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Nah D2 and the expansion had plenty of difficulty, the new D3 is easy as fuck, which is partly why alot of people didn't like it (me included). They eventually allowed you to skip playing through the story and start having more difficulty faster, but it's still pretty freaking easy even post game.

D2 LOD though, had plenty of difficulty especially till you got some really good equipment/rune words etc. You could make it much easier by trading, farming GC's etc, but it still was hard as balls by Hell difficulty and not all characters could make it there.

D2 was the perfect mix of having enough difficulty to make building a good character worthwhile, make farming/finding good equipment very rewarding etc, and that was just to even finish the game fully (forget end game content etc).

Each char you made, you got to see how far you could take it. The internet was around back then (in fact it was one of the main boards I posted on) but not like it is today, so people experimented themselves and had real fun with the game, as in thousands and thousands of hours. I have no clue how anyone plays thousands of hours of D3, but people do.