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- Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
- Release Date: May 15, 2012
- Also On: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
User Score
Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 9219 Ratings
User score distribution:
Positive: 2,943 out of 9219
Mixed: 775 out of 9219
Negative: 5,501 out of 9219
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Jul 19, 2012I gave D1 and D2 high scores on another site, but this game is hands down the worst Diablo I've played, don't let some of the decent reviews fool ya, if you played D1 or D2 you're gonna most likely hate this game, if you haven't played either you might enjoy it. I am seriously at a lose for words on this game that is how disappointed I am with it.
Jul 21, 2012
May 15, 2012Started off by having to wait hours before my payment was transferred (kept for hours in queue).
Meanwhile the downloader bugged out on me for some freak reason,getting errors.
After hours of misfortune and eventually got everything running I tried to log-on but kept getting errors like error 37.
This is the worst launch of any game in history. -
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012Worst. Game. Ever. Don't waste your money on this fake Diablo game. At least get something made by the real Diablo crew such as Torchlight II or play something that is similar to Diablo II such as Path of Exile.
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012I can forgive them for messing up the launch. I can forgive them for DRM, but I can't forgive them for making a game that bores me within 30 minutes of playing. Where's the Diablo Magic? It's just bland and repetitive and such a grind. High production values not a game make.
May 15, 2012
May 17, 2012Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
D3 is a horrible game. Do not purchase it.
If you get it as a gift, eBay it for half price unopened, then take the money and buy a real game like Endless Space. -
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May 29, 2012
May 30, 2012Accounts getting hacked left and right like mine. Server issues still after a week or so of launch. Release day was terrible...and for a company who can support MMO launches without a hitch...no excuse for not letting me playing single player.
May 30, 2012
Jun 20, 2012Far too linear, far too easy at earlier difficulties, auction house, silly random loot generation (str/int gear?!), weird loot drops (weird mix of attributes, no sense of progression), oversimplifying the game - limited to only 6 buttons to use while the game offers a great deal of fun, if situational abilities, which you will never use as a result.
Jun 20, 2012If you enjoyed previous installments of this series, you will not enjoy this one.
Terrible story.
Terrible loot.
Terrible time investment to loot ratio.
Frequent patches to prevent anyone from playing the game other than the way they want you to.
No variety of builds in end game. -
Jun 28, 2012The game's story is a joke. Uncharismatic characters, predictable bosses. Do not have an element of suspense as the previous ones. Blizzard promised too much with this game and failed.
The company seemed much more concerned with the auction system than with the game. -
Mar 20, 2013This isnt a game, its a cashcow. Pretty disgusting because Diablo II was great. Go to hell ActiBlizz
Nasty DRM politic, casualized gameplay, everything else is bad, Im very dissapointed. -
May 15, 2012The game is unplayable. This is remarkable since all Blizzard ever said is they are waiting until it is a completely finished product. If it is a completely finished product, then we can safely review it as it stands now. And as it stand now, it is unplayable and worth of a 0/10.
May 15, 2012Sitting at around 60% uptime. Thats a D- where I come from. Graphics are decent but really nothing to write home about these days. This game lost all of it's soul. No character customization .. pay to win RMAH? really? Is it better than 3rd party sites selling stuff? Who cares? it's evil. The only thing they got right was the gore.
May 15, 2012A cheap, cash crop from Blizzard. Everything about this game is not as good as it should be and is made with the pure intent of making money, and not delivering a quality game. You buy items with real money, and can sell items for real money, but with a "Transaction Fee" where blizzard makes more money...
Jun 22, 2012
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012It has been a day and the game at no point has been playable. This is totally unacceptable. I played the beta and it was decent, but having to depend on the random nature of the servers to actually play the thing is intolerable.
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012Diablo 2 with updated graphics, a real money auction house and DRM that prevents people from playing equals one bad game. It's a shame what's happened to Blizzard. Terrible, stay away from this one.
May 15, 2012Probably one of the biggest let downs of the year, When I purchased D3 I was expecting the epic conclusion t0 D2 one of my favorite games of all time. What I got instead was an insane amount of lag and game play that feels about ten years dated. I seriously hope you guys don't consider buying this game.
May 15, 2012Negatives: online DRM and online singleplayer, cartoon graphics and wow style graphics(its like a wow mod), nothing new in gameplay and high price; only positive thing is sounds and musics are from diablo 1-2.
its a big disappointment, i was expecting something different. -
May 15, 2012Purchased. Unable to play. For a game I mostly play solo... Unacceptable.
A team of hundreds of video game's veteran, a budget of hundreds of millions dollars, a name worth a billion : how have you managed to screw this brand that much ? Please, Blizzard. Leave Vivendi-Universal, they hurted you badly. -
May 16, 2012
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012alright, enough is enough. If you are going to release a game online only, make sure u know what u are doing. If you are unsure, then release an offline mode that syncs with servers every so often with online as the main. But this is rediculous
May 15, 2012
Apr 24, 2013The game is a soulless version of what it was supposed to be. This is not Diablo 3, this is a sham. Maybe it was never supposed to happen? Maybe it was dead all along and that is okay, what was given was glorious in its day and it will always have that place in history. Let Diablo die one final time, lay it to rest and say goodbye.
May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012The game itself is probably an 8/10, but the DRM sinks it straight down to a negative score. Unfortunately, I can't give it a negative score, so I have to go with 0 for now. DRM is the hemorrhage of the gaming industry, and it's time developers actually listen to their customers.
Jun 15, 2012
May 17, 2012if you want my review of the game look at koroshiya_ichi review. Gone are the days when blizzard was a gamers company. Now blizzard is just about herding as many casual gamers as possible to play there games. Even if it means abandoning the hardcore gamers that built blizzard to start with. They will not get another penny of my hard earned money.
Mar 17, 2014
May 18, 2012Agree with the other users here. Gold selling within a day of launch. No multi-display support, clunky animations, micro transaction auction house, no world PVP, no innovation from the previous Diablo. Do yourself a favor and get torchlight / torchlight 2.
May 19, 2012Why should I have to be online to play the game in single player? Why should I have to accept downtime for server maintenance for a single player game? If always online DRM is the future of games count me out, epic fail!
May 20, 2012Too many bad things, DRM, graphics, voices, history, gameplay, character customization, wow styled, no rol like diablo series.... hell, 10 years wasted. oh wait, in 10 years they just care about WoW, this game wasnt even developed by serious people. its just a joke.
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Jun 3, 2012Junk,back to diablo 2 .this game is for my kids who have 4 years old.to bad i'd hope to return some old memories like diablo 2 did but this one is, sorry ''crap''i tried to like this game but i just can't.the era when a game is focus on the player and not on the players money is gone.sad man very sad.they taken all.to bad that so many people hat bot it. 0 its a very big note for me anyway.
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Jun 23, 2012Catastrophic disaster. The story is bad, the graphics are obsolete, pay-to-win, takes no skill to actually play the game. And with the latest v1.0.3 they infinitely ruined the game; Repair bills are way too high which forces to grind endlessly. They also nerfed the drop rate of loot considerably so you are force to use the Real-Money Auction House
Jun 23, 2012Absolutely disappointing and uninspired game which simply circles around a casino-system. Blizzard ransacks the chance for properly working game mechanics which would never disturb the always-online-"experience" in order to generate maximum revenues via the real money auction house.
Jul 12, 2012
Jul 16, 2012Game was essentially ruined by the real money auction house due to bots automatically buying all the good items on the gold auction house and relisting them for ridiculously high prices. Players are left asking themselves whether to bother competing with bots on the AH, or to instead spend hours grinding for gold in order to upgrade their gear.
Sep 27, 2012This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
May 15, 2012As others have said, launch day server failures are an embarrassing but enlightening example of exactly how bad DRM is for gamers. Add that to boring, casualized gameplay and you have a shining (or should I say reeking) example of the state of the gaming industry today.
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012Graphics are an absolute shamble. Truly terrible game. Would not buy, pirate or even try.
Please avoid this like the plague. I seriously hope you guys don't touch this game. -
May 15, 2012Truly awesome game! Spent most of the morning playing. The game is not super difficult at first, but as soon as you get into hardcore it gets a lot tougher. I am also eagerly awaiting PVP!
May 15, 2012--> No offline single player
--> No LAN play
--> No mod support
--> Pay for power auction house
--> Can't login because Blizzard allocated a woefully inadequate number of servers for launch
Don't support this trash, wait for Torchlight 2. -
May 15, 2012
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Aug 15, 2012The novelty of this game wears off extremely quickly and becomes a repetitive grind. This holds true when you have to complete the campaign 3 times just to reach the max level.
May 15, 2012Amazing game, very fun gameplay, beautiful graphics and much more. The only downside is the login errors, but they are only temporary since the game just launched, something many people here fail to understand.
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012I know the connection issues and "37 error" are sucks. But Blizzard is working on it too now. Let's just give them some times. The Game is really good and satisfying though.
Just waiting for 1 or 2 days to play this amazing game will worth it. -
May 15, 2012Nothing but an over priced copy of Torchlight but with less freedom to create your character as you desire. Save yourself $40 USD and get Torchlight 2 . All in all this is a buyer beware product and I am ashamed to admit I spent money on this game.
May 15, 2012Overall the game does not meet up the standards in Graphics of today games, the story is kinda good and the gameplay is repetitive and boring, somewhat of a dissapointment.
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012Within 20 hours of trying to start this game I didn't manage to. I saw D3 on my friend's pc and it was... poor. Very easy, faded/blury graphics, automatic skills (are we 5 yo?), average music. D2 is sooo much better (personally, for me D1 is the best). I waited in the line for 5h during the night to get this game. For 20h I try to run it (errors 37 and 75). Sorry Blizzard, you failed. Rate: 0.
May 15, 2012This game is nothing compared to Diablo 1 and 2, Just a big disappointment. THE STORY IS TERRIBLE OMG WHY DID I BUY THIS WHILE SO MANY GOOD TITLES ARE COMING OUT THIS YEAR?
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May 15, 2012This game may have been fun 10 years ago but video games as a whole have evolved so much this rehashed formula just doesn't work. Combat is boring and lacklaster after the first day. Skill system needs improvement. No content after you beat the game. D2 just felt right because it was a technological advancement back then. This does nothing, for video games or for me.
May 15, 2012No connection = No Game
This is a single player game.
DRM epic fail.
Don't waste your money on this joke. Don't let the fanboy's sway you with the 10's they are putting up for a game that they themselves can't login to...lol...login to a single player game. Silly Blizzard. -
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May 15, 2012After half an hour I had to stop playing because of the latency. With a latency of 400ms (standard in my country) there was a delay of almost half a second between waving the weapon and hitting a foe. Totally unplayable. Blizzard, why so little love to the single player?? This has nothing to do with DRM. They wanted to create another WoW but they failed miserably. Reinstalling Titan Quest.
May 16, 2012
Aug 31, 2012My one major complaint is that the game never feels very difficult, especially on Normal. There are frustrating moments, hordes of baddies, and increasing difficulty levels, but the same feeling of utter defeat never really happens as it did in the past.
Jul 18, 2012For all the game's missteps, though, you certainly can't accuse Blizzard of phoning it in - if anything, the game suffers from the tendency to try a little to hard at times to evolve the design. [Aug 2012, p.61]
Jul 3, 2012When it works, Diablo III is the best of the Diablo games. When it doesn't, all it does is make you mad. [July 2012, p.54]


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I gave Tony La Russa a call last night. He didn't pick up. So I texted him and said, "Nice try, RuRu." He didn't answer. I can't decide whether he was more offended by the message or the nickname. Then again, one good turn deserves another and you think it was fun to stand on the 3rd base line for half an hour on Opening Day?
In all seriousness, I don't think the lights going out (and the ensuing 15 minute delay with one pitch to go til the end of the game) was a conspiracy and it's a blip on the map in the long, drawn out and- dare I say it?- torturous win over St. LuLu. It featured some stellar hitting and relief pitching, with Sergio Romo totally redeeming himself and me falling more and more in love with Brandon Crawford. Manny Burriss had a big moment, which made us Manny-ites happy and then there was Nate Schierholtz. What can I say about him except that I still can't spell his name and it's about time! He's finally playing like he should, you know? And it's so gratifying to watch him and a nice revelation from the endless parade of slumping outfielders. Then there was Aubrey. I can't say that might be a sign he's heating up. I'm become a total skeptic about him. I need to see a whole lot more before I'll laugh and talk really fast with the only decipherable words being, "slow starter".
I just realized that this is actually a four game set (why, Bud? Why?) so my eyes will be peeled for any more suspicious stuff at Busch Stadium and I will be praying that Arizona cools off a little before we go out there in two weeks.
Around the league, the Angels team flight had an emergency landing (aaah!) Dodgers have a fire and an unfit parent on their hands (I feel for them. I really do.) and Kansas City had an incredibly sweet proposal which I keep watching over and over, trying to decide if I think it was really a surprise or not. I vaguely think it was all planned. And yeah. Santa doesn't exist. Sorry.
Diamond Girl
p.s. Bye-bye, Ryan Rohlinger and happy travels in the Rockies organization! We'll miss you 'round here.

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