Friend's Thoughts on Diablo3

A post by a friend of mine who bought D3 at the release and has compared how it goes with D2. He's pretty analytical and is a lecturer at a Russell Group university, so I'd take his word for it.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4209822134?page=4#70

"I've managed to dodge most of the server problems and got a DH up to inferno, but have a review related question for all Diablo fans: Why did people keep playing Diablo 2 for over a decade? IMHO there were 5 reasons. 0/ Gameplay 1/ Skill system encouraged you to restart with new chars to see what would happen if you put the stat points somewhere else, and yes it was possible to build a strong toon that way. 2/ Item drop was frequent and it was fun trying to combine unique stuff with the skill choices. 3/ Enough good things were found that sooner or later you'd try another toon type with all the gear you found. 4/ Runes and runewords. What we have left (asided from better graphics) is gameplay. But as for the rest, the game works the same as [World of ] Warcraft. Will people want to play Diablo 3 for another decade? Oh! I forgot to mention inferno... y I did. Kinda sick of being spiked out of nowhere." I hope Blizz will fix it with the expansion(s) somehow.

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