Diablo is one of those games that I just sort of play on my off time or when I need a break from whatever I'm playing. It gets pretty in depth, but its definitely one of those where you can just kill things for an hour or 2 and you've got your fix TOR will be raping the majority of my free time though lol. It'll most likely be my new WoW.

Sounds like we'll be having some MERC Diablo 3 nights though doesn't it lol?

Don't get me wrong, I love Diablo and Diablo II, but I've never understood how people can play it over and over and over again. I get so bored doing the same few quests in each zone. I'll still be getting Diablo III, I'll just probably never play it again once I've beaten it. However, a fun community (like ours) can make a boring game a lot more fun.

No Crackerbox, you have to think in a different way. Diablo isn't about the quests, it's about leveling and about loot. Tbh I only played the single player one time, ever. I couldn't even get through hell, but in the multiplayer it's all about getting the loot and being the freakin best in all of Diablo history. I played Diablo 2 for.. 3 or 4 years every day, I made hundreds of Mephisto or Pindleskin runs a day just to play a new character and equip him with the best loot possible.

Agreed, there is something therapeutic about mindlessly blowing up wave after wave of demonic hell spawn.

See, I was never able to get into the whole loot grind. Like I said, having people to talk with while I played probably would make a difference.

Well I guess Diablo isn't your type of game then. I love to do hundreds of runs a day and I will do it again.

Yea im looking forward to this game as well, but i don't see it stealing any time away from TOR, not like Battlefield 3 and Skyrim might.

I have to be one of the few people out in the world who have very limited exposure to the Diablo franchise.

I was never a fan of strategy type games like Warcraft and Command and Conquer as I couldn't really keep up the level of play needed to beat those games. I know Diablo is nothing like that, but at the time I viewed it as another Blizzard product and probably a tough one as well so I passed on it. Eventually I did snag a copy of Diablo for the Playstation but I can honestly tell you that disc's barely spent any spin time in the machine.

Once WoW (take a drink) was out for a while I gave it a shot and enjoyed the game as I figured I eventually would, and that led me to get the box set of Warcraft 3. I've come close a few times to getting the Starcraft one.. and at one time almost grabbed the Diablo 2 one (believe thats the set they have out there). I just don't know if I'll grab D3 myself.. as frankly, I'll be happy with TOR, and some Xbox games as they come out later in the year (Skyrim!). I was almost tempted to get Starcraft 2 when I heard about it coming out... but then when I heard they were gonna milk it by dividing it into 3 games I passed on it. Who knows.... maybe if Futureshop (canadian version of BestBuy) puts the Diablo set on for cheap again I might grab it... unless its already dirt cheap.. haven't looked in ages.

Oh.. and cuz I haven't mentioned WoW (take a drink again) to get you more liqoured up, theres the reference again.

Is there a location to sign up for the beta?

Sure, just go to battle.net/ log into your account -> (if you don't have one.. create one!) click on account -> click on beta profile settings on the right and just sign up. You have to download the client to scan your system though and upload the results to the battle.net