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Path of Exile has an interesting and truly fair approach: their "Mystery Boxes" guarantee a prize at least equal to the amount of credits entered, the average being much higher.

Each box grants you one random microtransaction themed as either Chaos or Order, with value equal to at least that of the box (30 points). The possible outcomes from your mystery box range in value from 30 points all the way up to 320 points! The average reward is worth 110 points, which is 366% of the cost of the box.

Source: https://www.pathofexile.com/fo...

> No mods is supposed to means no cheating in online multiplayer against strangers but yet cheaters still abound

FTFY.

Likewise, the console industry and dumb fanbois remains completely clueless about why PC's kick the ass out of consoles for good reasons:

* Mouse+Keyboard is a superior input combo which blows gamepads out of the water for sub-pixel pefect FPS accuracy with multi-level DPI precision such as the classic Logitech G500s weighted 10 button mouse.

* Dedicated keyboard makes web surfing fun and trivial to reply with long detailed info. to people on forums such as /. and Reddit, not to mention GameFaqs instead of typing on some shitty virtual keyboard.

* No bullshit proprietary USB -- standard Joysticks, Gamepads, and Throttles such as the excellent CH Throttle Pro work awesome in Space and Flight sims.

* Allows the user to pick their favorite case such as the excellent Corsair Graphite 780T

* Online Digital Game stores (Steam, Gog, Origin, etc.) with user ratings give gamers a wide access of games -- consoles are so crappy that they can't even run some of the genres such as RTS's!
  * RTS's such as excellent Starcraft 2, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires 2 & 3
  * RPG's such as the free Path of Exile, World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege 1 & 2, Ultima, etc.
  * Space games such as Master of Orion, Freelancer, Elite, Star Citizen

* Tons of innovate indie games played first on PC; most which are exclusive to PCs

* Allows anyone to make games & content; no shenanigans of overpriced dev kits

* Allows gamers to upgrade to a real GPU such as the GTX 980Ti at their convenience instead of throwing the entire box out

* Aren't overpriced like consoles

* Isn't a gimped 5 year old PC

* Allows anyone to run applications such as Photoshop, Krita, Inkscape, etc., Text Editors for real work such as the excellent WebStorm, etc.

* You decide what software to run not some arrogant third party dictating what is "legal"

* TONS of Emulators to play all your old favorite games!

* Superior 4K resolution @ 60 Hz, not 720p and 1080p wannabe resolutions

* True 120+ Hz framerate not some crappy 30 Hz stutterfest.

* TONS of Mods for your favorite games: Skyrim, Minecraft, Left 4 Dead (SourceMod), etc. not to mention photo realistic graphic ENB shaders such as Skyrim ENB that are a slideshow on consoles.

* Systems aren't obsolete with an artificial console upgrade cycle

* Allows water-cooling for super Over-Clocking of CPU and GPU if desired

* Wide range of choice in Operating Systems: Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD based on what your needs are

/Oblg. /r/pcmasterrace

Yeah a lot people really don't understand the importance of a prototype.

Early screenshots of Path of Exile

Path of Exiles. On Steam. Integrates with your steam account for login & purchases. Free to play! Sales are purely cosmetic, with the exception of an (unnecessary) larger stash. It's what Diablo 3 SHOULD have been!

Stash can go up to over 64,000 tabs. Most people never need more than the (free) default. Really over the top skill-tree. All classes can get any skill in the tree, can use any weapon or armor (if you have the stats from the skill tree), can use any spells. Your class just determines where you start on the skill-tree, and what your quest rewards are. Complexity is as high as you want to make it. There is no gold. Everything is traded for "currency items".

Caveats: If you don't know graph theory, that skill-tree will make you learn. My only gripe so far: To few keybindings for spell-gems. (All spells are socketed gems. Some help connected gems.)

Path of Exiles. On Steam. Integrates with your steam account for login & purchases. Free to play! Sales are purely cosmetic, with the exception of an (unnecessary) larger stash. It's what Diablo 3 SHOULD have been!

Stash can go up to over 64,000 tabs. Most people never need more than the (free) default. Really over the top skill-tree. All classes can get any skill in the tree, can use any weapon or armor (if you have the stats from the skill tree), can use any spells. Your class just determines where you start on the skill-tree, and what your quest rewards are. Complexity is as high as you want to make it. There is no gold. Everything is traded for "currency items".

Caveats: If you don't know graph theory, that skill-tree will make you learn. My only gripe so far: To few keybindings for spell-gems. (All spells are socketed gems. Some help connected gems.)

Path of Exiles. On Steam. Integrates with your steam account for login & purchases. Free to play! Sales are purely cosmetic, with the exception of an (unnecessary) larger stash. It's what Diablo 3 SHOULD have been!

Stash can go up to over 64,000 tabs. Most people never need more than the (free) default. Really over the top skill-tree. All classes can get any skill in the tree, can use any weapon or armor (if you have the stats from the skill tree), can use any spells. Your class just determines where you start on the skill-tree, and what your quest rewards are. Complexity is as high as you want to make it. There is no gold. Everything is traded for "currency items".

Caveats: If you don't know graph theory, that skill-tree will make you learn. My only gripe so far: To few keybindings for spell-gems. (All spells are socketed gems. Some help connected gems.)

Path of Exiles. On Steam. Integrates with your steam account for login & purchases. Free to play! Sales are purely cosmetic, with the exception of an (unnecessary) larger stash. It's what Diablo 3 SHOULD have been!

Stash can go up to over 64,000 tabs. Most people never need more than the (free) default. Really over the top skill-tree. All classes can get any skill in the tree, can use any weapon or armor (if you have the stats from the skill tree), can use any spells. Your class just determines where you start on the skill-tree, and what your quest rewards are. Complexity is as high as you want to make it. There is no gold. Everything is traded for "currency items".

Caveats: If you don't know graph theory, that skill-tree will make you learn. My only gripe so far: To few keybindings for spell-gems. (All spells are socketed gems. Some help connected gems.)

Path of Exiles. On Steam. Integrates with your steam account for login & purchases. Free to play! Sales are purely cosmetic, with the exception of an (unnecessary) larger stash. It's what Diablo 3 SHOULD have been!

Stash can go up to over 64,000 tabs. Most people never need more than the (free) default. Really over the top skill-tree. All classes can get any skill in the tree, can use any weapon or armor (if you have the stats from the skill tree), can use any spells. Your class just determines where you start on the skill-tree, and what your quest rewards are. Complexity is as high as you want to make it. There is no gold. Everything is traded for "currency items".

Caveats: If you don't know graph theory, that skill-tree will make you learn. My only gripe so far: To few keybindings for spell-gems. (All spells are socketed gems. Some help connected gems.)

Yup. Some workarounds needed though. There is a practical 99-pages forum thread on that.

If you want a game that was everything DIII should of been and more you should try path of exile, http://www.pathofexile.com/ .

Try Path of Exile. It's entirely free to play (or as they call it 'fair to play' to avoid the growing stigma), start to finish. The only things you can buy are entirely cosmetic - except extra stash tabs & character slots, both of which as unnecessary unless you're putting a substantial amount of time into the game (trust me, it's generous). Maybe not as flash looking as D3 but far more deep and complex. And, y'know, moral.

Remind me again why I wanted to play Torchlight 2? I remember something about "Torchlight looks cartoonish compared to the teams original works in Diablo 1 & 2"... Then Diablo 3 came out, and seemed to follow directly in Torchlight's cartoon footsteps.

If you want to know what the real "spiritual successor" to the original Diablo 1 & 2 franchises is, it's Path of Exile.

Seriously. I paid $10 for early "beta" test access. The game will be Free-2-Play and support micro-transactions. My $10 donation also came with 100 credits when the online-store goes live.

path of exile is what D3 should have been

$10 to get in on the early closed beta, free to play when it goes live :)

Well another 2 reasons, to go with their leading free to play competitor

Not to mention they probably want to get at least something out before PoE comes out because the games are likely to be in direct competition for customers, and due to the fact that PoE is free to play, it might be difficult to pull people away after the fact.

I mentioned this below and then noticed your request. It is not recent it is future (2011 beta) but Path of Exile looks like an interesting alternative to D3