Diablo 3 Starter Edition no longer needs guest pass
If you've wanted to try Diablo 3's Starter Edition, but never had a friend who could send you a guest pass code, you can finally give the game a try. Blizzard announced today that anyone with a Battle.net account can now try the game.
If you've wanted to try Diablo 3's Starter Edition, but never had a friend who could send you a guest pass code, you can finally give the game a try. Blizzard announced today that anyone with a Battle.net account can now try the game code-free.
Blizzard offers several ways to get the demo--and don't be fooled, that's all this is--and there are the same restrictions that went with the Guest Pass Starter Edition: You can only advance to level 13, you can't go past the Skeleton King in Act I, and you can only group up with other Starter Edition players. Oh, and no auction house, either real-money or gold.
And even though it is free, you still have to deal with the "always on" requirement. Enjoy Hell.
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replyJohn Keefer posted a new article, Diablo 3 Starter Edition no longer needs guest pass.
If you've wanted to try Diablo 3's Starter Edition, but never had a friend who could send you a guest pass code, you can finally give the game a try. Blizzard announced today that anyone with a Battle.net account can now try the game.-
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you click stuff until dead. IMO Diablo 3 is by far the better game though. People keep complaining because in this normal $60 game you can only have fun for about 100-200 hours until it gets a bit boring and you've seen it all.
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I'm not sure if you were implying that all WoW players played because of it being "built around addiction". I played for numerous years because it was fun as hell. In other words, sure, people who have tendencies to get addicted to things are likely to get addicted to games of these types, but just as where that doesn't mean the game is great, it doesn't mean it's not great either.
As for Diablo 3, I honestly don't know what people expected. I played years of D2 and D3 is exactly what it was supposed to be. The combat is even slightly better than I expected it to be. Sure there are some details they need to work on regarding the loot and so forth, but it's not like D2 is the exact game it was when it was launched, either.
Finally, I'm not saying you'd like D3 if you played more of it, but it is a stone cold fact that unless you've gotten a character to a point where you can choose between the majority of the skills, and have experience at least Hell difficulty, you really have not played the game the people who still play D3 are playing. I found the first two difficulties boring as hell as well, and it's because of this I haven't really started any alts. I'm just having fun trying to progress in inferno.-
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so you either played hundreds of hours of a game that you paid for and didn't enjoy it or you changed your opinion on it after you played it so much. I know what I find more likely - with both wow and d3.
if the game was just shit, like DNF, people just would not play it. instead they expected a magical treasure at the end of the rainbow. The game was fun playing through once, even multiple times. I have no desire to revisit the game at this point and I never gave a fuck about any kind of end game PvE.-
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I put far too much time into it, but there were times when I had a lot of fun. It was mostly in 1.0, before everything started to feel like an over-engineered theme park. I think it probably went downhill when I started raiding.
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I get bored of Diablo 3 after about 5 minutes of gameplay now...hoping 1.4 will change that, doubt it will. But for the preceding 70-100 hours I sunk into it, I really enjoyed it. Worth the purchase for sure.
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with the D3 starter you can play each class for about 30-40 min for free, i don't really see a downside. Playing through the game once on normal was good fun. I enjoyed the story and the bosses. They did a good job on that.
After that, playing through the same levels over and over is boring on it's own. It can be challenging, but it's never that difficult. At lvl 60 either you have the gear to progress or you don't. There are some tactics to learn on the bosses as they get stronger, but it's really about grinding out cash to buy upgrades. -
*I* personally don't feel that D3 has very much replayability, but the first or second play-throughs are fun, because the combat is fun. The story is goofy, the pacing feels off towards the end, the game ends up not feeling very random, and the item hunt isn't very enjoyable. But for awhile at least, it's fun to play.
I think it's a $40 purchase, rather than a $60 purchase. But I don't see the price going down anytime soon.
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