Fen, some of us know that you are die-hard pesimist and here is no different
I heard? You probably heard wrong, ofc they will pass inferno very soon, it will take them like 90 hours? But who cares, its just a very small group of people, normal players ( even from our community ) will be passing it for weeks ( not to mention random players, they will need months ) and what did you expect, that passing inferno will take a year? Get real, imo it looks hard enough, especially playing without OP monk, try this. Besides, passing inferno one time doesnt mean that you are already gosu pvm player, especially when you are dying 20 times on every inferno champion and thats what will happen, i assure you
Which i find very challenging and annoying, but entertaning and im willing to spend months on farming inferno to find items, which will allow me to play there as it was on diablo 2 hell - easy ( if its possible, probably at some point yes ;p ).
Honestly, I got bored with pvm softcore on diablo 2 after few months too, but PVP wasnt the only reason, why i have spent there half of my life. If u feel you got cheated by Blizzard, that the game is easy, fast and boring - try hardcore. Try to pass nightmare on hardcore and then hell and inferno
Well, thats hell of a challenge !
We can also still count on new patches, quests, dlc, expansion sets, secret lvls, crafting, auction housing ( ;p ) etc.
If all this stil isnt satisfying and interesting for you - just pray for good pvp system in the nearest future
Personally, im sure that i wont get bored with softcore pve till the end of 2012 and im not pve kind of player, not to mention hardcore, which surely is HARDCORE.