Either Skyway never played d2 or he just played SP and didn't play the MP for a long time.
no stats i presume you mean that you cannot give stats on level up. I explained in previous threads that there is no real point in stats to a game like diablo, because it is mainly meant for MP and players use the same stat build to get the max out of the char, so why bother with stat leveling anyway? Just so you can press a button?
If you mean 'no stats' in general..... press I and open up the stats list, there are even more stats than in diablo 2. You can even toggle floating damage in options.
- skills unlock linearly as you go - no skill tree, each new one is better
Same argument as before, everyone used same char builds , 'hammerdin' , 'orb sorc' etc etc.
Each skill is not better, if you cared to played to lvl 6 you would know there are 'rune' upgrades which powerup your lower skills, so lvl 1 magic missile does more damage than higher lvl skill.
All in all it gives more customization than diablo 2 , because in diablo 2 when you'd hit lvl 80+ everyone would end up with same skill build character. Now thanks to that, you don't have to make a new char to try different build, but you can just customize your char on the fly. If you could think Skyway you would know that instead of sprouting bullshit.