Oh look. A game thats been in devolpment for over 6 years with a release date of “When we feel its done” is shipping missing core features (that even blizzard themselves say are core features) to make a deadline.

A couple of questions come to mind.

What has become of blizzard? Am I the only one who remembered them as they use to be?

Since when has it become acceptable to “patch in features that we admit ourselves should be in the game at launch”

Why should I shell out 60 dollars (10 more than is required of all PC games, because we all know that there is no console tax on PC games) for a game that isnt even fully done yet. None of you would buy a car for full price with the back seat missing and a promise from the dealer that they will give it to you at a later date, so why should I have to buy a full priced game with out all the content. I mean, come on. Theres a in game real money AH that blizzard will be making tons of cash on (they openly admit they will get a small 3-5% of the cash per transaction). That may not seem like a lot, but lets pretend half the people who bought Diablo 2 buys this and even half that use the AH regularly. Thats 4.5 million people using a real cash AH.

Why should I buy a game that blizzard themselves are saying “lower your expectations” for. (this quote was taken last month)

Along with the quote above, they where giving the full game out with a year purchase of WoW. blizzard has NEVER in their life given a free game out with anything. Ever. Starcraft 1 came out in 1997 and its still 30$. Starcraft 2 is 2 years old and its still 60$ Shouldnt this, combined with the the rest of the information ive noted, make me feel a bit worried about diablo?

We all know diablo will sell like hotcakes and will get 10/10, 5/5, 2 thumbs up reviews, no matter how bad or flawed it is. Want an example, go play SWTOR. But given all that, doesnt this just feel..wrong?