Originally Posted by
Alvarius
That's a complete misunderstanding of why people don't like Diablo III.
Diablo III failed in tons of non-trivial ways, but the ultimate failure was the loot. This is not something that was tainted by "expectations." It was just plain bad.
I won't write a whole long thing about it, but the other failures were things like requiring you to be online, the RMAH driving game design, the barely random levels, storytelling that was too heavy handed and intrusive. It goes on.