10 Character Limit?

Q u o t e:
Basically you dont ever have to level a new character.

You knew that was the case with respecs. Funny enough, even with respecs, leveling characters is fun. There are plenty of games with respecs where people will level many, many characters of the same class, just for the fun of it. And without anything really 'tied' to a character, it's easy enough to dump all items to the shared stash, delete the character, and start a new one.

I will say though it's one area where we're definitely open to expanding, it just seemed like a decent number to go with for now.

Q u o t e:
Please don't make it a "pay dollars for more character slots" expansion. You guys SAID, last blizzcon I believe? I don't remember. But you said that one account per cd key was no big thing, because you can create many more characters per account than you could with D2. And now this... ugh. :\ I get it. Path of least resistance. But now it just feels like playing with cheat codes. I mean sure, it'll be fun. For a while. But why would I ever come back to the game when I know that there is no way to improve my character, no way to work to build something to try something new?

I liked it better where respecs when I thought D3 respecs were a very basic form of forgiveness - that you'd be able to experiment, and to fix things, but only to a point before it got more costly to respec than it did to just make a new guy. The sense of permanency creates replay value and uniqueness. I don't know. I'm disappointed. I don't see myself spending YEARS with this game. And that makes me sad. :\ I love you guys, and I'm just a little depressed about your decisions for this game.

Whatever. I know, that these forums are going to be a #%!*ing hotbed, and that any attempt by you to engage the players that are here right now is just going to be ridiculously futile. Everyone's got their rage faces on and wants answers to THEIR questions, and... it's midnight. I'm sorry dude. I love you guys. I really do. But this makes me sad.

I still think it's early, despite how close we may be, especially considering that we're not going to stop with a box release. If we screwed up and people don't want to keep playing the game, then we'll have to find a way to fix that.