Time Capsule from PoE Closed Beta -- a classic PoE vs D3 thread circa 2012

I'm definitely going to check both games out...

excited to try this one as the other beta game i can't speak about due to non disclosure, hard to guess i'm sure..

just isn't grabbing my attention

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Ragnar119 wrote:

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Tagek wrote:

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Faerie_Storm wrote:

^not willing to pay $60 for a game I willing never really *own*

What do you mean by that?

You pay for somthing, that you dont own. You can not play the game in offline mode. You depend from blizzard. You can not play when you want where you want. If somthing happens to serves, you can not play, even if you paid for it. That is what he means I think. If somthing happens to blizz (its almost impossible) you can kiss your money goodbye.

This is exactly what I mean by not really owning it. SIngle player online only? nope don't own that. Offline singled player you own, but anything online, no you don't really own it.
If it was a MMORPG, yeah ok I can deal with a one time cost (can't expect everything free) but no way am I paying a subscription to a game.

If Blizzards server for Diablo III go down you now have a $60 paperweight (until they go back up) essentially.

At least for Diablo II it's battle.net ever went down for good, you can still play single player and LAN games ;)

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Faerie_Storm wrote:

This is exactly what I mean by not really owning it. SIngle player online only? nope don't own that. Offline singled player you own, but anything online, no you don't really own it.
If it was a MMORPG, yeah ok I can deal with a one time cost (can't expect everything free) but no way am I paying a subscription to a game.

If Blizzards server for Diablo III go down you now have a $60 paperweight (until they go back up) essentially.

At least for Diablo II it's battle.net ever went down for good, you can still play single player and LAN games ;)

Diablo 1 servers are still up. Diablo 2 servers are still up. I think there is a good probability that Diablo 3 servers will stay up for 10+ years (unless Blizzards HQ gets hit by a meteor or something crazy like that).

No one knows what future will bring, I learned that the hard way.
No matter what, it is not a good thing to depend from someone.

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Ragnar119 wrote:

No one knows what future will bring, I learned that the hard way.
No matter what, it is not a good thing to depend from someone.

Yeah, especially when you pay $60 to depend on someone....

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Ragnar119 wrote:

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Tagek wrote:

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Faerie_Storm wrote:

^not willing to pay $60 for a game I willing never really *own*

What do you mean by that?

You pay for somthing, that you dont own. You can not play the game in offline mode. You depend from blizzard. You can not play when you want where you want. If somthing happens to serves, you can not play, even if you paid for it. That is what he means I think. If somthing happens to blizz (its almost impossible) you can kiss your money goodbye.

so... by this logic a player of PoE is in the same situation, cause PoE's servers can go off too. so none should invest money to microtransactions for PoE, even more since GGG's servers surely are most likely to go off.

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Astrapoys wrote:

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Ragnar119 wrote:

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Tagek wrote:

What do you mean by that?

You pay for somthing, that you dont own. You can not play the game in offline mode. You depend from blizzard. You can not play when you want where you want. If somthing happens to serves, you can not play, even if you paid for it. That is what he means I think. If somthing happens to blizz (its almost impossible) you can kiss your money goodbye.

so... by this logic a player of PoE is in the same situation, cause PoE's servers can go off too. so none should invest money to microtransactions for PoE, even more since GGG's servers surely are most likely to go off.

PoE is a MMO, D3 is not. PoE is F2P, you are not forced to buy anything.

I choose Diablo 2 over PoE. And Diablo 3 we will see how it be after 15.05.2012

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NightSilv wrote:

I choose Diablo 2 over PoE. And Diablo 3 we will see how it be after 15.05.2012

Yes, i chose also d2 complete over PoE beta. But d2 beta over PoE beta? Dont think so.

I think it’s silly that people keep on saying they are only going to play this game or that game. When it comes to Diablo 3 and Path of Exile why wouldn’t you play both? If you’re interested in one of them you clearly like this genre of games, so why not have double the fun and get them both.

And regarding the price of Diablo 3 I’m 100% sure Grinding Gear Games isn’t just making this game for the sake of charity. They also have to make money the same as any business. The approach is just different. I haven’t read up much about how Path of Exile works but I found that In most cases “free to play” games cost the player much more money in the long run than the normal fixed $ the game would have been, that’s why so many companies are using the strategy. In regards to Diablo 3 you could always just grind a bit and sell some items at the auction house till you make the $60 back.

Just my 2c

I’m going to buy and enjoy both of them.