[Inbred Chocobo]

End game play of Diablo 2: Go run through some of the final acts and kill bosses, and hope for some awesome drops. Maybe do it with friends.

End game play of Diablo 3: Go through a kill mobs to build up a bonus loot drop, then kill a boss. Sort through gear, figure out what can sell on the AH and what cannot. Put things on AH, go through AH list to see if anything of worth can be bought for your character. Sometimes with other people.

OR

Kill mobs to build up bonus loot drop, kill boss. Look through gear, and none that is useful you could vendor, then rinse and repeat. People look at you funny when you mention vendoring the item, since you lost out on a couple million gold by not playing the AH game. Don't play with other people since they will mention how you can buy better gear than what you got, and look at you weird if you don't play the AH game.



Basically, the AH market dominated the end game of Diablo 3. If you weren't using it you were watching people go miles ahead of you if you did random play. So you could single player it and avoid the AH entirely, but it was difficult to do so. Considering that half of your time on Diablo three would be looking at a number chart and a gold chart, you realize that this was not Diablo 3 at all, but an Auction Simulator.