Interesting point. I hadn't put much if any thought into this before, but now I'm curious to see what's going to happen.

Having to identify every item is an unnecessary nuisance in the first place. It's not a game-breaking mechanic, who cares if its gone?
1/10 for this thread.

i like the identifying process.
suspense!

Just add an 'Identify' skill. Make it consume a little Mana.

I actually enjoy identifying items, as you don't know what it is, it's like a surprise when you do identify it

I like having unid items!

TBH, it shouldn't have been in Diablo 2. It worked well in Diablo, when you had to fork out some valuable gold, or hunt around for a scroll, but D2 added meaningless currency, a way to make identifying items for free, and tomes. Assuming D3 is the same, there shouldn't be an identification process.

I'm sure that's not what he meant. Monsters drop items but the items are only lootable for a targeted player but can still be any type of item. Like the Guild Wars system, no ninja looting

theres only 1! negative thing about there not being identifying scrolls... cant gamble with rings or ammys i mean its not that big of a deal but its fun to gamble some times buy a unique unidentified item and hope for the best

Improve it. Most people agree we want D2... just a lot better.