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Here we are five days away from the major launch of Diablo III and I still don’t know if I’m going to get it.

Not that I don’t think it’ll be a good or ever great game, but because of what seems like a plethora of reasons.

Time

It seems so trivial but when it comes to gaming I just don’t have tons of time anymore. I get like an hour a night aside from four-hour casts  on Monday and Wednesday. With a full-time job and a full life at home with a wife and kid, gaming is no longer a thing I can even plan for. I wish I could. I love playing games, especially with this awesome community in GameOn. Ah, but alas time. You foul, sinister bitch.

The Franchise

BOOMER!!!!!

I have almost no familiarity with Diablo. I have a faint memory of dealing with the inventory and  an early dungeon, but that is really about it. Not sure why I never got into the games at all, but it probably had something to do with not really playing PC games very often. Not to mention that in the year 2000 I was in The Navy so that probably had a lot to do with it, too. Consoles were far more convenient and you couldn’t bring a PC on a ship.

Sync

Am I off? Isn’t Diablo another time sync? The less you play, the way worse off you are. There is really nothing worse than being some low-level avatar and having some elite person come in your game with you and just smash everything in your path. There is simply no challenge to that. Not to mention how useless it makes you feel.

Wife

She must be swayed! I haven’t purchased a game in quite a while so I can use that for sure. This is my expected reaction, “A game? What are you going to buy me?” haha

But seriously, I do want the game. I just want to make sure that there will be people to play with me and that they won’t be EPIK LEVULZ and I can enjoy myself over time.

Who’s picking it up?