"No one will remember if the game is late, only if it's great."
I have to 100% disagree with this statement. When people look back at D3, they will of course remember, oh ya, this is the game that took forever to come out, this is the game they would never commit to a release date. People will tie this game with the likes of dare i say 'Duke Nukem Forever'. Lets just hope it isn't the pile of poo that game was. This company will forever be remembered as the company that takes forever to release a game. I could care less though, i'll play it when it comes out. But the general population will be thinking the above.
The general population would play the awesome game, not giving a thought if it were released march or june. They would remember if the game sucked when it finally hit the shelves. I totally support Jay on that comment.
Exactly.
Also, does anyone remember that WoW was hugely delayed? Yeah... didn't think so...
Keep in mind everything detailed in the article today is already in the game, and most of it is complete. Once you get Patch 10 and see that, I think it may sink in that these aren't theoretical changes we're still working on, they're changes we've completed. Obviously the potion button still needs a little work to hook it up correctly, and the character attribute changes need to be balanced and tested for itemization throughout the game, but overall these are changes we've already made.
I do not intend to impress that we're close to release, or infer any such "we're <-- this --> done" kind of statement, but most of these are fairly straightforward changes that are already complete and implemented. We do have more changes, skills and runes, affixes to add, more items, Battle.net features, testing, testing, and more testing etc. to do so we're obviously still not there yet, but none of the changes detailed today are theoretical or yet to be implemented.
so calm the F down lol. all they have to work on is skill/runes for the next few months to release the game, so they can stop focusing on all that stuff cuz its DONE.
why does everyone ignore the big yellow part? Bashiok said its not close to release.
Yeah, thank you, exactly. Calm down? First of all he says "not close to release".
Secondly, the changes that he DIDN'T detail but mentioned are being changed (skills, runes, etc.) could EASILY take months and months and months.
You know who needs to calm down? It's the Blizzard employees. They need to quit maintaining this nostalgic, normative view that every one of their releases was perfect or some shit like that. Every one of their games is awesome, but there is ALWAYS something, even some huge mechanic of the game, that needs to be adjusted afterward. It was true of Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft 1 and 2, of WoW and every WoW expac that has come out, and it will be true of Diablo III. No matter how long they spend tweaking and fiddling and fixing and fucking driving us insane with delays it will NOT be perfect on release. Period. They need to get over themselves, and realize that it's much more realistic to say "We want to make a bad ass game, WITHIN THIS PERIOD OF TIME." Having a carte blanche, don't have to answer to anyone, take as a long as you need is ultimately counterproductive.
At this point I smell Q3, as much as it breaks my heart to say it. Why? Because that's exactly how they're talking right now. The words they're using smell of months and months of development left.
So either they're lying to us, or they can still say "yes "early" 2012". It has to be one or the other, not both.
You make a very logical and good point sir!
But my point will be:
1. They're trying to make as much money as possible off WoW before D3 comes out for the simple fact that "D3 will cause WoW to $%#^ the bag" (No more WoW (well very little compared to D3)) WoW is there huge money maker!
2. Go $&*% females because once D3 comes out that will go down quite a bit for most
3. No matter how long D3 takes we will all buy it. So hurry up and wait because %^$#&in about it isn't solving anything!
EDIT: These points are not for you specifically but to everyone
Its so wonderful to see people are finally getting it.
Blizzard will re-iterate and re-iterate their own shit to death before they let it get out from their own ass. None of the changes detailed in that article were really big "game changers" especially not big enough to delay the release (admit it naysayers!). And EVERYONE was perfectly fine with the original skill/rune system where you take an alabaster rune and put it in a skill to get permutation of said skill. It was Blizzard that decided it needed changing NOT the fan base.
If Jay Wilson really listened to the feedback as he said he does then they should have released the game as what 90% of the population believes.
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Blizzard used to care about releasing Diablo III, then they all took an arrow in the knee...
Thanks WishedHeHadBeta for posting this, I think most people blew it a bit out of per portion. All this shit is already in the game. The post just sounded like they are implementing these in the game now. It's also Jay's fault for not clearly saying that this is already in the game and that people must chillax.
I'm just raged that this is what supposedly delayed the game...
Thanks WishedHeHadBeta for posting this, I think most people blew it a bit out of per portion. All this shit is already in the game. The post just sounded like they are implementing these in the game now. It's also Jay's fault for not clearly saying that this is already in the game and that people must chillax.
I'm just raged that this is what supposedly delayed the game...
No one is that mad about the current systems delaying, we're mad that they are still hard at work on deciding what the rune/skill system will be which should've been decided on months ago and at the latest begun testing now. The fact he had nothing to say on runes/skill system and in fact said it isn't ready to even be shown means they are falling far behind.
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Its so wonderful to see people are finally getting it.
Blizzard will re-iterate and re-iterate their own shit to death before they let it get out from their own ass. None of the changes detailed in that article were really big "game changers" especially not big enough to delay the release (admit it naysayers!). And EVERYONE was perfectly fine with the original skill/rune system where you take an alabaster rune and put it in a skill to get permutation of said skill. It was Blizzard that decided it needed changing NOT the fan base.
If Jay Wilson really listened to the feedback as he said he does then they should have released the game as what 90% of the population believes.
Jay listens to the feedback. He's not obeying the whole fan base.
Let me put it this way: If I were to release something with so high expectations for so many people around the world, i would not just say. "I still don't seem to like it, well fuck it, i'll just put it out anyway" How big a franchise blow would that be? If the game needed two more months of "polishing", or whatever, i would delay it two months.
I would say those were semi-big game changers. New stats system, salvage system, inventory UI system etc. But as Bashiok said, these changes were already done. Big enough to delay release even more? Probably not, as you say.
Everyone fine with the rune system? I guess Jay (and the rest of the dev team) wasn't. And 90% is heavy numbers.
As I said, they WILL reiterate this game to death because they have no clue when to stop. Jay Wilson is a terrible lead designer and an even worse leader.
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i blieve they are at the end of the polishing stage, i say this becuase most of the changes are stuff trimmed out which is usually done right before the final polish phase, the only thing that bothers me is the rune and skill system but i will assume it is actually in the works and they are just waiting for it to be finished so they can announce it and i think the game is going to be released in april .
about the article, i can understand some changes they made like the removing mysticand scroll of identify, making whites useless, townportal and the potion button?? even removing CoJ and NC,
but why change the attributes?? i don't understand it at all!! tying Damage and Armor/Dodge to the same attribute sound like a fail to me.. why not make a fifth attribute called Attack or Damage.
in the end i recall a quote from blizzard " it can only end with dissapointment "
So uhhhmmm hurrr durr we uhhh hate potions lawl you gon be usin health globes and fuck town poartals lol u aint escapin from fites like u did in Diablo 1 and 2 lol
Jay Wilsons Post:
Okay uhhhmmm so like we gave a dedicated potions button cause in stressful situations where you arent killing or are being killed you arent gonna get health globes so now you can drink some potions but TRUST ME DIS ISNT TO BE SPAMMED ITS NOT CHAIN DRINKING POTIONS LAWL U JUST DRINK 1.
And uhhhmmm well the stone of recall lol dats just town portal so HERE YA GO
OH AND IDENTIFYING CAN NOW BE DONE BY ANYONE AT ALL TIMES LOL.
"Wouldn't that mean our characters inherently understand all lot and the process of identification is just wasting our time as players?"
UHHHH WELLL... WELLL UHHH.
"If our characters can identify it by *looking* at it, aren't they doing that as they see it on the ground and pick it up and store it already?"
UHH WELL IT TAKES SOME TIME LOL BUT U JUST RIGHT CLICK ON IT DATS IT
"But I was used to using identify scrolls and or talking to Cain. It gave me something to do with items. Why would you change a system that no one had issues with."
WELL JUST UHHH RITE CLICK AND IT TAKES 5 SECONDS.
"But using a fucking scroll or talking to Cain was INSTANT..."
WELL UHHHH UHHH
ANYWAiz
Scrol lof town portal aint in the game but we're just givin you a ubtton that allows you to do it lawl screw stone of recall u kno we just wanted to change shit but anywyz uhm
White items are now useless we just want tons of useless shit to drop so its more exciting when u find super rares u kno?
"No."
Well uhhh, just, you know feel it out.
"Whats that mean."
Well just deal with it cause tons of useless shit is dropping.
"That wont make finding an item even more exciting. The exciting item itself is what does that. Nothing dropping at all can make something dropping exciting no matter what it is, whereas dropping tons of whites doesnt do shit for us."
WAYELL UHHH IN D2 LOTS OF ARROWS AND BOLTS DROPPED SO TOUGH
"Yes but..."
ANYWYZ DATS IT WE GOT TONS OF SKILL AND RUNE SHIT TO FIX SO SEE YA IN 2013.
"...."
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"When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then given views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities"
So uhhhmmm hurrr durr we uhhh hate potions lawl you gon be usin health globes and fuck town poartals lol u aint escapin from fites like u did in Diablo 1 and 2 lol
Jay Wilsons Post:
Okay uhhhmmm so like we gave a dedicated potions button cause in stressful situations where you arent killing or are being killed you arent gonna get health globes so now you can drink some potions but TRUST ME DIS ISNT TO BE SPAMMED ITS NOT CHAIN DRINKING POTIONS LAWL U JUST DRINK 1.
And uhhhmmm well the stone of recall lol dats just town portal so HERE YA GO
OH AND IDENTIFYING CAN NOW BE DONE BY ANYONE AT ALL TIMES LOL.
"Wouldn't that mean our characters inherently understand all lot and the process of identification is just wasting our time as players?"
UHHHH WELLL... WELLL UHHH.
"If our characters can identify it by *looking* at it, aren't they doing that as they see it on the ground and pick it up and store it already?"
UHH WELL IT TAKES SOME TIME LOL BUT U JUST RIGHT CLICK ON IT DATS IT
"But I was used to using identify scrolls and or talking to Cain. It gave me something to do with items. Why would you change a system that no one had issues with."
WELL JUST UHHH RITE CLICK AND IT TAKES 5 SECONDS.
"But using a fucking scroll or talking to Cain was INSTANT..."
WELL UHHHH UHHH
ANYWAiz
Scrol lof town portal aint in the game but we're just givin you a ubtton that allows you to do it lawl screw stone of recall u kno we just wanted to change shit but anywyz uhm
White items are now useless we just want tons of useless shit to drop so its more exciting when u find super rares u kno?
"No."
Well uhhh, just, you know feel it out.
"Whats that mean."
Well just deal with it cause tons of useless shit is dropping.
"That wont make finding an item even more exciting. The exciting item itself is what does that. Nothing dropping at all can make something dropping exciting no matter what it is, whereas dropping tons of whites doesnt do shit for us."
WAYELL UHHH IN D2 LOTS OF ARROWS AND BOLTS DROPPED SO TOUGH
"Yes but..."
ANYWYZ DATS IT WE GOT TONS OF SKILL AND RUNE SHIT TO FIX SO SEE YA IN 2013.
"...."
"But I was used to using identify scrolls and or talking to Cain. It gave me something to do with items. Why would you change a system that no one had issues with." = Gospel
"That wont make finding an item even more exciting. The exciting item itself is what does that. Nothing dropping at all can make something dropping exciting no matter what it is, whereas dropping tons of whites doesnt do shit for us." = Agreed
Hahaha! Mite turn this into a webcomic and post it on my Blog! i actually can picture them responding like this.
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So uhhhmmm hurrr durr we uhhh hate potions lawl you gon be usin health globes and fuck town poartals lol u aint escapin from fites like u did in Diablo 1 and 2 lol
Jay Wilsons Post:
Okay uhhhmmm so like we gave a dedicated potions button cause in stressful situations where you arent killing or are being killed you arent gonna get health globes so now you can drink some potions but TRUST ME DIS ISNT TO BE SPAMMED ITS NOT CHAIN DRINKING POTIONS LAWL U JUST DRINK 1.
And uhhhmmm well the stone of recall lol dats just town portal so HERE YA GO
OH AND IDENTIFYING CAN NOW BE DONE BY ANYONE AT ALL TIMES LOL.
"Wouldn't that mean our characters inherently understand all lot and the process of identification is just wasting our time as players?"
UHHHH WELLL... WELLL UHHH.
"If our characters can identify it by *looking* at it, aren't they doing that as they see it on the ground and pick it up and store it already?"
UHH WELL IT TAKES SOME TIME LOL BUT U JUST RIGHT CLICK ON IT DATS IT
"But I was used to using identify scrolls and or talking to Cain. It gave me something to do with items. Why would you change a system that no one had issues with."
WELL JUST UHHH RITE CLICK AND IT TAKES 5 SECONDS.
"But using a fucking scroll or talking to Cain was INSTANT..."
WELL UHHHH UHHH
ANYWAiz
Scrol lof town portal aint in the game but we're just givin you a ubtton that allows you to do it lawl screw stone of recall u kno we just wanted to change shit but anywyz uhm
White items are now useless we just want tons of useless shit to drop so its more exciting when u find super rares u kno?
"No."
Well uhhh, just, you know feel it out.
"Whats that mean."
Well just deal with it cause tons of useless shit is dropping.
"That wont make finding an item even more exciting. The exciting item itself is what does that. Nothing dropping at all can make something dropping exciting no matter what it is, whereas dropping tons of whites doesnt do shit for us."
WAYELL UHHH IN D2 LOTS OF ARROWS AND BOLTS DROPPED SO TOUGH
"Yes but..."
ANYWYZ DATS IT WE GOT TONS OF SKILL AND RUNE SHIT TO FIX SO SEE YA IN 2013.
So uhhhmmm hurrr durr we uhhh hate potions lawl you gon be usin health globes and fuck town poartals lol u aint escapin from fites like u did in Diablo 1 and 2 lol
Jay Wilsons Post:
Okay uhhhmmm so like we gave a dedicated potions button cause in stressful situations where you arent killing or are being killed you arent gonna get health globes so now you can drink some potions but TRUST ME DIS ISNT TO BE SPAMMED ITS NOT CHAIN DRINKING POTIONS LAWL U JUST DRINK 1.
And uhhhmmm well the stone of recall lol dats just town portal so HERE YA GO
OH AND IDENTIFYING CAN NOW BE DONE BY ANYONE AT ALL TIMES LOL.
"Wouldn't that mean our characters inherently understand all lot and the process of identification is just wasting our time as players?"
UHHHH WELLL... WELLL UHHH.
"If our characters can identify it by *looking* at it, aren't they doing that as they see it on the ground and pick it up and store it already?"
UHH WELL IT TAKES SOME TIME LOL BUT U JUST RIGHT CLICK ON IT DATS IT
"But I was used to using identify scrolls and or talking to Cain. It gave me something to do with items. Why would you change a system that no one had issues with."
WELL JUST UHHH RITE CLICK AND IT TAKES 5 SECONDS.
"But using a fucking scroll or talking to Cain was INSTANT..."
WELL UHHHH UHHH
ANYWAiz
Scrol lof town portal aint in the game but we're just givin you a ubtton that allows you to do it lawl screw stone of recall u kno we just wanted to change shit but anywyz uhm
White items are now useless we just want tons of useless shit to drop so its more exciting when u find super rares u kno?
"No."
Well uhhh, just, you know feel it out.
"Whats that mean."
Well just deal with it cause tons of useless shit is dropping.
"That wont make finding an item even more exciting. The exciting item itself is what does that. Nothing dropping at all can make something dropping exciting no matter what it is, whereas dropping tons of whites doesnt do shit for us."
WAYELL UHHH IN D2 LOTS OF ARROWS AND BOLTS DROPPED SO TOUGH
"Yes but..."
ANYWYZ DATS IT WE GOT TONS OF SKILL AND RUNE SHIT TO FIX SO SEE YA IN 2013.
"...."
LOL Thanks for that man. Really needed to laugh a little bit after today.
OH AND IDENTIFYING CAN NOW BE DONE BY ANYONE AT ALL TIMES LOL.
"Wouldn't that mean our characters inherently understand all lot and the process of identification is just wasting our time as players?"
UHHHH WELLL... WELLL UHHH.
"If our characters can identify it by *looking* at it, aren't they doing that as they see it on the ground and pick it up and store it already?"
UHH WELL IT TAKES SOME TIME LOL BUT U JUST RIGHT CLICK ON IT DATS IT
...
White items are now useless we just want tons of useless shit to drop so its more exciting when u find super rares u kno?
"No."
Well uhhh, just, you know feel it out.
"Whats that mean."
Well just deal with it cause tons of useless shit is dropping.
"That wont make finding an item even more exciting. The exciting item itself is what does that. Nothing dropping at all can make something dropping exciting no matter what it is, whereas dropping tons of whites doesnt do shit for us."
The point is so you can sell/trade unidentified items. Sometimes players do this instead of IDing them because if it it not identified, it has the possibility to have the best mods, so people buy them.
And yes, searching through piles of crap to find that one good item (if you ever find it) is exciting. They had the exact same concept in D2 and I feel that from personal experience when those gold/green letters popped up it was exciting. Even appropriate rares.
We got a big announcement for you over the system changes!
System Changes:
"We took out some shit and decided to give you potions and town portals." "Oh and the shit we took out caused us to have to take more shit out because that shit was based on the shit we took out. Trust me. We're making progress. Now, we only have the important things left to do. Like Rune and Skill changes. Sorry, we can't talk about that though."
"What do you mean this should've been fundamentally designed from the start? We've been building this game for 3 years, some stuff can change!"
"What do you mean 3 years and we're just now changing this stuff? We never planned a release date!"
"What do you mean we basically told everyone in consecutive posts Late 2011 and now Early 2012? lol, stop listening to us we have no clue what we're talking about. But we can post absurd "system changes" documents that really don't detail a single system change at all."
DIABLO 3 WORK BOARD:
New post when everyone walks in the door to work
SYSTEM CHANGES DEFINITION: Removing shit. Adding useless item drops.
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"When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then given views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities"
So what in the hell are they even doing in development right now? They told us absolutely nothing in that post. They're working on the rune system and can't say a single thing about it? There is no hope for this game.
So what in the hell are they even doing in development right now? They told us absolutely nothing in that post. They're working on the rune system and can't say a single thing about it? There is no hope for this game.
They told us that "Skill and Rune" changes are what are actually important, and that they can't tell us anything about that.
I'm done caring about Diablo 3's release date.
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"When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then given views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities"
Keep in mind everything detailed in the article today is already in the game, and most of it is complete. Once you get Patch 10 and see that, I think it may sink in that these aren't theoretical changes we're still working on, they're changes we've completed. Obviously the potion button still needs a little work to hook it up correctly, and the character attribute changes need to be balanced and tested for itemization throughout the game, but overall these are changes we've already made.
I do not intend to impress that we're close to release, or infer any such "we're <-- this --> done" kind of statement, but most of these are fairly straightforward changes that are already complete and implemented. We do have more changes, skills and runes, affixes to add, more items, Battle.net features, testing, testing, and more testing etc. to do so we're obviously still not there yet, but none of the changes detailed today are theoretical or yet to be implemented.
so calm the F down lol. all they have to work on is skill/runes for the next few months to release the game, so they can stop focusing on all that stuff cuz its DONE.
why does everyone ignore the big yellow part? Bashiok said its not close to release.
This is just simply not true. The part in yellow is NOT saying that the game isn't close to release. This is Bashiok's disclaimer, saying that HE IS NOT INFERRING that the game is close to release.
He does not want to get yelled at by making this post, so he is giving these encouraging words in a non-official manner, so he won't get kicked in his ass when someone says "WELL BASHIOK IN THAT POST YOU SAID THE CHANGES WERE ALREADY COMPLETED...SO THE GAME MUST BE DONE SOON.."
The point of this post is to let everyone know that they don't need to freak out about the vastness of these changes.
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Was WoW announced 5 years before it came out?
You make a very logical and good point sir!
But my point will be:
1. They're trying to make as much money as possible off WoW before D3 comes out for the simple fact that "D3 will cause WoW to $%#^ the bag" (No more WoW (well very little compared to D3)) WoW is there huge money maker!
2. Go $&*% females because once D3 comes out that will go down quite a bit for most
3. No matter how long D3 takes we will all buy it. So hurry up and wait because %^$#&in about it isn't solving anything!
EDIT: These points are not for you specifically but to everyone
Blizzard will re-iterate and re-iterate their own shit to death before they let it get out from their own ass. None of the changes detailed in that article were really big "game changers" especially not big enough to delay the release (admit it naysayers!). And EVERYONE was perfectly fine with the original skill/rune system where you take an alabaster rune and put it in a skill to get permutation of said skill. It was Blizzard that decided it needed changing NOT the fan base.
If Jay Wilson really listened to the feedback as he said he does then they should have released the game as what 90% of the population believes.
I'm just raged that this is what supposedly delayed the game...
No one is that mad about the current systems delaying, we're mad that they are still hard at work on deciding what the rune/skill system will be which should've been decided on months ago and at the latest begun testing now. The fact he had nothing to say on runes/skill system and in fact said it isn't ready to even be shown means they are falling far behind.
As I said, they WILL reiterate this game to death because they have no clue when to stop. Jay Wilson is a terrible lead designer and an even worse leader.
about the article, i can understand some changes they made like the removing mysticand scroll of identify, making whites useless, townportal and the potion button?? even removing CoJ and NC,
but why change the attributes?? i don't understand it at all!! tying Damage and Armor/Dodge to the same attribute sound like a fail to me.. why not make a fifth attribute called Attack or Damage.
in the end i recall a quote from blizzard " it can only end with dissapointment "
So uhhhmmm hurrr durr we uhhh hate potions lawl you gon be usin health globes and fuck town poartals lol u aint escapin from fites like u did in Diablo 1 and 2 lol
Jay Wilsons Post:
Okay uhhhmmm so like we gave a dedicated potions button cause in stressful situations where you arent killing or are being killed you arent gonna get health globes so now you can drink some potions but TRUST ME DIS ISNT TO BE SPAMMED ITS NOT CHAIN DRINKING POTIONS LAWL U JUST DRINK 1.
And uhhhmmm well the stone of recall lol dats just town portal so HERE YA GO
OH AND IDENTIFYING CAN NOW BE DONE BY ANYONE AT ALL TIMES LOL.
"Wouldn't that mean our characters inherently understand all lot and the process of identification is just wasting our time as players?"
UHHHH WELLL... WELLL UHHH.
"If our characters can identify it by *looking* at it, aren't they doing that as they see it on the ground and pick it up and store it already?"
UHH WELL IT TAKES SOME TIME LOL BUT U JUST RIGHT CLICK ON IT DATS IT
"But I was used to using identify scrolls and or talking to Cain. It gave me something to do with items. Why would you change a system that no one had issues with."
WELL JUST UHHH RITE CLICK AND IT TAKES 5 SECONDS.
"But using a fucking scroll or talking to Cain was INSTANT..."
WELL UHHHH UHHH
ANYWAiz
Scrol lof town portal aint in the game but we're just givin you a ubtton that allows you to do it lawl screw stone of recall u kno we just wanted to change shit but anywyz uhm
White items are now useless we just want tons of useless shit to drop so its more exciting when u find super rares u kno?
"No."
Well uhhh, just, you know feel it out.
"Whats that mean."
Well just deal with it cause tons of useless shit is dropping.
"That wont make finding an item even more exciting. The exciting item itself is what does that. Nothing dropping at all can make something dropping exciting no matter what it is, whereas dropping tons of whites doesnt do shit for us."
WAYELL UHHH IN D2 LOTS OF ARROWS AND BOLTS DROPPED SO TOUGH
"Yes but..."
ANYWYZ DATS IT WE GOT TONS OF SKILL AND RUNE SHIT TO FIX SO SEE YA IN 2013.
"...."
"That wont make finding an item even more exciting. The exciting item itself is what does that. Nothing dropping at all can make something dropping exciting no matter what it is, whereas dropping tons of whites doesnt do shit for us." = Agreed
Hahaha! Mite turn this into a webcomic and post it on my Blog! i actually can picture them responding like this.
This is great. Make this post a sticky
LOL. Do it.
"We gots a big announcement next week. Make sure you get excited so we can just lol at your disappointment"
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
LOL Thanks for that man. Really needed to laugh a little bit after today.
And yes, searching through piles of crap to find that one good item (if you ever find it) is exciting. They had the exact same concept in D2 and I feel that from personal experience when those gold/green letters popped up it was exciting. Even appropriate rares.
System Changes:
"We took out some shit and decided to give you potions and town portals."
"Oh and the shit we took out caused us to have to take more shit out because that shit was based on the shit we took out. Trust me. We're making progress. Now, we only have the important things left to do. Like Rune and Skill changes. Sorry, we can't talk about that though."
"What do you mean this should've been fundamentally designed from the start? We've been building this game for 3 years, some stuff can change!"
"What do you mean 3 years and we're just now changing this stuff? We never planned a release date!"
"What do you mean we basically told everyone in consecutive posts Late 2011 and now Early 2012? lol, stop listening to us we have no clue what we're talking about. But we can post absurd "system changes" documents that really don't detail a single system change at all."
DIABLO 3 WORK BOARD:
New post when everyone walks in the door to work
SYSTEM CHANGES DEFINITION:
Removing shit.
Adding useless item drops.
They told us that "Skill and Rune" changes are what are actually important, and that they can't tell us anything about that.
I'm done caring about Diablo 3's release date.
This is just simply not true. The part in yellow is NOT saying that the game isn't close to release. This is Bashiok's disclaimer, saying that HE IS NOT INFERRING that the game is close to release.
He does not want to get yelled at by making this post, so he is giving these encouraging words in a non-official manner, so he won't get kicked in his ass when someone says "WELL BASHIOK IN THAT POST YOU SAID THE CHANGES WERE ALREADY COMPLETED...SO THE GAME MUST BE DONE SOON.."
The point of this post is to let everyone know that they don't need to freak out about the vastness of these changes.