Well, I have to admit, I finished the Diablo II exp in round a day... i mean if you add the number of hours i played through it in a span of two days. As for it, I believe what pays off is what you do not really see... which are the items... tremendous amounts of items, new ones, and it has become a whole new different ball game... Diablo II thrives on its replayability, so no matter how you put it, you will feel the expansion is worth it if you are a hardcore Diablo II fan...
I have to agree also about the prices... i mean, We bought the original game, cut us some slack!!! That goes for ToB as well.
Half-Life, Counterstrike is very popular here, and i think its stand alone already... is it? But I know it is as expensive as any other normal game... say like BG2?
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Yukishiro Tomoe