I think your clouding things tbh. Most the positive reviews came from big companies that cant review a gae like this in 12-24 hrs play, thats just dumb in itself. Also most D1 streamers bum'd the game so hard, as their income depends on it! lol This makes every1 outside the game think its amazing and much better, the fact is it isnt in many ways. D2 is sold as a game that you HAVE stuff to do outside the weak story. Show me a game with 24-48 hrs gameplay, which has nothing to do after, and i guarentee you t has a story that smacks D2s out the park. D2s story is good compared to D1, which had 0 story cos Activision wanted to rip it apart, charge us for content that was in original game and make more money. Thats a fact You cannot claim D2 will be a success as you have no idea what player numbers have dropped to already, and they defo have, and you have no idea what targets D2 had. Some of it def is fun, and it has some improvements...but its fair to say waves of articles on here arent complimentary and are about things in D2 that are much WORSE than D1. Most of them stem from poor choice or lack of worthwhile activities NOT because people burnt through it, but because of bad set up and planning from Bungie. Faction wars still makes me laugh that that was an 'event' ....wow. Bungie forgot who its hardcore players are, and how best to serve them, and now its only fans seem to be the die hards who refuse to accept its bad inany way. Its madness. I played D1 for months and months play time wise, but i wont justify them changing stuff that wasnt broken and not addressing the stuff that clearly needed upgrading, to at least sit on par with other games over the last decade!