It's fine at $5. It's easy to shit on the game, but if you go in with the appropriate level of expectation and an understanding of the games development history, it's tolerable and interesting to just observe the totally different directions this game clearly had gone over the years.
I'm afraid to ask for details on this, but also don't want to get burned again. I remember people batting around similar buzz words to the opening 15 minutes of Homefront and when I eventually got around to it, was super underwhelmed and let down. I'm a sucker for story and story telling mechanics in games, but am also not willing to plop down X hours only to be let down. Arg. I guess I'll just wait for a $20 price point and hope for the best.
I don't play it as much as I used to. I kept doing Jailer/Butcher/Graveyard runs in anticipation of patch since Inferno was impossible... now I just can't get into progressing. The AH is a bummer, inflation has killed it for me...
I'd like to see IO Interactive (the minds behind Hitman) take a stab at Naughty Bear. I think the premises behind Naughty Bear is great, but the execution fell flat and was sloppy. I think if IO Interactive could give it the same polish they give Hitman, with the near limitless possibilities Naughty Bear would allow, it could be amazing.
Edit: I'd also like to see Rare get a shot at Raze's Hell.
I think you're spot on that the repair costs are going to drive droves away from the game. I've put about 120 hours into my Monk and about another 20 into a Demon Hunter I was leveling up when I hit the barrier in Inferno. I'm in a unique position where my gear still isn't good enough to handle most of the elite mobs on Act II. Thus, I moved back to act 1 to farm jailer and the butcher.
The gear that drops is still crappy high level gear that no one wants on the auction house so I can't rely on that as a source of income anymore... and I break slightly even after my runs... which is hardly enough to build up enough bank to buy anything in the auction house.
To me, however, what killed the game was Blizzards seemingly lack of response to the gold duplication issue a few weeks ago which caused everything in the AH to skyrocket in price. By not removing the duped gold, the economy got turned on it's head and essentially vast majority of players who were playing legit.
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