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Gaudin, answer honestly: who pays for the internet in your family? Whose money was used to buy the computer and (possibly) to buy game, movie, and music discs? If your parents pay for all of this, then there is nothing for me to talk to you about.

It was amusing, of course :)
I'll answer honestly. I pay for it myself, of course. And I also own a 3-room apartment, which I also bought myself, a wife who doesn't work, and two children, 14 and 2 years old. I also have a 15-year-old daughter from my first marriage, to whom I pay alimony. By the way, the alimony is more than my ex-wife's salary.
So, what does Diablo 3 have to do with it?

If I work and bought the computer myself, and I pay for the internet myself, then I don't care at all: what am I paying money for!

Come on... Money :) They already gave Russians a discount. They will get the Russian version 2.5 times cheaper than Europeans.
I'm really amused by the posts of those people who are shouting: "I paid money - give me the product, but I can barely imagine what it should be like. Something that will amaze me."
999 rubles – is that the price for a mega-masterpiece? I earn many times more in a day.
Isn't that funny to you? It's very funny to me :)
I always tell my son: don't download garbage from torrents. All sorts of repacks, crap...
If the game is worthy, according to the ratings of official gaming publications (which, as you say, are bought), I will gladly give him money for a license. Games like Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Crysis, BioShock – he has them all licensed, even though I don't even play them myself.

Using the ratings of critics and journalists, paid for by game developers, as an argument, as well as the ratings of teenage nerds, is completely unserious!

The vast majority of these "teenagers" who gave these ratings are under 30, and even over 30. I've been on that forum for over 3 years and I know many of them :)

Answer me briefly to one simple question: how is "Diablo 3" better than the two previous ones?
1. Graphics.
...?

I'll try to be brief, although I'm not sure why I need to.
Who on this forum is interested in Diablo 3? :)
1. Graphics – definitely. Yes :)
You know, I generally perceive D3 as D2 in a new wrapper. I'm playing it... and I have a constant feeling of déjà vu. Nostalgia is overwhelming me :)
The good old days have returned, when you tear your eyes away from the monitor and realize that 3 hours have already passed in a fierce battle.
However, Belial in Act 2 was disappointing. Why did they put such a giant on half the screen in the game.
2. New classes, new skills. The abilities are simply amazing.
Ariputra says that you can't distribute stats yourself :)
But in D2, you didn't need much intelligence to distribute them. A standard scheme, with rare exceptions: strength for gear, dexterity for block, the rest in vitality.
And there were also few active skills. No more than in D3. And here there are cooldowns that prevent you from spamming endlessly.
3. A shared stash for all characters in the account. Hallelujah, finally...
How annoying was the small stash in D2. How annoying was this fuss with mules for storing and transferring items. Many players had a lot of mules: a mule with runes, a mule with gems, a mule with one type of gear, another with a different type. It was a nightmare, in general.
4. Constant connection to the internet.
This is only a plus. You can play from any computer without having to worry about transferring saves. Even in our remote Siberia, there are no problems with this.
5. Achievement system. It's a small thing, but it's nice. Complete statistics in the profile: how much time the character has played, how many monsters the account owner has killed, how much gold has been collected, the highest level of the hardcore character.
So to speak, a "dick-measuring" tool in the profile.
The friend list is great. You always see who of your friends is online and can quickly join the game. And even if you are not in a party, you receive notifications about them getting achievements. And, as if, you are doing a common thing – destroying evil in the Sanctuary :)
6. Hardcore.
I never understood players who proudly stated that they play in hardcore mode, but they have a "chicken" button that automatically removes the character from the game when health drops below 30%.
I remember that in tournaments, we prohibited the escape button. No S&E and portals in the middle of a battle. Fight to the end, run away, or die, but don't exit the game unnaturally.
Here, there is a timer for exiting the game and for a portal. If you try to exit in the middle of a battle, you get a penalty.
7. I like the ability to try out all the character's possibilities, changing the layout of abilities and buffs on the fly. If one tactic doesn't work, try another.
8. There are no bosses for MF (magic find) farming. The days of Mephisto/Pindle runs are gone.
Now you need to farm the entire location, not just one boss.
The loot system is, of course, not great. But I hope it will be improved in the future.

In general, that's it in a nutshell..
In the end, I'll add that I already got so much pleasure from the game that the money flew away somewhere far away and was forgotten.
And this is just the beginning. Only Normal difficulty has been completed. Everything is ahead. Blizzard has already promised patches.
In my opinion, the auction house spoils the game, making the blacksmith and jeweler upgrades useless. But I don't use it and I forbade my son to use it. I want to complete the game with self-found/crafted gear.
And the level should be raised above 60.
But in general, I'm not disappointed.
To be honest, I was very angry at Blizzard for their delays in releasing the game. I cursed and vowed not to buy Diablo 3, but my soul couldn't stand it, I bought it, and all my anger disappeared on the first day of the game.
On the official Blizzard forums, in the Russian section, someone posted a very old whine about the release of D2. Something like, "What a crap, in a couple of months everyone will forget about it."
And people have been playing it for over 10 years and continue to play it.
Where did those 10 million people come from? Who, like crazy, grabbed D3 and under whose onslaught the Battle.net servers collapsed on the first day.
The lion's share of them are D2 players. And a small portion are WoW players who received D3 for a yearly subscription to WoW.

Okay, I've talked enough. I don't have time, I'm at work now :)
I just tried to express my opinion, I don't want to get into holiwars.
Sorry if I offended anyone with my words :)