considering the seller was EA, the company that made the game, I was under the impression that it would be the best deal.  This is not the case. I paid 254 dollars and some change to pre-order the collectors edition before finding out that a friend of mine payed 100 dollars less to get it from best buy.  They have since lowered the price to about 150 but also my friend got theirs 4 days ago. I am still waiting on mine and the estimated delivery isn't for another week.  I am pretty upset about this.  I am playing the game on a friends account until mine gets here just to stay sane yet this is bad for the obvious reasons that when mine comes I will have to start over again and two people playing one account means only one can be on at a time.  We cannot play together and it leads to tension when we both want to play (obviously he gets to cause its his).

The game itself though, Amazing in every way possible.  Its like if someone took the two biggest and geekiest things (Star Wars and WoW) and crammed them together into the most epic digital compilation ever to grace cyberspace.
1547892
If you purchase this game used, you will not be able to play it without the email of the first user as part of the activation process. I just contacted THQ, the game publishers, and they said that this game should never be sold used as only the first player can activate the game. A dark trend in marketing control.
1360045
The most important thing to consider here is the fact that you do not OWN this game.  When you purchase the game, you are basically renting it.  There is no way to play the game unless you use Blizzard's server.  That means you have to be logged into their battle.net client, which basically allows them to own your PC.

Now, the game's been out for 17 hours, and supposedly playable.  However, the servers are down, and when they are up, there is unplayable lag.  This would be acceptable I guess, if the game was free.  Paying 60 bucks, and then not being able to use the product is pretty bad.  Simply put, the service here is a horrible disappointment.

The developers could have designed the game for gamers, but instead it's all about dollars.  They could have granted players the ability to play offline in single player mode, but then they wouldn't be able to make money from their spyware client.  This is a testament to the downfall of gaming, and the conversion to the pay to play model for anything.  It's like putting quarters into the machine, after buying the game... but instead of quarters, we're allowing them to data mine us.

On top of that, there is also an auction house that uses real money.  So, essentially, this game is just a client for an online store to spend more money.  This would be fine, if it was free.  But, you pay 60 bucks to submit yourself to this...

You be the judge.
3030037
The game storyline itself is OK, the price, though, not understandable.

First, they don't sell the English version in Korea which is way better in respect to audio. So you are "compelled" to buy via Amazon or like from US - in the way that the customers have to pay for the delivery-rip-off. I enjoyed Starcraft I so much that I wanted to support the company Blizzard that created that kind of high-end product, only this time it was a mistake to think that the company would keep the level of product quality.

Second, the game still has so many bugs which aren't "patched" yet. They release even patches that cause more problems. I'm disappointed by the company policy that the customers will have to pay 3 times for the same multiplayer function which constitute about half of the game fun.

Bottom line is: WAIT TILL THE FINAL PRICE-DOWN OF ALL THREE RELEASES - THE ONLY WAY FOR THE CUSTOMERS TO PAY BLIZZARD BACK WHAT THEY DESERVE.
127516
Lord of the Rings The Battle For Middle Earth is fun and addicting.  Too bad there is no support for Mac or Newer PC's .

Check your system before purchasing.  Also purchase on ebay before here.  Maybe you'll get a better price.

BTW these sellers that are trying to take advantage of people by selling a $30 game for $90 are trash.  Stop taking advantage of people!
39397
Enjoy the game but the free add on was already used for supposedly being new and the game won't allow me to buy other add ons