Probably... they seem to only have a couple successful franchises that they're riding into the ground. Who knows why Blizzard merged with them. I bet Blizzard will be doing a lot better than activision in the coming years with SC and D3 coming out. But who knows when those games will actually reelase...

Heh, I got TQ a couple weeks ago on Steam and I think it has a lot of advancements over D2 like buying back skill points, moving items between characters through a caravan, way better class / skill system, and a bunch of other cool stuff. Overall I'd say I probably still liked D2 better because of the darker atmosphere but complaining that TQ is a reskin of D2 is like saying the Call of Duty series or Gears of War are Doom clones or that Starcraft is a Command & Conquer clone... Most shooters and rts have as much in common as any ARPG on the market does to D2. They call it belonging to the same "genre". It just happens that in the ARPG genre one game is king and everything else ends up getting compared to it.

Oh yeah - and skill balance is a lot better 2 in TQ. Even after 11 patches the class and skill balance in d2 is pretty bad. All the classes are fun and I've enjoyed playing them but some are just all around better than others and each character has a lot of totally worthless skill trees. It also just sucks how a lot of early skills become obsolete - like with a sorceress you end up saving most of your skill points till after level 30. TQ definitely improved on d2 in certain areas and I hope d3 designers borrow some of those ideas.

Amazing... it had outdated hardware when it released, I can't believe its becoming more expensive

"then there is also the fact there is a ton of games made for the pc. To make it big on the pc your going to have to make a really good game."

Oh really? Like Crysis? That game was awesome and it sounds like sales were pretty dissapointing. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a diehard PC player and I hope the market improves but lets face reality here... this post from another forum pretty much sums it up:

"Not exactly -- Crysis sold about 86,000 in its first month in the U.S., which is a disappointment considerig the game got superb reviews and was arguably the most anticipated PC game of the 2007 fall/holiday season.
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php? [...] 2&Itemid=2

Don't get me wrong -- I don't wish to see Crysis or, any PC game for that matter, sell poorly. I'm glad the game has sold (or shipped, which is a very big difference -- see Halo 3 vs. Call of Duty 4 for more on that subject) 1 million copies worldwide. I just think a lot of folks, including me, expected the game to do better, especially in the states. And that fact that a game like Crysis, with all its hype and buzz, didn't sell more than some of the crappy Wii titles or multiplatform games like Kane &Lynch that didn't have nearly the buzz or reviews that Crysis did...well, that's a little depressing."

Crysis is the best shooter, imo, to come out on PC in a long time and it barely sold a million copies while console shooters like gears of war, halo3, and call of duty are selling 5-10 million. Blizzard seems to be the only hope for the PC market... maybe the release of starcraft2 and D3 will bring us back to the glory days of PC gaming. So yeah, the PC market spawned a lot of great developers like Valve, Bioware, Blizz, Lionhead, Bethesda... except for blizzard they're all moving to console - what does that say? So I guess the next great PC developers are companies like stardock that I didn't even hear of until now that apparently make old-skool budget turn-based strategy games - awesome! I guess if you make stuff cheap enough people will buy it. A couple years ago I would have laughed at the idea of buying a console but now it seems like I'll be forced into it unless companies at least keep porting to PC.

Yeah it sucks - but anyone who thinks the PC market is as strong as it used to be is crazy or stupid. whenn I was in highschool all the awesome games that I was most excited about playing were made for PC - now they just get ported to PC... : (

I played EQ and then WoW for about a year but I got burnt out. Everything in MMOs just takes too damn long. I like being able to just fire up a game and do something in 30mins between classes - in an MMO it takes 30mins just to get into a decent group.

I hadn't heard about TQ until after they announced D3 and I got excited about playing that kind of game again cause everything else that has come out like it hasn't been very good and I don't want to get sucked into another MMO. So I piicked up TQ and its pretty decent except for performance in some spots. The guy from this interview post this on the TQ forum though...

"Some of our biggest improvements will be a rotatable camera that lets you get closer to the action, visual character customization, action-style melee combat mechanics with satisfying enemy-death animations, shooter-like aiming with ranged weapons, a deeper more interactive world and competitive multiplayer."

So who knows - if u don't like point-click combat, maybe you'll like this game. Personally I don't mind it but maybe it doesn't work so well on console without a mouse. I don't own a 360 or ps3 though, so I guess ill have to see if it comes out on PC... or if it even comes out at all