Here's How Diablo 3's New Challenge Rifts Work

@rawbee1988: ROFL.

Diablo 3 player base in RoS is strong. There's no "empirical data" (just lol at your use of this in an informal debate like this, seriously get real), so it's anyone's guess how many people are online until Blizz decides to clear that up. In the absence of truth, biased fucks, like you, will use their imagination to fill in the blanks, right?

But before you do, consider this:

1 million unique players for PoE in December 2016. That's including alts, smurfs, etc., on that F2Pgame.

PC version of D3 has sold 30 million copies. Each season, it only has to see 3% of them return to beat that. And it's a PAID game.

Still think D3's dead? Make your inferences, and tell me again who the downs is strong with? LOL

But if you want to get into a public game and play, you will have zero issues doing so. If you want to join an active clan with many members, you will have zero issues doing so.

You guys who want to hate D3 so hard are adorable. And the arguments you use are so flimsy it's sad.

But I guess it must couldn't be anything but sad that a game with so much "depth" (read, shit you fidget with that has marginal impact on the game) gets the shit kicked out of it so frequently by a new season, or the re-release of a character originally around 20 years ago.

I guess PoE needs all that crap to compensate for the crap gameplay. D3 is just fun and doesn't bog itself down with that.

@Raidendude153: I'm glad you mentioned "ironic, blissful ignorance" after mentioning shit that was removed from the game years ago, like that argument is still relevant.

Hey, I know! Let's talk about the shape PoE was in while it was in beta, with it's garbage animation and non-existent end-game, and pretend like that's a fair assessment of the game now!

Let's absolutely talk about the RMAH, and how it was removed years ago!! It's a great segway to talk about how much forum gold the average PoE player buys on D2Jsp RIGHT NOW.

Grats on that 1k point skill tree; I'm glad dumping a point into a passive with almost zero noticable effect on how your character plays excites you. I'll gladly take my "MMO lite" skills that have a dramatic impact on how my character plays and how they synergize with gear. I prefer MMO lite skills to MMO auction house simulators like PoE.

Enjoy a system that wastes your time and requires hours of inventory management. I enjoy the reverse ratio of gameplay to inventory fiddling in D3.