Who all is in for Diablo III at launch?

[taggart6]

Reading some of the reviews and rants is really weird to me for this game. So many people raging about how it compares to D2. A lot of the rants seem like they are written by really young kids, but there is no way a really young kid could have played D2 for any period of time.

I sort of get why the WoW forums are the way they are. Makes total sense when you look at MW3 boards and the like. But with D3 it just seems really…weird. I mean, the average age of someone who spent a lot of time with D2 has to be near 30…

I was reading some stuff last night and this dawned on me, and it just felt really weird all of a sudden. The D3 Forums must be made up of mostly men around 30. Go there and read a few posts and tell me that something doesn't feel really weird about that.

Not really sure what you were expecting. I checked the official forums and it seems pretty much what I would expect for a game with overzealous fans and critics. That said, its pretty tame from what I've seen on WOW but I say give it a few days or until the first nerf patch.

[ImaNihilist]

I think he's specifically talking about those who are making comparisons to Diablo 2, saying that those people probably aren't kids.

Yeah, that's what I was saying. Just seemed odd to me.

[taggart6]

Yeah, that's what I was saying. Just seemed odd to me.

But whats odd about it?

That comparisons are being made or that 30 year olds are simply making the comparisons?

[linoleum]

The D3 Forums must be made up of mostly men around 30.

Isn't that the same as here?

[proxops-pete]

Isn't that the same as here?

I barely made that cut! I technically won't next year when I turn *gasp* 40!

[taggart6]

Isn't that the same as here?

That's pretty much my viewpoint. No different from the Fallout 3 vs Fallout 2 comparisons from a few years ago. I figure that was an even bigger age difference.

[Snakespy]

I mean, the average age of someone who spent a lot of time with D2 has to be near 30…

I'm 23 and played the hell out of D2 when I was younger. Pun intended.

[LiquidCrash]

I'm 23 and played the hell out of D2 when I was younger. Pun intended.

27 and I didn't play Diablo much, I blame Counter-Strike for that. I remember getting sad () that a lot of my clan mates stopped playing CS for Diablo when it came out.

[kpxgq]

same.. im 29 and i think i spent 6+ hrs a day playing C:S during the Diablo heyday.. never got a chance to check it out

[SewerUrchin]

I'm 25 and computer couldn't run D2 at the time and no solid internet access, but have a bunch of friends that played the hell out of it. By the time I had those things, my mind was on City of Heroes and a few other games.

On a side note, I played most of the Starter Pass with a Monk tonight and enjoyed it thoroughly. I may actually pick this one up (or at least play through the starter pass with some other characters).

[ImaNihilist]

Just got to Level 10 as Demon Hunter. Freaking awesome. I just walk around dual-wielding machine gun crossbows. pew pew pew

[flutie98]

I just blew through act 3 (normal) last night, I think my brother and I were a bit over leveled and over geared, we took down all the bosses in under a min. Always tons of fun tho, my wizard is amusing with his dual disintegration beam!

[Kamakazie]

My group just got to Act 3 last night. I <3 the game.

[monroeski]

My three friends IRL that play the game (from three different groups of people, they don't know each other) all made Monks.

I think he's specifically talking about those who are making comparisons to Diablo 2, saying that those people probably aren't kids.

Still don't agree. Lots of younger people played Diablo 2, as a few posters in this thread have shown. I was already well into the swing of playing PC games on my Commodore 64 when I was like 3 years old, and was playing the hell out of stuff like Warcraft 2 when I was about 12. People playing Diablo 2 at age 12 would only be 24 by now, and there were surely plenty of people that started playing at that age years after launch. The Diablo Battle Chest STILL sells for $29.99 or so, and the number of sales they're getting to support that price point all these years later isn't only coming from 30 year olds.

Hell, you even likely have a fairly sizeable group of people that were playing D2 in their early 20s that now have kids in their mid- to low-teens that were introduced to D2 very early while their parents were playing it.

[Kamakazie]

My three friends IRL that play the game (from three different groups of people, they don't know each other) all made Monks.

I love my monk.

Still don't agree. Lots of younger people played Diablo 2, as a few posters in this thread have shown. I was already well into the swing of playing PC games on my Commodore 64 when I was like 3 years old, and was playing the hell out of stuff like Warcraft 2 when I was about 12. People playing Diablo 2 at age 12 would only be 24 by now, and there were surely plenty of people that started playing at that age years after launch. The Diablo Battle Chest STILL sells for $29.99 or so, and the number of sales they're getting to support that price point all these years later isn't only coming from 30 year olds.

Hell, you even likely have a fairly sizeable group of people that were playing D2 in their early 20s that now have kids in their mid- to low-teens that were introduced to D2 very early while their parents were playing it.

Yeah, especially considering the fact that Diablo 2 is still highly-regarded and heavily-played, it is a mistake to think that any fan of the game is near his 30's. I was originally going to argue that I'm not 30 and I played D2 when it first came out and then I remembered I'm almost 28. XD