Possibly a marketing tool to calculate extra clicks per page and encourage the banner advertising space?, Just throwing that out there. The layout design does strangly lead your eyes up towards it from your usual buttons down the bottom.
I'm not sure why all of you are still speculating? I quoted the former Blizzard employee who created it (or at least had a hand in creating it) where he says it was just a joke because it looked like a button.
I can post the source link as well as the link to his blog post verifying his identity, though as I said before moderators would likely be upset as it is a website of questionable ethics.
It's about as definitive as you are going to get. The chatgem function has been so widely theorized and tested with no conclusive results... If somebody still believes it has a real use (especially after what I posted) other than to be a joke, then they are delusional.
Just saying.
Ben Boos simply said that him and some other people made it for a joke. Some programmers added "a little mischief to it" and says that it is supposed to make something happen when you click it enough (IE perfect gem, etc). While I guess this is open to interpretation that the programmers added another functionality to it (INCREASED MAGIC FIND. MORE GEM SHRINES IN EACH GAME), you have to be kinda dumb to believe it. My 2 cents.
Edit: If by the site you mean the D3 site, then that is easily explained. Blizzard has always paid attention to the internet buzz. They do it all the time in the Warcraft universe, and isn't unheard of in the Diablo one as well. Most often it is simply a fun way to pay homage to an idea. Sometimes they actually take something that was entirely rumor (cows in D1) and put it in the game (one map with all cows on it in D2).
I've always believed the Diablo gem is an inside joke that the developers have continued to chuckle over for years. I really don't think it does anything and I hope it stays that way with Diablo 3
I don't hope it stays that way. But yes, Blizzard should just admit that the chat gem never had a purpose.
By the way, I never got the perfect gem activated message.
I remember looking at a page about diablo 2 calculators and read that people had gained access the the game source code. Wouldn't one of them have just went through the code and figured if there was a purpose for the gem?
I remember looking at a page about diablo 2 calculators and read that people had gained access the the game source code. Wouldn't one of them have just went through the code and figured out if there was a purpose for the gem?
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after reading through the first post and never having seen perfect gem activated. i decided to boot up and enter chat and give it 1 more try
well upon my first click it read, "perfect gem activated"
I can post the source link as well as the link to his blog post verifying his identity, though as I said before moderators would likely be upset as it is a website of questionable ethics.
If that's all he said I would have agreed, but he added:
And if all it did was nothing, why would they have bothered puting it on the site? No definitive answer was given, in my opinion.
Just saying.
Ben Boos simply said that him and some other people made it for a joke. Some programmers added "a little mischief to it" and says that it is supposed to make something happen when you click it enough (IE perfect gem, etc). While I guess this is open to interpretation that the programmers added another functionality to it (INCREASED MAGIC FIND. MORE GEM SHRINES IN EACH GAME), you have to be kinda dumb to believe it. My 2 cents.
Edit: If by the site you mean the D3 site, then that is easily explained. Blizzard has always paid attention to the internet buzz. They do it all the time in the Warcraft universe, and isn't unheard of in the Diablo one as well. Most often it is simply a fun way to pay homage to an idea. Sometimes they actually take something that was entirely rumor (cows in D1) and put it in the game (one map with all cows on it in D2).
Edit2: http://www.wowwiki.com/Kralnor <- Example of internet buzz that was immortalized in Blizzard websites.
By the way, I never got the perfect gem activated message.
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