all valid points, everybody. each one has his or her own reason.
still, the general feeling i get is that of emptiness, of not having much to talk about, in complete contrast to dd.
i sincerely hope & wish that dd2 will bring back that feeling of wonderment, of pure joys and simple pleasures. those were the things i found in dd. as i said in a previous post a long time ago, dd was the game that snapped me out of d2 addiction. it wasn't just because it was new; it was because it was new and a lot more. i wanted a new world to explore (and in dd, it was a massive gameworld), a new skill system to develop (not that you have enough of that in d2), new items to wear and tear my enemies apart with <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />, etc. i wanted to get the feeling of being pleasantly surprised, of turning into a corner and not knowing what evil lurks behind.
dd provided all that & more.