Diablo 3 currently has a user rating of 3.8 out of 10 on Metacritic.

[kane_magus]

How interesting. It was apparently released today, I guess? *shrugs and goes back to not giving a crap about Diablo 3*

(EDIT October 10, 2012)

And now, almost 5 months later, it still has a user score of 3.7. So it's actually gone down a tiny bit. Not surprised.

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(EDIT November 7, 2014)

And now, almost a full two and a half years later (because I just happened across this old post while looking at other stuff), the score has reached the lofty height of 3.9. Still not surprised.

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(EDIT August 30, 2016)

Holy shit, it has finally managed to break 4.0 now. Shocking. /monotone

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(EDIT January 28, 2023)

It has managed to gain another .2 score in the six and a half years since the previous edit. Amazing. Give it another half century or so at that rate, and it may even finally make it to a totally middle of the road 5.

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Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Let's try that again without the pointy brackets being considered html tags! :P

Yeah, 15th it was released. I guess at midnight. Reading the comments in the slashdot article about it, in various cases, shows you how a fuckup (online single player can not, in my opinion, be considered anything but.) like Diablo 3 can still sell copies.

Things along the lines of "This is total horseshit how they make you/limit you to do (specific example) it's totally inexcusable... that being said I picked up a collector's copy at launch anyway because (inane asskissing excuse)."

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most gamers are indeed exactly as retarded as depicted in this Penny Arcade comic, (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/8/8/) which I previously talked about here. (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/506327.html)

(By the way, you can insert brackets into posts like this < > without getting the error by using (ampersand)lt(semicolon) or (ampersand)gt(semicolon), with the (ampersand) and (semicolon) bits replaced with the actual characters of course.)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

The most frustrating thing about all of this though, as you said, is that Diablo 3 is probably still going to do very, very well, financially, despite all the horrendous fuckups associated with it. I wish it would crash and burn, honestly, but I'm sure it won't. It just means we'll be seeing more and more online-only singleplayer games in the future that I'll be ignoring or ranting about incessantly.

[dmjewelle.livejournal.com]

"The most frustrating thing about all of this though, as you said, is that Diablo 3 is probably still going to do very, very well, financially, despite all the horrendous fuckups associated with it."

And to prove that point, everyone I know here bought a copy and took pics of their box and put it on fb. I'm not playing it because I wan't interested in the first place, but it's pretty annoying.