My wife, someone who love to dive into systems, skill trees, synergies and all the tiny minutiae in games like D2, completely loathes D2 compared to D3 due to the overly boring game play compared to all the other stuff involved.. She actually prefers D1 over D2 of the old ones. She hopped on the D3 train with the annual pass, and fell in love with the genre, but thinks D2 is a worse game overall. And yes she has play all three to completion on the hardest difficulties with all the classes and multiple specs. So she knows here shit about the games. This is not someone who had 12+ years of D2 history and while D3 was her first, she has lobbed plenty of criticism towards D2 early on.