Funny in retrospect
Now we know better, don't we?
I'm still not getting it. Single player lag is a major turn off for me.
Another thing is with the auction house, I wonder how low your chance is to see some items. Remember the Zod rune? Or some other high level set items? How many farming you need to find just one?
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Zod_RuneNow with the new Inferno difficulty, which should be really really hard, you may want those nice high level unique and set items to help you. Or you may simply need them to survive.
But wait, those items are super rare! You can either farm everyday for 5 years and hope you find one, or you can buy from the auction house.
I fear in D3 many items would be so rare, they may as well not exist in the game -- unless you are willing to take out your credit card.
I may still buy D3, but that would be when the emulation servers are very mature (which means many years later). With those people can and will add mods... since the servers are re-created from scratch. So you can say find that item in 5 months instead of 5 years, still require hard work but no longer hopeless. Much more reasonable for people with other things to do, other games to play.