I have to say.. WTF blizzard.
Okay first of all, my computer was released in december 2010, so it hasn't even been 2 years yet, and my computer is too slow for D3. The issue is that it has an on-board video card which means that it pulls processing power from the CPU in order to have graphics. Even still, the game practically demands a top-of-the-line computer with megatons of RAM, ridiculous video card, and at least an ICore 5 or better. (mine's an Icore 3)
I'm saying WTF to this because when D2 was released, you could practically play on a 10 year old computer with few issues. I played D2 on a fucking basic pentium processor with zero lag.
Another issue I have with this game is the fact that it's severely dumbed down from D2. I created a wizard character, and I couldn't believe that leveling up doesn't grant you the ability to choose to raise your attributes as you please, nor does it let you selectively pick which skills to invest in and how much. Now, when you level, you just "gain new skills" as the game goes on. Fuck that. Now all the characters are straight up cookie cutters. Someone else's high level wizard will end up being almost exactly the same as yours. In D2, a single character had many different ways to build it up. For example, a summon necro was NOTHING like a bone necro, a Javazon was NOTHING like a bowazon, etc.
I should have known this was coming. Video game developers are on a trend to dumb everything down to the point where they lose the older veterans as fans. D2 was something special, and now D3 is just another run-of-the-mill hack n' slash game where all you have to think about now is point and click. Especially for a game released in 2012, they could have done 10x better. This game is total ass and I'm taking this POS game back to get my money back.
Even if I DID like the game, I'm not spending hundreds of dollars on a decent video card and doing open heart surgery on my laptop just to play this game. I've never taken apart a laptop before and I would probably fuck something up permanently.
The online only doesn't even bother me that much, but it's still a major flaw IMO. Not everyone wants to play online.
There are other RPG's out there that are WAY better than this royal piece of crap.
This is what happens when Blizzard hires a brand new team to work on a sequel.