Can nottttttttttt wait, going to play that Demon Hunter Thingy (forgot its name) or a Monk. And then I'm going to take that character to Crashbolts house and steal his computer for ruining the fun.

Ok let me fix that, I see how effed up it is...sigh this is why I don't write when I'm upset and crying..

Anyways, what I meant was, I used to be a member of the Mythos forum and anytime someone would post a off topic discussion that pertained to another competitor's game, it would get deleted.

Also, if anyone tried to ridicule the game in anyway such as point out it's flaws or things that could be fixed, it would also be deleted.

Heck, at one point we weren't even allowed to discuss the open beta of Europe on the NA forum.

So a topic as innocent as, "Whose is looking forward to Diablo 3?" would be deleted as soon as a mod saw it.

GOD YES.

Bloodline Champions is without a doubt more balanced for PvP, but will it ever get a strong following? The USA side of that game is pretty thin these days...

Yeah BLC is sick fun to play. And they don't release champs all the time so I'm content I can play it as a champ that's not overshadowed as long as I want. That's all I expect from balance considering I don't care about getting competitive.

Also the US playerbase allways has been like that sadly :<

(and how would balance make something bland when every skill of every champ is unique; unless you want to roflstomp)

Most are. it's not numbers but rather secondary effects changed. (well casting time and damage numbers too, but that's rather negligable..) Yes it's significant whether your mouse1 attack makes your casting times shorter or if it resets the casting time of one of your damage skills or if it stuns on third hit or if it lifesteals after hitting another ability, etc etc.
Even the couple of counter skills greatly vary in damage and effect. (effects range from aoe blind around you, to stunning and warping behind enemy, to turning invisble and warping to mouse cursor)
The buffs/shields, ranged secondary attacks, movement skills, target ground and aoe skills are rather varied too..
It's also rather balanced.
But hey I don't care about its competitiveness besides watching tourneys.

Of course balance is easier achived in an FPS with 1 gun.

edit:
some things are indeed pretty technical though. like knowing you heal some of the damage taken for the duration of the selfbuff applied when you hit your taunt as vanguard(tank), or what exactly applys those rage stacks on yourself (makes your mouse1 slash knockback+extra damage). or thet vanguard's shield bash debuff (-50% damage/healing) skill is reduced in efficiency if the targets affected are hit with damage skills.*
None of these particular effects are found on any other bloodline though and there are still more skills unique to that bloodline.

*alchemist (healer) has a simmilar debuff, just that it is single target projectile, which starts as progressively stronger slow (till 0%), and upon detonation inflicts 50% damage/heal debuff on target+enemies close to it. (no downsides); and ravener's ult (target ground+movement to loaction+damage) inflicts the effect too.

on the topic of ults, when you get the hang of a bloodline, rarely will you end a round without using it once or twice, even though whenever I see new people they never manage to get enough energy to ult. (Also comes from the fact that new healers somehow never heal enough)

Yeah it's a bit like LoL just with more variety per champion and per skill. And many gamplay aspects are handled completely different. (aim, control skills, mobility, healing; and most importantly BLC is only the teamfight part (no items, mp, laning, gold, whatever), balanced around 3v3)

on the topic of LoL, it isn't so bad but if you want to be efficient you are quite limited in champ selection anyway. (played all champs quite a bit but there's just nothing to do after that; the direct pvp aspect is kept rather simple)
but with the games being longer (and item builds) in general and the huge amount of champs, LoL offers more content even if it's only that.

Anyway, I'd suggest everyone interested in BLC to play it to the point where you know what exactly every ability of just one bloodline does (and able to spam em at least), after that you can judge if every other bloodline offers something new or is just the same thing presented differently.

I was pumped for D3.

Until I learned it used the same B.Net as Starcraft 2.

That vile lump of garbage.

I am not pumped for it because I never played the first two (I personally don't like jumping into games if I've never played a single one in a franchise). Also, it will be stealing my precious Deslare from me. >:

Also- those Mythos guys sound like jerks. But I think it's okay in this forum, considering nick posted a thread talking about other games he's playing, encouraging people to post what they're playing too. >.>

I am still looking forward to D3, but I am a little worried that Blizzard's obsession with overbalancing their games lately might have a negative affect on it.

Explanation of what I mean is summed up well here: http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/overbalanced/

I noticed it in WoW long ago, and I guess it's kind of an issue in SC2 too (I don't play SC2 tho so I don't have any firsthand knowledge if it's true).

But I will buy D3 regardless. I will probably play the Witchdoctor first.