QUOTE(Ibis @ May 1 2006, 10:51 AM)
So when I asked him why Diablo is gone, he just said he's outgrown it. (But, very cleverly, I am keeping my disks - for just in case he feels the call of Diablo again...he can use my account.)
Heh, if he's anything like me he'll be feeling like giving the game a try again after a few months. That's pretty much how it's been for me ever since I bought the game years ago. I play the game for a certain number of months, get the feeling that isn't that exciting anymore and that I should move on, but then after a few months or so I find myself digging through my CD piles looking for the game's CDs.
I can't say that it's the multiplayer part of it that has me hooked, though. I had an account for about a year and a half or so but sometime right after the 1.10 patch came out I couldn't bother myself to keep the account active anymore. Already when I still played online it had become more and more of a challenge to find a decent game session to join. When scrolling through the list of active games I would mostly find stuff like "Offer bugged Tal's set - need good", "Baal run #1214", "LookHere! Noob needs free items!" and similar (do notice that random capitalization and leet speak has been removed to ensure the sanity of the reader). It didn't exactly get any better after the patch...